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I KNOW THERE WILL BE ISA SERVER GURU IN THE FORUM.
I have a domain controller win 2003 and ISA server as a domain member with sp3. I want only all my domain member to have access to the internet.
i create a rule in this way allow>all protocol>internal>domain user but the domain member cannot browse. Also with this rule nobody can browse
but with this rule allow>all protocol>internal>all users all the user will be browsing either domain member or local login.
pls i need help on how i can i achiev this, I NEED ONLY MY DOMAIN MEMBER USER ALONE TO BROWSE.
I WILL APPRECIATE UR HELP

THIS IS A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT IN NAIRALAND
I am a network Eng. for almost a decade and i love the job with passion. I will like us to duel on issues and scenarios. No much talking.
@ xanadu.
I dont think the VOIP will affect your network or bandwidth if a thorough configuration is been made. It also depends on your ISP and the voice gateway. You can give Voice higher priority than data in your configuration i.e (qos). you can allocate some specific percentage of bandwidth for voice alone lets say 24%. In this way u will hv a quality voice call and optimal data transfer. All this can be done in cisco router if u are using it. Your ISp can also help u.

@IT_GURU
Pls is it possible to setup active directory with mikrotik linux server. I mean the MT will be the DHCP, domain server and the DNS. Can I also block some site like facebook with MT ?? Pls help

I am overwhelm for the response to this topic. I also appreciate the moderator for making it a home page. I hv gain alot, politically, ideology,psychologically etc. I jst want to employ all nairalander to stop using absurd languages to each others. Lets behave like leaner ed pple

Gani is a great man. He is my Hero but sometimes he has been inconsistent. A lot of controversies have brew up in the national dailies due to his stmts, opinions on national issues. Injustice is Injustice. And Injustice somewhere is a threat to justice anywhere. Ribadu has been unjust to some pple, treated them with disdain. Now he violate the rules and regulation of the Force. As long as he his still a force man, he most obey them and most face the punishment. All those supporting Ribadu are highly sentimental.

azorji,

If you read the story very well you will know that all those eight point item are fundamental and are what we need as a developing country and a true democratical nation. One can reject any honour on the bases of lack of those 8 points. I dnt think is proper to reject a well deserve honour just bc of one person over-do. Moreover Ribadu does not beleive in the rule of law, disregard court orders, infringe on human rights anyhow. Infact the little he achieved was base on "eye -services", "sycophancy" " I please my master (OBJ)" , witchunting opposition. Me, i want to believe he rejected the honour bc of Bad Gov., corruption, lack of good road, health etc and not bc Ribadu is been hawked

I read through this story and i was touched by the travail this Man have passed through in is life in the hand of Nigeria  Gov.
I concluded that the honour worth rejecting base on the 8 items listed on the page except the case of Ribadu. I think Ribadu is reaping what he sow.
He flaw the law. disobey court oder etc. Ribadu does not worth fighting for. Good he achieved, no doubt about that. Guys in the house please throw in your comments or opinions and suggestions. Lets get the ball rolling.

Gani: At the weekend, notably on Friday, December 12, 2008 it was published in most of the newspapers in Nigeria that the Federal Government of Nigeria has honoured me with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).

I have had time after the publication to think deeply whether to accept or reject the honour.

I thank the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar‘ Adua. I thank the Federal Government of Nigeria and I am very grateful to the Council of State which approved the honour of OFR given to me by the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

I wish to express my gratitude to numerous Nigerians who by telephone calls, mobile text messages and some by personal visits congratulated me on the award of OFR.

This is the first government in Nigeria to honour me with the national award. Obviously this government must have considered my activities in the last 43 years before deciding to give the national award of OFR. From my own standpoint and perception, my struggles and crusades include: (1) The abolition of poverty from the face of our country; (2) The unqualified need to preserve, defend and protect the fundamental human rights; (3) The governance of our country through democratic processes; (4) The subjection of everybody and everything to and under the Rule of Law; (5) The right of the people to free and qualitative education at all Levels; (6) The right of the people to free and qualitative health services and facilities; (7) The strengthening of our economy through sound development of infrastructure including power generation (electricity), good roads, good and modern rail-system across the length and breadth of Nigeria, good water way transportation system; ( The overall duties of all Nigerians and governments (local, states and federal) to make Nigeria a corruption-free country by fighting corruption with all our might and main.

In the course of my struggles over the decades for the above ideals, I have been subjected by various governments to all traumatic travails and persecutions including: (a) Series of detentions in several prisons across Nigeria, notably Ikoyi Prison (three times), Kaduna Prison, Gombe Prison, Gasua Prison, Kuje Prison (two times), Bauchi Prison, etc, etc; (b) Twenty three police detentions between 1969 and 1998 at Police Headquarters, Kaduna, Jos Police Station, Ilorin Police Station, Police Headquarters. Lagos, C.I.D., Alagbon, Lagos,‘ Inter-Centre Detention Outpost, Lagos, Ikoyi Police Station, Panti Police Station, Lagos, Police Station, Wuse, Abuja, Police Station, Ikeja, Police Headquarters, Abuja, etc.; (c) ‘Arrested 32 times between 1969 and 1998 which led to the series of detentions and trials; (d) My chambers (Gani Fawehinmi Chambers) at Anthony Village, Lagos was, attacked- by security men under, various governments 16 times, culminating in the attack on Friday, August 26, 1994 when security men under Gen. Sani Abacha regime at 4am turned my Chambers into a pool of blood; (e) Thousands of copies of my books, notably on the murder of Dele Giwa, were forcibly removed and seized by security agents under Gen. Ibrahim Babangida regime and despite court orders to return my books, the military government at that time refused to obey the court orders; (f) My international passport was seized more than 15 times between 1966 and 1998; (g) I was charged to court 18 times for politically-motivated criminal offences including treason and I was jailed once and became prisoner J60 before my imprisonment was terminated by the Court of Appeal.

Today, I am 70 years and eight months old and I am struck down by lung cancer for which I have been receiving medical treatment outside my country because my country – Nigeria – has one of the poorest medical services in the world but one of the richest countries in the world in terms of oil revenue.

My decision to either accept or reject the national honour of the award of OFR will depend on how far the Nigerian nation through Nigerian governments tried to achieve any of the aforementioned eight goals.

Corruption is one single, fundamental factor that has retarded the progress of the nation and its social-economic development.

It is generally agreed, nationally and internationally, that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu did a lot to retard the inhibitive progress of corruption. 419 crimes were on the decline. Gross misuse of public funds by public officers was on the downward trend. Looting at the top became minimised. As Nigerians were breathing a sigh of relief, the government of AIhaji Umaru Yar‘ Adua threw Mallam Nuhu Ribadu out of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The removal of Nuhu Ribadu as EFCC Chairman happened at a time Nigerians were saying ‘the fear of EFCC is the beginning of wisdom’ as far as corruption was concerned.

I went to court to challenge Ribadu‘s illegal removal from the EFCC. I thought Yar‘Adua‘s government would allow the court to do its work. But alas, Ribadu was sent to National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, for a one-year course. While undergoing the one-year course in Kuru, on August 5, 2008, the Federal Government of Nigeria presided over by President Yar‘ Adua demoted Ribadu from the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police.

Mallam Ribadu rightly approached a court of law by instituting an action to challenge the obnoxious demotion. Whilst the suit was pending, security agents physically removed him from the ceremony on November 22, 2008 where he was to be awarded his certificate for success at the NIPSS, Kuru.

Today, the architect of the unprecedented anti-corruption war, unprecedented in the annals of Nigeria since 1914, is now literally roaming the streets of Nigeria without official car, without official status, without any form of security, and yet he is still being subjected to hounding, haunting and all forms of dehumanising vilification by the Federal Government.

His only ‘offence’ is that he used the instrumentality of a public institution, the EFCC to investigate, arrest, charge, and in some cases, to convict through the law courts some public officers in various corridors of power throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria people who were otherwise called the untouchables.

By the performance of his duties, Nigeria and Nigerians gained in integrity, honour and recovery of their looted wealth. But Ribadu did not make any personal gain. He only waged a war against corruption, graft, stealing, money laundering, etc, etc, in the corridors of power. In return, the regime of President Yar‘ Adua decided to wage unrelenting war against anti-graft war.”

Instead of the Federal Government to publicly acknowledge the unprecedented good Ribadu has done to the psyche of Nigerians by awarding him the greatest national honour, the government has decided to continuously persecute this young man. It was therefore the greatest embarrassment for me, when at the weekend, it was announced that I was one of those 275 Nigerians honoured with national honours and in my case the OFR.

Yes, I have done my best for this country in various fields and I still want to continue to do my best. But we live in a situation where the 1999 Constitution provides in Section 15(5) that: ”The State shall abolish all corrupt practices‘ and abuse of power” and a young man emerged to do what the Constitution enjoins and he is being persecuted for carrying out the provisions of the Constitution. Yet, the President swore to observe, preserve and defend the same Constitution. I find it extremely difficult to accept that President Yar‘ Adua‘s government has the honour to dispense honour.

In the light of the above, I cannot accept the ‘honour’ of OFR. Whether now or in the life beyond. How can I wake up in the morning and look at the insignia of honour bestowed on me under a government that persecutes anti-corruption effort, particularly those of Nuhu Ribadu?

At the time the Nigerian Bar Association wrote the letter to my office that my name would be forwarded for national honour while I was in London receiving medical treatment for lung cancer, the government of President Yar‘ Adua had not begun in earnest the war against anti-corruption war and the harrowing persecution of Nuhu Ribadu had not reached its crescendo. I do not blame the NBA for sending my name at the time it did for national honour,

However, events from August 2008 to this day are so bizarre, unbelievably barbaric in their intensity, in terms of persecuting those fighting against corruption and the singling out of Ribadu for persecution, all for giving honour and dignity to this country and for recovering for our treasury, billions of naira and other forms of wealth looted by public officers.

A government that covertly and overtly encourages corruption has no honour in its arsenal of power to dispense honour. Consequently, I reject the dishonour of OFR termed ‘honour‘ given to me by the Federal Government. ‘

The Plight of the masses of our people

Nobody can dispute the fact that since this regime came to power the plight of the masses has worsened as I have shown in items 1 - 7 above. But I wish to reiterate that in all the ramifications of human existence, the masses have found themselves in the doldrum of pain occasioned by gross misgovernance of the country.

Furthermore, since the President came to power on May 29, 2007, the masses of our country have been groaning in unprecedented poverty as a result of lack of direction, The directionlessness of the Federal Government has been characterised by the following, amongst others: collapsed infrastructure, total paralysis of the health sector at all levels, constant nationwide power failure and the attendant negative effects on all sectors of the economy; pervasive unemployment, thereby generating increased armed robbery cutting across all ages of our people; debilitating homelessness, retrogressive educational programmes and policies, which have made no Nigerian university to be ranked within the first 500 universities in the world, and no effort is being made by the regime to improve on the humiliating situation.

Put simply, the Federal Government is a total failure, worsened by lack of direction and leadership. Is this the atmosphere for the award of national honours? Certainly Not!

In addition to my rejection of the honour of the OFR on the grounds of Federal Government‘s conscious war against anti-corruption war, the decadent socio- economic situation does not engender the well being of ordinary people and there is no hope in sight.

In view of the foregoing, I reject the award of OFR.

See story  http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20081216231962

A nigerian businessman has just died in China. He succumbed to severe head injuries he sustained at the hands of security men who beat him with iron rods on 26th september. He is presently in the motuary now and nigerians in china are demonstrating. The embassy is keeping quiet about it. please post this to everyone on your messenger. NIGERIA and The world must hear. Pls what type of injustice are we passing through in China when their citizen here live like King.

Frenchman, Let me give you a practical example. My immediate boss is a certified IT guy and major in security. He was employed from USA, Texas. He is a Nigerian. He has live in USA for 28yrs. He came back to work in an oil and gas company. He earns $4k per month. With Toyota corola official car etc. After six month he bought a 2bed room flat in Lagos. He was doing fine in USA but owns no property, he jst spend six month in Nig and he is making it. So It depends on the company and their pay. If you can get a job in Telecom, Bank, oil and gas, ICT Consultancy, manufacturing companies then i can advice you to come back and stop waisting your time in UK. I hv seen a senior lecturer II, PHD in Geologist that spend 10yr in Norway working came back to Nigeria to work as Geologist Officer in Exxon Mobil. Oboy he is rich. He collects $1000 per day on the rig. So get a Good Job first before coming.

What a unique and spectacular this date , 08-08-08 will be. It can be mathematically analyzed, Some people had already attached sentiment to it. In the past, a unique Date like this, speculation and rumor used to go around like the World will end, strange weather, Virus attack, even terrorist used it as tact to strike on a special calendar date like this. All over the World statistic have shown that the highest rate of wedding will take place on that specific date. What is your own opinion, ideology, suggestion concerning this date ? Please lets make educative, captivating and incisive contribution concerning this uncommon and onces in a while DATE.
Olushola Erudite
PortHarcourt

@ coldwater
I am at Usari 41c (The rig name is Ed-Noble) Exxon Mobil Job. Is too much. Do u work on SAP or Surface Tech ? How come u do the same job am doing ?
I base in PH. where are you ?

I work in oil servicing company (drilling company). I am a certified network administrator, SAP consultant and Surface Tech Engineer. If i start writing my job description here, i bet you i will used the entire nairaland memory space. You can see i specialized on three independent fields which i acquired training on all. I am posting no w 20:00 GMT at the offshore platform (Rig) doing the work of a surface tech Eng. This is IT related and had to do with MSC sensors with an interface that communicate with the down hole tools. I love my Job bc it makes me close to the top management staff and mix with diff companies, expatriate (white guys). You know ITC is fun. catch yaaaaa.

None of you guys have talked about Oil & Gas except superstar that just briefly mention it. Am working in an oil and gas and they do promote their staffs unlike the impression superstar gave earlier. The case is, there so many hierarchy in oil and Gas and a lot of bureaucracy. But if u are a field engineer it may take longer time before you get your promotion. And they do enjoy very well. The field bonus is 15k per day and some spend at least 3month on The rig offshore or onshore. In my company 100k for fresher, 500k (gbemu) for accommodation apart from furniture, medical etc. I tell u the best place to work in this country is telecom, oil and gas and self employed. Bank is just image.

use the win xp bootable CD to boot your system. It will get to the option where it will ask you to press ESC to install fresh XP or R to Recovery ,
Just press R and at the "look-like DOS prompt ",
type chkdsk /r or chkdsk /f
U will see some processing on your Hdisk.
It shld work and else follow uspry1 instructions.

why i was searching for restore folder options, i came across "disk Heal" i used it and it works fine.
thanks guy

C drive doesnt open directly any more. It is giving "open with window option". Pls how can I solve this problem.
It occur immediately my system detect and delete a virus from a friends flash drive

Well done bigbrovar, thanks for the time and support. It works very fine. Ubuntu is marvelous. A try will convenient u. Ubuntu for life for ever.
no wonder it is for human being. I cant beleive this superb desktop effect, it is tooo much

sory i hv network problem. after i restarted my system, it works
but it is very very big on the screen. i think the screen resolution is 640 x 480 and i cant change it what do i do to make my screen b cool. I choose extra effcet and it woggle

I copy and paste the command at the prompt on the terminal, no error, it jst bring me back my prompt and then
I try it, i mean the vitsual effect both normal and extral. Immediatley i click on either normal or extral there was a blinking effect on the desktop then it will bring this error message " Desktop effect could not be enabled " what is your yahoo ID ?

I have done that and log out and in again no effect

System/Adminidtration/Restricted driver manager i have tried this but show me " Your Hardware does not need any restricted drivers"
i used toshiba L45-S7409, the graphics of the laptop is intel grephics media acelerator x3100. I have try to enable the groaphics thru system/administrator/sound and graphic but could not. any help ?

I install ubuntu very cool and mavelious. I need help on the desktop effect, the dual desktop effect and other effect that i need thanks

I have a DELL problem. The system doesnt boot up again. After pressing the power button, the light LED on the power will glew and starts blinking on and off continuesly. I try to change the RAM, Cmos battery, jumper it, check the processor still it didnt work.
I dnt knw if any body can help me with Idea on how to solve it. The system is DEL DIMENSION 31000

I try to browse with it through my wireless radio network and it browse fine. I can connect to the internet and surf sites. I disccover that my firewall in the VSAT connection was reposible in blocking the ubuntu. I hv Mikrotik firewall install and server as dhcp server for the Vsat connection. I am looking at the firewall to solve the problem

I wonder too. It is not as if am a baby in networking but not jst used to linux. i was thinking if there will smthing to be enable first
like etho etc

I just install Ubuntu 7.10 now but can't browse with the firefox. i try to connect it to my DHCP network but i can't connect. any help please.
I think it recognise my LAN card bc at the top of the taskbar i saw the LAN Icon there.
ic
At this point I was able to connect my LAN that is " wired connection", i selected Automatic DHCP and at the DNS tab, it acquire my DNS ip address but cant browse.

I gets This error on IE 6 "" I need ResXX/Mcshield.dll error " when ever i launched it. after uninstalling Mcafee ativirus.
I tried system restore but it wouldnt come up bc it need the above file name. I also tried chkdsk /r still no head-way.
Guys any way around this ?

Dear Readers and Posters, I am faced with the realities of life. i jst discovered that my gynotype is AS d same as My fiancee. I was careless abt it i tot it is insignificant as long as i love Her. It as been of great concern and wories ever since i reveal the result of the test to her. I was stupid abt it bc she had told me her's right from unset. I tot i was biologically ok to mary anybody. I need advice not condemnations . We both agree to mary and soon we r going to the altar. Doctors, nurse, experts, my pple, throw in ur opinion, the effect. thanks

limited or no connectivity means there is connectivities btw the two nodes but no routing takes place. Are u acquiring IP through DHCP or STATIC ?.
It could be low signal strength.

I try to Tile shots from Bigrovar looks gd on my Lappy

Try Mikrotik Router. it is a Linux box that contains all what u need. (Software)

I try to install ubuntu Gison 7.10 after i hv downloaded the image file and burn the ISO to now but experiencing sm difficulties in doing that
After the openning page where i can select to start installing ubuntu and after selecting it that, it will process for a while and latter hang.
i try to check for thr CD intergrity it show me that there is one file error. Gurus what can I Do ?

Bigrovar, I was the one that called you last wk. I Wasn't the one that had that problem although i learnt from it.
I will b installing the ubuntu 2day. I hav been waiting for you for the posting gd u hv postet it. Thanks man. I will start with a stand alone desktop PC b4 i install it on my laptop with Vista installed first.

Ubuntu LIVE IN PORTHARCOURT

Ravy, Bigrovar, I observed that Ubuntu doesnt have a representative in PortHarcourt. I am in PH and am very much interested in ubuntu. I hv a gd internet connection. Pls guid me on how to download it.