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Travel / Re: Surviving In Nigeria On N80,000 A Month by syskay(m): 8:28pm On Apr 10, 2009
If you intend to live a modest life, you will have no problems surviving with those figures.
Webmasters / Re: Mastercard Controversies by syskay(m): 8:24pm On Apr 09, 2009
Nigeria issued MasterCard works perfectly all over the World. However, many Internet Merchants have made a vow never to accept any form of purchases from Nigeria. Maybe that will change when Dora is through with the "re-branding" thing. grin grin
Webmasters / Re: How To Choose A Web Host - Don't Make A Bad Choice That Could Cost You Big Time! by syskay(m): 9:42am On Mar 20, 2009
Here are some definitions of  the term "unlimited":

boundless; infinite; vast; without any qualification or exception; unconditional.

Now, do Server resources meet that criteria?

An average dedicated server with 250GB of total storage goes for about $200 a month, so how is it logical to assume that you are getting unlimited resources for $10 or less?

Answer:

It is all made possible by a desperate marketing measure called "Overselling".

Definition:

1. to sell more of (a stock, product, etc.) than can be delivered.
2. to sell aggressively, as by using high-pressure merchandising techniques.
Webmasters / Re: Another Nairaland In The Making by syskay(m): 10:29am On Mar 09, 2009
The term "Another Nairaland" is on it's own, a recipe for failure. If you want to be taken seriously on cyberspace, please try to be genuine.
Webmasters / Re: Visa Card Rejection Palava by syskay(m): 10:21am On Mar 09, 2009
2checkout now accepts most Nigerian issued Cards. Your transaction was most likely decline by the seller. Many of them are very reluctant to accept any form of business from Nigeria.
Technology Market / 2gb Ddr2 667mhz Memory For Laptop @ N6,900 Each. by syskay(m): 8:33am On Dec 12, 2008
It is a Kingston 2048MB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SODIMM (Laptop) Memory. It comes with 12 Months Warranty.

Price: N6,900

If interested, Please Call: 08028629299
Webmasters / Re: Having Problems With Graphcard? by syskay(m): 8:57pm On Oct 26, 2008
paccino:

Guys,
I want to know if you can use the GTB MC on paypal.

No, You cannot use it. Anything Nigerian is prohibited on Paypal's System. Nigeria is not even listed on their website.
Webmasters / Re: Nairahost Again! Why Now by syskay(m): 6:45pm On Oct 05, 2008
The problem is from NIRA and not Nairahost. They are presently not responding to .ng registration requests.
Webmasters / Re: What do you think of Google's new Web Browser("chrome") ? by syskay(m): 3:49pm On Sep 04, 2008
Google Chrome is probably the niftiest Browser in the market right now. However, its limited features makes it somewhat lightweight when compared to Firefox 3 and Explorer 8.
Webmasters / Re: What Are Domain And Domain Name and Hosting? by syskay(m): 2:45pm On Aug 29, 2008
Webmasters / Re: Punch Newspaper Site Possibly Hacked? by syskay(m): 1:15pm On Aug 28, 2008
A very usual occurrence with the Punch Website. Some weeks ago, the website was completely defaced and replaced with spam and this lasted for hours.
Webmasters / Re: How Can I Host My Site Free? by syskay(m): 3:16pm On Aug 07, 2008
Free Web Hosting comes with little or no guarantees as regards server uptime and reliability. But if you insist on going with the free hosting crowd, here are sites that offer such:

http://www.awardspace.com
http://freehostia.com
Webmasters / Re: Interswitch Payment Option Now Available For Our Nigerian Clients by syskay(m): 9:29pm On Aug 05, 2008
workingirl:

Thanks for responding. Is this fraud then, https://www.mynigeriacashcard.com/Content/usingcashcard.aspx?

That option (to send money online) only applies to Interswitch Cashcard users. If you have a Cashcard, you can pay online. However, a majority of the Interswitch cards in circulation are Debit cards tied to the respective bank accounts of users; and they do not function like Cashcard. Holders of this conventional debit cards have to visit an ATM machine to transfer funds.
Nairaland / General / Re: Celtel Changes Name To 'Zain Nigeria Ltd' by syskay(m): 9:10pm On Aug 03, 2008
6 Names and still counting:

1. Econet
2. Vodacom
3. V-networks
4. V-mobile
5. Celtel
6. Zain
7. ,
Webmasters / Re: Cuil: Am Still Down With Google by syskay(m): 12:40pm On Jul 31, 2008
adewaleafolabi:

The cuil claims it has the largest index. But to my surprise, i searched for something and it said no result and yet google gave me results


Their claim truly seems to be exaggerated. I tried to run searches with terms related to Nigeria, but it kept on returning results of American Websites.

Google has nothing to be frightened of.
Webmasters / Much Touted Search Engine Fails To Impress On Debut by syskay(m): 12:29pm On Jul 29, 2008
Search engine Cuil's rocky debut
TheStar.com - Business - Search engine Cuil's rocky debut
July 29, 2008
David Olive

On Day 1 yesterday of its attempt to dethrone Google Inc. as king of the Internet search engines, Cuil was shaping up to be a New Coke-style fiasco.

Vitriol was flying fast on tech maven Chris Brogan's IT blog. After waiting two hours for Cuil to return two results for his name, contributor Gopal Shenoy wrote: "(Cuil) is basically unusable – paint dries faster. Did they test this thing to see what the results are before they got coverage on CNN on how Google needs to be scared of them?"

Cuil, pronounced "cool," is the latest in a long list of also-ran or failed challenges to Google, which displaced then-leader AltaVista soon after its 1998 launch by twentysomething Stanford University computer-science whizzes Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who became the world's youngest billionaires when Google went public.

Google is an irresistible target, with its $16.6 billion (U.S.) in 2007 revenues and market cap of $150.3 billion. With its lush profit of $4 billion last year, you could buy most of the U.S. airline industry.

Anyone reaping that kind of money attracts rivals. Given that the Web hosts about 150 billion pages and growing, and traditional advertising is migrating to the Internet, surely Google needn't indefinitely command more than half the market for Web search when even General Motors Corp. ultimately had to surrender its 55-per-cent market share after a half-century in business.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based Google looks impregnable, with its 62 per cent of the U.S. search market, to Yahoo Inc.'s 21 per cent and otherwise mighty Microsoft Corp.'s measly 8.2 per cent. Google is part of the language now. "Search has become as much about branding as anything else," Allen Weiner of tech analysis firm Gartner Inc. told AP yesterday. "I doubt (Cuil) will be keeping anyone at Google awake at night."

Just the same, Google's stock has tumbled 36 per cent from its 52-week high after the firm's torrid pace of revenue growth finally slowed in recent quarters. The company's hiring sprees have bloated its workforce to 20,000 employees. Big-ticket acquisitions including YouTube and DoubleClick have yet to translate into the quick profits Wall Street demands. (Google still gets 99 per cent of its revenue from online ads.) And Google's king-of-the-hill arrogance – most conspicuous in the way it brushes off increasing complaints about its practice of retaining data on users' search histories and web-surfing patterns – is calculated to attract pretenders.

And in Cuil, Google for the first time is in competition with former employees. Three of Cuil's co-founders – Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier – are former Google engineers, while CEO Tom Costello, Patterson's husband, has two prototype search engines to his credit. Patterson sold her specialized archival search engine to Google four years ago; and Monier is a former chief technology officer at AltaVista and helped build the search engine on eBay Inc.'s online auction site.

"Google can't ignore an attack from engineers it once found hire-worthy, much less the mastermind behind a technology it once found worth buying," Rick Munarriz argued on the Motley Fool website yesterday.

The Cuil hype is understandable, given its claim of indexing 120 billion Web pages compared with Google's estimated 40 billion. (Google stopped releasing the number of pages it has indexed three years ago.) Because of the way it categorizes pages, and more precisely matches search terms to pages, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based Cuil promises users a faster, more efficient means of finding relevant information. And by focusing on page content rather than click history, Cuil doesn't need to store users' search histories.

"Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet," Costello said in a statement, "placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user."

Alas, when I took Cuil for a spin I found that "David Olive" – the name I share with a PhD in theoretical physics in Swansea, Wales, and a computer-repair geek in Perth, Australia, among others – turned up 381,000 times on Google, 22.3 million times on Yahoo and zero times on Cuil, which also couldn't find Stephen Harper.

Which got me wondering if, once the algorithms are tweaked, Cuil is destined to become mere takeover bait for the likes of Microsoft, which has snapped up search engine Powerset and whose ardour for Yahoo likely hasn't diminished after last month's failed first attempt to buy the No. 2 player.

To earn even that status, Cuil will have to start delivering on its promise sooner than later, or the wrong kind of word-of-mouth will ease it into an early grave.

Back on ChrisBrogan.com, they're still cavilling that a Cuil search for "Jaguar" turned up nothing, that other searches yielded long-abandoned Web pages, and that even Cuil's "About Us" link didn't work. "In this biz you get one chance," wrote one of the more charitable reviewers. "They blew it. Back to Google."


http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/468840
Webmasters / Re: Hosting Plan Window Or Linux by syskay(m): 8:41pm On Jul 26, 2008
You have already answered your question. It depends on what applications/Scripts that you intend to use. Though many would argue that Linux is more secure and runs on less system resources, when compared with Windows.
Webmasters / Re: How Can I Get A Good Host Provider Which I Can Buy Reseller Package by syskay(m): 9:25pm On Jul 25, 2008
If you dont need a Nigerian host, you should probably not be carrying out your search on a Nigerian Forum. Google should come in handy for your search.
Webmasters / Re: Ait Website Down? by syskay(m): 9:15pm On Jul 25, 2008
Their whois information shows that their domain name will not expire until 2013. So this does not appear to be an issue of expired subscription.





Domain Name: aittv.com

Status: clientTransferProhibited

Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com

Expiration Date: 2013-02-18
Creation Date: 2004-02-18
Last Update Date: 2008-02-21

Name Servers:
    yns1.yahoo.com
    yns2.yahoo.com
Webmasters / Re: What Is Wrong With Nairahost.com.ng by syskay(m): 6:17pm On Jul 18, 2008
Their .com website appears to be working fine. Why not try that? or is there any specific advantage when using the .com.ng?
Webmasters / Re: Templates To The Rescue? Or Not? by syskay(m): 10:43am On Jul 15, 2008
regaltopax:

hey guys i have search through the net(maybe i didnt type the right keyword) but i can't locate free downloadable templates.
can anyone help me out.plllllllllllllllsssssssssss.

For Free templates, Try:

www.oswd.org
www.opensourcetemplates.org
Webmasters / Re: Critics Needed by syskay(m): 10:56pm On Jul 09, 2008
You cannot get an effective website review, if all you can provide is a screenshot. A link to the actual site will be helpful.
Webmasters / Re: Nigerian Blogs Are Dying by syskay(m): 11:29am On Jul 08, 2008
The reason is very obvious. Most Nigerian Bloggers venture into the uncharted terrain of blogging after reading eBooks with titles like “How I make $10,000 monthly from my blog”, sold by cyberspace hustlers who are out to swindle folks who daydream of making it big online.

Successful bloggers are not just in it for the money; to them money is just a derivative of what they enjoy doing and in the process they provide valuable resources for their readers that will automatically make them always come back for more, which will lead to a stable stream of visitors that guarantees satisfactory financial earnings through advertising.
Web Market / Re: Best "free'' Web Host by syskay(m): 7:17pm On Jul 05, 2008
"Reliable" and "Free" dont go together in the Web Hosting Arena.
Webmasters / Re: My Web Host Is Holding My Domain Name Hostage by syskay(m): 8:52pm On Jun 17, 2008
After carefully examining your subsequent posts, it now appears apparent that this is a typical case of poor communication. Your web host appears to be using a billing solution (clientexec) to administer your hosting and domain accounts.

Now, it appears that a bill (invoice) of N3500 has been generated for you. Paying N1500 will leave an outstanding of N2000 as your pending due. Calling them some months before your invoice was due to be generated, to request for a change of your subscription to "domain name" only is the ideal thing you should have done to avoid such an imbroglio.

The appearance of the suspended page indicates that your domain name has been renewed. Your isp’s cache has not been updated; that is why you are still seeing the former page.
Webmasters / Re: My Web Host Is Holding My Domain Name Hostage by syskay(m): 4:38pm On Jun 17, 2008
That is a Custom "Suspended" page that also lists non-payment as one of the possible reasons for your ordeal.

Your domain appears to have been renewed.
Webmasters / Re: Reviews & Comments Regarding A Pre Wedding Website by syskay(m): 9:43am On Jun 17, 2008
Top-quality job! The Video is great too. In my own opinion, it’s simply flawless.
Webmasters / Re: My Web Host Is Holding My Domain Name Hostage by syskay(m): 11:10pm On Jun 16, 2008
Some Web Hosting Companies set prices that are unrealistically low for domain registrations based on a flawed assumption that all customers will purchase a hosting product alongside it. When a customer desires otherwise, they resort to arm-twisting tactics or outright blackmail in some cases. That is why it is not advisable to signup to any hosting provider that does not grant you unfettered access to your domain authorization code.

Since your domain name has expired already, you have no choice but to play according to their rules.

Here are the steps I advise you to take:

1. Signup to their lowest Web Hosting package (if you were previously on a higher scale).

2. When they activate your hosting account and renew your domain name, login to your domain area and have your nameserver changed to that of the Web Hosting provider of your choice.

3. About 3 months or thereabout after your domain renewal, request for your domain secret code (if you don’t have it yet), then proceed to transfer your domain name to another domain service provider.
Webmasters / Re: Website Review For Www.nayourshop.com, Anyone? by syskay(m): 7:32pm On Jun 14, 2008
@A2J,

It would not be a bad idea if you can elaborate further on your security concerns. Your vague prognosis does not seem to be helping.
Career / Re: Any Hope For Those "Unfortunate" To Have Finished With 3rd Class? by syskay(m): 2:27pm On May 13, 2008
Life and death is in the power of the tongue. Remember that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

Be positive because with God All things are possible.

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