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@skyope
They aren't exactly struggling. On a decent PC many games are very playable. in fact the new versionfs of the emulator allow you to play onlin ewith people using real PS2s.
In today's world, a 2.8Ghz CPU is rather mediocre. And i'm pretty sure your graphics card isn't up to snuff too.
if you have money (like $200) to spare, grab the new Geforce 8800 GT. It's an extremely powerful GPU at a mass market price of $200. Then upgrade your processor to a dual core one at least. With this combo, you'll easily run many ps2 games on your PC.

It isn't likely anyone will hink of adding hardware parts to carry out an emulation. . .

Leave Afam alone. It pleases him to think that Americans are dumb. he remains blissfully ignorant that while he constructs his generic inverters, americans a fraction of his age are submitting entries for DARPA challenges.

@Afam
Nothing from your inbox in a while. Can it be that after your last hoax (and your fruitless attempt to salvage any dignity for the incident) you've now taken to using your long-dormant brain cells (Finally!) to scrutinize 'em before posting?

Go to the manufacturer's site and check for the drivers. Don't be lazy!

If it's Vista capable, then it's fairly recent and the drivers will definitely be up for grabs.

@skyope
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-4307.96.html#msg498920
Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 3 on my laptop

My specs: 1.66 Ghz Core Duo
Geforce Go 7600
1GB RAM


Actually both you and i need something more powerful. try and tweak the RAM (increase it! 512MB for a desktop is old school nowadays) and perhaps a CPU upgrade. is it a 2.8ghz celeron or Pentium 4?

There's a new version out, pcsx2 0.9.4. grabt it from pcsx2.net

Also check the settings to confirm you aint maxing out all the settings. A good test for the emulator is trying final Fantasy X, resident evil 4 or street figher ex 3. these are definitely playable!

@ow11
Believe me, the 360 pad is a thing of art. i'll bet you'll feel right at home when you get it. it's cheaper than the ps3 and there are lots more cool games out for the 360.

if you really miss the PS pad, there are adaptors you can purchase to use a ps3 pad on an xbox 360. . .check online!

RichyBlacK:
3) The decision by Bush to dig up dirt on UN diplomats when the General Assembly was considering his ill-fated war resolution

Proof please

RichyBlacK:
4) Authorizing torture of POW's - a direct violation of the protocols of the Geneva Convention

torture of POWs? Which POWs? If these guys are truly POWs, why all the gist about 'illegal detention'. Also, there have been cases of abuse (physical and mental) i.e Abu Ghraib, but where's the proof that these were authorized by the president?

RichyBlacK:
[color=#000099]BUSH'S IMPEACHABLE OFFENCES


5) Holding so called "non-combatant civilians" for an indefinite period of time ,depriving them of their day in court ,acess to counsel, and acess to family members who could plead their cause to the public.

And how exactly is this a crime against the american people to warrant impeachment? The US government insists it has a right to do this anyway.

RichyBlacK:
6) Kidnapping so called "terror suspects" , placing them on Rendition Airways, and sending them to countries like Uzbekistan who boil these ,untried,unconvicted people alive.

Eh? Boil people alive? Provide proof from a reputable source ASAP or stand discredited.

RichyBlacK:
7) foreknowledge of 9/11 by Bush, Rice, and the top Neocons at the Pentagon . The only ones warned were Fmr. SF. Mayor Willie Brown, Salman Rushdie (Via Scotland Yard) and Ariel Sharon, who cancelled his trip to NYC scheduled for the weekend prior to 9/11.

9) Covering up the involvement of Mossad in 9/11. The fellow that secreted these spies and explosives experts out of country and back into Israel , Michael Chertoff, was promoted from Criminal Division of the Justice Dept to lead the Dept. of Homeland Security.!

Ah. this same tired consipracy theory that fools only the most gullible.

RichyBlacK:
8 ) Engaging in a massive voter suppression campaign in the state of Ohio to secure a second term by fraudulent means. Such activities carry criminal sanctions as outlined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

And this wasn't picked up by his opponents? kelly? Edwards? yet 'Son of Bush' through you strives to convince us foulplay was involved? it won't fly, man.

RichyBlacK:
11) Engaging in a sytematic campaign of depriving political dissidents of their 1st ammendment rights to condem Bush administration policy. Protesters are removed out of crowds and summarily placed in jail. The Secret Service, under orders of the President, conduct "Harassment and intimidation Interviews" of anti -Bush political activists.

Seriously? Why are there so many anti-bush and anti-war demonstrations? The placards these guys carry, they aren't exactly complimentary towards Bush. More conspiracy theorist bullshit all over again.

RichyBlacK:
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12) Conspiring with Ken Lay to rip-off the the people of California by creating false energy shortages,thus creating the causus belli for charging energy consumers illegal, confiscatory rates.

You're the first person idiotic enough to link Enron to Bush. No connection there.

RichyBlacK:
13) Conspiring to rig the vote count in the state of Fl. by hacking optical scan machines and E-voting machines and covering up the latter by passing legislation in the state of Fl to prevent post-election examination of E-voting machines.

So Bush is now an accomplished hacker? Cool



I could go on and on, but you have to realise that you shouldn't just copy and paste anything off the internet without using your grey cells to screen 'em for common sense. For instance, No congress is ever going to impeach a president for an illegal war it voted in support of. Even the misleading intelligence info didn't come from Bush himself.

Why do i even bother. You'll keep on and on and on. Once they're loose, there's no stopping the forum trolls. . .

@skyope
What are the specs of your PC? i've actually gotten a few games running

jaybanks:
any other way to apply apart from the email .i mean physically?

Um. . .What's so difficult about sending a photo in an email?

In 2003 ASUU went on strike. They made demands for improvement of infrastructure of Nigerian universities and well-being of lecturers. They made it plain that to avert cataclysmic failure in the academic system, an estimated 2billion naira should be voted in to address critical issues.
I was in my final year then, just about to graduate. OBJ kept us at home for almost 6 months, turning a deaf ear to ASUU's demands and further undermining Nigerian education. Just N2bn.

During that time, Nigeria hosted the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The meeting cost Nigeria N25bn for a brief meeting that was spent in endless squabble whether to sanction Mugabe or not. The outcome? No resonable gains that we can see. Abuja fat cats sold the official vehicles purchased for the occassion to themselves at give-away prices, and thus 25bn naira was spent.

So we hosted an inconsequential meeting for 25bn, 12 times what the major stakeholders in our tertiary educational system asked for, yet were denied. And now we're coming full-circle, with people trying to get us to host yet another jamboree that has the potential to expose nigeria to ridicule.

This is why Nigeria and Nigerian saddens me. Misplaced priorities. . .

@smoothali
So something isn't true just because you 'don't think it's true'? Weird.
Besides, this was in the Newspapers, and not just somebody posting stuff online.
please refrain from posting in all Caps, it's considered rude in all discussion forums, and it's the text equivalent of shouting. Cease/Desist

Asking the US senate to impeach Bush because he has 'dragged the US economy in the mud' is akin to asking the Nigerian Senate to impeach yar 'Adua because he has failed to solve Nigeria's power crisis.

forget all that tripe of illegal invasion of Iraq. The war was approved in the US senate and the House, so where's the impeachable offense committed by Bush.

An interesting fact. if an alien were to land on earth and visit Nairaland, he'd instantly think that George Bush was the president of Nigeria. So many threads in this section dedicated to a foreign president.

if only some of you people would at least acknowledge that 50 people died in Somalia last week, tens of thousands die monthly from malaria in Africa, terrorists slay women and children in Darfur. But no, it's far more sensationalist to talk about Bush, abi?

@bigbrovar
Sorry if i made a few offensive statements in my reply.
Visit psubuntu.com. The official ubuntu site has isos for PS3, both Live CD an full install. You can run a full install of ubuntu on PS3, only thing missing is all the eye-candy, i guess due to PS3 linux lack of access to the GPU.

1.) Any horsepower you claim to save by running ubuntu on a core 2 duo over Xp, what d'ya use it for?

2.) Contrary to what you say, piracy is only that much rampant in Africa and Asia. Most Windows revenue comes from people buying new systems with Vista or Xp pre-installed.

3.) Aero ripped off the Mac interface?! WTF?! Have you even seen the MAc interface? Does every cute GUI have to be a Rip-off of Mac OSX? Will every cute phone GUI be a rip-offf of the i-phone? Weird.

Anyway, to each his own. I pretty much can figure out Ubuntu on my own, but it remains a broken OS for me until i've got internet access in my house. Synaptic won't do crap for you if you're offline

@flyboy
'good price' isn't a price. What's the actual price (in Naira)?

At this stage, Linux users should ask themselves what exactly they plan to achieve. i get people telling me Linux can run well on Pentium IIs and older machines.
Guess what? I dont HAVE a pentium II and i don't need one either.

They say Linux is stable, doesn't crash and no need for reboots after installations.
My Windows PC (post SP2) rarely crashes or become unstable, only ONE BSOD in 18 months and i really do not mind restarting after installation. After all, restarting's a whole lot more passive than typing commands such as 'make' during the installation process of many Linux apps.

They say you can run many Windows programs in Linux, including games. My good friend Chxta even whips out a screenshot of him running Football Manager 2007 on ubuntu using WINE. He falls silent when i ask him to emulate Quake Wars. . .

They say linux has great ease of use. My cousin can easily run ZSNES (a super Nintendo emulator) on his desktop cos it comes with an easy-to-use GUI. The Linux version of ZSNES runs from command line, and has no GUI to speak of until you spend quality time seeking it out, downloading it and running some crappy commands to configure GUI.


So why upgrade? I'll be buying Laptops from here on as my Job and lifestyle demands mobility. My systems will always be powerful and cutting edge so they'll run Windows flawlessly. The extra horsepower the linux geeks claim i'll save from running Ubuntu or some other 'non bloatware OS' will never be used by any demanding game or 3D app, so why bother?

oyb:
texasspete,

this is offtopic, but,
rest assured, there are several nigerians working for a living that cannot afford genuine versions of windows. no be everybody wey fit work for 'oyel company'.

as to using pirated windows being an example of how 419 culture has destroyed Nigerians- Pulleeze! People all over the world use pirated software! on the warez forums i frequent, i see posts from people of ALL nationalities! was it 419 oriented nigerians that invented software cracking?

you've admited to stealing music( which is what ripping a tupac CD you didn't buy is)
Can you state with all honesty, that you have never used pirated software? at least before these halycon days as 'a nigerian working for a living'?)

Oyb,
I have tremendous respect for you, so i'll try and be as inoffensive as possible.
The '419 culture bit' was not meant to refer to purveyors of pirated products as 419s. It refers to the automatic assumption by bigbrovar and Hayorbahmy that just because i'm a Nigerian i must be using pirated windows puchased from otigba. It's the mutual distrust and suspicion of all other Nigerians i refer to. There's no reason why anyone should automatically state with certainty that i'm running a pirated version of Windows.
Most workers that buy laptops (even cheap celerons) have licensed versions of XP or Vista in them, so this assumption is pretty tragic.
It's pretty amusing that you took my Tupac CD analogy literally. the last CD i ripped was legally bought by ME!

I've done my fair share of music downloads. i've even run pirated windows XP a long time ago on my first PC (in 2001/02). I can freely admit this. what i take exception to is the attitude taken by Linux fanboys. My good friend chxta has NEVER bought or paid for anything from Microsoft in his life, he's installed pirated versions of Windows 95 - Xp for loads of people, yet he feels no shame putting a dollar sign in Microsoft (i.e Micro$oft) or calling Bill Gates 'the leader of mammon'. I find this kind of attitude hypocritical.

Westham trashed Derby 5-0.
Guess now it don't seem so prestigious to have walloped Derby county, huh?

Instead make una score 8 goals in 4 matches, you just packed all the goals in one match. No be the same 8-goal-hero team wey dey fire blanks?

beneli:
@ Siena
Kak eto ti pishish porussky? Ti Uchilsa V Rossi chto li?

There's an existing Nairaland Law that English is the only acceptable means of communication. So STFU with your gibberish already. This goes out to Siena too, totally arseholey thing to do to post twice in russian. it's a discussion forum, not an avenue for you kids to show off

@Poster
Don't you even contemplate any blood oath! If he insists, give him the shove. Why the hell do you wanna stick with someone who doesn't even trust you?

@Hayorbahmy, bigbrovar

You two are a sad example of how the 419 culture has destoyed Nigerians. Not everyone around you has your latent ability to defraud. I work for a living and i'm easily able to afford genuine versions of Windows OS. I use a VAIO laptop, and it came pre-installed with Windows Xp with the SP2 built in. All my friends and colleagues have similar setups. So it's extremely offensive, not to mention stupid to assume stuff like that.
I run Avira's AntiVir, a FREE antivirus and it works well for me, so don't go blabbing what you do not know. No one needs programs like Corel Draw to make their 'computing experience reasonable'. these are extras that go with the job. Also, freeware Windows programs exist.

There's nothing EVIL about developers developing for money. many do it for passion AND money, and they are not mutually exclusive. Money makes the world go round, and people expect to get paid for their efforts. It's as simple as that. Go ask your precious Mark Shuttleworth how he made his money, if not from a capitalist system.

Linux remains a viable alternative to Windows, and the fact that it's free is a great alternative. But calling people 'mugus' because they recognise the advantages Windows has over linux (in their own opinions) is not only silly, but extremely immature. As i said before, not even Linux's inventor (Linus Torvalds) goes into bashfest mode the way you guys do

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Unlike many open source icons, Torvalds maintains a low profile and generally refuses to comment on competing software products. Torvalds generally stays out of non-kernel-related debates. Although Torvalds believes that "open source is the only right way to do software", he also has said that he uses the "best tool for the job", even if that includes proprietary software.[9

I use Windows Xp, and as far as i'm currently concerned it does the job for me. It also allows me do something i cannot replicate on Linux: Play modern 3d games. Until when you guys can succeed in properly emulating Direct X 9 and allow me play Call of Duty 4 and gears of war on ubuntu, for me it remains a no-go area.

That doesn't mean i hate linux or open source OS. I've had extensive experience with using PHP and MySQl on Unix servers. in fact, in my stint as a web designer i never touched windows servers and i couldn't be arsed with asp.
As i said before, i installed Ubuntu on my Ps3 for study purposes. But it does take some considerable work to get many things working properly in linux, so on that count i'm rather comfortable with windows.

Microsoft and Apple are companies that try to make a profit for themselves and their shareholders. To do this they sell their proprietary OS for money. I do not consider that to be exploitation. Why would i? You cannot get windows anywhere else for less, if you could, that would have been exploitation. You can get a very different alternative for free, but that doesn't mean exploitation. the fact that i can borrow Tupac CDs from a friend and rip them to my iPod for free doesn't mean that iTunes music store is exploiting me when it offers me Tupac songs to download at 99 cents.

You might want to think, to ask yourself why it took exposure to a community of generous people before your own generousity was unlocked. Go find out how much Bill Gates (the person you zealots bash the most) has given to charity. Find out how many billions he's spent in the research for cures to numerous deadly diseases, not least of all the newly resurgent and drug resistant tuberculosis.

Every so often, linux users on different linux forums blithely urge me to leave windows Xp and move to linux. they urge me to emulate windows in VMware if i really need the windows experience. Now i wonder, the Windows Xp that many of you guys emulate in VMware, is it legally purchased? Because, if it is it's also costing you money like the rest of the windows 'freaks'. if it isn't then where's the moral high ground to condemn people that buy pirated windows OS in alaba?


Bottom Line?
There are valid reasons why i cannot make a full switch to linux at this point in time. Millions of people around the world find windows to be adequate for their needs and are quite willing to part with the money to purchase it. If you've gotten an alternative, good for you. but leave windows users alone.
Windows users spend some time fixing security issues, rebooting and contending with the odd crash. linux users spend een more time chasing down dependencies and running command line code to get things to work the way they want. Bottom line is not one of these OS (including Mac) is perfect. use what you can afford.


@All

WesleyanA:
good point.

BAD POINT.
Would you buy Ice Fish that was half putrid and smelling of decay? You would, eh?
Here you have a mammal washed up on shore, already decaying and dead of undertermined causes. I, for one, would not rush to eat such a thing. I see something wrong in the whole picture and the Ice Fish analogy is just plain silly.

. . .Yet if anyone here links to an american forum where lots of americans bash Nigerians for their missteps these same guys will be up in arms.

c'est la vie

@Hayorbahmy
your list is critically flawed if it ranks Grphics on the same scale as user-friendliness

@Poster
I do not use linux much. I actually have Ubuntu GUtsy Gibbon installed on my ps3, but that's just as a curio. Linux is developed as a free, open-source alternative to the commercial OSes out there (Windows, mac). But that's what it is. a personal alternative.
What makes people like me (and millions others) dislike linux is the attitude taken by linux fanboys and zealots that they are the elite of the computing world. They trot out absurd assertions about the reliability and stability of Windows PCs. What they won't tell you is how really stable post-SP2 Windows Xp has been, and is how well Vista runs if you have a system that meets the recommended specs.
Some criticisms of Vista (i.e not compatible with all existing software) are pretty absurd. In fact, stuff like this has constantly held back OS makers from innovating significantly and moving away from pre-existing notions. i mean, God forbid that any OS maker releases a version that doesn't work well with Corel draw 11 or Studio max 7. One guy even trashed Vista because his graphics apps that ran well on Xp didn't run on vista.

I use windows XP on my laptop, and i don't have random crashes and blue screens. Linux users will babble on about how their machines can run for years without being reset. I dunno about you, but i prefer to restart once or twice a week than to spend days tweaking drivers and command lines just to get a TV card to work, or to spend hours in a forum asking for how to patch ATI drivers to work well in my Linux install.


Bottom line? Linux is a great OS, but i wish it's adherents cease bashing all other alternatives. see Bigrovar's post above for an example. Not even Linus Thorvalds trash talks others commercial OSes out there.

I didn't get to watch the show. however i have testimonies from Nigerians that watched the show and they have flagged the original letter as a false and misleading article. See here

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/board/main-square/39495-leave-oprah-alone.html

Here's an excerpt from the show

Oprah – “We mentioned Mugus, and we’ve talked about Nigeria a lot. So I know we are going to get a letter from someone saying that Nigeria has a lot of wonderful people. You don’t have to send the letter, we already know that. We just talking about this particular scam that is going on; so we’re not talking about the entire country and everyone in the country. Save your letters.”

Her guest – “And it is not Nigeria. A lot of scams originate in Nigeria are from you know, are done by Nigerians but you now the Eastern block countries are big sources of scams, the far east, you know, here in the United States, other countries. It is not exclusively a Nigerian problem.

Oprah – “Yeah we were just talking about the Nigerian scams and I am thinking we are Mugus.”


IMHO, the guy who wrote that article to the punch deserves to be slapped for misleading Nigerians like that.

EXACTLY!

The tragic fact is that so-called intelligent people here can actually beileve that NASA can actually spend billions of dollars on a lunar landing programme, spend time and effort on misdirection, shoot a top-secret film and then make amateurish mistakes. That lots of people would be entrusted with a sensational secret, yet would refuse to divulge it after many years?

There's a paucity of logic amongst many Nigerians in Nairaland.

Afam:
Tell them make them hear.

I wonder what type of light source that will selectively choose objects it will form shadows on.

American Wonder, na today? To lie, cheat, misinform, bomb and kill na the langauge wey them dey kukuma understand.

This fits right in your SOP, doesn't it? Unverifiable information, that is.
What your brain is too inferior to grasp is that America isn't George Bush, and Bush hasn't been president since the 60s. Even if you feel Bush is a liar and a cheat, does that automatically make it right to switch off your brain and to default to 'all Americans are liars' even for events that happened many years ago?

gboyi:
It is pity for naija, we always run for our problem instead of us to make sure we proof our right we will be draging another thing else, how dare someone will abuse your father say don't want to fight , a word said if you ran for your problem it will become your master.
Please let those who on the position to fight do it , l have able to work with white men they never back any black against their onw men .
so make sure (Militia) you don't ran for problem, the more you ran is always your master.

Unlike you, i'm an honest man. I support truth and what is right. I cannot support someone just because he/she is a Nigerian. i suggest you consider such an approach while simultaneously improving your written English.

legendchyk:
this is for those who need evidence. Maybe this will help prove my source.
i
f for Any reason you saw the original copy of the letter i sent to the punch, you would have clearly seen where i stated my source.

as at the time the wind of the event was blowing, i i saw the show for my self after hearing the famouse Kenny and D1 of Kennis music calling on Nigerians to take action with respect to that statement. in there words, "i call on Nigerians, all Tv stations to stop Airing her (oprah) show and Oprah must come out publicly to apologise". like a pattroitic Nigerian i was angry over such a statement after lerning also, that she has said catty things about others like Ludacris, Ice cube etc. and decided to take it to the news paper.

For me, i was not going to wait for the Judiciary, the legislators or any of the stakeholders before reacting to what i feel was a dispicable act to my nation

if u care, i will forwad to you a couple of mails i also recieved, so u can understand the effect the show sponsored by her is having on hard working Nigerians Abroad.
hope to hear from u

So you're the rabble-rouser responsible for this travesty? I just re-read your piece and i'm extremely unimpressed with both the authenticity of your information and the simplicity of your reasoning skills.

I, for one, think you're little more than a traitor. your article was rife with tacit support for 419, and extremely skimpy on actual plans to curb 419. In fact, you totally absolved 419 guys of the blame in the scam game. You deserve a seeing to for your crappy analogies and your insistence that corruption in Nigeria is restricted to a 'few bad eggs'.