Yeah, Piracy is an industry killer. It drains the resources of the software developers and realy kills initiative. For many years I could not see any future for computer programmers in Nigeria because I felt why bother spending so much time developing a software only to see it on sale for #150.00 (one hundred and fifty naira) by hawkers in computer village.
But the ugly truth is that it is the same piracy that led to the current IT explossion in Nigeria. I think we would much fewer programmers, web-developers, animators, etc in Nigeria if one had to pay some #50k or thereabout for Visual Studio.Net, then pay similar sum for your Microsoft office, auto cad, studio max, etc. The ability to readily get the software you need has removed a lot of hurdle from poor aspiring Nigerian (African) programmers who would ordinarily have had to put there ambitions/aspirations on a shelf to gather dust while they try to source for non existing funds to buy softwares.

The piracy issue also brings out the ingenuity of the programmer. I've had to find ways of progamaticaly protecting the softwares I built against unlicensed installations and multiple installations. I'm currently working with a friend to help create dongles which will serve as hardware locks for our softwares. It might not be fool proof but I think the kind of crackers that can break the security will not be intrested in a small african start-up, not when they could be flexing their muscle against industry giants like microsoft and adobe.

While I look forward to a world free of piracy of any kind, I also hail all the pirates across the world through who's efforts I've been able to get softwares that brought me to my present level as a programmer.
Long live pirates of the Niger!
Long live pirates of the World!

Definitely 3

Nice teaser by the way.

mavtrevor:

However professional you think you can be, you cannot creat a website that looks so professional with frontpage bro.

Frontpage is just for begginers who don't know anything about design to practice. So if you want to design, i will recommend dreamweaver for you. Though there are other web desinging softwares that are better than dreamweaver, checkout WYSIWUG that what you see is what you get.

I realy jope you are not confussing "Front Page Express" with "Front Page" because that would be like confusing "Word Pad" with "Word".

Here is a quote from the administrator, Seun . . .

I do not permit the discussion of a certain great religion here.
I greatly respect this religion and do not want it to be insulted here.

I hereby apologize for any inconvenience this policy might cause, but please don't attempt to break this rule.
If you are a follower of that great religion, I may allow you to post respectfully and peacefully on your
religion, but if the topic becomes heated in a way that may insult your religion, I will remove it.

Is this to imply that the one greate religion he has much respect for will now become sacred on the forum while other "great" (or "not so great" religions may be [b]dis[/b]respected and [b]curse[/b]d (dis-cursed) and nothing is to be done?

With all due respect, no religion is superior to the one upheld by any individual, atleast in the belivers mind. If the administrator will like to feather-glove any religion then he must do so for all. If the religion board is to hot for him to handle then he should "Drop it like its Hot" and shut it down.

Hi,
I doubt that anyone can teach you video editing on a forum. One may recomend softwares, give you tips on how to solve specific problems and overcome specific challenges, etc. But you will have to do the ground work yourself. For starters I'll sugest you get close to any video editor in your locality and get a grasp on the basics so that you will be more focussed in the questions you will need answers to. Try using atleast one of Adobe Premier or Pinacle Pro or Ulead Media Studio or Sony Vegas. These are some of the best video editing softwares in the industry. Get your self a Pentium IV system with about 1Gigabyte of RAM and atleast 80 Gigabyte of Hard disk space for practice. Subscribe to Video Producers Magazines (most are free).
When you have specific questions then feel free to ask on a forum or anywhere else. You will get more helpful fresponses that way.
Best of luck.

FrontPage is quite good. People who critisize it most often have not realy explored its features deep enough. Except for the nice references you get in dreamweaver let someone please mention something you can do in Dreamweaver that you think you can do just as well in FrontPage. I use both and they are both good.

Hi Nairalanders,
Does anyone know any good outlet in Lagos where one can get fairly used PDAs?

kalmebad:

@tomX
Am not trying to sound antagonistic based on the poster's quest nor am i trying to be defensive here for d fact that the refrence is made to the Ibo girls.All the poster is trying to do here is to slight the Ibo girls . . .

@kalmebad,
You may verywell have a good point. The mere fact that the poster resurected this thread several times in the last few months might well be a pointer to that. Mischief aside however the points he raised is something I had observed in my solourn in Owerri and no one gave any cogent answer to it there.

kalmebad:

. . . @atomx, u speak about soap and water,how many of u in an office enviroment will go looking for soap . . .

You do not have to look for soap dear, most half decent offices will provide toiletries for their staff and clients.

kalmebad:
what happens when tissue paper is there and yet Yoruba's (some of course) still use water,cus the poster's seems to be particular about Ibo girls using paper instead of Tissue paper, "IF ALL MUST,THEN LETS ALL GO FOR TISSUE PAPER AND RULE OUT BOTH PAPER AND WATER" if not the topic is irrelevant

Well I cannot hold brief for any tribe or group here. I am simply on the side of good toilet habits. Now when we clean up (either with tissue or other means) we still get to wash our hand right (basic hygine)? This is the hand that only made contact with the tissue. This in itself will show that the tissue by itself is not an excellent cleaning agent. You still need to use soap and water. Wiping with tissue alone can not entirely clean every trace of the feaces from around the anal opening. If you can help it, wash afterwards.

Depends on where you grew up I think. I noticed that it was prevalent in Owerri.

Tissue paper is soft and absorbent enogh to do some thorough cleaning with. The coarse kind of paper you rip off a note book will not do the same. It might evenn cause injury. As a little experiment. Take two saucers and smear them with palm oil. Use a tissue to wipe one then try to wipe the other with ordinay paper and see if you get the same result.

Germannig:

. . . But the truth is, it is better to use paper . . .

I disagree with you. It's always better to wash with soap and water than to just wipe. If you are afraid of getting doody on your hands (quite understandable) then wipe first and wash afterwards with toilet soap and water. It's a lot more hygenic.

The village in question is my village. It's name is Owukpa. Its part of the New Ogbadigbo LGA. We even have alot of Igbos livin there but trust me we don't speak Igbo as a primary language. It's a language we learnt from our neigbhours and we use it to comunicate with them and not to ourselves. I speak fluent Hausa but that does not make me hausa. I've started picking up yoruba as well since I live in Lagos.

Everyone should be proud of their tribes but no one should annex another tribe (you guys are not Sadam afterall).

kalmebad:

@tomx
Do people not have freedom to life anymore? . . .

@Kalmebad freedom to life is exactly what is happening here. Freedom to live, learn, question your environment and soroundings, seek answers to things you find puzzling and so on. Freedom.
If I asked you about the peculiar ruling system of the Igbo's you will probably educate me on it with a beautiful thesis. But a simple question as to a peculiar observed toilet habit among your people throws you all off center and all that has emenated from you people so far on this thread is insults and counter acussation. I'll bet that most of what you know about the behaviour of other tribes are based on the questions that people asked and got answers to. Misinformation comes about when people are either ill informed or prefer to guess the motives of others or where the people in position to give cogent answers prefer to hedge. Stop hedging and give a simple and educative answer if you have one.

I have actualy come across people whe use leaves to wipe up. They explained that it was because of a lack of alternative (scarcity of water and tissues in their rural setting). One can see why they do that and they will probably accept any better alternatives presented to them.

Yorubas might use water but one can easily see that water is a universal cleanser. I'm not youruba but I had a discussion with my yoruba room mate back in the university and after listening to him I gave it a try. It was nice. Now I always use wate and soap even after using tissue.

I fail to see how a simple polite and educative answer will hurt anyone so why get so defensive when people try to get know your tribe better (yet you guys complain about being misunderstood). Information doesn't have to be limited to the savoury foods and wonderful dance steps of your tribe. It is all encompassing.

Focus on this thread has been on the Igbo because some one asked. If you are curious about other tribes please open a thread and ask.

faketan:

. . . I do it because women are tender and should be treated so except the woman refuses such gesture.

Out of curiousity though, when this "tender" women approach a door all by themself do they keep waiting by the door until a "gentleman" comes by and tackle the problem? When two "tender" women meet at a door, do they flip coins to decide who is stronger and hence who should open the door?

I don't agree with the notion that Nigerian men who don't open doors for women are not gentlemen, especialy since the women can do it easily without farting in the process. We should not dwell on the trivias but reserve our energies for situations that the woman might realy find challenging (like changing a flat tyre).

Thr Igbos in Rivers State and Delta State still speak Igbo (or at least a semblance of it). There is no distinguishable similarity between the Idoma dialect and that of the Igbo's however. Having some similar names is not a proof of similar ancestry. Tribes can sample names from neighbouring tribrs. There are similiarities between Idoma names and Tiv Names (eg Ako/Akor) and with the Igalas (of present Kogi State) (eg Idoko, Eje). Should all these neighbouring tribes also lay claim to the Idomas?
Whatever similarities that can be observed is due to cultural exchange between both tribes.
Will it make sense to deem the English as being of French origin because a lot of English words and names have French origins?

. . . i noticed that igbo people usually do not usually make use of conventional toiletries in the convenience.
In other words, am saying that they make use of paper, and the health hazard involved in this is that the used pieces of paper are usually stored in a basket beside the water closet.

Mortiple:

yemivictor and tomX

So all u went to Igboland to do was to trail ladies to toilets. Shame to u!
Ashewo! Women wrapper!!
You did not observe anything good in Igboland to talk about , our hospitality, openmindedness, beautiful ladies all over, etc.
Both of u are simply "sense men wey dey shit for foolish woman backyard".
Ewu ofia!

@Mortiple, somehow the simple question asked by the poster tranlated into female Instruments by your warped interpretation. I take it that your barage of insults is an indication that you are particularly guilty of the observation made by the poster. Your focus should have been directed towards educating on the merits (if any) of such a practice.
If the Igbo's considered it a thing of shame to use a basket of paper scrap in their convinience instead of conventional tissue paper then they should not invite guest in to use their conviniences.
What has been observed can not be erased from the mind of the observers and the best you can do is correct the practice if you see it as wrong or show the merits of it if you think it is right.

@stanoz.com
Did you check the dates of the last post before you decide to resurect this threads? Let dead threads lie dude!

. . . i noticed that igbo people usually do not usually make use of conventional toiletries in the convenience.

In other words, am saying that they make use of paper, and the health hazard involved in this is that the used pieces of paper are usually stored in a basket beside the water closet.

Ths is true. I once spent 6 months in Owerri (Imo State) on one of our ASU imposed hollidays and I observed that what you described was prevalent there. I actualy formed a habit of always carrying a roll of tissue in my napsack when ever I had to go visiting people. It still strikes me as currious.

No the Idomas (from Benue State) are not Igbos. But they share a lot of boundaries though. My village borders one of the towns in old Anambra State (either Obolo-Afo or Obolo-Eke) we have similar market days and some names (like Ada, Onuche, Ede, Eke). There has been a lot of inter tribal marraiges naturaly and inter town trades on market days. But the tribes are different.

@Pilgrim.1 has been conspiciously absent from the forum for quite a while now. Hope all is well with you sister. Please do post once in a while if you can help it. I realy miss your write-up.
stay blessed.

First I must appologise since I know that this is not the proper section for this post. But there will likely be someone here with an answer so I'm taking a chance on that.


I use a Dell inspiron laptop with an inbuilt "Conexant HDA D110 MDCV.92" modem. I currently browse using a 3G Nokia set provided by Multilinks. Is there anyway I can configure my system to browse on the Multilinks Network using the inbuilt Modem in stead of the Nokia set?
My rationale is that since the PCMCIA cards supplied by multilinks can be configured as a modem on a system and used for browsing without a phone connection then a system with an inbuilt modem and wireless network capabilities should be able to do the same. Unfortunately the Multilinks Engineers have not been very helpful in this regard.

I use a Dell inspiron laptop with an inbuilt "Conexant HDA D110 MDCV.92" modem. I currently browse using a 3G Nokia set provided by Multilinks. Is there anyway I can configure my system to browse on the Multilinks Network using the inbuilt Modem in stead of the Nokia set?
My rationale is that since the PCMCIA cards supplied by multilinks can be configured as a modem on a system and used for browsing without a phone connection then a system with an inbuilt modem and wireless network capabilities should be able to do the same. Unfortunately the Multilinks Engineers have not been very helpful in this regard.

Thanks alot @edayo, I'm downloading it right now. I realy wish I could get something on Extended MAPI however. That would realy unleash ones mailing pottentials. I hate being limited by third party softwares. In the interim I hope Blat will perform better than Simple MAPI.

Well I don't realy know if you can prevent a page from being downloaded altogether but for years now I've been using some free-ware HTML encrypting applications that can encrypt the page contents and the scripts in the pages so that the become realy really reallly realllly difficult to decipher and even if you download the pages, they are not viewable in the editor window of any Web Editor. If you view the codes, you might as well be looking at the codes of "The Matrix".

therationa date=1202938536:

Not only this, but the arrest and (very short) trial of Jesus supposedly took place at night on Passover eve. That the Sanhedrin (the Jewish body of judges) would have assembled in the middle of the night on Passover eve to pass a quick judgment on anyone defies reason . . .

The Jewish authorities had tried to arrest Jesus during the day in the past and failed. They were also afraid of being stoned by the public since Jesus was popular among the people. This will easily explain the night time arrest even at the least expected time [desprate time called for desprate measures . . . so to speak].

therationa date=1202938536:

. . . but when you add to this the fact that in the story the members of the council slap Jesus and spit in his face the implausible borders on the impossible. To say that the Sanhedrin slapped and spit on someone in a trial is like saying that the justices of the Supreme Court would slap and spit on defendants. Yes, these were ancient times, but the institutions being talked about here were formal institutions that didn't just convene on a whim and they didn't act like savages, much less on Passover eve.

The sanhedrin ordered the arrest of Christ using the temple guards as instrument. If the same temple guards assault Christ and allow disgruntuled hanger-ons to do the same then the responsibility passes on to the same sanhedrin who ordered the arrest - what didi they do to stop the assault.
The sanhedrin may be an honourable council and a formal institution and so is the Nigerian senate (and those of other countries) but we have seen on National TV how these honourables sometimes behave during their formal sessions (slaps, throwing pieces of furniture at one another, fist cuffs, etc).

therationa date=1202938536:

Here are rules of the Sanhedrin that were in place at the time according to the Jewish Mishnah:

* 1) No criminal session was allowed at night.
* 2) No Sanhedrin trial could be heard at any place other than the Temple precincts.
* 3) No capital crime could be tried in a one-day sitting.
* 4) No criminal trial could be held on the eve of a Sabbath or festival.
* 5) No one could be found guilty on his own confession.
* 6) No blasphemy charge could be sustained unless the accused pronounced the name of God in front of witnesses.
* 7) The Sanhedrin were allowed to execute people on their own and did not need the Romans to do so for them.

The trial of Jesus according to the Gospels violated all of these rules.

and having considered their own rules it was then not supprising that they desprately tried to correct their error by first sending Christ to Herod (hoping the Patriach would do the hatchet job and save their hands from being smeared), then to Pilate (who had Christ executed not on some "stupid blasphemy Charges against some foriegn Jewish God" but on Charges of sedition against the Roman authority).

I fail to see any inconsistency in the Biblical account and the "expected" behaviour of the Sanhedrin given the despration of their situation. Lets not forget that these people had dogged every step of Christ during his ministry looking for ways to trap him.

come see come saw whattt??!!!

Overuled!!


Seamstress?

fumigate

loq

I'd rather be a Doctor.


You are a Dancer?

Chen-Chinzou


Cold

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

You're a CIA operative under deep cover as a student.

You are not equating the spirit of Tu-Pac Shakur with God are you?

Chief Security Officer (CSO) to Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu.