I visited a friend at the computer village in Ikeja Lagos a week ago. My laptop had been behaving very funny for about 2-days, so I took it to his shop for a checkup. When I got there, he was busy "brushing" a board of another laptop; "brushing", I mean, scrubing the board's surface with a toothbrush.
We exchanged greetings, he told me to take a seat, that he'll be ready for me in about 5-minutes. Meanwhile, he talked about the problem with the piece of hardware he was working on. He told me
With 2010 rolling to a close, I took a stock of this year's major events yesterday. As far as my online life is concerned, my unfortunate experience with Web4Africa was major. I thought I was in good hands, I mean, Naija to Naija; but unfortunately, it was a pot of soup. I have since shined my eyes - Nigerian style, and moved on and up; formerly at http://nairabytes.wordpress.com/ and now on a hosted server running Joomla!.
One day is for the thief, one day is for the owner, but how I wish I
I stumbled across the article titled: Africa needs a culture of science yesterday. While the title is so true, the content is more. And after reading the article, I thought of writing this post, at least just to bring things a little closer to home.
The first step towards a Nigerian culture of science is to make science relevant to the average Nigerian, resident in Nigeria.
Ask the average Nigerian child what
I use blogdesk for a couple of my blogging activities. It is light in weight, not too complicated to use and can get things done quickly, so I thought why not just put up a post about installing it rather than mentioning "installation" over and over again in my future posts.
Download Blogdesk from here: http://www.blogdesk.org/en/download.htm, double-click to install:
Now, your Blogdesk installation is ready to roll.
The above is only a default installation of BlogDesk without any
You are welcome to the new home of NairaBytes.net This is our first post, and how best to start than with a tutorial.
There are many blogging clients out there and I personally like Blogdesk because its free, neat, light-weight and extremely simple. Blogdesk can be downloaded here. The following is how I setup mywebjournal.net so that it can be updated using Blogdesk.
1) I would assume you have an installation of blogdesk, if you don't, download and install it first.
2) Log in to your Joomla
1) I am assuming you have WAMP Installed already, if not, first proceed to wampserver.com and download the latest version. Once installed, launch it, type http://127.0.0.1 on your browser, and make sure you see the default screen. And just in case your post#80 is already used for something else, here is a guide to changing WAMP servers default port.
2) Download Drupal - I'm using the v7.14 .zip version. Unzip into a dir at: C:\wamp\www, for example: C:\wamp\www\drupal - where drupal is the
Problem: I installed the game "supertux" from Synaptic, and played it. So after I quit/exitted, the game, and back to my desktop, the resolution was reset: desktop items had bigger texts, etc. I right-clicked on the desktop to change the resolution to the previous setting which I knew. Immediately I clicked the apply button, suddenly, the whole screen went garbled.
When I moved my mouse upwards, the lower part of the screen was black;and when I moved the mouse downwards, I see the garbled
It was my 400th post on Nairaland. I didnt plan it to be that way, but it happened: shit hit the roof - when web4africa decided to trash talk on me.
I am usually on the Webmasters lounge. I'm a quiet guy, usually passing by, trying to see what I can learn from web-related problems / solutions to problems; looking for someone to help - for free. In the process, I make friends, contacts, etc. The helping part has really helped me to learn a lot.
So what happened on NL?
A NL user with nic
With 2010 rolling to a close, I took a stock of this year's major events yesterday. As far as my online life is concerned, my unfortunate experience with Web4Africa(http://nairabytes.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/60-day-till-the-expiration-of-www-nairabytes-com-update8/) was major. I thought I was in good hands, I mean, Naija to Naija; but unfortunately, it was a pot of soup. I have since shined my eyes(http://nairabytes.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/webhosting-company-review-web4africa-sucks/) -
I don't know its cause but I just found a way to solve a problem: WindowsLiveWriter.exe application error: The application failed to initialize properly ()xc000007b) Click on Ok to terminate the application.
And just in case you land in the same situation, heres how to get Windows Live Writer running again. Before, I usually uninstalled and then reinstalled. Rather than going through all the hassle, you can simply do a repair.
Go to your Start Menu >> Settings >> Control Panel
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