Fw: LET US ALL PLEASE EXERCISE SOME PATIENCE
Orevaoghene Charles Obaro
Obaro
-----Original Message-----
From: baba...@un.org <baba...@un.org>
Date: 10. juli 1999 19:32
Subject: LET US ALL PLEASE EXERCISE SOME PATIENCE
DEAR ALL,
I post this message because I too have been guilty of this very
indiscretion. To the point first. What Olawale means is that a 386
or a 486 CPU can run Windows 98 instead of buying new hardware
upgrades or faster computers with faster CPU's Computer Processing
Units. He is not suggesting that you convert Hardware into Software.
he is talking about methods to achieve enough power to run the
software programme. This is more so for our brothers and sisters in
Nigeria who cannot afford the constantly faster speeds that are being
churned out abroad.
The example is the 386, 486, Pentium (75, 100, 120, 133, 166, 200,
233, 300, 400) and Pentium II and Pentium III race. When a few years
ago I invested in my own PC, the Pentium 120 was the top of the range.
Less that 2 weeks after I bought it, the price had crashed by over 40%
and the P133 and P166 were in the market. I spent a great deal of
money to upgrade to the P166 but no sooner had I done this that the
P200 - 400) came. Now the PIII is the ultimate.
Let us be kind to ourselves and not be quick to put others down. I
have learnt great lessons in positivism (trying to find something good
in whatever others do or say) and patience. I have a brother in
Ireland, Mr Oluwole Ayodele Akande is s great advocate of this
philosophy.
When we were fighting Abacha from London, there were very few of us
willing to put our time and resources to this great battle. Sadly
when others tried to join, the amount of in-fighting and acrimony
between the few was so great that many ran away from the process. It
is so sad and depressing that because of all this I almost became ill
and inconsolable. If you can imagine what we did to ourselves, Abacha
could have remained in power till now if God had not shown mercy and
taken him himself.
See the Niger Delta. All of them there are suffering so hard but what
happened, one ethnic group is used to kill the other. The neighbours
of the Ogoni were used to fight the Ogonis who were fighting for all
the suffering masses of the Delta. Warri is still a back ward place
yet the Ijaws, Itsekiris and the Urhobos have burnt it down. They
kill poor innocent villagers who have not even tasted one single
benefit of the oil boom.
I began to ask myself WHY? WHY? WHY? Why can we not co-operate, why
can we not collaborate and why are we so fast in condemning and
destroying ourselves? These are my answers so far:
1. The after effects of slavery.
2. The after effects of colonisation.
3. Our very poor formal education that does not teach us to cooperate
but instead encourages us to compete senselessly.
Please let us from now resolve to see what is good in other Nigerians
and other Black people. Let us try to encourage goodness and peace
and harmony among all of us. The other races too are divided but they
have come to a point where they have been able to learn how to
cooperate instead of FIGHT and that is why they are developing so
fast.
Some 50 to 100 years ago some people laid the foundation of that
collaborative approach. We too must do so NOW! If we do not, we will
have so many individual Professors, Graduates and individual giants in
all areas of human endeavour but they will have very little impact on
our genuine development.
I plead with all to think along these lines.
Many thanks.
IBK
Dear IBK,
I am not sure if there is any question prior to the attachment that
you sent, but here is my response, look at it and if necessary post it
to the forum - Keep up the good work. We shall get there. E ku ise o.
This is not directed at you but whoever that might have be in doubt
over the conversion.
Is there any question about the conversion? One of the problem with
our people is that we know to much and we know nothing. Call a
spade a spade, talk the language an average man on the street will
understand so that he can benefit in whatever we are saying, that is
why I did not go into the technical jargons of trying to differentiate
between an operating system and a CPU so as not to confuse matters.
We were told that Windows run slower on 486, has anyone asked why?
When you are not running a game centre, who needs the speed? What was
the speed of the early PCs? The converted 486 that I used for the
experiment was even faster that my machine that is running Windows.
Please don't tell me that it will runs slower. Have you tried it? Have
you measured the speed? What method did you apply in measuring your
speed? We were told windows is memory hungry, Sir, this again depend
on the program you run on it.
Can a man be sleeping and drinking water at the same time. There are
many third party software lying around the Internet to manage memory
in Windows. You just have to understand how the mind works before you
can escape an heart attack. Many of the problems that Windows has,
Microsoft itself has not been able to provide solutions to them. Some
they do not even understand.
Direct any question on this to me and do not confuse the mind of the
people we are trying to help.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ibukunolu Babajide <i...@usa.net>
To: Iyiola Akanbi <d2...@online.no>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: Converting 486 to Windows95]
Over to you sir!
IBK