Kuala Lumpur - Muhammad Abdulkarim, a Nigerian from Yobe State, received the best student paper award at the Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence conference in Singapore for his research project which uses artificial intelligence tools to prospect for oil in shallow and deep waters. The conference was attended by eminent scientists from all over the world. Besides Abdulkarim, the only other awardee is a professor from Switzerland.

"When I saw how the first presenters were grilled as if by

You are not the only one that gets pissed off especially if you run a webserver on your desktop / server and another application is using the same port. For example: Teamviewer

wamp1

 

The following is the procedure to change the default port number: (port80 for WampServer).

1) Locate the filename httpd.conf in your Wamp/Apache install.

For a WAMPSERVER2.2 install, its located at:

C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.21\conf>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is

From my Ubuntu box: I was trying to set my computer time to my local time and took the screenshot below. I didn't know there are many Lagos' around the world.

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LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MYQSL and Perl/PHP/Python. Here is how I got it to work on my Ubuntu 11.04. Here is my Ubuntu installed version:

tokunbo@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
tokunbo@ubuntu:~$

The two steps to have a fully working LAMP-Server is to first install the LAMP server and then install PHPMyAdmin.

1) FIRST: Install the LAMP server:

1a) Install tasksel if you

"Bleezer is a powerful blogging client. And it's free." thats the starting sentence about Bleezer from http://alchemii.net/bleezer/.

This tutorial details how I got it installed and running on my Ubuntu 10.04, and set it up for my Joomla site: http://nairabytes.net.

1) go to http://alchemii.net/bleezer/ , click on the Linux download icon to download Bleezer in zipped format. Save the file anywhere on your hard drive.

2) Bleezer needs Java to be installed in Ubuntu (what a headache) - so we

The quest to have multiple operating systems running on the same computer is made easier through many softwares, one of which is VirtualBox. http://www.virtualbox.org

With VirtualBox installed, working on files in betweeen operating systems (host and guest) is a greater need. In this case, Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) is the host ang Windows XP Professional SP2.

1) make sure your Windows-XP guest install on Ubuntu is powered off

2) create a folder on your desktop / in any other DIR with name

ajewole

AJEWOLE is a name originating from the South Western part (yoruba language speaking states) of Nigeria.

In English, it could be a prayer or a wish that one is successful in his / her daily work or business venture, for example:
a trader on his / her way to the market early in the morning is wished well by friends and neighbors "aje a wole o / aje a wole wa o" - meaning: "wealth will come, wealth cometh to me". Generally 'AJEWOLE' revolves around wealth, profit, prosperity and success in one's

post2blog for joomla1

The following is a tutorial on how to install and configure Post2Blog - a desktop blogging client for Windows.

1) download Post2Blog - ". from here(http://www.bytescout.com/post2blog.html)

2) extract the (.zip) file and double click the "Post2Blog.exe" file to install it.

At the welcome screen, click next

[1] Publishing post - how to publish your first post, click next

[2] Rich Text editor - click next

[3] Integration with popular applications - click next

[4] New Accounts screen - click

Recently, I had to connect to a Windows VPN server from my Ubuntu laptop to help someone troubleshoot an application. So I thought to do a tutorial on how to setup a VPN client from Ubuntu to Windows: XP for this talk.

Sometime ago, I wrote a tutorial for setting up a VPN server on Windows XP Professional. This is the VPN server the Ubuntu VPN client will be connecting to. You might want to set up a server first.

Luckily, Ubuntu ships with a straightforward and easy process.

1) Click System

The following tutorial details how to install and configure ScribeFire for updating and editing your Joomla powered website.

ScribeFire is a web browser extension that, as of this writing can run on Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Check out http://www.scribefire.com/ to install ScribeFire on your browser. You might need to restart your browser afterwards.

Now, to setup ScribeFire for Joomla,

1) On your Tools menu click ScribeFire to launch ScribeFire,

2) click Add to add a new blog