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Guess who owns a server farm?
by fyodor 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

All. Old McDonald had a server farm He eyed the I/O..... And on on the farm he had a mouse He eyed the I/O... With a click click here! click click there! click here! click there! click everywhere! [repeat from beginning] Old McDonald had a server farm He eyed the I/O..... And on on the farm he had a doc He eyed the I/O..... With doc doc here! doc doc there doc here! doc there! docs everywhere... [repeat from beginning] Take it easy guys.... -tyrus _IEEE Member!

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by Martin Muraguri 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

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Aeroplanes are now Tweeting
by Thomas Kibui 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Lufthansa has set up a new service named MySkyStatus that automatically posts the current position of your flight to Twitter or Facebook so your friends can follow your travels (and your friends living in those cities can look up!). Typical status updates read “flying over San Francisco Intl, California 94030, USA on United Airlines” or “flying over Grantsville, UT 84029, USA on United Airlines”. It seems the system posts the flight’s position around once per hour, pulling info from a database of flight information. *Here’s the really smart bit:* Clicking the link in the update, of course, directs you to the Lufthansa MySkyStatus page with a Google Map of the flight’s position, meaning that Lufthansa is getting free social media promotion from people travelling on all airlines. Pretty smart. ... On a long haul flight, of course, the system may post 20 updates or more. Quoted from: http://mashable.com/2009/10/10/myskystatus/<http://edge.sita.aero/links/click.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2009%…>

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Dell Optiplex 360
by David Kago 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Almost new Dell Optiplex 360 for sale, bids invited.. bei ya kuongea... hit me offlist

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Rules
by Phares Kariuki 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi, We have inserted a link to the rules on etiquette as part of the signature. Kindly refer before posting if in doubt. Thanks. -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |

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community cleverness needed
by saidimu apale 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I'm stuck on a challenging problem and I need your collective intelligence. This isn't a specific problem but a general one I've seen in many situations. I'll try and make the problem description as generic as possible so it can apply to a wide variety of situations. I have a solution in mind but I'm not sure it works. To prevent creating bias (for or against), I won't discuss my solution until after others put forth theirs. Problem Description: ================ There are three parties involved, let's call them A, B and C - A contacts B with a message for C - A pays both B and C for successful delivery of the message How does A determine the following: - that B delivered the message to C - that C received the message from B Assumptions: ========== - To make the problem as general as possible, let's assume all communication between the parties happens only via SMS - The trustworthiness of B and C cannot be determined, i.e. don't assume they will honestly relay the facts to each other or to A - B can decide to scam C, or collude with C to scam A, or scam both C and A - C can decide to scam B, or collude with B to scam A, or scam both B and A What's the community's cleverness on this one? saidi

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TECH. INSIGHTS - COUNTERFEIGHT LAPTOPS
by Alvin Jason Ochieng 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Skunks, Check Today's Standard Newspaper page 29 on how to tell fake products that are literally everywhere in this Market !!! Monday OCT 12th 2009. The Anti-Counterfeit Bill has been enacted so let us help stamp them out !!!!! Alvin GREENLINE TECHNOLOGY LTD. 722-313923

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Applying for youth fund
by Job Muriuki 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi good people. I need help in applying for the youth fund. Any assistance will fine. Thanks.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Wolframalpha: Beyond search engine
by Kipkemoi 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Their name just rolls off the tongue ... -- A Cruce Salus On Oct 10, 2009 11:08 PM, "David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd" < kianiadee(a)gmail.com> wrote: Skunks, Could you imagine a search engine where you can enter musical notes and you ask it to play for you the sound or some financial calculation on net present value of money, and it gives you the computation? This is unbelievable check out http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Whereas google and bing (sic) are excellent in the search and indexing of information wolframalpha does an amazing job in "Computational Knowledge Engine" check it out. Kiania PS. Before you ask, they've put me on retainer ;-) -- [Asentric Consulting Ltd] If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth .... -Richest Man in Babylon _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general

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Wolframalpha: Beyond search engine
by David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

Skunks, Could you imagine a search engine where you can enter musical notes and you ask it to play for you the sound or some financial calculation on net present value of money, and it gives you the computation? This is unbelievable check out http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Whereas google and bing (sic) are excellent in the search and indexing of information wolframalpha does an amazing job in "Computational Knowledge Engine" check it out. Kiania PS. Before you ask, they've put me on retainer ;-) -- [Asentric Consulting Ltd] If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth .... -Richest Man in Babylon

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