October 2009 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

OT: Samsung Official Distributors in Kenya
by Solomon Mburu 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Guys, I'm looking to the official Samsung Official Distributors in Kenya and googling does not help at all. There was a company by the name Perragon (or something like that) which marketed Samsung products in Kenya. This company was based @ Capital Centre and at Upper Hill (can't remember the exact place). Would anyone know where I can get the Official Samsung distributors in Kenya. Thank you! -- Solomon Mburu P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity! http://desires-and-dreams.blogspot.com https://smiley2.wordpress.com www.takingitglobal.org/mburu

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Visual Studio 2008
by Mr. Lawi 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi guys, Is it too late to ask for the official vs 2008 dvd? Someone was giving the vs, sql server and windows server combo some time back. I want one of those. Thanx

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Re: [Skunkworks] LIVE VIDEO STREAMING
by charles mtawali 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hey, Is there a facility for streaming of video from an event to the internet or do i hv to use Skype and other similar facilities. I have a fibre optic connectivity but i dont know how i ca stream live video across the internet Thanks in advance

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ASP and hosting in kenya
by aki 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Some background : After almost a 5 year break, I can see many things have advanced in the asp world. Some of the successful projects that I created on asp : - Organization Contacts Database. Front end html including low traffic overhead over slow WAN links. Html database provided add, edit and full search by name, country, city etc. Despite access's 2GB limit, over 7000 contacts were stored into Db. I'm told sharepoint made the DB obsolete 2 year ago but is missed... - Freelancers expenses and budget reporting system. Front end html used to collect form data from various departments that deal with freelancers. Backend Ms Access which I setup with queries to prompt for freelancer name and month, provided detailed cost analysis of payments due and a gross summary of total budgets spent monthly/annual on such. Am told after 3 years of use, a complete HRM system replaced it... - Photo archive system. Full searchable, same concept front html with resize thumbnails and fields. Diffcult system as I still needed to master the thumbnails generator as DB size grew over the 2GB limit very quickly. Okay, moving on : For my future web/data projects, is SilverLight and asp.net the best to go forward with or is Ajax because so much has changed. Things like CSS are now there. And is any kenyan hosting provider able to do asp hosting or should I just use one of the many companies who do it on the net? I'd hate to have to start from scratch on php and mysql, just because of lamps ease. Adv is welcome. :-) Rgds.

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Live box and coverage and boosting signals
by Mbugua Njihia 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Question: My neighbor just got the Live box on 512. Livebox itself is wifi enabled but I living on the next block of apartments 50m aerial distance cant see the signal unless I go out on my balcony and even then it is a poor signal. There is line of sight btw his house and mine. Will plug in a Linksys router to the livebox and placing it on his balcony do any better? Or is there an easy way to boost the signal?

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Anyone Attending LISA 2009?
by Moses Mungai 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hallo fellow techies, Am attending the prestigious annual Sysadmin conference; USENIX LISA 2009 in Baltimore here http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa09/ I thought it would be nice to ask around so I can have a chance to meet fellow skunks since I've been away from dot ke for a Year and a half now....(am currently in Norway) would be nice to have our own 'Kenyan Skunk-a-thon' in the US... :-D Holla, Moses

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Doing Tech Conferences
by Murigi Muraya 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Why do you think Multi National Tech Conferences in Africa occur in RSA or in North Africa? http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=61283041553&topic=6560 The Norwegian Developers Conference http://www.ndc2009.no/en/tickets/index.aspx?cat=1073&id=1305 (@ USD 1,000 for 1 day pass, USD 1,400 for 2 day pass, USD 1580 for 3 day pass) in June 2009 had ONLY 1000 attendees. They were expecting 2000 attendees but ... http://www.kjetilk.com/2009/06/ndc-2009-highlights.html The Norwegian Java Developers Conference on Sept 9-10, 2009 had 2000 attendees. It was USD 800 for early registration and USD 1000 after that for the two days. http://www.java.no/javazone/2009/cfp.html and http://www.java.no/javazone/2009/registration.html Norway population = 4.8M = Nairobi Population. Kenya Population = 40M. Do we have any major PHP, Java, .Net or Electronics Conferences to speak of? Has poor turn out discouraged organizers and investors? If some in the US have brought their developer conference prices to USD 99.00 per head per day (http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/ and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/05/12.html) am sure we Kenyans can pull off good quality tech conferences for about 3-4K per head per day. Lower bandwidth costs will help more of us connect online but we need more. Considering traditional media is so expensive to advertise in we need like 100 web sites we can advertise on - barter trade on.

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GITEX Dibai
by Space Engineering NOC 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Anyone attending the GITEX in Dibai

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Degraded Safcom internet experience
by Mbugua Njihia 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Any of one suffering from a degraded internet experience on Safaricom? Speeds over the weekend have been bollocks and it seems today is no better!

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skype on bambanet
by Musya mike 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Anyone using skype on safcom's bambanet? 'Expensive'?

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