November 2009 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

ARCHIVING
by James Muendo 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi Skunk(ettes); Any company that deals with this get in-touch off-list. Work is as much as archiving information for an organisation that has been around since 1964. So, quote and include all the details possible. Regards; James Muendo Leerick Office & Tech Supplies P.O Box 28016 - 00200 Nairobi,Kenya. Phone: + 254 725 567 508 gtalk: timrick Skype: tim.rick rickdeesadvantage.blogspot.com

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MDaemon Help Needed
by Simon Mbuthia 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi guys, I have just been informed by my ISP that our network is spamming :-( Some network engineer tells me that normally, it is the mail server that sends out SPAM. Our server happens t run MDaemon, whose configuration appears kinda cryptic to me. the said engineer tells me that there are settings that need to be applied on MDaemon to prevent it from spamming, but she doesn't remember exactly how that's done. It is on this basis that I am imploring MDaermon gurus [if there's such a thing as that] on the list to kindly throw me a lifeline as guys have started complaining of emails not getting delivered to their intended recipients. Please help. Me. -- שִׁמְעוֹן

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How the CoE is promoting abortion and homosexuality
by Mikey Tirop 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Dear Fellow Kenya, Contrary to what some media people (especially The Daily Nation – Nation Media Group) wants Kenyans to believe, the following is what the so called harmonized draft constitution will mean to the society if it is passed as it is: 1. Abortion will officially be legal 2. Homosexuality will officially be legal Let me explain: A. THE ABORTION ISSUE: The previous draft discussed extensively at Bomas concluded the following: Right To Life 35.(1) Every person has the right to life except as may be prescribed in an Act of Parliament. (2) The life of a person begins at conception. (3) Abortion is not permitted except as may be provided for by an Act of Parliament. The Harmonized draft created by the Committee of Experts (CoE) says the following: Right to life 35. (1) Every person has the right to life. (2) A person shall not be arbitrarily deprived of life. With the above in mind, please note the following changes in the harmonized draft: a. The sentence "(2) The life of a person begins at conception." has been removed from the former draft. This was removed because pro-abortion groups usually dismiss the fact that life begins at conception. This is so as to allow babies to be killed while in the womb because according to them, life of a “person” begins at the point the baby is born. b. The sentence "(3) Abortion is not permitted except as may be provided for by an Act of Parliament." has also been removed from the former draft. Removing this sentence therefore means that if the harmonized constitution is passed, abortion will be permitted and millions of babies will be killed! B. THE HOMOSEXUALITY ISSUE: The previous draft discussed extensively at Bomas concluded the following: Family 42. (1) The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and the basis of social order. (2) Every adult has the right - (a) to marry a person of the opposite sex, based upon the free consent of the parties; and (b) found a family. (3) A person shall not marry another person of the same sex. (4) Parties to a marriage are entitled to equal rights in relation to the marriage at the time of the marriage, during the marriage and at the dissolution of the marriage. (5) Parliament shall enact legislation that recognizes— (a) marriages concluded under any tradition, or system of religious, personal or family law; and (b) personal and family law under any tradition, or adhered to by persons professing a particular religion, to the extent that such marriages or systems are consistent with this Constitution. The Harmonized draft created by the CoE says the following: Family 42. (1) The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and the necessary basis of social order. (2) Every adult has the right to marry a person of the opposite sex, based upon the free consent of the parties. (3) Every adult has the right to found a family. (4) Parties to a marriage are entitled to equal rights at the time of the marriage, during the marriage and at the dissolution of the marriage. (5) Parliament shall enact legislation that recognizes— (a) marriages concluded under any tradition, or system of religious, personal or family law; and (b) personal and family law under any tradition, or adhered to by persons professing a particular religion, to the extent that such marriages or systems are consistent with this Constitution. With the above in mind, please note the following change in the harmonized draft: The sentence "(3) A person shall not marry another person of the same sex." has been removed from the former draft. This is so as to make sure that when the draft constitution there is ambiguity as to what a "family" really is and by so doing pave way for homosexuality and destruction of the traditional family. C. HOW THE COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS PLANS TO ACHIEVE THIS EVIL PLAN The strategy being used by the CoE, pro-abortion groups and homosexuals is as follows: 1. Certain people in the media and columnists are supposed to create the impression that homosexuals have been marginalized by this new constitution. This is so as to allow you to ignore paying much attention on the evil changes that have been made by the CoE and by so doing vote YES for a constitution that goes against the religious and cultural beliefs of the majority. 2. The 30 day period for debate has been specifically been made that short so that there is no time for the word to spread. 3. Certain people in the media are supposed to only create the impression that the only major contentious issue is devolution of power. This is therefore meant to make the public concentrate on only that issue and forget about abortion and the family. 4. Since the sections on abortion and homosexuality will not be discussed widely by the public, the impression created by the CoE will be that the abortion and homosexuality issues are not contentions and so they will not be put under a referendum. We all know that a majority of Kenyans are pro-life and they also reject homosexuality. Therefore putting such issues under a referendum will be a big blow to the pro-abortion groups and homosexuals. What you can do to stop this madness: - Email all major and minor newspapers, magazines, TV & Radio stations and inform them of these evil plans by the CoE, abortionists and homosexuals - Use word of mouth to talk to your friends, co-workers, neighbors, fellow commuters, classmates, family members and basically everyone you come in contact with. - Talk to your pastor, priest, imam, guru and tell them to use the pulpit to stop this evil - Forward this message to all your email contacts - Forward this message to all your contacts on Facebook, twitter and other social networks - Create Facebook groups and invite your friends to spread the word - Go to the Commitee of Experts website (www.coekenya.go.ke) and inform them through their forums and email address of your displeasure that they are tying to push us towards the culture of death and homosexuality by making the changes mentioned above - Talk, write, email your Members of Parliament and tell them that if the draft reaches parliament in the current state, they must change it immediately to include the sentences that CoE removed. Otherwise they can kiss their re-election goodbye. - Pray very hard that the constitution does not pass with the current format that promotes abortion and homosexuality Please note that if you do not take action: - Millions of babies are going to be murdered. - Homosexuals will promote their sinful ways openly since the law will be on their side and you will even be sent to jail for discriminating against them. It is now up to you. Yours, Very Concerned Kenyan. 23rd, November, 2009

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SMS Interconnect Fees
by saidimu apale 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I didn't know it cost Safaricom so much to terminate SMSes on their network. Poor MJ ;) http://manypossibilities.net/2009/11/sms-interconnect-fees/

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video compression and analysis software for MPEG-4 (H.264)
by nyarotho kennedy 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

morning happy people, i need thorough assistance on the above subject. am currently working on my project - I*PTV Service optimization on an IMS network*. The main objective is to reduce bandwidth consumption(typical for the kenyan market!) and improve scalability. one way to achieve this is by choosing a suitable video codec for transmission. But as is with academia i need to analyse different video signals (compressed differently) and justify my choice. that is why i need compression software and probably software for VIDEO signal analysis. Please try and keep it FOSS :). all help appreciated. God bless y'all! NB: Any Zuku guyz can let me in on the codecs they use for their service. and it doesnt have to be h.264! BR, Nyarotho Kennedy -- People should know when they are conquered.

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How the CoE is promoting abortion and homosexuality
by Mikey Tirop 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

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Anyone supplying Ericsson PB 250 VMU Cards ?
by benson maina 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Gentlemen kindly assist on this one ASAP

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ANALOGUE DIGIUM CARDS ANYONE?
by davis muriuki 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Anyone with the above cards please email me offlist -- Thiong'o Muriuki,

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if you ever need to rename 100+ files...
by saidimu apale 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I needed to quickly and painlessly rename some files by replacing spaces with underscores (_). Here's a quick and dirty python script that did it for me. I ran it from the python interpreter command-line (I didn't save the script to a file... lazy). ----- begin script----- import os for file in os.listdir(os.getcwd()): newname = "_".join(file.split()) os.rename(file, newname) ----- end script------ It's a quick and dirty script so there's no error-handling of *any* sort. But that's trivial to add if you needed it.

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Flex Adobe Air Runtime
by Mr. Lawi 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Flex gurus? If I have the Flex SDK, do I need to install the Adobe Air runtime? There is a .air app I want to run and it does require I install adobe runtime and I am not sure I need to download it if I already have the sdk. Thanx in advance.

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