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Procurement Jobs Kenya. GOAL NGO.
by Lawrence Kago 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

<http://careerpointkenya.blogspot.com/2009/11/procurement-jobs-kenya-goal-ng…> Share <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcareerpointkenya.blogspot…> Procurement Officer GOAL Nairobi GOAL has been working in Sudan since 1985, originally in government controlled areas of Sudan, but from the early 1990s expanding into areas of southern Sudan controlled by the SPLA. GOAL South Sudan currently operates programme in Twic County, Warap State, Kurmuk, Blue Nile State, Malakal town and the Sobat Corridor in Upper Nile State. The GOAL SS Nairobi office performs both logistic and Procurement functions that are crucial in the day to day running of the GOAL SS programme. General Description of the Role: - This position is based in Goal SS support office in Nairobi. The Procurement Officer will provide support to the Procurement Section reporting to the Nairobi Office Logistics Manager. Core Duties: - Coordinating and timely preparation and implementation of procurement plans and activities based on Goal operations. - Proper management of procurement activities carried out by Goal - Coordinating suppliers’ prequalification and appraisals. - Keeping abreast with market trading by carrying out market surveys. - Preparation of contract documents according to awards. - Establishing and maintaining positive relations with suppliers and key stakeholders. Requirements Education: - Professional qualifications in procurement and supplies management such as CIPS/KISM. - Five years relevant experience. - Be computer Literate. Applications should be sent to: The Logistics Manager, Goal South Sudan, P.O. Box 66242, 00800, Nairobi. Or Email: logistics @ goalsouthsudan.org Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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Windows 7 file permissions problem
by Evans Ikua 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I am supporting a client who has just installed Windows 7. She cant get access to her files previously stored in a different partition. Error message is that she needs permissions. I have seen that this is a very common problem with a lot of people in the forums, and cant see any solution so far. Her account has administrator rights, and cant even "take ownership" of the files and folders. This is aftert a Win XP upgrade. Anyone got a solution for this? Ikua

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Mick Wilson/UNEP/NBO/UNO is on leave
by Mick Wilson 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I will be out of the office starting 19/11/2009 and will not return until 23/11/2009. I am out of office for a few days and will be checking this mail less often than you'd like. If you need an intelligent reply before I get back then please contact caroline.mureithi(a)unep.org or, for POW 2010 matters, norberto.fernandez(a)unep.org

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Re: [Skunkworks] How to create a button that updates, retrieves to a database using Javascript
by Eva Kaloki 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi, how do i create a submit buttons that update, retrieve,and delete from a an already created database,probably from Access or using MySql,using javascript and html. Regards, Eva --- On Thu, 11/19/09, skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke <skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: From: skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke <skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Skunkworks Digest, Vol 8, Issue 195 To: skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 6:33 PM Send Skunkworks mailing list submissions to skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke You can reach the person managing the list at skunkworks-owner(a)lists.my.co.ke When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Skunkworks digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Request For Data -- Web Proxy/Mail/VoIP (Jared Koyier) 2. Mick Wilson/UNEP/NBO/UNO is on leave (Mick Wilson) 3. Re: Kebs targets makers of software with quality rules (Murigi Muraya) 4. Re: Request For Data -- Web Proxy/Mail/VoIP (rsohan(a)gmail.com) 5. Re: Request For Data -- Web Proxy/Mail/VoIP (saidimu apale) 6. Re: Kebs targets makers of software with quality rules (ashok+skunkworks(a)parliaments.info) 7. Re: Kebs targets makers of software with quality rules (Ashok Hariharan) 8. The VB IDE Tips and trick talk is virtually empty (Murigi Muraya) 9. Re: INERNET GATEWAY PING BLOCK (Steve Muchai) 10. Fwd: Securing Africa's speedy Internet for development (Barrack Otieno) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:33:52 +0000 From: "Jared Koyier" <jaredkoyier(a)gmail.com> To: "Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Request For Data -- Web Proxy/Mail/VoIP Message-ID: <4b058182.1a135e0a.5171.4883(a)mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I tend to think logs are a little raw and any ISP that keeps such might consider them to be client confidential. Sent from my ?xpensive phone -----Original Message----- From: Alex Nderitu Sent: 19/11/2009 6:47:30 pm Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Request For Data -- Web Proxy/Mail/VoIP Logs! All the best :) On 11/19/09, rsohan(a)gmail.com <rsohan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm involved in a university research project examining how people use the > internet in Kenya. > > I'm looking for people on the list who may be working for ISPs and are able > to provide us with web proxy, mail, > voip, etc logs. > > While I'm happy to provide full and complete details of the proposal and > proposed research offline, > I'll keep this note brief in the interests of economy. > > All sources will be acknowledged and fully involved in the research. > > Please do get in touch off-list if you think you may be able to help. > > Regards > > R. Sohan > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:47:26 +0300 From: Mick Wilson <Mick.Wilson(a)unep.org> To: Skunkworks Forum <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Subject: [Skunkworks] Mick Wilson/UNEP/NBO/UNO is on leave Message-ID: <OFAC237FCB.7CF508EE-ON43257673.0061BA35-43257673.0061BA35(a)unon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I will be out of the office starting 19/11/2009 and will not return until 23/11/2009. I am out of office for a few days and will be checking this mail less often than you'd like. If you need an intelligent reply before I get back then please contact caroline.mureithi(a)unep.org or, for POW 2010 matters, norberto.fernandez(a)unep.org

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So you think you know traceroute ...
by Christopher Kiagiri 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

If you have zero interest in networking and/or associated troubleshooting, you may stop reading now. Otherwise, I found the following presentation from NANOG very informative and discovered there's a lot more to tracert than I knew of ... Cheers, - Chris ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brent Chapman <brent(a)netomata.com> Date: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM Subject: [lopsa-tech] So you think you know traceroute... To: tech(a)lopsa.org Most network engineers and sysadmins would probably say that they're intimately familiar with 'traceroute<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute>', and consider it one of their fundamental network troubleshooting tools... I certainly do. But you might be amazed to learn, as I did, how much you * don't* know about traceroute. Richard Steenbergen of nLayer Communications, Inc., did an *excellent* presentation on traceroute<http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N…> at this month's NANOG <http://www.nanog.org/> (North American Network Operators Group) meeting: - A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute<http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N…>, by Richard A. Steenbergen<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-steenbergen/0/8b/398> of nLayer Communications <http://www.nlayer.net/>. - http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N… Among other things, this presentation shows you: - How traceroute works - What you can learn from the DNS hostnames returned by traceroute - Where the ISP/carrier boundaries are - Where the equipment is located, geographically (do you know what a CLLI code is?) - What type of equipment the ISP/carrier is using - What the round trip times reported by traceroute *really* mean - How you can be led astray by ICMP prioritization, rate limiting, asymmetric paths, and load balancing One of the coolest tricks I learned from this presentation is, to find out more about what's at the other end of some hop that appears to be a point-to-point link, assume that the IP address you see is one of the two addresses in a /30 subnet (as is commonly assigned to point-to-point links), and do a DNS reverse lookup of the other address in the /30. This is useful, for example, in figuring out which egress port a packet went out on, since traceroute normally only shows you the ingress ports for each device along the way. For example, let's say I was looking at the following traceroute output, and wanted to know the egress port on router #3, as the packet moved to router #4: *brent%* traceroute www.google.com traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 208.67.219.230 traceroute to google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.219.230), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 3.145 ms 2.573 ms 2.382 ms 2 75-101-29-1.dsl.static.sonic.net (75.101.29.1) 9.555 ms 9.054 ms 9.089 ms 3 127.at-X-X-X.gw3.200p-sf.sonic.net (208.106.96.193) 9.510 ms 9.871 ms 9.194 ms 4 200.ge-0-1-0.gw.equinix-sj.sonic.net (64.142.0.210) 11.965 ms 11.870 ms 11.839 ms 5 0.as0.gw2.equinix-sj.sonic.net (64.142.0.150) 11.928 ms 12.519 ms 12.394 ms 6 GigabitEthernet3-1.GW2.SJC7.ALTER.NET (157.130.194.17) 11.360 ms 16.257 ms 11.268 ms 7 0.so-0-0-1.XL4.SJC7.ALTER.NET (152.63.51.50) 11.729 ms 11.679 ms 11.403 ms 8 0.so-7-0-0.XL2.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.113.21) 14.775 ms 17.455 ms 0.so-5-0-0.XL2.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.48.9) 15.548 ms 9 POS7-0.GW6.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.55.14) 12.886 ms 13.143 ms 13.029 ms 10 65.203.37.46 (65.203.37.46) 13.517 ms 14.708 ms 16.566 ms 11 * * * 12 * * * ^C To find out more about router #3's egress port, I look at the IP address for router #4 (64.142.0.210), figure out what would be the other IP address in the same /30 (64.142.0.209; hint: the lower address in a /30 pair always ends in an odd number, and the higher address always ends in an even number, so if the address you know ends in an odd number, the other address in the same /30 is going to be the next *higher* number, and if the address you know is even, the other is going to be the next *lower* number), and do a DNS reverse lookup of that address: *brent%* dig -x 64.142.0.209 ; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P3 <<>> -x 64.142.0.209 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49382 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;209.0.142.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 209.0.142.64.in-addr.arpa. 259200 IN PTR 200.ge-6-3-0.gw3.200p-sf.sonic.net. ;; Query time: 31 msec ;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222) ;; WHEN: Fri Nov 13 09:42:05 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 91 Another handy tip from the presentation is that, since light travels through fiber optic cable at about 200 km (or 125 miles, if you prefer) per millisecond, each 1 ms of delay shown by traceroute (which, remember, is*round trip* delay) should represent about 100 km (62.5 mi) of distance if the delay were due entirely to the distance travelled (i.e., no queuing or processing delays). Using that fact, you can see that 40ms for a packet to go from San Francisco to New York (about 2500 miles, or 4000km) would be "normal", but 40ms for a packet to go from San Francisco to San Jose (about 50 miles, or 80km) would indicate a problem; it should take the packet less than 1ms to cover that distance and back, so something else (congestion or processing delays, for example) must account for the other 39ms. There's a *lot* more in this presentation, about more complex issues such as - how the way in which routers handle traceroute packets can produce biased results (most routers handle traceroute packets much more slowly than they handle "real" data packets, which can make things look much worse than they are) - how asymmetric paths can lead you astray (traceroute only shows you the path *to* a system, but if you're pulling lots of bytes from the system, as would typically be the case with a remote server, you probably care more about the path back *from* the system, which might be totally different - how using MPLS, which is increasingly common in carrier networks, can lead to very confusing round-trip times in traceroute Anyway, if you ever use traceroute, I highly recommend that you review this excellent presentation. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much you learn. Thanks to Strata Chalup of Virtual.net<http://www.linkedin.com/in/virtualnet> for bringing this very informative presentation to my attention. -Brent -- Brent Chapman <brent(a)netomata.com> Netomata, Inc. -- www.netomata.com Making networks more cost-effective, reliable, and flexible by automating network configuration

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Re: [Skunkworks] Is this a joke?
by fyodor 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

EEh!? 110Mps? Woah? I downloaded an 800Mb file in less than a min clocking speeds of +500kbps... I guess they were testing something or making us 'feel it'...but it was trully incredible i must say. Short of being seated at the ISP it think thats an experience everyone would appreciate. -tyrus On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:42:02 +0300 David Mwangi <zaikdavidson(a)gmail.com> wrote: >My current speeds: > >http://www.speedtest.net/result/628124536.png > >On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:34 AM, fyodor <fyodor(a)hushmail.com> >wrote: > >> All, >> >> Last night i hit these speeds and thought i was high on >something >> really divine.... >> >> http://www.speedtest.net/result/627509031.png >> >> Anyone else? >> >> >> -tyrus >> >> _IEEE Member >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >>Since am not allowed to destroy money cuz it belongs to the Govt, it means they can ask it back any moment......oh wait, its called Taxes!!

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Fwd: Securing Africa's speedy Internet for development
by Barrack Otieno 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Got this from another list, might be of use to some of us, Dear All, As discussed, I attach a recent presentation dealing with the opportunities and security (Information Assurance) challenges of Africa's newly acquired fibre-optic cables. I made the presentation at the BarCampAfrica UK event found here: http://barcampafricauk09.eventbrite.com/ Additionally, I covered similar themes on the BBC World Service Digital Planet programme here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004hhnr Best Regards, Frederick *Dr Frederick Wamala, Ph.D, CISSP®** **--------------------------------------------------------** *Information Systems & Innovation Group Department of Management London School of Economics London WC2A 2AE *----------------------------------------------------------* Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm - Dr Frederick Wamala -- BarCamp09 1.0.ppt <http://dgroups.org/?tvtc8l8r>- 4.6 MB, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint -- Barrack O. Otieno Administrative Manager Afriregister Ltd (Ke) P.o.Box 21682 Nairobi 00100 Tel: +254721325277 +254733206359 +254202498789 Riara Road, Bamboo Lane www.afriregister.com www.afriregister.co.ke ICANN accredited registrar. Skype: barrack.otieno

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INERNET GATEWAY PING BLOCK
by Cynthia Wahome 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hello All >From a security point of view,is it advisable to block ICMP packets on your router? if so how do you do it? on the other hand, ICMP is very critical especially for network troubleshooting. also with the fibre now active, there cud be many hacking attempts. So how do you balance? Regards Cynthia ---------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------- "easy access to the world"

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The VB IDE Tips and trick talk is virtually empty
by Murigi Muraya 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

http://twitter.com/akcoder/status/5868426765 The VB IDE Tips and trick talk is virtually empty. Literally 5 people in the whole room. C# IDE talk is about half full (250 people)#PDC09<http://twitter.com/search?q=%23PDC09> 4 minutes ago <http://twitter.com/akcoder/status/5868426765> from TweetDeck<http://www.tweetdeck.com/> <kenya> vb developer - solo moves - stays away from conferences - thinks vb is IT - working on their little gods (projects) </kenya>

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Kebs targets makers of software with quality rules
by aki 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

BD article today.... http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/688040/-/ite… *This is what got me thinking :* "The Kenya ICT Board is also working on a certification programme that will *regulate* the theoretical and practical aspects of writing and executing software codes." Anyone know what the above is about? And can ICT, KEBS board also ensure that all FREEWARE platforms are banned from kenyan networks, PLEASE !!! It will kill all local software initiatives. I'll check more and share me thots a bit later. :-) Rgds.

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