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HP LAPTOP NX6110
by Felix mwai 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Anyone in the list with a clue where i can get the following? *HP LAPTOP NX6110* fully working motherboard (without things like the processor,fan or any other accessories,just a clean motherboard.)

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PIRATE BAY
by James Muendo 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

I think most of you know this, but for those who don't, pirate bay (www.piratebay.org) is all what you might want to use for anything you might need to download. 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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we are determining your ICT future -- at this moment..
by Gakuru Alex 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

For those that are never interested in participating on ICT Policy, legislation and regulations... This is just to let you know that we at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies discussing Kenya Communications Regulations (CCK's) that will determine if service providers will continue giving you whatever quality of services they do at unregulated/restricted prices, no statements, who will be licensed on .ke sub domains, digital certification services, consumer protection, complaints and resolutions regulations, broadcasting-frequency allocations/content... the works http://www.cck.go.ke/current_consultations/ Here to engage with service providers, government and regulator to uphold consumer rights. regards, Alex Gakuru

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Is this a joke?
by fyodor 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

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

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Forget Safcom Check this out
by Max Muraya 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Cudnt believe it myself check this speeds out for Butterfly. This speeds were maintaned frm wen i logged in at lik 7.30pm to when i was logging out at 11pm. During the day it was the usual slow bt at night i downloaded lik 2movies and an mp3 album :-). If they can maintain these speeds esp being wireless and unlimited i think safcom will loose many clients for as long as they charge guys per MB!!!!!

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portforwarding
by Job Muriuki 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Am trying to setup port forwarding on an alvarion cpe router without success. the ip is public so i can access it from anywhere. I have attached a screenshot of the web interface. Anyone ever set up portforwardng on such. I want to configure a server remotely?

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A LITTLE SECRET FOR THE SKUNKS
by Lenchipai Nakodony 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

There is word going round that butterfly is currently free of charge, that there is a problem with their payment systems right now. Can anybody confirm this? We might actually get a chance to test the speeds and know which is, really, the faster option. Lenchipai Nakodony Suntel(K) Ltd Skype me:lenchiiz "Idealism is what precedes experience"

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"Jail broken" iPhones hacked by new virus
by aki 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

By Jim Finkle - Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:09PM EST BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said. The virus has been detected in the Netherlands and can only attack iPhones whose users have disabled some pre-installed security features, according to analysts monitoring the progress of the virus. The hackers are trying to use the virus to obtain passwords to banking sites, according to Graham Cluley, a researcher with anti-virus software maker Sophos. When an iPhone user tries to access a bank website, the Duh Worm directs the browser to a look-a-like site controlled by the hackers, Cluley said. A spokeswoman for ING Group said the Dutch banking giant discovered a criminal network that attempted to steal banking credentials via hacked iPhones. Dutch clients of ING have been targeted, but there was no indication that clients outside the Netherlands have to worry, she said. ING has not received any reports from clients that their credentials have been lost, but the bank was monitoring client accounts for suspicious transactions, the spokeswoman said. The only iPhones that are vulnerable to the Duh Worm are "jail broken" phones, where users disable key Applesecurity features to get around the terms of usage agreement that they are designed to enforce, analysts said. For example, Apple prevents users from switching service providers to unauthorized carriers and limits users to the approximately 100,000 programs that the company has vetted for installation on the device. There are thousands of unauthorized programs covering areas including Internet phone calls, WiFi access and pornography. "The vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones, and for good reason. These hacks not only violate the warranty, they will also cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison. Three independent security experts said that it is best for iPhone users not to jail break their devices because the security risks are greater than the benefits. "They're leaving their back door open. Every one else knows what the key is to open that door," Cluley said. The ING spokeswoman said: "People who use their iPhones in a regular way have nothing to fear." The case, which was widely reported by security experts on Monday, is the first in which iPhones have been recruited into a "botnet," or army of infected devices that hackers can control from a central "command and control center." Early this year an unknown criminal gang built a botnet with millions of PCs using a worm known as Conficker. Security researchersfeared that it might wreak havoc on April 1 based on code in the worm's software, but that date passed with little fanfare. Since then, security researchers say that a limited number of Conficker-infected PCs have been used to spread spam, sell fake anti-virus software and perpetrate identity theft.Mikko Hypponen, an expert on Conficker and chief research officer for security software maker F-Secure, said that Duh could spread from the Netherlands to other countries. Like the authors of Conficker, the hackers who wrote Duh are motivated to spread the worm because they too are looking for a payoff from their work, he said. "It's clearly written to make money. That's a first on the mobile side," Hypponen said. To be sure, iPhones that have not been jail broken face their own security challenges. Yet so far Apple has been able to stay ahead of the hackers. In July the company issued a software patch to fix a critical bug uncovered by two researchers that made the device susceptible to secret attacks using the SMS system, which mobile devices use to send text messages. Apple shares rose 3 percent on Monday to $205.88 on the Nasdaq

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Inside Google's Advertising Empire
by aki 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

By JR Raphael, PC World - Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:00PM EST Google 's gobbling up another advertising company, the search giant has announced. Google will acquire Teracent<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in "intelligent display advertising." Yep -- that means more online ads customized specifically for your visit. Teracent, of course, is far from Google's first foray into the online advertising world; as most people who use the Web can't help but know, Google-served ads are practically everywhere these days. Here's an overall look at Google's ad-related acquisitions and how they play into your online life. *Teracent: **Google's Display-Advertising Acquisition* Reading the way Google describes Teracent<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>, it's not hard to understand how it'll fit into the company's advertising ecosystem. "Teracent's technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time -- tweaking images, products, messages or colors," Google's official blog posting<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>explains. "These elements can be optimized depending on factors like geographic location, language, the content of the website, the time of day or the past performance of different ads." Teracent's technology is expected to become available to advertisers using Google's Content Network and DoubleClick program. Yahoo, incidentally, announced an advertising partnership<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>with Teracent earlier this year. There's no word yet how the Google acquisition could affect that relationship (though "badly" might be a logical guess). *Google's Past Ad Acquisitions* The Teracent acquisition comes just two weeks after Google announced it was buying mobile advertising provider AdMob<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>-- a deal worth a whopping $750 million in stock. AdMob focuses primarily on display ads and mobile application ads. Translation: Get ready to see a whole lot of Google-powered advertising on your mobile phone. Prior to AdMob, Google's ad-related acquisitions had revolved around the Web and even the airwaves. (Some say the G-gang is also aiming for in-brain advertising<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>, though I'm pretty sure those rumors are unfounded.) So what are some of the other noteworthy purchases, and how have they affected you? Time for the quick tour: • *DoubleClick: *Bought for $3.1 billion in 2007<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>, DoubleClick delivered a massive network of advertisers into Google's already-strong advertising system. You can thank DoubleClick for all the Google-run display and rich-media ads around the Net -- prior to DC's entry, those had been a relatively small part of Google's advertising empire. • *AdScape: *In-game advertising firm AdScape entered the Google domain<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>in March of 2007, drawing speculation<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>of massive Google-led virtual worlds on the way. To its credit, Google did launch Lively<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>last summer. It took only a matter of months, however, for the service -- which, by some accounts, had turned largely into a virtual teenage groping ground<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>-- to get shut down<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…> . What's AdScape doing now? Good question. It's somewhere in Google's advertising empire, just presumably in a quiet corner. One day, though, the big G's targeted advertising may pop up in a game near you. • *dMarc Broadcasting: *Even further down on the list of not-quite-so-successful ad attempts is dMarc Broadcasting, bought by Google<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>in January of 2006. The company was meant to help Google get into radio advertising<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>, and it did -- for a short while. Earlier this year, the Google radio ad idea died<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>, effectively sending dMarc to the gDump and Google ads off of America's airwaves. • *Applied Semantics: *Ah, the one that started it all. Google grabbed Applied Semantics<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/pcworld/tc_pcworld/storytext/insidegoogles…>in 2003, marking the beginning of the AdSense program and Google's status as a serious advertising player. You know all those little text ads that pop up on Google searches and on countless other Web sites? You can thank Applied Semantics for getting that ball rolling and providing the foundation for the various Google ads we see today.

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Top Notch Web Developer
by James Muendo 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi Skunk(ett)s, A friend of mine is looking for a top-notch web developer, should be good in PHP and AJAX. Good package, if you know anyone, please let them drop-a-line ASAP. 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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