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SOS: Asp.net Ajax tabs
by Edwin Wambua 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi all, For those who have worked with asp.net 2.0 with the ajax toolkit extender,I'm wrestling with a slight issue here.I have a form with several tabs and on each tab there are 2 command buttons, save and exit; and save and go to the next page.The problem is that the button click events aren't firing.Endless googling reveals that the tabs arent saving client state correctly when postbacks, which I've used on some other controls in my tabs, are triggered.Please help. Edwin Wambua Tel No:+254721995519

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FURTHER REDUCTION Garage Sale
by Martha Muriuki 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi all, The earlier advertised sale at KDN's go-down along Msa road is on-going & there's a further price reduction for new and used items. Attached is the item list with prices attached Please take your pick & make arrangements to purchase. Terms cash. Dont miss out! Directions: The go-down is situated on Mombasa road, the 2nd building after Visions Plaza (former Swift Global Offices) right before the Nakumatt HQ entrance. Regards, Martha Muriuki. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -----Original Message----- From: skunkworks-bounces(a)lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of gideon.kirui(a)kdn.co.ke Sent: 26 November 2009 21:36 To: skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke Subject: [Skunkworks] Kdn Garage sale Kdn is doing its end year garage sale visit them at their warehouse at former swift global office msa rd for laptops ,pcs modems, UPS,adaptors ........ etc Sent from my BlackBerryR smartphone from Zain Kenya _______________________________________________ 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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PHP: dates between dates code review
by Peter Karunyu 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

I have been pulling out my hair for the last few hours... Given two dates in whichever format, e.g. 2009-10-06 and November 12, 2009, which is the best logical approach here to get all dates in between those two dates? I was thinking of converting the received dates into timestamps, then using mktime to add one day to the older timestamp till i get to the new one, but a small voice tells me there is a better way. Any ideas? Here is the code I am using. <?php /** * Get the days between two dates and return those actual dates in an array */ function getDaysBetweenDates($startDate, $endDate){ //initialize array that will get returned $daysBetweenDatesArray = array(); //attempt to convert the received dates into timestamps $startDateTimestamp = strtotime($startDate); $endDateTimestamp = strtotime($endDate); /*TODO: Problem 1: even if the received dates are bogus, strtotime() will convert them into sane timestamps, which might pass the checkdate() validation below */ //check that the received values are valid if (!checkdate(date('n',$startDateTimestamp), date('j',$startDateTimestamp), date('Y',$startDateTimestamp))) { //do some error handling here return false; } if (!checkdate(date('n',$endDateTimestamp), date('j',$endDateTimestamp), date('Y',$endDateTimestamp))) { //do some error handling here return false; } //dates received are probably valid /* Logic 1: One day has (24*60*60) seconds, therefore, if I can get the number of 86400 seconds between those two days, I can get those actual dates. Havent used this method Logic 2: Use mktime to add One to the start date, then increment $startDateTimestamp with 86400, i.e. the number of seconds in one day and loop it untill $startDateTimestamp is less than or equal to $endDateTimestamp. */ //variable to count the number of times the loop has run, will be used as index in the $daysBetweenDatesArray array $loopCounter = 1; //variable to store the dates found in between, not really necessary, the dates found could be put directly in the array $dateInBetweenTimestamp = ''; //assume startDate is included, put it as first element in array $daysBetweenDatesArray[0] = date('j-n-Y', $startDateTimestamp); while ($startDateTimestamp <= $endDateTimestamp) { //in order to use mktime, we will need seconds, minutes, hours, day, month and year for each date $startDateSecond = date('s',$startDateTimestamp); $startDateMinute = date('i',$startDateTimestamp); $startDateHour = date('G',$startDateTimestamp); $startDateDay = date('j',$startDateTimestamp); $startDateMonth = date('n',$startDateTimestamp); $startDateYear = date('Y',$startDateTimestamp); $dateInBetweenTimestamp = mktime($startDateHour, $startDateMinute, $startDateSecond, $startDateMonth, $startDateDay+1, $startDateYear); $daysBetweenDatesArray[$loopCounter] = date('j-n-Y', $dateInBetweenTimestamp); //increment loop counter $loopCounter++; //increment $startDateTimestamp $startDateTimestamp = $startDateTimestamp + 86400; } return $daysBetweenDatesArray; } ?> How to use: <?php $datesInBetween = getDaysBetweenDates('2009-01-01', '2009-01-30'); print_r($datesInBetween) ; ?>

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Crystal Watley has recommended this group to you
by crystal＠voicesofafrica.org 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

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Google wave invites
by Denis G. Wahome 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

7 left... R D

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trace source of DDOS attacks
by kennedy waweru 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi guys, am in the process of tracing which machine on our network is responsible for DDOS. It seems we have a culprit and is now in a botnet. We have identified the specific segment from which this is comming from but they are a number of computers. Our portscan shows that the attacks are comming from a certain comp whose IP address is has never been allocated to anybody and is not active. Have you come accross a worm, trojan which projects a virtue IP address of something of the sort. Any ideas how we can do this quick enough without having to isolate each comp at a time, any good open source software out there, any good tips? thanks

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Bad news - Court ruling forces Mininova to end illegal torrents
by Okechukwu 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8382012.stm ./Ok3ch

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Re: [Skunkworks] I have Wave Invites to spend, anyone needing it ??
by Shekey 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Send me one pliz. kmucheke(a)gmail.com

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Kdn Garage sale
by gideon.kirui＠kdn.co.ke 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Kdn is doing its end year garage sale visit them at their warehouse at former swift global office msa rd for laptops ,pcs modems, UPS,adaptors ........ etc Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from Zain Kenya

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On torrents and anti-piracy..
by Paul Njoroge 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

> > Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all > torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution > service. > More<http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-deletes-all-infringing-torrents-and-goes-l…>. -- Best Regards, Paul Njoroge. Skype: njorogepaul

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