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Re: [Skunkworks] hi.
by Steve Muchai 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

2009/2/9 imelda Mueni <mueni0(a)gmail.com>: > hi guyz is there a software for business continuity/disaster > recovery......... and no am not asking for a demo am just enquiring ...... > IMHO, what you may be looking for is actually a "strategy", not just software. Different setups will require different approaches. Once you define a strategy you can flesh it out with the required bits and pieces - maybe co-location, wide area network, data replication, and the software required to make it all work. I'm pretty sure I've got some whitepapers on this somewhere in my archives - if I can get hold of any or some links I'll post them. BR, S

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Re: [Skunkworks] josiah weds rael
by janet karani 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

My belated Congratulations!!! Ignore the haters/ignorant like IM! _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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Re: [Skunkworks] hi.
by Gakuru Alex 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Excuse for sending to all - newcomers/others may also need this info... off "skunkworks@innovation recap" October 6th, 2008 <http://blog.my.co.ke/?p=88> --snip-- Paul Kukubo, announced a raft of ICT Board's measures to further stimulate local content development, including software. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, to skunkworks he offered a cash incentive award of shillings 100,000/= to the best-voted collaboration application developed by skunkworks for their own use adding, “this collaboration will increase this group's visibility to the business community, investors, and potential foreign clients.” Reinforcing official support, Paul also pledged own capacity building contribution to the group, starting with bloging about the event at his new blogsite and sponsorship of a members specialities portal. <http://ict-innovation.fossfa.net/blog/%5Buser%5D/kenyan-skunkworksinnovatio…> --snip-- 2009/4/8 Steve Obbayi <steve(a)sobbayi.com>: > What were the details about this 100K. I think I must have missed it > > Steve Obbayi, > http://www.sobbayi.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gakuru Alex [mailto:alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:59 AM > To: steve(a)sobbayi.com; Skunkworks forum > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] hi. > > Of course there's still the Kshs 100,000/= (US$ 1,250) offered by the > Kenya ICT Board in October last year for whomever comes up with a > project strengthening skunk list members coalesce their collaboration. > Never got applications, or reckon we should...er....vote with our > keyboards? No pun intended:) > > 2009/4/8 Steve Obbayi <steve(a)sobbayi.com>: >> Is there an award for Skunk / Skunkette of the year…. I know who’s got my >> vote >> >> >> >> Steve Obbayi, >> >> http://www.sobbayi.com >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: skunkworks-bounces(a)lists.my.co.ke >> [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Simon Mbuthia >> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:56 PM >> To: Skunkworks forum >> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] hi. >> >> >> >> Damn, I wish my name were Imeldo (or what's the masculine equivalent of >> Imelda?) >> >> 2009/4/7 Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com> >> >> Imelda two aspects arise from you question, the issue of backing up, and >> disaster recovery/Business continuity which is a process. I would be glad > to >> contribute my 2 ce >> >> 2009/2/9 imelda Mueni <mueni0(a)gmail.com> >> >> hi guyz is there a software for business continuity/disaster >> recovery......... and no am not asking for a demo am just enquiring ...... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> skunkworks mailing list >> skunkworks(a)my.co.ke >> http://ole.kenic.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >> Blog http://skunkworks-ke.blogspot.com >> Beta Blog http://blog.my.co.ke >> Get Skunkworks RSS Feeds: http://www.jahazi.com/rss/ >> >> >> -- >> Barrack O. Otieno >> ISSEN CONSULTING >> Tel: >> +254721325277 >> +254726544442 >> +254733206359 >> www.issenconsult.com >> http://projectdiscovery.or.ke >> To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility >> as a free man. >> Alan Paton, South Africa >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Skunkworks mailing list >> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >> >> >> -- >> שִׁמְעוֹן >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Skunkworks mailing list >> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >> >> > >

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Needed - VoIP GSM gateways
by Josphat Karanja 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Good people, Anyone who know where I can get VoIP GSM gateways in Kenya. In need one that can handle atleast 4 GSM simm cards. -- Regards ........................................................... Josphat Karanja, CISM +254-20-2012535

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Re: [Skunkworks] PDF files
by janet karani 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hi, i know this might be long overdue, if you can get a PDF-word converter, convert the files to word, and the restrictions die with the PDF. and you are good to go! rgds, JK 2009/2/4 James Kagwe <jkagwe(a)kippra.or.ke> Hi Skunks and Skunkettes, Just wondering if anyone has a way of printing a pdf file whose printing is disallowed on the security settings. Best Regards, James Kagwe If you judge people, you have no time to love them ********************************************************************* Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis Bishops Garden Towers Bishops Road P.O. Box 56445 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: (254) 20 2719933, 2719934, 2714714, 2714715 Fax: (254) 20 2719951 Confidentiality Warning ======================= The contents of this e-mail and any accompanying documentation are confidential and any use thereof, in what ever form, by anyone other than the addressee is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify admin(a)kippra.or.ke and delete it immediately from your system. Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis accepts no responsibility for losses or damage as a result of any viruses and it is your responsibility to check attachments (if any) for viruses. _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks(a)my.co.ke http://ole.kenic.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Blog http://skunkworks-ke.blogspot.com Beta Blog http://blog.my.co.ke Get Skunkworks RSS Feeds: http://www.jahazi.com/rss/ -- leonard njeru njiru _________________________________________________________________ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/

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How the Internet Got Its Rules --- RFCs' 40th anniversary]
by Michuki Mwangi 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07crocker.html?_r=1 How the Internet Got Its Rules By STEPHEN D. CROCKER Published: April 6, 2009 TODAY is an important date in the history of the Internet: the 40th anniversary of what is known as the Request for Comments. Outside the technical community, not many people know about the R.F.C.ï¿½s, but these humble documents shape the Internetï¿½s inner workings and have played a significant role in its success. When the R.F.C.ï¿½s were born, there wasnï¿½t a World Wide Web. Even by the end of 1969, there was just a rudimentary network linking four computers at four research centers: the University of California, Los Angeles; the Stanford Research Institute; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The government financed the network and the hundred or fewer computer scientists who used it. It was such a small community that we all got to know one another. A great deal of deliberation and planning had gone into the networkï¿½s underlying technology, but no one had given a lot of thought to what we would actually do with it. So, in August 1968, a handful of graduate students and staff members from the four sites began meeting intermittently, in person, to try to figure it out. (I was lucky enough to be one of the U.C.L.A. students included in these wide-ranging discussions.) It wasnï¿½t until the next spring that we realized we should start writing down our thoughts. We thought maybe weï¿½d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information. I offered to organize our early notes. What was supposed to be a simple chore turned out to be a nerve-racking project. Our intent was only to encourage others to chime in, but I worried we might sound as though we were making official decisions or asserting authority. In my mind, I was inciting the wrath of some prestigious professor at some phantom East Coast establishment. I was actually losing sleep over the whole thing, and when I finally tackled my first memo, which dealt with basic communication between two computers, it was in the wee hours of the morning. I had to work in a bathroom so as not to disturb the friends I was staying with, who were all asleep. Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a ï¿½Request for Comments.ï¿½ R.F.C. 1, written 40 years ago today, left many questions unanswered, and soon became obsolete. But the R.F.C.ï¿½s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards, and today there are more than 5,000, all readily available online. But we started writing these notes before we had e-mail, or even before the network was really working, so we wrote our visions for the future on paper and sent them around via the postal service. Weï¿½d mail each research group one printout and theyï¿½d have to photocopy more themselves. The early R.F.C.ï¿½s ranged from grand visions to mundane details, although the latter quickly became the most common. Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called ï¿½rough consensus and running code.ï¿½ Everyone was welcome to propose ideas, and if enough people liked it and used it, the design became a standard. After all, everyone understood there was a practical value in choosing to do the same task in the same way. For example, if we wanted to move a file from one machine to another, and if you were to design the process one way, and I was to design it another, then anyone who wanted to talk to both of us would have to employ two distinct ways of doing the same thing. So there was plenty of natural pressure to avoid such hassles. It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement. This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has. In fact, we probably wouldnï¿½t have the Web without it. When CERN physicists wanted to publish a lot of information in a way that people could easily get to it and add to it, they simply built and tested their ideas. Because of the groundwork weï¿½d laid in the R.F.C.ï¿½s, they did not have to ask permission, or make any changes to the core operations of the Internet. Others soon copied them ï¿½ hundreds of thousands of computer users, then hundreds of millions, creating and sharing content and technology. Thatï¿½s the Web. Put another way, we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold. This was the antithesis of the attitude of the old telephone networks, which actively discouraged any additions or uses they had not sanctioned. Of course, the process for both publishing ideas and for choosing standards eventually became more formal. Our loose, unnamed meetings grew larger and semi-organized into what we called the Network Working Group. In the four decades since, that group evolved and transformed a couple of times and is now the Internet Engineering Task Force. It has some hierarchy and formality but not much, and it remains free and accessible to anyone. The R.F.C.ï¿½s have grown up, too. They really arenï¿½t requests for comments anymore because they are published only after a lot of vetting. But the culture that was built up in the beginning has continued to play a strong role in keeping things more open than they might have been. Ideas are accepted and sorted on their merits, with as many ideas rejected by peers as are accepted. As we rebuild our economy, I do hope we keep in mind the value of openness, especially in industries that have rarely had it. Whether itï¿½s in health care reform or energy innovation, the largest payoffs will come not from what the stimulus package pays for directly, but from the huge vistas we open up for others to explore. I was reminded of the power and vitality of the R.F.C.ï¿½s when I made my first trip to Bangalore, India, 15 years ago. I was invited to give a talk at the Indian Institute of Science, and as part of the visit I was introduced to a student who had built a fairly complex software system. Impressed, I asked where he had learned to do so much. He simply said, ï¿½I downloaded the R.F.C.ï¿½s and read them.ï¿½ Stephen D. Crocker is the chief executive of a company that develops information-sharing technology.

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KRA Online - redundant form fields?
by MotoBaridi 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hard to miss the fact that the KRA online PIN application form requires the applicant to fill in: 1: Their FULL date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy) 2: Year of birth Whats the point really? ------------------------------ <MotoBaridi, incoherently mumbling to self since 1981> ------------------------------

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Of conetnt niches and money making
by Mbugua Njihia 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/index.htm

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Butterfly link
by Sammy Njoroge 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hi, Got word of a butterfly 256/128 link. Has anyone used it and how does it hold up Kind regards -- Sammy Njoroge Andicom Solutions www.andicom.co.ke

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Re: [Skunkworks] hi.
by Barrack Otieno 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Imelda two aspects arise from you question, the issue of backing up, and disaster recovery/Business continuity which is a process. I would be glad to contribute my 2 ce 2009/2/9 imelda Mueni <mueni0(a)gmail.com> > hi guyz is there a software for business continuity/disaster > recovery......... and no am not asking for a demo am just enquiring ...... > > > > _______________________________________________ > skunkworks mailing list > skunkworks(a)my.co.ke > http://ole.kenic.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > Blog http://skunkworks-ke.blogspot.com > Beta Blog http://blog.my.co.ke > Get Skunkworks RSS Feeds: http://www.jahazi.com/rss/ > -- Barrack O. Otieno ISSEN CONSULTING Tel: +254721325277 +254726544442 +254733206359 www.issenconsult.com http://projectdiscovery.or.ke To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. Alan Paton, South Africa

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