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securing my pdf
by henry kamabi 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi Which program-free csn i use to secure a pdf document? regards, henry

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Re: [Skunkworks] Good $afcom net connection
by wesley kiriinya 05 May '09

05 May '09

I once uploaded a file at 26KB/s (KB not Kb). That's more than I've seen in an upload for a long time. I was satisfied with the connection quality. I spent KSH.14 instead of KSH 60 in an internet cafe. This should be an early warning for internet cafes! It's cheaper and it's faster, and I can only bet that it will get even more cheaper and faster. 8~) --- On Thu, 4/16/09, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Good $afcom net connection To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Cc: "Skunk Works" <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 9:08 AM On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:02 AM, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I've used the Nokia N81 to surf the net through a laptop from South C and I must say the exprience has been great. This is mostly in the evening. For an hour of Skype chat (not voice or video) and opening around 10 web pages the charge was KSH. 14. Assuming this was on 3G (I haven't touched an N81), and that you are on prepaid, this means you transferred about 2MB the whole session since they charge KES 8/MB. However, I wonder what this has to do with the speeds? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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 Other lists ------------- Skunkworks 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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Invisible Secretaries?
by Kigunda Mbogo 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi, I keep receiving the email below from people on (and outside) this list. When I call them, they confirm that they are not authors of the mails. I almost imagined it is virus or something like that. When I check on the net google returned only three pages: two from the quoted address below and one page from mchongoano.com. What does it mean then? who sends the email? who sends the email on your behalf? invisible secretaries? ===mail: Dear friend, I would like to introduce a really good company that mainly do the electornic products trade. Now the company is doing promotion,all of it's products are sold nearly as same as their cost. It redeners the best service to customers,it provide you original products which is good quality,and what's more,the pricewill give you a big surprise! It is realy a good opportunity for doing shopping.Just grasp the opportunity,or there will be no more than that! The web address: <http://www.negecn.com/>www.negecn.com

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Kula Wire - Bandwidth at the G20 London Summit
by Daudi Were 05 May '09

05 May '09

So I managed to talk my way into the G20 Summit last month (BDIS) Check out the bandwidth that was available in the media centre (screenshot attached) -- Pamoja e:daudi.were@gmail.com skype: d.were

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IBM Repair Centre Nairobi
by Daudi Were 05 May '09

05 May '09

Vipi People, Would any of you please recommend a place in Nairobi to get an IBM Thinkpad laptop repaired? It has a variety of problems - screen working on and off, not booting at times etc. Thanks Daudi -- Pamoja e:daudi.were@gmail.com skype: d.were

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Windows 7 Release Candidate is Here
by Mworia Wilfred Mutua 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hey people, for those of you who have tried out the Win7 beta and are yearning for the RC... the wait is over. If you have not had a chance to try out the beta, or were putting it off because you thought it mught be unstable, I'd encourage you to try out the RC, it's bound to me more stable (actually the beta was pretty stable too). Anyway, get more details here: http://tinyurl.com/d5b4vn -- Regards, Mworia Wilfred Mutua http://www.afrinnovator.com/ http://www.visualcv.com/wmworia www.linkedin.com/in/wmworia googletalk: wmworia Yahoo IM: wilfred.mworia

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Payment Card Security Compliance
by Thomas Kibui 05 May '09

05 May '09

Credit card transactions have become a frequent target of fraudulent misuse. Due to a proliferation of cardholder data compromises, there is an increasing industry, regulatory and legislative focus on Information Security. Five payment brands (American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, and Visa) joined together to create and support the following industry security standards to help facilitate the broad adoption of consistent information security controls for protecting cardholder data on a global basis: - Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) - Payment Application – Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) The PCI DSS is a common set of internationally applicable security requirements that is specifically designed to provide protection of stored cardholder data and minimize risks of unauthorized intrusion or account compromise.Merchants and payment service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card information must meet all of the requirements of the PCI DSS in order to achieve compliance with the standard. The PCI DSS focuses on 12 different areas of security including network segmentation, default settings, data encryption, secure network communications, anti-virus software, software development life cycle (SDLC), access restrictions, user authentication, physical security, event logging, testing and auditing systems, and policies and procedures. The standard is based upon information security best practices; however the key difference is that it focuses specifically on cardholder data and the relevant environment. The PA-DSS applies to those organizations that develop payment applications that store, process, or transmit cardholder data as part of authorization or settlement, where these payment applications are sold, distributed or licensed to third parties. The primary goal of the PA-DSS is to help these organizations develop secure payment applications that do not store prohibited data (e.g. full magnetic stripe, CVV2 or PIN data) and ensure their payment applications support compliance with the PCI DSS. For more info read here --> https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/

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Tuesday Fortnightly Meeting(s)
by Mark Mwangi 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hey yall, Are the above meetings still scheduled? -- Regards, Mark Mwangi http://mwangy.wordpress.com

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Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth
by Kigunda Mbogo 05 May '09

05 May '09

*Suggested Solutions: * *Option 1*: don't delete, instead grow it using metaset, metattach and growfs. *Option 2*: destory the earth using any of the top 10 methods ( http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp-1.html) *Option 3*: Do nothing even after it is 100% full. 2009/5/4 Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga(a)gmail.com> > cat /dev/null>/dev/earth > > > On 5/4/09, Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Steve Muchai <smuchai(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Just got this of the NANOG list, couldn't resist the temptation to > >> share.... > >> > >> > >> /dev/earth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can. > > > > > > cp /dev/null /dev/earth > > > > Simple, right? It becomes empty in a split second:) > > Perhaps you need chflags noschg /dev/earth first, as it might be having > the > > immutable bit set? > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > > Nairobi,KE > > +254733744121/+254722743223 > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on > > society." > > -- Mark Twain > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Other lists > ------------- > Skunkworks 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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Re: [Skunkworks] Vacation reply
by Oj G 05 May '09

05 May '09

Alex ua wkend hz begun :-) suspended The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole. --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Alex Nderitu <nderitualex(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Vacation reply To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 1:36 AM Its time to suspend him until he returns from vacation, where are the list admins? -----Original Message----- From: dicksonmwangi356(a)hotmail.com Reply-to: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> To: skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke Subject: [Skunkworks] Vacation reply Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:24:21 -0700 Dear friend, I would like to introduce a really good company that mainly do the electornic products trade. Now the company is doing promotion,all of it's products are sold nearly as same as their cost. It redeners the best service to customers,it provide you original products which is good quality,and what's more,the pricewill give you a big surprise! It is realy a good opportunity for doing shopping.Just grasp the opportunity,or there will be no more than that! The web address: www.kanicn.com _______________________________________________ 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 Other lists ------------- Skunkworks 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ 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 Other lists ------------- Skunkworks 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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