May 2009 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Motobaridi mailbox full - I imagine you are losing business
by J. N. Kimani 29 May '09

29 May '09

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: motobaridi(a)motobaridi.com mailbox is full: retry timeout exceeded *I imagine you are losing business* -- J. N. Kimani

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Lost Toshiba A40 laptop
by Evans Ikua 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi All, A friend of mine has lost a Toshiba laptop (in Nakuru). The model is Toshiba A40, Serial Number 54558792G. It had very important documents and she is ready to compensate anyone who may have information that may lead to its recovery. This is an appeal to anyone who may come across that kind of machine perchance. You can get in touch with me offlist. Thank you.

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FW: Skunkworks List and available resources
by Steve Obbayi 29 May '09

29 May '09

@peter I forgot to add the query you will use to import the data, there is a slight difference from the mysql defaults. load data local infile '/path/to/datafile' into table `archives` fields escaped by '\\' terminated by ';' enclosed by '\'' lines terminated by '|^^|' (`from`, `date`, `timezone`, `subject`, `body`); @peter, Here is the SQL code you can use to create your table for this list then you can get the actual data files from Alex. This is just for storage purposes so there are no indices so you will have to create them as you like depending on how you plan to make the script. It also creates the table using InnoDB Engine so you might prefer to use MyISAM or any other you prefer. Now before I post the source code for the Parser, I want to make some few changes on the compilation optimization options coz with the wrong option even though it will still compile there is a bug in three inner loops (I havent bothered fixing) that could cause the loops to corrupt the heap when run at a very high optimized runtime state thereby crushing the progrm as it attempts to escape the string data. Maybe I should just sort out the bug once and for all to make it easier to use it fully optimized for speed and send it in a day or two. /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */; /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=''*/; /*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */; CREATE TABLE `archives` ( `from` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `date` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `timezone` varchar(5) NOT NULL default '', `subject` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `body` longtext NOT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */; /*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */; Steve Obbayi, ________________________________ From: Peter Karunyu [mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 3:08 PM To: steve(a)sobbayi.com; Skunkworks forum Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Skunkworks List and available resources Wow! that's fantastic. If you send me the schema of the DB, I can whip up some PHP to search the DB. Maybe you could share the source code as well? Thanks. On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Steve Obbayi <steve(a)sobbayi.com> wrote: @peter. I decided to take up and do what you had been trying to do. i have mailed alex gakuru the parsed monthly archives. Now some months were missing from the archives and all i had was up to March 2009. So there are about four archive files which still need to be parsed. To do this I developed a tool which has done this job very well. Am sending Alex the source code for the tool which can be compiled on any OS as long as it has a C++ compiler . Now all i developed was the tool and used it to parse all the files, i have also given the schema for the data file and the query to load it into a MYSQL database. So as far as code to make the data searchable i dont think i can squeez in time for that so maybe you or someone from this list can take it up and develop one for our sakes. Steve Obbayi,

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Re: [Skunkworks] Outlook on Safaricom 3G Modem
by Joram Mwinamo 29 May '09

29 May '09

In the last few days my Outlook has refused to connect and send mail giving the (infamous) Task '..............com - Sending' reported error (0x80042109) : 'Outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).' Now if my ISP is safaricom,and I have not changed settings in the last few weeks,what am I supposed to do?Im hesitant to go through the call center option Anyone else suffering or just me?

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Google Wave - http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/
by Mbugua Njihia 29 May '09

29 May '09

Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files. http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

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Re: [Skunkworks] QUICKBOOKS 2009
by charles mtawali 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi I am looking for Quickbooks 2009. Not a pirated version. Let me know as soon as possible

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Toshiba Satellite A100 - Battery Pack
by Solomon Mburu 29 May '09

29 May '09

Good humans, Is there any of you who knows how much it would cost a Toshiba Satellite A100 Battery pack as the one I have charges up to around 36% and when unplugged from the main power, the laptop goes off. In case of power outage, which is a common thing, I end up losing my data! Thank you1 -- Solomon Mburu P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity! Sent from Nairobi, Kenya

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Any Ericsson SDS users out there??
by nyarotho kennedy 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi guyz, hope all is well. am a user of the above n would like to know if there are any other guyz on board so we can share experiences n challenges n successes. any? thank you n God bless y'all! -- People should know when they are conquered.

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Hunger - the plight of our fellow Kenyans, what can the ict community do?
by Athar Ahmad Bhatti 28 May '09

28 May '09

Dear Friends We need to be our brother's and sister's keeper. The drought situation, increase in basic food prices and other obvious reasons become unbearable for the mwanainchi. I believe we should celebrate little about undersea cables and more about how we can aleviate the plight of our fellow citizens. Our's is a sharing profession. One of the leading figures of our industry, Bill Gates has given the majority of his wealth to a charitable trust... I open this thread to I pray hopefully cause action. If we cannot contribute cash, why not use the power of the internet to flood websites of humanitarian institutes begging for food relief for Kenya. Posting and contribution to youtube videos about the situation. Writing realn stories on the plight. Setting up blogs, reserving a minimal sum for csr and the like. Please my sisters and brothers let us share helping our fellow family as we share technology. We cannot feed cables to our people, and economic change is longterm. I urge that we get mobilised and help. Athar -- Sent from my mobile device

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Facebook and attacks
by Solomon Mburu 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hackers successfully stole passwords from some of Facebook's 200 million users. By Jim Finkle, Reuters, 15 May 2009 at 08:11 [image: facebook logo] Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/> has been hit by another hacking attack, as a phishing campaign was used to steal passwords from users of the social networking site. Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack, and that that Facebook was blocking compromised accounts. Schnitt declined to say how many accounts had been compromised. The hackers got passwords through what is known as a phishing attack, breaking into accounts of some Facebook members, then sending e-mails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites. Those sites were designed to look like the Facebook home page. The victims were directed to log back in to the site, but actually logged into the one controlled by the hackers, unwittingly giving away their passwords. The fake domains include www.151.im, www.121.im and www.123.im. Facebook has deleted all references to those domains. -- Solomon Mburu P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity!

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