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Re: [Skunkworks] open source ghost software
by Jonathan McLean 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Clonezilla is a nice product if you want some extra overhead and features Parted Is Not Ghost (PING) is a bit more lightweight. Both are linux distros designed for ghosting and hard drive maitenance I have had good experiences with both. Cheers! On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM, <skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > Send Skunkworks mailing list submissions to > skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke > > You can reach the person managing the list at > skunkworks-owner(a)lists.my.co.ke > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Skunkworks digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Adobe Dev Group (Rahim Kara) > 2. Re: mysql error 1064 (I. Ati) > 3. Re: MIME Type Validation (Peter Karunyu) > 4. DMTV Pay-TV (Watson Kambo) > 5. Re: mysql error 1064 (Nicholas Loki) > 6. Re: mysql error 1064 (Steve Muchai) > 7. Re: Adobe Dev Group (Peter Karunyu) > 8. Re: DMTV Pay-TV (Muniu Kariuki) > 9. open source ghost software (saich) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:57:06 +0300 > From: Rahim Kara <rahim(a)applecentre.co.ke> > To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Adobe Dev Group > Message-ID: <1C0E3B72-59F0-4F85-A5FE-99344371AD30(a)applecentre.co.ke> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"; > DelSp="yes" > > Hi All, > > It is my pleasure to introduce you to Kenya's first Adobe Air and Flex > Development Group. > Please click the link http://groups.adobe.com/join/kenyadevug to begin > your registration process. > I'll be waiting.. on the other side :D > > > Rahim Kara | Pro App's Specialist > Elite Computers Ltd > > ? Apple Premium Reseller > Sarit Centre > P.O.Box 75289, Nairobi ? 00200 > KENYA > +254 (20) 374 5550 PHONE > +254 (20) 375 3509 FAX > +254 721 875 042 Safaricom MOBILE > +254 734 334 074 Zain MOBILE > +254 773 104 250 Orange MOBILE > iChat rahim.kara(a)me.com > > Mailing List Subscription > > http://mail.wananchi.com/mailman/listinfo/elitedigitalsolutions > >

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open source ghost software
by saich 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hi good people Does anyone know of any free open source ghosting software available....

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MIME Type Validation
by Peter Kipkoech 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hey Skunkers, Is there a PHP function/class that for performing MIME Type validation. The form is currently using the upload file extension to validate file uploads,I later realized its susceptible to abuse especially from Windows users. -- Nothing’s impossible the impossible just takes a little longer.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Opera Unite Disbanding The Cloud?
by Arthur Simiyu 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Came across the link on twitter from Hash and thought i should share the intresting article http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/16/thoughts-on-opera-unite/ Took the winds right out of my sails :) Simiyu

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STARTING A CYBER CAFE IN A PLACE LIKE ATHI RIVER
by ambrose kimaiyo 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hi, what r the requirements and the best provider you can recommend. About 10 computers. regards Ambrose Kimaiyo

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Programming's Crack Competitor
by Murigi Muraya 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Jiazhi Wu: Programming's Crack Competitor This coding champ won 39 out of 45 TopCoder programming matches in two years. Eric Lai <http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cpw.itmanagement/index;pos=imu;tile=7…;> <http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.cpw.itmanagement/index;pos=ezblaster;…;> * July 9, 2007* (Computerworld) <http://www.computerworld.com/> What kind of trophies do they give to programming champions? Jiazhi Wu would know. As an undergrad at Zhejiang University in China, Wu won a record 39 out of 45 programming contests held by TopCoder Inc., a Glastonbury, Conn.-based software development and recruiting firm. Winning those global contests which generate actual software that TopCoder turns around and sells to its corporate customers also won Wu a cool $155,000. Jiazhi writes code very fast. In most cases, his code doesnt need much debugging, says Chao Yang, a former classmate of Wus and a fellow competitive coder. Based on my observations, I cannot see any weaknesses in him as a programmer. Im not good at sports at all, so programming was the most competitive aspect of my life, says Wu, who counts Java, C++ and C# as his favorite languages. Champion coders tend to burn out early or move on to real jobs. Thats the case with the 26-year-old, who says he has retired from competitive programming and now focuses on his role as vice president of technology for the Chinese subsidiary of TopCoder. His mission: to serve as chief architect for software components produced in China, as well as attract more burgeoning talent from Chinas deep technical well. There are a lot of talented Chinese programmers around, but they need a platform to present themselves, he says. TopCoder provides that platform..... http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&ta… ________________________________________ They Chinese compete well but cooperation (open cultures / characters) seems to work better in building software / web companies!

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Opera Unite Disbanding The Cloud?
by Jonathan McLean 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hey Skunks- The subject was intentional dramatic, I don't actually forsee Opera Unite (http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10266157-12.html) performing some magical Cloud Dispersion in the future, but being a particularly Cloud-Wary skunk (is anyone else?) I am quite pleased at recent developments in Norway. What do I see as potential for Unite in Kenya? Well, it can easily fill a gap I am guessing will occur in terms of the construction of data centres and more Hosting Providers who take advantage of our lovely SEACOM. Given our natural tendency to want to see results immediately, this could be a hybrid solution to demonstrating the potentials of the Internet to Kenyans who are still wary or have never seen it before without massive overhead. I hate massive overhead (does anyone else?). This is not to mention the increase in perfectly legal file sharing that could occur finally for all of our fledgling musicians! How many times have we all used the example of the Internet making nobodies somebodies out in the rural areas. With this simple file sharing, it could be even more of a possibility. And teaching web technologies! WoooHooo. No more need for server management. Even in the West, not all Web Designers are Sys Admins, and some of them wouldn't know how to configure say PHP or Apache if their life depended on it. But now they don't have to! Finally, it gives a Rapid Application Development and Testing cycle to Web Apps. Prototype with friends, and expand slowly, without needing to pay for hosting and domain names! Then, if your Web App suceeds, move it into its own house and stop chewing bandwidth. My only concern is that it appears to need to be able to contact opera servers for domain resolution. No good for intranet based schools like mine. I guess its just me and my Engarde Server Linux install for the weekend so my students can run intranet blogs. Thoughts? Cheers! -- jonathan mclean us peace corps volunteer ict specialist mtongwe, kenya

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OS Virtualization
by Odhiambo ワシントン 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hello techies, Does the availability of Sun's VirtualBox portend the demise for the likes of VMWare Workstation? This virtualization world seems to be growing so fast. M$ have it now on their Server 2008 (perhaps even in Windows 7?), Sun have their VirtualBox and VMware still have their "tested" products? Anyone in the virtualization industry who can give us some useful directions on this subject? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube

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Re: [Skunkworks] Fwd: [ke-internetusers] SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA HON. MWAI KIBAKI, CGH, MP, DURING THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE EAST AFRICAN MARINE SYSTEMS CABLE (TEAMS) ON 12TH JUNE 2009 IN MOMBASA.
by Riyaz Bachani 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

There's fiber, it's just not lit :) Seacom's RFS date is 27 june, and TEAMS is sometime much later (although they're trying to bring it forward - ideally it shouldn't take that long) R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Odhiambo ワシントン" <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:59:34 PM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Fwd: [ke-internetusers] SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA HON. MWAI KIBAKI, CGH, MP, DURING THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE EAST AFRICAN MARINE SYSTEMS CABLE (TEAMS) ON 12TH JUNE 2009 IN MOMBASA. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Solomon Mburu < solo.mburu(a)gmail.com > wrote: Skunkworks "parliament" debating the presidential speech! How many days is it allocated? LOL Two weeks or until the second and the third fiber optic lands here! So is the fiber switched "ON" already? I'd love to know which local ISPs have completely switched to the cable (of course keeping the satellite uplink for redundancy). -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube _______________________________________________ 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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Telkom Orange Bandwidth
by Murigi Muraya 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Read somewhere that Safaricom is one of the companies hiring / leasing bandwidth on Seacom. This could mean good things on July 1, 2009. Trust those of us who have been faithful Telkom (now Orange) Kenya customers (usually not interested in streaming YouTube videos) will not have to wait another 3 months for TEAMS to go live. Any word from Telkom Orange before Safaricom convices us to ...? How much (shared) bandwidth can we expect for 4K (USD 50.00), 8K (USD 100.00) and 12K (USD 150.00) per month? Any word on contention ratios?

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