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visual studio service pack 1
by brian Rioba 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Anyone with this?tried to download on safaricon live to no avail.i will appreciate any help

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Kenya Airport Tracker & Weather Application
by Mugambi Kimathi 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Checkout a simple Desktop Widget to track live Airport Flight Times and Weather - Still in Beta http://www.vststudios.com/labs/Kenya-Airport-Tracker.html Google Code Project Page http://kenya-airport-tracker.googlecode.com Mugambi Kimathi Jahazi

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Skunkworks Tuesday Meetings
by Phares Kariuki 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi, Another series of Tuesday meetings is being organised. If you have any topics you would like covered, or speakers you want to see, kindly give me a shout offlist. Thanks -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |

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After yesterday's disappointment, im inclined to think this way.....
by Areba Collins 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Now that the "internet" is still not thaat fast, and it looks like local telcos will continue to let us down, maybe we seriously need to rethink the term "local content". Here is why. The Internet, really is an inter connection of computers. it does not reside on the other side of the seacom fiber. We are just anxious because most of the stuff we need is on that other side. (Which is why some bright gurus here are pinging servers in the UK, US or India and complaining about latencies. 1: What if we decided to get a local server farm and host most of the stuff here. (After all the knowledgebase is here). In particular, what if gmail, yahoo and the top 100 sites on alexa were "encouraged" to host something local which then they would tunnel to their wonderful server farms through SEACOM. 2: What if all the sites that the IT guys are talking about were hosted locally, then uploading files would be more an issue of KIEXP than international. Im inclined to think that if we got our act right and hosted a website locally, it would appeal to the "that website is fast!" blokes that know nothing about seacom or VSAT. my 0.002 cents. -- Its Possible! http://www.itspossible.afraha.com Collins Areba Omwoyo +254 735 824872 / +254 720 516758 arebacollins[at]gmail[dot]com

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seacom launch due today...what about teams??
by benson orina 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi, just seen on twitter that there is to be a launch in a few hours. What about teams, I remember reading somewhere, can't remember where right now that the flagging off by the president was fake(as in there was no actual cable). any news, corrections concerning teams??

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Power Adapters - Where is the Expert Shop?
by Odhiambo ワシントン 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Which shop in town is renowned for expertise on power adapters? I have some IP DECT units whose power dapter has an RJ-11 type plug. Ignore the rating of the adapter for now. I just need to know if there is a shop in town that has experts to handle this. If not, then I need to get replacements from the manufacturer (Avaya). -- 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] visual studio.NET service pack 1
by brian Rioba 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:49 PM, brian Rioba <rriobs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone with this?tried to download on safaricon live to no avail.i will > appreciate any help.This is to resolve .net 2005 on vista issues

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Mick Wilson/UNEP/NBO/UNO is on family leave
by Mick Wilson 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

I will be out of the office starting 24/07/2009 and will not return until 31/07/2009. I am away on mission to Nigeria and will rarely be checking this mail. If you need an intelligent reply before I get back then please contact caroline.mureithi(a)unep.org or, for POW 2010 matters, norberto.fernandez(a)unep.org

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Swali
by mbugua＠symbiotic.co.ke 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

If i can access a link from Zain, Orange,Access kenya etc but not from safaricom, what does that mean? Ni swali tuu! -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint

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Re: [Skunkworks] Benchmarking Seacom
by Riyaz Bachani 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Aki, So should we also expect a whole flurry of new software developers with new apps by the weekend ? ;) How many new developers do you think this will bring ? e-commerce sites ? I wait ... as I have been for the past several years. During which time BTW - the price of a 256k has fallen from 25000 shs to 3000shs. Is that still beyond the reach of techies ? Every once in a while you get pleasantly surprised, but where is the revolution ? Seacom just turned on the capacity yesterday. Circuits on the fiber couldn't be mapped before yesterday, and they are still doing that slowly. Testing has also not been completed fully, and most of it begins from yesterday. Interconnect points are just getting ready. IP routes take time to propagate as well, so expect some days for that. It's really a media launch, and over the next week you should expect people to slowly start turning on the capacity. Even the guys who have it, are testing before they plug it straight into their networks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275(a)googlemail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:35:20 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Benchmarking Seacom @ Hi David and all, I appreciate all the comments and with all due kind respect to everyone, I'm sorry to tell you that I see things much more differently. The issue of speeds, latencies, jitter, bandwidth etc is irrelevant, that comes with the fiber naturally. What I see is a terrible failure on our part. What I'm surprised though is that we accept this failure as a norm and for people who are understand networks etc to see other professionals accept the norm is terribly disturbing. However, what we should be asking ourselves is this " What did we NOT expect? ". For whatever reasons that entire community of telcos, network operators , service providers choose not to go simulatenous with the launch is upto them. For me, the writing is on the wall, clear. " DAY 2 of international fiber launch and 99% of kenya is still in the dark ages of the satellite era! " An excellent start and with plenty of excuses to back it up. Anway, Im on a timeout so will leave it there................................... Best Rgds, Aki. _______________________________________________ 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 ------------- 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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