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Re: [Skunkworks] zain huawei e220 modem wvdial.conf settings on ubuntu 8.04
by Gakuru Alex 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Folks, I am trying to help a friend on Zain... Their customer care IVR assumes I have all day to listen to their ads :( Below,,, what has changed since? I am getting "no valid password" when I use "blanks" asante, Alex On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:12 PM, James Nzomo<skunkworks(a)mnada.biz> wrote: > Copy paste the following into your /etc/wvdial.conf file. Then dial by > typing "wvdial zain" at the terminal. > > [dialer zain] > Init1 = ATZ > Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","ke.celtel.com","",0,0 > Modem Type = USB Modem > Baud = 460800 > New PPPD = yes > Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 ; i think this is ok if its the only usb device > connected > ISDN = 0 > Phone = *99# > Password = "blank" > Username = "blank" > Stupid Mode = 1 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >

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Network Techies in Arusha
by Odhiambo ワシントン 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hello everyone, Does anyone know any good networking techies in Arusha. A friend of mine would like to setup a Cyber Café there so I'm doing some groundwork. Please link me up. Kuna malipo since one of them will have to do the setup anyway :-) -- 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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Tony and LED light advancement
by aki 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Samsung LED TV , 100,000 hrs lifespan. This thing looks like a Photo frame hung on a wall. BD, page 19. -- ..when the birds become dinosaurs once more, wake me up..

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Re: [Skunkworks] [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again
by wesley kiriinya 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Finally got in HURRAAYY! I thought you were stretching a bit about the user friendliness, but ALAS you were correct. Normaly I try to give the benefit of the doubt and ignore this lakini hapa KRA deserves a proper thrashing. A few issues: 1. What does Area mean in Section 2 of The Personal Infomation Page? 2. Try finding GPO Postal Code? 3. The main Business Activity list doesn't seem to be a good choice for what it does. Atleast a Combobox where one can type and the nearest result in brought up. 4. Last but not least the message after clicking send in the page is mind boggling: "Your form doesn't present mistakes, please review the information before send it!" (That's exactly how it is). All in all this site gets about 3/10 (and I'm being good coz it's Friday). 3 Coz it's technically faulty (load times) and that indicates poor design which likely means there could be other technical issues, Not user friendly, Not elegant (it's a public website, make it attractive, appealing, ...). All the best to the dev team. I know one or some of you will curse me for this email. What you feel when you curse me is what 1000s of Kenyans feel when they access the website 8~). Now imagine 1000s of curses! Lovely weekend. --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "wesley kiriinya" <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com>, ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 2:14 PM Thats very true. I was helping someone print their PIN certificates and it took ages to open. Very frustrating! I also find it abit unfriendly to use, and I am IT. I wonder how basic users are supposed to use that site. Links that do not work, pages that seem to open and then freeze! Mbaya sana! I wonder who did that system??? --- On Fri, 7/31/09, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "Skunk Works" <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke> Cc: "ke-users" <ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 1:23 PM Any KRA peeps in the house? KRA website is unbelievably slow, it's like the server is in Jupiter. I once asked someone at an internet cafe whether that has been the case and he said YES. Infact guys give up and let the cafe attendant login for them and print PIN certificates. That definately doesn't sound good for the KRA system. I've tried in IE 7 and Firefox 3. The following link is especially a KILLER https://mapato1.kra.go.ke/itms Being a very important online resource, please ... 8~( -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ ke-internetusers mailing list ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers

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KDN on seacom?
by Jamal Mohamed 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

A little bit confused here, this is traceroute log from one linux box, traceroute to 4.2.2.1 (4.2.2.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 172.16.20.1 (172.16.20.1) 4.417 ms 6.483 ms 7.175 ms 2 * * * 3 41.220.236.33 (41.220.236.33) 10.065 ms 10.766 ms 13.191 ms 4 PO1-2.lon-001-access-2.interoute.net (84.233.134.101) 667.116 ms 667.982 ms 668.952 ms 5 xe-2-3-0-0.lon-001-score-1-re0.interoute.net (84.233.218.161) 728.678 ms 729.505 ms 730.638 ms 6 212.113.16.109 (212.113.16.109) 663.840 ms 662.335 ms 674.782 ms 7 vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net (4.2.2.1) 689.668 ms 668.866 ms * The other log from a totally different ip, traceroute to 4.2.2.1 (4.2.2.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.124 ms 0.097 ms 0.124 ms 2 * * * 3 41.220.236.33 (41.220.236.33) 59.076 ms 55.156 ms 65.619 ms 4 PO1-2.lon-001-access-2.interoute.net (84.233.134.101) 438.410 ms 434.382 ms 430.250 ms 5 xe-2-3-0-0.lon-001-score-1-re0.interoute.net (84.233.218.161) 426.467 ms 422.556 ms 418.549 ms 6 212.113.16.109 (212.113.16.109) 438.014 ms 433.990 ms 429.978 ms 7 * * * 8 vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net (4.2.2.1) 400.000 ms * * Funny thing is the first one is >600 while the second is little bit >400ms and it is using the same route.

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Re: [Skunkworks] kixp down?
by nurkey.hussein＠gmail.com 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

They got power related issues ------Original Message------ From: Richard Bosire Sender: skunkworks-bounces(a)lists.my.co.ke To: skunkworks Works ReplyTo: Skunkworks forum Sent: 31 Jul 2009 12:36 Subject: [Skunkworks] kixp down? anyone from kixp on the list _______________________________________________ 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 Sent from my BlackBerry®

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Re: [Skunkworks] [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again
by wesley kiriinya 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

GIVEN UP. Atleast for today. I would contact Customer Care but ... If one of you would be so kind as to help: I want my PIN certificate. I've gone thru the registration. KRA has sent me the email with PIN, password and security code. I tried entering this in the https://mapato1.kra.go.ke/itms page but the page keeps refreshing itself. It's as if it's ignoring me! I'm I doing the right thing? --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "wesley kiriinya" <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com>, ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 6:08 PM Not at all! I totally dont like it! You told it like it is! Nice weekend to you too. --- On Fri, 7/31/09, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "ke-users" <ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net>, "Skunk Works" <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 5:38 PM Finally got in HURRAAYY! I thought you were stretching a bit about the user friendliness, but ALAS you were correct. Normaly I try to give the benefit of the doubt and ignore this lakini hapa KRA deserves a proper thrashing. A few issues: 1. What does Area mean in Section 2 of The Personal Infomation Page? 2. Try finding GPO Postal Code? 3. The main Business Activity list doesn't seem to be a good choice for what it does. Atleast a Combobox where one can type and the nearest result in brought up. 4. Last but not least the message after clicking send in the page is mind boggling: "Your form doesn't present mistakes, please review the information before send it!" (That's exactly how it is). All in all this site gets about 3/10 (and I'm being good coz it's Friday). 3 Coz it's technically faulty (load times) and that indicates poor design which likely means there could be other technical issues, Not user friendly, Not elegant (it's a public website, make it attractive, appealing, ...). All the best to the dev team. I know one or some of you will curse me for this email. What you feel when you curse me is what 1000s of Kenyans feel when they access the website 8~). Now imagine 1000s of curses! Lovely weekend. --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "wesley kiriinya" <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com>, ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 2:14 PM Thats very true. I was helping someone print their PIN certificates and it took ages to open. Very frustrating! I also find it abit unfriendly to use, and I am IT. I wonder how basic users are supposed to use that site. Links that do not work, pages that seem to open and then freeze! Mbaya sana! I wonder who did that system??? --- On Fri, 7/31/09, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "Skunk Works" <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke> Cc: "ke-users" <ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 1:23 PM Any KRA peeps in the house? KRA website is unbelievably slow, it's like the server is in Jupiter. I once asked someone at an internet cafe whether that has been the case and he said YES. Infact guys give up and let the cafe attendant login for them and print PIN certificates. That definately doesn't sound good for the KRA system. I've tried in IE 7 and Firefox 3. The following link is especially a KILLER https://mapato1.kra.go.ke/itms Being a very important online resource, please ... 8~( -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ ke-internetusers mailing list ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ ke-internetusers mailing list ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers

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Crazy Re-writes
by Paul Njoroge 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi good people, I'm up about the net and I come across the Unilever website. It loads on my machine as if its on a localhost i.e http://unilever/ http://unilever/innovation/ http://unilever/mediacentre/ ..and so on all load as is. I know of re-write rules but this one blew me away. Can anyone explain this? Am on an AK link, that could be a factor too. Regards

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KRA website TOO SLOW - Again
by wesley kiriinya 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Any KRA peeps in the house? KRA website is unbelievably slow, it's like the server is in Jupiter. I once asked someone at an internet cafe whether that has been the case and he said YES. Infact guys give up and let the cafe attendant login for them and print PIN certificates. That definately doesn't sound good for the KRA system. I've tried in IE 7 and Firefox 3. The following link is especially a KILLER https://mapato1.kra.go.ke/itms Being a very important online resource, please ... 8~(

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Skunkettes Imelda and Kui
by Peter Karunyu 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Is it just me or has someone else noticed that Imelda Mueni has been conspicuously MIA? I think at the time of her disappearance, she was working on a mobile phone app, soon after that Nokia announced a new product... Also, Kui Kinyanjui seems to have gone underground... Just thinking out loud.

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