July 2009 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Backing up Ubuntu
by Daudi Were 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Good afternoon mzalendo. My installation of Ubuntu is behaving like it is on the point of cracking so I am thinking backups! What do you use to back up your Ubuntu system? So far Synkron http://sites.google.com/site/synkrondocumentation/main and Time Vault https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeVault look interesting but I would like to hear what you good people use or would recommend. I am on Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope -- Pamoja e:daudi.were@gmail.com <e%3Adaudi.were(a)gmail.com> skype: d.were

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Netbeans acting up!
by Paul Mathu 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi I recently upgraded my netbeans from 6.0 to 6.5.1 n man this thing seems not to recognise where the Sun Java(TM) Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 for CLDC is.. i hav tried unstalling and reinstalling everything but wapi! am even thinking of reverting back to my good old 6.0. Anyone has a work around? -- Regards Mathu http://sojjar.blogspot.com

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Re: [Skunkworks] Netbeans acting up!
by wesley kiriinya 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Did u install the version with Mobility (or something like that)? Somewhere on the tools menu (or one of those menus where configurations are set) you should be able to point it to the path of the wireless toolkit. But I think if u installed the one with Mobility then it should have picked the path automatically during installation because that path is in your System's PATH settings. 6.5.1 is better than 6. Atleast it's faster in response. --- On Mon, 7/6/09, Paul Mathu <mails.mathu(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Paul Mathu <mails.mathu(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Skunkworks] Netbeans acting up! To: skunkworks(a)my.co.ke Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 5:43 PM Hi I recently upgraded my netbeans from 6.0 to 6.5.1 n man this thing seems not to recognise where the Sun Java(TM) Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 for CLDC is.. i hav tried unstalling and reinstalling everything but wapi! am even thinking of reverting back to my good old 6.0. Anyone has a work around? -- Regards Mathu http://sojjar.blogspot.com -----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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Introducing twyka.com beta
by Kevin Ouma 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

I wish to invite you all tohttp://www.twyka.com twyka.com's aim is to bring people in Africa closer together by enabling them to have conversations without being lost in the crowd. It offers a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing updates with them on the Web, IM, and SMS - as well as through third-party applications built by other developers . We do not seek to drive users away from other popular social or microblogging platforms, but indeed complement these other popular social networks that many have by now become accustomed to. It will therefore be possible to cross post to twitter and ( facebook -coming in 2 weeks) from our site and facebook application. You will also be able to use popular desktop tools such as twihirl to update your posts. Whats more, we will now be able to have trending topics that are relevant to us while still being part of global conversations in other social media. We believe that by virtue of the messaging nature that microblogging offers ( 140 characters) there is a huge potential in Africa for a Platform such as this owing to the high penetration of mobile phones in comparision to computers. It is my hope that through twyka we will share anything from traffic updates, reporting elections, village news, produce prices, classifieds... the list is endless. Finally it is our plan that in a few months time we will be integrating with the mobile networks that will enable you to receive twyts ( thats how we call our alerts) as an sms message on your phone. I have created a skunkworks group accessible on http://twyka.com/group/skunkworks . To post to it any topic to the groups attention on twyka you simply use !skunkworks and this automatically updates to the group. Like any application this is a WIP and any bugs or issues noted are welcome. Looking forward to your participation as we build the community. Kevin

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Off Topic : just sharing a concern
by aki 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

my thots.. skunk(ettes). while reading the daily nation today, I came across this device. I'm not going to name it since it would become searchable ( classified page 37, under misc. top right hand corner ). I remember we had an online discussion ( thread about RF and etc ) and I find it a more than a coincidence that someone may have picked up on our techie discussions. While ours has always been about techie stuff, that knowledge in the wrong hands is not a good idea. The authorities need to look into the advert. I hope some day the authorities will have some volunteer time slots for ICT Crime Watch, am sure many skunks will help. Hence forth, I'd be limiting my contributions to normal tech stuff only. If anyone has details, I'd like to join the skunks chat site. Cheers. Best Rgds.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Do you know Dave?
by Oj G 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Dave? sounds like a clawn with a tomato motherboard... The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole. --- On Sun, 7/5/09, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Do you know Dave? To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 11:29 AM I'm surprised that there are people who don't know Dave!!! And to make the matters worse, they claim to be techies... So sad. :-( 2009/7/5 chuks Jonia <chuksjonia(a)gmail.com> How come you dont know him? On 7/4/09, Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > hehehe! > > On 04/07/2009, Okechukwu <okechukwu(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> hehehe, everone know Dave >> >> ./Ok3ch >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Areba Collins >> <arebacollins(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> he he he >>> I know dave too..... >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Tech List Kenya<techlistkenya(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > I dont get it :( >>> > >>> > On 7/3/09, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> Seriously , who the f is dave ?? >>> >> >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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 >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples >>> then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea >>> and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will >>> have two ideas. >>> >>> George Bernard Shaw >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >> > > > -- > 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! > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- -- Gichuki John Ndirangu, C.E.H , C.P.T.P, O.S.C.P I.T Security Analyst and Penetration Tester infosigmer(a)inbox.com {FORUM}http://lists.my.co.ke/pipermail/security/ http://nspkenya.blogspot.com/ http://chuksjonia.blogspot.com/ http://www.kamongo.co.ke/ _______________________________________________ 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 -- שִׁמְעוֹן -----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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Video Tutorial Citrix
by Trey 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hi Guys, Anyone feels Citrix Presentation Server 4 might be helpful contact me offlist. Thanks Contents: - Introduction to Citrix and the CCA - Applied and Architectural Concepts for Presentation Server - Installing Presentation Server - Configuring Licensing & Farm Settings - Configuring Policies & Citrix Connection Configuration - Installing & Configuring the Citrix Client - Installing Applications to Presentation Server - Publishing Applications and Content (free video!) - Deploying Applications with Installation Manager - Managing Loads and Load Balancing - Managing Resources with Resource Manager - Configuring Printing - Enabling Web Access - Securing Citrix Communication - Command Line Tools & Exam Review

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Re: [Skunkworks] GOD and the Programmer...
by wesley kiriinya 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

ROFL 8~D --- On Mon, 7/6/09, Paul Mathu <mails.mathu(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Paul Mathu <mails.mathu(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Skunkworks] GOD and the Programmer... To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 12:08 PM IN THE BEGINNING In the beginning GOD created the Bit and the Byte. And from those he created the Word. And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing else existed. And God separated the One from the Zero; and he saw it was good. And God said – Let the Data be; And so it happened. And God said – Let the Data go to their proper places. And he created floppy disks and hard disks and compact disks. And God said – Let the computers be, so there would be a place to put floppy disks and compact disks. Then God created computers and called them hardware. And there was no software yet. But God created programs; small and big... And told them _ Go and multiply yourselves and fill all the Memory. And God said – I will create the programmer; And the Programmer will make new programs and govern over the computers and programs and Data. And God created the Programmer; and put him at Data Center; And God showed the Programmer the Catalog Tree and said: You can use all the volumes and subvolumes but DO NOT USE Windows. And God said – It is not good for the Programmer to be alone. He took a bone from the Programmer’s body and created a creature that would look up at the Programmer; and love the things the Programmer does; And God called the creature: the User. And the programmer and the user were left under the naked DOS and it was Good. But Bill was smarter than all the other creatures of God. And Bill said to the User – Did God really tell you not to run any programs? And the user answered – God told us that we can use every program and every piece of Data but told us not to run Windows or we will die. And Bill said to the User – How can you talk about something you did not even try. The moment you run Windows you will become equal to God. You will be able to create anything you like by a simple click of your mouse. And the User saw that the fruits of the Windows were nicer and easier to use. And the User saw that any knowledge that was useless-since Windows could replace it. So the User installed the Windows on her computer and said to the programmer that it was good. And the Programmer immediately started to look for new drivers. And God asked him – What are you looking for? And the Programmer answered – I am looking for new drivers because I can not find them in the DOS. And God said – Who told you you need drivers? Did you run Windows? And the Programmer said – It was Bill who told us to ! And God said to Bill – Because of what you did you will be hated by all the creatures. And the user will always be unhappy with you. And you will always sell Windows. And God said to the User – Because of what you did, the Windows will disappoint you and eat up all of your resources; And you will have to use lousy programs; and you will always rely on the Programmers help. And God said to the Programmer – Because you listened to the User you will never be happy. All your programs will have errors and you will have to fix them and fix them to the end of time. And God threw them out of the Data Center and locked the door and secured it with a password. GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT` hav a windows free week..... ;) -- Regards Mathu http://sojjar.blogspot.com -----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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Meeting Reminder *Afya Project; Today, 6.00pm, Coco Lounge*
by Phares Kariuki 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Followup meeting on the same at Coco Lounge from 6.00 pm. Contact me for any clarifications etc as belwo. Thanks. -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |

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piratebay might be up for sale........and turn legit
by saich 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/The_PirateBay_Sold_Might_Go_Legitimate/5…

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