August 2009 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Real Estate app
by Riyaz Bachani 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

There was a story in the newspaper sometime in the last few days about a new Google Maps based app for real estate. I know this idea was shared a couple of years back on this list, and it seems like these guys who have built this are quite organized - they partner with other real estate companies, have extensive listings, its all mapped on Google etc. Unfortunately, the story did not carry a link to their site :) Did anyone come across this, and can share the site details ? Looked like an app worth seeing. R

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Re: [Skunkworks] Google Code Jam 2009
by Simeon Oriko 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Google announced Google Code Jam today. Here's the link: http://code.google.com/codejam/

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Re: [Skunkworks] Sales / Advertising
by fyodor 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

I mean visit the forum and see whether its active or not. On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:40:10 +0300 mike oketch <mikeoketch(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Try what ndugu? > >On 8/18/09, fyodor <fyodor(a)hushmail.com> wrote: >>>coz its not active? he he he >>> >> Ahh.....well, Mike you do indeed need to be there to see that it >> is, after all, active. Go ahead, doesnt hurt to try. >> >> >> -tyrus >> _IEEE Member. >> >> > >-- >Sent from my mobile deviceSince am not allowed to destroy money cuz it belongs to the Govt, it means they can ask it back any moment......oh wait, its called Taxes!!

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Sun server CD/DVD Drive
by m mugo 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hallo skunks, Anyone out there that can find a sun server CD/DVD Drive for the Ultra series? Please get in touch. Speaking to Sun partners in Kenya and they are all with the procurement, request and shipping processes.

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Fwd: [google map maker] Map Maker Data Download for Africa now available!
by jude mwenda 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hi all, Google has made Map Maker data for Africa available. Download the data here http://mapmaker.google.com/datadownload -- Regards Jude Mwenda "Was ist mein Leben, wenn ich nicht mehr nützlich für andere." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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HP Entry Level PC - 28,000 !!!!!
by Alvin Jason Ochieng 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

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If Safaricom 3g and Orange 3g plus offer unlimited services, Wimax is as good as dead?
by aki 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

I hope they don't put other SPs' out of contention by offering unlimited on the 2 wireless platforms. The 2 products are a serious contender because they do not need branding in bandwidth terms i.e 256k, 512k etc. Also, a SOHO upto 10 users business can use the above services and prices will have dropped drastically. I wonder what the Wimax/Wireless community will offer on their service platforms to counter such a move by the above operators? -- Sign on my car is " L " plates : c#.net

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a blast from the past - community networks, internet prices 2007
by Josiah Mugambi 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

Was browsing through the skunkworks blog archives and came across this post<http://skunkworks-ke.blogspot.com/2007/02/community-networks-broadband-rati…> * The idea of building out estate/community networks was raised ... Techies in various estates can get a 128k link into the apartment/estate ... cable it themselves cheaply, and share a 128k internet link. The techie living within the estate would provide 24/7 support to users with their computer issues. Setup costs would be shared amongst 10 users ... so not more than 5k per user. Most likely a lot less. Monthly charges would come to about 2k per user. Techie would setup a local "server" for mail, caching, voip, file-services and more ... All these local servers could be connected together eg a larger asterisk network*. Josiah Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

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Fwd: the long fibre lie... Ndemo should resign if internet prices do not drop as he promised!!
by Gakuru Alex 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Gakuru <gakuru(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:11 AM Subject: the long fibre lie... Ndemo should resign if internet prices do not drop as he promised!! To: ke-users <ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net> What a long optics fibre lie the whole thing was... ---Business Daily--- "we do not anticipate that [Internet] prices will drop as drastically as initially indicated or within a short time-frame" <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/639386/-/u8a…> "..it was planning to implement an immediate 24 per cent discount on its internet charges and promised higher discounts once connections to international fibre optic links went live by the end of next month.." <http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/638808/-/u8b…> ---summary--- in short, consumers are going to continue being ripped-off while a just too comfortable "hands-off" government sits back pretentiously expecting "market-forces" to push prices down - The way I see it? we have several options a) to demand government officers( Ndemo & Co.) who promised cheap internet to resign, b) demand regulator to wake up and proactively set the prices c) continue living in a denial and that,hopefully, one day we will have "affordable" internet in Kenya. Where is Bitange Ndemo and and why did he lie to us and raised Kenyans' hopes for cheap internet? we shall have serious problems to believe anything he promises henceforth. He should resign if internet prices do not go down as he promised. And who runs this country anyway? telecommunication companies or the government and the regulator? Alex

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Re: [Skunkworks] Zend PHP 5 Certification Series - Ksh 1,800
by Josiah Mugambi 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

Let's stick to issues, I'd hope that guys agree on a reasonable list of dos and donots for the list, -> there's another thread for that. If it's considered offensive by a majority of listers to have a signature as mine, that can go to the list of to do/donots, For the moment I've edited my signature appropriately. On Aug 17, 2009 7:52 PM, "mike oketch" <mikeoketch(a)gmail.com> wrote: Joshua When you attach your blog which doesnt help me to every email dont you think you bore me also with your useless advert? Or do you see logs only in the eyes of others? MO On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Issue that David h... _______________________________________________ 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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