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Orange ZTE on Ubuntu-10.10
by Odhiambo Washington 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I have installed Ubunto 10.10 Maverick. It's quite easy to run with my Huawei modem from Safaricom, but not the ZTE from Orange. Did someone already post a howto on this forum for using ZTE? I am guilty of not having done any searches before hand. -- 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] Toshiba Satellite A665-S6065 keeps freezing
by Steve Obbayi 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

High chance your hard drive could be faulty too, sometimes Disk I/O problems can cause freezes. Graphic card? maybe not. If you sure its your graphic card then change your settings to triple buffering or overlap in the openGL panel but like I said i doubt its your graphic card seeing working on mail would not use hardware acceleration. Steve Obbayi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Twinamasiko G." <josht(a)joshtwin.com> To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:49:42 PM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: [Skunkworks] Toshiba Satellite A665-S6065 keeps freezing Hello, My 1-month old Toshiba Satellite A665-S6065 laptop has been acting up, and I have so far not been able to identify the problem. It first froze while playing FIFA, I had to force it off. I thought it had something to do with the game and the graphics, so I uninstalled the game after the 4th time. Then it froze even when typing email, then when doing other ordinary tasks. I have done virus scans with a number of AVs, done diagnostics and everything else I could think about. Does anyone have an idea what could cause this random freezing? Or is there a known issue with this particular model or graphics card? I have a feeling am missing something but I don't know what... Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Joshua Twinamasiko G. www.joshtwin.com _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Server donations spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AopdHkqSqKL-dHlQVTMxU1VBdU1BSWJxdy1… ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke

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I need Lenovo T61, w500 urgently
by Paul Roy 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Hi skunks, Please anyone with a new Lenovo T61 or w500. I need to buy it at lunch time today. If you are in westlands advantage...email me with your price and confirm it has atleast 2GB ram and resolution of 1900X1200 regards, -- "Change is slow and gradual. It requires hardwork, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice and a lot of patience." Roy.

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Re: [Skunkworks] ZUKU NOT WORKING
by gisho 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

People, not a week ends without a service provider being banged in this very list. Funny enough, big companies like Zain, Safaricom, --banks etc don't seem to have these kinds of frequent downtimes. Now, does this mean they use different links (to rest of the world ) from what the kawaida mwananchi uses or is it the quality of wiring done by our over qualified networking engineers or is it that they use very low quality equipments to cut on costs (think profits) or is it that there are waaaay too many subscribers (which i doubt) or is it that the people complaining cannot afford a quality service (#justsaying) Is anyone one running a webserver or something similar service from Kenya and if any what provider do you use? (yes, i know about Wananchi so i just want to 'hear' about something else) seriously this is wanting on other matters, anyone has any info about .ke TLD? -erastus

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Master-Slave hard disks
by Erick Njenga 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I have two hard disks that I want to configure to work in a Master-Slave arrangement. any ideas? any software I need to know about? -- Thanks and Regards, Erick Njenga Nyachwaya, M: +254-725-008-790 <http://www.facebook.com/ErickNjenga> <http://www.twitter.com/ErickNjenga>

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Satelite/DSTV Signals
by John Doe 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Hi Satelite heads, I got myself a DSTV decoder DSD1110, problem is it is meant for the South African market and connects via the IS7 Satelite. This transmits on the Ku Band and only covers Southern Africa. My question is: >From a purely technical point of view, 1. Is it possible to change the frequency on which this decoder transmits and receieves to C band frequencies? 2. If this were possible, would the same smartcard still work? 3. Anyone out there who has tried this or knows where I can get resources about this kind of scenario? Cheers.

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OT: Inspekta Mwala
by Lenchipai Nakodony 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

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Lenovo Thinkpad 600X
by Anthony Lenya 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Hi all, A friend of mine has the above with a brocken screen. Anyone with an idea where he can get a replacement. Regards

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Watchman wants to chat
by Watchman 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

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Machine Spec sheet
by Watchman 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Skunkateers, My greetings. No one has attempted to make me my PC?? lol est. In any case, looking for DDR 2 PC5300 4 / 8GB RAM, anyone know where to find? Or can someone source this for me? As well, require a good VGA and a 500GB SATA 7200. Price i got last was Ksh 4700 for the HD. Internal HD not Ext. Watchman. -- ...and I shall shed my light over dark evil. For the dark things cannot stand the light.

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