November 2010 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

DTV | 8 channels with no sound
by Thuo Wilson 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Guys, Am just wondering why some channels on the DTV (including the sports channels - premier league and serie A, FOX among others) do not have sound/audio. Have tried tweak the device to no avail. HELP!!! Wilson.

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ihub location
by Eric Mugo 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

where is ihub located exactly? On 11/26/10, Frankline <fraogongi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi y'all, > > Am looking for the best rates for the above mentioned machine. New of > course, with no Operating System. > > Anyone knows where one can get the best deals in town? > > Thanks > > -- > "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to > the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his > children smart.” >

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OT: The US Embassy Dispatches!
by Claire Njoki 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Oh my, Apparently 1,891 cables concerning Kenya are part of the wikileaks... Some are "confidential nofon" and even some are "secret nofon"... Here is an interactive map: http://www.spiegel.de/flash/0,,24861,00.html Claire.

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Cisco SFP
by Frank Kiprono 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hi, Am looking for CISCO GLC FE 100LX. If you know where i can get, please contact me. Rgds

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M-Pesa Upgrade : I am a typical Kenyan
by Odhiambo Washington 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Now that M-Pesa system was upgraded successfully, what are the new benefits it introduced? I don't keep a single contact on the SIM card, and I don't intend to. All my contacts are in phone memory. Do I have to save those contacts to whom I send pesa on the SIM card for me to use the "lookup" facility? Aren't the developers good enough to make the lookup use phone memory-based contacts? ;-) Ok. What else did they introduce with the upgrade? Just the lookup and improved transaction capacity or is there another? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!

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Re: [Skunkworks] Africa Online - Infinet Service
by aki 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

@Collins, thank you for taking the time to respond on a list. You have replied to almost all my queries and am 90% sold on the idea of switching over. There are a few more queries, hope you will respond asap. 1) How much and where can I buy the modem as I saw from your website about the 50% offer? 2) Once I have the modem, how do I activate the un-capped 256kbps services? 3) Are there plans to bring in un-capped 512kbps & 1Mbit services and at what rates? 4) Given the minimum throughputs that indicated at peak times, how will these be 3) above? 5) "Tortured Bandwidth" . I know the tech part etc but I'd like to know whether internet traffic is being tortured into classes/priorities therefore making it useless for my needs. Orange 3g+ was the only provider to have clean traffic until recently when they went down the road as other providers. On 3g+ the main class is http, then followed by ftp. For example, I urgently needed to download a 240MBytes file on ftp yet I could only get about 60kbps which made it impossible to use the services anymore. As a better example, in the earlier days a cyber could use 64kbps and serve 4 computers. These days the same 64kbps has been tortured into working on a handset only. 6) If you could provide a specs link for the modem, I think its kyocera but want to ensure it woks with my wifi gear. Many thanks and I'm definately interested. Rgds. > > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Collins KIPRONO < > collins.kiprono(a)africaonline.co.ke> wrote: > >> Aki - >> >> For Infinet Eazy the speed is upto 1MBps but during the day(peak times) >> the >> speed is normally around 300kbps and at night (off peak) the speeds get to >> around 700kbps on average. We have also recently introduced at Infinet >> Eazy >> option that is not capped on data but however the speed is capped at >> 256kbps. Apart from Infinet Eazy, we also have Infinet lite product that >> is >> capped on data at 2GB with speed of upto 1MBps and an option uncapped on >> data but capped on speed at 128kbps. >> >

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OT : Kenya's real estate boom fake or real?
by aki 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

I read various articles on the amount of new construction going on and this sector to me is quite baffling. I think the recent report by the CBK puts home mortgages at around 14,000 kenyans. Our borrowing bank interest rates and repayments are still too high compared to incomes. Where are people getting the money to buy/invest into real estate because everywhere you see, some new construction on residetial types is coming up and also being sold quite fast. Property prices have really shot up while earnings have not increased in comparison. So who is buying these expensive properties? Any economist here in skunks KE to add some insights. :-) Rgds.

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3G for business - Comments??
by Odhiambo Washington 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Folks, This imagination has crossed my mind: Consider this: Cisco 2811 ->Internet <- Huawei 3G Router <- Cisco 2811 <-- IP PBX |________VPN Tunnel_____________| 1. The Huawei connects to Safaricom - speed and reliability not guaranteed? No static IP address. Anyone thinks that, in this current age and time (in Kenya) is this a viable business solution?? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!

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If you are half as nuts as I am
by David Njuguna 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Check this out, design your database without tables using mongodb<http://www.mongodb.org/>, create a web backend that sends a HTML template and a JSON document then template on the browser using PURE <http://beebole.com/pure> <http://beebole.com/pure>Anyone else looking into heading this direction please spread the gospel. D

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Re: [Skunkworks] CISCO1841 Series
by charles mtawali 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Hey guys, I bought a cisco router, but apparently the CD takes time to be shipped in and i needed it right now. Does anyone know where i can get one asap The specs are as follows:- CISCO1841 Series IOS Advance Security Feature Pack Specification Part - CD18-ASK9= Key Specification - Cisco Manufacturer No - CD18-ASK9 Software Type - Inernetwork Operating System License Type - Complete Media - CD-ROM Kind Regards, Mtawali Mweni +254 721 498 567 +254 733 47 47 49

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