February 2010 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

IT helpdesk software
by Maq Tim 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Anyone who has used a free IT Helpdesk and Asset mngnt software running on windows? would appreciate... ps: i have googled but wanted to hear from any skunks who may have use d one... cheers, Maq.

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ACCESS POINT
by James Muendo 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hallo, Am wondering do you have like a price scale for a D- link 3200 AP? thanks in advance. -- James Muendo Leerick Office& Tech Supplies P.O Box 28016 - 00200 Nairobi,Kenya. Phone: + 254 725 567 508 gtalk: timrick Skype: tim.rick

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YouTube Turns on IPv6 Support, Net Traffic Spikes
by Christopher Kiagiri 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

* YouTube Turns on IPv6 Support, Net Traffic Spikes* <http://www.pcworld.com/article/188276/youtube_turns_on_ipv6_support_net_tra…> http://www.pcworld.com/article/188276/youtube_turns_on_ipv6_support_net_tra… Google has quietly turned on IPv6 support for its YouTube video streaming Web site, sending a spike of IPv6 traffic across the Internet that has continued from last Thursday until Monday. Industry observers say YouTube appeared to be supporting IPv6 in production mode, as opposed to running a test of the next-generation Internet protocol. "On Thursday, midday California time, we saw a large amount of inbound IPv6 traffic, which we knew came from Google," says Martin Levy, Director of IPv6 Strategy at Hurricane Electric, a Fremont, Calif., ISP that runs one of the world's largest IPv6 backbone networks. "IPv6 traffic came into ISPs from all over the world when Google turned up its IPv6 traffic on YouTube," Levy says. "IPv6 is being supported at many different Google data centers. We're talking about a traffic spike that is 30-to-1 type ratios. In other words, 30 times more IPv6 traffic is coming out of Google's data centers than before." Levy says the YouTube IPv6 traffic appears to be production-quality traffic because it has remained steady since Thursday and is following normal usage patterns. "This IPv6 traffic is mimicking classic end-user bandwidth shaping," Levy says. "It's not machine driven; it's human eyeball driven." Industry observers hailed YouTube's upgrade as a sign of the growing momentum for IPv6, a long-anticipated replacement for the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. "One of the biggest issues with IPv6 is the chicken-and-egg argument. The fact is that content such as this is being moved over to IPv6," Levy says. "This is not some IPv6-enabled scientific site…This is the mainstream media." A growing number of Web sites such as YouTube and Netflix are adding support for IPv6 because the Internet is running out of IPv4 address space. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressable devices on the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and can support so many devices that only a mathematical expression -- 2 to the 128th power -- can quantify its size. Experts predict IPv4 addresses will be gone in 2012. Indeed, the Regional Internet Registries announced in January that less than 10% of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, is urging Web sites like YouTube to add IPv6 support. ARIN doles out IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to network operators including ISPs, government agencies and corporations in North America. Google is one of the Internet's most aggressive adopters of IPv6. Google already supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps, Wave, Chrome and Android products. Google engineers said in November that adding IPv6 to its YouTube site was the top priority of its IPv6 development team. The engineers say IPv6 deployment is not as difficult nor is it as expensive as they thought it would be. YouTube's support for IPv6 comes on the heels of Comcast announcing public trials of IPv6 that will begin in April.

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D-Link DWL-820
by Odhiambo Washington 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

The supplier I know doesn't have this in stock, and haven't for some time. Does anyone know where I can get DWL-820<http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=333>. Guys who are gaming fanatics might know;-) For me who knows how to play no game, I only need to convert an ethernet device into a wireless one, which this D-Link does superbly. -- 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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remote connections to server failing
by wallace ngene 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hi folks, I seem not to be able to make a remote connection to one of our servers.I have a domain admin account and connections were working ok but now neither of us can connect to the server. Is there any other way of making a remote connection.It has been installed as a virtual server 2003 Any tips? -- WALLACE NGENE TARURU wallacengene(a)gmail.com

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Zain Roaming annoying SMS issue - please help
by Michuki Mwangi 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi Folks, Not sure if anyone from Safaricom or Zain can check and help out on this. The Zain customer care email address is unresponsive. I have a Zain line roaming and (not on a one-network) am experiencing a rather annoying problem when receiving SMS's from Safaricom. The messages are not only delivered many hours later - over 12hrs delay, but the same message will keep being sent probably over 15 - 20 times in the next 48hrs. Am receiving SMS's fine from Zain and other international lines without this problem. I have tried everything including removing my simcard and back on. But am now convinced that its not the Zain roaming partner but something between Zain and Safaricom SMSC system while roaming. Any help will be highly appreciated. Regards, Michuki. -

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[OT] Monday Humour
by Steve Muchai 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Guys and gals, I don't usually do this, and I know this one belongs on my FB page, but I just couldn't resist it. It's just too hilarious. Come on, click, enjoy and smile the rest of the day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_C5azOpSSk&feature=youtube_gdata BR, S -- Sent from my socks®

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Join LPA-Kenya
by Evans Ikua 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Dear all, Many of those on this list have at one time or another shown interest in becoming members of the Linux Professional Association of Kenya. we have started a new group on google groups, LPA-Kenya. if you are interested in becoming a member, just navigate there and send a request to be added. All are welcome. Ikua

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FREE Online Backups
by Alvin Jason Ochieng 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Help your Friends Get an extra gigabyte for every two people you refer to Mozy. You're protecting your data with Mozy - why not invite your friends and family to do the same? If their hard drives crash, and they find out you didn't fill them in on Mozy, it won't be a good scene. It's easy. Just copy and paste the following URL in an email to the people you'd like to invite to use Mozy: https://mozy.com/?ref=3DPH37 ALL YOU GUYS CHIP IN !! IT WORKS AND IS FREE !!! ALVIN On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 1 February 2010 13:32, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 1 February 2010 12:54, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> dropbox.io? >>>> >>>> !! Br0ken link!! >>> >>> Sorry, www.dropbox.com >>> I have used them for personal backup and online filesharing and they are >>> good. >>> Meanwhile, this might >>> help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_backup_services >> >> Looks interesting! Suppose I wanted to backup .pst files online, using >> them for instance, will their system know how to handle that? Hmm, perhaps >> to them it's just a regular file... >> > I dont know about this, but once you download their application, It allows > you to select folders that will be synchronised on your comp, their server > and other PCs. any new file in the folder is synchronised at all locations. > e.g. If you choose to synchronise "/home/user/baqckup" , Any new file > created at ~backup/ will be uploaded and any missing files at the server > will be downloaded. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Odhiambo WASHINGTON, >> Nairobi,KE >> +254733744121/+254722743223 >> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >> "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." >> -- Lucky Dube >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> 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 > > > > -- > with Regards: > > Why you should not mind your own business, Find out at: > http://gramware.blogspot.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 > 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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how to change default mail location on entourege2008 to computer
by wallace ngene 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello folks, How can i change the mail location from entourage server mailbox to local mailbox? I ant the incoming mails and sent mails to be downloaded onto the local mailbox. Regards -- WALLACE NGENE TARURU wallacengene(a)gmail.com

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