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Artificial Intelligence and reading about Alan Turing Test............
by aki 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

My last contribute for the day..... :-) I bring this up because there was a thread on this list about asking about random numbers etc. A good place to start to know more about Randomness and Pseudocode etc is this man called Alan Turing and the tests he did. A genius..... So after many months of reading various stuff, ( little or no code yet ) I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Reading and understanding about AI, a few more months to go before anything tangible can happen as far as the actual game development goes. Rgds.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Skunkworks Digest, Vol 5, Issue 316
by Yusuf Tajbhai 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

1. Does anyone know how to setup an Sms Server (gateway) @Taj On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:08 PM, <skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > Send Skunkworks mailing list submissions to > skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke > > You can reach the person managing the list at > skunkworks-owner(a)lists.my.co.ke > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Skunkworks digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: RATE YOUR, BEST DVD/CD BURNING SOFTWARE (Dennis Kioko) > 2. Re: Artificial Intelligence and reading about Alan Turing > Test............ (ndungu stephen) > 3. Re: Test (Eva Kimathi) > 4. Re: local scene : LG launch 3D TV (Dennis Kioko) > 5. Re: Who else wants USD 10,000 or more? (ndungu stephen) > 6. Re: Artificial Intelligence and reading about Alan Turing > Test............ (aki) > 7. Re: Artificial Intelligence and reading about Alan Turing > Test............ (ndungu stephen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:29:10 +0300 > From: Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi(a)gmail.com> > To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] RATE YOUR, BEST DVD/CD BURNING SOFTWARE > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimHb9aOC4aERSG=VRZD6SCO4q_++k7mKXD7NpR5(a)mail.gmail.com<VRZD6SCO4q_%2B%2Bk7mKXD7NpR5(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > K3b rocks >

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Skunkworks Digest, Vol 5, Issue 317
by Yusuf Tajbhai 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Send Skunkworks mailing list submissions to > skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke > > You can reach the person managing the list at > skunkworks-owner(a)lists.my.co.ke > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Skunkworks digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: RATE YOUR, BEST DVD/CD BURNING SOFTWARE (Dennis Kioko) > 2. Re: Artificial Intelligence and reading about Alan Turing > Test............ (ndungu stephen) > 3. Re: Test (Eva Kimathi) > 4. Re: local scene : LG launch 3D TV (Dennis Kioko) > 5. Re: Who else wants USD 10,000 or more? (ndungu stephen) > 6. Re: Artificial Intelligence and reading about Alan Turing > Test............ (aki) > 7. Re: Artificial Intelligence and reading about Alan Turing > Test............ (ndungu stephen) > 8. Is anyone here good at setting up an SMS Server - Gateway (Taj) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:29:10 +0300 > From: Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi(a)gmail.com> > To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] RATE YOUR, BEST DVD/CD BURNING SOFTWARE > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimHb9aOC4aERSG=VRZD6SCO4q_++k7mKXD7NpR5(a)mail.gmail.com<VRZD6SCO4q_%2B%2Bk7mKXD7NpR5(a)mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > K3b rocks >

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Who else wants USD 10,000 or more?
by Martin Njuguna 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Skunks and skunkettes, Deadline is monday so work extra this weekend. Lets have some celebration parties after the grants when a few or many skunkers have won http://www.ict.go.ke/index.php/grants/local-digital-content-grants Martin S. Njuguna Digital Vision EA Limited http://bit.ly/c6ItdF c:+254 721 440 543 t:+254 20 21 33 865 e:martin@digitalvision.co.ke <e%3Amartin(a)digitalvision.co.ke> w: http://www.digitalvision.co.ke Skype: digitalv.ke

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anyone out there?
by [ Brainiac ] 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

its been pretty quiet recently, anyone out there? -- Posted on 100% recycled electrons

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Re: [Skunkworks] Eassy, Orange-TKL, Safaricom, Teams, Seacom. The following took place........
by Riyaz Bachani 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

everything is made in china ;) SEACOM's entire system uses Tyco equipment - Tyco and Alcatel are the leading (and maybe only) 2 manufacturers of submarine cable equipment. Submarine cable failures are inevitable - that's why people have (and should have) backups on separate cables. Massive outages only really should happen when multiple cables on the same route (eg Suez Canal) go down. R ----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275(a)googlemail.com> To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:08:13 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Eassy, Orange-TKL, Safaricom, Teams, Seacom. The following took place........ @Dennis, thnks for the info. And btw, are congrats due on the CIO KE thing? ... good to see skunks on the move. :-) On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > EASSy has gone live and I talked to Alcatel-Lucent's Submarine Networks > team, VP marketing (Enrico Banfi) and Regional Director Gary Waterworth and > they assured me that it comes with a 25 year warranty on the equipment. > I also found out from a reliable source that Seacom (down 23 days now) is > "made in china" and that they are worried as it seems all their > repeaters(deep on the ocean bed) have a problem! > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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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25 must-have iPhone apps for productive geeks
by Odhiambo Washington 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=5543&tag=nl.e019 <http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=5543&tag=nl.e019> -- 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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local scene : Equity Bank posts impressive results, buoyed by ICT platform
by aki 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

some quotes : "We are a branch-less bank," said Mwangi at a function held at their Equity Bank Centre offices to announce the results. “This means that all the bank’s branches are linked to each other on a Wide Area Network (WAN) and that all transactions are carried out on the bank’s networks. With this, customers can perform banking transactions from any branch other than their own branch.” Equity's ICT infrastructure include a core banking software that is capable of holding upto 35 million accounts compared to the current 4 million accounts it holds. Equity also has a 65 million way 4 card switch, and as a security measure has implemented the EMV standard on their cards ensuring that all transactions carried out by their cards require PIN authentication. Mwangi stated that the bank had also partnered heavily with other telecommunication companies to tap into telecommunication products and services to enhance their banking services. Such partnerships included one that sees Safaricom Mpesa customers being able to perform withdrawals via Equity Bank counters and ATMs. Most Mpesa customers that use Equity are those transacting amounts greater than Kshs 15,000 (US$187) who usually face difficulties as most agents deal with smaller amounts due to Mpesa float restrictions. The bank handles 2500 Mpesa transactions per day and earns an average of Kshs. 50 - Kshs 60 (US$0.62-$0.75) per such transaction. The bank also recently launched a product known as the Equity Mkesho account in partnership with Safaricom's Mpesa that links Mpesa to a bank account. Since it was launched two months ago, Mkesho has ben growing at 20, 000 accounts per day to the current figure of about 400,000 accounts. Mwangi said that he expects the number to keep up at the pace as the registrations so far have been done at Equity without the help of Mpesa agents who will be offering Mkesho registrations soon. At the moment, Equity allows merchants across the country to accept payments using Equity ATM cards. So far 3,000 merchants have implemented the system. In future technological developments, the bank is looking at using agents thus allowing customers to withdraw money from retail outlets such as shops. This would be a further addition to their branchless network and would see 4000 such outlets rolled out. The agents have already been licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya and are undergoing training. Mwangi also announced that the bank would allow consumers to borrow loans through their mobile phones starting September 2010. The devolution of retail banking away from the branches would enable Equity Bank to use its current staff to focus on Small & Medium Enterprises(SMEs) Banking. Technology supporting the bank include a WAN that sees branches have three redundant links with fiber as the primary link failing over microwave links and VSAT as the last link. The bank operates four data centres including a new Kshs 6 billion (US$75,000,000) Tier 4 data centre at Equity Centre. Tier 4 is the highest classification for a data centre guaranteeing maximum availability and redundancy. Equity has also put together a competent ICT team led by Allan Waititu and John Staley. The two said that the bank was commited towards ICT security and had put stringent measures towards this. Other than a network security demilitarisation zone, the bank has set up a high lever of risk awareness and as result was yet to loose any money in SWIFT bank transfers despite most banks losing millions in the same process. http://www.cio.co.ke/index.php/view-all-main-stories/1373-equity-bank-posts…

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Six core intel i7 processor
by Peter Karunyu 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/intels-3-2ghz-hexacore-i7-970-now-shippi… But one will need USD$899

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Any Virtualization Experts Here?
by Odhiambo Washington 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

I have a laptop, HP 6710B running Windows Server 2008 (x64) R2 STD which I'd like to virtualize. I actually intend to run Windows 7 on this laptop but install VMWare Wkstn and get the Windows SVR running inside. All my attempts to use VMWare converter to virtualize this live machine have failed. Did anyone succeed in doing this? I've already googled for possible solutions so don't suggest it:) -- 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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