February 2011 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Nick Muttai via LinkedIn 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

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Foundation
by Phares Kariuki 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Guys, There have been talks to formalize this list... The simplest way, in my opinion is a foundation. There have been a number of offers to finance this "list" but given that there is no formal structure, it's rather difficult. What does the foundation do? Simply, community outreach... The idea would be to have events that are geared towards spread of ICT in our greater community. e.g. - Build an open source time-table/school management system that can then be implemented by list members for free in schools. - Take weekends to go to remote schools and harmonize their networks, convert them to foss etc - Community education initiatives e.g. do networking, programming, Unix etc bootcamps, at no cost to the attendees. The idea is to simply spread technology in the greater community. How it will work? Well, the funds will be directly channeled to the foundation. Audit's should be undertaken etc. However, working for the foundation, like everything has been on the list will be purely voluntary i.e. no one gets paid, never a job, just a bunch of concurrent projects... More projects can be thought of and undertaken, but that is going forward as ideas crystallize, thoughts? -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares | B: http://www.kaboro.com/ |

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Router/Firewall appliance Vs. opensource OS-based solutions
by Patrick Kariuki 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Quite a number of Medium and Large companies not too keen to lower their total cost of ownership when it comes to Internet connectivity spending. A FreeBSD/OpenBSD box running pfsense/OpenVPN is way cheaper than say, any Cisco hardware offering similar functionality, yet most companies opt for commercial purpose-built router/firewall hardware.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY
by Ruth Were 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

A software developer ASAP contact me for more info

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Zuku Service Declining
by ndunda eric 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

lol derick you got that right! --

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VPS hosting
by Geoffrey Mimano 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi all, Am looking for a reliable and economically reasonable VPS hosting service. Any ideas. -- Mimano G. Muthondu, Software Developer skype : gmimano Mobile : +254 723 615 206

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Necessity Creates Innovation... Speak to Tweet!
by [Brainiac] 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Google to the Aid of Egypt during their 1 million man march.... http://twitter.com/#!/speak2tweet -- *“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy”* ~ Alex Carey ~ Tel No: 0x2af23696

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CLOUD COMPUTING
by dennis munyotu 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

May somebody please explain for me about cloud computing in a brief andclear way??? thanx

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