February 2011 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Web Designer Survey
by Erik Hersman 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Jepchumba at African Digital Art is running a survey for web designers. Stand up and be counted. http://www.africandigitalart.com/2011/02/design-survey/ Erik Hersman www.ushahidi.com | www.iHub.co.ke www.afrigadget.com | www.whiteafrican.com | @whiteafrican

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iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G : 75,000
by Jangita Nyagudi 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G : KES 75,000 contact chris(a)ronellafrica.com

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Interest in technology opportunities in Afriac esp in mobile continues to grow - http://bit.ly/frwNxc
by Mbugua Njihia 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

I had the opportunity to speak at the Stanford Africa Business forum held over the past weekend at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. The forum presented an opportunity for key stakeholders - business leaders, policy makers, faculty and students to exchange ideas and forge mutually beneficial relationships that will facilitate development in Africa. The conference was based around the theme of entrepreneurship as the catalyst of development and featured panels and discussions around various industries pertinent to Africa's social and economic development, exploring the impact of entrepreneurship on development in Africa, and looked at various practical avenues and opportunities for entrepreneurial involvement in Africa - http://bit.ly/frwNxc

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Ubuntu and Likewise-Open
by John Adams 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hello fellow skunks!!! I have joined an Ubuntu work station to Active Directory using likewise-open. Problem is, when the PC is switched off after some time, a local user not from the domain has to login and log out to allow domain users to login. If this is not done, no domain user can be authenticated. I am guessing it's because the likewise service only starts on login and on login means the local user has to login then log out. How do I overcome this problem? -- Regards, Adams John Opiyo.

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Five reasons to give up Firefox
by Yvonne Mwajuma 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Five reasons to give up Firefox<http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/five-reasons-to-give-up-firefox> 1: Memory usage Sure, there are thousands of neat *add-ons* for Firefox, but install a few and after a while you'll see its memory use rocket. I have often discovered Firefox eating a *gigabyte* of memory after a few hours at work, which is just unreasonable. I have found Opera and Google are much lighter on resources over a day in the office. 2: Looks I know there is beauty on the inside, but why not have it outside too? When it comes to your browser, you don't need to compromise with attractiveness. Firefox has been leapfrogged by everyone when it comes to looking great - even the dreaded *Internet Explorer*<http://internet-explorer-8.en.softonic.com/>is looking better these days. 3: Out-dated features Have you seen the downloader in Chrome? Firefox will just seem inadequate once you have. Firefox extensions? You have to restart the browser to install. Those are just two of the Mozilla browser's out-of-date features. Try Opera if you want to see a truly modern feature set. What's more, the Firefox interface takes up more room than is necessary - changing browser will give you more browsing real estate to play with. 4: Stability Firefox crashes every day for me. I discovered that with Chrome, each tab is a separate process and so you can isolate and kill the problem without losing all of your open tabs. That's much better, and minimizes your chances of losing work. 5: Familiarity isn't good A fact of computing is rapid change - don't let comfortable familiarity keep you from moving with the times or you may find yourself too far behind to catch up. Just because a feature works differently doesn't mean it doesn't work at all! Familiarity is what keeps *IE 6* and *7* in the browser charts. Safari, Chrome and Opera all do things in their own ways, but they are all great browsers and you're missing out if you don't give them a chance! http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/five-reasons-to-give-up-firefox -- Regards, Yvonne Mwajuma

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Facebook, *.akamai.net , *.akamaihd.net
by Patrick Kariuki 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Does Facebook operate through Akamai servers, if so this could mean that Facebook uses Akamai certificates.... for SSL authentication (for some sessions) - a gaping leak for otherwise secure information. Refresh your facebook page and observe what servers that https connection has to go through... could this be a bug for users using https anywhere on firefox browsers? links: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/encrypt-web-https-everywhere-firefox-e… http://www.secpoint.com/onlineattackmethods-presentationakamai.html Search keywords: akamai facebook MITM attacks

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Looking for Mobile Platform application developers
by Brian Munyao Longwe 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Kago, I *urgently* need a J2ME developer who also has php, sql skills. Any suggestions? Brian On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM, David Kago <kago(a)ultimate-security.net>wrote: > ... worked with MS and j2me, what I love about j2me is the ability to hit > a wide range of devices, provided they implement midp, however, symbian/ms > etc offer more functionality > ------------------------------ > *From:* aki [mailto:aki275@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* 15 October 2009 07:31 > *To:* Skunkworks forum > *Subject:* [Skunkworks] Mobile Platform application developers > > SDKs are out there. Symbian has one, iPhone has another and Microsoft has > its version, including tutorials. I'd guess that at least 50% of the code in > form of classes and namespaces has already been done for you. > > Anyone working on these? Whether commercially or privately or just a hobby? > > Rgds > > _______________________________________________ > Skunkworks mailing list > Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > ------------ > 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 > -- Brian Munyao Longwe e-mail: blongwe(a)gmail.com cell: + 254 722 518 744 blog : http://zinjlog.blogspot.com meta-blog: http://mashilingi.blogspot.com

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http://twitter.com/Insafenetwork#
by Barrack Otieno 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Listers, In case you are interested, you can follow Safer Internet Day 2011 on Twitter as well. Best Regards -- Barrack O. Otieno Afriregister Ltd (Kenya) www.afrire <http://www.afriregister.com>gister.bi, www.afriregister.com<http://www.afriergister.com> <http://www.afriregister.com>ICANN accredited registrar +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno

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<OT> Zuku Service Declining
by Brian Ngure 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Has anyone who is currently using Zuku as their isp ever managed to resolve a problem they have had? If so, I gladly welcome instructions on how to: 1. Actually get through to their customer care (phone is on automated hold for > 15 to 20 mins so you just give up). 2. Get them to understand the problem (I'm on the "Triple Play" deal 8Mbps but the link is behaving like a 512k and no TV for a week). 3. Get a straight answer from them (When I do get through all I get is vague answers and no real support, like they don't have a clue). If they don't know what my problem is, why don't they just say so? They have already sent one team to my house to "fix" the problem and that team came found nothing wrong with the equipment and left. Now they want to send another team. Anyone got any advice other than "Jump ship"? When Zuku works, it works well, but you have a problem and you are in hell. Perhaps a tech contact in support who actually knows what they doing? -- Regards Brian Ngure

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Looking for a warehouse to buy in Nairobi
by victor yegon 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hey a friend of mine wants to buy a warehouse within Nairobi any one with details pliz contact me off-list -- Regards Yegon Victor

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