March 2011 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Airload Africa Looking for Partners
by Kiti Chigiri 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

<quote> Airload Africa Ltd. is looking to become the next new wireless internet provider in Kenya with our first target market focused on the area around Nairobi. Currently, we plan to create a wireless internet network that will cover the entire Nairobi area while offering a more modern and cost-effective internet connection for people. Additionally, we are working to extend our services to offer "flat rate" unlimited usage wireless connection at a reasonable cost. 80% of Airload Africa is owned by a company and investors located in the United States. Airload Africa is currently looking for partners and plans to share 20% of ownership with local partners in Nairobi. </quote> For those that might be interested pls check : http://www.airloadafrica.com/ Disclaimer: I do not know them and am not an agent. merely came across the info when i was browsing around.

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Payment Gateways
by Amarjit Labhuram 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hello wonderful people. Have a question for web developers. If one wants to make a site which accepts credit card payments what are the available options one can use. I am working on a joomla site and am very green at this. Have used RS Forms Pro to integrate to Paypal but the owner of the site wants both paypal as well as credit card pay options. I am now looking at virtue mart as an option but would like any other options if you guys have and would like to share. Have a great day! Warm regards, Amarjit Singh Labhuram.

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Shocking The housing market in Kenya
by Kevin Ouma 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Skunks, I read this article in the standard that had some interesting statistics on the housing market in Kenya. It got me thinking a lot in light of the perceived housing "BOOM" with real estate agents saying that houses are going like hotcakes yet as an IT professional with a modest income, am yet to come to terms with a decent mortgage package in a middle class estate that I can afford, and im not talking about Kilimani etc But Buru Buru south C etc Just to give article excerpts :- - Highlights of a report by Central Bank<http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=2000030176&cid=1…>and World Bank released last week that says only eight per cent of Kenyans — 320, 000 households — can afford a mortgage was shocking - The report commissioned by CBK that will be released fully in a month’s time, also indicates that for one to buy a house worth Sh2 million, for example, one must have a net salary of Sh100,000, and service the loan at Sh42,000 a month for a period of 15 years at an interest rate<http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=2000030176&cid=1…> of 14.5 per cent. - The shocking revelations also indicate that the total mortgage loan book in the country is only 16,000 accounts, while the total value of mortgage loans, as at the end of December last year was Sh133.6 billion. - It is also an indication that buying property in Kenya is predominantly for the rich, who opt for cash sales as opposed to mortgages. This alludes that much of the housing market is a cash market with money acquired through dubious means. Methinks there must be a bubble somewhere that does not correspond to the tenets of economics. You may read the entire article here http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=2000030176&cid=1… Regards Kevin Omondi

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Comments on Kenyan Web Design
by Brian Wangila 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hey skunks, I recently discovered that the website of a Kenyan designer was featured on a major design blog for good design. The site url is http://www.stephengacheru.me The blog on which it was featured is http://www.visualswirl.com/inspiration/designer-portfolio-website/ Question is.I would like to know what you think about the design and is Kenya web design really going to where its supposed to be?

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Wikileaks article on the Chinese in the ICT sector in Kenya
by Andrew Wafula 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

http://ht.ly/46108 ====================== Andrew Wafula Wapakala Web: www.wertsoft.com MSN: a_wafula(a)hotmail.com MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/awafula Blog: http://thewert.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================== If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford "Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People"

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KPLC
by Paul Kevin 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Kwani KPLC failed in KCSE? Where is power?

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Police using Android tablets
by Chris Kiagiri 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

... no, of course not in Kenya. Police department in São Paulo, Brazil, acquires 11000 tablets running Android. http://tecnoblog.net/58493/policia-de-sp-adquire-11-mil-tablets-com-android/ (Sorry, portuguese only) They went with the first Brazillian Android tablet: http://www.mxt.com.br/products.php#imxt Perhaps, when a) the first Kenyan Android tablet comes out, b) Utumishi Kwa Wote will start using them. Maybe @kenyandroid (www.kenyandroid.com) will discuss possibilities of a) lakini I think it is safe to say that b) is a dream.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Formation of the Kenyan Software & Developers Association / Forum / Group
by aki 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:36 PM, aki <aki275(a)gmail.com> wrote: > That sound more like the used cars scenario, fit for resellers of services > under ubuntu which is great but says nothing about local development. Back > to square one. @Phares, please for a moment, let go of that reseller-ness > and take in a new view. :-) That ubuntu, as a OS, is a competition to anyone > who wants to develop a local OS. > > >

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kenyan IT firms facilitating IT.
by mwei gideon 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

hey IT minds please help me out by naming the various companies in Kenya providing the services listed below and related, if possible please indicate the services offered:- - Internet services - domain registration - email - Web hosting - managed mail services - dedicated access - managed security - Web presence - voip etc to corporate organizations, small to medium sized enterprises thanks in advance, Regards Mwei Gideon

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Re: [Skunkworks] Offline Windows XP updates
by Steve Obbayi 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

@Alvin Jason Ochieng Windows XP service Pack 3 is still being supported. I have a Win XP comp right next to me and moments before I started updating, I pulled off and attached a shot clearly showing the date of the latest Security Essentials Tooll update as being Feb 2011. @Paul Kevin as a Software Developer developing Native Apps it is important that I keep an XP comp around especially for testing purposes. To add onto it, I find XP quite fast and stable. Finally XP is still widely being used and as a Software Dev doing Native applications you cannot lock those guys out . --------------------------------------- Steve O Software Developer www.sobbayi.com ----- "Paul Kevin" <paultitude(a)gmail.com> wrote: > And why would u use XP in this day and time and still look for updates? > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Alvin Jason Ochieng < ajochola(a)gmail.com > wrote: > XP is no longer supported. If you have proof Mwangi .......share :-) > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Mark Mwangi < mwangy(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > no they didnt xp sp3 is to be supported till mid 2011 or 12 . The > > slipstream option is best you can even do it yourself > > > > On 3/1/11, Alvin Jason Ochieng < ajochola(a)gmail.com > wrote: > >> Windows stopped XP updates long ago !!! > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Paul Kevin < paultitude(a)gmail.com > wrote: > >>> Windows stopped XP updates > >>> > >>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Dennis Kioko < dmbuvi(a)gmail.com > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Torrent XP image with streamlined updates for the last month eg January > >>>> 2011, make sure to have antivirus, scan and hope you purchased a Valid > >>>> license to reactivate http://bit.ly/heyIfV > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Mark Mwangi > > > > http://mwangy.posterous.com > > > > Skype : mark.mwangy > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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

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