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Re: [Skunkworks] 1TB... WHERE TO GET IT CHEAPEST
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14 Apr '11

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Re: [Skunkworks] Request for website comments
by Stephen Gacheru 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

I like the design and the beauties :). The one thing that that you may need to consider changing is how you are using the layout space. Your main content should by default take up the most space as that is the focus of the site. So you may need to reduce the width of both the left and right columns (probably more of the left) and also create some extra space between all three columns so that your page does not look to crowded. Anyway thats my 2 cents -- Stephen Gacheru www.stephengacheru.me

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Re: [Skunkworks] IE9 - #FAIL
by Steve Obbayi 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

First of all no one said Msf doesnt hate open source.. You are referring to 2000 yet my statement > I can tell you msft of late has cleaned up shop so live with it. is taking about recently not way back in 2000. Anyway, my statements makes it look like am being being paid by msft.. am not. What am trying to say as you pick stuff off the internet know that a lot of these bloggers on major sites are paid to write stuff about certain products. I know this because I myself have been paid, gotten free products and keys to write stuff. In short there are a lot f products from google and apple that failed and there is not much negative talk about them I will cite two examples. Apple TV and Google TV. Currently both are epic failures. Hulu Extra is far better than either of them, Then there is Netflix. I dont see much about them being discussed on this list Vimeo has better service than Youtube. I dont see that being discussed on this list Hulu (www.hulu.com) is a huge success, I dont see it being discussed on this list WIth all due respect, the thing is msfts failures are brought to light so fast but other companies' failure almost go unoticed Then what am also saying there's a lot of hate hurled at msft that is purely out of the fact they were the market leaders and not coz purely based on product quality --------------------------------------- Steve Obbayi: Software Developer Homepage: http://www.sobbayi.com ========================== ----- "Frankline Chitwa" <frank.chitwa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dude, > Slow your roll, our opinions here may be true but they wont impact opensource or microsoft's economy. Show me Apples opensource hates and let me show you microsoft hates. > > A statement like that, have you done your research or are you reading the same media articles that get kickbacks from Apple and Google? > > I can tell you I have been a follower of opensource from 2000, So dont think am only blowing hot air. I can back my claims quite well. > > One of the latest issues was when microsoft sponsored SCO unix to sue novell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_v._Novell . If that had been successsful, sco worked with Microsoft and it would have spelt death for Linux. Well, it failed and all concerned parties had to distance themselves. > > Just google the sco unix law suit. > > Now another issue was OOxml. Now we dont worry if you want to push and make a standard, but bribing and paying your way to that? Thats a definite NO NO!! > > I can tell you msft of late has cleaned up shop so live with it. > > I don't believe that statement one bit. It sounds too biased. But I believe sometimes in a fight you change strategy when you realize your opponent is not as weak as you thought. > > If you have a problem with IE9 dont use it, no one is forcing you. Personally I have never used it and that hasnt made me loose sleep at all. > > Well, as a web dev, I can't simply ignore it. > > Anyway, these are just my opinions and thoughts, nothing to get anyone rattled. Good day everyone > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Steve Obbayi < steve(a)sobbayi.com > wrote: > > @Frankline you dont seem to get the point. Versions 6-8 are basically based on one architecture, 9 is different. Read my mail. this is not unique to msft. > Being a new architecture its common with software vendors to earmark an entire series as unstable and I gave an example with blender. The 2.5 series > is earmark as a test series since as of 2.50 the architecture was rebuilt from scratch. 2.6 has been earmarked as stable. > I cant say this is the case with IE9 but its possible all IE9 versions could be marked as unstable (it doesnt matter whether its Alpha Beta Gamma or RC.) > > > > But even msft's move to support opensource is riddled with insincerity. > > A statement like that, have you done your research or are you reading the same media articles that get kickbacks from Apple and Google? > I can tell you msft of late has cleaned up shop so live with it. > If you have a problem with IE9 dont use it, no one is forcing you. Personally I have never used it and that hasnt made me loose sleep at all. > > Again you dint read what I said... HISTORICALLY APPLE HAS BEEN JUST AS ANTI OPEN SOURCE AS MSFT. I dont even need to mention > Oracle and Adobe. Now if you get your news from certain source especially CNN (mostly US edition) you will realize CNN only promotes Apple products -- FACT. > With CNN backing you it creates a false hype around products. Take for instance the iPad, there is so much it lacks yet nobody focuses on that > and you get this bias impression that its perfect, that the same thing with the iPhone. DId you know iPhone has had zero growth this year as far as > market share goes. CNN has said nothing significant about it. The iPod was not an original idea as well. > Msft Kinect has been out for a few months, It a damn serious product (needs some performance enhancements though) like no other in the gaming industry. Yet > media has shunned it jus coz its a msft product. In the Gaming, Graphics programming industry theres so much hype around it, sales are phenominal, but coz its > msft media is quiet about it. > > reading stuff blindly off the Internet can get you lost to reality so check your sources and again if you dont understand how software versioning works, please ask > > --------------------------------------- > > Steve O > Software Developer > www.sobbayi.com > ==================== > > ----- "Frankline Chitwa" < frank.chitwa(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > So between 6, 7, 8 Redmond decided 9 would live for 2 months? therefore 10 should live like 1 month? Nobody bashes google and apple coz they never interfered with open source. Infact, google is a developer darling because they work with open source not against so are the rest. But even msft's move to support opensource is riddled with insincerity. > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Okechukwu < okechukwu@gmail..com > wrote: > > That is the exact rationale am questioning when the whole would out > > there basically follows a near uniform versioning system. It was not > > that I am ignorant of M$ ways of doing, of which your answer is based > > on. > > > > .../Ok3ch > > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Steve Obbayi < steve(a)sobbayi.com > wrote: > > > Well there are many software versioning conventions and each developer can use what makes sense to the > > > team internally. eg a version like 0.2.3 may implicitly mean that software is in Beta because of the zero. > > > Others may release an entire series as Beta or RC. Eg Blender 2.5 series ranges from Alpha, to Beta RC2. > > > The last stable version was 2.4x and the next is 2.6. In this case because 2.5 as written from scratch, > > > the entire series was ear marked to be unstable. > > > > > > IE9 was also almost rewrite (i think) they probably dedicated IE9 as a test series culminating in a stable > > > IE10. Msft has experdited their products eg Windows 8 has already been given to OEM partners for drivers > > > testing, Win mobile 8 is almost out yet Win mobile 7 has barely taken off. > > > > > > Here is a link on Msft version convention for IE > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_version_numbering > > > > > > --------------------------------------- > > > Steve O > > > Software Developer > > > www.sobbayi.com > > > ==================== > > > > > > ----- "Okechukwu" < okechukwu(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > >> And whats with releasing IE10 beta when IE9 is still in its infancy? > > >> I > > >> thought people release like IE9.1beta as development, ama these big > > >> numbers don't mean nothing to M$ > > >> > > >> ../Ok3ch > > >> > > >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Steve Obbayi < steve(a)sobbayi.com > > > >> wrote: > > >> > Msft was bashed coz they were at the top of the game just like > > >> everything > > >> > else. You only bash whoever is at the top. Part of Msft bashing is > > >> also > > >> > coz its a Fad to bash them. Msft has some serious technology out > > >> there today > > >> > and there's a lot of stuff they have gotten right and wrong. > > >> > Trust me I should know as someone who has physically walked the > > >> corridors at > > >> > Redmond. Google and Apple have screwed up big time in so many things > > >> and no > > >> > one says a thing > > >> > (at least not yet, until bashing Google or Apple becomes a Fad) > > >> > > > >> > Msft were not the only guys against opensource in the 90s. Havent > > >> you heard > > >> > of Adobe, Oracle and Apple. These guys have just as bad if not > > >> worse > > >> > affinity for open source. > > >> > > > >> > Ps. Am not pushing for IE9. Never used it in the first place. > > >> > > > >> > --------------------------------------- > > >> > Steve O > > >> > Software Developer > > >> > www.sobbayi.com > > >> > ==================== > > >> > > > >> > ----- "Frankline Chitwa" < frank.chitwa(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > >> >> Not really, > > >> >> Techies only bash msft coz they bash open source for no reason. > > >> Msft are > > >> >> the only company who actually advocated for the extermination of > > >> opensolurce > > >> >> in the 90s. Right now they are after google simply because they > > >> cant stand > > >> >> android compe, so they have to kill android via patents, then they > > >> claimed > > >> >> IE had the fastest javascript engine only for a developer to prove > > >> they were > > >> >> using tricks., I mean, that should be beneath msft > > >> >> > > >> >> Why should I not bash against such? > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Odhiambo Washington > > >> < odhiambo(a)gmail.com > > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 16:30, george > > >> >> > < theonlydamnedavailablename(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > >> >> > > > >> >>> > > >> >>> Wash, I think if nothing else, we do know what hang-ing is. > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> Techies wont complain about the rest because they are not msft. > > >> The > > >> >>> popular thing is to bash msft and suffer with your open source. > > >> >> > > >> >> > LOL ... actually, you are very right. Very few of us techies > > >> would dare > > >> >> > complain about a HANG Unix because we always want to make pple > > >> blv msft is > > >> >> > the evil one:-) > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > -- > > >> >> > Best regards, > > >> >> > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > > >> >> > Nairobi,KE > > >> >> > +254733744121/+254722743223 > > >> >> > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > >> >> > Damn!! > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > >> >> > 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 > > >> >> > > > >> > > > >> >> > > >> > > > >> >> -- > > >> >> www...golavish.com - The travel and leisure > > >> >> www.raccuddasys.com - code Development issues > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> _______________________________________________ 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@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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > www.golavish.com - The travel and leisure > > www.raccuddasys.com - code Development issues > > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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 > > > -- > www.golavish.com - The travel and leisure > www.raccuddasys.com - code Development issues > > _______________________________________________ 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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Android Developer Challenge
by John Adams 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Just stumbled on this via Reto's tweets.... @retomeier<http://twitter.com/#%21/retomeier> Android Developer Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa!<http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/04/android-developer-challenge-sub-s…> -- --Cursed be the day I was born if I do not learn a new thing today--*Chinese Saying* Regards, Adams John Opiyo.

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14 Apr '11

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14 Apr '11

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14 Apr '11

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Fwd: V2030 Awards update: Education and training most popular sector for ICT companies in V2030 Award competition
by Paul Kukubo ICT Board 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

> Listers >> Education and training most popular sector for ICT companies in V2030 Award competition >> >> The Call for Applications for the V2030 Awards closed on April 11. Over 170 companies participated in the online process. All applications were received on an online platform set up by the Kenya ICT Board that allowed applicants to create an account and fill out their application over time. >> >> Of the companies that participated in the Call for Applications, 82 successfully completed the process. If applicants responded to all the questions, attached supporting documents and clicked on the final ‘submit’ button — their proposal is considered complete. >> >> The Kenya ICT Board has convened a team of seven independent judges representing the ICT private sector, academia, public sector and civil society. The judges began their work on April 13 and will review each complete proposal against the criteria outlined in the call for applications. To ensure integrity in the process, Deloitte Consulting are auditing the review process. >> >> >> The winners of the V2030 ICT Innovation Award will be announced on April 20 at the Connected Kenya Summit in Diani, www.connected.go.ke. >> > >> Each winner will receive USD 1000 courtesy of Accenture Consulting who are the award prize sponsors. >> >> Some stats >> >> Of the companies that participated in the applications process, 47% responded to the Education and Training sector. Water and Sanitation received no applicants, while Tourism received only three. Considering the important role tourism plays in the Kenyan economy, the results from the award competition shows that the opportunities in tourism are yet to be tapped. >> >> See more stats and graphics online>> >> >> >> >> For more info contact Kaburo Kobia >> Project Manager, Local Digital Content >> Kenya ICT Board >> >> Telposta Towers, 12th Floor, Kenyatta Ave >> P.O. Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya >> t: + 254-020-2093040 | m: + 254 (0)729466260 | e: kkobia(a)ict.go.ke >> >> Visit: www.ict.go.ke >> Become a fan: www.facebook.com/tandaakenya >> Follow us on twitter: @tandaakenya >> --------------------- >> Our Vision: Kenya becomes a top 10 global ICT hub >> Our Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment >> >> >> > Paul Kukubo > CEO

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