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Some comments to Ushaidi team
by aki 13 May '11

13 May '11

Gentlemen, Ladies of Ushaidi. As a fellow technologist and enthusiast on tech and code developments, I'd like to share this with you. I've been reading various news stories on Libya ever since the issues started there. Whilst the crowd-sourcing platform may even helped saved lives in various natural disasters, after reading an article from IRIN today, I hope that you can understand that social networks should not be integrated into the platform. SMS based system helped to ensure that Ushaidi remained an accurate crises management tool in many ways. As far as I've been reading the news etc, Libya internet access is still restricted and so I was a bit shocked by this paragraph in the IRIN article : The idea was to map out social and traditional media reports from within Libya. That led to the creation of LibyaCrisisMap.net. "Given that the UN had virtually no access to the country, we now had situational awareness," Verity said. "And, within 48 hours, we had 100-plus response activities collected and compiled - the same amount of data [that] took about four weeks in the Philippines, two weeks in Haiti, and two weeks in Pakistan to be made available." http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=92686 -The first thing that came to mind was the claim within 48 hours there was 100+ responses. I'm assuming this input of data was based on social networks like twitter etc. -Youtube stopped working in Libya around the 24th of Jan 2010 -Facebook and the rest were being filtered. Now, this video on youtube has been there with so many various headings and was created sometime in 1st Week of March. Obviously the video has its own agendas etc however please ignore the header and comments, and focus on the social media aspect. Until today there are tweets from libya even from places that are in the war zones which don't have internet access, yet you read people are tweeting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB6WF3B6DQ8 Whatever the system of social networks, I think Ushaidi Team must prevent any social networks as a source of input data. The SMS based system is the only way to validate the data inputs. My amateur view, critisms and opinions welcome. Rgds.

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Imagine cup
by Pius Walela 13 May '11

13 May '11

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Looking for a E1 Card
by James Muendo 13 May '11

13 May '11

Am looking for Digium 4 port E1 card with Echo Cancelletion -- James M. Muendo P.O Box 28016 - 00200, Nairobi. Mobile: +254725567508 skype:tim.rick | Twitter: Mmuendo | gtalk: timrick<http://muendoshead.blogspot.com/>

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QT Android
by Paul Kevin 13 May '11

13 May '11

For all those QT developers, check this out http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/28/necessitas/

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Facebook-Google 'cold war' suddenly gets hot
by Kinuthia Ngugi 13 May '11

13 May '11

Interesting, http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216666/Facebook_Google_cold_war_sud…

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KRA, downtime caused by new power...bla bla blah, really?
by Timothy Mutugi 13 May '11

13 May '11

Hello Fellow Skunks, As the current sitting chairman of the Skeptic Skunks Society (popularly know as 3S) I call upon all members of the 3S to take note of a very skeptical story that has come from KRA indicating that their recent downtime was caused by: "power interruption to the authority's data centre while it was installing a new power back up system." I suspect there is something sceptically fishy with that excuse. How come whilst the system had no power I could still ping their tradex system on 212.49.91.93 Was the KRA system hacked? Timo, Chairman 3S.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Skunkworks Digest, Vol 15, Issue 101
by michael nyangweso 13 May '11

13 May '11

scafolding has been removed from codeigniter 2 which a think you are using read the changelog files ******************************************** * he who laughs last has a backup --- On Fri, 5/13/11, skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke <skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > From: skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke <skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: Skunkworks Digest, Vol 15, Issue 101 > To: skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > Date: Friday, May 13, 2011, 12:00 PM > 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: Code igniter problems Help (Peter > Karunyu) > 2. Re: Google is giving angry birds for > free...on chrome > (TheMburu George) > 3. Re: linksys AP (Alvin Jason Ochieng) > 4. Re: Code igniter problems Help (Ben > mukash) > 5. Re: Code igniter problems Help (Peter > Karunyu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 10:59:09 +0300 > From: Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu(a)gmail.com> > To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Code igniter problems Help > Message-ID: <BANLkTimopHk9sEo=tGYzxrJQoTFzV291ig(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Are you using one of the older versions of CI? Coz > scaffolding was > dropped as of version 1.6.0, but it should still work as of > version > 1.7.2. > > Have you enabled it in the config file? > > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Ben mukash <mukashh(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Am new to code igniter.Am tring to create the blog in > one of their > > tutorials. > > > > class Blog extends CI_controller{ > > function __construct() > > ??? { > > ??? ??? parent::__construct(); > > ??? ??? $this->load->scaffolding('entries'); > > > > ??? } > > > > But i keep getting this > > > > Fatal error: Call to undefined method > CI_Loader::scaffolding() in > > C:\xampp\htdocs\blog\application\controllers\blog.php > on line 8 > > > > Somebody with a solution > > > > Regards > > Benard > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Skunkworks mailing list > > Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > > http://orion.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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:14:55 +0300 > From: TheMburu George <themburu(a)gmail.com> > To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Google is giving angry birds for > free...on > chrome > Message-ID: <BANLkTi=quPMnO73qqXupQZrYN7p2JgNXzQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Lolest > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Paul Kevin <paultitude(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Old news.....2 days old > > > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Kebaya Mwamba <humphreykebaya(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> one of the few things i do on my ipad..Play Angry > Birds :) now google is > >> giving it for free..on the chrome browser..enjoy > skunks > >> > >> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aknpkdffaafgjchaibgeefbgmgeghloj > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> **on a road less travelled** > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > > -- > Conservatism is the adherence to the old tried against the > new untried. >

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Code igniter problems Help
by Ben mukash 13 May '11

13 May '11

Am new to code igniter.Am tring to create the blog in one of their tutorials. class Blog extends CI_controller{ function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->load->scaffolding('entries'); } But i keep getting this *Fatal error*: Call to undefined method CI_Loader::scaffolding() in * C:\xampp\htdocs\blog\application\controllers\blog.php* on line *8* Somebody with a solution Regards Benard

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linksys AP
by Yast Labs 13 May '11

13 May '11

hey skunks,do anyone has a linksys AP and WAP -- Regards, Kenneth Njuguna, Sales Executive, YastLabs Computer Solutions, 0723511349.

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Dell DVD/CD ROM rejecting DVD,s and CD
by nelson kinoti 13 May '11

13 May '11

hi got a dell laptop 1525 inspiron . it rejecting DVD,s CD,s.as any one encountered such a problem and how can i get a quick fix of the same.

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