July 2011 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

LINUX certification
by maina 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi listers, Is there any college in Nairobi tht provide LINUX certifications,exams and certificates only, no training/classes required. If yes, kindly do let me know. Rgds. Maina.

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Kenya IGF 2011 Mailing List Discussions
by Barrack Otieno 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Dear Listers, Last year KICTANet commissioned the 3rd online discussion on Internet Governance, aimed at raising awareness, encouraging debate and discussions on Internet Governance Issues as well as identifying new emerging issues. The discussions were centered around critical Internet resources, among the issues discussed were the impact of the undersea cable, the impact of the unified licensing model, emerging policy and regulatory issues, management of the dot KE CCTLD, Adopting IPV6 Challenges and Milestones and finally electronic crimes, privacy and data security. The report was discussed in a Face to Face meeting and presented at the East African IGF that was held in Kampala Uganda. The discussions are here once more, this is a special year in that Kenya will be hosting the 6th IGF under the new five year period. *Background and Introduction to Internet Governance* The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multi-stakeholder forum for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the private sector or civil society, including the technical and academic community, on an equal basis and through an open and inclusive process. [1] The establishment of the IGF was formally announced by the United Nations Secretary-General in July 2006 and it was first convened in October / November 2006.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Governance_Forum _1 The first five years were concluded with the 5th Internet Governance Forum that was held in Vilnius Lithuania. There was consensus among stakeholders on the need to renew the mandate for another five years and Kenya successfully bidded to host the 6th IGF meeting under the new five year mandate which will be held in September 2011 at the United Nations offices in Nairobi. Registration for the meeting is ongoing more details available onwww.intgovforum.org and www.igf.or.ke (Host country website). KICTANET is going to hold an online discussion for 10 days starting on July 1 - to July 11, 2011. The discussion will be moderated by Barrack Otieno and Grace Githaiga. The report will be presented at a Face to Face meeting after validation slated for 15 th July 2011, more details will be availed in due course. Over the ten day period, we will discuss the following issues: - The Impact of Mobile Internet in Kenya - Cloud Computing - Cyber Security and Privacy - Broadband - Principles of Internet Policy Making. We look forward to a stimulating debate from you listers. Attached please find last years report -- Barrack O. Otieno

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Slight change in Gmail interface?
by Peter Karunyu 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Good people, Am i hallucinating or has Gmail slightly changed its top bar? The rightmost icon, just after the email address was not there before...

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Stewards Church::::Website
by mash lists 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

A guy just sent me this link http://174.121.37.84/~srpc/ for comments. I tell him my 4 yr old computer literate niece can do better n he kinda thinks its an insult!!!

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Ideos import contact
by Ouya Obunga 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi all I got a slight hitch with Ideos (Android version 2.2.1). I just replaced the one I lost and this new one Imports contacts from SIM card but cant display the contacts. Anyone ever experienced this? Any workaround? Regards Obunga

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Re: [Skunkworks] [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General - Aluta Continua
by kris njoroge 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

@Robert, That is a noble and really patriotic of you to try and help PCK be more than a mail delivery system and as you said to get eCommerce going we need a delivery system that is spot on. It you can get the door to door mail service going then definitely, more services could use you to send mail, invoices, promo's etc to there clients. All the best. -- * If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. - Emerson M. Pugh *

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Whos smarter now? Google Vs Microsoft
by Joram Mwinamo 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/27/microsoft-will-make-even-more-from-androi… -- Sent from my Voice Recognition Watch© -------------------------------------------------------------------- Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,but that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.As we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear,our presence automatically liberates others.

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<OT>1TB transcend ext HDD
by Yast Labs 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

i got the above and the 750gb the 500gb and 320gb -also FEC pos terminal touch screen -HP g62 laptop 2.1ghz Core i3,4Gb,500gb -usb t.v stick for laptops -laptop sleeves -nanostations -TP-link cpe -- Regards, Kenneth Njuguna, Sales Executive, YastLabs Computer Solutions, 0723511949.

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REMINDER: 2ND AFRICA PEERING AND INTERCONNECTION FORUM (AFPIF) - RAPPEL: INSCRIPTION POUR LE 2ND FORUM SUR L'APPAIRAGE ET L'INTERCONNECTION
by Michuki Mwangi 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

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KDN QOS??
by ndunda eric 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Greetings Fellows, Am i the only one suffering from the effects of kdn's qos thing? Since the beginning of the week i have seen a significant drop of speeds in browsing as well as inability to use U-torrent in downloading not to mention that i cant acess some sites such as yahoo.. I called the support team and they told me that they implemented the QOS (quality of service) system and this left me wondering....does quality of service mean better speeds actually not better but the best speeds for the purchased bandwidth??if not so then i think am a dummy!! Is any body else in this group affected?? Regards, Eric.

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