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Black Berry Windows 7 synchronization
by Patrick Mathenge 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hi Skunks, For the past 2days, I've been trying to synchronize a Black Berry with a machine running on windows 7 with no success. I have black berry desktop software installed, the phone is able to communicate with the laptop, but when I try to configure synchronization settings, tells me the machine must be conneted to the internet.. I can confirm tht it is indeed connected, tried having all the wireless synchronization options off, but still won't work. Any help here? Regards, Patrick Sent from my BlackBerry®

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Identification Numbers
by kris njoroge 16 May '13

16 May '13

*http://tinyurl.com/bufs73y* If am not mistaken we had a discussion about this and back then there was talk about IBM creating a common database or something. * 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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Zuku, Faiba or Orange
by waihiga mwaura 16 May '13

16 May '13

Greetings I am looking for an unlimited, affordable internet package to be used near the Nakumatt Junction region. My main needs will be the now infamous "skying" or google hangouts. Kindly let me know which of these would make the better option along the far end of ngong road and why? Regards Waihiga Mwaura

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Fwd: [openstack-community] Community Post: Open Networking Foundation has launched the first Open-Source "OpenFlow Driver" Contest with $50K award
by Adam Nelson 16 May '13

16 May '13

FYI, $50k USD for the best OpenFlow driver. This is obviously a massive project but maybe an academic team in Skunkworks is interested so I figured I would forward the details. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rick Bauer <rick.bauer(a)opennetworking.org> Date: Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:09 PM Subject: [openstack-community] Community Post: Open Networking Foundation has launched the first Open-Source "OpenFlow Driver" Contest with $50K award To: community(a)lists.openstack.org Dear OpenStack Community: While we announced this via the press and to our 100+ members, we wanted to make certain that you heard the news about our Driver Contest. The award for the best driver is US $50,000 (not selling anything, just passing the word along to a great community; nothing to buy, no salesman will call). Like OpenStack, we wanted our environment (which strongly relates to cloud computing) to be FOSS. Please feel free to circulate this notice anywhere you like, especially to any development portals or communities in which you or your company participates. If you have any questions, or are considering a submission, please feel free to contact me. About ONF**** Launched in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a growing nonprofit organization with more than 90 members whose mission is to advance the commercialization and use of SDN and the OpenFlow protocol. ONF will accelerate the delivery and use of SDN and OpenFlow technologies and standards while fostering a vibrant market of products, services, applications, customers, and users. For further details visit the ONF website at: http://www.opennetworking.org.**** ** ** **** Good luck!**** **** Rick Rick Bauer Technical Programs Manager Open Networking Foundation ---------------------------------------------------------- **** *Press Releases***** *Open Networking Foundation Launches Industry’s First Open-Source "OpenFlow™ Driver" Contest***** * ***** *Competition to Encourage Implementation, Interoperability of the OpenFlow Standard***** **** OPEN NETWORKING SUMMIT, Santa Clara, Calif., April 17, 2013 – The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced the industry’s first competition to create an open-source "OpenFlow™ Driver.” The competition is open to the worldwide development community to create an interoperable open-source implementation of the latest OpenFlow standard. ONF intends the competition to produce an OpenFlow driver that everyone from network equipment vendors and ISVs to operators, and larger open-source projects can use for easy transitions between different implementations of the OpenFlow protocol. The winner of the “OpenFlow Driver” competition will be awarded one grand prize of $50,000.**** **** “ONF is committed to solving market needs in very practical ways,” said Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation. “This competition is designed to encourage additional SDN innovation by seeking additional open-sourced technology solutions. We want this OpenFlow Driver to be of use for global developers of OpenFlow products, making it easier for them to build value around and easily update the OpenFlow protocol component with the latest ONF specifications as they evolve.”**** **** The competition is open to all organizations and individuals worldwide interested in developing an OpenFlow driver that any developer can use in a controller or switch to maintain compatibility among switches and controllers. The contest will open for submissions on April 16, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, and will close on August 15, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Judges, who will be selected by the Foundation, will critique on the following:**** **** **· **Compliance with the OpenFlow specification standard**** **· **Correctness of operation with test harness**** **· **Ease with which the submission can be integrated into a controller**** **· **Completeness of the implementation**** **· **Clarity of the code and architecture**** **· **Memory footprint**** **· **Potential performance and scaling of the architecture**** **· **Portability of the code**** **· **Modularity of the code**** **· **Extensibility and maintainability of the code**** **· **Integration with multiple programming languages**** **· **Performance and scalability of the code**** **** The winner will be announced on September 30, 2013. The winning entry will be provided under both Apache 2.0 and GPL dual-licenses for maximum compatibility with both open-source projects and commercial ones. For more information about the open-source “OpenFlow Driver” competition and submission guidelines, please visit www.opennetworking.org/competition. Competition terms and rules can be found at: www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/misc/openflow-driver-compet… . **** **** ** ** ** ** _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community(a)lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community

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Windows 8 ISO or DVD
by Peter Osotsi 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hi Skunkers, Anyone with the above in Nairobi? I urgently need one to do a demo for a client? Kind Regards Peter Don't wait for success; hunt it down like there's no tomorrow.

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Entry Level Web Developer
by James Mutuku 16 May '13

16 May '13

Agile systems is seeking a Junior web developer for an entry level position -PHP Interpreted language with SQL database experience -Drupal CMS preferred -Familiar with Web Markup Standards / Layout (HTML, XHTML, HTML5, CSS) -JavaScript/jQuery Front-End Development Skills -Familiar with JSON/XML and AJAX -Comfortable with MVC and OOP mentalities -Good understanding of responsive CSS and cross browser support design -Experience working in an GIT managed environment. -API Experience (Paypal, Facebook, etc) -Comfortable with frameworks (Zend, CodeIgnitor, Symfony, Cake, laravel, etc) -Self-Starter - Looking for candidates who can jump in quickly without a lot of direction. -Must be able to excel at working on shifting priorities. To apply Send your CV to careers(a)agile.co.ke -- Best Regards, James Mutuku Ndeti Agile Systems Limited +254722490994 www.agile.co.ke mutuku.me.ke

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Internet & Voice Services in Nigeria
by Odhiambo Washington 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hello skunkers, I am hoping some of you have in their professional lives strayed all the way to Nigeria. I am setting up an office in Nigeria and I am in the process of identifying service providers for voice (E1 PRI) and data (Fiber) to a location in Victoria Island. I'll appreciate any references guidelines. So far I've contacted one company which told me that E1 installation costs 1m Naira; Fiber circuit installation also costs 1m Naira. I am still reeling in shock!! 1m Naira is about USD 6,400. Leaves me wondering how it is Nigerians are able to compete with us:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."

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Mobile Operator APN Data Settings
by Erik Hersman 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hey Everyone, I'm looking to find up-to-date APN data/internet settings for the mobile operators in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. If any of you have them, mind replying with them? Kenya Safaricom Airtel Orange Yu Tanzania Vodacom Airtel Tigo Zantel Uganda MTN Airtel Warid Orange UG Essar As an example, for Safaricom I have: APN: safaricom Username: saf Password: data For Vodacom TZ: APN: WAP Username: Voda Password: 1234 Another question, is how important it is to have the fields for "account name", "proxy" and "IP Address" as part of what needs to be filled in for each operator? Thanks, Erik Hersman www.ushahidi.com | www.iHub.co.ke www.whiteafrican.com | @whiteafrican

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commercial CMS recomendation
by Muhile Abdulaziz 16 May '13

16 May '13

Please advice which is the best commercial CMS i can use to build sites for my clients, as am used to the normal open source but was just wondering is there one that is easy, commercial and secure -- regards AA.Muhile Abdul Title: Creative *Address* Green Acres Building Ground Floor, P.O.Box 105345, Msasani, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Cell: +255 783 018998 *www.la-cb.com*

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Network Engineer position
by kevin macharia 16 May '13

16 May '13

Am looking for a networking engineering position. I have one year experience in a busy I.T firm where i have dealt with router configurations including ipsec vpn tunnels among others any help guys shall be highly appreciated

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