March 2014 - skunkworks - Skunkworks Site

Trekking and Voyaging
by Watchman 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

I seek the Star Trek Series. Past my drives crashing, I have a request should anyone here be able to part with it, I shall avail myself. Kindly hasten as mine time in the Nairobi fairs shorter and shorter. My visits to the Western Lands and Highlands of Hurling Ham ( not sure why anyone would ) commence tomorrow. I shall be eternally grateful to hear from you soonest. Heartily yours, from a cold and wet Nairobi Eve. *The Watchman.* -- get to know more about me. *http://about.me/rahiminkara <http://about.me/rahiminkara>* this list is being *watched.*

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DuckDuckGo?
by Dennis Kioko 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

I've been using Duckduckgo for the last 3 weeks - it all started when Google decided to change the new tab page on Chrome, then to pour insult to injury, they removed a flag that restored the old page. While I can search from Chrome's Omnibar, I feel adding a Google search bar on every new tab by force is going way too far. Over the ages, I have tried a number of search engines, and none has come close to Google, until recently, when I re-tried Duckduckgo. It does rank much the same top results as you will see on Page 1 of Google, and best of all, searches are not personalised (removal of a bias). Also they say they rank results best on more human centric sites (or something, I forgot the actual phrase). So far, difference between Duckduckgo and Google is the way they describe results, in that Google does it better hence you can see what you were looking for (though as explained above, rank of top results is similar). Duckduckgo also lacks image search and news search(both a disadvantage and advantage). It however has bangs and you can use other search engines eg "search term g!" searches on Google while "Search term !yt" searches Youtube and !n does Google news. Also, Google still has more results for those narrower searches. IMO, duckduckgo is the closest you can get to big G, and is actually very close. I'm still surprised at how far Yahoo and others are, and surprised they haven't thought of buying out the new entrant. On Mobile, I have found that switching from Google needs you to install a new launcher. On Windows Phone, you are stuck with Bing and a choice of Bing/Google on Internet Explorer. Anyone else tried Duckduckgo? How was your experience, or experience with any other search engine? -- with Regards: blog.denniskioko.com <http://www.denniskioko.com/>

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MCITP Reading materials
by Nahashon Chelugo 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

where can I get MCITP reading material/notes? -- God Bless you.Thank You.

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[OT] Sennheiser HD-280 PRO Headphones
by Joseph Tintale 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hello All, I'm looking for Sennheiser HD-280<http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-280-Pro-Headphones/dp/B000065BPB>Headphones locally. Anyone with leads on where I may get one? Regards, Joseph.

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Programming for artists and designers and scientists
by Adam Nelson 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

I thought people would like this: http://hello.processing.org/editor/ It's a pretty cool intro to programming using Processing. -Adam -- Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io Musings: twitter.com/varud <https://twitter.com/varud> More Musings: varud.com About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson

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Website Optimization
by Yvonne Murenga 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi guys, We are developing an online portal for registration of users and application. How can we optimize the portal to accept 100 concurrent users without crashing? Also how can we test that? TIA

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Wordpress Theme Builder
by thea maina 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Looking for a wordpress theme builder for a small quick job. any leads? regards Mark -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thea Maina Nairobi Kenya skype: thea.mnairobi Mobi: 0738 336 079 MPESA: 0725 677 263 *Cheapest, Most efficient Email and Web Hosting. Access your mails Anywhere* *E-Marketing - Helping your business Get Found* ************************************************************ *INTRODUCING WASHABLE CLOTH DIAPERS. Pocket and Planet Friendly. The Healthier choice for you Babies*

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Zuku Navigator
by Brian Ngure 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Apparently you get Zuku PVR decoders -> http://www.zuku.co.ke/zuku-fiber/zuku-navigator.html BUT, you have to: 1. Buy them @4,999/- (not too unreasonable) 2. Pay for installation @3,999/- for new installation (a bit pricey but well....) or 3. Pay for a technician to come and upgrade your existing one @2,500 (very expensive for simply unscrewing the cable from the old one and screwing it into the new one, unless I am missing something!). >From the site: Can I get the PVR decoder from your offices and install it myself at my premises? No, once you make above charges, we will organize for a technician to visit your premises and have the installation done by our technician. -- Regards Brian Ngure

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DELL SERVER
by charles kungu 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hello Skunks, Looking for a DELL T420 server with the below specs. Hard disk - 2.5" sata 500gb X3 RAM - 16 GB Processor - 2 processors Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 Raid controllers for RAID 5 Please quote offline. -- Regards, C . K

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Re: [Skunkworks] Zuku 3-Play and VPN-based services
by dwahome＠gmail.com 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

That's IPSec vpn or even L2TP etc Either way it not right, a hint though if you are in control of both sides of the vpn and it not a site to site requirement, try deploy ssl-vpn it will make your life much simpler. R D ----- Reply message ----- From: "Brian Ngure" <brian(a)pixie.co.ke> To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Subject: [Skunkworks] Zuku 3-Play and VPN-based services Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 22:17 Splitters. Single cable coming in, one splitter to TV and Internet, second splitter on TV out to two TVs. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: Brian, you daisy-chained the decoders, or what did you do? FYI, I have never used Zuku triple-play anywhere. It's my first time doing this for top-dawg:) On VPN, I received an e-mail from their support that 'VPN is not supported on the network' and that sounded like a crowning to all the crap I have been receiving from their support ever since I asked them if I can get VPN pass-through enabled on this device. I have so far escalated the VPN issue to the higher echelons and I hope I will get a solution. I don't see any rationale for not supporting VPN on a network. On 26 March 2014 21:55, Brian Ngure <brian(a)pixie.co.ke> wrote: Hi Wash, For item 2, I had to get a second decoder for the other TV. Can't help you with item 1, also been trying VPN on Zuku without success. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello Skunks, I have two questions about Zuku's Triple-play. 1. Is anyone here using Zuku Triple play and can still have their VPN services working? If YES, which of their Internet routers is deployed at your premises and what, if any, special action did you have to take for the VPN to work? I have a site where their Netgear Cable Modem CVG834G and my VPN phone doesn't work. This is an Avaya 4610SW IP, which has built-in VPN capability. Another funny aspect of the whole scenario is that this phone takes forever waiting to obtain an IP from the DHCP service on this Netgear. It doesn't succeed, so I assign an IP manually. 2. Does Zuku TV support Multi-view, the same way you'd have with DSTv. I need their TV to be accessible on 2 TVs in different rooms. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe 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 -- Regards Brian Ngure _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe 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 -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe 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 -- Regards Brian Ngure

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