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Re: [Skunkworks] Cool the heat in Skunkworks. Go Drupal, Wordpress or Vbulletin
by Josiah Mugambi 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi Theus, There already a skunk works bulletin board online. J On Aug 21, 2009 5:50 PM, "Theus Owicho" <owichot(a)gmail.com> wrote: Ndugu If you go to Big Boards you will find things which work even for russians. We can speak sheng in it also. As long as we identify with it. Thats teh most important thing On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Very polite - the TZ one ... > > Reading the swahili has become > difficult for some of us as time... > > > _______________________________________________ > Skunkworks mailing list > > Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co... > _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general

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Re: [Skunkworks] Butterfly wifi down.
by kimutai koech 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Apparently KDN shut down butterfly wifi in KU coz guyz were SQL injecting free accounts into the server.

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developer
by david gathu 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

hi all . i am an oracle developer and good in linux servers i am looking for a place to futher my skills any help will be appreciated . contact me offlist dtzgathu(a)yahoo.com -- regards DAVID

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Rwanda goes Digital Television
by David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Inspite of having more broadcasting professionals, a larger market and more broadcasters Kenya's lagging behind as Rwanda goes DTT. ---- Thursday, 27th August 2009 E-mail article Print article Rwanda to have digital broadcasting by next year BY GERTRUDE MAJYAMBERE Rwanda will fully start digital broadcasting by March next year, five years earlier than the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) deadline for all countries to adopt the terrestrial digital broadcasting. This means that Office Rwandais d’Information - Orinfor, a state owned information agency will have the capacity to host eight different channels. The agency’s officials say that preparations are in high gear with the construction of Television and FM radio towers countrywide. Innocent Nkurunziza, Head of Technical Department at Orinfor said they signed a contract with HARRIS, an American company to manufacture, supply, deliver, install and train staff about digital transmitters. He said that according to the contract between the two parties, transmitters will be manufactured next week and after 90 days the equipment will be ready for shipment. With Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVBT) digital broadcasting, top quality images and sound is telecast whereas analogue signals are subject to fade and interference. The trial for digital broadcast in Rwanda started in 2005 with different channels including CNN, TV5 and Rwanda Television. For some one to receive a digital signal, a set top box will be needed to convert digital signal to analogue to be watched on TV or posses a digital TV. According to Nkurunziza, a set top box costs about $100. “When we go digital broadcasting apart from quality images and sound, editing will be much easier, faster and safer compared to analogue,” Nkurunziza said. Ends -- [Asentric Consulting Ltd] If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth .... -Richest Man in Babylon

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KENIC missing out on great funding opportunity
by Ashok Hariharan 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

there was a thread sometime back on high cost of .co.ke domains because of volumes / the money is used to fund KENIC etc ... here is an idea i hope someone at KENIC can make use of : presently it isnt possible to buy <my domain name>.ke (only <my domain>.co.ke ... or <my domain>.or.ke ...). if KENIC allowed purchase of secondary TLDs i.e. <my domain name>.ke they could actually ask for higher prices for certain domain names : e.g. --- http://mi.ke (i am sure there are many Mikes in the world willing to pay good money for that domain) --- http://clar.ke , http://broo.ke apart from names there are english words ending with ke ... : --- http://li.ke http://ba.ke (some bakery i guess ?) http://sna.ke Here is a time article from 1999 (about the nation of tonga who marketed the .to tld ..... by 1999 they had sold 17,000 domains at $100 / 2years ... thats already 17 million dollars back in 1999 ...when the dollar was actually worth something ) <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26349,00.html>

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3G, WiMax, Fibre optic WAN connections
by Tuma Barua 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

I cant resist sharing this with you. I came across GEDA Limited, a company that deals with the above solutions. I was impressed by their services in deploying WAN internet connections. More importantly by their willingness to offer other services on top of internet access at very reasonable costs. Should you be keen in buying 3G Modems, routers, wimax or fibre optic connections,you better deal with Justin, of GEDA Ltd. He is on 0722525242 or 0204441900, at SOIN arcade, westlands road. support kenyan, buy kenyan. Endelea ku- Tuma Barua.

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open source POS
by Brian Lusiola 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

Hi fellow skunk(ette)s, I am looking for the subject mentioned, & before you tell me to JFGI, I already did. Hence my question, anyone has experience on any of the available options and what was preferable? Any advice is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Regards, -- Lusiola Brian Everyone has photographic memory, not everyone has film though.

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chekelea.com is website of the week on Business Daily
by aki 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Page 17. Thanks to the writer for an open writeup with strong end user impressions. All points have been noted and will be worked upon to make it even more effective. Asante Sana. :-)

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What REAL broadband costs out there...please don't shoot yourself?
by Gakuru Alex 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/31/41551958.xls

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ISP SLA's
by Phares Kariuki 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Now yesterday, I had an interesting discussion with a Safaricom (Onecom) sales lady. She basically came to sell us their fibre offering at 69k monthly for non-contended 1mbs. They offered postpaid 3g in the event that we go down. Two problems; she touted the SLA's, then went on to mention that we were to pay our postpaid bill in the event that we went down... So basically, we pay Safaricom more when they go down. The incentive system is inappropriately skewed to their favor. They no longer have a need to be up. Even on the SLA, the fact that most ISP's say 99.99% Uptime guaranteed and don't provide it, meant that its' ok to go on saying that. My arguement is that if you can guarantee 98%, I will sign on 98% and expect 2% downtime. Don't tell me 99.99% then go on to tell me "but you know, shift (sic) happens". Guarantee what you know you can provide. Otherwise just tell us you guarantee 100%, save for employee incompetence, rain, anger of the almighty, supplier backlash etc... -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |

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