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USCAN -USB Disk Integrity Checker with added features
by Jacob Ayienda 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

USCAN is a USB Disk Integrity Checker used to verify the amount of disk space that is available on a removable disk. This tool may come in handy to sellers and buyers of USB and THUMB DRIVES to establish the quality and size of the disk before purchase. The tool can only be used on disks which are not currently in-use and has an accuracy of upto 96%. Added Features ------------------------ >Added scan to restore changes done by viruses to UBS disks (restores hidden files and deletes autorun entries and prevents creation of the autorun file later) >Added startup manager to edit programs that startup when the system starts >Added task manager to view / terminate selected programs that are running in memory ***Still making major changes especially on smart detection of malware. Any ideas especially source code or compiled dll (c, c++, pascal, asm only) welcome. Also pseudo code is acceptable****

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Latest scam
by Mbugua Njihia 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Got this today from this number: +243990446321 SAFARICOM BONGA POINTS REWARDS-dear subscriber top up 100/=today & dial *140*090*726245475#then press okey button to get ksh 5,000 m-pesa reward. Any other guys get it?

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if you were to vote...
by Gakuru Alex 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Where would you choose majority of skunkers 'belonged'? Quadrant 1, 2, 3, or 4 on the Johari Window? see video at http://www.metacafe.com/watch/883486/the_johari_window/ Thanks for your vote~) [one of those interesting vids Rahim Kara asked be posted]

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Teams IRU, costs of local bandwidth costs from Mombasa to Nairobi
by aki 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Eassy have already talked about their IRU for next year at around 26usd per Mbit. So is it okay to say we should WAIT another year until the cheapest IRUs hit mainland and then decide on the best service provider? Because there is much talk of WAIT for a few months and I cannot find any more information about teams, no website, no info, no nothing except this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEAMS_(cable_system)#Capacity Ok, to wait is good but what excatly for? Anyone have solid figures on what is to be expected? Also, anyone know the monthly cost of an STM local circuit from Mombasa to Nairobi on KDN and TKL? If there are network gurus and others with any insights or info on the list, hope they will respond. Cheers.

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Re: [Skunkworks] zain huawei e220 modem wvdial.conf settings on ubuntu 8.04
by Gakuru Alex 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Folks, I am trying to help a friend on Zain... Their customer care IVR assumes I have all day to listen to their ads :( Below,,, what has changed since? I am getting "no valid password" when I use "blanks" asante, Alex On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:12 PM, James Nzomo<skunkworks(a)mnada.biz> wrote: > Copy paste the following into your /etc/wvdial.conf file. Then dial by > typing "wvdial zain" at the terminal. > > [dialer zain] > Init1 = ATZ > Init2 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","ke.celtel.com","",0,0 > Modem Type = USB Modem > Baud = 460800 > New PPPD = yes > Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 ; i think this is ok if its the only usb device > connected > ISDN = 0 > Phone = *99# > Password = "blank" > Username = "blank" > Stupid Mode = 1 > > > _______________________________________________ > skunkworks mailing list > skunkworks(a)my.co.ke > http://ole.kenic.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > Blog http://skunkworks-ke.blogspot.com > Beta Blog http://blog.my.co.ke > Get Skunkworks RSS Feeds: http://www.jahazi.com/rss/ >

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Network Techies in Arusha
by Odhiambo ワシントン 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hello everyone, Does anyone know any good networking techies in Arusha. A friend of mine would like to setup a Cyber Café there so I'm doing some groundwork. Please link me up. Kuna malipo since one of them will have to do the setup anyway :-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube

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Open source Database Breakthrough: 10-80 times faster
by Gakuru Alex 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

July 30, 2009, "VectorWise next-generation database technology is based on a novel query processing architecture that allows modern microprocessors and memory architectures to reach their full potential. This is a unique achievement: in detail studies that compare common computing tasks such as scientific calculation, multi-media authoring, games, and databases have consistently shown that typical database engines do not benefit from new processor performance features such as SSE, out of order execution, chip multithreading, and increasingly larger L2/L3 caches due to their large, complex legacy code structure. The computational power that database systems provide is known to be lower than the performance realized by hand-coding the same task in a (e.g. C++) program. However, the actual performance difference can be surprisingly large: a factor 100. VectorWise has created the first database system to revert that situation, with dramatic efficiency improvements as a result" http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/07/open-source-database-breakthrough-10-80.ht…

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Tony and LED light advancement
by aki 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Samsung LED TV , 100,000 hrs lifespan. This thing looks like a Photo frame hung on a wall. BD, page 19. -- ..when the birds become dinosaurs once more, wake me up..

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Re: [Skunkworks] [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again
by wesley kiriinya 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Finally got in HURRAAYY! I thought you were stretching a bit about the user friendliness, but ALAS you were correct. Normaly I try to give the benefit of the doubt and ignore this lakini hapa KRA deserves a proper thrashing. A few issues: 1. What does Area mean in Section 2 of The Personal Infomation Page? 2. Try finding GPO Postal Code? 3. The main Business Activity list doesn't seem to be a good choice for what it does. Atleast a Combobox where one can type and the nearest result in brought up. 4. Last but not least the message after clicking send in the page is mind boggling: "Your form doesn't present mistakes, please review the information before send it!" (That's exactly how it is). All in all this site gets about 3/10 (and I'm being good coz it's Friday). 3 Coz it's technically faulty (load times) and that indicates poor design which likely means there could be other technical issues, Not user friendly, Not elegant (it's a public website, make it attractive, appealing, ...). All the best to the dev team. I know one or some of you will curse me for this email. What you feel when you curse me is what 1000s of Kenyans feel when they access the website 8~). Now imagine 1000s of curses! Lovely weekend. --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Nicholus Nderi <mwaniki_nderi(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "wesley kiriinya" <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com>, ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 2:14 PM Thats very true. I was helping someone print their PIN certificates and it took ages to open. Very frustrating! I also find it abit unfriendly to use, and I am IT. I wonder how basic users are supposed to use that site. Links that do not work, pages that seem to open and then freeze! Mbaya sana! I wonder who did that system??? --- On Fri, 7/31/09, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [ke-internetusers] KRA website TOO SLOW - Again To: "Skunk Works" <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke> Cc: "ke-users" <ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 1:23 PM Any KRA peeps in the house? KRA website is unbelievably slow, it's like the server is in Jupiter. I once asked someone at an internet cafe whether that has been the case and he said YES. Infact guys give up and let the cafe attendant login for them and print PIN certificates. That definately doesn't sound good for the KRA system. I've tried in IE 7 and Firefox 3. The following link is especially a KILLER https://mapato1.kra.go.ke/itms Being a very important online resource, please ... 8~( -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ ke-internetusers mailing list ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net http://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers

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KDN on seacom?
by Jamal Mohamed 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

A little bit confused here, this is traceroute log from one linux box, traceroute to 4.2.2.1 (4.2.2.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 172.16.20.1 (172.16.20.1) 4.417 ms 6.483 ms 7.175 ms 2 * * * 3 41.220.236.33 (41.220.236.33) 10.065 ms 10.766 ms 13.191 ms 4 PO1-2.lon-001-access-2.interoute.net (84.233.134.101) 667.116 ms 667.982 ms 668.952 ms 5 xe-2-3-0-0.lon-001-score-1-re0.interoute.net (84.233.218.161) 728.678 ms 729.505 ms 730.638 ms 6 212.113.16.109 (212.113.16.109) 663.840 ms 662.335 ms 674.782 ms 7 vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net (4.2.2.1) 689.668 ms 668.866 ms * The other log from a totally different ip, traceroute to 4.2.2.1 (4.2.2.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.124 ms 0.097 ms 0.124 ms 2 * * * 3 41.220.236.33 (41.220.236.33) 59.076 ms 55.156 ms 65.619 ms 4 PO1-2.lon-001-access-2.interoute.net (84.233.134.101) 438.410 ms 434.382 ms 430.250 ms 5 xe-2-3-0-0.lon-001-score-1-re0.interoute.net (84.233.218.161) 426.467 ms 422.556 ms 418.549 ms 6 212.113.16.109 (212.113.16.109) 438.014 ms 433.990 ms 429.978 ms 7 * * * 8 vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net (4.2.2.1) 400.000 ms * * Funny thing is the first one is >600 while the second is little bit >400ms and it is using the same route.

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