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WebHosting
by Edwin Wambua 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Is there someone on this list who is part of,knows or has done business with these guyz? http://www.webaukhosting.net/ They seem very affordable but I cant be sure that they are reliable if I don't know much about them. Regards, Edwin Wambua

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Open Source and Free Web Apps you might like
by David Mugo 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

[image: opensource_logo] Open Source We expect internet usage in Africa to double in the next few months and that gets us thinking of a few things we need to work on to tap some profitability before the Internet becomes another way of taking the African resources to the west because they already have systems in use. I have had my share of life on the web and I am in a position to advice on open source and free systems that may be profitable to the community and business minded African if well implemented. I will go through a few here. Magento <http://www.magentocommerce.com/> The launch of Magento Open Source last year changed the e-commerce software industry, with magento coming out as one of the biggest and the most well structured software even when compared to most commercial scripts. Magento is built on the Zend Framework and is stable, user friendly and open source, meaning there is more to it coming. OS-Commerce is also a good system. Laconica <http://laconi.ca/> With this age of micro-blogging, this free software comes in handy, its a tweeter clone built on PHP. Just so you know, tweeter is built on Ruby on Rails. While researching on this, I found this list as a top 10 for free micro-blogging software from Honeytechblog<http://www.honeytechblog.com/top-10-open-source-micro-blogging-services/> 1. http://chyrp.net/ 2. http://twoorl.com/** <http://code.google.com/p/twoorl/> 3. http://www.revou.com/ 4. http://www.folkstr.com/ 5. http://www.gelatocms.com/ 6. http://smob.sioc-project.org/ 7. http://sweetter.net/ 8. http://laconi.ca/ 9. http://jisko.net 10. http://www.floopo.com/ OS-Date <http://www.tufat.com/s_free_dating_system.htm> I dont know how much online dating works these days but this is a good free system by Darren Gates. The best thing is the 5 dollar shop that offers plugins, themes and components of this system at only $5. Dolphin Social Networking <http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/> This group of free software is the most amazing thing I ever came across. It offers more than a social networking website and all for free! Joomla <http://joomla.org/> So far this is the largest free CMS and I guess the most widely used in Kenya. It offers a host of modules and plugins and it can get quite professional. Give it a try if you havent. Joomla geeks you can also leave a comment with a link to a Joomla site you have made. You may know a host of others that I havent meantioned, this blog post allows comments so please extend it! Leave a comment at http://blog.majibu.com/2009/07/29/open-source-and-free-web-applications-you… David. -- ------------- http://blog.majibu.com

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anyone in Uganda used the Google SMS services?
by saidimu apale 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

http://www.google.co.ug/sms Any comments from users? Saidi

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Microsoft - Yahoo Deal
by Mworia Wilfred Mutua 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Microsoft Corp. has finally roped Yahoo Inc. into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and setting the stage for them to make a joint assault against the dominance of Google Inc. - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_microsoft_yahoo

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Solar powered laptop charger
by Peter Karunyu 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Greetings good people, Anyone know where any of the following chargers can be acquired locally? http://www.earthtechproducts.com/p2563.html - $499 http://www.voltaicsystems.com/bag_generator.shtml $ ?? http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/7-portable-solar-laptop-chargers-wo…

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Looking for retailer of fingerprint readers in nairobi
by John Wesonga 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi, Looking for a local retailer of fingerprint readers in Nairobi, anybody know where I can purchase some of the devices? -- John Wesonga http://www.multiplechoices.biz http://wesonga.peupe.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwesonga http://www.twitter.com/jwesonga

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Collection of commonly used PHP functions
by Peter Karunyu 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi skunks, I've been working with PHP for a little while now and in that time, I've collected some of the functions I've written which I use in almost all of the projects I work on. I've cleaned them a bit and made them a more developer friendly, with generous comments. Maybe they can save someone a few hours of writing code, as they have for me. Any comments, criticisms, additions, modifications etc are welcome. Regards, Peter.

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Now that we have fibre
by ndungu stephen 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

<see attached image> Is this true ? Study estimates that we may have only 80k home users - and that 3 fibre optic cables may be an over supply.. But then again - we can sell...

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Anyone using Bacula?
by Evans Ikua 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

I am looking for someone with some experience on Bacula. Please get in touch with me offlist. Thank you. Ikua

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Bind issue - Upgrade
by Laban Mwangi 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi, If you are running bind, please upgrade -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Hari Kurup <kurup(a)afrinic.net> Reply-To: kurup(a)afrinic.net To: AFNOG <afnog(a)afnog.org> Subject: [afnog] Urgent - please upgrade immediately Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:26:12 +0200 News just in. Receipt of a specially-crafted dynamic update message may cause BIND 9 servers to exit. This vulnerability affects all servers. For more info, see https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2009-July/004315.html -- Hari _______________________________________________ afnog mailing list http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog

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