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KCB TV Gone Digital????
by mambo mutua 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Skunks, I bumped into KBC Telezine this weekend on my Telly. What touched me is that I can browse around pages like local news, informer, entertainment guide, government today , enquiries and contacts using my remote. Has this TV station gone Digital already?

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connecting a pc to a laptop display
by Evans Ikua 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Dear list, I am using a PC that only has DVI output instead of VGA (I have a DVI cable that ends with a male VGA connector). Now that I don't have a monitor with a removable VGA cable, I have tried to connect this to a laptop - which connects fine. But how do I get to display my PC onto my laptop screen? I am familiar with the reverse - displaying the laptop output onto a normal monitor. Any assistance will be appreciated. Ikua

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Air france crash: case of radar vs. GPS
by nyarotho kennedy 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Good people, its amazing how airlines havent considered the use of GPS in their tracking systems( IEC Broadband reporting) yet every other valuable(cars, phones, laptops n even kids!) is GPS enabled. This is quite shocking considering the NSA's rating of GPS systems as having accuracy rates of 99.3% for last mile applications. With GPS the crash site would have been located within minutes of going off radar. Guess its something our local airlines could score a first in. Over to KQ and KCAA. Regards, nyarotho. -- People should know when they are conquered.

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Dynamicworldtech has Iburst Africa
by Emmanuel Macharia 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

Has anybody tried iburstafrica. www.dynamicworldtech.com is selling iburst Africa call 0720853429 Carol. http://www.iburstafrica.com/index.php?c=ke&lang=English&content=modems&gcli… Emms

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WANTED: Development Bloggers
by Crystal Watley 13 Jun '09

13 Jun '09

Do you have an interest in ICT4D and want to tell the world? Do you work in development and have great projects and ideas to share? Are you a students thinking of ways to help Africa without leaving your desk? If you are one of those people, we want to hear from you. We are looking to build a team of bloggers to submit weekly content. Whether it be photographs of development projects, personal experiences, or ICT4D news, VOA4SD has a place for youth aspiring to take hold of the challenges facing Africa and speak up. If you want to become a contributor, please email crystal(a)voicesofafrica.org .-- Crystal "Naliaka" Watley Kigoni Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development crystal(a)voicesofafrica.org http://www.voicesofafrica.org/ "You must be the change you wish to see" - Gandhi

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Final DTV transition
by David Ndambuki 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

The final Analogue TV broadcast in the USA is today. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iMVxRNOi4yoibzHJ_18PRZcTN… When will we do it? 2012????? -- Regards, Ndambuki Muthoka David Phne: +254733476463;+254722316140 Addr: 2084 - 01000 Thika, Kenya.

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PHP, JPGRAPH
by Walter Onyango 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi all, I am trying to display some graphs using JPGraph in PHP. I get the following error. *Chosen locale file ("lang/en.inc.php") for error messages does not exist or is not readable for the PHP process. Please make sure that the file exists and that the file permissions are such that the PHP process is allowed to read this file.** * Can someone with knowledge in PHP and JPGraph please help. -- Walter.

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USB 3.0 first on linux
by Jamal Mohamed 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/06/11/linux-is-first-os-to-support-usb-30

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Zain selling ?
by Josiah Mugambi 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/37906.php?source=rss <http://www.cellular-news.com/story/37906.php?source=rss> Josiah Mugambi +254 738 504418 http://blog.josiahmugambi.com SK Classifeds... Visit stockskenya.co.ke for more info.

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Anycast instance of the F root name server in Kenya?
by Peter Karunyu 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hey people, I came across a Map of all 123 DNS root server instances (including local Anycast instances) at the end of 2006 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Root-current.svg And there is a red dot on Kenya, one of the 3 anycast instances in Africa (two are in South Africa). Can someone pls confirm this? Where is this instance housed? Who manages it? What sort of technology do they use? And if this is so, this was implemented back on 06 when the fibers were a pipe dream?

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Re: [Skunkworks] Safaricom Blocks torrents
by Riyaz Bachani 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

But when you charge users by the Mb ... this shouldn't be an issue. R ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd" <kianiadee(a)gmail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:59:13 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Safaricom Blocks torrents Deep packet inspection is routine in most telcos given the volume Torrents are occupying in any given network and safaricom are well within their rights to manage quality. It's actually a fact that top 10% of users, eat up 80-90% of bandwidth, by any standards this is not acceptable even in a traditional ISP. Don't bother Michael Joseph, he has bigger fish to fry. Regards Kiania D _______________________________________________ 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 ------------- Skunkworks 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 -- [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 _______________________________________________ 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 ------------- Skunkworks 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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Safaricom Internet
by Simon Mbuthia 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi guys, Anybody from Safaricom to tell me how much it would cost to have a 1 Mbps/512Kbps connection for a SOHO network? Also, anybody know how good Safcom connections are? Thanks in advance, Me. -- שִׁמְעוֹן

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of techies, budgets, optic fiber and zero rated phones
by James Wachira 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Afternoon guys, There is no better place for me to ask this so allow me to go right ahead. No flaming please. So yesterday the budget was read amidst excitment and anticipation among MPs and the public at large. Of particular interest to me was the zero-rating on the prices of Mobile phones. What does this mean to the consumer? How long before we begin seeing the effects of this in the shops. Any insight would be helpful. The other thing, today the fiber optic is being commissioned. How soon before we feel the effects both in speed, bandwith costs, adoption by the industry etc??? Is there a plan in place on the rollout of this? -- The Geek shall inherit the earth. - Linus 5:5 With Regards, James W, |tel: +254 728 024 897 | gtalk: jwaciira | yahoo: jamoke | twitter: jwaciira |

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Software developer lead/manager
by solomon kariri 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Guys, what do you think is the average pay for a software developer lead/manager who is to manage about 5 junior developers and also contribute and assist in the development? Any suggestions are welcome. Please try to be more specific on the amount. rgds -- Solomon Kariri, Cell: +254736 729 450 Skype: solomonkariri

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anybody selling a laptop bag
by michael wambua 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

hey pple anybody selling a laptop bagpack -- Name : Michael Wambua Location : Nairobi Kenya Cell : +254 712710697

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Installing Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 on WIn VIsta Bussines
by Martin Muraguri 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi guys, I am trying to install kaspersky Internet security 2009 on Win Vista Business; It was bundled with McAfee 11 with internet advisor and after removing it .. deleting all associated files and registry keys.. I still get "remove incompatible software while installing Kaspersky" I have tried ccleaner and several other registry cleaners but I still get the same error. Any ideas??? Thanx Maina.

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JPGraph
by Walter Onyango 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi all, I am trying to display some graphs using JPGraph in PHP. I get the following error. *Chosen locale file ("lang/en.inc.php") for error messages does not exist or is not readable for the PHP process. Please make sure that the file exists and that the file permissions are such that the PHP process is allowed to read this file. * Can someone with knowledge in PHP and JPGraph please help. -- Walter.

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EMS/Posta Kenya contacts
by Paul Mathu 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi Anyone with working contacts of EMS or posta?? i have been looking arnd and none of the numbers i have seem to work, even the ones on their packaging paper!!! where is this corporation headed to...????? -- Regards Mathu http://sojjar.blogspot.com

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MySQL on Windows
by Murigi Muraya 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

This week a Windows C/C# guru was showing me an SMS corporate app he has developed. Anyway, he has built it to run on MySQL. So this article linked below may ring quite true to some of you out there! http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/move_from_microsoft_SQL_Server…

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Re: [Skunkworks] Software developer lead/manager
by wesley kiriinya 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Give us a more detailed job description and the kind of software under development. --- On Thu, 6/11/09, solomon kariri <solomonkariri(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: solomon kariri <solomonkariri(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Skunkworks] Software developer lead/manager To: skunkworks(a)my.co.ke Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 7:04 PM Guys, what do you think is the average pay for a software developer lead/manager who is to manage about 5 junior developers and also contribute and assist in the development? Any suggestions are welcome. Please try to be more specific on the amount. rgds -- Solomon Kariri, Cell: +254736 729 450 Skype: solomonkariri -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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 ------------- Skunkworks 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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Yahoo's Hadoop!
by Nicholas Loki 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

For all interested in large scale distributed computing systems, Yahoo just released their own version of the open source Hadoop framework. Check it out: http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/distribution/ "Excellent people exceed expectations".

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Fiber landing | Does telco companies have what it takes to beat the market?
by Areba Collins 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

I find this forum appropriate to engage in this discussion. Once again, if this has been done before, forgive me, im trying to get opinions and views, and possible scenarios. Please consider the following: 1: Fiber lands, Mobile providers offer unlimited band on 3G at monthly flat rates: say for instance 7.2M at Ksh2000 on a contention ratio of about 100 users. What possible scenarios exist for companies like access , wananichi and other providers. 2: Would companies like safari and zain (or Cain depending on who is next online) have capacity to roll out (and sustain 3G network) countrywide? -> this being from a business and not technology perspective. -> are mobile companies a real enough threat to kill traditional ISPs? 3: is it realistic to envision someday setting my webserver connected to an e61i or huaweii modem and sell realistic hosting from the comfort of my home in kajiado? Thanks in Advance. -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw

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JFFNMS.events not found
by [dan buria] 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi guys, am working on this project and get the above error. Am working in DEBIAN 5.0 using jffnms. 17:08:56 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:08:57 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:08:58 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:08:59 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:00 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... *Warning*: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in */opt/jffnms/lib/api.db.inc.php* on line *306* 17:09:01 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:02 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:03 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:04 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:05 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... *Warning*: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in */opt/jffnms/lib/api.db.inc.php* on line *306* 17:09:06 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:07 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:08 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:09 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:10 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:10 Query Failed - table_insert(events) - insert into events (date,type,host,interface,state,username,info) VALUES ('2009-06-11 17:09:05','43','1','Login','failed','jffnms','from 127.0.0.1') - Table 'jffnms.events' doesn't exist17:09:11 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:12 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:13 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:14 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... 17:09:15 db_ping(mysql) Connection to DB Restored... *Warning*: join() [function.join <http://localhost/jffnms/function.join>]: Invalid arguments passed in */opt/jffnms/lib/api.events.inc.php* on line * 246* Query Failed - events_list() - Table 'jffnms.hosts' doesn't exist some body show me some ideas

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Cellphone jammer
by Mbugua Njihia 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Anyone know where I an get one locally?

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KB Blogs
by Shiro Njagi 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

The above was a better, re-vamped version of KenyanBlogger.com that was created some time recently (not sure when) the former kenyanblogger site had crashed, apparently. So i happily imported my blog to this new one, KB Blogs, since back then when it crashed, all my posts disappeared. Anywho, it happened again, I guess it crashed. again, it crashed with all my posts. Basically, my question is, how exactly does a blog (hosting) website crash? And why would it happen twice to the same site?

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