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TB
by Sammy Lusiola 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hello Skunks, Does anyone have info on where I could get a 1 TB USB hard disk? -- Sammy Lusiola CTO - Reelforge Systems 3rd Floor, EBS, K-Rep Centre Wood Avenue, Kilimani P.O. Box 8125 - 00200 Nairobi, Kenya http://www.reelforge.com Office: 020 2372965/6 Cell: 0736 129119

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Website Design
by Allan Kapten 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hey. I'm looking to design a website. Please anyone get in touch. Thank you

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http://www.gladiatus.co.ke/
by kuriah samuel 31 May '09

31 May '09

Hi all, Has anyone managed to play the game. What's the idea behind the site coz this guys has done serious advertising - google adwords? May be i am missing the point! -- Regards Samuel Kuriah Get to know Kenya, Mega Travel Offers http://megatraveloffers.com/region.php?id=1

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hellen masita sent you a Friend Request on Yaari
by hellen masita 30 May '09

30 May '09

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D-Day 1st Sept 2009 : lets open the discussion
by aki 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hi all, As you can see below, the task below requires quite a commitment. But we sometime have to make those sacrfifices to get things done. Pending personal finances and time, I've set a commited date of 1st Sept 2009 as the video website date. By whatever means necessary, the plan is to move. The site will be simple and can evolve over time. I may co-host if I can resolve some personal issues etc but the show must go on. You may create your own 1 minute flv video and send. I can post or you can post directly after moderation 24hrs period. Content strictly ICT related such as news, projects, ideas, if you are a solution or service provider etc, programmer, content developer etc. A small overview of content for first 4 months is as follows but not limited to ( if you have the time ) ( pls remember I cannot do this full time so mostly evenings or sat will work ) : Suggested Main program ( I've missed on many who should be here, pls add yourself ): @Josiah, Riyaz and other who founded skunks. This will be a simple opening video but covers plenty. @A four part series with Alex and CCK initiative @A four part series Evans and LPAK and others who are involved. @Washington and BSD @David Kiania : VOIP and other contributions @Conrad Akungu ( Rad )- decorated soldier in his own field. There are others too @Ushaidi : Eric and all other developers who got mentioned recently at open source awards @chuks and security @Mombasa skunks and tech scene @RF guys and gals. This one a must @Any skunks ( Tony, Njihia, Mbuthia, there are so many ) working on area of expertise @Any kictanet people who are working on policy and the rest. @long term live webcast of tuesdays meeting and all technology related events Suggested Normal program: @ABC of technology : Tips, guides. I may do this one and welcome all ideas and video contributions for this @Weekly/Monthly Hardcore tech item : this will be a sequence Suggested Self videos : @anyone who is in technology or doing something. A special request for Wesley. A few months ago you mentioned about lack of content in national media. This credit goes to you. Hopefully you can think of a small 8 week series that can make it to both KBC and online. I can help you with content if needed, maybe co-host with you if possible. We will then need assistance to get the video to KBC and aired. its a long shot but I hope once they see what its about, they will consider it. I've left out many things which I've considered including modalities, but please shoot those questions and contributions. The discussion is open to anyone. Also, if anyone wants to use the idea and get things done, I say all the better. There are time, commitment and cost implications. So all the help anyone gives or gets will be a big step forward. Cheers.

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new laptop for sale
by Steve 30 May '09

30 May '09

** *Nice Hp for sale at a very good price (60K), its new!! * * * *Product Features* - 17.0-inch Diagonal WXGA plus High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display, 1440 x 900 resolution - 2.00 Ghz AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Dual-Core Mobile Processor with 1MB L2 Cache - 4096MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm), 250GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive (SATA), ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics RS780M with up to 1918MB total graphics memory - LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support, Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN - Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium, dims in inches: 15.59 (W) x 11.22" (D) x 1.31 (min H) in approx., 7.57 lbs *Processor, Memory, and Motherboard * - * * - *Processor:* 2 GHz AMD Turion 64 - *Number of Processors:* 2 - *RAM:* 4000 MB - *RAM Type:* DDR2 SDRAM *Special Features * - *Condition:* New - *Startup Operating System:* Windows VistaTM Home Premium (64-bit) - *Optional Operating Systems:* Windows VistaTM Family (available separately)

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M$ Bing a Google killer?
by Chris Mwirigi 30 May '09

30 May '09

Microsoft have come up with what they call a decision engine , a smart search engine called Bing. Could this finally be the answer to Google? check out the presentation and decide for yourselves http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html http://www.bing.com

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Vbulletin + CMS Intergration
by Theus Owicho 30 May '09

30 May '09

Anyone who is well versed in Vbulletin + Drupal or Vbulletin +Vbadvanced Intergration please get in touch

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New Interactive Website
by J. N. Kimani 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hello, We are looking to outsource to a reputable company the creation of a *new*interactive website capable of blogs, feedback, embedded YouTube videos *etc* for our organization. The new website should resemble our current website as much as possible on the front-end. Please get in touch offlist. Kind regards, -- J. N. Kimani

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Smart Bus concept
by Kevin Ouma 29 May '09

29 May '09

Just read on the new smart buses being introduced in Nairobi in 2 weeks. Among the things that caught my attention were :- http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Local/Kenya-Smart-Buses-to-ease-traffic.html - “They will keep scheduled times so that you will know that at this bus stop, this bus will be here at this particular time,” - The Smart Buses will be using software that enables people to get more information about the routes and times of travel.You can even sms saying that this is the bus stop and it will tell you that the next bus is coming in the next many minutes - It will charge according to the distance charged Does anyone think it will work against the Mungiki infested transport sector Kevin Ouma

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Vacancies - Product Manager & Support Specialist
by Patrick Kariuki 29 May '09

29 May '09

See below for details: http://www.urbanit.co.ke/images/developer.pdf http://www.urbanit.co.ke/images/Product%20Manager.pdf

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Flash/HTML Website Update Work
by John Wesonga 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi, A client of mine needs a person with flash/HTML skills to update their site (a flash site) on a regular basis, the site is 75% complete, up and running and only requires a person to make changes to text,images etc Your primary task will be to complete the remaining 25% which is mainly text and image changes. Contact me off list at john.wesonga(a)multiplechoices.biz if your interested. -- John Wesonga http://www.multiplechoices.biz http://wesonga.peupe.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwesonga http://www.twitter.com/jwesonga "You are remembered for the rules you break."-Douglas MacArthur

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Need 1 TerraByte disk drives
by Sammy Lusiola 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hello everyone, It appears my previous email had a dubious subject line. I urgently need a 1 TerraByte disk drive (USB) ... if anyone has an idea of where I could purchase one (locally), please let me asap. Regards -- Sammy Lusiola CTO - Reelforge Systems 3rd Floor, EBS, K-Rep Centre Wood Avenue, Kilimani P.O. Box 8125 - 00200 Nairobi, Kenya http://www.reelforge.com Office: 020 2372965/6 Cell: 0736 129119

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Motobaridi mailbox full - I imagine you are losing business
by J. N. Kimani 29 May '09

29 May '09

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: motobaridi(a)motobaridi.com mailbox is full: retry timeout exceeded *I imagine you are losing business* -- J. N. Kimani

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Lost Toshiba A40 laptop
by Evans Ikua 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi All, A friend of mine has lost a Toshiba laptop (in Nakuru). The model is Toshiba A40, Serial Number 54558792G. It had very important documents and she is ready to compensate anyone who may have information that may lead to its recovery. This is an appeal to anyone who may come across that kind of machine perchance. You can get in touch with me offlist. Thank you.

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FW: Skunkworks List and available resources
by Steve Obbayi 29 May '09

29 May '09

@peter I forgot to add the query you will use to import the data, there is a slight difference from the mysql defaults. load data local infile '/path/to/datafile' into table `archives` fields escaped by '\\' terminated by ';' enclosed by '\'' lines terminated by '|^^|' (`from`, `date`, `timezone`, `subject`, `body`); @peter, Here is the SQL code you can use to create your table for this list then you can get the actual data files from Alex. This is just for storage purposes so there are no indices so you will have to create them as you like depending on how you plan to make the script. It also creates the table using InnoDB Engine so you might prefer to use MyISAM or any other you prefer. Now before I post the source code for the Parser, I want to make some few changes on the compilation optimization options coz with the wrong option even though it will still compile there is a bug in three inner loops (I havent bothered fixing) that could cause the loops to corrupt the heap when run at a very high optimized runtime state thereby crushing the progrm as it attempts to escape the string data. Maybe I should just sort out the bug once and for all to make it easier to use it fully optimized for speed and send it in a day or two. /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */; /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=''*/; /*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */; CREATE TABLE `archives` ( `from` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `date` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `timezone` varchar(5) NOT NULL default '', `subject` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `body` longtext NOT NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */; /*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */; Steve Obbayi, ________________________________ From: Peter Karunyu [mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 3:08 PM To: steve(a)sobbayi.com; Skunkworks forum Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Skunkworks List and available resources Wow! that's fantastic. If you send me the schema of the DB, I can whip up some PHP to search the DB. Maybe you could share the source code as well? Thanks. On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Steve Obbayi <steve(a)sobbayi.com> wrote: @peter. I decided to take up and do what you had been trying to do. i have mailed alex gakuru the parsed monthly archives. Now some months were missing from the archives and all i had was up to March 2009. So there are about four archive files which still need to be parsed. To do this I developed a tool which has done this job very well. Am sending Alex the source code for the tool which can be compiled on any OS as long as it has a C++ compiler . Now all i developed was the tool and used it to parse all the files, i have also given the schema for the data file and the query to load it into a MYSQL database. So as far as code to make the data searchable i dont think i can squeez in time for that so maybe you or someone from this list can take it up and develop one for our sakes. Steve Obbayi,

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Re: [Skunkworks] Outlook on Safaricom 3G Modem
by Joram Mwinamo 29 May '09

29 May '09

In the last few days my Outlook has refused to connect and send mail giving the (infamous) Task '..............com - Sending' reported error (0x80042109) : 'Outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).' Now if my ISP is safaricom,and I have not changed settings in the last few weeks,what am I supposed to do?Im hesitant to go through the call center option Anyone else suffering or just me?

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Google Wave - http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/
by Mbugua Njihia 29 May '09

29 May '09

Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files. http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

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Re: [Skunkworks] QUICKBOOKS 2009
by charles mtawali 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi I am looking for Quickbooks 2009. Not a pirated version. Let me know as soon as possible

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Toshiba Satellite A100 - Battery Pack
by Solomon Mburu 29 May '09

29 May '09

Good humans, Is there any of you who knows how much it would cost a Toshiba Satellite A100 Battery pack as the one I have charges up to around 36% and when unplugged from the main power, the laptop goes off. In case of power outage, which is a common thing, I end up losing my data! Thank you1 -- Solomon Mburu P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity! Sent from Nairobi, Kenya

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Any Ericsson SDS users out there??
by nyarotho kennedy 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi guyz, hope all is well. am a user of the above n would like to know if there are any other guyz on board so we can share experiences n challenges n successes. any? thank you n God bless y'all! -- People should know when they are conquered.

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Hunger - the plight of our fellow Kenyans, what can the ict community do?
by Athar Ahmad Bhatti 28 May '09

28 May '09

Dear Friends We need to be our brother's and sister's keeper. The drought situation, increase in basic food prices and other obvious reasons become unbearable for the mwanainchi. I believe we should celebrate little about undersea cables and more about how we can aleviate the plight of our fellow citizens. Our's is a sharing profession. One of the leading figures of our industry, Bill Gates has given the majority of his wealth to a charitable trust... I open this thread to I pray hopefully cause action. If we cannot contribute cash, why not use the power of the internet to flood websites of humanitarian institutes begging for food relief for Kenya. Posting and contribution to youtube videos about the situation. Writing realn stories on the plight. Setting up blogs, reserving a minimal sum for csr and the like. Please my sisters and brothers let us share helping our fellow family as we share technology. We cannot feed cables to our people, and economic change is longterm. I urge that we get mobilised and help. Athar -- Sent from my mobile device

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Facebook and attacks
by Solomon Mburu 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hackers successfully stole passwords from some of Facebook's 200 million users. By Jim Finkle, Reuters, 15 May 2009 at 08:11 [image: facebook logo] Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/> has been hit by another hacking attack, as a phishing campaign was used to steal passwords from users of the social networking site. Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack, and that that Facebook was blocking compromised accounts. Schnitt declined to say how many accounts had been compromised. The hackers got passwords through what is known as a phishing attack, breaking into accounts of some Facebook members, then sending e-mails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites. Those sites were designed to look like the Facebook home page. The victims were directed to log back in to the site, but actually logged into the one controlled by the hackers, unwittingly giving away their passwords. The fake domains include www.151.im, www.121.im and www.123.im. Facebook has deleted all references to those domains. -- Solomon Mburu P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity!

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Re: [Skunkworks] Backup
by Oj G 28 May '09

28 May '09

Gee the guy doesn't seem to be a techie... he should hire one of the techies here...one with screw driver, glass of beer and hair drier..lol! The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole. --- On Thu, 5/28/09, Geeh Cheezmode <cheez.mode(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Geeh Cheezmode <cheez.mode(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Backup To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 4:55 AM aaahhh......had the same problem some time back...its very easy.... take a screw driver remove the computer casing. then identify the harddisk. remove it make sure u protect it from static then get a glass of beer and drop the harddisk inside the glass let it soak for a few hours then dry it off using a hair drier then fix back the hard disk. u will notice that the capacity of the disk will hv doubled. salut! 2009/5/28 Georg <cheez.mode(a)gmail.com> Have you ever used a computer? Or the internet? Because a very elementary search on google would ans your question Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: kihu kibe <kihukibe(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:59:54 To: Skunkworks forum<skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Backup Seriously? Noo...ok, Seriously? :-) On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, liwindi joshua <liwindi81(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi skunkers > I've got a problem with my comp, my c drive has run out of space I need to > install Partition margic so that i can increase size of C but I cannot > because there is no enough space for this instalation. > Some of the S/Ws cannot be uninstalled reasons low disk space for the > processes. > > The only way out is to format the C drive to create space but I have a > software installed on the machine that I dont want to loose. > Is there anyway I can make its backup since I lost its installation disk and > to get another is going to cost me alot > > thanks alot > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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 -- "If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill -----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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Re: [Skunkworks] Backup
by David Kago 28 May '09

28 May '09

Start ->Run->ntbackup Back up all files and settings, then restore on a HDD with higher capacity ________________________________ From: skunkworks-bounces(a)lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of liwindi joshua Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:22 PM To: cheez.mode(a)gmail.com; Skunkworks forum Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Backup Thanks a lot my fellow skunkers It seems like some people are just out to mock others. My main question was in the last part How can I backup installed programs to use after format thanks in advance Georg wrote: Have you ever used a computer? Or the internet? Because a very elementary search on google would ans your question Sent from my BlackBerry(r) -----Original Message----- From: kihu kibe <kihukibe(a)gmail.com> <mailto:kihukibe@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:59:54 To: Skunkworks forum<skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> <mailto:skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Backup Seriously? Noo...ok, Seriously? :-) On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, liwindi joshua <liwindi81(a)gmail.com> <mailto:liwindi81@gmail.com> wrote: Hi skunkers I've got a problem with my comp, my c drive has run out of space I need to install Partition margic so that i can increase size of C but I cannot because there is no enough space for this instalation. Some of the S/Ws cannot be uninstalled reasons low disk space for the processes. The only way out is to format the C drive to create space but I have a software installed on the machine that I dont want to loose. Is there anyway I can make its backup since I lost its installation disk and to get another is going to cost me alot thanks alot _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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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