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Solar city
by Watson Kambo 28 May '09

28 May '09

Cool.. http://www.mysolarpower.org/news/babcock-ranch/ -- Watson wanjohi kambo

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Re: [Skunkworks] Backup
by fyodor 28 May '09

28 May '09

>aaahhh......had the same problem some time back...its very >easy.... Lets make a toast...... -tyrus -- Improve your driving ability with a stop at traffic school. Click now! http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/BLSrjkqhynxlUzENXKw97fcTXG12ufHrghVNn9rSqxiN…

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Broad band ....
by Watson Kambo 28 May '09

28 May '09

Is it finally here? I mean with seacom .... anyway I like this bit from Japan esp the last part ;-) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8068560.stm "Japan is now focusing on the development of broadband based services or content as broadband coverage expands," says Tokyo journalist, Takahiro Kikuchi, who has been covering Japan's IT market for nearly 20 years. The boldest plan is to achieve 100 per cent broadband penetration within the next two years he says. "They can do it. They have budgets to accelerate broadband investment within the telecommunication and cable TV operators and are considering a satellite broadband system as a temporary option." The next step towards ever breakneck speeds is commercialisation of 10 GBPs fibre optic deliver. Telecoms firm Oki Japan has successfully tested a 160 GBPs long-distance, high-speed optical connection that delivers the equivalent of "four full movies" worth of data every second. Oki expects it to be commercialized late next year maintaining Japan's bragging rights for some time to come. Just don't ask them what they will do with it. Now thats funny while we have all the ideas of what to do with the bandwidth.......... -- Watson wanjohi kambo

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Ticked off by Safcom
by Mbugua Njihia 28 May '09

28 May '09

Had someone from Safcom engineering contact me. Will share the feedback I get.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Postfix maildir.
by Broken Maize 28 May '09

28 May '09

1001 Apologies for the "misleading" info. I hadn't read earlier posts? What are the benefits on performance for storing mail on a db? --- On Wed, 5/27/09, Steve Muchai <smuchai(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Steve Muchai <smuchai(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Postfix maildir. To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 11:14 PM On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Broken Maize <brokenmaize(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Postfix setup thread. > First of all, there is no such thing as storing mail in a database -mysql or Actually there is. Lots of proprietary systems store mail in databases. Even some open-source: look at http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Store-0.255/lib/Email/Store.pm. > otherwise. The only stuff that would go into the database would be user > credentials. Agreed, IMHO only user credentials should go into the database, plus other stuff like location of mailbox, status of account (enabled/disabled/vacation etc), quota details..... which is why I asked what's the reasoning behind wanting to store the actual messages in a database. > Secondly for performance use the "maildir" format, which supports indexing > and hence scales well with speed of retrieving mail, indexing the mailboxes, > etc. > The alternative "mbox" format stores all mail in a single file, and this > does not scale well. Enjoy! Totally agreed. Maildir works great, mbox doesn't scale well and is plagued with file locking issues. Regards, Steve -- "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the decision." - Stolen from someone else's sig. _______________________________________________ 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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BBC's Broadband World: Mapping the global picture
by Michuki Mwangi 28 May '09

28 May '09

FYI http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8068598.stm

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Re: [Skunkworks] Postfix maildir.
by Broken Maize 28 May '09

28 May '09

On Postfix setup thread. First of all, there is no such thing as storing mail in a database -mysql or otherwise. The only stuff that would go into the database would be user credentials. Secondly for performance use the "maildir" format, which supports indexing and hence scales well with speed of retrieving mail, indexing the mailboxes, etc. The alternative "mbox" format stores all mail in a single file, and this does not scale well. Enjoy! --- On Wed, 5/27/09, Steve Muchai <smuchai(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Steve Muchai <smuchai(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Postfix maildir. To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 5:41 AM On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:04 PM, David Ndambuki <damundx(a)gmail.com> wrote: [.......] > And yes, I would like to store the e-mails in a mysql database instead of a > home directory (maildir format). > What's the motivation behind this? I remember seeing some posts on exim-users or similar list some time back, arguing the merits and demerits of storing the actual email content in a database. I can't remember any of the arguments for/against this, however. IMHO, storing user info in a database is as far as I'd go (actually, have done) and leave the mail on the good old filesystem, but it would be great to know of any compelling reasons to go the whole 9 yards. I'm not saying you're doing the wrong or right thing, I'd just like to learn from your point of view. > I've already started on it, will get back to you soon. Watching this thread...please keep us posted. Including any gotchas.... Regards, Steve -- "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the decision." - Stolen from someone else's sig. _______________________________________________ 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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Windows Server 2003 Enterprise performance problem
by Peter Karunyu 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hi good people, Recently, I've been charged with babysitting a HP ProLiant DL360 G3 server with 2 dual core Intel Xeon 3.06 processors and 2GB of RAM. The server runs MySQL and IIS. I have installed Spotlight on MySQL on my PC to monitor the server and it tells me that it has about 1.2GB free RAM. This figure has been consistent even when the server is under heavy use. Now, my problem is that over the last few days, the processor usage has been averaging 90% which is very abnormal. In task manager, the top three processes in order of processor use are System Idle Process, w3wp.exe and mysqld-nt.exe. Even when processor use is above 90%, free RAM never goes below 1GB. What could be causing System Idle Process to use so much processor time yet its memory use is costant at 16k? Another thing, the server has 2GB virtual memory. Is this too much/little considering the total RAM is 2GB? This article<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223>suggests that RAM should be 1.5 times the RAM, is this a must? And finally, much as I would really like to, I cant replace the IIS and Windows with Apache and Linux. Thanks. Regards, Peter.

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bulk sms modems for sale
by henry kamabi 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi people I have fusion 100 modems that you can interface for with your software system for bulk sms. They can be programmed with wavecom AT commands and then interface with an application to send and receive sms. The same can be interface with a server to do mobile banking. They are the same ones interfaced with the PABX to act as gsm modem: please contact me offlist if you are interested..+254721791608 regards, henry

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Africa.NET Meeting 30 May 2009 Silver Springs Hotel
by Rad! 27 May '09

27 May '09

If you are a developer, and especially a developer on the .NET platform you might be interested in attending the Africa.NET monthly usergroup meeting at the Silver Springs Hotel, this Saturday 30 May from 9 to 1. There will be a few presentations and demos, and *lots of free swag*. I have a couple of DVDs of SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Vista to give away, as well as training vouchers There will be a introductory session from followed by the main session and finally an open Q&A session. So if you're curious about .NET and technology make sure you attend. So far the confirmed are as follows: 1. Michael Owuor will lead a newbie session from 9:00 - if you are new to .NET and want to find out all about it, this is the session to attend. He will present on creating custom controls on VB.NET 2. Emmanuel Birech will present on the Microsoft BizSpark program for enabling startups, as well as well as Being Ahead Of The Curve: Getting Windows 7 Certification 3. Conrad Akunga will have a practical session of functional programming with F# language Additional speakers are still welcome. If you're interested in making a presentation shoot me an email. 10-45 minutes on ANY software or technology related topic. Bring your friends, Make new friends. Network with your peers. You might find your next client/boss/employee/project/idea there!

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New Group Launches with Open-Source Tools for Mobile Health and Development
by Josiah Mugambi 27 May '09

27 May '09

Good stuff here:http://www.cellular-news.com/story/37684.php?source=rss OMC has already brought together a number of mobile technology tools for collaboration and sharing. These include, among others: - CommCare, a mobile-phone based application that allows community health workers to provide better, more efficient care and improve coordination of community health programs; - Mobilisr, an open source enterprise class mobile messaging platform for NGOs around the world; - Mesh4X, a platform for seamless cross-organizational information sharing between mobile devices, databases, desktop applications, and websites; - RapidSMS, an open source platform allowing for any mobile phone to use SMS to collect data, used in Malawi, Ethiopia and Nigeria to collect information and provide rapid feedback to field workers; - GeoChat, a flexible open source group communications tool that enables mobile field communications and situational awareness during emergencies; - *Ushahidi, a web-based platform that any person or organization can use to set up their own way to collect and visualize information.* Posted to the site on 27th May 2009 -- Josiah Mugambi +254 738 504418 http://blog.josiahmugambi.com SK Classifeds... Visit stockskenya.co.ke for more info.

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CISSP
by Calvin Omari 27 May '09

27 May '09

HI Techies, CISSP will be for the first time be offered in Kenya in June but I don't have an idea where anyone with who knows please get in touch online Calvin

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Local Content
by Paul Mathu 27 May '09

27 May '09

Is it just me or we absolutely have negligible amount of local content on the web. I was once looking out for a procedure of paying elec using mpesa, something i thought should be all over but alas!! This coupled with a thread on districts leave me thinking........ Where are our stories......? -- Regards Mathu http://sojjar.blogspot.com

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Natd on FreeBSD 7.0
by Kisakye Alex 27 May '09

27 May '09

Greetings All, Am running FreeBSD 7.0 on ET/BWMGR appliance. Ive hit a snag when trying to start natd, the box freezes. On googing ive found that it seems tobe a bug in natd within FreeBSD 7.0 but no work around is provided. Anyone on this list with a possible solution. I've run out of support licence for this box so even if Denis wanted to help, he cant without $$$. Any help is welcome. Alex

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Postfix maildir.
by David Ndambuki 27 May '09

27 May '09

Good evening, Is it possible to have postfix save mail in a database table instead of flat file /home/vmail/[domain]/[user] after having set up virtual users? Is there a special reason why it should ALWAYS save there? Any help on this would be HIGHLY appreciated. Been trying to figure it out for a couple of weeks now and I'm not getting anywhere. -- Regards, Ndambuki Muthoka David Phne: +254733476463;+254722316140 Addr: 2084 - 01000 Thika, Kenya.

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safaricom internet
by Quentin Papu 27 May '09

27 May '09

I use safcom modem frequently, and I've noticed something wierd about their internet like: -At times I cannot get through my server (i.e http). The same is accessible on other networks. The problem is usually on and off, and cant seem to figure reason why. I also noticed the same problem in connecting to other servers, like at the moment I cant connect to "http://www.opensuse.org/" among others. Try to ping the same I get "uknown host" -Also the rendering of some pages on the browser(firefox and konqueror) seem to be affected, like - cant load the stylesheet of goole analytics once logged in. Again the same works well on other networks. Maybe the problem is just on myside....how and why???

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Districts
by Edwin Wambua 27 May '09

27 May '09

I need an updated list of Kenya's districts.Is there any .go.ke portal out there where I can get it,including the locations in each and where they refresh the list as the President creates new ones?

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TED 2009; Talk on Creativity *Demons and *Genies
by Martin Muraguri 27 May '09

27 May '09

At the TED viewing last evening the lady who is a writer {Cant remember her name} gave a talk on creativity and where it comes from or rather where its believed to come from. In my opinion she was very right, just last week there was an article associating creativity and insanity or mental disorder, In this article various individuals famous for their brilliant work and insane behavior were mentioned e.g. Michael Jackson - Child abuse, Plastic surgery linked to change of sex Whitney Houston - drug abuse so on so forth Most of us undergo strange sessions while realizing ideas.... Could the theory of Demons and Genies be true? ... I believe It.

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Re: [Skunkworks] Hunger - the plight of our fellow Kenyans, what can the ict community do?
by Arthur Simiyu 27 May '09

27 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 -- I wholeheartedly support you in this. we need to do more to help our fellow Kenyans. Can we setup a a relief coordination website on the my.co.ke server? Have ushahidi run it and monitor the situation on the ground. Simiyu

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Re: [Skunkworks] Zuku
by Riyaz Bachani 27 May '09

27 May '09

One of the things we've noticed is that the Wimax SS takes about 2 mins to boot up. During this process, most devices/OSes time out in their DHCP requests and hence have to be refreshed. But let me get someone to run some tests with you offline. On customer care - a few weeks ago we commissioned a call center PBX system (yes, I know the discussion here about systems :). But this lets us analyze more data on the quality of support. Also, there's some serious training ongoing to make them pointy-hatted. But if you get a particular incident, you need to report it so it can be addressed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Macharia" <kihahu(a)gmail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:42:37 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Zuku Riyaz, The major problem is your DHCP server and the dead customer care!!! On 05/27/2009, Riyaz Bachani < riyaz.bachani(a)ke.wananchi.com > wrote: Theus, Will help you and give you hotlines to call when things are not going well. And lemme know details for your 3 pals too. And this goes out to any skunks on Zuku - if you're having issues, please let me know. My interest is to get to the bottom of any technical issues that exist. R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theus Owicho" < owichot(a)gmail.com > To: "Riyaz Bachani" < riyaz.bachani(a)ke.wananchi.com > Cc: "Skunkworks forum" < skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:35:12 PM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Zuku Riyaz You can look into it but will you resurrect the dead customer care? Will you be on call 24/7 for me? Or do you want to help me now then when I call or email you then you will get back to me rudely or one week later? Zuku must have a functioning CC. It must have standby support team 24/7. There are 3 friends in my predicament who just find it hard that in this day and age you guys start such a service and then you cant support it? I had to throw it away and now I am fully using Safcom but I am paying through the nose. The good thing is that its super fast and I can even download a whole DVD in 14 Minutes. I love it and I have the latest Books and Movies and even softwares because of it. I just love the speeds. If I get twice the speed of Safcom, I will move but until then, I am stuck with Safcom Theus On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Riyaz Bachani < riyaz.bachani(a)ke.wananchi.com > wrote: Theus, Hi, What issues did you have with your connection ? I can look into it. R ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Theus Owicho" < owichot(a)gmail.com > To: "Skunkworks forum" < skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:14:55 PM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Zuku Ugly Ugly Ugly. Dont even dare. I dumped my equipment in the bacyard On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Victor Maina < vmaina(a)gmail.com > wrote: Hello! I saw an interesting ad from Zuku (Wananchi) over the weekend offering half price internet bundles. However, I am yet to meet anyone who uses or has used their services. How good is the service as compared to other similar product offerings? -- Victor Maina. Mobile: +254-738-722554 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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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Notice:-BPO eDiscussion, June 2nd-15th, 2009
by Walubengo J 27 May '09

27 May '09

Dear esteemed Listers (& apologies for cross-posting), I must seek your apologies for having to bring forth the BPO discussion ahead of the eContent Discussion as earlier planned. This is due to the fact that the BPO research undertaken by UoN, Prof. T. Waema et al has some strict publishing deadlines and he did NOT want to go to press without feedback from the community. We therefore seek your indulgence to ran the BPO discussion next week from Tuesday 2nd June 2009 for 2weeks according to the following themes and specifications: e-Discussion outline: 1. The policy, legal and institutional frameworks for BPO sector (2days, Walu moderating) 2. Subsidies accorded to BPO sector (2days, Walu moderating) 3. Human Capacity Issues (2days, Walu moderating) 4. Youth and Gender Issues (2days, Dr. C. Adeya moderating) 5. Strengths and Challenges for Kenya as a BPO destination (2days, Dr. C. Adeya moderating) The Aim of the e-discussion is to: Present the interim findings from the BPO research team and to get inputs from the ICT community and other e-participants in Kenya. The Objectives of the e-discussion are: * to share the interim findings of the BPO study * to obtain inputs from the e-participants * to begin to build consensus on the policy implications The Outputs The main output is a summary of the e-participants contributions. This summary will be used to enrich the findings to be presented in a stakeholders' workshop at the end of June 2009. We look forward to your active contribution to this important discussion next week and promise to run the eContent discussion soon after. walu.

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JOB Advert - Project Officer Kakuma
by Michael Omondi 27 May '09

27 May '09

Please forward this advert to suitable candidates Thanks, Mike

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Meeting Announcement; Windows 7 RC Review, Tuesday 2nd June
by Phares Kariuki 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi, The next Skunkworks meeting will be on Tuesday 2nd June, 2009. Speaker: Wilfred Mworia Topic: Windows 7 RC Review Time: 6.00pm Location: Teleposta Towers, 4th Floor SWAG: Windows Server 2008 R2 DVD's, Windows 7 RC DVD's. Thanks. -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |

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Re: [Skunkworks] Zuku
by David Kago 27 May '09

27 May '09

<comment>Crap service</comment> ________________________________ From: Theus Owicho [mailto:owichot@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:15 PM To: Skunkworks forum Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Zuku Ugly Ugly Ugly. Dont even dare. I dumped my equipment in the bacyard On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Victor Maina <vmaina(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello! I saw an interesting ad from Zuku (Wananchi) over the weekend offering half price internet bundles. However, I am yet to meet anyone who uses or has used their services. How good is the service as compared to other similar product offerings? -- Victor Maina. Mobile: +254-738-722554 _______________________________________________ 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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Wolphram Alpha opens API
by David Kago 27 May '09

27 May '09

This is the coolest RESTful service ever! http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/05/26/wolfram-alpha-opens-api-more- features-on-the-way/

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