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Problem loading pages when using Internet everywhere
by Job Njogu 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi. I have noticed that with the orange Internet everywhere connection certain pages are not loading even google search. Anyone who has experienced the same issue and what might be the problem because I have called them up and they have no Idea what am talking about. -- Regards, Job Njogu Muriuki, Phone: +254736333075, +254202360107 Address: 42665 00100 Nrb

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Meeting Announcement; Windows 7 RC Review
by Phares Kariuki 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi, Next meeting is at Multimedia University of Technology, Teleposta Towers, 4th Floor, Kenyatta Avenue. Meeting will discuss Windows 7 RC2 and the presentation will be given by Wilfred Mworia of Microsoft. Meeting Starts at 6.00pm. Thanks. -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 734 810 802 | E: pkariuki(a)gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares |

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joel-talks-about-stack-overflow-at-google
by Murigi Muraya 19 May '09

19 May '09

Who can get a clear download (copy) of this talk? Google Kenya? http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/joel-talks-about-stack-overflow-at-go… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ

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Ops manager in Tanzania for d.light
by Nathan Eagle 19 May '09

19 May '09

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Personal invitation from Rita Gitobu
by Rita Gitobu 19 May '09

19 May '09

Personal invitation from Rita Gitobu

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Personal invitation from Rita Gitobu
by Rita Gitobu 19 May '09

19 May '09

Personal invitation from Rita Gitobu

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Call upon aki to give a Tuesday talk?
by Gakuru Alex 19 May '09

19 May '09

Folks, I've never met aki but judging from the various contributions, perhaps skunkworks could benefit much if he agreed to give a Tuesday talk. What do you say? Yes/No? Alex

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Government Information Technology Services Director's Job Vacancy Reminder
by saich 19 May '09

19 May '09

Again skunkers i humbly remind you again to apply for this Top Government Job(the 20yrs experience regardless) so that ya'll champion the IT battle from within the Government ....ama niaje...www.psckjobs.go.ke......

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Zain's Vuka tariff
by jnjogu＠gmail.com 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi. Is it true that Zain have adjusted up the call charges on Vuka tariff to 12 kes across networks. If so, what else the have they been upto without telling. _____________________________ Sent from my phone using Flurrymail - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurrymail.com

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off topic (proper vacation)
by Brian Lusiola 19 May '09

19 May '09

http://www.somalicruises.com/ I am planning for this. [?] -- Lusiola Brian Everyone has photographic memory, not everyone has film though.

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General Engineering/Physics Question
by Paul Njoroge 19 May '09

19 May '09

Guys I have an engineering/physics query, I have noted that in the morning on Mombasa road, coming towards town, somewhere at South C near the ICC church and the river, the car radio usually loses its signals, I know it could be due to the nearby KPLC transformers but I cant really explain why and its been bothering me. Anyone? P.N.

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Seacom cable
by aki 19 May '09

19 May '09

anyone with updates on this cable? June 1st was to be start of testing and 27th as commissioning date. :-)

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SAMPLE THESE: Fwd: Hi friend,
by James Muendo 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi guyz, How many of you have noticed such kind of emails,coming from people you know?I think there is an issue whereby your mail is being used to market certain products(Which are cheaper than the normal market price)..... Its really wierd.Anyone with the same experience? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Mwema <muithimwema(a)gmail.com> Date: 17 May 2009 19:12 Subject: Hi friend, Hi friend, how are you doing recently ? I would like to introduce you a very good company which i knew.Their website is www.eleintrade.com .They can offer you all kinds of electronical products which you need like laptops ,gps ,TV LCD,cell phones,ps3,MP3/4,motorcycles etc........Please take some time to have a check ,there must be somethings you 'd like to purchase . Their contact email: eleintrade(a)188.com. MSN: eleintrade01(a)hotmail.com eleintrade1(a)yahoo.cn Hope you have a good mood in shopping from their company ! Regards -- James M. Muendo Timsoft Technologies & Solutions Ltd. P.O Box 28016 - 00200, Nairobi. Mobile: +254725567508 skype:tim.rick http://rickdeesadvantage.blogspot.com/

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Orange USB Modem for Sale
by Theus Owicho 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hello I have Orange Internet Everywhere Modem for Sale at only Ksh 5,000. Its loaded with Some Ksh 2,000 but I think I have used Ksh 50 bob or So. Please contact me if you are interested. It goes for Ksh 4,500 in Orange Shops Owicho

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CITY COUNCIL BY LAWS
by michael wambua 18 May '09

18 May '09

CAN SOMEBODY SHARE THE LAWS THE CITY COUNCIL SEEM TO BE PRACTISING...COZ LEANING ON A POST IS PROPERTY DAMAGING...(I KNW ITS NOT SKUNKWORKS MATERIAL BUT WE ARE BROTHERS RITE?) -- Name : Michael Wambua Location : Kigali Rwanda. Cell : +254 712710697

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Re: [Skunkworks] offsubject: friday closer. ever design speaker cabinets/boxes?
by Riyaz Bachani 18 May '09

18 May '09

You know the best speaker case - some guys had this in high school and it ROCKED .... A Bucket :) the plastic kind. Green was good, but red worked best :) R ----- Original Message ----- From: "aki" <aki275(a)googlemail.com> To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:32:35 PM GMT +03:00 Iraq Subject: [Skunkworks] offsubject: friday closer. ever design speaker cabinets/boxes? back in early 90s, there was a demand and designing these cabinets boxes was not an easy thing. possibly many may not know that the cabinet/box produces the correct sound ( with speakers, unles you use specials like Bose, JBL). And please not those things that are a box with blanket material in it and stuffed in your car boot......I worked on one project and we worked with displacement volume of air per speaker size with internal channels and divisions between woofer, mid range and tweeters. It was called WOOD TUNING! yeah, its true. Too big a box and you get muffled sound while too small sound like a speaker in a tin can. horrible. next time you want that real sound without much graphic equalizers, I think there should be online formulas to do the right box. ( those days the net was unknown ). The best speakers I'll remember were huge anti-static original JBL flat that would probably stop your heartbeat if you touched the static electricity speakers. These needed quad amps to drive the static across the diaphrams. :-) _______________________________________________ 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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Laptop Purchase
by JEREMIAH CHUNGE 18 May '09

18 May '09

Skunks, Looking for a laptop for around 70k max. (DELL/TOSHIBA/COMPAQ) If Macbooks are available as well, i'll appreciate an offer. Kindly respond offlist... Regards, Jeremy

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Re: [Skunkworks] Call upon aki to give a Tuesday talk?
by fyodor 18 May '09

18 May '09

>aki (yetu)!!! x4 Aki ya nani, hata mimi na second hiyo opinion! -tyrus _IEEE Member.

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Re: [Skunkworks] The First Kenya Open Source Awards - Didn't know you were in Kenya, did you? iX Systems
by Brett Davis - iXsystems 18 May '09

18 May '09

Thank you kindly for the introduction, Githogori. Pleased to meet you, Mr. Ikua. Upon further examination here, it looks like you've most likely been in touch directly with Mr. Ken Kasina and Kris Moore regarding our sponsorship. I'm sure they're taking care of you, but if there is anything else I can do to assist you, please let me know. Thanks for involving iXsystems and PC-BSD in your event. I wish you a successful and enjoyable show. Warm regards, -- Brett Davis iXsystems, Inc. 408.943.4100 x109 408.943.4101 fax brett(a)iXsystems.com www.iXsystems.com "Enterprise Servers for Open Source." ===================================== Githogori Nyangara-Murage wrote: > Brett, > Evans Ikua sent the original message. I am hoping that if he sees > this email he will contact you directly. ["For skunkworks folks: Brett > is a VP at iX Systems and a great person to get to know directly. My > company has bought quite a few really good systems for FreeBSD from iX > Systems here in Silicon Valley - and of course I always get > miscellaneous free goodies from them whenever I drop in at iX Systems > ;-) "] > > .githogori. >> Thanks for passing this along, Githogori! I'm still trying to get to >> the bottom of this, but our Marketing Gal is out of the office today, >> and she'd be the one with the info. Any idea who the main contact >> would be? I want to make sure we're taking care of them and at least >> sending a few hundred PC-BSD CD's as well for them to hand out. How >> many attendees do they expect, do you know? >> >> Thanks again! >> Brett >> >> Githogori Nyangara-Murage wrote: >>> Brett, >>> Here is the announcement that I mentioned to you on Tuesday. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> .githogori. >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> From: - Tue May 12 06:33:11 2009 >>> X-Account-Key: account1 >>> X-UIDL: <c09078860905120624tc359133g2038abde7508a322(a)mail.gmail.com> >>> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 >>> X-Mozilla-Status2: 10000000 >>> X-Mozilla-Keys: X-POP3-Rcpt: githogori(a)siliconbazaar.com >>> Return-Path: <skunkworks-bounces(a)lists.my.co.ke> >>> X-Original-To: githogori(a)siliconbazaar.com >>> Delivered-To: githogori(a)siliconbazaar.com >>> Received: from lists.my.co.ke (my.co.ke [62.8.88.72]) by >>> Kenya.SiliconBazaar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707DDAAFF8 for >>> <githogori(a)siliconbazaar.com>; Tue, 12 May 2009 06:30:57 -0700 (PDT) >>> Received: from lists.my.co.ke (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by >>> lists.my.co.ke (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3193350E9E; Tue, 12 May 2009 >>> 13:24:42 +0000 (UTC) >>> X-Original-To: skunkworks(a)my.co.ke >>> Delivered-To: skunkworks(a)my.co.ke >>> Received: from mail-bw0-f221.google.com (unknown >>> [209.85.218.221]) by lists.my.co.ke (Postfix) with ESMTP id >>> B1AB050E14 for <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke>; Tue, 12 May 2009 13:24:35 +0000 >>> (UTC) >>> Received: by bwz21 with SMTP id 21so3838574bwz.40 for >>> <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke>; Tue, 12 May 2009 06:24:29 -0700 (PDT) >>> DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; >>> d=gmail.com; s=gamma; >>> h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject >>> :from:to:content-type; >>> bh=0nTS5iuGadIwZFP6HndRGTrE9OnUg922lq61WLhrAXY=; >>> b=ilxKIxD271lQAvxze1JvnnZljFpGS7ahgNzQZhSjsbesVUfDE+Q0s/1gxmhwWlVXmI >>> v/y3+GYr+yWuRCi8hxboh2R7nIoew+2dJZ952tBvDXRFUeiETYw8wNOeChdDpB3lIc0T >>> cLkrQY6QdDW5e+FaHlAyDbZV2BB5uEcBkIAdE= >>> DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; >>> h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; >>> b=c7iUS4OWA+BqF1Q502fUsGf+b4PhRh6R5bzsy9MqC6kUBtiSaatachJWOI3zBhHvSv >>> mTZ2sG7kg3Eg0LoFX1mu1UG0nBwCGJ5oyhNUlvh9iyRwHsP2NWiBaSHCvOUJmukK2LgZ >>> CTjC54W6WusNWUhPHoj6Rw7QzQCNz7sbESAWc= >>> MIME-Version: 1.0 >>> Received: by 10.223.115.12 with SMTP id >>> g12mr4731464faq.92.1242134667886; Tue, 12 May 2009 06:24:27 -0700 (PDT) >>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:24:27 +0300 >>> Message-ID: >>> <c09078860905120624tc359133g2038abde7508a322(a)mail.gmail.com> >>> From: Evans Ikua <ikua.evans(a)gmail.com> >>> To: skunkworks(a)my.co.ke, ke-users <ke-internetusers(a)bdix.net> >>> Subject: [Skunkworks] The First Kenya Open Source Awards >>> X-BeenThere: skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >>> X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 >>> Precedence: list >>> Reply-To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> >>> List-Id: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks.lists.my.co.ke> >>> List-Unsubscribe: >>> <http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/options/skunkworks>, >>> <mailto:skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke?subject=unsubscribe> >>> List-Archive: <http://lists.my.co.ke/pipermail/skunkworks> >>> List-Post: <mailto:skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> >>> List-Help: <mailto:skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke?subject=help> >>> List-Subscribe: >>> <http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks>, >>> <mailto:skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke?subject=subscribe> >>> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >>> boundary="===============1863345650==" >>> Sender: skunkworks-bounces(a)lists.my.co.ke >>> Errors-To: skunkworks-bounces(a)lists.my.co.ke >>> >>> >>> >>> The Linux Professional Association of Kenya and ICT Consumers >>> Association of Kenya are pleased to invite you to Kenya's first-ever >>> Open Source Awards <http://www.lpakenya.org/home/node/17>, The >>> ceremony will be held at the Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, on 27th May, 2009. >>> >>> The purpose of this awards ceremony is to appreciate with recognition >>> Kenya open source contributors who have made an impact in the open >>> source community both locally and globally with their innovative >>> solutions. >>> >>> Gracing the occassion will be the Hon. Eng. James Rege who is the MP for >>> Karachuonyo and Chairman of the Parliamentary committee on >>> Communications (Guest of Honour), and Dr. Bitange Ndemo, the >>> Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communications. The >>> Master of ceremony will be Ms Njeri Rionge. >>> >>> Google and ixsystems Inc. www.ixsystems.com >>> <http://www.ixsystems.com/>, are among our confirmed sponsors. >>> >>> The nomination process is open and will be facilitated by the LPA >>> secretariat and the organising committee. We invite developers, >>> system administrators, end users, SMEs, Corporate bodies, Government >>> and Civil Society players who have made notable contribution to Open >>> Source, for nomination. >>> >>> We especially invite those in the Skunkworks community who are >>> involved in Open Source solutions, or those who know someone or some >>> organization involved in Open Source projects to come forward and >>> nominate the same for the awards. You can get in touch with the >>> secretariat on opensourceawards at lpakenya dot org. >>> >>> *Some of the Categories include:* >>> a) Best Open Source deployment by government >>> b) Best Open Source deployment by business >>> c) Best Open Source deployment by Civil Society >>> d) Best FOSS Developers (various categories) >>> e) Best FOSS in SME (various categories e.g. cybers, micro-enterprises, >>> mini-business..) >>> f) Best Innovative FOSS Solution etc. >>> >>> Further details will be shared on this and other forums. >>> >>> Evans Ikua, >>> >>> LPA-Kenya >>> >> >> >> >

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Inventory Management & Order Tracking
by Odhiambo ワシントン 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi guys, I am looking for software, FOSS preferred but not only option, that can be used for Inventory Management and Order Tracking. To be used by a Windows LUser so it should run on Windows Desktop. Anyone with good pointers? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain

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Centralized Logging Dilemma
by Eric Mugo 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, Hope you are all well. From your experience out there with SME's and even Corporate/Bluechip Organizations and Governement, what would you say on average is their Log Retention Policy. A few direct questions would be 1. How long do they retain their logs? 2. How do the do it i.e Centralized or Decentralized? 3. If centralized what solutions do they use? 4. Any Open Source solution out there that has powerful Reporting Capabilities? 5. Do Financial Institutions have Strong Log Retention Policies regulated through Central Bank Regards, Eric Mugo.

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RF/IP engineers Needed
by Space NOC 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi All, Space Engineering is looking for RF/ip VSAT engineers. Kindly ask VSAT engineers to send their Cv's to the above address. David.

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EVDO modem for sale
by Michael Omondi 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, I have an ORANGE BROADBAND EVDO for sale. Huawei model. Less than a month old. Owner is traveling out of the country. Price negotiable If you are interested contact me off list. Thanks..

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Internet Problems:- Someone taking it down?
by Peter Karunyu 18 May '09

18 May '09

This forum is inundated with complaints of problems with Google, .co.kesites and most recently, yahoo, facebook and twitter. This made me wonder, sometime ago, Saich was doing some assignment on how to take down the internet and we all kindly offered our suggestions... Could it be that someone actually tried to test those suggestions? No explanation has been offered why Google is having issues, or how/why Google Morocco was hacked.

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Vacation reply || Dear friend || Some other weird subject
by Simon Mbuthia 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hey guys, I just received this message below from two different friends, and looking at the To: field, the message seems to have been sent to everybody; which probably means that spammers somehow obtained passwords to these users' email accounts and sent the advert to all contacts in the users' address books. This appears to be worm behaviour to me. Now the question that I wish to ask is... how on earth did these spammers get these passwords? Phishing? Anyone heard of the story behind this email? It's on several sites on the net, but all that people are saying is to change your password and use a strong password etc. but my guess is that all this is an unconfirmed solution, though I believe it could work. But the problem is not that someone can send an email from my account without my consent, but that he/she can get my password. That's what worries me. So, anybody got any ideas on how this could have happened? Thanks, Me. 2009/4/28 <dicksonmwangi356(a)hotmail.com> > Dear friend, > I would like to introduce a really good company that mainly do the > electornic products trade. > Now the company is doing promotion,all of it's products are sold nearly as > same as their cost. > It redeners the best service to customers,it provide you original products > which is > good quality,and what's more,the pricewill give you a big surprise! > It is realy a good opportunity for doing shopping.Just grasp the > opportunity,or there will be no more than that! > The web address: www.kanicn.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- שִׁמְעוֹן

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