[LUG] IT specialists

2018-02-15 Thread Christopher Nambale
Dear Luggers, I am looking for young energetic individuals who can provide IT support (LAN and WAN infrastructure) in the field as well as to support a proprietary information system (with training of course). If you have any leads kindly send me their CV's Thanks in advance and kind regards,

[LUG] OT - Programmers needed

2017-12-28 Thread Christopher Nambale
Dear Colleagues, please pass this on to anyone you think may be interested and to your ICT networks. https://qsourcing.com/job/300-programmers-needed/ Best regards, Christopher ___ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to

Re: [LUG] LUG Digest, Vol 102, Issue 23

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher Nambale
Kiggs well said. I think several people find it easier to read their local languages than they do English. It should be noted that there is a generation of people that were in school before independence who were taught how to read and write in their mother tongues. Since this generation is

Re: [LUG] LUG Digest, Vol 83, Issue 47

2011-07-17 Thread Christopher Nambale
Hi All, looks like I am getting one digest per message, rather than one digest per day. Kind regards Chris On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:13 PM, lug-requ...@linux.or.ug wrote: Send LUG mailing list submissions to lug@linux.or.ug To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

[LUG] The king is dead, long live the king

2011-04-06 Thread Christopher Nambale
Someone feels that Microsoft has given up the ghost. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040511-linux-vs-microsoft.html?hpg1=bn CN ___ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to:

Re: [LUG] Adobe responds to steve[OT]

2010-05-03 Thread Christopher Nambale
if it's good. This guy gets it: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/04/29/jobs_on_flash/#c_752789  On May 02, 2010, at 20:02, Christopher Nambale wrote: And FSF's 'non of the above' recommendation. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/pot-meet-kettle-a-response-to-steve-jobs

Re: [LUG] Adobe responds to steve[OT]

2010-05-03 Thread Christopher Nambale
is that Flash is going to take a beating, HTML5 is going to surge.  (Good, from where us openness types stand.) If I were Adobe, I'd be positioning myself as maker of HTML5 content/app creation tools pronto... P. On May 03, 2010, at 14:34, Christopher Nambale wrote: I beg to disagree

[LUG] ATMs -Off Topic

2010-04-13 Thread Christopher Nambale
Further to the discussion we had last week about the safety of ATM cards and to the story in  The Monitor today: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/896792/-/7gh2pu/-/index.html  wired is running a story that provides an example of social engineering and theft. Reads like a 5 dollar

Re: [LUG] The 5 best excuses for not buying an iPad

2010-04-02 Thread Christopher Nambale
Well it should care for their thoughts at the very least, considering that OS X and Iphone OS borrow their core from the open source Freebsd community. Granted some of Apples products are brilliantly engineered and groundbreaking, however, isn't this whole Apple worshiping thing going a bit too

Re: [LUG] [OT] Should techies have to demonstrate good communication skills?

2009-10-08 Thread Christopher Nambale
Simon, what has cursive writing or penmanship got to do with this debate?   My own opinion is that people who are good with words (both spoken and written) always tend to end up at the top of the corporate ladder, whether they deserve it or not. And the brilliant engineers who run the show in

Re: [LUG] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-09-30 Thread Christopher Nambale
Mr Daniel Bwente,   Can you please update your linked in email address.   Cheers --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Gibson Wasukira gwasuk...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gibson Wasukira gwasuk...@gmail.com Subject: [LUG] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn To: Daniel Bwente lug@linux.or.ug Date: Wednesday,

Re: [LUG] Judicious use of humour may succeed where other methods have failed

2009-09-10 Thread Christopher Nambale
Sure?  I need some convincing on your 6 hours number.   CN --- On Thu, 9/10/09, McTim dogwal...@gmail.com wrote: From: McTim dogwal...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [LUG] Judicious use of humour may succeed where other methods have failed To: k...@img.co.ug, Linux Users Group Uganda lug@linux.or.ug

Fw: Re: [LUG] Judicious use of humour may succeed where other methods have failed

2009-09-10 Thread Christopher Nambale
Disregard I need more coffee.   CN --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Christopher Nambale nambal...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Christopher Nambale nambal...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [LUG] Judicious use of humour may succeed where other methods have failed To: k...@img.co.ug, Linux Users Group Uganda lug

Re: [LUG] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher Nambale
Does your CPU fan behave/sound like it is working normally? The next time you boot the computer you might want to check the /var/log/messages and see what is causing the Kernel panic, keep an eye on the CPU temperature as  well.   Christopher --- On Tue, 6/23/09, Jacques Schrier

Re: [LUG] Computer software piracy in Ug

2009-05-28 Thread Christopher Nambale
with your OS. True, Advocacy is key in this area, any suggestions? Robert 2009/5/27 Christopher Nambale nambal...@yahoo.com http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/682561 For those of you in the know, please tell us what the Ugandan law says about software piracy, and in that regard what does

[LUG] Computer software piracy in Ug

2009-05-27 Thread Christopher Nambale
http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/682561 For those of you in the know, please tell us what the Ugandan law says about software piracy, and in that regard what does the Uganda Performing Rights Society have to do with software piracy? By the way, what is the cost of a copy of Vista in Ugandan

Re: [LUG] ET/BWMGR r2400

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher Nambale
Could also be because you have not defined any BW channels. The default may be to implicitly deny all traffic. So you may need to define at least one channel that explicitly passes some traffic.   Regards   C --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Markus A. Wipfler mar...@infocom.co.ug wrote: From: Markus A.

Re: [LUG] Detecting uninstalled software

2009-04-01 Thread Christopher Nambale
Plenty of those try searching for 'computer asset management' or 'IT asset management'   Cheers   C  --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Mugarura Cavin mugaru...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mugarura Cavin mugaru...@gmail.com Subject: [LUG] Detecting uninstalled software To: lug lug@linux.or.ug Date: Wednesday,

RE: [LUG] Thermal events and ACPI

2009-03-25 Thread Christopher Nambale
E71) -original message- Subject: [LUG] Thermal events and ACPI From: Christopher Nambale nambal...@yahoo.com Date: 24/03/2009 6:37 pm Hi all, I have a computer running Ubuntu 8:10 and the noise from the fan is killing me. When I run it in Vista the fan is more or less very quiet whatever I do

[LUG] Thermal events and ACPI

2009-03-24 Thread Christopher Nambale
Hi all, I have a computer running Ubuntu 8:10 and the noise from the fan is killing me. When I run it in Vista the fan is more or less very quiet whatever I do. However, once I switch to Ubuntu and run anything graphically intensive like a short video the fan starts up and never goes away. So

[LUG] OT: Cell Phone use

2008-06-19 Thread Christopher Nambale
For those who have not yet slashed. An interesting article on cell phone usage around the world. I have not experienced half of the uses mentioned for Uganda. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826602.000-interview-the-cellphone-anthropologist.html C

[LUG] Regional Exchange Points

2008-04-01 Thread Christopher Nambale
Hi Luggers, With all this fiber that is in the pipeline in and around the East African region, are there plans underway for a regional exchange point? Best regards, Christopher - Special deal for Yahoo! users friends - No Cost. Get a month of

Re: [LUG] Regional Exchange Points

2008-04-01 Thread Christopher Nambale
Could you be more specific please, in as on which fora it was discussed and if possible who won the tender and what is on the ground at the moment. Cheers, C Mark Tinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Christopher Nambale wrote: With all this fiber

Re: [LUG] Repartion on the fly

2005-07-29 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
Hi Sorry had missed the on-the-fly bit. Disregard my last message. rgds, CN Christopher Nambale/Bushnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/29/2005 03:01 PM Please respond to Linux Users Group Uganda lug@linux.or.ug To [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linux Users Group Uganda lug

Re: [Fwd: RE: [LUG] Ugandan Easy Linux Guide to be used in SA]

2005-07-20 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
Wire Great stuff, A quick look through the mailing list archive and there are few or no Ugandan (well at least they don't look like) posts other than the developers. Has there been an implementation or use of Mbuni at any of the local Telco's? Rgds, CN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

Re: [LUG] How much can a website cost

2005-07-05 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/05/2005 03:21:55 PM: I will keep working until that day when the country will realise what I am doing without asking questions about what the leaders are failing to do. James I don't know why, but I refuse to believe that hard work will always be

Re: [LUG] Refusing connections with DHCP

2005-06-17 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
Why don't you simply deny the DHCP packets from that MAC address in the firewall. But what happens when they catch on and assign themselves an IP address manually? wouldn't it be better so simply put an access list that denies on the gateway router or on the LAN switch? Regards CN Lule

Re: [LUG] Refusing connections with DHCP

2005-06-17 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/17/2005 01:13:48 PM: Lule George William wrote the following on 06/17/2005 11:23 AM: Thanks Ernest, Correct me if my interpretation of the conf below is wrong, but I think it declares hosts 1, 2 ...(to whichever number I may feel like) along with their

[LUG] Interested

2005-03-18 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
Hi, Anyone know of a tool that can recover/undelete (rm -f, whilst using the roots name in vain) files on an ext3 filesystem or is this an impossibility? Regards CN ___ LUG mailing list LUG@linux.or.ug http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is

Re: [LUG] Analysis Site

2004-12-21 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
This one is recent http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/TCO-study-Linux-wins-again/2004/12/13/1102786990788.html?> regards CN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/22/2004 08:53 AM Please respond to Linux Users Group Uganda lug@linux.or.ug To lug@linux.or.ug cc

[LUG] The evil empire strikes back

2004-11-10 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
A lot seems to happening at Redmond these days. Just a few days ago they had a Mega-launch of their Xbox game Halo2, this coming on the back of the fact, as everyone seems to agree, that Xbox sales have been largely disappointing.

Re: [LUG] Morphix on HD

2004-10-27 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
Boy are you in trouble how risk averse are you? If you are a risk taker which I would suppose you are since you are using morphix, I would recommend reinstalling and during the install make sure grub is installed to the MBR and hope and pray it does it right and does not destroy your windows

Re: [LUG] Optical illusions and Gimp

2004-10-05 Thread Christopher Nambale
Cool, Check out these ones that appeared on slashdot yesterday. http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html CN Kiggundu Mukasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/05/2004 08:52 AM Please respond to Linux Users Group Uganda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Linux Users Group

Re: [LUG] Mozilla Translation Beta Test

2004-09-08 Thread Christopher Nambale
James Is that weloboze or welowoze? CN On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guido Some examples - website - omuko - I Cant really place it - preferences - Weloboze - Rethink - Domain - Kyapa - a title e.g land title We didnt bother with the keyboard layout as we

lug_: Re: FW: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Internet Exchange - Tanzania

2004-01-27 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
Going by the message below looks like these guys have some traffic stats on the usage of the IXP. Do we have anything like that for our IXP? CN Mark Tinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/2004 07:28 AM Please respond to mtinka To: 'uixp' [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lug_: A blast from the past -on a lighter note

2004-01-07 Thread Christopher Nambale/Bushnet
http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/1999/09/01/comhell/ - This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug

lug_: Re: Members/Site Access

2003-07-30 Thread Christopher Nambale
Bill, I have looked at the slides from PCH and a few web resources but I must admit there are a few issues that are not clear to me. In cases where the web hosting is done at a site say in the US whereby one has no access to the server's configuration, is anycast still an alternative? Are the

lug_: Re: Members/Site Access

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Nambale
Mark, Isn't there a way of 'rigging' DNS servers to answer queries based on the requesting source's IP address. I think this would be a more elegant solution to the location issue though I do not know how involving and scalable it would be. CN Mark Tinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

lug_: RE: Members/Site Access

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Nambale
networks... Regards CN Mark Tinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/03 03:09 PM Please respond to mtinka To: Christopher Nambale/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: Members/Site Access [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark

lug_: And what's in your makefile?

2003-06-19 Thread Christopher Nambale
JediTrainer writes Community backlash begins! The author of Nmap has decided to remove all support of the SCO operating system as of version 3.28. Quoting the changelog, 'SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM. Bug reports