Food for thought..
http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2013/07/08/3-reasons-why-silicon-semenya-kenya-will-never-match-silicon-valley-us/
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Hi,
This is going to be a bit of an off-topic angry rant, but I'll add my two
cents here:
I'm really sick of going to tech events and watching panels of fly-in's
from the World Bank, established corporations, or whatever, tell us we need
to think bigger or that we should look at Silicon Valley
Hi Kyle
Very good summary completely concur.. people forget that each situation
(Time, Place and Resources) are often different so difference approaches are
required, what works for one does not mean it will work for the other.
I am also tired of experts that live in bubbles completely
We saw this coming.
http://beta.fool.com/joekurtz/2013/07/22/the-windows-era-is-over/40988/?source=eogyholnk001
*Microsoft*’s (NASDAQ: MSFT
http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/MSFT.aspx)earnings report made it
official: the Windows era is over. Microsoft shares
fell over 11% on Friday, the
Use ifeth0 enable
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Muganwa Michael mugan...@gmail.com wrote:
Good morning colleagues,
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I have this gateway running
ubuntu 12.04 that has been working well for a couple of months but
yesterday,I got to office and its
I agree with Kyle's points mostly, I think you can get around not having a
public IP by using Dynamic DNS type services, but in the long run it is not
the most Ideal solution. Having that fat pipe of bandwidth is IMO the most
crushing aspect.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Peter Atkin
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2039974/The-deep-web-The-new-map-undersea-cables-world-clicking.html
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/bandwidth-explosion-as-internet-use-soars-can-bottlenecks-be-averted/
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Five solae
One thing that could help alleviate the pain is more focus on distributing
the bandwidth so local IX's can help share the burden.
On 23 Jul 2013 15:09, Kiggundu Mukasa kiggu...@gmail.com wrote:
Not in its current form, no. They will have to re-saddle. But that's not
even the most interesting question. The real nail-biter is: Which company
will fill the power gap? And how will this change the landscape?
On 23 July 2013 13:48, brian lance lancebr...@gmail.com wrote:
We saw this
No Sanga, you are thinking of not having static IPs. That can be alleviated
with dynamic DNS services. Not having a *public* IP is something entirely
different.
I agree with everything Kyle says. The problem ultimately boils down to
Uganda's not being a democracy. If the government operated under
When you think about it, there is no gap. Any really discerning shopper can
replace any and all of the Microsoft stack for free almost.
Have you seen alternativeto.net?
Today I looked at monodevelop.
You now need a compelling business case to invest in Microsoft.
On Jul 23, 2013 7:29 PM, Benjamin
Good read, but its like a pipeline dream here in Uganda in terms of
bandwidth expansion to the leagues in Europe or Asia, esp when you hear
orange advertise for 42Mbps modems when actually no one in Uganda utilizes
such internet speeds. Its like buying a Bugatti Veyron to test on Kampala
road.
The answer is to host the applications HERE in Uganda and if they are good
enough, people will find them here but for now, let them be relevant to our
markets here. The first thing all these countries did was develop their
INTERNAL networks. Silicon valley became that way because PEOPLE WENT
lol @ 5MB for the ministry with 250 users , is this really true ?
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:01 PM, brian lance lancebr...@gmail.com wrote:
Good read, but its like a pipeline dream here in Uganda in terms of
bandwidth expansion to the leagues in Europe or Asia, esp when you hear
orange
We have a healthy exchange point in Uganda. Even if the network you (or
your services) are on is limited to the Kampala region, you still have a
decent route to content and users on other networks in Uganda.
On Jul 23, 2013 8:18 PM, James S. K. Makumbi jmark...@gmail.com wrote:
The answer is to
And we not the worst ones.don't expect Youtube access for everyone here
its VIP access only.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:23 PM, David Lubowa zi...@trueafrican.com wrote:
lol @ 5MB for the ministry with 250 users , is this really true ?
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:01 PM, brian lance
I have no problem with the exchange point.
My beef is with the lack of content.
What are we using the IXP for?
From: lug-boun...@linux.or.ug [mailto:lug-boun...@linux.or.ug] On Behalf Of
Kyle Spencer
Sent: 23 July 2013 20:26
To: Uganda Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [LUG] Global Bandwidth
Actually, the Chinese just tunnel under the firewall. If you don't know
how, the local Internet café will do it for you if you ask and look
sufficiently non-government-spyish.
On 23 July 2013 19:16, James S. K. Makumbi jmark...@gmail.com wrote:
The answer is to host the applications HERE in
Just pointing out that it's there :)
On Jul 23, 2013 8:55 PM, James S. K. Makumbi jmark...@gmail.com wrote:
I have no problem with the exchange point.
My beef is with the lack of content.
What are we using the IXP for?
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*From:* lug-boun...@linux.or.ug
All Uganda's youtube contributions (ntv, Wavah's BS and others) are hosted
locally so the IXP can really help with that. They should restrict you to
youtbe.co.ug actually or to the UG channel (is that possible?)
From: lug-boun...@linux.or.ug [mailto:lug-boun...@linux.or.ug] On Behalf Of
brian
This conversation is over my head, but a question: if you're accessing
local servers, you still get charged at the same bandwidth rate, right?
Just it's faster and you ease congestion?
Neil
On Jul 23, 2013 9:15 PM, James S. K. Makumbi jmark...@gmail.com wrote:
All Uganda’s youtube
No one should be too quick to write M$ off. These boys have survived the
worst economic storms of their times. I am highly doubtful a $900 million
RT write off will significantly dent their money minting record. Only time
will tell though
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On 23/07/2013 7:51 PM, Jake
All I meant was that now instead of saying THERE IS Microsoft, we now say,
Oh yeah there is ALSO Microsoft.
From: lug-boun...@linux.or.ug [mailto:lug-boun...@linux.or.ug] On Behalf Of
Bright Onapito
Sent: 23 July 2013 21:25
To: Uganda Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [LUG] The Windows Era Is Over
DataNet don't charge for local data links, as long as you of course
originating from their infrastructure, I get 5Mb link to most my DataNet
clients without an issue.
Kind Regards
Peter Atkin
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M$ has $70 billion in cash
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft
She's a big mama and she aint going no where anytime soon!
Kiggs
On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:33 PM, James S. K. Makumbi jmark...@gmail.com wrote:
All I meant was that now instead of saying THERE IS Microsoft, we now say,
“Oh yeah
sanga collins wrote thus on 7/23/13 9:26 PM:
Hi Benjamin, I see what you mean. That actually is even worse. I
must admit I am complete spoiled living where I live not having a
public IP is unthinkable!
I'm afraid the unthinkable may be upon you soon, get ready.
The American IP address
Charging differently for local traffic would violate net neutrality
priciples. In my opinion we should not encourage that kind of behavior
because it severely undermines the Internet model :)
On Jul 23, 2013 9:40 PM, Peter Atkin peter.at...@cfts.co wrote:
DataNet don’t charge for local data
ISPs could solve this problem by deploying IPv6.
The problem is, even if they deploy IPv6, they may still NAT mobile devices
because it keeps them in a position of control.
On Jul 23, 2013 10:34 PM, Mwirima Byaruhanga e...@afrigeek.net wrote:
sanga collins wrote thus on 7/23/13 9:26 PM:
Hi
sanga collins wrote thus on 7/23/13 4:27 PM:
I agree with Kyle's points mostly, I think you can get around not
having a public IP by using Dynamic DNS type services,
Only if your WAN interface has a unicast address, and this is
sometimes not the case.
eb
James S. K. Makumbi wrote thus on 7/23/13 8:52 PM:
I have no problem with the exchange point.
My beef is with the lack of content.
There is already useful local content. URA quickly comes to mind
with their electronic services portal. There's the newspapers and
the many mushorooming real
eb,
Which ISP is that from as it's working from here.
http://stats.uixp.co.ug/mrtg/ We have seen some growth since the
beginning of the year. Mainly GCC Traffic from what we can guess, but
it's saving the ISP's real money these days. Hopefully once the RENU
initiative takes off we can add the UCU
Kyle,
Can you shade more light on what net neutrality models would be violated if
access to local traffic was made cheaper?
I concur with James, building a great internal network with high speeds and
pushing for loads of local content to be accessed at low prices would be
perfect.
Lets face it,
Datanet wants to become a tripe play provider, so also own content.
They make access to their content on their network free but access to
youtube expensive net neutrality broken.
On 23 July 2013 21:29, Richard Zulu richardz...@gmail.com wrote:
Kyle,
Can you shade more light on what net
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