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- Do you know where your computers are being recycled?
- I have almost 200 really old iMacs that are supposed to be recycled by Apple before school opens in September. I have an abandoned school building closed last year due to budget cuts with another 100 or so badly battered PCs that are in really sad shape, too. ...
- Tags: boy, e-waste, nigeria, computer, productivity, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- I guess they read my blog in Nigeria
- Yahoo News is reporting that the Nigerian government has decided to accept and use Mandriva Linux on at least 11,000 of the Classmate PCs they ordered. Previously, the agency handling the transaction had decided to accept and pay for the Mandriva-installed computers, but overwrite the OS with Windows XP...
- Tags: Blog, Mandriva, Nigeria, Mandriva Linux, Yahoo News, Linux, Open Source, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Gecko Programming Language (ZIP)
- This is a FREE Evaluation Version of the Gecko Programming Language. It is intended to introduce you to programming in Gecko. Gecko is a Query language with High-level syntax and procedural linkage construct. This EVALUATION version lacks its main features but introduces you to Gecko programming.
- Tags: Nigeria, Programming, Gecko Programming Language, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-10-03
- GeckoMapper (zip)
- Encrypt your messages. Send secure emails and messages with this wonderful software package. This software allows you to convert plain text in any language provided Latin characters are supported to a special encrypted language, so that your message cannot be read by hackers over the Internet, or by sneaky people....
- Tags: Message, Nigeria, Internet, Tools & Techniques, E-mail, Hacking, Management, Online Communications, Security
- Software downloads 2006-08-29
- Photos: E-waste piles up in Nigeria
- Environmental group says much of the old electronic gear sent abroad for reuse and refurbishment is nothing but junk.
- Tags: Nigeria
- Image galleries 2005-10-24
- Photos: E-waste piles up in Nigeria
- Environmental group says much of the old electronic gear sent abroad for reuse and refurbishment is nothing but junk.
- Tags: Nigeria
- Image galleries 2005-10-24
- Case Study: Financial Records Systems in Nigeria
- Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with 130 million inhabitants. The Government of Nigeria has identified governance and corruption as issues that must be tackled in order to reverse economic decline and has taken pre-emptive action. Fundamental reform of budget processes will need to be part of this...
- Tags: Financial, Nigeria, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies
- Financial Management of Education in a Decentralized Setting: Case Studies of Mali, Nigeria and Uganda
- The three case-studies on Mali, Nigeria and Uganda set out to describe, examine and analyze the financial management of education in a decentralized setting in these sub-Saharan African countries: one Francophone Mali, and two Anglophone Nigeria and Uganda. Because of the nature of their decentralized systems of government and especially...
- Tags: Education, Financial, Nigeria, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
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- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any email submitted to hundreds of newsletters anonymously. What is SpamZa anyway? SpamZa is...
- Tags: Newsletter, Spam, Spamming, SpamZa, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computers
- Yesterday I posted an article on the environmental and human rights disaster that computer "recycling" is creating in countries like Ghana and Nigeria. Today, I contacted Greenpeace's Casey Harrell from their Toxics Division to follow up and determine if we can do anything within Ed Tech to dispose of...
- Tags: Greenpeace, Recycling, Product, E-waste, Computer, Individual Producer Responsibility, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?
- A gasoline quiz--where is this image from?This was an easy guess.The language is Spanish.Puerto Rico is definitely out of the question, because they are seriously corrupt over there.Being that it's in South America, that petroleum is coming from Venezuela.Makes you wonder why we are paying so much for it?Clue;Crooked &...
- Tags: gasoline, image, petroleum, oil, pinch
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...
- Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynote
- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynotehmmm.....So many things to do = so many things that will fail.Gate$ will be better off at his 'foundation' when deadlines will slip and the losses will mount.I pitty the sacrificial lambs tasked with continuing his grand ambitions.Maquito net...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Leadership, tool, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., WinMobile, Even Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Negroponte's big lie
- Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization. I talked yesterday with...
- Tags: PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Nicholas Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Psystar: We're legit, but our merchant gateway dropped us
- Psystar: We're legit, but our merchant gateway dropped usRe: VisaIts my understanding that they were a small company before that did local IT work. Now they have grown a huge amount basically overnight. I am sure they will plan on getting a credit card setup, however, that does not happen...
- Tags: Sales channel, Operational accounting, E-business/E-commerce, Psystar, merchant gateway, Apple Inc., PayPal
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- China allows access to English Wikipedia
- China allows access to English Wikipediawhy don't we censor china?Heres a fun idea kids. Let's block china from accessing the American Internet. All I ever see come out of China is spam and lead tainted products. Im all for banning all Chinese ip space on our networks, who's with me?Already...
- Tags: NETWORKING, English Wikipedia, login attempt
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Intel's second generation Classmates land; Does OLPC need to play catch-up?
- Intel's second generation Classmates land; Does OLPC need to play catch-up?OLPC aim is slightly differentIf a recent OLPC vs ClassMate trial in Nigeria featured by BBC is any guide. The two computers are built for different purposes. With OLPC, student can take the computer home, but with ClassMate, it is...
- Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, Classmate
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
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