FREE DOS!
I was so lucky to see this advertisement today as I was walking down Wayaki Way after work. At first it was the “Core i3″ that caught my eye, and then the words “FREE DOS” leapt out at me. Holy cow, each new Dell Inspiron comes with a complimentary copy of DOS! How Dell limited [...]
Ubuntu, mobile broadband in Kenya, and you!
Using mobile broadband with Linux in Kenya just keeps getting easier and easier. The days of manually editing text files and dialing with wvdial on the command line seem to be over. For some time now (in Ubuntu at least) it’s been sufficient enough to just plug in your modem or phone then setup your [...]
Unlock your Huawei E160
I use a Safaricom-branded Huawei E160 USB modem to connect to the Internet over 3G from my apartment in Westlands. It works great but Safaricom has locked the device so it only works on their network (an anti-consumer move they probably learned from the likes of AT&T). We have four different mobile providers in Kenya, [...]
Celebrating the East African Community
I saw this Swahili kanga on Google the other day, a celebration of the East African Community: Umoja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu The phrase is some deep Tanzanian Swahili, but I cracked the code with a little dictionary magic: “Unity is strength, separation is weakness.”
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.