Travel in The Amazing Air Bus 380…

Office Timetable…

Interview Questions (Web Development)…

This is incase any of you get called for an interview in the same:

1) What is the Cyclic Redundancy Check in data transfer?

2) Which meta tag best points a search robot to a specific title in a website?

3) Among the following resources, which application best deploys PHP functionality in a dynamic website:

• Joomla?
• Macromedia Flash?
• Macromedia Works?

4) Please list four functionalities you would you include for public members in a highly interactive & dynamic website?

5) When designing a public forum interactive website, what coding among the following would you recommend best:

• PHP?
• HTML?
• Transitional?
• Cold Fusion?
• VB Script?

Interesting online game in Swahili…

Visit: http://www.gladiatus.co.ke/

Protecting Children Online & On Mobile…

The World Telecommunications & Information Society Day was held on Sunday 17th May & the theme was on “Protection of Children in Cyberspace…”

This led me to wonder how we’re protecting our young ones from mobile content now that there’s a lot of adult stuff sold on mobiles e.g. wallpapers, tips on relationships, dating services etc.

Children now have access to both web & mobile (with mobiles being harder to monitor).

Who out there is working on such issues?

Suspicious E-mails…

Greetings,

It has come to my attention that e-mails such as the ones below are circulating to my family & friends:

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: [insert above address here and this is a link which I have not clicked]

Hi friend,

i would like to introduce a good company who trades mainly about electornic products.Now the company is under sales promotion ,all the products are sold nearly at its cost.If order more,they will give big discount for you.(20% to 30% discount).They provide the best service to customers,they provide you with original products of good quality,and what is more,the price is a surprising happiness to you!
It is realy a good chance for shopping.just grasp the opportunity,Now or never! Website [insert above address here and this is a link which I have not clicked]

If you receive such e-mails, please ignore them & delete IMMEDIATELY from your Inbox!!! I can’t determine whether your accounts have been compromised or not, however, I can offer two explanations as to how they can be so:

1. Someone has seen you type your password over your shoulder (This is the simplest technical explanation).
2. Your computer has been infected with some kind of phising worm that has recorded your keystrokes & used your e-mail accounts to send unsolicited junk e-mails to your entire address book.

For now, if you’ve been compromised, just e-mail your contacts with a simple explanation of what happened to your account & assure them that you now have complete control of your account. Advise them as well to secure their accounts to prevent this from happening to their e-mail.

Next, enhance your account’s protection to prevent this from happening again, moreover, ensure that you’re the only person who has access to your account. Here are the steps:

1. Change your password as well as your secret question & answer regularly to increase the privacy of your account. You can use several combinations of letter cases & numbers to make your password harder to decode.
2. Properly log out of your account after your (Gmail, Yahoo!, Lycos, Excite etc) session by clicking the “Sign Out” button on the upper-right side of your Inbox.
3. When using a public terminal, always clear your Temporary Internet Files (cache) & close the browser that you were using before ending your Internet session.

• Start Internet Explorer.
• On the “Tools” Menu, click “Internet Options”.
• Under the Browsing History, click “Delete”.
• In the Delete Browsing History window, click “Delete Cookies”.
• When you’re prompted to confirm the deletion, click “Yes”. It may take several minutes to delete these files if you have a lot of them.
• For other browsers, please refer to the Help files of that browser…

The following precautions are also very beneficial:

1. Don’t share your password to anyone even if they claim that they’re persons of authority.
2. Be sure not to click “Remember My Password/Remember Me On This Computer” at your e-mail login page if you’re using a public computer (i.e. cyber cafe). Enabling this feature will allow users to automatically sign in to your account & bypass the username & password authentication portion.

If you’re wondering where to get good security solutions for your PC/Laptop, download the following:

• avast! antivirus…
• Mozilla Firefox Web Browser… (it’s more secure than Internet Explorer)
• Spyware Terminator…

Incase of any further inquiries, don’t hesitate to drop me a line…

Citizen’s Watch: Samuel Ngure Kariuki…

Believe it or not, the young man pictured above is the mastermind behind some of the fradulent SMSes you have been receiving on your cellphones. He’s also responsible for fraudulent advertisements that appear on our daily locals, especially in the classified section as well as the lonely hearts column. Buying a car or plot? Looking for a house?  Looking for a soulmate? Be very warned that most of those advertisements originate from within prison cells!

He has in the last four years been behind bars at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison where he’s on death row. The sad thing is he’ll soon be among us if his appeal goes through. He has been working with fellow conmen who are in our midst to swindle innocent wananchi of their hard earned cash. Thanks to the naivety of most Kenyans, this young man has become a millionaire behind bars & now employs several conmen who help him do what he knows best, coning you & I!

This is a man who’ll do anything, impersonate anyone just to make you part with your money. If you’re wondering how he does it behind bars without meeting you, he’ll always claim to be busy in & out of the country & as such has to leave most of his work to his “personal assistant” (employed conmen outside prison), therefore, you’ll never question his absence until you’re robbed, after which he throws away that SIM card & moves on to his next victim. His tactics are very well organized & it’s very hard to even imagine that he’s behind bars; don’t we all now know that inmates usually have access to high tech mobile phones & even laptops that enable them to communicate to the outside world as though they were not in jail? Samuel Ngure Kariuki is one untouchable inmate at the “Condemn G” block, nicknamed “Garrisa Lodge” due to the fraudulent business deals that take place with the outside world…

The way his appeal case at the high court is going, there’s every indication that this man will be back among us, moreover, we can’t talk of any reforms on his part. If anything, the prison has only made him a better conman & thief! It’s with this in mind that we request you to circulate this. Who knows? He may soon join your neighbourhood, he might come knocking at your office selling you stuff that only exits on paper or your church… He might even become your friend’s boyfriend, who knows? Fact is, he’s very gentlemanly in his ways, very eloquent in his English & you’ll never suspect he’s a conman & thief.

Engineering Mathematics…

AUTHOR’S NOTE:

“Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance.”

~ Ashley-Perry Statistical Axiom #1.

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