Category: General

Here goes, again

General

As we‘ve mentioned previously, quite a few of the “long-serving” computers in Ruaraka need to be replaced to assure that IT teaching at St. Scholastica Catholic School may continue. Michael Schmelzer and Werner Buchholz had made a great job of prepping the exchange. The new server hard drive was all ready, and Michael had obtained a further 36 drives for […]

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Getting ready for our 2020 Kenya trip

General

Following our stay in Kenya in January 2019, Michael Schmelzer got to thinking about how we could get rid of all the failure-prone hardware in the IT classroom. So he put together a small client computer and showed it to everyone at one of our meetings. Sure, there were a few concerns, such as the client being too small or […]

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Visit of Sr Emily from Kenya

Events, General

For many years Linux4Afrika has supported St. Scholastica Catholic School of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing in Ruaraka, Nairobi. Invited by Linux4Afrika Sr. Emily, principal of the school, was our guest for some days at the end of March. A considerable and multicoloured program had been planned for Sr. Emily by the host families Scholtz and Merkel: trips with […]

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Meshed Networking

General

Today we did some wireless testing for our digital village concept which we plan to role out in the easten cape. The concept is quite simple, it is to connect small rural villages with no access to affordable communication, access to educational progammes, an offline Wikipedia database which can be accessed by all and free local communication between villiages. Practically […]

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