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Most of Saturday morning we concentrated on the aches and pains of the Sisters’ laptops. A slow machine here, an overcrowded hard disk there. The laptop of Sr. Maria, who is now in Tanzania, was given Windows in Karen and the divice “thanked” with a long boot time until finally the Microsoft logo appeared on the screen. This clearly showed […]
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Since we are going to Chesongoch on Tuesday, we first concentrated on making the notebooks and two barebone desk computers work. Whereas the notebooks went smoothly with Ubuntu 18.04 (with a little “forcepae” as mentioned before) there was a problem with the ACER monitors which, controlled by the barebones, showed an unreadable image on the screens. We were already exchanging […]
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The flight from Zürich to Nairobi was without problems. After the plane was de-iced Birgit and Michael could enjoy a journey without any turbulences. Only shortly before landing, the landing gear was extended with an unusually loud noise, the Boeing suddenly took off again. Some uncertainty spread until the pilot explained that another plane was blocking the runway. Passport and […]
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First Michael was shown the grounds and the various facilities on the site of the convent in Nairobi. Then Michael was introduced to the IT teacher Richard, who was pleased to see us, and the classroom was inspected. We quickly realized why. Many devices are unplugged or have problems to start. So let’s get to work. The new server hard […]
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On December 29, 2018 HP, Michael Scholtz, Michael Schmelzer and Werner met at 10 a.m. to update the new L4A server. Our goal was to transfer the new L4A clients (software version Ubuntu 18.04) to the server and to set up a new mirror for the 18.04 clients. First we set up a new client with Michael’s start disk and […]
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On January, 7, 2019, Werner was picked up in Kenzingen at 4:30 a.m. by Christoph. On their way to Freiburg they stopped at Teningen to collect Michael Schmelzer. At 6:30 a.m. we then took the train via Basel to Zürich airport. First our luggage was checked in (Werner had been concerned because of the weight of hand luggage – but […]
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In spring 2012 (!), computers were disassembled and reassembled again on a Saturday afternoon in the “Computerhotel” of Linux4Africa at the Linux4Afrika warehouse, also hard disks were exchanged and tested. 80 computers and monitors, keyboards, mice and all kinds of computer accessories were packed and went on a long voyage to Africa in a container in May 2012. The computers […]
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