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After two years of Corona pandemic it was time for a new mission. There were still 13 old computers in the classroom of the St. Scholastic a School in Ruaraka, which had to be replaced. Unfortunately, Swiss Airlines has stopped the direct flight to Nairobi and Lufthansa took over the service from Frankfurt. But more about this later. In the […]
» Read moreWe are working intesivly on the finish of the new server- and client-images. They are based on debian 11 (bullseye) -64Bit. In March the rollout to Kenya will take place. Also the hardware gets an upgrade. More to come…
» Read moreBack in Ruaraka, we went straight to the computer room so as not to lose any time with the installation. We found that Michael had done a good job of removing all the bugs from the software. Mike and Werner were able to install the software as well as the backup partition within record time. Everything got done by evening […]
» Read moreBirgit, Mike and Werner were originally going to spend 3 days at Rift Valley. However, as the installation of the client computers in Ruaraka wasn’t done yet, they made a decision at short notice to stay a day less than planned. The missionary sisters in Chesongoch and Endo were a little sad, but then priorities are priorities, especially given that […]
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We wanted to have everything installed and done with by Tuesday evening. However, it turns out the computers, or rather the motherboards, aren’t identical, which means Michael still has to tinker with the installation. We hope the problem will be solved by the time he leaves. We decided NOT to lay the both network electric cables underneath the tables, so […]
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The last couple of days were full of work… LOTS of work. First, we moved all the old desktop PCs aside and replaced them with the new, smaller machines. But as we were doing so, it turned out that the old English power strips had stopped working, due to all the German plugs having been forced into the sockets in […]
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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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