[Ubuntu-ZW] Ubuntu-zw Digest, Vol 33, Issue 9
Garikai Dzoma
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Mon Mar 1 13:33:46 GMT 2010
Never heard of him. What does he do really?
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> 1. Off Topic: does anyone know this guy? (O. Sinclair)
> 2. Re: Off Topic: does anyone know this guy? (Gyron Mkwebo)
> 3. Re: Off Topic: does anyone know this guy? (lee masuka)
> 4. Re: Off Topic: does anyone know this guy? (Kalpesh Thaker)
> 5. Re: Off Topic: does anyone know this guy? (Gyron Mkwebo)
> 6. news story that thought you would be interested to do with
> linux (Jonathan Hopley)
> 7. Fwd: Full Circle #34 - out NOW! (Neil Coetzer)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:24:11 +0200
> From: "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Ubuntu-ZW] Off Topic: does anyone know this guy?
> To: "'ubuntu-zw'" <ubuntu-zw at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Cross-posting this, hope noone gets offended:
>
> I guess this can be a thorny issue, but honestly, does anyone know if he
> exists or they somehow made him up?
> Note he is supposed to be the State's IT expert....
>
> From the Bennett trial yesterday:
> quote:
> Under cross-examination from defence lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, State's
> expert witness Perekai Denchort Mutsetse, who claimed he is a provincial
> engineer for Africom based in Mutare, stunned the court when he said he
> was hearing the term "computer hacker" in court for the first time in
> his life
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:07:00 +0200
> From: Gyron Mkwebo <gyron at powerspeed.co.zw>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] Off Topic: does anyone know this guy?
> To: o.sinclair at gmail.com
> Cc: 'ubuntu-zw' <ubuntu-zw at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <1267103220.4776.0.camel at gyron-laptop>
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> LOL...
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 13:24 +0200, O. Sinclair wrote:
> > Cross-posting this, hope noone gets offended:
> >
> > I guess this can be a thorny issue, but honestly, does anyone know if he
> > exists or they somehow made him up?
> > Note he is supposed to be the State's IT expert....
> >
> > From the Bennett trial yesterday:
> > quote:
> > Under cross-examination from defence lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, State's
> > expert witness Perekai Denchort Mutsetse, who claimed he is a provincial
> > engineer for Africom based in Mutare, stunned the court when he said he
> > was hearing the term "computer hacker" in court for the first time in
> > his life
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:00:25 +0200
> From: lee masuka <leemasuka at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] Off Topic: does anyone know this guy?
> To: o.sinclair at gmail.com
> Cc: ubuntu-zw <ubuntu-zw at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> I also suggest that it was phallacy. Some statements just dismantles the
> validity of your status....
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cross-posting this, hope noone gets offended:
> >
> > I guess this can be a thorny issue, but honestly, does anyone know if he
> > exists or they somehow made him up?
> > Note he is supposed to be the State's IT expert....
> >
> > From the Bennett trial yesterday:
> > quote:
> > Under cross-examination from defence lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, State's
> > expert witness Perekai Denchort Mutsetse, who claimed he is a provincial
> > engineer for Africom based in Mutare, stunned the court when he said he
> > was hearing the term "computer hacker" in court for the first time in
> > his life
> >
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:18:05 +0200
> From: Kalpesh Thaker <luminary06 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] Off Topic: does anyone know this guy?
> To: lee masuka <leemasuka at gmail.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-zw <ubuntu-zw at lists.ubuntu.com>, o.sinclair at gmail.com
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> hahaha! i think africom's reputation as a leader in the IT industry has
> just
> gone down the toilet!
>
> ?I told the police that the document (bunch of e-mails) was genuine. It is
> genuine because it shows the e-mail addresses (hush mail) from the sender
> to
> the receiver. The documents also have https at the bottom showing they were
> printed from the original inbox.?
>
> this is probably the funniest thing i've heard in some years!
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM, lee masuka <leemasuka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I also suggest that it was phallacy. Some statements just dismantles the
> > validity of your status....
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Cross-posting this, hope noone gets offended:
> >>
> >> I guess this can be a thorny issue, but honestly, does anyone know if he
> >> exists or they somehow made him up?
> >> Note he is supposed to be the State's IT expert....
> >>
> >> From the Bennett trial yesterday:
> >> quote:
> >> Under cross-examination from defence lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, State's
> >> expert witness Perekai Denchort Mutsetse, who claimed he is a provincial
> >> engineer for Africom based in Mutare, stunned the court when he said he
> >> was hearing the term "computer hacker" in court for the first time in
> >> his life
> >>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:54:02 +0200
> From: Gyron Mkwebo <gyron at powerspeed.co.zw>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-ZW] Off Topic: does anyone know this guy?
> To: Kalpesh Thaker <luminary06 at gmail.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-zw <ubuntu-zw at lists.ubuntu.com>, o.sinclair at gmail.com,
> lee
> masuka <leemasuka at gmail.com>
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> LOL... shows how easy it is to be called an expert
>
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:18 +0200, Kalpesh Thaker wrote:
> > hahaha! i think africom's reputation as a leader in the IT industry
> > has just gone down the toilet!
> >
> > ?I told the police that the document (bunch of e-mails) was genuine.
> > It is genuine because it shows the e-mail addresses (hush mail) from
> > the sender to the receiver. The documents also have https at the
> > bottom showing they were printed from the original inbox.?
> >
> > this is probably the funniest thing i've heard in some years!
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM, lee masuka <leemasuka at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I also suggest that it was phallacy. Some statements just
> > dismantles the validity of your status....
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, O. Sinclair
> > <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cross-posting this, hope noone gets offended:
> >
> > I guess this can be a thorny issue, but honestly, does
> > anyone know if he
> > exists or they somehow made him up?
> > Note he is supposed to be the State's IT expert....
> >
> > From the Bennett trial yesterday:
> > quote:
> > Under cross-examination from defence lawyer Beatrice
> > Mtetwa, State's
> > expert witness Perekai Denchort Mutsetse, who claimed
> > he is a provincial
> > engineer for Africom based in Mutare, stunned the
> > court when he said he
> > was hearing the term "computer hacker" in court for
> > the first time in
> > his life
> >
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:22:56 +1100
> From: Jonathan Hopley <joni_hopley at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Ubuntu-ZW] news story that thought you would be interested
> to do with linux
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> Here's actual link you may wanna check out comments
> http://blog.nixternal.com/2010.02.18/please-say-fedora/
>
>
> Last evening I went over to a family friend?s house to help her with
> an ongoing problem with her Internet connection. She has AT&T DSL,
> and every night around 5pm or so, the connection pretty much drops.
> Getting to a web page is hit or miss, like one in every 10 attempts it
> will load a page. The pings were good, but getting out was a nightmare.
> She has a huge laptop running Windows 7 with insane specifications.
> Great machine. So, I took over my netbook running Kubuntu Netbook Remix
> (Lucid) to see if the problem was her laptop. Right away I was able to
> decide it wasn?t her laptop. Further debugging made me realize it was
> the DSL connection. I connected directly to the DSL modem, no router,
> firewall, anything in between me and the Internet. The problem still
> existed. At that time I determined it was AT&T?s fault so we called
> them up. Initially the phone call was a nightmare.
>
> Typically I am really good at understanding an Indian dialect because
> the area of Chicago I grew up in was largely an Indian population. The
> person on the phone was a bit harder to understand and I believe the
> reason was because they had a mix of the Indian dialect with a distinct
> southern US drawl. Anyways, after talking to the AT&T tech support
> person for a few minutes, I started telling him what was going on and
> what I had done thus far. He asked what version of Windows I was using
> to test and I told him I wasn?t using Windows and instead was using
> Linux. I expected the ?We don?t support Linux? comment, but was floored
> when he said, ?Please say you are using Fedora.? I chimed in with a
> ?Sorry, using Kubuntu.? He chuckled then said, ?Some people will never
> learn.? We shot little jabs back and forth at each other having a bit of
> fun while he was doing a modem test. In the end they figured out it was
> their issue and some AT&T techie will be out there today to fix the
> issue.
>
> So, if you were that AT&T dude I talked to last night who loves
> Fedora and despises us Ubuntu fanboys, drop by and say HI! It was a
> pleasure getting to talk to you for support on the issue, and it is
> great seeing that there are some tech support people who aren?t afraid
> to explore other options.
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:22:32 +0200
> From: Neil Coetzer <neil at ubuntu.org.zw>
> Subject: [Ubuntu-ZW] Fwd: Full Circle #34 - out NOW!
> To: ubuntu-zw <ubuntu-zw at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ronnie Tucker
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:17:36 +0000
> Subject: Full Circle #34 - out NOW!
>
> Full Circle Magazine - Issue #34
>
> Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community
> are proud to announce the release of our thirty-fourth issue.
>
> _This month:_
> * Command and Conquer.
> * How-To : Program in Python ? Part 8, Digitally Retouching a Photo in
> GIMP, and The Perfect Server ? Part 4.
> * My Story ? a Linux User, and Powerpets.
> * Review ? Acer UL30-A laptop.
> * MOTU Interview ? Roderick Greening.
> * Top 5 ? Reference Tools.
> * Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games, My Opinion, and all the usual goodness!
>
> *Get it while it's hot!*
> http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-34/
>
> *And don't forget our companion podcast:
>
> http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/02/24/full-circle-podcast-1-stop-wine-ing-and-go-native/
>
> Enjoy* <
> http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/02/24/full-circle-podcast-1-stop-wine-ing-and-go-native/
> >
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Neil Coetzer
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