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Ukweshwama - Zulu bull-killing ritual - catherine turley

catherine turley — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:55:44 +0200

i hope this isn't still happening, although i presume it is. a boy becomes a man by learning self-restraint; not by indulging his violent nature.

Ukweshwama - Zulu bull-killing ritual - cathala corine

cathala corine — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:42:01 +0200

This rite is a horror it is necessary to stop this inhumanity

OLPC and Intel Classmate PC in Nigeria - David

David — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:29:10 +0200

Hehe, the cmpc poster. I put that up there in the school as an intern. Nice work!

Mzoli's Meat - manese

manese — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:24:13 +0200

akumandi kwa mzoli thanda inyama yakhona nepapa.

Ukweshwama - Zulu bull-killing ritual - A reasonable man

A reasonable man — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:49:56 +0200

So, Andy, what happened after the bull's neck was broken? If somebody broke your neck you would soon enough find out that you were still alive, but a quadraplegic. How did they kill the bull ?? Or weren't you really interested? This is where sand down the throat came into the picture, if indeed they actually managed to break the bull's neck, which I don't believe. How about the truth then? Your version is inconsistent with common sense, let alone intelligence.

Andy replies: I think breaking the neck is enought to kill the bull.

Kiwix - enabling offline copies of wikimedia projects - pan-ta

pan-ta — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:07:32 +0200

very nice blog about kiwix.

Using the Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town - Aragon

Aragon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:17:55 +0200

So that's what you're up to. :)

Don't you just looove their firewall.

Centre for High performance computing in Cape Town - Aragon

Aragon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:24:22 +0200

Those Sun racks behind you look familiar. I'm busy with a job at CHPC too. I'll keep a look out for you on the premises. :)

Kiwix - enabling offline copies of wikimedia projects - Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:14:46 +0200

Thx you Andy for this tutorial, here an additional information:
we have now a Kiwix Ubuntu PPA. To use it, simply run this command line: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kiwixteam/ppa ; sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install kiwix

Kiwix install at Kwena Malapo school Johannesberg - anthony

anthony — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:23:45 +0200

One problem with updates is choosing a version that is free of vandalism - not easy. The collection Wizzy uses needed manual checks, which took several months. However, the WikiTrust people are working on an automated solution, and I think within 6 months - 1 year we MAY have a good method. If the ZIM file can be created easily too, this will allow regular updates in the future, but as it stands you'd have to download the whole file.

Mzoli's Meat - zet

zet — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:20:28 +0200

akumnandi kwa tata umzoli..keep it up its high tym we got a name 4 guguletu.u make me proud!!!

Kiwix install at Kwena Malapo school Johannesberg - Martin Walker

Martin Walker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:18:38 +0200

@aragon
One problem with updates is choosing a version that is free of vandalism - not easy. The collection Wizzy uses needed manual checks, which took several months. However, the WikiTrust people are working on an automated solution, and I think within 6 months - 1 year we MAY have a good method. If the ZIM file can be created easily too, this will allow regular updates in the future, but as it stands you'd have to download the whole file.

Kiwix install at Kwena Malapo school Johannesberg - Kelson

Kelson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:54:59 +0200

@Andy

I can already make easily debs (you too with "make deb") and also rpms

I'm working to provide asap a PPA and maybe other solutions for other distributions (have a look to the opensuse build service)

Source tgz will be published soon on sourceforge with the first 0.9 alpha. In the meantime I provide SVN tgz here: http://tmp.kiwix.org/src/nightly/

There is also an official FTP to mirror here ftp://download.kiwix.org/kiwix/ but this is only stable content (a bit outdated) and all ZIM files and 0.9 code are unstable so have to be kept on http://tmp.kiwix.org. An other issue is that the ZIM format not really stable is, we are working hard to improve it.

About the incremental update, ZIM is more complicated than a gzip file. But we want to make something analog: publish a "diff" zim file and provide a tool able to merge this "diff" zim file with the old zim file to update.

To answer you: a ZIM file is a collection of compressed collections + indexes by titles and urls + many other meta datas.

Kiwix install at Kwena Malapo school Johannesberg - Kelson

Kelson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:17:51 +0200

@Aragon

There is currently no easy way to keep a ZIM update without downloading the whole new file. This is not an easy technical topic. We will try with openzim to propose a way in the future to do that.

People with a concrete project and unable to download a ZIM file may contact me.

Kelson, if you formalise things, perhaps with debs, tgzs, in a fixed download directory, I can arrange for it to be mirrored at mirror.ac.za. A useful rsync would still be very nice - http://svana.org/kleptog/rgzip.html might help ? is the zim a collection of compressed files, or a compressed collection ? Andy!

Kiwix install at Kwena Malapo school Johannesberg - Aragon

Aragon — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:13:25 +0200

Very cool project, Wizzy, well done. I wonder if there's a way to keep the offline data updated without consuming much bandwidth? I'm thinking along the lines of rsync and dialup. Would be nice to sync it once a month or so!

Aragon, the 2.4Gig is a burden even for me. Even I would like rsync, or some way to unpack the zim file to a directory, rsync that, and re-pack it. Andy!

Kiwix install at Kwena Malapo school Johannesberg - Bronson

Bronson — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:16:16 +0200

Hi Andy, that sounds like an awesome solution for creating an internet like environment for the kids, nice work.

Mzoli's Meat - Seed

Seed — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:52:56 +0200

Love Mzoli's meat and the chikitas that you get there are fly. the vibe is orleggggg

Jacob Zuma: president of South Africa - Sphamandla Junior

Sphamandla Junior — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:21:11 +0200

But when you compare his work performance as the President of the Republic - you can't honestly faulter him, can you? So the man is still sexually active and very much aware of his HVI status and I believe that of his latest parteners as well. So good compatriots let's leave Zuma's private life private - Plse!

Ukweshwama - Zulu bull-killing ritual - Trevor Wells

Trevor Wells — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:12:18 +0200

Having read your eye witness account I can see why the judge found them not guilty. The prosecution lied and exaggerated. Not the way to win cases. The judge must give the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slight, so long as it is reasonable. In this case it was blatant lies.

: The claim that the bull does not suffer was dodgy at best. A!

Climate change and personal responsibility - Trevor Wells

Trevor Wells — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:38:11 +0200

Wizzy,

I have posted this declaration which gives the African point of view.

Africa's stance on UNFCC Climate Change Negotiations at Copenhagen
Bole Declaration; 25th November, 2009; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
http://www.flag-sa.org/blog/2009_12...