During our last trip to the Government Park in Windhoek we were told that two ‘pilot computer laboratories’ sponsored by Bank Windhoek had been installed at schools in the country. One of the labs a few kilometers North of Ondangwa in the Oshikoto region at the Hans Daniel Namuhuya school. Last week Gery, Jon and …
The landing of the WACS (West Africa Cable System) in Walvis Bay on the 8th of February had been the theme of last months ICT summit. When becoming operational next February it will cut down immediately the latency and hopefully increase the bandwidth for the Namibian Internet end user in the long run. Since last …
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Although electronic payment facilities can be found in every corner of the country the use of a ATM is still a bit thrilling as chances are that the money or the card (or both) is not coming out due to poor maintenance and old machines: last time when a Bank Windhoek ATM in Oshakati kept …
In the previous post ‘Linked(in) Outapi’ I’ve mentioned a tiny and costly line which connects our building with the Regional Council. This line provided by the Telecom and ITN had been down from the 5th of September till last week. Almost a month. If everything would run according to the plan we would have sourced …
Open source solutions at schools and within the administration are a mine field since the Namibian Government shut down SchoolNet a few years ago. Their legacy can still be found at many schools where surprisingly some of the OpenLab installations (Linux Terminal Server running on common Desktop PCs + old machines with 64 or 128MB …
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Usually 35°C up in the North in the afternoon. Becoming a couch potato would be so easy. Since I’ve been in the North I am trying to avoid that and found several activities to stay in shape. One and a half hour exercise at the Yap gym in Ongwediva on Friday. 30min swimming at Bennies …
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My second time at the biggest event for the country’s ICT industry. Thanks to the informal communication channel among the Directorates and Regional Councils which is developing quite well not just technical personal from the 4-O-Region attended the summit this year: Kavango, Hardap and Karas came also aboard. This is the good news. The bad …
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Last year I missed it: the Ongwediva Trade Fair, the biggest event in the North during the whole year. When you virtually crawl on the road between Oshakati and Ongwediva and the traffic accident rate rises as visitors blow in from the capital and the South you know it’s on. Besides the informations booths of …
Our 22 HP computer school labs. I had them mentioned in ‘Nicht für diese Welt’ in Outapi Times issue #2. Maintenance is done by Netts in Windhoek – in theory. Last month Victor finished to put our own Win2K3 image on all of the servers in the Omusati Region. The Labs are equipped with a …
For months little progress at the construction site of the third gas station in Outapi which will be operated by Caltex (unfortunately no Engen = no Wimpy = no decent coffee). During the last weeks things have changed: construction goes on even after 5.p.m which says a lot. I was told by the lead worker …