eThinkTankTz mourn Andrew dACHI

When the news of the passing of Andrew Dachi Kapaga (ADK) hit the list on 30 September 2010, it set forth a long series of reflections mostly by those having had business acquaintance with the outgoing IT hero. Andrew had been those one of those persons with two self-fanning driving attributes: his insatiable desire to stay abreast with new developments in the trade, and willingness to share--by teaching, practicing and otherwise--with others. This made him popular among superiors, colleagues, trainees and mankind. It would not do justice to let the long list of eulogies posted on eThinkTankTZ pass into "yesternet" unnoticed, therefore I am putting them in their entirety on my blog. There is no doubt that dACHI was a really good person. May his relatives and friends read this and feel pride, such a good man we are missing.

#17125 
From: Aziz Mongi 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:20 pm
Subject: Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     aziz_mongi
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Colleagues,

It is with deep sadness and sorrow that I am today the harbinger of not-so-good news.

My uncle, colleague and friend, Andrew Kapaga Dachi, has passed away sometime between yesterday and today. I received the phone call from another colleague today, who does not have the full details of Dachi's death, but he promised to share more information as he received it.

This came to me as quite a shock, because it reminded me of what I was thinking only  three days. I was thinking whether any on of us is prepared for their own death. What does happen if you dont wake up tomorrow? Are you prepared? I better get started with the preparations, because your Last Day on Earth is Allah's Secret! Only He has knowledge of it, and you are never really prepared.

You may die of natural causes - such as diseases, coronary or pulmonary failure, etc. - or by accident. But you will never really know when you will go. That is a fact.

Dachi had moved to Botswana, where he established himself as an IT guru and entrepreneur, being based in Franscistown. He commuted to Gaborone - for work projects - on a regular basis. He had also set up a company, called ISA Business Consulting, together with some local partners. He had acquired many clients and with the success, he had ventured into other non-IT projects, such as real estate and entertainment!

Dachi was in Tanzania recently during August-September, we worked together on an IT Security project for a public-sector client. He was truly one of the most knowledgeable persons in IT and Data security; he had the mind of a genius. He taught himself ALL that he knew on IT and Data Security. He could scan your entire network and show you all the security weaknesses, and provide you with a solution on how to fix them. This is something that is seriously lacking in many of our private- and public-sector data networks. How I wish Dachi was here to help us find our way in this melee of DDoS attacks (a local network just suffered this earlier today...) and other malicious attacks, such as website defacing, etc. How I wish.

I truly respected Dachi, he taught me a lot, mostly, he taught me discipline and patience. He taught me never to give up, especially when things are rough.

I will truly miss him. I am sure many of his former colleagues at COSTECH and other entities will too.

Innalillahi Wa Innalillahi Raaj'un!
 
Aziz Losika Mongi, ICT Consultant & Entrepreneur
"The journey of a thousand miles, begins with one step." - Chinese Proverb
".... and a roadmap!" - Uknown


#17126     
From: John Magoha 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:56 pm
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May his soul rest in peace and Allah grant all of us the courage and wisdom to learn from his successful professional life.
Ameen

John

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#17127
From: H M HAJI 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:47 pm
Subject: Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     hajihm
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Wananchi
 
Me too, received this sad news with great shock, I wish strength to those who were closed to him like me, I know dACHI for a quite long time, few years ago I was one of the referees for his online MBA programme in Holland, definitely we will miss him, I will always remember my dear compañero dACHI way back in Havana and back in Tanzania chanting "Spanish Latino" to remember our days over there. Oh! My GOD, what a loss.
 
Innalillahi Wa Innalillahi Raaj'un!
 
_____________________________________________________________
Haji, H. M., 
Digital Forensics Consultant.
United Kingdom.
Email: h.haji@...
_____________________________________________________________

#17131     
From: Yassin Mshana 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 4:14 am
Subject: RE: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     ymshana2003@...
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WHAT HAPPENED???
 Wote ni Wake na Kwake tutarejea.
Dua zetu zisikike. Amin!!


#17137     
From: Hebron Mwakalinga 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:52 pm
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Aziz and all ITzens of .Tz
 
It is quite sad to hear the passing away of Mr. Dachi, really he was one of the few pioneers of IT Security in Tanzania, I interacted with him in early 1990s when Internet was just making its way in the country.
 
Mungu awape nguvu wana familia na yeye amlaze mahali pema peponi.
 

Hebron Mwakalinga

Facilitating Markets for Development

Mikocheni B, Kambarage Street (former Garden Street, Block No. 371

P.O.Box 78496. Dar es Salaam.



#17138     
From: Pantaleon Shoki 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 1:03 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     shokipn2000
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Dear ALL

This is really a sad news. However, that is GOD's wishes. Mungu ailaze mahali pema peponi. AMINA

Pantaleon N Shoki
Managing Director 
Victoria Research Bureau Ltd
Mwanza-Tanzania
http://myprofile.cos.com/shoki


 


#17136     
From: ciwTz 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:35 pm
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I'm sorry to hear of Dachi's death.

I have some tribute to pay for dACHI (how he preferred to write his name):

Andre was one of old timers like me who had began tinkering with computers since the ages of Quattro-Pro, Lotus-1-2-3 and Wordstar 2000. In those days everything was proprietary. Like John Dvorak, dACHI was nimble enough to update himself with challenges of times in IT industry. When sony was marketing its first CD-writers for TShs 2 million at the Kilimanjaro Hotel during AITEC exhibition, I and dACHI gasped with awe at the beauty of one having such drive. Writable media was TShs 10,000. It was unimaginable that writable CDs would come to cost about 200 Shillings some decades later, or a writer would be ripping at more than 50x, yet costing about TShs 40,000.

We saw first GUI OS matching in and capturing people hearts. Those  fonts!
Yes, I am going to remember The Big Man dACHI. Patiently explaining sectors and heads, CDS-ISIS and DBaseIV to newbies. In those days the hard disks were 500 megabyte size, but we managed very well. Today we have two tera-byte drives that weigh a fraction of their ancestors of 1990s. We are still seeing surprises, as if there is no end to innovation: There were no re-writable CD's then, no DVDs. Now there are even HD media.

dACHI, your contribution from the days of COSTECH to Raha dot com etc was quite significant. Bye! (*sob*).


#17140 
From: Msafiri kimario 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 2:24 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     lenduli
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Dear E think Gurus,

Personaly I don't know him, but according to his profile given by other Gurus in this forum for sure he was a great guys of our times especially for young IT's who had a lote to learn from him.
My Almight God reast his soul in eternal peace and hope we will always cherish his contribution toward ICT for development not only in Tanzania but also in Africa as he was strugglind to desserminate his knowledge beyound Tanzania.

Cordially.
 
In GOD WE Trust

#17141     
From: "Kweba, Bulemo" 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 6:34 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     bkweba
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Rest in Peace Dachi,
 
Dachi came to our graduating class ( Forodhani Secondary School 1991)  to demostrate Computers and its pheripherals.
Its because of his inspiration and his love of IT that some of us choose this field as our lifetime career.
 
He will be sorely missed.
 
Bulemo Francis Kweba
The Hague, Netherlands
     
#17144 
From: vinod gandhi 
Date: Sun Oct 3, 2010 12:30 am
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     metrovin
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am sorry for his sudden demise. can anyone let me know what happened to him
 
god rest is souls in peace
amen
vinod

#17128
From: "apollobs_temu" 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:50 am
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Ndugu zangu



This shocking!!



Yuko wapi? What happened? What are the plans?



He taught many of us many things, and many of us aspired to achieve what he had

achieved!



Databases, from days of DBase III, III+, IV and outside IT, talk about physical

training, Karate!!



If feels like unreal



My heart goes out to his family members and close friends.



Andrew Dachi - you will be missed, terribly! This is one BIG loss to the country

too and the IT Profession.



Mungu amrehemu.



  Regards



  Apollo Temu


#17129 
From: "apollobs_temu" 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:59 am
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More information is posted be it still limited


http://innomosha.blogspot.com/2010/09/taarifa-za-msiba.html



Perhaps it is a denial element in me that makes one start looking for more info



Please let us know if anyone gets more information.



   Regards



   Apollo Temu


#17130
From: Yassin Mshana 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 4:06 am
Subject: RE: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     ymshana2003@...
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Innalillahi Wa Innalillahi Raaj'un.
God lent us and now has  called back. Ametutengulia ndugu yetu dua yetu asikie Mola Aiweke roho yake pema peponi. Amen!

#17133
From: "Benn Haidari" 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:31 pm
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Innalillahi Wa Innailayhi Raajiuun,
When he was in Botswana, were writing to each other, but in the lat 2 months I did not get any mail from him.
May God give im a better place in the heaven.
Benn

#17134     From: Frank Kanani 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 9:13 am
Subject: Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     frankanani
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Although no words can really help to ease the loss of our loving brother, we just know that we are very close in every thoughts and prayers.My sincere deepest sympathies goes to his family and friends, may his soul
rest in eternal peace…......
Mungu aliumba na yeye ndiye aliyetwaa kazi ya Mungu haina makosa! Mungu akutie nguvu.......

#17135
From: Prosper Kaberwa 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 11:56 am
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May God grant him eternal Peace. Amen

PK

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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything! - Unknown

#17139
From: Edwin Mpogolo 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     empogolo
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A really sad day for all of us in ICT

He introduced me to Internet well before the World Wide Web, tossing me a Tourbus once a week to worm around the Internet and send results a week later (Was it through Satelife?). Then gave me Clipper - man that was something, to create nice graphical interfaces with a professions touch - and make money too! And he has not returned my  Ilma la Duce Betamax Video since 1987! But no I can't complain.

I talked to him last only three months ago - that is after he got my number through my email to eTTTz

Fare well thee, good old dACHI! You were a jolly good fellow, and will certainly be missed by many of us ICT old hands!

May the Almighty Rest Your Soul in Peace!
 

#17142     
From: Muttagirwa Yahoo 
Date: Sat Oct 2, 2010 2:33 am
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RIP Dachi... Too soon to call off ... But ur shared moments n memories'll last forever
Dr Longino


#17146 
    From: Sendoro 
Date: Sun Oct 3, 2010 9:41 pm
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Dear All,

I had worked with late Dachi, surely he was among those ICT gurus in the country, this surely a loss to ICT industry and Tanzania as a whole.

RIP Andrew Dach!!! Indeed that is our destiny.


Regards
Sendoro


#17145     
From: Stephano Ole-Teveli 
Date: Sun Oct 3, 2010 7:56 pm
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Dear All,

Poleni sana ! Andrew dACHI was a dear friend and it is so sad to hear that  he is no longer. May God rest his soul in eternal life. I knew him since 1984 and have worked with him in the eighties and nineties. He is a real IT Guru. I can't find words to describe him ! Let us be ready because no one knows when the time comes for departing from this corrupted world.

I wish to get more details on when this occurred and  the funeral arrangements.

Stephano Ole-Teveli
P.O.Box 14693
Arusha, Tanzania


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#17147
From: "Masaro, Arnold" 
Date: Mon Oct 4, 2010 9:17 am
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It says a lot when peers mourn the passing of a colleague like this. It not only says that we are saddened, but also that we salute the accomplishments of the departed.

 

I worked with dACHI on one assignment in 1998. Indeed, he was a true scholar and a gentleman.

 

May God rest his soul in eternal peace.

 


#17150
From: "DS" 
Date: Mon Oct 4, 2010 11:43 am
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Hear, hear,



That's very well put Arnold.  Our departed colleague had indeed many

accomplishments to his name.



On my side, I'd known Dachi since back in his Costech days, but we lost touch

along the way after his move to Botswana.  It was back in mid-December 2009 that

we were able to get back in contact again, thanks to Facebook, but only for a

far too brief exchange of messages.



May his soul be blessed with Eternal Peace.

DS.

eThinkTankTz mourn Andrew dACHI

When the news of the passing of Andrew Dachi Kapaga (ADK) hit the list on 30 September 2010, it set forth a long series of reflections mostly by those having had business acquaintance with the outgoing IT hero. Andrew had been those one of those persons with two self-fanning driving attributes: his insatiable desire to stay abreast with new developments in the trade, and willingness to share--by teaching, practicing and otherwise--with others. This made him popular among superiors, colleagues, trainees and mankind. It would not do justice to let the long list of eulogies posted on eThinkTankTZ pass into yesternet unnoticed, therefore I am putting them in their entiretyon my blog. There is no doubt that dACHI was a really good person. May his relatives and friends read this and feel pride, such a good man we are missing.

#17125 
From: Aziz Mongi 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:20 pm
Subject: Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     aziz_mongi
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Colleagues,

It is with deep sadness and sorrow that I am today the harbinger of not-so-good news.

My uncle, colleague and friend, Andrew Kapaga Dachi, has passed away sometime between yesterday and today. I received the phone call from another colleague today, who does not have the full details of Dachi's death, but he promised to share more information as he received it.

This came to me as quite a shock, because it reminded me of what I was thinking only  three days. I was thinking whether any on of us is prepared for their own death. What does happen if you dont wake up tomorrow? Are you prepared? I better get started with the preparations, because your Last Day on Earth is Allah's Secret! Only He has knowledge of it, and you are never really prepared.

You may die of natural causes - such as diseases, coronary or pulmonary failure, etc. - or by accident. But you will never really know when you will go. That is a fact.

Dachi had moved to Botswana, where he established himself as an IT guru and entrepreneur, being based in Franscistown. He commuted to Gaborone - for work projects - on a regular basis. He had also set up a company, called ISA Business Consulting, together with some local partners. He had acquired many clients and with the success, he had ventured into other non-IT projects, such as real estate and entertainment!

Dachi was in Tanzania recently during August-September, we worked together on an IT Security project for a public-sector client. He was truly one of the most knowledgeable persons in IT and Data security; he had the mind of a genius. He taught himself ALL that he knew on IT and Data Security. He could scan your entire network and show you all the security weaknesses, and provide you with a solution on how to fix them. This is something that is seriously lacking in many of our private- and public-sector data networks. How I wish Dachi was here to help us find our way in this melee of DDoS attacks (a local network just suffered this earlier today...) and other malicious attacks, such as website defacing, etc. How I wish.

I truly respected Dachi, he taught me a lot, mostly, he taught me discipline and patience. He taught me never to give up, especially when things are rough.

I will truly miss him. I am sure many of his former colleagues at COSTECH and other entities will too.

Innalillahi Wa Innalillahi Raaj'un!
 
Aziz Losika Mongi, ICT Consultant & Entrepreneur
"The journey of a thousand miles, begins with one step." - Chinese Proverb
".... and a roadmap!" - Uknown


#17126     
From: John Magoha 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:56 pm
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May his soul rest in peace and Allah grant all of us the courage and wisdom to learn from his successful professional life.
Ameen

John

Sent from my iPhone4 by AT&T



#17127
From: H M HAJI 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:47 pm
Subject: Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     hajihm
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Wananchi
 
Me too, received this sad news with great shock, I wish strength to those who were closed to him like me, I know dACHI for a quite long time, few years ago I was one of the referees for his online MBA programme in Holland, definitely we will miss him, I will always remember my dear compañero dACHI way back in Havana and back in Tanzania chanting "Spanish Latino" to remember our days over there. Oh! My GOD, what a loss.
 
Innalillahi Wa Innalillahi Raaj'un!
 
_____________________________________________________________
Haji, H. M., 
Digital Forensics Consultant.
United Kingdom.
Email: h.haji@...
_____________________________________________________________

#17131     
From: Yassin Mshana 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 4:14 am
Subject: RE: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     ymshana2003@...
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WHAT HAPPENED???
 Wote ni Wake na Kwake tutarejea.
Dua zetu zisikike. Amin!!


#17137     
From: Hebron Mwakalinga 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:52 pm
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Aziz and all ITzens of .Tz
 
It is quite sad to hear the passing away of Mr. Dachi, really he was one of the few pioneers of IT Security in Tanzania, I interacted with him in early 1990s when Internet was just making its way in the country.
 
Mungu awape nguvu wana familia na yeye amlaze mahali pema peponi.
 

Hebron Mwakalinga

Facilitating Markets for Development

Mikocheni B, Kambarage Street (former Garden Street, Block No. 371

P.O.Box 78496. Dar es Salaam.



#17138     
From: Pantaleon Shoki 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 1:03 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     shokipn2000
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Dear ALL

This is really a sad news. However, that is GOD's wishes. Mungu ailaze mahali pema peponi. AMINA

Pantaleon N Shoki
Managing Director 
Victoria Research Bureau Ltd
Mwanza-Tanzania
http://myprofile.cos.com/shoki


 


#17136     
From: ciwTz 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:35 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     ciwtz
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I'm sorry to hear of Dachi's death.

I have some tribute to pay for dACHI (how he preferred to write his name):

Andre was one of old timers like me who had began tinkering with computers since the ages of Quattro-Pro, Lotus-1-2-3 and Wordstar 2000. In those days everything was proprietary. Like John Dvorak, dACHI was nimble enough to update himself with challenges of times in IT industry. When sony was marketing its first CD-writers for TShs 2 million at the Kilimanjaro Hotel during AITEC exhibition, I and dACHI gasped with awe at the beauty of one having such drive. Writable media was TShs 10,000. It was unimaginable that writable CDs would come to cost about 200 Shillings some decades later, or a writer would be ripping at more than 50x, yet costing about TShs 40,000.

We saw first GUI OS matching in and capturing people hearts. Those  fonts!
Yes, I am going to remember The Big Man dACHI. Patiently explaining sectors and heads, CDS-ISIS and DBaseIV to newbies. In those days the hard disks were 500 megabyte size, but we managed very well. Today we have two tera-byte drives that weigh a fraction of their ancestors of 1990s. We are still seeing surprises, as if there is no end to innovation: There were no re-writable CD's then, no DVDs. Now there are even HD media.

dACHI, your contribution from the days of COSTECH to Raha dot com etc was quite significant. Bye! (*sob*).


#17140 
From: Msafiri kimario 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 2:24 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     lenduli
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Dear E think Gurus,

Personaly I don't know him, but according to his profile given by other Gurus in this forum for sure he was a great guys of our times especially for young IT's who had a lote to learn from him.
My Almight God reast his soul in eternal peace and hope we will always cherish his contribution toward ICT for development not only in Tanzania but also in Africa as he was strugglind to desserminate his knowledge beyound Tanzania.

Cordially.
 
In GOD WE Trust

#17141     
From: "Kweba, Bulemo" 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 6:34 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     bkweba
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Rest in Peace Dachi,
 
Dachi came to our graduating class ( Forodhani Secondary School 1991)  to demostrate Computers and its pheripherals.
Its because of his inspiration and his love of IT that some of us choose this field as our lifetime career.
 
He will be sorely missed.
 
Bulemo Francis Kweba
The Hague, Netherlands
     
#17144 
From: vinod gandhi 
Date: Sun Oct 3, 2010 12:30 am
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     metrovin
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am sorry for his sudden demise. can anyone let me know what happened to him
 
god rest is souls in peace
amen
vinod

#17128
From: "apollobs_temu" 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:50 am
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Ndugu zangu



This shocking!!



Yuko wapi? What happened? What are the plans?



He taught many of us many things, and many of us aspired to achieve what he had

achieved!



Databases, from days of DBase III, III+, IV and outside IT, talk about physical

training, Karate!!



If feels like unreal



My heart goes out to his family members and close friends.



Andrew Dachi - you will be missed, terribly! This is one BIG loss to the country

too and the IT Profession.



Mungu amrehemu.



  Regards



  Apollo Temu


#17129 
From: "apollobs_temu" 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 12:59 am
Subject: Re: Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     apollobs_temu
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More information is posted be it still limited


http://innomosha.blogspot.com/2010/09/taarifa-za-msiba.html



Perhaps it is a denial element in me that makes one start looking for more info



Please let us know if anyone gets more information.



   Regards



   Apollo Temu


#17130
From: Yassin Mshana 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 4:06 am
Subject: RE: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     ymshana2003@...
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Innalillahi Wa Innalillahi Raaj'un.
God lent us and now has  called back. Ametutengulia ndugu yetu dua yetu asikie Mola Aiweke roho yake pema peponi. Amen!

#17133
From: "Benn Haidari" 
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:31 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     benn.haidari@...
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Innalillahi Wa Innailayhi Raajiuun,
When he was in Botswana, were writing to each other, but in the lat 2 months I did not get any mail from him.
May God give im a better place in the heaven.
Benn

#17134     From: Frank Kanani 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 9:13 am
Subject: Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     frankanani
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Although no words can really help to ease the loss of our loving brother, we just know that we are very close in every thoughts and prayers.My sincere deepest sympathies goes to his family and friends, may his soul
rest in eternal peace…......
Mungu aliumba na yeye ndiye aliyetwaa kazi ya Mungu haina makosa! Mungu akutie nguvu.......

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From: Prosper Kaberwa 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 11:56 am
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     pkaberwa
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May God grant him eternal Peace. Amen

PK

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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything! - Unknown

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From: Edwin Mpogolo 
Date: Fri Oct 1, 2010 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     empogolo
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A really sad day for all of us in ICT

He introduced me to Internet well before the World Wide Web, tossing me a Tourbus once a week to worm around the Internet and send results a week later (Was it through Satelife?). Then gave me Clipper - man that was something, to create nice graphical interfaces with a professions touch - and make money too! And he has not returned my  Ilma la Duce Betamax Video since 1987! But no I can't complain.

I talked to him last only three months ago - that is after he got my number through my email to eTTTz

Fare well thee, good old dACHI! You were a jolly good fellow, and will certainly be missed by many of us ICT old hands!

May the Almighty Rest Your Soul in Peace!
 

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From: Muttagirwa Yahoo 
Date: Sat Oct 2, 2010 2:33 am
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     muttagirwa
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RIP Dachi... Too soon to call off ... But ur shared moments n memories'll last forever
Dr Longino


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Date: Sun Oct 3, 2010 9:41 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     sendoro
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Dear All,

I had worked with late Dachi, surely he was among those ICT gurus in the country, this surely a loss to ICT industry and Tanzania as a whole.

RIP Andrew Dach!!! Indeed that is our destiny.


Regards
Sendoro


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From: Stephano Ole-Teveli 
Date: Sun Oct 3, 2010 7:56 pm
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     ndiango
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Dear All,

Poleni sana ! Andrew dACHI was a dear friend and it is so sad to hear that  he is no longer. May God rest his soul in eternal life. I knew him since 1984 and have worked with him in the eighties and nineties. He is a real IT Guru. I can't find words to describe him ! Let us be ready because no one knows when the time comes for departing from this corrupted world.

I wish to get more details on when this occurred and  the funeral arrangements.

Stephano Ole-Teveli
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Arusha, Tanzania


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From: "Masaro, Arnold" 
Date: Mon Oct 4, 2010 9:17 am
Subject: RE: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     arnoldtmasaro
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It says a lot when peers mourn the passing of a colleague like this. It not only says that we are saddened, but also that we salute the accomplishments of the departed.

 

I worked with dACHI on one assignment in 1998. Indeed, he was a true scholar and a gentleman.

 

May God rest his soul in eternal peace.

 


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Date: Mon Oct 4, 2010 11:43 am
Subject: Re: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Death Announcement: Andrew Kapaga Dachi is no more     dsawe
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Hear, hear,



That's very well put Arnold.  Our departed colleague had indeed many

accomplishments to his name.



On my side, I'd known Dachi since back in his Costech days, but we lost touch

along the way after his move to Botswana.  It was back in mid-December 2009 that

we were able to get back in contact again, thanks to Facebook, but only for a

far too brief exchange of messages.



May his soul be blessed with Eternal Peace.

DS.

Internet groups and forums

I do subscribe to several Internet groups, in fact I am the owner of some of these. Over time, these groups and forums (or, rather, fora?) have paid dividends. I will enumerate some of these groups here, possibly not in any hierarchy, because it is not possible to use same yardstick to measure a group utility.
Tanzanet.org
A group of Tanzanians and friends of Tanzania. A majority of members live and work or study outside Tanzania. With the base of more than 500, about three quarters of them are listeners, i.e. they read the group without posting. The group is well regulated, there is an annual general meeting that is achieved by email communication and may last for a couple of weks. There is a Constitution. There are office bearers who are elected during election meetings.
The membership is composed of all manners of professionals, from professors to enterpreneurs, grandfathers to fresh graduates. There are arguments every now and then, but they do not lead to enmity or hard feelings.
A number of Tanzanet members live in Tanzania, mostly, like me, around Dar-es-Salaam. Whenever one of us from overseas has to come to Tz for, say, vacation, the message flows on the group, and arrangement is made so that we can meet at some place. An overall favourite for such meetings is Bamboo Bar commonly referred to by the owner's nickname, "Kwa John Fedha" I have never once regretted joining Tanzanet, it is so educative, although with heated topics on, the mailbox fills up daily with 200 messages or more. Tanzanet.org also has forum, but it is much less popular compared to the email group. It mostly serves new subscribers to join the group and some download stuff such as speeches and papers published by members on the Tanzanet.org Journal.

Ethinktanktz.yahoogroups.com
This group started running after year 2000 when lots of ICT users found out Y2K millenium bug was behind them -- for all that came of the premonition, it was "cry wolf" kind of scare.
ETTTz is a group of biggies. It is the group that brings together almost all IT persons in Tanzanian companies. So much help has been offered back and forth. While the group is so handy and useful, we also have misfits who sometimes conduct themselves in unbefitting manners. Usually such noise on the group is shouted down at and ends there and then. ETTTz does not restrict only Tanzanians, therefore there are several subscribers, especially from neignbouring countries.

Driverguide.com
The communitiy I live comprises of believers of computers lasting forever, therefore whenever a computer goes limp, someone looks for some of us cursed with knowledge of terms like IDE, Primary Slave and PCI. Most of ailments of computer requires replacement of hard disk, which necessitates re-installations of drivers of all gadgets such as sound cards. This forum has been a one-stop source of solace, and I shall recommend it any time. It is going to be sometime before we see the last Win98 box on our tables, or a 8-year-old computer on our dining tables (not to be eaten, but part-time furniture in a typical house).

alt.comp.hardware.com
This is one of the hundreds of usenet newsgroups that google salvaged and placed on their servers for easy access. If I were to put down two lines of thext for all positive response I have received from this group, it would fill 100 pages.

In coming posts I'll write something on my experience with running groups.

Nyerere, 10 years today since he went away

I would like every Tanzanian world over to reflect the teachings of Mwalimu Nyerere.
I would like to place all his speeches on the web for us and our children to keep learning from them. Anyone who can assist on this pls let me know. I can host them on my server space.

The Get-together of 14 March

We had settled long ago that we'd make a follow-up get-together when our colleague and real M+ enthusiast, Mr James Zachariah Tano hit the Bongo land.

Well, he did, and we communicated appropriately on M+ list to the effect that we'd meet "nex" Saturday. (Mea Culpa, I didn't specify the date, though some of the absentees would cling to this excuse why they did not show up). The venue had been proposed: Mlimani City, Samaki Samaki Pub.

I was the first to reach the venue. Although we'd talked about 5 pm, I was there at 5.30 (half hour early by African standards). James texted at that time saying he'd be late for 47.314 minutes (Japanese precision?) Then Kilasara showed up almost immediately. I'd also chatted Dunia Yusuph into attending, and he showed up. He's not an alcohol man, so I'd predicted he'd have trouble locating Samaki Samaki, but on the contrary he told me he was a regular visitor of Mlimani City on weekends for movies. Happy Magoha (Professor-to-be) brightened the group with gender representation when she arrived almost at the same time as James.

I, as is normal in these meetings, was the common denominator, so I had introductions to make around: Dunia Yusuph has never been employed by T**DO but knows it very well, as he has done two PT sessions there at different times, first as a Technical College student and later as a UDSM student. Salvatory Kilasara had been a Human Resource Officer who opted to move into a more challenging job in the civil service. Happy Magoha moved to Open University of Tz. James who took up lecturer job like Happy (but at DUSE) when he seiyaed, is presently doing his PhD in Japan, in a city of Kobe.

On the venue: Mlimani city is a huge complex that has shops for all manners of things from fresh onions to motorbikes, and, with the artificial lighting and environment one gets into when one visits there, one gets the feeling of being out of Tanzania, kins of like you are in Schipol duty free or Walmat store. The Samaki Samaki is one of the several side-by-side bars and eateries where customer has to be a king (to afford foods and drinks there). Samaki Samaki, particulsrly is a fish-and-chips specialist that's built to give patrons an aura of seaside without water. Tables and chairs are made out of coconut trunks, counters are made of improvised weatherbeated boats and everything from plates to tablemarker are fish-shaped. I saw James closely examining a toothpick, said he suspected it was of fish shape.

Needless to say, we were all eager to milk orient stories from James, but also spoke a little about T***O, OUTz and other small matters. For meal we took (of course) fish and other sea favourite, prawns. We also were of agreed viewpoint that we ought to make something tangible out of M+, if anyone had an idea s/he should float it on the list.

We parted company ealy--about 8 pm and went our separate ways. While the evening was enjoyable, it would have been even more so if the group was bigger. No OC, no Big Man, no Vitus etc etc. Hopefully we'll get to meet some more in future.

Get-together of 21 Feb 09

First email, and now, blog!

Blogs have been a new way of sending information across the world easily. If it is worth its salt, the crawlers will pick it up and dangle it for all. Many columnists in world-reknowned papers make their points of view known through their blogs, political leaders are blogging,. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that even some pre-schoolers may already be blogging.

M+ is a group of friends who have more or less to share. A model of M+ is kind of like domino relationship, whereby some members may have not physically met, but have been discussing in an mail forum and selflessly share information such as job slots, training opportunities or even humour.

This blog is intended to enrich those group resources by flavouring it with graphics such as photos, links to free net resources etc.

We do not expect the group to be prolific, as it is more or less a closed one.