| Kilos | hi superfly and others | 05:31 |
|---|---|---|
| Kilos | hi magespawn | 06:34 |
| superfly | hi Kilos | 06:53 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | morning all | 06:56 |
| Kilos | hi ThatGraemeGuy | 06:57 |
| superfly | ohi ThatGraemeGuy | 06:57 |
| Kilos | hi henkj | 07:00 |
| henkj | hi kilos | 07:02 |
| magespawn | hi Kilos | 07:06 |
| magespawn | good morning y'all | 07:06 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | 'ello | 07:12 |
| Kilos | hi Vince-0 | 07:20 |
| Kilos | môre inetpro | 07:21 |
| Vince-0 | Hii | 07:32 |
| Squirm | morning | 07:34 |
| Kilos | yo Squirm | 07:45 |
| Squirm | oooh | 07:50 |
| Squirm | skiing time | 07:50 |
| magespawn | nice, cold but nice | 07:55 |
| Squirm | sun's out | 07:55 |
| Squirm | but yes, cold | 07:55 |
| Squirm | snowed on the berg night before last | 07:55 |
| magespawn | have not seen that much snow for a very long time | 07:55 |
| Squirm | last skii before winter :/ | 07:55 |
| magespawn | i would have thought you could do more skiing in winter | 07:56 |
| Squirm | magespawn: where you now? | 07:56 |
| Squirm | lol | 07:56 |
| Squirm | water skiing | 07:56 |
| Squirm | :/ | 07:56 |
| magespawn | hluhluwe | 07:56 |
| magespawn | ahh right | 07:56 |
| magespawn | lol | 07:56 |
| Squirm | oh, thought you may have been up this way | 07:56 |
| Squirm | bbl | 07:59 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | :-o | 07:59 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | i just my life insurance renewal notice, and i realised that it still lists me as a smoker. i quit in mid-2010 already! :'( | 08:00 |
| Squirm | :P | 08:00 |
| Squirm | lol | 08:00 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | i accidentally a word :-/ | 08:00 |
| Kilos | ai! | 08:00 |
| Squirm | oh yes, bbl | 08:00 |
| Kilos | enjoy Squirm | 08:01 |
| superfly | ThatGraemeGuy: still not smoking, well done! You must be the only one... :-( | 08:11 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | yeah pretty much | 08:11 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | maybe Sully too | 08:12 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | but the rest quit quitting :) | 08:12 |
| superfly | Indeed | 08:12 |
| Kilos | hi Tonberry | 08:36 |
| Tonberry | hallo | 08:36 |
| inetpro | goeie more Kilos, and others | 09:30 |
| Kilos | dga boetie | 09:30 |
| Kilos | dag ook | 09:30 |
| === Trix[a]r_za is now known as Trixar_za | ||
| Kilos | hi Trixar_za | 10:17 |
| Trixar_za | Hey Kilos | 10:17 |
| magespawn | hey Trixar_za | 10:19 |
| === Trixar_za is now known as Trix[a]r_za | ||
| magespawn | Kilos you still enjoying KDE? | 10:31 |
| Kilos | yip and maverick magespawn | 10:31 |
| Kilos | chicken to put unity on the maverick drive | 10:31 |
| === Trix[a]r_za is now known as Trixar_za | ||
| Kilos | i wish i understood more of how things work | 10:36 |
| Kilos | like with an external or stick plugged in 10.10 can right click and format it. | 10:37 |
| Kilos | is it possible to get that function working on 12.04 | 10:37 |
| magespawn | not sure | 10:38 |
| magespawn | i am still learning my way around kde | 10:38 |
| Kilos | methinks that will be the dev guys that know that | 10:38 |
| magespawn | i never really used unity that much | 10:38 |
| Kilos | even on kde it would be nice to have | 10:39 |
| Kilos | i dont fancy all the partition manager and disk utilities and things | 10:39 |
| Kilos | ohi psyatw | 10:42 |
| psyatw | hi Kilos | 10:44 |
| magespawn | hey psyatw | 10:47 |
| psyatw | hi magespawn | 10:49 |
| Kilos | kde takes some getting used to hey magespawn ? | 11:27 |
| Kilos | hehe | 11:27 |
| psyatw | Kilos, I am finishing my papers for getting hired in Poland starting one month from now | 11:32 |
| psyatw | so that's why I'm away from the computer and the chat for now | 11:32 |
| Kilos | great. everything seems to take so long hey | 11:32 |
| psyatw | yeah | 11:32 |
| Kilos | np. once you are there you will have internet all the time | 11:32 |
| psyatw | this has been going for three weeks now, but at least I'll have a job soon | 11:32 |
| psyatw | of course | 11:33 |
| psyatw | and I can finally be here all the time, even if I'm not able to talk when I'm at work | 11:33 |
| Kilos | oh did you read the mail that maia posted for photos or postcards from you guys all over the world | 11:33 |
| Kilos | ? | 11:33 |
| psyatw | oh, I haven't read much mail lately unfortunately | 11:34 |
| psyatw | I will give you my picture soon, maybe even a postcard from here in the Netherlands and soon Poland | 11:34 |
| psyatw | or her, I mean | 11:35 |
| Kilos | she i starting a collection of all the ubuntu guys worldwide or something | 11:35 |
| psyatw | yeah, it's a really cool initiative | 11:35 |
| Kilos | im not sure if its just guys on our mailing list or not | 11:37 |
| Kilos | never remember what i read | 11:37 |
| psyatw | I've been too focused on finding a job for the past few months and finishing what I have to do here to read mailing lists, but I'll try to catch up soon | 11:38 |
| Kilos | cool | 11:38 |
| === Trixar_za is now known as Trix[a]r_za | ||
| Kilos | hi theblazehen | 12:23 |
| theblazehen | hi Kilos | 12:23 |
| Kilos | hi SmilyBorg_w | 12:25 |
| SmilyBorg_w | hey there | 12:33 |
| === SmilyBorg_w is now known as SmilyBorg | ||
| magespawn | guya i am stuck here, how do i change the size of the icons in a panel on kde? | 13:55 |
| Kilos | oh | 14:01 |
| Kilos | settings | 14:01 |
| Kilos | um | 14:01 |
| Kilos | second one from the top left i think | 14:01 |
| Kilos | or is that unity | 14:01 |
| Kilos | lemme boot from kde quick magespawn | 14:01 |
| Kilos- | hmm.. you still here magespawn | 14:05 |
| Kilos- | helloooooo | 14:05 |
| magespawn | hey kilos | 14:05 |
| Kilos- | cooowweeeeee | 14:05 |
| Kilos- | hehe | 14:06 |
| Kilos- | system settings | 14:06 |
| Kilos- | top left the second one then fonts | 14:06 |
| magespawn | and then ? | 14:06 |
| Kilos- | then you will see lotsa things on the tight | 14:06 |
| Kilos- | choose they are called | 14:07 |
| Kilos- | click on choose and tick on the size you want in the popup | 14:07 |
| magespawn | Kilos i am looking to adjust the size of the icons in the panel | 14:08 |
| Kilos- | what is the panel? | 14:08 |
| magespawn | the start bar | 14:09 |
| Kilos- | that bottom bar thing? | 14:09 |
| magespawn | yes | 14:09 |
| Kilos- | one of those settings makes it all bigger in the panel | 14:09 |
| Kilos- | maybe toolbar | 14:09 |
| magespawn | yes how to make it smaller? | 14:09 |
| Kilos- | wow how big is it? | 14:10 |
| magespawn | like half my screen | 14:10 |
| Kilos- | wow | 14:10 |
| Kilos- | what did you do? | 14:10 |
| Kilos- | mines like 5mm | 14:10 |
| magespawn | don't know or i would simple reverse it | 14:10 |
| magespawn | the bar itself is not the problem, the icons in it are | 14:11 |
| Kilos- | is that bar really half your screen? | 14:11 |
| magespawn | 1/3 | 14:11 |
| Kilos- | the smaller the bar the smaller the icons | 14:12 |
| magespawn | no | 14:12 |
| magespawn | wait now they are resizing hold on | 14:12 |
| Kilos- | kde you have to tick apply with everything | 14:13 |
| Kilos- | bottom right | 14:13 |
| Kilos- | of that window you working in of course | 14:14 |
| magespawn | plasma desktop just crashed | 14:14 |
| Kilos- | crashed gone? | 14:14 |
| magespawn | yup | 14:15 |
| Kilos- | oh my no text mode or anything? | 14:15 |
| magespawn | restarted itself, busy submitting the crsh report now | 14:15 |
| Kilos- | before closing down do sudo touch /forcefsck and it should clean up on reboot | 14:16 |
| magespawn | no, blank screen | 14:16 |
| magespawn | no need, the desktop retarted itself | 14:16 |
| Kilos- | i see it seems to do a short fsck on its own every reboot | 14:17 |
| magespawn | fsck is for disk problems, hopefully this is not one of those | 14:17 |
| Kilos- | if you kill the boot splash you can see what its doing on boot | 14:17 |
| Kilos- | no man | 14:18 |
| Kilos- | file system checker | 14:18 |
| magespawn | ahh well | 14:18 |
| magespawn | what was wierd here was i would resize the panel, but the icons would stay big | 14:18 |
| Kilos- | even after you tick apply? | 14:19 |
| magespawn | yup looked very strange | 14:20 |
| Kilos- | wow | 14:20 |
| magespawn | seems fine now though | 14:21 |
| Kilos- | weird | 14:22 |
| magespawn | maybe had something to do with a full hard drive again | 14:23 |
| magespawn | very small drive only 20gig | 14:23 |
| Kilos- | how did you fill it? | 14:24 |
| Kilos- | and did you look at the details in the crash report | 14:24 |
| magespawn | data recovery again | 14:25 |
| magespawn | something caused a segmentation fault | 14:26 |
| Kilos | pc just hung | 14:27 |
| Kilos | pulled modem and it revived | 14:27 |
| Kilos | first time any probs on this kde | 14:27 |
| Kilos | its bad stuff coming from the net somewhere methinks | 14:28 |
| Kilos | one of billy's paid anti linux hackers | 14:30 |
| magespawn | here is a paste of the crash report details http://slexy.org/view/s218ttjJTc | 14:30 |
| Kilos | you need someone like the fly or the weed to look at that | 14:31 |
| Kilos | or do you understand all that? | 14:32 |
| magespawn | no clue what it means | 14:33 |
| Tonberry | plasma desktop tends to die on me every once in a while | 14:34 |
| Tonberry | usually it auto restarts | 14:34 |
| Tonberry | or you can manually run it with alt-f2 | 14:34 |
| magespawn | ty Tonberry | 14:36 |
| Kilos | maybe it needs some updating. i just did a reinstall with muon and it fetched a meg even though everything is supposed to be up to date | 14:38 |
| magespawn | i will check that as soon as the crash report is done | 14:40 |
| magespawn | busy getting some debug symbols | 14:40 |
| Kilos | do you use muon magespawn ? | 14:51 |
| magespawn | yes | 14:51 |
| Kilos | the kde synaptic | 14:51 |
| Kilos | wow magespawn i typed plasma in muon and ticked all the stuff installed to reinstall and it wants to fetch another 105m | 15:06 |
| Kilos | so somewhere apt-get is slipping up | 15:07 |
| Kilos | 67m is kde wallpapers i see | 15:09 |
| Kilos | but they showed as installed | 15:09 |
| Kilos | grrr | 15:10 |
| magespawn | maybe there are new ones | 15:11 |
| magespawn | anyway i am off home, chat later | 15:13 |
| Kilos | ok | 15:14 |
| === Kilos- is now known as Kilos | ||
| Kilos | hi georgelappies | 16:19 |
| georgelappies | hi Kilos | 16:19 |
| Kilos | welcome to ubuntu-za | 16:19 |
| georgelappies | thanks :) | 16:19 |
| Kilos | have you been here before? | 16:19 |
| georgelappies | nope, first time. Only seen the link now on distrowatch to http://ubuntu-za.org/ and from there the irc link | 16:20 |
| Kilos | ah our advertising is bad i think | 16:21 |
| Kilos | with the lappies bit you must be south african hey? | 16:22 |
| georgelappies | ja I am South African, from Secunda in Mpumalanga actually | 16:22 |
| Kilos | ah. and you are using ubuntu? | 16:23 |
| Kilos | which flavour? | 16:23 |
| georgelappies | yeah, been using it for a while, since 8.04 actually :) | 16:23 |
| georgelappies | Ubuntu, Unity | 16:23 |
| Kilos | great so you come to teach and help others | 16:24 |
| Kilos | lol | 16:24 |
| georgelappies | lol | 16:24 |
| georgelappies | started using Linux in about 1998 with SuSE 7.0 ] | 16:24 |
| Kilos | wow you a ballie in the game | 16:25 |
| georgelappies | lol, I presume you are also from SA | 16:25 |
| Kilos | this is our community help channel. so if you know of peeps that need linux help tell them about us | 16:26 |
| Kilos | yeah im in pta | 16:26 |
| Kilos | but im the one that needs the most help normally | 16:26 |
| Kilos | we have dev guys here and python experts and all kinds | 16:27 |
| georgelappies | cool, will do so. Which flavour are you running? | 16:27 |
| georgelappies | that's cool | 16:27 |
| Kilos | at the moment 12.04 kubuntu. but also use 10.10 and fight with unity | 16:28 |
| Kilos | you need to join our mailing list | 16:28 |
| Kilos | http://bit.ly/MCOujZ | 16:28 |
| georgelappies | Kubuntu is nice, but for some reason every KDE based distro freezes my laptop | 16:28 |
| Kilos | i prefered gnome2 but what choice do we have | 16:29 |
| Kilos | thats why i still have 10.10 on one drive | 16:30 |
| georgelappies | started happening around Kubuntu 12.04, 11.10 still worked fine, but something inside kwin or the kdelibs changed in KDE between those two version. And now, I am guaranteed a lockup with arcade game bootup screen flickering within 10 minutes :( | 16:30 |
| Kilos | ouch. maybe the guys can think of a way around it for you. we have kde pros too | 16:31 |
| georgelappies | mmmmm, some text in my previous reply went missing, was supposed to read between 11.10 and 12.04 | 16:31 |
| Kilos | kde uses more resources than the others methinks | 16:33 |
| Kilos | but i like that it does app installs faster than unity | 16:34 |
| georgelappies | Well, I must be honest I am taking to Unity lately | 16:34 |
| Kilos | i like it as well but 12.04 gives big probs getting 3g working | 16:35 |
| georgelappies | that's not cool, which modem is it? | 16:35 |
| Kilos | what do you do in secunda? | 16:35 |
| Kilos | an alcatel from saudi arabia | 16:36 |
| Kilos | hehe | 16:36 |
| Kilos | only 12.04 has the probs though | 16:36 |
| georgelappies | I am an application specialist | 16:36 |
| Kilos | lekker | 16:37 |
| georgelappies | we do high density laser scanning of petrochemical plants and model the plants in 3D modeling software for engineering analyses etc. | 16:37 |
| Kilos | whew | 16:38 |
| georgelappies | pity that none of the software works on Linux though, everything is windows based | 16:39 |
| Kilos | not many here use unity so it will be good to have you around when someone has probs | 16:39 |
| kbmonkey | hello all :) | 16:40 |
| Kilos | yeah thats the biggest prob hey | 16:40 |
| Kilos | hiya kbmonkey wb | 16:40 |
| kbmonkey | hello Kilos. I missed you all. | 16:40 |
| georgelappies | will gladly assist where I can | 16:40 |
| Kilos | we miss you as well kbmonkey | 16:40 |
| Kilos | wassup | 16:40 |
| kbmonkey | tgif | 16:40 |
| Kilos | ty georgelappies | 16:41 |
| Kilos | kbmonkey: meet georgelappies | 16:41 |
| georgelappies | hi kbmonkey | 16:41 |
| Kilos | kbmonkey: is our on and off meeting chairperson georgelappies | 16:41 |
| georgelappies | ok, cool. Where do the meetings generally take place? | 16:42 |
| Kilos | next meeting in ten days kbmonkey | 16:42 |
| Kilos | here at 19.30 on the third monday of each month | 16:42 |
| georgelappies | great | 16:43 |
| Kilos | what irc client are you using georgelappies | 16:43 |
| georgelappies | XChat | 16:43 |
| Kilos | cool i love xchat | 16:43 |
| Kilos | not happy on kde though | 16:43 |
| georgelappies | normal one, not the gnome one ;) yeah on GTK it is the best | 16:43 |
| Kilos | no sound | 16:43 |
| Kilos | yeah the gnome one sucks | 16:44 |
| georgelappies | on KDE quassel is quite good | 16:44 |
| Kilos | i prefer konversation. can configure it to be same as xchat with the same alert | 16:45 |
| Kilos | bell.ogg | 16:45 |
| Kilos | took a while though | 16:45 |
| georgelappies | there are a few basic apps I cannot go without: gvim, hotot, xchat, liferea and chrome :) | 16:46 |
| Kilos | and no pidgin? | 16:47 |
| kbmonkey | hey I should maybe give gvim a try | 16:49 |
| georgelappies | not really into im ;) | 16:50 |
| Kilos | ah | 16:50 |
| Kilos | best way to get help here though. and for me to keep in touch with family on mxit | 16:50 |
| kbmonkey | I have it in my calendar Kilos, thanks for your reminders. You are always spot on! | 16:55 |
| Kilos | hi not_found | 16:55 |
| not_found | o/ | 16:55 |
| kbmonkey | hi not_found | 16:55 |
| Kilos | gotta keep you younguns on your toes kbmonkey | 16:55 |
| kbmonkey | indeed ;) | 16:56 |
| Kilos | hehe | 16:56 |
| not_found | how are you all this fine evening? | 16:58 |
| Kilos | good ty not_found , and you? | 16:58 |
| Kilos | at work? | 16:58 |
| kbmonkey | very well after that nice burger :] | 16:59 |
| not_found | home... switching to night tomorrow | 16:59 |
| * not_found had SFC (KFC's cousin :p) | 16:59 | |
| Kilos | hehe | 16:59 |
| Kilos | spiced with dates? | 16:59 |
| not_found | lol | 16:59 |
| not_found | no with chicen | 17:00 |
| not_found | *chicken | 17:00 |
| Kilos | and boiled in camel milk | 17:00 |
| kbmonkey | hahaha! | 17:00 |
| kbmonkey | with some added horse | 17:00 |
| not_found | :( | 17:01 |
| Kilos | shame | 17:01 |
| Kilos | sorry | 17:01 |
| not_found | lol | 17:01 |
| kbmonkey | I have wesley's burgers | 17:02 |
| kbmonkey | best in town | 17:02 |
| Kilos | not_found: meeting the 15th hey | 17:03 |
| Kilos | sort you lifestyle around that date | 17:03 |
| not_found | future is cloudy, blinded am I by the darkside... | 17:03 |
| Kilos | lol | 17:03 |
| Kilos | georgelappies: not_found is a za guys working in the UAE | 17:04 |
| Kilos | guy | 17:04 |
| kbmonkey | bend over and my darkside you will see | 17:06 |
| not_found | >.< | 17:09 |
| kbmonkey | lol | 17:12 |
| kbmonkey | I hear there is a comicon in CT soon | 17:12 |
| Kilos | sharks struggling not_found | 17:42 |
| Kilos | sigh | 17:42 |
| kbmonkey | oh dear. they had a big victory last time though | 17:52 |
| Kilos | the crusaders are tough | 17:54 |
| Kilos | kbmonkey: you still on crunchbang? | 17:56 |
| Kilos | crashbang. whatever | 17:56 |
| not_found | kbmonkey, comic con this weekend in Duabi... and I am working :'( | 18:00 |
| not_found | sorry uncle Kilos, not really following the rugby that diligently | 18:01 |
| Kilos | np | 18:01 |
| not_found | kbmonkey, awesome ted talk about asking, thanks for sharing... | 18:05 |
| kbmonkey | yeah, amanda palmer is amazing. I love her music. | 18:14 |
| not_found | doesn't sound like my cup of tea :p | 18:20 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | hello nighttime peoples | 18:34 |
| smile4ever | bye :) | 18:38 |
| Kilos | ohi ThatGraemeGuy | 18:40 |
| * ThatGraemeGuy smiles and waves | 18:41 | |
| inetpro | Ubuntu 13.04, scheduled for release on April 25, is now available for testing in its second and final beta release | 18:41 |
| Kilos | yo inetpro | 18:41 |
| inetpro | ho Kilos | 18:42 |
| Kilos | this drive with kde also started the disk sleep thing | 18:42 |
| Kilos | removed one 1g ram and so far so good | 18:42 |
| Kilos | maybe my 160g drive is ok | 18:42 |
| * Kilos holding thumbs for the sharks | 18:45 | |
| inetpro | Kilos: are they playing now? | 18:47 |
| Kilos | yes last 2.5 mins | 18:47 |
| inetpro | score | 18:47 |
| inetpro | ? | 18:47 |
| Kilos | only beat the crusadres 3 times out of 18 games | 18:48 |
| Kilos | 21/17 | 18:48 |
| Kilos | tonight will be the 4th time i hope | 18:48 |
| * inetpro running mplayer mms://196.35.68.110/rsg_22 | 18:51 | |
| Kilos | whats that? | 18:52 |
| inetpro | pragtig! Dankie Kilos | 18:52 |
| Kilos | w000t | 18:52 |
| inetpro | Kilos: aptitude show mplayer | 18:53 |
| inetpro | Kilos: actually vlc also works with that | 18:54 |
| Kilos | ya man but what were you watching on it | 18:54 |
| inetpro | Kilos: listening RSG | 18:54 |
| Kilos | oh | 18:54 |
| Kilos | thats clever | 18:54 |
| Kilos | see we got a new clever guy | 18:55 |
| inetpro | Kilos: huh? | 18:56 |
| Kilos | we must do something about this channel | 18:56 |
| Kilos | he has been on ubuntu for years and only found us now | 18:56 |
| * inetpro goes to read backlogs | 18:56 | |
| Kilos | georgelappies: say hi to inetpro a kde man | 18:56 |
| inetpro | georgelappies: welcome at #ubuntu-za | 18:57 |
| Kilos | 18.20 | 18:57 |
| inetpro | eish... you guys talk a lot | 18:57 |
| georgelappies | hi inetpro :) | 18:58 |
| Kilos | well he be new so gotta get to know him | 18:58 |
| superfly | georgelappies: have you heard of Blender ? | 18:58 |
| * inetpro trying to catch up since about mid day | 18:58 | |
| georgelappies | yeah, like 3D studio | 18:58 |
| Kilos | georgelappies: superfly is another kde guy | 18:58 |
| georgelappies | hi superfly :) | 18:59 |
| Kilos | and python pro | 18:59 |
| superfly | I gave up catching up | 19:00 |
| Kilos | inetpro: mag ek gaan doedoe nou? | 19:00 |
| inetpro | Kilos: why? | 19:00 |
| Kilos | hmm... | 19:00 |
| georgelappies | superfly, you using Blender? | 19:00 |
| inetpro | Kilos: of course you're welcome to take a well deserved rest | 19:01 |
| Kilos | rofl you are so kind | 19:01 |
| inetpro | goeie nag oom | 19:01 |
| Kilos | night all. sleep tight. | 19:01 |
| Kilos | sien julle more weer | 19:02 |
| georgelappies | lekker slaap | 19:02 |
| inetpro | georgelappies: wow, you found ubuntu-za on distrowatch? | 19:04 |
| * inetpro didn't realise that we're there as well | 19:04 | |
| georgelappies | lol, yeah. I there was a link on phoronix to the beta2 of 13.04, I followed that and from there to distrowatch where I got the ubuntu-za link in related sites :) | 19:05 |
| inetpro | nice! | 19:06 |
| inetpro | glad you found your way here and I hope you wil stick around as well | 19:07 |
| inetpro | will as well | 19:07 |
| georgelappies | thanks inetpro | 19:09 |
| * superfly is playing plants vs zombies | 19:11 | |
| ThatGraemeGuy | say hi to crazy dave for me | 19:12 |
| not_found | plants vs zombies rulke | 19:13 |
| not_found | *rule | 19:13 |
| * not_found just died in FTL :( | 19:13 | |
| Squirm | Galaxy S2 or Galaxy S3 Mini ? | 19:23 |
| * inetpro wonders when we will get pricing for the S4 | 19:26 | |
| georgelappies | Squirm, http://androidfact.com/s2-vs-s3-mini/ | 19:26 |
| Squirm | wanted a personal opinion | 19:27 |
| inetpro | Squirm: personally I wouldn't go for the mini | 19:28 |
| georgelappies | Now, that is going to be a cool device, the S4 | 19:28 |
| inetpro | the processor is disappointing | 19:28 |
| Squirm | inetpro: cool. cause I've found they're both similar prices now | 19:30 |
| Squirm | georgelappies: if you have like R13k | 19:31 |
| inetpro | Squirm: are you sure it will be that high? | 19:31 |
| inetpro | apparently pricing in the US is supposed to start at $200 | 19:32 |
| Squirm | bidorbuy | 19:33 |
| Squirm | Samsung Galaxy S4 16GB | 19:33 |
| Squirm | R14,999.00 | 19:33 |
| Squirm | Available Till: 19 Apr 00:00 | 19:33 |
| Squirm | Item Condition: New | 19:33 |
| Squirm | Product Code: I9500 | 19:33 |
| Squirm | Quantity Available: 1 | 19:33 |
| Squirm | but that's not much to go by | 19:33 |
| Squirm | I want the Nexus 4 | 19:33 |
| Squirm | :/ | 19:33 |
| inetpro | sjoe | 19:33 |
| georgelappies | Shouldn't be more than R 8500 if bought new once officially available from local carriers | 19:33 |
| Squirm | Nexus 4 is nice | 19:34 |
| Squirm | anyway, bbl | 19:34 |
| inetpro | $200 = R1819.12 | 19:34 |
| georgelappies | inetpro, I am sure that is linked to a 24 month contract?... | 19:35 |
| inetpro | georgelappies: yes probably | 19:35 |
| Tonberry | can you buy those here? | 19:41 |
| Tonberry | last i checked south africa was out of luck | 19:41 |
| inetpro | as far as I'm aware they will be available in South Africa on the same day as in many other countries | 19:45 |
| inetpro | on MTN and on CellC you can pre-order already | 19:45 |
| Tonberry | they have been available in the usa for many months | 19:45 |
| inetpro | but I don't know how that works with pricing that is not yet announced | 19:45 |
| inetpro | Tonberry: not officially | 19:46 |
| Tonberry | nexus 4 sold by google is about as official as it gets | 19:46 |
| inetpro | Tonberry: ahh, sorry I thought you're talking about the S4 | 19:47 |
| Tonberry | if sa is getting the nexus 4 it is pretty late to the game | 19:47 |
| inetpro | sadly I have not seen the Nexus 4 here | 19:47 |
| Tonberry | ah, s4 was discussed farther back | 19:48 |
| inetpro | our mobile companies are pretty useless here if you ask me | 19:48 |
| bakuman | apparently when the nexus 4 was released LG said they were not selling it in SA | 19:48 |
| inetpro | especially Vodacom | 19:48 |
| Tonberry | no one will sell a nexus 4 here because it will kill all other competition | 19:49 |
| * inetpro is still waiting for the Note II from Vodacom | 19:49 | |
| bakuman | well it has a flimsy back | 19:49 |
| Tonberry | why buy and s3 if you can have a nexus 4 at 1/2 the price? | 19:49 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | because marketing | 19:50 |
| Tonberry | i dont think the carriers are brave enough to depend on marketing alone | 19:51 |
| Tonberry | lack of choice on the other hand tends to work well | 19:51 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | they don't matter when there are Galaxy S3 ads on TV all. the. time. | 19:51 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | well they were a year ago anyway | 19:52 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | it's kinda old now | 19:52 |
| Tonberry | well no one sells the nexus 4 at a sane price here so it does nor really matter | 19:52 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | yeah whatever market research methods they use told them it wouldn't be worth it | 19:53 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | i think vodacom had the nexus s way back when and it sold really poorly | 19:54 |
| inetpro | well I ordered the Note II on 23 Feb and am still waiting | 19:54 |
| inetpro | could have been imported by now | 19:54 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | ouch, from who? | 19:54 |
| inetpro | ThatGraemeGuy: VC | 19:55 |
| inetpro | at Wonderpark | 19:55 |
| inetpro | all they say is that they will call me when they have it | 19:55 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | i discovered a few years ago that a small mtn franchisee near me always has what i want | 19:55 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | when i wanted an htc desire 3 years ago, i had 3 mtn stores that would call me when they had stock. on a whim i called this guy and i fetched my phone 3 hours later. | 19:56 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | i think the mtn corporate stores rely on really sucky stock distribution channels | 19:57 |
| inetpro | at this stage I'm just about waiting for my contract to run out completely before considering my options to jump ship to CellC or another mobile co | 19:57 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | whereas franchise guys are more free to get stock from wherever | 19:57 |
| inetpro | and maybe, just maybe the S4 will be available and affordable by then | 19:57 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | yeah i'm quite keen on cell c too. their new low rates were announced something like 6 weeks after i upgraded last year :( | 19:58 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | ok bed time | 20:03 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | 4-year-old hasn't realised the value of sleeping in on a saturday morning :-/ | 20:04 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | night all | 20:04 |
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