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Kilosmorning peeps06:07
=== ThatGraemeGuy_ is now known as ThatGraemeGuy
Kiloshi psychicist 06:33
Kiloshi zeref07:15
Kiloswinter came again back here07:15
zerefhi Kilos 07:23
Kiloshi nlsthzn 07:38
nlsthznwow, that was fast uncle Kilos :)07:38
Kiloshehe07:38
Kilosim always fast except when im slow07:39
Kilossometimes im outside or trying to fix things07:39
nlsthznah ok.. well hello on this Saturday :)07:40
Kiloshehe07:41
Kilosyou gonna watch the game nlsthzn ?07:44
Kilosi havent checked the time yet07:44
nlsthznwhich one uncle Kilos ?07:44
Kilosspose its late avy07:44
Kilosus and kiwis07:44
nlsthznnot today07:45
Kilosrevenge match after that ref is being disciplined07:45
nlsthznafaik07:45
Kilosaw07:45
nlsthznus and aus on the 28th07:46
Kilosai! i thought it was us and kiwis here today07:46
Kilosgot lost somewhere07:47
nlsthznthink we need some time to regain focus first anyway... if we have two good games at home we have an outside chance of still taking this 07:48
Kilosno need to focus man should play while everyone is still angry about bad reffing07:49
nlsthzndoubt that will help us when we give away penalties...07:50
Kilosya07:50
Kiloshmm...09:01
kbmonkeyhello Kilos 09:02
Kiloshello kbmonkey how are you lad?09:02
Kilosno class last night and the studies site be sicker09:03
kbmonkeyfine Kilos , ye I saw the studies site is sick :(09:04
kbmonkeywe are at the software feedom day meet in durbs :]09:04
Kilosenjoy09:05
Kilossay hi to them geeks for me09:05
nlsthznhttp://youtu.be/H9vf7OQ1X7g09:10
nlsthznwas so awesome, loved this as a kid and still do :p09:11
* nlsthzn goes to sleep for night shift09:11
nlsthznbye09:11
Kilossleep tight nlsthzn 09:11
charlgood afternoon all10:53
charlMaaz: coffee on10:53
* Maaz washes some mugs10:54
MaazCoffee's ready for charl!10:58
charlMaaz: thanks10:58
Maazcharl: Okay :-)10:58
charlalthough we gotta talk about those dirty mugs you have lying around10:58
Kiloshi charl 11:11
charlhow's it going11:18
Kilosnot bad ty and you?11:18
charlgood thanks11:24
charli'm learning how to use nzb today11:51
charlinstalled the nzb package on ubuntu, tried some others but nzb seems to work the best11:51
charldownloading some stuff from a usenet news server now11:52
charlhi Vince-0 12:58
Vince-0heyo12:58
Vince-0just got back from the dbnlug SFD meet12:59
Vince-0I drove with kbmonkey12:59
charloh nice !13:00
charlphotos?13:00
charlpic or it didn't happen :P13:00
Vince-0aah, only have a one really13:00
charl:(13:00
Vince-0https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B1MTdj3th9s/Uj1-SFaAY0I/AAAAAAAAKzc/ZrinmmXKFYs/w1122-h842-no/1379761189335.jpg13:00
Vince-015 or so peeps13:01
Vince-0here's what we talked about:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hz6ncKOrdMSTe7IpUDzFoHYRSH7h53CG447FjvUvSzc/edit?usp=sharing13:02
charllol the kid in the back13:02
Vince-0lol yar we didn't have a designated photographer13:03
charlwatching the american version of top gear now, it's even worse than the english one13:06
charl:D13:06
charlgo figure :P13:06
charland it airs on the... history channel?!13:06
Vince-0the brits are the best13:06
Kilosvince who are the peeps in the pic?13:07
Vince-0the us one is ok but the characters aren't as funny13:07
Vince-0so you can see half my arm and kbmonkey13:07
Kilosoh is the monkey blonde13:07
Vince-0and the other guy at the table is one of the original computer society interest groups guys but I forget his name13:08
Kiloshehe13:08
Vince-0no that's peroxide13:08
Kiloshes a peroxide blonde?13:08
Squirmhi13:09
Kiloshi Squirm 13:09
Vince-0hii13:10
charllol peroxide13:10
charldidn't realise people still use that to bleach their hair13:10
charlmy grandmother did that once in the 50s but then decided not to do it again, permanently affected some of her hair13:11
Kiloshehe13:11
Vince-0well I dunno what he used13:11
Kilosanyway now we can tease him13:12
charllol13:12
SquirmCurrent Conditions13:21
SquirmOutside Temperature4.8°C13:21
SquirmWind Chill2.6°C13:21
Kilosouch that eina cold13:21
charlis launchpad down? https://launchpad.net13:22
KilosMaaz, is https://launchpad.net down13:23
MaazKilos: Yes, https://launchpad.net/ is down (Server is not responding)13:23
charlthis says it's up http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/launchpad.net13:23
charlweird13:23
charlyeah cause i can't seem to add a particular ppa now13:24
charltraceroute looks fine, i get a syn/ack back but the http server behind it doesn't respond13:24
charloh well i just wait for a while13:24
charlon a related note, the nzb tool on ubuntu is complete crap, it downloads a 9gb file and then the whole file disappears13:26
charlno trace of it to be found13:26
charlon my filesystem13:26
Kiloseish13:26
georglcharl: which nzb grabber you using?13:27
charlgeorgl: http://nzb.sf.net/13:32
georglugh13:33
charl?13:33
georgluse sabnzbd13:33
georglworks a treat13:33
georglbeen using ti for years13:33
georglruns as server13:33
charlok i'll give it a shot thanks13:33
georglaccess it via web browser13:33
georglhttp://wiki.sabnzbd.org/13:34
charlthis is a mess13:41
charli installed http://www.lottanzb.org/ earlier13:41
charlthat makes use of sabnzbd in the background13:42
charlbut the version that comes with ubuntu is too new for it13:42
charleven though i installed lottanzb from the ubuntu packages too13:42
charlthere is also hellanzb, has an ubuntu package but the site is down http://hellanzb.com/13:43
Kiloshellanzb is in the ubuntu repos13:48
Kiloswhy you wanna get it from the site charl 13:49
charlno i installed it from the ubuntu repo but i need to understand how to use it13:52
charland for that i need docs13:52
charlit also seems to be a type of daemon13:52
charlbut it expects xmlrpc calls13:52
charlso it need some type of client app13:52
Kilosoh no man file14:17
charlok got sabnzbd working and running but the web interface is extremely slow14:34
charlok it's downloading, let's see what happerns14:38
charlany of you people using chromium?15:13
charli find that very often i can't play any videos from youtube15:13
charlwhen i launch firefox they all play fine15:13
charlbut firefox is extremely slow so i prefer to use chromium instead15:14
Trixar_zaIt kind of turned into bloat recently though15:18
Trixar_zaSo did Firefox for that matter15:18
charlstill seems much faster to me than firefox15:21
Kilos<Squirm> we'd have to submit a ticket15:32
Kilosfunny things in the it world hey15:32
Kilosone used to buy tickets in the old days15:35
Trixar_zacharl: Only because it caches and pre-fetches like a common ho15:37
Kilosohi Trixar_za 15:37
Trixar_zaHi Kilos15:37
charllol15:38
Trixar_zaI'd watch out for that one though, it might be carrying somebody else's baby15:38
charlno i meant in terms of local performance not network performance15:38
charlwhahahahah that is hilarious though15:38
charlbut i still want to know... what's up with youtube15:39
charlnobody else had this problem? only me?15:39
Squirmhey Trixar_za 15:48
Trixar_zaHey Squirm15:48
SquirmCurrent Conditions15:49
SquirmOutside Temperature3.8°C15:49
SquirmWind Chill2.2°C15:49
Squirm:(15:49
Squirmupdated 17:3015:49
Trixar_zaWell, that's a good reason to be in bed with somebody else15:49
Kiloseish15:49
SquirmIt's been a good day then Trixar_za 15:49
Trixar_zaI once told a girl (quite seriously) that I only loved her for her body heat.15:49
Trixar_zaMan do I miss youth15:50
Trixar_zaI could get away with that crap15:50
Kiloshaha15:50
SquirmGot my new Raspberry Pi yesterday Trixar_za. Tonight I test my brew code15:51
Squirmtomorrow I start15:51
Squirmand going to setup XBMC on one for my dad15:53
Trixar_zaOh yeah15:53
Trixar_zaI asked the guys in buildroot what I was doing wrong15:53
Trixar_zaand I can now build with it :P15:53
Kilosgreat Trixar_za 15:53
Trixar_zaI just don't have data to download it yet :(15:53
Squirmand then one will be for the continuous update of our weather to the net15:53
Squirmcool15:54
Trixar_zaYou should use it to homebrew your own linux for Raspberry Pi15:54
Trixar_zathere are a bunch of tutorials for it on the internet15:54
SquirmTrixar_za: or I can use the 200mb image I just downloaded15:54
Trixar_zaYeah, but it's always more fun to do it yourself15:55
Trixar_zaAlso, you feel more like a man afterwards and that's scientifically proven to attract women15:55
Kiloslol15:56
SquirmTrixar_za: she has a shirt that has "Bazinga" :/15:56
SquirmI don't even have one of them15:56
Trixar_zaOo15:56
Trixar_zaWant15:56
Trixar_zathe shirt, not the girl15:56
Trixar_zaAlthough if she's not wearing a bra, it would be a bonus15:57
Trixar_zaBut seriously, I want a Bazinga shirt15:57
Squirmikr15:58
Squirm:/15:58
kbmonkeyhello :)15:58
Squirmeither that or a Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock shirt15:58
Squirmwith all the arrows and stufs15:58
Squirmhey kbmonkey 15:59
Squirmweather updates in 1min15:59
* Squirm waits15:59
kbmonkeyhello Squirm !16:00
Trixar_za"You've fallen victim to yet another of my classic pranks"16:00
Trixar_zaHe only started using it in like season 3 though16:00
Trixar_za... and I still have trouble getting over the unaired pilot16:01
Squirm:/16:01
SquirmI had forgotten about that16:01
SquirmDAMN YOU16:01
Trixar_zaWHAHAHAHAHAHA16:02
nlsthznstupid bloody job16:40
nlsthzn*sigh*16:40
charlgreat, sabnzbd works perfect16:40
georglcool16:41
charlthanks georgl 16:41
georglwell supported16:41
georglnext look at sickbeard16:41
charlfor automatically downloading stuff?16:42
charli think i'll do it manually for the moment16:42
georglcharl who are you using for nzb search?16:42
georglyup16:42
georglit works well16:42
charlhttp://www.nzbindex.nl/16:43
georglok16:43
georglyou can use my index as well16:43
charlwhere can i find it?16:44
georglspotweb.gltech.co.za16:44
charlthanks16:44
charli'll check it out16:44
georglregister yourself on it. and use it16:44
georglit updates every 8 hours16:45
georgllaterz16:46
georglmunch time16:46
charlsame here16:46
Kiloshang in there nlsthzn 16:56
nlsthznnot so bad I guess Kilos ... it is just that incompetence can only be masked by luck etc. in the short run but in the long run it will come back and bite everyone in the ass...\17:00
Kiloslol17:04
nlsthznwe are having more and more little #$%^-up's and I doubt it will become less and suspect it will only increase making life difficult :/17:05
Kilosjust try see where all the messups are originating from so you know17:07
Kilosi forgot what you guys do there nlsthzn 17:09
kbmonkeythat is not nice nlsthzn, sorry man17:11
kbmonkeyguise, I am going to hunt down some food...17:17
Kilosok17:17
nlsthznunschooled worker making plastic :p17:21
Kilosah17:21
Kilosnight guys. sleep tight18:16
charli'm not so happy with this whole nzb business - it works quite nicely in the end but it's really really slow18:36
charlhi magespawn 19:07
magespawnHi charl19:07
charlhow are you doing19:07
magespawnGood and you?19:08
charli'm doing well thanks19:08
magespawnCool beans19:08
magespawnNew job is keeping me busy, that is why i am not here so much lately19:10
charloh you took that job? nice! you working full time now?19:11
magespawnNo still part time full time from the 1st19:11
charlwow congrats!19:12
charlyou working over weekends too?19:12
magespawnJust saturdays or when needed, sundays are overtime so i get extra time off19:13
charlyeah a man needs some time to himself too19:13
charlor a girl to herself19:13
charlbeen learning how to download files across nzb today19:14
magespawnIndeed and for the family19:14
magespawnNzb?19:14
charlyes especially if you have a family19:14
charlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZB19:14
charlyou can find a lot of stuff on http://www.nzbindex.nl/19:15
charlam using http://sabnzbd.org/ on recommendation of georgl19:15
charlneed to get it set up and configured but once you got it working it works really nicely19:16
charltrick is you need a usenet server to download from19:16
charlmy cable provider runs a usenet server but you can only download 50GB per month from it19:16
charlunless if i upgrade to a better package19:16
magespawn50GB is a fair amount19:18
charlheh that disappears quickly :P19:19
charlbut i don't need that much i'm just playing around now and learning19:19
magespawnIs there worthwhile stuff of usenet? I have never used it.19:20
charli probably already downloaded about 30GB today as a test19:20
charldepends on what you're looking for ;)19:21
charlbiggest problem is data retention19:23
magespawnWell i am interested in almost anything19:23
charlmy cable provider's server only retains data for about 30 days it seems19:23
Symmetri1hrm19:23
charlhi Symmetri1 19:24
magespawnAhh so you need to grab what you want when you can.19:24
Symmetri1lo19:24
Symmetri1This Nairobi stuff is so screwed up19:24
Symmetri1and tomorrow I think the Kenyan military is gonna turn southern somalia into a parking lot 19:24
kbmonkeyhello magespawn charl and Symmetri1 19:25
magespawnHey kbmonkey19:25
charlhi kbmonkey 19:25
Symmetri1I drove right past that mall yesterday though, at the moment sitting in Mombassa but things even here are pretty tense (very islamic town), I aint leaving hotel other than to go to Airport tomorrow to get to Uganda19:25
Symmetri1(I presume you guys have been watching th news)19:25
=== Symmetri1 is now known as Symmetria
magespawnNope no tv here19:26
charli just read something on the dutch news... 19:26
Symmetriamagespawn large terrorist attack19:26
Symmetriaon the most exclusive mall in Nairobi19:26
Symmetria30+ dead, 60+ injured 19:26
kbmonkeythat is shocking19:26
charlhttp://nos.nl/artikel/553852-vier-nederlanders-gevlucht-uit-mall.html19:26
Symmetriagunmen are still inside pinned down by the military and police 19:26
magespawnHectic19:27
Symmetriaand apparently they still holding hostages 19:27
Symmetriathis is why when Im travelling in any area of the world that has issues like this, I tend to stay out of malls frequented by expats19:27
magespawnYup they do become targets19:27
charli know there was tention for years between the kenyans and somalians19:28
charli spent a month in nairobi back in 201119:28
Symmetria*shrug* I practically live in Nairobi at the moment (and am actually about to move permenantly)19:29
Symmetriaits not really the somalis where the tension is, its a specific extremist al-queda affiliated terrorist group in southern somalia19:30
charlhold on a second... i know this mall19:31
charlam looking at photos on google right now19:31
charlthis mall was right behind my guest house, i visited there every day and over weekends19:31
Symmetriacharl yeah, its a popular place for ex-pats, its upper class, expensive and generally only the wealthy kenyans use it19:32
Symmetriame, I prefer to shop at the more local places, better pricing and I know my way around Nairobi enough to do that 19:33
charli didn't think it was expensive but then i was a "wealthy" foreigner19:33
charli dunno a lot of shady places in nairobi19:33
Symmetriacharl yeah but if you compared prices in there to other places, you'd find it pretty over priced19:33
charli was shocked to see the poorer parts how they look and the roads are absolutely terrible19:33
Symmetriacharl lol, Ive spent a LOT of time in Nairobi, I know the city back to front and inside out19:33
SymmetriaI know where to go and where not to go :)19:33
charli didn't feel safe enough to just "go places" if you know what i mean....19:34
charlyeah you get the good parts of nairobi but you also get the bad parts19:34
charldo you know the ihub?>19:34
Symmetriayeah, though most of my time is spent out on mombassa road19:34
Symmetriaat sameer business park19:34
Symmetriaheh, if Im doing shopping, I prefer to use Junction or Nakumat 19:35
SymmetriaNakumat is open 24/7 and you can buy anything from there from a tooth brush to a high end 70" tv19:35
charli also frequented a centre with a lot of restaurants19:36
charlthere was a convenience store too but i can't remember what it was called19:36
charlfor some unknown reason i didn't take many photos during my month in nairobi19:37
charlbut the food was sub-standard in general19:37
Symmetriacharl, heh, you gotta know where to eat 19:37
Symmetriathere are some very very good places *if* you know where they are19:37
charlthe best was the "real" kenyan food19:37
charlgo where the locals go19:37
Symmetria(Cedar's is very good lebanese food, and there is an amazing brazillian place where suprisingly you'll find more kenyans than foreigners)19:38
charli thought the internet in kenya was pretty fast compared to south africa19:38
charlbut the latency was sky-high19:38
Symmetriathe food in Mercury in ABC Plaza aint bad as well19:38
Symmetriacharl, heh, not anymore, and it depends on which provider19:38
charli remember eating at an ethiopian place that is awesome19:38
SymmetriaI've been working on fixing it ;p 19:38
charllemme find the provider19:38
charlhttp://www.zuku.co.ke/19:40
charlthey were routing everything via india19:40
charland the ping to europe and especially the usa was insane19:41
charllike 1sec+19:41
charli also had safaricom 3g which at the time had an unlimited data package and they routed via italy19:41
charlbut was still extremely slow19:41
Symmetriaheh thats actually good news for us, because zuku is competition 19:41
charlthey were providing internet access to the ihub19:42
SymmetriaI've pretty much rebuilt a large part of the kdn (now liquid telecomms kenya) network in the last 6 months and bigger and bette rthings coming shortly19:42
charlit was part of the http://www.wananchi.com/19:42
charlsounds promising19:42
Symmetria--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---19:42
Symmetria10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9012ms19:42
Symmetriartt min/avg/max/mdev = 144.661/144.889/145.173/0.491 ms19:42
Symmetriaand 54ms to south africa 19:43
charl144ms i guess is reasonable19:43
Symmetria(I pulled up a 1gig connection to south africa directly, becoming the first provider to actually keep traffic on continent instead of routing it via europe)19:43
charllol that is absolutely terrible19:43
Symmetriacharl, 144 is as low as it can get based on distance19:43
charli mean good for you but terrible for africa19:44
charlyeah ping between here (western europe) and the usa is also about that19:44
charlor i think a little less, 100ms19:44
Symmetriaheh, its pretty easy to calculate, 1ms per 100 kilometers of fiber roughly19:45
Symmetria(since light moves slower through glass than through air, at about 2/3rds the speed)19:45
charlhere was the speed test at the ihub that i did http://www.speedtest.net/result/1472108340.png19:46
charlnote the date though19:46
charl2+ years ago19:46
Symmetriaheh, if I run a speed test from our offices I'd be cheating, that server sits in the dc next door ;p19:46
charllol19:47
charlthen you'll get 1gbps probably or something like that19:47
charlwhatever your ethernet maximises out as19:47
Symmetriaheh but we also have a few gig to europe (and a lot more coming shortly)19:47
charli would hope so, a few gig isn't much for an isp19:48
Symmetriaheh, Im getting outta consultancy to accept a perm position with Liquid Telecomms as head of ip strategy 19:48
Symmetriacharl, heh, it is in african terms :) but we will get there, technically I could turn up another 12gig tomorrow, but its 2 expensive to turn it up till you sell more of it, not economically feasible19:49
charlhmmmm ok19:49
charlthere is a contraversy surrounding the ams-ix right now19:49
charlfor those who read dutch: http://nos.nl/artikel/553680-nederland-opent-deur-voor-nsa.html19:50
charlfor those that don't, the summary is the ams-ix wanted to open up some type of branch in the usa19:50
charland that would mean the americans can get access to the data going through the ams-ix19:50
Symmetriaheh, amsix is trying to do a lot of strange things19:51
Symmetriathey have an exchange here in mombassa as well19:51
Symmetriathough its actually bs, because the americans couldnt spy on traffic going through the switches that werent in the states 19:51
Symmetriasince traffic switching through an ix doesnt work that way19:52
charlafaik the amsix and the decix are the two largest exchanges in europe19:52
Symmetriahrm, I think LINX is bigger than decix19:53
charlnot entirely... the amsix opening an operation in the usa could open it up to american juristiction19:53
charlin some or the other legal way that i don't understand19:53
charlyeah but that's london, we don't consider britain to be european :P19:53
Symmetriaheh at tenet I peered on both amsix and linx 19:54
Symmetriaheh charl, technically a very large percentage of traffic at decix isnt european as such anyway19:54
Symmetriawell, its not western european19:54
charlnah linx is small, just look at this: https://stats.linx.net/19:54
charlno that's why they say the americans wanted in on it19:54
Symmetriapeople generally go to decix to hit eastern europe19:54
charlto monitor the middle east19:54
charland eastern europe indeed19:55
charlhttp://pastebin.com/yMGTZ1PZ19:55
Symmetriaheh, 1.4T isnt small ;p or 1.5T19:55
charllook at the amsix or decix graphs for comparison19:55
charlhttps://www.ams-ix.net/technical/statistics19:55
charlhttp://www.de-cix.net/about/statistics/19:56
Symmetriayeah but there is something you gotta remeber as well19:56
Symmetriaamsix and decix graphs include PNI's iirc19:56
Symmetriawhere as LINX doesnt graph LINX provided PNI's19:56
charlno clue19:57
Symmetriathey have an estimated PI traffic that isnt on that graph, estimated to be a further 1.5T19:57
Symmetriaso linx total is 3T :)19:57
charlaround the same then19:57
Symmetriayeah19:58
Symmetriaanyway :) Im off to bed, gotta fly again tomorrow 19:58
Symmetria;p and hopefully the sheraton in kampala has better internet access than this damn hotel in mombassa 19:58
charlciao !19:58
charlwb henkj 20:06
magespawnGood night  all20:39

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