| Kilos | morning all of ya awake already | 04:22 |
|---|---|---|
| Kilos | hi TinuvaMac | 04:43 |
| TinuvaMac | good morning | 04:55 |
| TinuvaMac | need to reconnect quick i think | 04:56 |
| === Symmetri1 is now known as Symmetria | ||
| === TinuvaMa_ is now known as Tinuva | ||
| Symmetria | man | 05:14 |
| Symmetria | I hate cellular providers | 05:14 |
| Symmetria | so so so much | 05:14 |
| Symmetria | airtel keeps turning off my roaming as a "security precaution" despite me telling them a million times DONT DO THAT | 05:14 |
| Symmetria | and you'd think that with my average spend every month they could get it right (cause trust me, my average cellphone bill is insane) | 05:14 |
| Kilos | lol | 05:15 |
| Tinuva | have you ever disputed your bill? | 05:18 |
| Symmetria | tinuva heh no, my cellphone bill is legit | 05:23 |
| Symmetria | nothing to dispute | 05:23 |
| Symmetria | heh, I average around $5k USD a month on my cellphone :P | 05:23 |
| Tinuva | bloody hell | 05:23 |
| Tinuva | but it is understandable why they do it then | 05:24 |
| Tinuva | try and protect the customer | 05:24 |
| Symmetria | yeah but you'd think if a customer averages that | 05:26 |
| Symmetria | they would learn to track that the customer is still within his normal range | 05:26 |
| Tinuva | heh probably a primitive system that just has one default, and not based on the customer | 05:48 |
| bduk | More almal | 05:55 |
| Kilos | hi bduk | 05:56 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | morning all | 06:30 |
| Kilos | hi ThatGraemeGuy | 06:50 |
| Kilos | http://is.gd/OXDOma | 07:11 |
| Kilos | i wonder why. is it just money or do the see something in google that i dont | 07:11 |
| Kilos | s/the/they | 07:12 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | its business | 07:31 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | deal made over a drunken game of golf probably :) | 07:31 |
| Kilos | lol | 07:59 |
| Kilos | hi gremble Xethron | 07:59 |
| gremble | Good morning Kilos | 07:59 |
| Kilos | Xethron: gone very quiet lately, always here but just lurks | 08:04 |
| charl | good morning | 08:33 |
| charl | Maaz: coffee on | 08:33 |
| * Maaz flips the salt-timer | 08:33 | |
| Maaz | Coffee's ready for charl! | 08:37 |
| Kilos | hi charl | 08:51 |
| * Kilos looking at new weechat | 08:51 | |
| gremble | Anyone here know where you can do Linux certification in South Africa and how much it costs? | 08:52 |
| Kilos | oh we looked at that a while back there are a couple of places | 08:53 |
| Kilos | lemme see if i can find monkey | 08:53 |
| Kilos | maybe someone else remembers too | 08:53 |
| Kilos | we actually started doing the courses | 08:54 |
| Kilos | was maybe R1500 for the exam | 08:54 |
| Kilos | even had a channel for lpi | 08:56 |
| Kilos | http://www.south-africa.lpi.org/ | 08:57 |
| Kilos | look there maybe you will find the info you need, otherwise we wait for monkey to reply | 08:57 |
| inetpro | good evening | 09:06 |
| Kilos | hi inetpro | 09:08 |
| charl | inetpro: good evening ?! | 09:25 |
| charl | nono | 09:25 |
| inetpro | charl: is it Friday yet? | 09:32 |
| Kilos | hahaha the lost soul speaketh | 09:34 |
| gremble | Kilos: that website looks rather outdated | 10:02 |
| Kilos | i dont know what has been done since we abandoned trying to study for the exam gremble | 10:03 |
| gremble | Why did you abandon it? | 10:04 |
| Kilos | but i remember there were a few colleges that said they would hold the exams at the time | 10:04 |
| Kilos | the tutor found work somehwere else and didnt have time anymore | 10:04 |
| Kilos | and i gave up because i cant remember stuff | 10:05 |
| Kilos | same with vim and python | 10:05 |
| Kilos | too much new stuff in an old head with no space for anything more | 10:06 |
| Kilos | you can download the training manuals for your own study | 10:06 |
| Kilos | i could only understand the hardware sections | 10:07 |
| Kilos | hewhe | 10:07 |
| gremble | Looking for some of the manuals now. The cources are rather expensive :/ haha | 10:07 |
| Kilos | maaz lpi manual | 10:10 |
| Maaz | http://www.linuxcertification.co.za/sites/default/files/LPIManual_v_09.pdf | 10:10 |
| Kilos | thats the old ones but should help yoiu find the new ones | 10:10 |
| Kilos | there comes a time in our lives when we must accept our limitations | 10:12 |
| gremble | Psh | 10:12 |
| Kilos | lol | 10:13 |
| Kilos | i need to get my blog back online so peeps can understand | 10:13 |
| Kilos | the old peeps here know why i sukkel | 10:13 |
| gremble | Struggling is half of the fun | 10:15 |
| gremble | I hate it when I get something right the first time | 10:15 |
| Kilos | lol | 10:20 |
| Kilos | hi nlsthzn | 10:20 |
| nlsthzn | o/ | 10:20 |
| Kilos | i dont mind struggling gremble , peeps here help me. only i cant remember new stuff | 10:21 |
| Kilos | my buffers are buffed clean | 10:22 |
| Kilos | you should have been here with 8.10 then you would have seen | 10:23 |
| Kilos | the guys spoon fed me for months | 10:25 |
| Kilos | years | 10:25 |
| Kilos | ask the pro he will say ai! | 10:26 |
| gremble | Kilos: Have you thought about making a memory journal? | 10:32 |
| gremble | I can't remember everything either, so I have a book in which I write down everything I know, so that it is "remembered" physically | 10:33 |
| gremble | That way I only have to recall where my book is | 10:33 |
| gremble | instead of what is in the book | 10:33 |
| Kilos | lol i have books full but forget whats where so i save important things like usefull commands and so on in folders all over | 10:34 |
| Kilos | im much better now than back then | 10:34 |
| Kilos | eish modem tricks again | 10:48 |
| gremble | I wish I had a big blackboard to work on | 11:05 |
| Kilos | lol | 11:10 |
| gremble | These mosquitos will drive me to murder | 11:13 |
| gremble | I don't know who I will murder, but certainly someone | 11:13 |
| gremble | Apparently one day long ago Stephen Hawking had an affair with his nurse | 11:17 |
| gremble | ... | 11:17 |
| gremble | How? | 11:17 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | murder the mosquitoes | 11:17 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | that would seem a reasonable solution | 11:18 |
| charl | lol inetpro | 11:19 |
| Kilos | hi Golynx | 11:28 |
| Golynx | hi Kilos | 11:28 |
| Kilos | what did you win now | 11:28 |
| Golynx | lol, just the usual gigs of data and more R500 rands airtimes :) | 11:29 |
| Golynx | i dont understand , this phone i won picks up 3G with cellc , but the dongle only 2G. | 11:30 |
| Golynx | they must have some weird configurations going on in certain devices | 11:31 |
| Kilos | what are the dongle specs then | 11:34 |
| Kilos | and if you hold the fone next to the pc is it still 3g? | 11:34 |
| Kilos | take the lappy outside and see then | 11:35 |
| Golynx | the phone is 3G everywhere, in the dongle settings only shows "Cellc (2G)" "VODA (2G) (3G)" | 11:37 |
| Kilos | even if yougo out with it so there is no obstrution between you and the tower? | 11:38 |
| Golynx | the dongle fills all the requirments for cellc 3G network specs, dunno why it not picks up 3G | 11:38 |
| Kilos | ask them | 11:38 |
| Golynx | the tower is about 200m from my house | 11:38 |
| Kilos | then fone them and ask | 11:38 |
| Kilos | or swap sims and see then | 11:39 |
| Golynx | i did they just said plug in a different port lol and then said its not a cellc dongle we cant help you | 11:39 |
| Kilos | oh ok | 11:39 |
| Kilos | see they want your money | 11:39 |
| Kilos | ask them if you can trade in some airtime for a cellc dongle | 11:40 |
| Golynx | yeah true | 11:40 |
| Golynx | lol | 11:40 |
| Kilos | does it show only 2g on linux as well? | 11:41 |
| Golynx | maybe its only fo blackberry that some special features are activated to use 3G | 11:41 |
| Golynx | yeah linux same | 11:42 |
| Kilos | eish | 11:42 |
| Golynx | i love the speed though , 100MB in 5-10 minutes :) | 11:42 |
| Golynx | so i just transfer to the pc the big file downloads | 11:43 |
| Golynx | 100MB usually took me 10 or more hours lol | 11:43 |
| Golynx | wonder if i can dl ubuntu 14.04 iso :/ | 11:46 |
| Kilos | oh gremble if you look around outside, any pool of water is a breeding place for mozzies | 11:57 |
| Kilos | a couple of drops of parafin makes a leayer on top then the larvae die | 11:58 |
| gremble | I have overturned all the buckets, pales and every other container that I can find | 11:58 |
| gremble | We have a theory that those black and white ones breed in the grass | 11:59 |
| Kilos | yes and also in plants that can store a tiny bit of water in the leaves | 11:59 |
| Kilos | cut the grass short hehe | 11:59 |
| gremble | I live against the mountain. Do you know how long it will take to cut all that grass short? | 12:00 |
| gremble | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxorhynchites I should get me some of these | 12:02 |
| gremble | Mosquitoes that eat other mosquitoes | 12:02 |
| gremble | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus these are horrible. That wikipedia article says that you don't find them here, but those are the ones that I kill often (or ones that look very similar) | 12:03 |
| Kilos | also citronella oil candles work | 12:07 |
| Kilos | or | 12:07 |
| Kilos | you cab put citronella oil in a bottle and put a whick through the lid and burn it that way | 12:07 |
| Kilos | cheaper than the candles i think | 12:08 |
| Kilos | make like a molotov cocktail | 12:08 |
| gremble | Thank you for reminding me | 12:08 |
| gremble | I have citronella and one of those candle things | 12:08 |
| Kilos | good luck | 12:13 |
| Golynx | Kilos did you not build the electronic Mosquitoes repeller | 12:13 |
| gremble | He wanted me to make one haha | 12:14 |
| Kilos | lol i told gremble to get that software signal generator but he said it is extra work to setup | 12:14 |
| Kilos | haha i type to slow | 12:14 |
| Golynx | gremble: oh ok | 12:14 |
| Kilos | gremble: its variable so you can move the frequency till them bugs run away | 12:15 |
| gremble | So much effort | 12:17 |
| gremble | I am already trying to avoid effort :P | 12:17 |
| Golynx | i did it with few a resistors, capacitors, 9v Battery, 2 PNP transistors, radio speaker... when i were smaller, but you gotta tune it in the field | 12:18 |
| Golynx | inside it may pop yoir ear drums lol | 12:19 |
| Golynx | your* | 12:19 |
| gremble | http://pastie.org/9734329 | 12:32 |
| Kilos | sigh | 12:37 |
| Kilos | Maaz: hi | 12:37 |
| * Maaz waves to Kilos | 12:37 | |
| gremble | Why are you greeting the bot? :P | 12:37 |
| Kilos | lightning hit my cell tower and now only emergency calls | 12:38 |
| Kilos | and irc of course | 12:38 |
| Kilos | to check if im connected | 12:38 |
| gremble | Ouch | 12:38 |
| Kilos | havent you seen squirm do maaz ? | 12:38 |
| Golynx | Kilos you okay? | 12:39 |
| Kilos | ya im fine ty its just the cell tower that had a whack of light | 12:39 |
| Golynx | oh good, they should increase the earth on cell towers | 12:40 |
| Kilos | irc is my emergency use of eina tower | 12:40 |
| Golynx | eish, my power just went off | 12:40 |
| Kilos | load shedding coming again | 12:41 |
| Kilos | eskom reckons they are having technical probs and there is another silo thats cracked | 12:41 |
| Golynx | its been 2 months since here was loadshedding, guess i can t complain | 12:41 |
| Kilos | they have added a new wind farm a couple of weeks back | 12:42 |
| Kilos | 70,000 kw i think it was | 12:42 |
| Kilos | now they about ready to start the solar farm that will be a couple of megawat | 12:43 |
| Kilos | but in the meantime maintenace on other power stations gets shelved | 12:44 |
| Kilos | madube should have been online already months ago | 12:44 |
| Kilos | madupe | 12:44 |
| Golynx | oh thats good to know | 12:44 |
| Kilos | no man it will take another year now | 12:45 |
| Kilos | they blew some generators | 12:45 |
| Kilos | starting without oil feed to turbines | 12:45 |
| Golynx | yeah we need more solar panels in the Karoo/Northern Cape | 12:45 |
| Guest18423 | are there any solar generating installations that use solar panels? | 12:46 |
| Golynx | haha, wonder if Eskom even makes a profit | 12:46 |
| Kilos | nope | 12:46 |
| Kilos | hi Guest18423 | 12:46 |
| Kilos | who you? | 12:46 |
| === Guest18423 is now known as ThatGraemeGuy | ||
| Kilos | oh graeme | 12:47 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | :-) | 12:47 |
| Kilos | hehe | 12:47 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | I just found out this morning that the new solar thing that went online a while ago isn't panels, its an array of mirrors that concentrate sunlight on a spot in the centre to heat some sort of molten salt | 12:48 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | that heated stuff then turns water to steam, steam powers turbine, as per normal | 12:48 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | when i first heard solar I just assumed it was solar panels | 12:48 |
| Kilos | wow | 12:50 |
| Golynx | ThatGraemeGuy: oh those kinda panels | 12:52 |
| Golynx | we dont have an ants big enough for that beam though :/ | 12:52 |
| Golynx | used to like the smell of roasted ants burning from the magnifying glass beam | 12:54 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | if you could somehow get to the central point where it concentrates the reflected light I imagine you'd have a pretty bad time | 13:01 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | http://mybroadband.co.za/news/general/114169-biggest-ever-solar-power-plant-in-south-africa.html | 13:02 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | Kilos: http://i.imgur.com/pZ0Hmr7.png | 13:37 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | crazy building project | 13:37 |
| * Kilos looks when it opens | 13:37 | |
| Kilos | emergency internet very slow | 13:38 |
| Kilos | wow you collecting hey | 13:38 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | yeah | 13:38 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | i'm going to build a massive rubik's cube | 13:38 |
| Kilos | i love those mining drills | 13:38 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | floating in the air | 13:39 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | bye all enjoy your weekend | 13:41 |
| Kilos | hahaha | 13:41 |
| Kilos | you too | 13:41 |
| ThatGraemeGuy | and enjoy your internet access :'( | 13:41 |
| Kilos | go safe | 13:41 |
| Kilos | ty | 13:41 |
| Kilos | ill fone them now now | 13:41 |
| Kilos | ai! cant fone telkom, cell says emergencies only | 14:19 |
| Kilos | but modem is online here with big E showing | 14:19 |
| Kilos | pcs and modems take priority over cwll phones looks like | 14:20 |
| Kilos | cell | 14:20 |
| === Kilos- is now known as Kilos | ||
| inetpro | sshhh... I'm sleeping | 18:21 |
| Kilos | haha me too . just woke to say night all | 18:28 |
| Kilos | sleep tight | 18:28 |
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