| === aalston__ is now known as Symmetria | ||
| === aalston_ is now known as Symmetroa | ||
| === Symmetroa is now known as Symmetria | ||
| Kilos | morning all | 09:47 |
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| superfly | hi Kilos | 11:00 |
| Kilos | hi superfly all well? | 11:00 |
| superfly | Kilos: ja, just very tired. i haven't been sleeping well | 11:01 |
| Kilos | eish | 11:01 |
| superfly | anyway, I need to get back to work. Lots to do | 11:01 |
| Kilos | too much to think about and plan | 11:02 |
| === aalston_ is now known as Symmetria | ||
| Kilos | hmm... | 14:23 |
| shadow | Ai what a long day | 14:59 |
| shadow | How is eveyone | 14:59 |
| Kilos | hi sha | 14:59 |
| Kilos | ai! | 15:00 |
| Kilos | hmm... | 16:08 |
| Kilos | night all. sleep tight | 17:22 |
| Symmetria | heh | 17:57 |
| Symmetria | sup | 17:57 |
| Symmetria | who is awake | 17:57 |
| kulelu88 | me | 18:05 |
| Symmetria | heh man, Im working 2 hard | 18:15 |
| Symmetria | :( | 18:15 |
| Symmetria | tired and worn out | 18:15 |
| kulelu88 | Symmetria: are you a programmer? | 18:22 |
| kulelu88 | you're experiencing burnout | 18:22 |
| === aalston_ is now known as Symmetria | ||
| kulelu88 | a natural progression of a programmers career | 18:22 |
| Symmetria | lol, no, Im not a programmer | 18:22 |
| Symmetria | heh, I'm... lol I dont even know how to begin explaining what I do | 18:23 |
| ra1v3n | gnyt all | 18:29 |
| kulelu88 | entrepreneur? | 18:31 |
| kulelu88 | sysadmin? | 18:31 |
| kulelu88 | bitcoin trader? | 18:31 |
| superfly | kulelu88: Symmetria is a sysadmin (basically), he used to work for TENET, now runs his own business. | 18:36 |
| kulelu88 | running your own remote IT operation is the ultimate goal :D | 18:37 |
| Symmetria | superfly no | 18:38 |
| Symmetria | I work for Liquid Telecomms | 18:38 |
| Symmetria | have for 3 years :) | 18:39 |
| Symmetria | offically my title is Group Head of Network Strategy | 18:39 |
| kulelu88 | oh you the big boss | 18:39 |
| Symmetria | effectively that means I set the strategy, policy and direction as regards anything on the network for Liquid and all its op-cos in 14 countries | 18:39 |
| kulelu88 | aah I remember now. you and the other guy were trying to track me via IRC, and then I told you about the open position at Blue Telecoms and what a bad job posting it was | 18:40 |
| Symmetria | heh, no :) I still have 3 people above me | 18:40 |
| kulelu88 | and you run your botnet on their infrastructure :D | 18:40 |
| Symmetria | heh it's gonna be very interesting when we start working with the Neotel network | 18:41 |
| Symmetria | (we bought Neotel) | 18:41 |
| kulelu88 | wasn't vodacom going to buy them? | 18:41 |
| kulelu88 | who is BTs biggest shareholder? | 18:41 |
| Symmetria | BT? I don't work for BT :P I work for Liquid :P | 18:42 |
| Symmetria | heh and Liquid is privately owned by two individuals | 18:43 |
| kulelu88 | oh yeah, sorry. Blue/Liquid | 18:43 |
| Symmetria | Strive Maseiva and Nic Rudnick | 18:43 |
| kulelu88 | 2 old white dudes? | 18:43 |
| Symmetria | actually Strive Masiyiwa | 18:43 |
| Symmetria | :P I can never spell his name | 18:43 |
| Symmetria | haha, both of them are actually Zimbabweans | 18:43 |
| Symmetria | and yes, vodacom was going to buy neotel, they failed | 18:44 |
| Symmetria | so we bought it instead | 18:44 |
| Symmetria | ;p | 18:44 |
| kulelu88 | that's a big acquisition though. Neotel isn't some small company | 18:44 |
| Symmetria | heh Kule, neither is Liquid | 18:44 |
| kulelu88 | Can you tell Neotel to connect the DFA to my house? | 18:44 |
| kulelu88 | I need 1 GB/s internet :D | 18:44 |
| Symmetria | Liquid has been bigger than Neotel for a long time though, but we're also growing fast | 18:44 |
| kulelu88 | sounds more like a merger than acquisition | 18:45 |
| Symmetria | heh, we bought them, outright | 18:45 |
| kulelu88 | cash? | 18:46 |
| Symmetria | thats not a merger | 18:46 |
| Symmetria | heh, it was a half a billion dollar buyout | 18:46 |
| Symmetria | http://www.livemint.com/Companies/GMHhdXhxgeLEJb9a8S5UBJ/Tata-Communications-sells-Neotel-to-Africas-Liquid-Telecom.html | 18:47 |
| Symmetria | (and heh, that refers to econet as the largest shareholder of liquid, but Strive owns econet, so its really strive) | 18:48 |
| kulelu88 | wasn't exactly a Liquid-only deal: http://www.tatacommunications.com/article/liquid-telecom-and-rbh-announce-agreement-acquire-neotel . RBH also put up money | 18:48 |
| Symmetria | heh, yes, 30% stake, making them a minority shareholder | 18:49 |
| kulelu88 | I reckon Strive must be the Zim equivalent of a Russian oligarch | 18:49 |
| kulelu88 | right place right time. 1980 :D | 18:49 |
| Symmetria | anyway, smoke time, later | 18:49 |
| kulelu88 | ciao | 18:50 |
| nlsthzn | so I saw someone is moving to the big US of A... | 19:25 |
| kulelu88 | cause "this country is finished" ? | 19:29 |
| nlsthzn | dunno, is it? | 19:30 |
| kulelu88 | dollar is below 14 again, so there's hope | 19:30 |
| * nlsthzn hasn't checked in a bit, means I get less when I send money over... oh well | 19:32 | |
| nlsthzn | ah looking much better now for the R actually - http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=ZAR&view=1Y | 19:34 |
| kulelu88 | more to do with the other markets than the rand itself | 19:35 |
| kulelu88 | must have been investments into anglogold and co. | 19:35 |
| kulelu88 | surprised that IRC works for you nlsthzn | 19:36 |
| nlsthzn | me too... normally blocked :) | 19:38 |
| kulelu88 | must be logging it though nlsthzn :D | 19:54 |
| nlsthzn | yes, I have to assume they are | 19:55 |
| kulelu88 | fuck al makhtoum :) | 19:55 |
| nlsthzn | ? | 19:56 |
| kulelu88 | in case they're logging :P | 19:57 |
| nlsthzn | so it would amuse you if I not only loose my job but go to jail for several years? | 19:57 |
| kulelu88 | why would they arrest you for what I said? | 19:57 |
| nlsthzn | who knows? | 19:58 |
| nlsthzn | anyhow... | 19:58 |
| kulelu88 | well I can't feel pity for anybody who willingly stays in an oppressive country | 19:58 |
| kulelu88 | your choice, your risks | 19:59 |
| magespawn | Maaz tell superfly, i just read the blog post, don't know how i can help but just say the word and we will do what we can | 22:54 |
| Maaz | magespawn: I don't know who superfly, is. Say 'superfly, on freenode' and I'll take your word that superfly, exists | 22:54 |
| nlsthzn | o/ magespawn | 22:55 |
| nlsthzn | I only saw that the fly is leaving, hadn't had a chance to read the blog | 22:55 |
| magespawn | Maaz tell superfly i just read the blog post, don't know how i can help but just say the word and we will do what we can | 22:56 |
| Maaz | magespawn: Righto, I'll tell superfly on freenode | 22:56 |
| magespawn | hey nlsthzn | 22:56 |
| magespawn | just read the post he put up on his blog | 22:57 |
| kulelu88 | magespawn: blog link? | 23:16 |
| kulelu88 | ok found | 23:17 |
| magespawn | cool beans, sorry half a sleep here | 23:18 |
| kulelu88 | wow, superfly is leaving | 23:21 |
| kulelu88 | I'm glad though. Better prospects for him in the US I hope | 23:22 |
| magespawn | i am off to bed, good night all | 23:42 |
| nlsthzn | cheers all | 23:47 |
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