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Which bit of your post is relevant to what should be written about on here Oncemoreagain?

Is your post another way of sayimg "do as I say - not as I do"? Hypocrite is spelled correctly?

Appoplexies is a brand new word - a cross between apology and apoplexy and a sense of humour?

But nothing to do with a pock of lips!

LSE will close these pages one day - your post as done nothing to extend the life of TLOU on here , 1+1+1+1.

I got to the checkout at ALDI yesterday and the cashier could not scan my bananas!!! I picked them up and flattened the barcode for her! And she spotted they had a LIDL barcode!

She left the till and replaced the bananas and said the rest of them had the ALDI barcode?

It amused the line of shoppers I was holding up but how on earth did they get there??

The only thing I can think is someone had shopped at LIDL and bought bananas there, and for some reason compared them before putting the wrong ones back in their bag and back to the shelves? Or was it a deliberate swap? Bizarre?

I understood GG was takig his full salary when t'others were not.

Today I did a search on New CEO , and found an AI error!

It said GG was the new Managing Director without much explanation. There was however a link to GG!

That link said he agreed to a 22% pay cut for the duration of the period (dunno when it finished, but is started in 2022) and it is there in the chairman's notes for 2022 end of year.

He was on the De Beer's board and a couple of other diamond related boards too.

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Thanks Winni, good to know someone is interested enough to post on this adventure into the AI world.

The more I think about this partnership , the more I suspect we need a CEO who has a comms background.

Colm and Tony may be knowledgeable about IT but is their experience like mine - out of date on stand alone computers rather than the modern networks where there are virtual computers across the world or different companies forming one conceptual machine. Parallel processing so difference machines combine into a single application blows my mind. It was difficult enough in my days to design a program that was bigger than the hosts memory. We did it by overlaying the code so only the parts of the program that were needed were loaded at any one time. And the maximum memory we could use was limited to 26KB!

The Police incidents file was too big to allow a father and son version of it on one disk drive.

So the same file had to be managed to look like the brought forward version (the father) , and also the new version (the son). At completion the father disappeared and the son became the latest version.

This was where the ICL George IV operating system gained my respect.

It enabled you to display an operator message, and pick up that message in George.

The program was in suspension waiting for the operator to answer!

George allowed you to save the program lock stock and barrel! Which is what we did!

Phase 1 complete , Phase 2 complete , phase 3 complete until it finished!

If the program or computer crashed between two phases, this was where George's brilliance came in!

You could reload the last completed SAVED version of the program , reattach the now corrupt file to the original channels and resume at the start of the next phase! Other operating systems would require you to restore the file from backups (mag tape) and start afresh from phase 1 - a pain in the arse for everyone concerned.

I only had 2 channels one for read only of the father, and the other as a write channel for the son!

Phase 1 was read the latest downloads from the Police computer, one file on Tues to Friday , and 3 files on a Monday (friday, saturday and sunday incidents). Those files would contain the full incident details and it was likely or certain , that some incidents would be reopened and new stuff appended rendering the version on the father obsolete!! And on Mondays we'd have 3 files with up to 3 versions of the same incident as well!

Phase 1. Read the downloads and extract any incident nos that are duplicated and count how many!!!!

Phase 2. Read the father and carry forward any incidents that were less than a week old AND were not found in the list from Phase1. That list is in the data section of the program code and the retained records are either on disk on the son channel or in the write buffer within the saved image and in current memory if it is running, ready to saved at some point (when the fath

Phase 3 Process the new incidents. Read the downloads , and write all incidents to the son provided they are not in the list of duplicates. Decrement the count until it reaches zero when it can be removed from the list and the last version is written.

Phase 4 Close the files and we have a new father!!!! All Done!

Sometimes the Police would have a problem and a file would be AWOL!

We agreed a recovery action (I was at County Hall at that time) so they would make a file of all their incidents and they'd all be flagged as reopened incidents. This meant we had a long list of incident numbers to keep in memory and challenged the 26k boundaries. As this was the first job every morning and very few people would be at work , we waived the 26k limit. But it still left me with memory problems.

Overlay 1 for Phases 1 and 2 was going to have a huge array to accommodate. We designed the program so that the data section overwrote the code that had already been used and was redundant so the app was as corrupt as the files.

It did not matter because the save image was clean if we needed to rerun. Fun days squeezing quarts into pint pots. Hardware cost a fortune £1000 (in 1970's) per 1k of core memory for the Police computers. Contacts were made of real gold in those days.

People also ask

What areas does Botswana Fibre Networks cover?

The network is over 4000 sites in Gaborone, Francistown, Maun, Kasane, Serowe, Selibe Phikwe, Bobonong, Palapye, Mogoditshane, Jwaneng, Letlhakane, and Tsabong. If you are in any of our FTTB -covered towns or Villages, contact your service provider to get connect your business to fibre.

Serowe to Lesedi has the poles in place so stringing fibre between the two so it is safe from animals might be relatively straightforward. One Cherry Picker perhaps??

Whether it is better than bouncing signals off Elon Musk’s satellites is anybody’s guess. And whether Serowe is better than Ga barone or another site is no clearer.

Kala is bound to have considered all of this before deciding to partnerTLOU.

I inagine that the packets to and fro will be small and the main traffic will be between data centres doing the complicated processing. Quite intriguing as to where the the bulk data is going to be stored. In various clouds probably????

AI Overview

There is no way to watch True Detective Season 1 for free, even with a VPN, as it is currently not available on free streaming services. You can stream it on HBO Max (or the HBO Max Amazon Channel) in the US, or on Sky/Now TV in the UK, or you can rent or purchase it from platforms like Amazon Video or Apple TV.

I mentioned I took 30 days Prime for free and cancelled.

I thought I retained my membership until Sept 1 and for that 7 days until then I have catching Prime movies.

I prefer the Prime choices / recommendations to Netflix. I you watch Donald Duck on Prime they offer other D.D. movies at the end. Netflix will offer Mickey Mouse. My subscription actually ended on 30th so when I watched a film on the 1st , Amazon automatically renewed my account. I closed Netflix to recoup £5.99 of the £8.99 for Prime! And Netflix terminates TODAY the 3rd so I mixed up the dates.

Will have to find some Prime special deals though I now have Prime music and listened to a Taylor Swift album last night whilst I did my puzzles. She is so vivacious that I got the other £3 worth there!

Why did I watch the stupid movies on Prime? Neither service shows True Detective for free which was why I joined Netflix! They actually advertise they show it but there is an extra charge for True Detective and any other Alexandra Daddario films. The series goes back years but Series 1 is supposed to be the best.

Will never forget it. We were visting Liz's Mum in Qualicum Beach , Vancouver island as the news broke.

Diana had been involved ina car crash. I was sceptical as hell and said something along the lines of a finger nail being broken. Liz and her Mum never referred that back to that as the full story unveiled.

They showed Henri Paul, the chauffeur, tieing his shoe laces at the hotel before the fatal journey! If he was inebriated like they said he was, he was brilliant at hiding it! Never believed he was incapable of driving them or that they would allow him to drive in that condition.

Better watch the rest! My scepticism since then has been silenced to a high degree. It was an awfyl gaff and I love Liz for not rubbing my nose in it ever.

Https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLGqwOGeEkhNz5fgPj72nMlMmt0QTzPE/view?usp=sharing

AI also favours Horizontal Drill which cost less in may circumstances.

Q. "cbm drilling at Lesedi which is better vertical or horizontal"

A. "For coalbed methane (CBM) at the Lesedi project, horizontal drilling is generally better because it significantly increases the contact area with the coal seam, leading to higher gas production and better economic efficiency compared to vertical wells. While vertical wells are simpler and cheaper to drill, their lower contact area results in lower production rates and reserves. Tlou Energy's Lesedi project utilized a dual-lateral horizontal pod design, with horizontal wells intersecting a single vertical well, to maximize gas recovery."

And as to your post - Kala are bringing in one generator which they stated in advance would receive enough gas from the flares back in Feb/March. And TLOU need to provide onsite electricity from another generator.

Currently neither are ready so more gas is fairly pointless. By the time they they are delivered we'll hear whether the new flares meet the challenge. I am guessing they will and then the serious work begins for both partners on their separate goals OR , another big OR , will both concentrate on the PPA and get the TX lines adopted asap. We'll know soon enough what target is planned but after Thornback's news it looks like October before we know which will be impemented. It is down to Kala imho - TLOU are in their hands and Kala appear to be happy.

AI. Q. is selemo still generating electricity at Lesedi

AI. A. Yes, the Selemo gas field has been producing gas for several years, with the Selemo Pilot gas being used to replace diesel in the generators at the Lesedi project site since at least 2017, and Tlou Energy (TLOU) is continuing to develop the project. Although the gas production is in small quantities and the project is still in early stages, efforts are underway to expand gas production and develop a larger gas-to-power project.

I like this arbitration method , think it might catch on 🙊🙊🙊and it is not 100% biased in its responses.

Not 100% correct for certain but it is more honest than you are.

How's about this - a bit of lateral thinking prompted me to ask ...

"Is the kala data and tlou energy partnership going to fail

AI Mode

AI Overview

No, the Tlou Energy and Kala Data partnership does not appear to be failing; recent updates from June and July 2025 show progress, including site preparation and the expectation of initial power delivery in August/September 2025, demonstrating the partnership is on track and advancing its goals to establish a high-density data center powered by Tlou Energy's coalbed methane gas.

Evidence of Progress:

Site Preparation:

Foundations, fencing, lighting, and a project office have been installed, according to a June 2025 update.

Power Supply:

Kala Data will use existing wells (Lesedi 4 and Lesedi 6) for its initial power supply.

Timeline:

First electricity delivery to Kala is expected by August/September 2025.

Strategic Goals:

The project aligns with Tlou's strategic goal to generate revenue from its gas reserves and enhance Botswana's digital infrastructure.

Binding Agreement:

A binding agreement was entered into in early 2025 for the development of the data center, indicating a firm commitment.

Proof of Concept:

Tlou Energy completed a proof of concept at the Lesedi site in March 2025, showcasing the viability of their gas-to-power technology for the project.

Project Overview:

The partnership involves Kala Data FZCO developing a high-density computational facility at Tlou Energy's Lesedi project site in Botswana.

The data center will be powered by gas from Tlou's coalbed methane (CBM) reserves.

This collaboration aims to create a scalable, integrated energy and data processing hub by leveraging local energy sources for data-driven operations. "

Now I see why these huge buildings are needed - the more modules you have the more hubs you can support - and the cost of running so many modules is critical to the bottomline profits.

Kala have 6 greater Londons available to build on , the cheapest electricity in their line of business, 4 decades of gas, favourable tax rules from Botswana , and a President who wants to diversify. No wonder they pursued TG for so long. I am not expecting much news from Kala any more - how can they tell us what modules they are providing so we'd understand what they are talking about.

They'll provide their catalogue and the world (or Southern Africa) will pick out code numbers from it , a bit like Argos shopping? I have a new respect for modern IT people the world has moved on from the 600 baud modems that I started with.

Cisco is so huge!

LSE cannot count characters it said I had 24 left and yet it still truncated my post.

I loved driving taxis and meeting new people from all walks of life from Film stars down the prostitutes who'd go to lonely blokes houses. And they all seem to like chatting to the driver with some exceptions that are the downside.

Kala makes total sense now! Botswana is destined to become the future hub of Southern Africa all it needs is the comms and I found last week that Underground cables were prioritised by Botswana and reach the oceans surrounding the Cape. If was confident before, I am even more now, superconfident you might say!

Kala did not seem to have a client list which worried me a bit - but now I know why? They are varying percentages of a myriad of supercomputers 1% of some , 20% of others , and they may not even know where the cluster controller (master) is? I guess they are paid by the usage of the network like us and our broadband suppliers? Our IPC defines us , something similar must be built into the networks for supercomputers?

No wonder old duffers like me were on the scrap heap - I suppose kids are learning about these things at school?

We are Noahs and only people owing Arks need us? I still get recorded messages asking to to phone back because they have a job that might interest me. Little do they I am a full time dog carer and shareholder influencer to one other shareholder who does not filter me like 98% have 😮🥲🍒🍒🍒 oh and Cherries fan!

I was in computer IT from 1967 to 2002 when the company I worked for closed down , and with mortgages in London and Dorset and a severance packaged of about £1200 (£240 per annum for each year as a permie) because I was a freelancer for many years. Self employed at my own plc.

Forced to sell the London flat I returned to Dorset full time and found local salaries at that time were lower than what we started new graduates on in London.

From 2002 I was not involved with other computer nerds and I became out of touch with that world and more involved in the real world. I was not entitled to any benefits because I had 2 properties and then th job centre dangled a shrivelled up carrot in front of me!

If I earned less than £15000 pa as a taxi driver they could pay me £60 pw tax free for 12 months.

After paying higher rate tax I felt entitled to some help , and decided to take their carrot of £60 for one year.

I never foresaw what was coming , and 17 years on I had an aneurysm in the popliteal artery (behind the knee) and I only kept that leg because a vascular surgeon from the South of England school of Excellence worked from mid afternoon to 3am next day to save it. At that point Doppler tests on my foot to ensure the blood supply was reaching the foot via an inverted vein from the groin to the ankle , all my arteries are blocked below the knee. At 9am he reappeared and said they'd lost the pulse in my foot so back to theatre where they'd get it back OR , a huge OR , they'd amputate my leg above the knee!!!

The guy saved it and I owe him so much! Did he stay at the hospital for maybe 36 hours to save an old widowers' leg? I suspect he did! And I have had a pulse in the foot ever since along with extreme sensitivity and numbness.

Anyway the point of this was my Eureka moment yesterday. I am so out of touch with IT so finding this web site was so valuable. I looked for Supercomputer guides for dummies and back came this!

"http://hpc.fs.uni-lj.si/sites/default/files/HPC_for_dummies.pdf"

I grew up with mainframes costing 7 digits - all singing all dancing computers - and then mini computers - and then PC's - all single machines handling everything until the internet took off.

Nowadays the 7 digit machine price is down to 5 digits because of Data Centres. You buy a cluster controller in effect and it talks to as many Data Centres as it needs to build the functionality required.

Instead of one manufacturer , say Aston Martin? You have a Ford engine , a Ferrari gearbox, a Maserati suspenion and chassis etc etc etc using that as an analogy!!

So supercomputers are not one entity like my tunnel vision envisaged from experience. Kala need to find modules that will be in demand from the rest of the world to contribute a few percentage points in a multitude of supercomputers everywhere.

And all this was brought about by software/firmware that enables all these modules to run in parallel - now I now why Cisc

Please remind me which knowledgeable poster told us 5 minutes ago in Tlou timescales that Diamonds were dead and buried along with Botswana which was now a leper instead of a leader in Southern Africa?

Your opinions change like uk westher!!!!

Like any liar’s stories do!

I cannot wait for you to post on Hot Copper how you never doubted TG’s leadership once Kala get to work and everything falls into placeas I am sure they will.

We don’t need Govt grants now we have interest free loans agreement from UAE.

Don’t you see that?

If DeBeers is valued at 4.9bn then there is 7.1bn for other projects!!! And it was emphasised 12bn was for starters by PM Boko with a Qatar ‘s syndicate leader present!!!!!

De Beers is instant taxation for the Govt so they’d be mad to ignore them completely??? But ancillary projects won’t harm De Beers but sure as hell will help the country!!!!

Qatar and UAE also know that!!!!!

Bots - if you approached Tommy Fury and accused him in the same way you have TG, CC , Eric Molale, Lefoko Moagi, Massisi and countless posters on TLOU and others over the years, with no proof whatsoever , and he biffed you ......... which one of you would be arrogant? Arrogant and stupid that is you to a T! Backwards (s t u)!

I bet you don't know my next door neighbour's name , which is totally irrelevant , but using your logic , makes you an idiot on the subject of CBM. Who owns what at De Beers has nought to do with TLOU.

We expect TLOU to be reborn with funding not longer a concern and you ignore that and talk about De Beers.

If we ever meet up to celebrate Tlou's successes De Beers are on U chum.

We'll see who Clueless once the shareprice reaches what you paid all those years ago with the Kenmare proceeds you got before their price rose! I don't think we have long to wait - less than a year?

Meanwhile I have a broken needle in the sewing machine. It should have cotton in the eye and be easy to find but there's no sign of it. The bobbin thread is not being collected so the missing bit of the needle must be responsible or the cotton has wrapped around something but is invisible. It is a sew and sew for sure.

Https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1002951604578383

LISTEN DONKEY and you'll learn what a load of BS you are talking!

De Beers is not the target - that much is certain!!!!!!!

Botswana are heading anywhere but De Beers !

"We are faced with serious challenges. We've relied on our diamond wealth , the natural resource trap.

We've stayed in that space for too long and were not robust enough in diversifying ...."

Does that suggest a request for funds to support diamonds? It does in your case clearly! Aided by the IQ of a donkey! You are a complete ass.

There is a film that is made for Bots! I watched it today , the last day of Prime Membership, and it was so bad I could not understand who wrote the script , and for what audience? The answer must be donkey for donkey because the script writer had a mental less than that shareprice , and the production must have cost about £1.

It is clearly on Prime and is called "The Prince and the Nature Girl" , produced in the 60's or 70's , and unbelievably remastered and reissued this century. Probably cost more to do that make the orginal.

It is performed at the speed necessary for donkey to comprehend. That could be the first time in his life!!

How come KE/Seka were so advanced with funds from North America years ago, and absolute fortunes being ploughed into Botswana from 6 massively rich countries is going to be wasted on an incredible scale?

Listen to Boko again idiot!!! He talks a lot about the diamond trade from the beginning! And , as usual , you belittle the very point that a person in a position of power makes! The comprehension of a donkey for sure.

The film was laughable - you are such a sad case - we are laughing AT YOU not with you.

We are into September at last - and news from Kala could be this month if all went well in the last 2 months.

It never rains but it pours?

Published:

August 27, 2025

Subject(s): Investment

Africa is fast emerging as the Gulf’s newest frontier for capital. In the past two weeks, Al Mansour Holdings, one of Qatar’s leading conglomerates, announced plans to invest $103 billion across six African nations.

The portfolio spans six countries, with the Democratic Republic of Congo leading the way, accounting for the largest share of $21 billion, followed by Mozambique with $20 billion. Zambia and Zimbabwe secured $19 billion each, while Botswana and Burundi received $12 billion apiece, the smallest allocations.

A wider Gulf trend

Qatar is not acting alone. Gulf states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—are all increasing their investments in Africa under their own Vision 2030 programs, blending diversification with geopolitical and food security goals.

Lord there's another one in Saudi and Google tell us it is Sheik somebody's company as if we know what nationality he is. We live and learn. It does mention Saudi eventually as an afterthought perhaps?