The Musings of Chris Samuel

• First result of migrating to git, found all these changes in the 1.2.7 branch I'd not merged back to trunk, d'oh! #
• OK, pushed all those missed changes back to SourceForge, so master now has all the fixed from 1.2.7 branch, phew! #
• Anyone know if #xCAT can manage #IBM Power6 #LPAR #039;s in absence of an HMC ? (IVM doesn't work with xCAT) #
• Aussie govt just realised games for iPhone, Android, etc, bypass classification laws http://bit.ly/93Otbw (via @markbate) #
• It's the "cyber" word again RT @insideHPC: American-Chinese Cyberinfrastructure and E-Science Workshop http://bit.ly/dw4Wjb #
• Sigh RT @NewtonMark: Conroy: "430 child porn sites." err, no. That's 430 refused classification sites. #openinternet #nocleanfeed #
• "What happens when a car travelling near the speed of light turns on its headlights?" http://bit.ly/bePiji #
• RIP Piper Bill Millin, 1st Special Service Brigade, 1923-2010, who piped commandos ashore on D-Day http://bit.ly/arGlGk #
• "Cross your fingers that this makes the million and a half dependant things happy" – #xCAT SVN commit r7131 #
• #myvote @greens – only they seem to share my desire for a fair society which respects human rights and cares about the long term. #
• Hopefully not too late! RT @Djelibeybi: Happy birthday @kattekrab! #
• I've voted in the @linuxusersvic election, have you ? http://members.luv.asn.au/ #foss #opensource #luvvotes #
• SPARC and Itanic (IA-64) have been dropped from the Ubuntu 10.10 release due to lack of interest. #
• Pretty cool to see my photos being used on the SFD Melbourne site http://bit.ly/a2mOay – Yay for creative commons! #
• "Melbourne’s water storages topped 700 billion litres for the first time in almost three years" – almost 40% full! #
• Top 5 web browsers on my blog in last month – Firefox (52.7%), Chrome (17.4%), IE (16.6%), Safari (6.5%), Opera (3.2%) #
• "(SGE) 6.2 Update 6 release from http://sun.com/sge come with a 90 day time limited eval license only." #hpc http://bit.ly/cjXCnY #
• Found via the comments on this post http://bit.ly/9AuK8x by @sijoe about SGE no longer being open source at Sun / Oracle. #
• More on SGE going 90-day license only (happened some time ago apparently, just nobody noticed) http://bit.ly/cddaMi #
• Glad we're using Torque; long history with many copyright holders (no assignment) means changing the license would be hard #
• (via @fooishbar) RT @kernelslacker: today in audiophile lunacy: http://www.malcolmsteward.co.uk/?p=2479 #
• 1/2) Useful tip, if you are debugging #SuSE SLES #autoyast installs you can pass "usessh=1 nosshkey sshpassword=a" #
• 2/2) It stops before running autoyast and you can SSH in with X forwarding and run yast whilst poking around in the logs #
• The Separation Tree (NSW/VIC split) in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens ringbarked by vandals http://bit.ly/dzUcqz #
• Reserve Bank of Australia in favour of stimulus package, "imminent withdrawal poses risks to growth" – http://bit.ly/9Q8wUb #
• Just voted in my first ever Australian election. Thanks to the OIC's and all the other volunteers who are makinfg this possible! #
• Listening to The Wonderstuff "Never Lovd Elvis" (1991), kind of Levellers meets Waterboys meets REM #
• Great #ausvotes CGI summary (subtitled) http://j.mp/98GvAK via @markbate @PieterPeach @brainsmatter @PaulDRyan @jonathannen #
• The last public #OpenSolaris commit from #Oracle – http://bit.ly/cMUDBu – no official word from their cone of silence #
• FSM courses Cthulhu some angst on UserFriendly – http://bit.ly/90NH44 #
• Alec is bang on (as usual) RT @alecmuffett: HTML5 as an analogue for the perennial security problem http://bit.ly/c2Y3yD #
• This is your 4 minute warning, voters… #
• That's it, times up voters! Pens down, papers must be handed in. Now for the results.. #ausvotes #
• Great meteor and lighting shot on todays APOD! RT @apod: Perseid Storm: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100821.html #
• Interesting, @abcelections describes our electorate (La Trobe) as a key seat – http://bit.ly/cst2Q9 #
• AEC finds LNP supporters illegally impersonated @Greens workers in Brisbane – http://bit.ly/buybCa #
• Happy Birthday to Miriam Schmierer, 111 today (born before Federation!) http://bit.ly/97IvC2 #
• .@Greens have stormed the seat of Melbourne with 35% of total vote, a swing of 12% primary vote and 7% after preferences #
• Looks like ALP edge out Liberals in La Trobe, @Greens have done well with 12.7% of primary vote, swing of 3.6% #ausvotes #
• I bet @KRuddMP is regretting not taking his double dissolution opportunity earlier in their term #ausvotes #
• First Senate numbers for Victoria, currently 2 ALP, 2 LIB, 1 Nationals, 1 @Greens, no Family First Conroy still in #
• Kerry O'Brien just predicted a swing to the ABC in La Trobe – if only! KOB for PM! #
• Oh crap, it looks like Wendy Francis (Family First) will get a Senate seat in QLD #ausvotes #homophobia #
• Antony Green predicts hung parliament – Labor: 73 seats; Coalition: 72 seats; Greens: 1 seat; Independents: 4 seats #ausvotes #
• Wow, QLD Senate seats have changed markedly after more counting – Wendy Francis gone from list, 3 LIB, 2 ALP, 1 @Greens #
• Moral of the story – it's too early to tell with Senate seats yet! (What a relief) #ausvotes #
• Oh dear, looks like Family First will get a seat in South Australia #ausvotes #
• It looks like we're set for a hung parliament, so I'm off to bed; will catch up in the morning! #ausvotes #
• Puzzled why none of the ABC election website voting figures seem to have been updated for the last 9 hours #ausvotes #
• Good to see we have our first Indigenous MP ever (Ken Wyatt, a Liberal in WA) – *WAY* overdue.. #
• Lunchtime in the Dandenongs http://twitpic.com/2h02kp #

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• OK, all final photos from @sfd_melb photo shoot uploaded and licensed CC-BY – #Digikam rocks! http://bit.ly/chca4K #
• AEC website re senate voting "However, if the elector completes both sections formally, the below the line section takes precedence." #
• Premier John Brumby launching #VLSCI IBM BlueGene/P http://twitpic.com/2d9rlw #
• USGS reports magnitude 7.5 #earthquake 24 miles from Port Vila #
• Oh. My. Ghod – the Coalition are preferencing Family First before any other party in Victoria. Very scary. #ausvotes #
• For reference – Family First have candidates who have espoused homophobic violence and generally seem anti-human rights. #
• It was One Nation's Victorian president John Groves to Family First's Wendy Francis on violence – http://bit.ly/9zzQfQ #
• University of Melbourne #VLSCI #IBM Blue Gene/P press release from today's launch by @vicpremier http://bit.ly/bSEGPx #hpc #
• Need just +17 ppl to get to 1,000 on open letter to Kim Carr to request end of software patents in AU http://bit.ly/9rLHva #
• Yay! Just heard from @donna_williams that we have our first duck egg from our Muscovy ducks, Snow and Poppy! #
• I wonder why @TonyAbbottMHR won't give Riz the refugee the surfing lesson that @GetUp ppl paid for ? http://is.gd/ec9FJ #
• Except he's now avoiding it – RT @TonyAbbottMHR I’m looking forward to Getting Up on the surfboard with my successful auction bidders. #
• Our first duck egg! http://twitpic.com/2dnb6c #
• Sigh, another 2 false positives caught by the UniMelb anti-spam system this morning.. #
• Dear SuSE autoyast GUI, when I ask you to remove a pre/post script please do so – and please make your LDAP config work. #
• Dear @TonyAbbottMHR, as you claim you don't understand technology then it's best not comment on it, especially the #NBN #
• Another day, another duck egg.. #
• So why aren't we hearing from Indigenous Australians on population and sustainability in Australia on #QandA ? #
• Very effective ad for the @Greens done as part of a regular section on The Gruen Transfer – http://youtu.be/BzoI-OQy-jw #
• Stephen Hawking's COSMOS group order an SGI Ultraviolet UV1000 http://bit.ly/cyrdLw (via @InsideHPC) #
• Ben Chociej has posted patches to make mkfs.btrfs and btrfsctl understand+use proposed "data temperature" ioctls for #btrfs #
• Ben Chociej also posted updated data temperature patches; includes ioctls so btrfsctl can relocate hot files to SSD's #btrfs #
• Reporters Sans Frontieres (@RSF_RWB) vs. @Wikileaks http://bit.ly/auPBLh http://bit.ly/a9ChVI (via @abc_investigate) #
• Anyone got any pointers to documentation for #xCAT and #IBM #039;s IVM ? #
• (as in – getting #xCAT to talk to an #IBM IVM system and build LPAR's there) #
• Yes! Another duck egg! Omlette time. #
• HPCWire make convincing argument #Oracle abandoning #HPC http://bit.ly/cLyliG (via @HPC_Guru), bad news for BoM and ANU! #
• What makes it likely: #Oracle is not at #SC10 despite me being told by #Sun ppl at #SC09 that #Oracle would have a stand #
• Lovely Muscovy duck egg omlette, had heard rumours they had a stronger taste than other duck eggs but didn't seem to. #
• With Oracle going after Google over Java patents I wonder what the implications are for IBM's Java implementation ? #
• "Supercomputer to rival Google headed for Perth" "a staggering 9600 cores " http://bit.ly/ctg0Jy #journalism #fail #hpc #
• #OpenSolaris experiment is dead from an #Oracle POV – http://bit.ly/9QONYW (via @sijoe's blog http://bit.ly/daPmqv) #
• Fantastic view of the radiant of the shower: RT @apod: Night of the Perseids: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100814.html #
• One of the few big #biodiversity collections threatened by bulldozers http://bit.ly/bCxHOG (via @alecmuffett) #science #
• Bah, Symbian only, not for #N900 RT @ptua: Metlink has launched a beta application for Nokia smartphones http://j.mp/97lYV6 #
• Afraid of Oracle vs Google happening in Australia? Haven't signed the open letter on software #patents http://bit.ly/9rLHva #
• There's something particularly spooky about these abandoned amusement parks – http://bit.ly/a4460i #
• Muscovy duck egg #5 http://twitpic.com/2etbd2 #
• How #archaeology uses supercomputers in a BBC article on #HPC in the UK http://j.mp/cDYe8F (via @hpc_guru @grahampullan) #
• Currently doing a git svn clone of my Vacation project SVN repo on SourceForge, aiming to migrate to their Git system. #
• Hmm, git clone -s $REPO sort of works, but when I checkout an earlier branch none of the files change to match it. #
• Hmm, something odd is up with http://appeal.kde.org/ (via http://blog.jasondonenfeld.com/364) #KDE #
• I had no idea there was a scale model of the solar system in #Melbourne http://bit.ly/ac30O3 #astronomy #
• I wasn't going mad, the reason #xCAT doesn't work with #IBM #039;s IVM is bit-rot in the code – it's broken. #
• OK, having another shot at converting the SVN repo, this time with the ruby gem "svn2git", let's see what it makes of it.. #
• Aha, looks like svn2git has made a better fist of it than git-svn, at least branches work correctly now, though tags don't. #
• My bad, tags are working too! #
• Yay, git push back to sourceforge has worked! Can't believe I hadn't touched vacation for all of 2009.. #

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• Good review of the #iPad on both its good and bad points; don't expect it to replace a laptop – http://bit.ly/9GJagl #
• He also "bought The Australian's $4.99 app but soon reverted back to using its website [..], which is far richer and free" #
• Just noticed that the 2.6.35 #Linux kernel is out #
• RT @bulletford: #Microsoft crippled IE8 security so as to allow easy web user tracking: http://tinyurl.com/2f4r7pq #
• RT @jsquyres: If you could add 1 new function to #MPI what would it be? #hpc #
• Remember that filter is *NOT* about anything illegal according to Conroy, therefore it can only about censorship #ausvotes #
• RT @BreakingNews: The UAE's telecom regulator says BlackBerry services will be blocked for foreign visitors too – AP #
• Very interesting! RT @sijoe: New blog post: Interesting SSD results with a late model kernel http://scalability.org/?p=2457 #
• New release of OSC mpiexec (formerly by Pete Wyckoff, now Doug Johnson) 0.84 – http://www.osc.edu/~djohnson/mpiexec/ #
• RT @alecmuffett: When you visit uk.alpha.org … the survey says: http://twitpic.com/2b24hk #
• "Australia is the only western nation without an express guarantee to free speech" – Aaron Magner UNSW http://scr.bi/cSbmmd #
• AEC have told me that if you vote both above *and* below the line in the Senate it will be discarded as informal #ausvotes #
• Free software group awarded triple damages against company for wilful copyright infringement under #GPL http://bit.ly/bGw6U8 #
• #VLSCI got a mention in dispatches from the acting VC of the University of Melbourne last Friday. #
• .@AntonyGreenABC responded on my blog, citing why voting above+below line is OK; am trying to get clarification from AEC #
• RT @BreakingNews: Barnes & Noble considering sale of company http://bit.ly/bSnP3p #
• SIgh, you've got to worry when you've got people citing the Predator movie as part of their conspiracy theory about 2012.. #
• "Images of the 5th dimension may not be viewable in your region" http://bit.ly/aMaG3M #
• AppArmor has finally been merged into the mainline #Linux kernel for 2.6.36 #
• So the coalition have said they will oppose the filter; amazed they have one policy I can agree with! #
• Rumours that #Oracle has laid off lots of #Sun #HPC people – RT @regvulture Oracle chops Sun HPC jobs http://reg.cx/1K98 #
• Big congrats to @GetUp on a great win in court. Sad that it has to be activists and not politicians safeguarding democracy. #
• RT @jons68: This election reminds me of the Dr. Who episode in which all Five Doctors are present at the same time. #ausvotes #
• Flickr photo: Cybersource – We Do Linux – grafitti ad for local IT company visible from Burnley station http://bit.ly/9P4lHB #
• Been invited to take publicity photos tomorrow for upcoming Software Freedom Day in Melbourne (@sfd_melb) – wish me luck! #
• .@TonyAbbottMHR: Leadership is about where you stand // Please donate and give women a voice in this @GetUp ad http://ow.ly/2k9nO #
• Interesting slide set on hacking memcache – http://bit.ly/drrANQ – why on earth do people leave that port open? via @jdub #
• Seeing reports of potential big performance regressions in #btrfs in 2.6.35; Chris Mason is on the case. #
• On my way into State Library of Victoria to do promo photo shoot for the Melbourne Software Freedom Day group @sfd_melb #
• At SLV waiting for it to open, and for @kattekrab and Ben to appear #
• SLV @sfd_melb photo shoot http://twitpic.com/2c9is3 #
• SLV @sfd_melb photo shoot http://twitpic.com/2c9izl #
• Software Freedom Day Melbourne (@sfd_melb) meeting in progress http://twitpic.com/2c9tcu #
• Just back from Melbourne after @sfd_melb photo shoot with about 200 photos on the camera, heaps of sorting to do! #
• Melbourne tower block, Swanston St http://twitpic.com/2ccckd #
• Just finished the first pass going through 198 photos from the @sfd_melb photo shoot at @Library_Vic, will do more tomorrow! #
• Spot on! RT @kattekrab: New Blog: http://kattekrab.net/elections-1 #ausvotes #election #policy #politics #
• "This election has officially jumped the shark" – James Purser – +1 – both parties and media have FAIL written all over them #
• Just finished going through all the pics from the @sfd_melb photo shoot at SLV, now to upload the 26 finals to Flickr! #

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• RT @astronomyblog: Just seen Transformers. Not appreciating the appropriation of Beagle 2 as a NASA JPL mission. It wasn't a rover either. #
• RT @mikal: Julia Gillard must be desperate — she's cutting renewable energy programs to buy people new cars? I'm voting green. #fb #ausvote #
• just left Box Hill for city, still travelling almost on time, no mention of problems yet despite SMSs from @MetroTrains #
• Want to claw my eyes out after using Novell website to do SLES10 activations, Java null pointer exceptions to get downloads?! #
• Celebrating over 40 years of the UNIX system . Win a classic license plate http://bit.ly/1wsWYl #unix 40 #
• 261 signatures asking Aus govt #patent review to remove software from eligibility, add yours! http://bit.ly/9rLHva pls rt #
• Recently found out a friend of mine at #VPAC was 2nd author on Nature paper in 2000, nice one Mike! http://bit.ly/bToVpf #
• Richard Stallman (RMS) will doing a seminar at NICTA in #Melbourne on the evening of Sept 15th http://bit.ly/dqwnKn #gnu #
• .@getup is the mental health vigil tonight (according to email and twitter) or tomorrow (according to website) ? #
• Building Poppler 0.14.1 from source to get newer pdftohtml to see if it helps #Calibre convert #IBM RedBooks PDF to ePub! #
• First discovery, Poppler 0.14.1 won't build with make -j 5 #
• Answer: No – pdftohtml from Poppler 0.14.1 still results in pretty bad ePub ebook from IBM RedBook PDF's #
• Latest (last?) release candidate for Open-MPI 1.5 has just been released, grab rc5 from here: http://bit.ly/bqjh7w #hpc #ompi #
• #NBN map for Victoria is here (PDF) http://bit.ly/9PULxQ #ausvotes #
• It's been a good, if very hectic, week here at #VLSCI I've got a 2048 node, 8192 core NAMD job running to prove it. #
• Uh oh, what's he up to now? RT @jonoxer huge skip arrived today: weekend of demolition for the start of @SuperHouseTV #
• RT @FilterConroy: Stephen Conroy is NOT number 1 on Labor's Victorian senate ticket. Keep telling every Victorian you know to Filter Conroy! #
• Only 61% of Australians think it takes a year for the Earth to go around the Sun, wonder what the other 39% think? #
• USPTO wants *your* guidance on how #Bilski affects what is/isn't eligible for #patent e.g. software: http://bit.ly/aLOAZ1 #
• At New Voices festival in Eltham, @donna_williams is on in the next session! #
• Awesome session with @donna_williams and Sandy Jells at New Voices. Sandy has been shortlisted for The Age book of the year! #
• Awesome session with @donna_williams and Sandy Jeffs at New Voices. Sandy has been shortlisted for The Age book of the year! #
• Sandy Jeff's shortlisted book is "Flying with Paper Wings – Reflections on Living with Madness" http://bit.ly/blb3AQ #
• Big thanks to @kattekrab for being awesome @linuxusersvic president, hope you get a chance to get a rest now! #
• It looks rather miffed.. RT @alecmuffett: how to clean your owl: http://bit.ly/bFhqxO #weekendlinks #
• RT @BreakingNews: Greenland ice sheet – 10% of world’s freshwater – lowered by 20 feet in a month in 1 region http://bit.ly/9KUKrJ #
• Back home after 4 hours setting up joint exhibition with @donna_williams at the 1812 Theatre in Upper Ferntree Gully #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – my photos http://twitpic.com/2akcvu #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – more of my photos http://twitpic.com/2akdm5 #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – Donna's paintings http://twitpic.com/2akdzx #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – more of Donna's paintings http://twitpic.com/2akeb7 #
• PDF of petition to keep referrals to social workers and occupational therapists eligible for Medicare http://bit.ly/aXBhBY #

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• *This* is why I love #astronomy – large version of todays APOD – http://bit.ly/8Yo5LT #
• #Thunderbird 3.0.x creates duplicate messages *occasionally* when filtering from IMAP inbox to folder on another IMAP #
• Someone on Beowulf said over the weekend "I am a servant of the Oceanographers" – first evidence of #Cthulhu #HPC ? #
• Looks like my duplicate IMAP messages problem is a bug fixed in #Thunderbird 3.1 http://bit.ly/bRcBOV – need to find PPA! #
• Bah, no one has packaged a 64-bit build of #Thunderbird 3.1 and the Mozilla nightly PPA last TB update was January! #
• Sigh, going to miss @RealBillBailey in #Melbourne over 10 years since I last saw him in Worcester (when I was in the UK) #
• Did you know you can vote both above and below the line? See this useful guide from the ABC: http://bit.ly/bZOo1U #ausvotes #
• Off to first ceramics class for a while tonight with @donna_williams, should be fun! A bit chilly outside though, barely 4C. #
• #ausvotes http://whatsmytwitteraccountworth.com/ @tonyabbottmhr at $5,328, @juliagillard at $13,025 and @kruddmp at $413,934 #
• Convert set of web pages to ebook with #Calibre FAQ says just add the index file but Calibre then creates a zip which it cannot convert. #
• Excellent article on SSD benchmark numbers by @sijoe http://bit.ly/cDCkfr – introducing "Benchmark Significance Ratio" #
• .@sijoe's BS ratio = (claimed / measured ); for Sandforce SF-1200 he gets BS of ~1 for storing 0's, BS ~4 for random data! #
• For those who do routinely store 0's as file data I find /dev/null outperforms any disk; just read it back from /dev/zero #
• Chris Mason just sent Linus a pull request for #btrfs fixes including a fix for the balancing bug found by Edward Shishkin #
• Finally managed to upgrade my #Kobo to v1.4 under Linux using beta Kobo Desktop 32-bit package from http://bit.ly/cUVieO #
• Anyone else getting spammed by myguestlist.com.au ? #
• If you read just one article about the #ALP #039;s proposed mandatory Internet Filter, read this http://bit.ly/bloxUW #ausvotes #
• Open letter to Kim Carr against software #patents in #Australia please add your signature here: http://bit.ly/9rLHva #
• "Artists representation of what the CIWS laser beam looks like which, in reality, is invisible." – d'oh! #
• "Forty-ton whale lands on yacht during Cape Town sailing trip" – http://bit.ly/bd2VIt – where was the bowl of petunias ? #
• Picture of the laser with the non-invisible invisible beam is on a #BBC news article here http://bit.ly/czGxnm @bbart #
• Unlucky enough to have to run #Microsoft #Windows systems? You probably want to read this: http://bit.ly/9KtYhK #security #
• .@jeremyvisser Python-iview is the *only* way I can watch @abciview, the website just doesn't work for me, never loads #
• Just found that Current #Archaeology magazine is on Twitter as @CurrentArchaeo #
• Australian govt censors data retention doc obtained under FOI to stop 'premature unnecessary debate' http://bit.ly/9TJuWi #
• Off to the dentist, this should be fun.. not. #
• India develops #Linux touch screen computer with components that cost USD$35 – http://bit.ly/bbNWkt #
• #FF #followfriday #hpc @insidehpc @hpcwire @sijoe @hpc_guru @thedeadline @hpccouncil @brockpalen @huwlynes @peakscale @SuperComputing #
• An excellent piece of non-religious philosophy in bullet points by @alecmuffett on his blog – http://bit.ly/d58DHW #
• #ff #followfriday #activism @getup @Atlantean7001 @NewtonMark @worldlandtrust @ptua @donna_williams #
• RT @BreakingNews: Dutch court fines #Trafigura $1.28M for exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast, concealing its dangerous nature – AP #
• Making gluten & dairy free meat and veggie pies with @donna_williams, yum! #gfcf #
• So far today we've done meat+veggie pie, popcorn, polenta & vanilla cookies;aAbout to embark on apple cake. All #gfcf #
• Large bang from #Belgrave direction earlier, #CFA shout at Edward Street (now controlled), hope things are OK. #
• #CFA shout at Edwards St, #Belgrave (same time as big bang) now a "False Alarm" on CFA website after previously controlled. #
• Good reactions save CF-18 pilot when plane crashes whilst practising for airshow http://bit.ly/aXitIz (via @astroengine) #
• The #BBC has footage of that CF-18 crash in Canada here: http://bit.ly/bzWV9v #
• #RIP Hurricane Higgins (former world snooker champion), dead at 61 from throat cancer – http://bit.ly/asase7 #
• Thanks to @jonoxer for the pointer to @motorbikematt's pics! #

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• Emergency! Out of Italian Almond Tea error! Insert teabag in slot 1 and press go! #
• The Chaser team are coming back to the ABC for the #election http://bit.ly/ccmX5w "Yes We Canberra!" #
• Random fact – 48 years ago today (12th July) The Rolling Stones performed their first gig at the Marquee Club in London #
• RT @Lateline: Anti-vaccination group accused of harassing parents http://tinyurl.com/2fo5pp2 #
• Trying to run #Calibre to convert some PDF's into epub format – wow it makes this machine go slow! #
• Learning to package kcaldav for Ubuntu, trying to work out if I can patch the Makefile to patch a file created during the build #
• Didn't bother patching the makefile, just altered it directly in the package (this is only for test purposes!) #
• Lithium Iron battery? Didn't seem that heavy! http://twitpic.com/24wzmk #
• New Kobo ebook reader from Borders http://twitpic.com/24x08p #
• Got newer version of #Calibre from Nate Muench's PPA, much nicer! Understands Kobo + grabs @lwnnet with my subscriber id #
• #planck #esa RT @arjenlentz http://www.esa.int/images/PLANCK_FSM_03_Black_Regions_v02_B,0.jpg very pretty picture #
• #Oracle #039;s deaf ear to #OpenSolaris governing body leads to threat to dissolve itself in frustration – http://bit.ly/bPQnrx #
• great quote from the #Beowulf #HPC list – "my first computer was a Univac II – vacuum tubes, no operating system." #
• Awesome APOD of the #eclipse – RT @apod: Easter Island Eclipse: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100714.html #
• RT @insideHPC: SC10 aims to encourage growth of #HPC workforce http://bit.ly/aFnQAK #
• neat! RT @insidehpc #Amazon adds support for traditional #HPC workloads with Cluster Compute instance http://bit.ly/aCjekJ #
• Groklaw: software #patent application rejected; USPTO cites #Bilski as part of case law for rejection http://bit.ly/ae0MbZ #
• Going through PDF's of SCO's alleged copying in Linux – it's *all* header files + all from ELF and Open Group Unix specs #
• Here's a hint #SCO things like struct utimbuf and the prototypes of strcasecmp() and shmget() aren't secret.. #
• Whilst I never thought #SCO had a case I'm gobsmacked by the paucity of what they claimed to have as evidence; laughable! #
• Yea ghods the new @bbcnews website is awful! Anyone know a way to get the old version back ? #
• Downloading over 700 emails at 60MB – guess who's neglected his home email again.. #
• #VLSCI announces "Call for submissions for Early Adopters Ph.D. Workshop at SC10" http://bit.ly/d9O9iI #sc10 #hpc #
• Best. Eclipse. Photo. Ever. RT @apod: Andes Sunset #Eclipse http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100715.html #
• (for US) RT @BreakingNews: January-June 2010 was warmest first half of year on record, federal climate service reports http://bit.ly/9VPfrA #
• #OpenMM releases version 2.0, includes Gromacs and Amber support for nVidia and ATI GPUs! http://bit.ly/bk5Cf8 #hpc #
• RT @marsroverdriver Testing ESA's Mars rover: cool. http://is.gd/dtDx1 – I wonder how the Welsh feel about being compared to Mars this way? #
• .@marsroverdriver they'd probably fight over who was north mars and who was south mars (yes, I'm Welsh ) #
• Any sufficiently advanced user with physical control of his workstation is indistinguishable from root. (apologies to ACC) #
• The @abcnews has a "How to vote" page – http://bit.ly/bZOo1U – and no, it's not about more funding for them! #
• #Motorola Droid-X #Android phone has anti-tamper mechanism that will brick it if you try to mod it http://bit.ly/dnAEw3 #
• Clark and Dawe on #refugees and #Australia – classic – http://bit.ly/aYahbh #
• Fabulous @oldspice parody – "Look at your grades, now look at mine" http://bit.ly/bhuEtV #
• Animated MRI scan of an artichoke – http://bit.ly/9qVKbe – (via @astroengine, @mactavish, @Wordweaverlynn) #
• Just noticed that @KRuddPM has become @KRuddMP; good for him. #
• Us #Linux #Kobo users are out of luck with firmware upgrades: "At this time we don't support Linx with the Kobo eReader." #

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• RT @kattekrab: Linux Users Victoria meets 7pm Tues this week – http://luv.asn.au/2010/07/06 – Photographer's Workflow & L4Ka microkernel #
• Dear @googledownunder, stage 2 of the sign up for the YouTube partner program doesn't work under Firefox 3.6.7 on MacOSX #
• Yet more pandering to #refugee hysteria (other migrants outnumber them 20:1) http://bit.ly/daOICZ #australia #politics #
• indeed! RT @stewartsmith: my talk at @linuxusersvic on photography workflow on Linux seemed to go down well. yay! #
• .@juliagillard "It's not my intention that we in any way jeopardise legitimate use of the internet" – so no filter please! #
• #EMC kills their #cloud storage solution: SLA's no longer honoured, customers must shift – http://bit.ly/cZIwUE via @sijoe #
• ~96% of asylum seekers arrive by plane but I don't see anyone proposing we stop them landing; why fixate on boats? #
• Please keep this toy away from hair http://twitpic.com/235sbh #
• Do not sleep with Zhu Zhu pet http://twitpic.com/236n6k #
• RT @SeeInANewWay: Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto uses 400,000 volts of electricity to create images on film http://cot.ag/bV4ELC ^MG #
• NetApp going after vendors building products using #ZFS over software #patents big customers next? http://bit.ly/9xLrc6 #
• BBC: #Disney found to have ripped off small UK producer who created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire http://bit.ly/bRQ0yo #
• #SCO appeals – oh no not again… http://bit.ly/aMhers #linux #groklaw #
• "One unexpected benefit [of using StatusNet] is a reduction in company email" http://j.mp/9Y5skk #motorola via @robsanchez #
• RT @theretronaut: What if Darth Vader were painted by Monet in 1875…? – http://tinyurl.com/23nyljn #starwars #
• RT @NewHorizons2015: Tracking data now show that our 30 June trajectory correction was on target to within 1.3 millimeters/second– WOW! #
• Adaptive Computing is what Cluster Resources renamed to, they do Torque, Moab, etc.. #
• When election called you may only have until 8pm that day to enrol, and just 3 days to update details like address.. #
• Just 9 hours before #Rosetta has its close encounter with the asteroid Lutetia, around 11:45pm Melbourne time #
• Looks like I got the time of closest approach of #Rosetta to Lutetia wrong, it'll be 0143 Melbourne, too late for me! #
• RT @AsteroidWatch: Space rock + Saturn = one amazing image from ESA's Rosetta spacecraft today. http://yfrog.com/j0ekxj #
• RT @astronomyblog: RT @DrChrisWelch: #Lutetia closest approach pic http://bit.ly/bzHgiH Amazing! #rosetta #
• Finds in Norfolk push back earliest human habitation in northern Europe by at least 100,000 years! http://bit.ly/9rbfIc #
• #ESA has a great shot of a possible landslide and boulders on the surface of #Lutetia from #Rosetta http://bit.ly/9bzRjr #
• Interesting gauge near bottom of #Lutetia #Rosetta closest approach image, evidence of it being grazed by another asteroid? #
• Interesting + enlightening photos of #Afghanistan 50 years ago – http://bit.ly/ca7JD3 (via @marsroverdriver) #
• RT @elakdawalla: A thorough look at #Rosetta #039;s #Lutetia pics: http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002579/ #
• RT @NewtonMark: Govt's #nbn ads feature a space shuttle that's one more mission away from obsolescence. Future proof #
• #KDE 4.5.0 RC2 has now hit the Kubuntu beta PPA, downloading for more KDE goodness! #
• Nokia #N900 running #KDE at Akademy lets KDE make its first phone call, or "KDE, phone home!": http://bit.ly/dj0MS2 #
• Nice! Must try and make it down there.. RT @zootman: My favourite fishing spot at Mallacoota. http://twitpic.com/24bzjf #

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• You'll believe a ZX Spectrum can tweet.. http://bit.ly/acuUF2 (via @marsroverdriver and @doug_ellison) #
• Last 30 days of browser stats for my website: Firefox is more than 50%, Chrome has 16.8% pushing IE into 3rd with 16.21% #
• More interestingly for a non-techie site I can see IE is just over 50%, Firefox 29%, Safari 10%, Chrome 6%, Opera 1.6% #
• Sample sizes are: for my site about 2,800 visits, for non-techie site it's 5,800 visits. #
• At University data center awaiting delivery of the #VLSCI BlueGene/P! #
• #VLSCI #IBM BlueGene/P has landed! Along with heaps of other gear which got shifted on w/e into our new room for Stage 1! #
• Sigh, it appears Conroy is still Minister for Censorship after the reshuffle #
• RT @jsquyres: Quick MPI user poll: MPI_IBarrier — will you use it? #mpi3 #
• Summary of #SCOTUS "lack-of-decision" on Bilski @lwnnet – "software innovation in the USA is dangerous because of lawsuit risk" #
• Yay! Got my room booking through for #SC10 in New Orleans! Hopefully it won't be New Oileans by the time I get there.. #
• Another battle in the #UK #Police's war on photographers – http://bit.ly/92YIug (via @astronomyblog @joergheber) #
• Fabulous! RT @PlanRad This is so great! First actual image of a confirmed #exoplanet http://bit.ly/a6hfBz #astronomy #
• Hmm except, @PlanRad, that press release is September 2008! #astronomy #exoplanet #
• #UK Tory MP believes NHS should offer medical astrology, remote psychic healing and homeopathy + he's on HMG health subctte! #
• More on #UK Tory MP David Tredinnick @newscientist article "How the UK parliament undermines science" http://bit.ly/dm00O7 #
• Hey that's us! (machine went live in March) RT @insideHPC #VLSCI Buys SGI XE Cluster http://bit.ly/cxNYuO #
• Monty Python meets fossilised cetaceans – it's got nasty, big, pointy teeth! http://bit.ly/dxica9 #
• Supports the #N900 RT @lwnnet The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release http://lwn.net/Articles/394347/rss #
• Oh dear – "An attachment named ARRAY(0xaeeddc0) was removed from this document" (where document = email) #
• Very funny! RT @stewartsmith Best "We're being acquired" email EVER: http://is.gd/daQSX #
• KDE 4.5.0 RC1 has fixed the memory leak in plasma-desktop, yay! Feels more responsive too. #
• #SecureServer net #spam filter wrongly blocks UK Uni from sending e-mail – see http://bit.ly/cO903Z (via @alecmuffett) #
• Marcus Ranum chanelling Steven Conroy on #security in #cloud computing – http://bit.ly/cu5qxO – very funny! #
• Thanks to @markbate and @irldexter for that link to the MJR video.. #
• #MSL news: wheels and suspension added to Curiosity Mars rover (launch late next year) http://bit.ly/cc207u (via @seanherron @vaxheadroom) #
• RT @BreakingNews: Near bankruptcy, video chain Blockbuster to delist from NYSE http://bit.ly/cN2ltG #
• #KDE + #Gnome presidents join each others support groups in reciprocal move – world peace next – http://bit.ly/9WpQya #
• If you are going to #SC10 there is a Google Calendar ICS file of deadlines available here – http://bit.ly/c0Tr0X #
• RT @linuxmag CPU vs GPU http://bit.ly/aeR0w3 #HPC (via @hpc_guru) #
• Gluten free dairy free cookies by my fabulous wife http://twitpic.com/21xv0t #
• Appears that #Digikam doesn't exit properly, meaning I get heaps starting on login, trying to debug why #
• Whole tihng is great – RT @alecmuffett: The captions for the Swedish Chef are … excellent http://youtu.be/B7UmUX68KtE #
• End of #UK war on photography? RT @LDN: Section 44 is dead – celebrate outside Scotland Yard tomorrow http://bit.ly/chuSCD #
• Dear @googledownunder, directions from Melbourne to Tokyo don't include customs when arriving in Japan by kayak, kthxbai! #
• impressive! RT @astroengine Bright bolt of lightning over Strasbourg #isu #ssp10 #awesome http://twitpic.com/226uvz #

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• You'll believe a ZX Spectrum can tweet.. http://bit.ly/acuUF2 (via @marsroverdriver and @doug_ellison) #
• Last 30 days of browser stats for my website: Firefox is more than 50%, Chrome has 16.8% pushing IE into 3rd with 16.21% #
• More interestingly for a non-techie site I can see IE is just over 50%, Firefox 29%, Safari 10%, Chrome 6%, Opera 1.6% #
• Sample sizes are: for my site about 2,800 visits, for non-techie site it's 5,800 visits. #
• At University data center awaiting delivery of the #VLSCI BlueGene/P! #
• #VLSCI #IBM BlueGene/P has landed! Along with heaps of other gear which got shifted on w/e into our new room for Stage 1! #
• Sigh, it appears Conroy is still Minister for Censorship after the reshuffle #
• RT @jsquyres: Quick MPI user poll: MPI_IBarrier — will you use it? #mpi3 #
• Summary of #SCOTUS "lack-of-decision" on Bilski @lwnnet – "software innovation in the USA is dangerous because of lawsuit risk" #
• Yay! Got my room booking through for #SC10 in New Orleans! Hopefully it won't be New Oileans by the time I get there.. #
• Another battle in the #UK #Police's war on photographers – http://bit.ly/92YIug (via @astronomyblog @joergheber) #
• Fabulous! RT @PlanRad This is so great! First actual image of a confirmed #exoplanet http://bit.ly/a6hfBz #astronomy #
• Hmm except, @PlanRad, that press release is September 2008! #astronomy #exoplanet #
• #UK Tory MP believes NHS should offer medical astrology, remote psychic healing and homeopathy + he's on HMG health subctte! #
• More on #UK Tory MP David Tredinnick @newscientist article "How the UK parliament undermines science" http://bit.ly/dm00O7 #
• Hey that's us! (machine went live in March) RT @insideHPC #VLSCI Buys SGI XE Cluster http://bit.ly/cxNYuO #
• Monty Python meets fossilised cetaceans – it's got nasty, big, pointy teeth! http://bit.ly/dxica9 #
• Supports the #N900 RT @lwnnet The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release http://lwn.net/Articles/394347/rss #
• Oh dear – "An attachment named ARRAY(0xaeeddc0) was removed from this document" (where document = email) #
• Very funny! RT @stewartsmith Best "We're being acquired" email EVER: http://is.gd/daQSX #
• KDE 4.5.0 RC1 has fixed the memory leak in plasma-desktop, yay! Feels more responsive too. #
• #SecureServer net #spam filter wrongly blocks UK Uni from sending e-mail – see http://bit.ly/cO903Z (via @alecmuffett) #
• Marcus Ranum chanelling Steven Conroy on #security in #cloud computing – http://bit.ly/cu5qxO – very funny! #
• Thanks to @markbate and @irldexter for that link to the MJR video.. #
• #MSL news: wheels and suspension added to Curiosity Mars rover (launch late next year) http://bit.ly/cc207u (via @seanherron @vaxheadroom) #
• RT @BreakingNews: Near bankruptcy, video chain Blockbuster to delist from NYSE http://bit.ly/cN2ltG #
• #KDE + #Gnome presidents join each others support groups in reciprocal move – world peace next – http://bit.ly/9WpQya #
• If you are going to #SC10 there is a Google Calendar ICS file of deadlines available here – http://bit.ly/c0Tr0X #
• RT @linuxmag CPU vs GPU http://bit.ly/aeR0w3 #HPC (via @hpc_guru) #
• Gluten free dairy free cookies by my fabulous wife http://twitpic.com/21xv0t #
• Appears that #Digikam doesn't exit properly, meaning I get heaps starting on login, trying to debug why #
• Whole tihng is great – RT @alecmuffett: The captions for the Swedish Chef are … excellent http://youtu.be/B7UmUX68KtE #
• End of #UK war on photography? RT @LDN: Section 44 is dead – celebrate outside Scotland Yard tomorrow http://bit.ly/chuSCD #
• Dear @googledownunder, directions from Melbourne to Tokyo don't include customs when arriving in Japan by kayak, kthxbai! #
• impressive! RT @astroengine Bright bolt of lightning over Strasbourg #isu #ssp10 #awesome http://twitpic.com/226uvz #

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• You'll believe a ZX Spectrum can tweet.. http://bit.ly/acuUF2 (via @marsroverdriver and @doug_ellison) #
• Last 30 days of browser stats for my website: Firefox is more than 50%, Chrome has 16.8% pushing IE into 3rd with 16.21% #
• More interestingly for a non-techie site I can see IE is just over 50%, Firefox 29%, Safari 10%, Chrome 6%, Opera 1.6% #
• Sample sizes are: for my site about 2,800 visits, for non-techie site it's 5,800 visits. #
• At University data center awaiting delivery of the #VLSCI BlueGene/P! #
• #VLSCI #IBM BlueGene/P has landed! Along with heaps of other gear which got shifted on w/e into our new room for Stage 1! #
• Sigh, it appears Conroy is still Minister for Censorship after the reshuffle #
• RT @jsquyres: Quick MPI user poll: MPI_IBarrier — will you use it? #mpi3 #
• Summary of #SCOTUS "lack-of-decision" on Bilski @lwnnet – "software innovation in the USA is dangerous because of lawsuit risk" #
• Yay! Got my room booking through for #SC10 in New Orleans! Hopefully it won't be New Oileans by the time I get there.. #
• Another battle in the #UK #Police's war on photographers – http://bit.ly/92YIug (via @astronomyblog @joergheber) #
• Fabulous! RT @PlanRad This is so great! First actual image of a confirmed #exoplanet http://bit.ly/a6hfBz #astronomy #
• Hmm except, @PlanRad, that press release is September 2008! #astronomy #exoplanet #
• #UK Tory MP believes NHS should offer medical astrology, remote psychic healing and homeopathy + he's on HMG health subctte! #
• More on #UK Tory MP David Tredinnick @newscientist article "How the UK parliament undermines science" http://bit.ly/dm00O7 #
• Hey that's us! (machine went live in March) RT @insideHPC #VLSCI Buys SGI XE Cluster http://bit.ly/cxNYuO #
• Monty Python meets fossilised cetaceans – it's got nasty, big, pointy teeth! http://bit.ly/dxica9 #
• Supports the #N900 RT @lwnnet The MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 release http://lwn.net/Articles/394347/rss #
• Oh dear – "An attachment named ARRAY(0xaeeddc0) was removed from this document" (where document = email) #
• Very funny! RT @stewartsmith Best "We're being acquired" email EVER: http://is.gd/daQSX #
• KDE 4.5.0 RC1 has fixed the memory leak in plasma-desktop, yay! Feels more responsive too. #
• #SecureServer net #spam filter wrongly blocks UK Uni from sending e-mail – see http://bit.ly/cO903Z (via @alecmuffett) #
• Marcus Ranum chanelling Steven Conroy on #security in #cloud computing – http://bit.ly/cu5qxO – very funny! #
• Thanks to @markbate and @irldexter for that link to the MJR video.. #
• #MSL news: wheels and suspension added to Curiosity Mars rover (launch late next year) http://bit.ly/cc207u (via @seanherron @vaxheadroom) #
• RT @BreakingNews: Near bankruptcy, video chain Blockbuster to delist from NYSE http://bit.ly/cN2ltG #
• #KDE + #Gnome presidents join each others support groups in reciprocal move – world peace next – http://bit.ly/9WpQya #
• If you are going to #SC10 there is a Google Calendar ICS file of deadlines available here – http://bit.ly/c0Tr0X #
• RT @linuxmag CPU vs GPU http://bit.ly/aeR0w3 #HPC (via @hpc_guru) #
• Gluten free dairy free cookies by my fabulous wife http://twitpic.com/21xv0t #
• Appears that #Digikam doesn't exit properly, meaning I get heaps starting on login, trying to debug why #
• Whole tihng is great – RT @alecmuffett: The captions for the Swedish Chef are … excellent http://youtu.be/B7UmUX68KtE #
• End of #UK war on photography? RT @LDN: Section 44 is dead – celebrate outside Scotland Yard tomorrow http://bit.ly/chuSCD #
• Dear @googledownunder, directions from Melbourne to Tokyo don't include customs when arriving in Japan by kayak, kthxbai! #
• impressive! RT @astroengine Bright bolt of lightning over Strasbourg #isu #ssp10 #awesome http://twitpic.com/226uvz #

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