The Musings of Chris Samuel

• A quick #lazyweb – is there an easy way to return the list of words that MATCH()'d in a #MySQL select ? #
• OK @metrotrains, I know it's a Saturday timetable today but why aren't the trains on the Belgrave line running to it? #
• off to work (eventually), no holiday today for Melbourne Uni staff, we get Easter Tuesday instead for an extra long weekend #
• Looks like the @metrotrains train I was counting on catching to work disappeared into thin air, over 20 min wait till next one! #
• Congrats to Jörn Engel on getting #LogFS into the mainline #Linux kernel for 2.6.34! #
• Note that Australian Do Not Call registrations for your home #phone only last 3 years! http://bit.ly/9z86xy #spam #
• The @newscientist has an interesting article on the issues (and non-issues) with the IPCC 2007 report http://bit.ly/cCkJAU #
• #Victoria is going to use #Linux based e-voting systems – wonder if the #voting software is open ? http://bit.ly/cMaZ3r #
• "0 of 592 processors in use by local jobs" – and more to come! #VLSCI #SGI #torque #moab #
• So why the focus on Melbourne #knifeculture when "assaults involving knives dropped 2.8%" according to police ? #
• US finally recognises the contribution of Women Airforce Service Pilots during WW2 http://bit.ly/dn3qeM (via @marsroverdriver) #
• continued bringing up the #VLSCI #SGI cluster, now at 760 cores, need a few more cables to arrive for the final racks! #
• Great time at @andybotting's going-away party – he's leaving #VPAC and heading to the UK – if you need an #HPC / #grid person grab him! #
• It appears octopuses are TV snobs, they ignore videos on CRT's and only go for HD LCD screens – http://bit.ly/dCpHE9 #
• Court documents show #SCO emailed an "independent" journalist to "send a jab PJ's way" – PJ being the founder of #Groklaw #
• Running a 750 CPU test NAMD job on the VLSCI cluster, so far so good! #

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• 419 scammers now sending pictures of alleged loot and (badly) photoshopped passport ID page – inspired by Mossad? #
• Unfortunately the 419 scammers don't seem to know about EXIF information pics from 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010.. #
• Happy St Davids Day – Dydd Dewi Sant Hapus – Cymru am byth! #cymru #wales #
• Apparently locusts aren't common in Melbourne, advised by friend to send my photos to DPI to confirm whether/not they are #
• http://twitpic.com/160ig7 – Could this be a locust at Cardinia Reservoir ? #
• Installing xCAT via Yum – wow that's easy! #hpc #
• Kudos to @mobicity for publicly sorting out my friends #Nokia #N900 USB port warranty repair http://bit.ly/bWTgjy #
• [hotel door hacking+defence with #HHGTTG RT @alecmuffett must-see for anyone who stays in a hotel: http://bit.ly/aVDmuB #
• Yay for #xcat new #VLSCI #SGI cluster has first compute node remotely installed - now need to refine the kickstart! #
• Also first parts of the #VLSCI #IBM cluster arrived today, but they'll need to wait for the room to be built.. #
• What sort of sick people target hospitals with suicide bombers ? That's not religion, it's inhumane madness.. #
• [LWN subscribers article - please support LWN!] RT@lwnnet: [$] Apple's patent attack http://lwn.net/Articles/376793/rss #
• Yay, #Kubuntu has packages of #KDE 4.4.1 in the KDE PPA – downloading almost 600MB of updates now #
• Link for announcement of #Kubuntu #KDE 4.4.1 packages – http://bit.ly/bAByOp #linux #ubuntu #
• Mr Bean does Avatar RT LEIGHSALES http://twitpic.com/16fuyz – This should give you a giggle to start your day. #
• Finally got serial-over-lan working with #xCat and #SGI XE340's, hadn't set the port to 1 in the nodehm table, d'oh! #
• Very very true – RT @newscientist: Why scientists must be the new climate sceptics http://bit.ly/dqiDyn #
• Looks like the BoM's Laverton rain RADAR is back up and running! http://bit.ly/dowdNR #melbourne #
• http://twitpic.com/160ig7 – Answer from DPI – no it's a grasshopper, but… #
• http://twitpic.com/16jikh – according to DPI this is an adult plague #locust at Cardinia Reservoir near #Melbourne #
• Like to be able to get #Google #Analytics stats for your plugin on #Wordpress org ? Vote for this: http://bit.ly/cOzXho #
• [awesome engineering!] RT @astronomyblog OK GO video which reminds me of the Great Egg Race http://bit.ly/9eByz3 #
• Surived epic hailstorm today – was driving back from Cardinia Reservoir and had to pull over until the worst had passed #
• Got home to find Donna had been defending the house from flooding and helped unblock the road to let it drain properly #
• On/off/undervoltage power for most of arvo – fortunately only a few dents in the car and a cracked window at home #
• Thanks @maddoghall for the blog comment on DECnet orphaned in #Linux sic transit gloria networking! http://bit.ly/aApDqM #
• Great Clark and Dawe sketch on Tony Abbott's Excellent Outback Adventure – http://bit.ly/bKb7Kda #politics #comedy #
• ABC reported hailstones of 10cm diameter in Ferntree Gully – fortunately the ones that hit our car were only golf ball size! #
• BoM 256km #rain radar shows storms heading south towards #Melbourne http://bit.ly/9Dtn3p – could be interesting! :-/ #
• Grr, why is #SVN asking me for my GNOME keyring passphrase? I use #KDE not GNOME, I Have no GNOME passphrase! #fail #
• Looks like the current line of thunderstorms has missed Mount Dandenong, but #Melbourne might not be so lucky.. #
• Looks like the storms have died down a bit looking at the BoM #rain radar – was almost black when it was over Shepparton! #
• Rumours of a hail cannon being used somewhere around Mt Dandenong, can hear regular distant bangs.. #

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• final sync of my #VPAC email before my account bites the dust: almost 25,000 emails in my sent folder over the 6.5 years #
• Love the Calvin and Hobbes tribute in this #XKCD http://xkcd.com/702/ #
• SpaceRef have photos of #SpaceX #Falcon9 #rocket upright on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral http://bit.ly/aAMVML #space #
• Carrying a #gun in Phily, PA means you are over 4X as likely to be shot and killed than someone unarmed http://bit.ly/9YW8P0 #
• hmm, @mobicity won't honour warranty on friends #N900 that has the #Nokia acknowledged broken USB port of death #
• Guardian: "When using open source makes you an enemy of the state" – about IIPA targeting Indonesia http://bit.ly/aW0HqB #
• misread a @metrotrains tweet saying "Minor Delays – Sydenham line", thought they'd built a Sysadmin line for a sec #
• Great fun – online solar system simulator http://bit.ly/bKWvxD – via @plutokiller (who obviously wants target practice) #
• at Cardinia Reservoir, no roos but there are #locusts #
• Problems with the BoM #Melbourne forecast ? Currently saying (for today, Saturday) 'Max ##' http://bit.ly/9g8pYB #
• #Tsunami warning for #Australia (QLD, TAS, NSW) after Chile #earthquake http://bit.ly/aFy2gl #
• Joint Australian #Tsunami Warning Centre – Warnings for QLD, NSW, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island – http://bit.ly/aP5c2m #
• Joint Australian #Tsunami Warning Centre: Warnings for QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island bit.ly/aP5c2m #
• #Tsunami warning for #Victoria from Lakes Entrance to Gabo Island: from now for the next few hours http://bit.ly/bUc86I #
• JATWC: #Tsunami warnings for QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island http://bit.ly/aP5c2m (fixed link) #
• JATWC appears to have dropped #Tsunami warning for QLD, still in effect for NSW, VIC, TAS, Norfolk + Lord Howe Island #
• JATCW has reinstated #Tsunami warning for QLD! #
• Just updated #SpamAssassin 3.3.0 rules with sa-update, looks like a whole bunch of new tests went in! #spam #
• ABC reports that 5 people killed by #tsunami on the Robinson Crusoe islands http://bit.ly/cYdoG3 #
• Looks like a lot of readjustment going on with the Nazca/South American plate boundary, about 70 large aftershocks so far #
• Just realised that 2.6.33 now supports my Leadtek Winfast DVB-T card I've had since I bought this desktop 2 years ago! #
• Dear #lazyweb anyone know how to add a library (gomp) to the ones that dpkg-buildpackage uses for ffmpeg ? #ubuntu #debian #
• Solved my ffmpeg compilation, proved to myself that GCC 4.4.1 -ftree-parallelize-loops=4 doesn't help with encoding.. #
• Wow, another 20 odd magnitude 5+ aftershocks on the Nazca/S.A. plate boundary in the last 12 hours.. #

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• "No bug is too foolish to check for. Given enough code, developers will write almost anything you can think of.' http://bit.ly/diOOI9 #
• Oh the irony! Pauline Hanson is about to become an immigrant – she's moving to the UK – http://bit.ly/9J9FFh #
• #Maemo and #Moblin to merge. #Maemo loosing #Debian base, moving to RPM base http://bit.ly/92smw8 via @lwnnet #
• #Maemo + #Moblin = #Meego – what a bad new name! #
• #Wordpress 2.9.2 is out – fixes a disclosure hole where registered (non-admin) users could see posts in the trash. #
• #VLSCI announces its' #SGI Altix XE #HPC cluster http://bit.ly/bIaMBN #
• don't really like the new @abcnews website layout, no longer any quick way to see Victorian stories.. #
• More info on the #Maemo 6 /#Meego change on maemo.org http://bit.ly/aPcpI2 "deb still for Harmattan, rpm for MeeGo" #
• So that might mean that #Maemo 6 / #Meego from #Nokia might use .deb, *and* RPM (as permitted by the LSB) #
• Interesting – #Meego will be "entirely open source", can be seen as an alternative to #Mer – http://bit.ly/d5xwhq #maemo #
• .@nokconv @petermaemo – could #Maemo 5 apps run on #Meego ? Will #Meego be available for the #N900 ? Deb and/or RPM ? #
• #N900 update on the way ? RT @nokconv @arun8gb A: We've already pushed two software updates, and are pushing another today! #
• An earlier answer to the query about #Meego on #N900 : RT @nokconf @pirlok A: It's too early to say. #NokiaMWC #maemo #
• Kudos to @PeterMaemo and @nokconv on taking #maemo #meego questions – still confused about diff between #harmattan + #meego #
• New #Maemo 5 update out for #N900 – 3.2010.02-8.002 #
• #N900 #maemo update is minor one to prep for larger one later Feb with #qt 4.6 http://bit.ly/b8Ujf6 http://bit.ly/ar2Oa2 #
• Oh so true for many restaurant websites http://bit.ly/bzanJO (via @fooishbar) #
• Two stunning images from #NASA #WISE mission: #Comet Siding Spring http://bit.ly/b5OQO9 and Andromeda http://bit.ly/cCZUss #
• Spooky – the full size JPG of the #NASA #WISE image of Andromeda is 6666 x 6666 – 'tis the picture of the beast! #
• The JMRI case (Jacobsen v. Katzer) has been settled – FOSS wins – http://bit.ly/aKkQlJ #copyright #legal #opensource #gpl #
• At Doncaster playhouse for tonights 'Footsteps of a Nobody' by @donna_williams – starts 8pm #autism #
• Yay – LensBaby (I have their original #LensBaby to use on our #Nikon #D100) are on Twitter as @SeeInANewWay ! #
• Just to correct myself, it's not the original #LensBaby I've got, it's the #LensBaby 2.0 #
• Good blog by Sylvia Pfeiffer on issues that would face #Google should they open up the #VP8 codec http://bit.ly/cCeVXq #

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• One of worlds oldest languages, Bo, of Andaman Islands, has lost its last native speaker http://bit.ly/axs9E8 #history #sad #
• It appears the eSATA DVD-RW that came with my Dell Latitude Z600 can trash DVD's when doing a "-dummy" test with wodim! #
• Garth Davis, director of @donna_williams #film "Nobody Nowhere" directed 2010 Coke #Superbowl advert http://bit.ly/bMsfXT #
• Conroy's filter will not make the internet safer – http://bit.ly/bMYANP #censorship #australia #nocleanfeed #
• It appears Australian shadow finance minister Barnaby Joyce doesn't understand finance.. http://bit.ly/cdWwQA #politics #
• #Myki boss sacked – Metlink boss appointed instead – http://bit.ly/aicWLN #melbourne #publictransport #
• Uni of Melbourne + #IBM announcement at 10am Thursday – http://bit.ly/bhNvrK #
• Announcements of #VLSCI #IBM #lifescience #HPC partnership http://bit.ly/9LMoSF http://bit.ly/dxIBDq http://bit.ly/anwTCR #
• Amazing thunderstorm over central #Melbourne at the moment, lots of thunder! #
• RT @elmonte09: Help! Counting twitter atheists by #tag If atheist, RT this whole message #atheist #
• It's depressing just how wrong some of the press reports on IT stories can be.. #
• It appears we've finally solved where to put the first Intel Nehalem cluster for #VLSCI due to arrive on Wednesday! #
• Nice graph by @mikal of popularity of various #SMTP #email servers since 1996 based on various surveys http://bit.ly/9fncUU #
• 15th July 1993 "I'm busy trying to re-install Linux on my PC after todays diskswapping" – tracked down some old email #
• In August 1993 the University of Wales, Aberystwyth #usenet news spool was a whopping 400MB. #
• So Barbie is now a "computer engineer" http://bit.ly/6wUJfr – can't figure out if that's good or bad (via @markbate) #
• Chip-n-PIN protocol broken, fraudsters can use cards without knowing PIN, paper from Cambridge (PDF) http://bit.ly/bEhYL8 #
• That Chip-n-PIN security vulnerability via @timfaas and @benjaminblack – paper by S Murdoch, S Drimer, R Anderson, M Bond #
• Fascinating website – How to be a Retronaut – http://bit.ly/cX5geJ – historical #photos both real and imagined! #history #
• Here's a #photo from 1844 by Henry Fox Talbot of the building of Nelsons Column in #London – http://bit.ly/crg2ho #history #
• Film of London in 1903 – wouldn't mind betting aggregate people-miles-per-hour is faster then than now http://bit.ly/9CK06m #
• More digging through old email – first web server I set up (as a test) was in January 1994 to demo to Uni folks #
• Working with @donna_williams on the complete overhaul of Auties.org – now based on Wordpress to make life easier #

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• Dangerous discovery – I can get onto the Uni wireless system from outside the #coffee shop on Bouverie Street.. #
• Court orders council to play King Cnut + protect expensive beachfront homes from coastal erosion http://bit.ly/buiv1W #
• I wonder if #Google know about googlee.com.au and their wildcard A record ? #
• Just made a Twitter list for #CFA alerts and safe announcements for region 13 (Dandenong Ranges) http://bit.ly/bW7WDt #
• Oops, try this link for my #CFA Region 13 (Dandenong Ranges, Yarra Valley) incidents/safe twitter list – http://bit.ly/adZNcu #
• As of 11:41pm last night (Tuesday) it appears the #CFA have fixed the duplicate GUID problem in their RSS feed! #
• Have a Nokia #N900 and you find wifi stops working until reboot? You're hitting this bug: http://bit.ly/aCg8pD #
• Nokia #N900 wifi bug fixed in forthcoming firmware release, meantime workaround from the xterm is: killall -9 eapd #
• Court finds in favour of common sense in #iinet case – movie industry vows legislation to avoid it http://bit.ly/9ovXjZ #
• BBC: Vegetative state patients can respond to questions http://bit.ly/dmO0Bz (some, not all, patients) #science #medicine #
• Today is the first anniversary of #BlackSaturday when 173 people died in Victoria's #bushfires. http://bit.ly/9vrjYI #
• Spent last few hours battling OpenWRT upgrade, mostly caused by a power board that had (unknown to me at the time) failed #
• Read these comments from #iinet judgement on behaviour and misrepresentations of AFACT http://bit.ly/9AWicm via @sourcefrog #
• Yay – caught another email harvester that was grabbing emails for spammers via my Project #Honeypot setup! #
• Oh brilliant – suddenly I can no longer authenticate to the Universities email system – I hate #microsoft #
• ..and now it works again! #
• yay – Exchange has lost the ability to authenticate me again #fail #
• ..and it's working again, again.. #
• SMH: "Feel sorry for Kiely, but pity more his female colleagues" – http://bit.ly/c089Ki #
• Amusing – H.264 encoder in Final Cut Pro is apparently not licensed for commercial use – so much for the "Pro".. #patents #
• Today is the first anniversary of #BlackSaturday when 173 people died in Victoria's #bushfires. http://bit.ly/9vrjYI #

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• My registered #myki doesn't show up on my account but if I try and register the card it says it's already registered! #
• 'The filter shouldn’t be a thing, it should be a person. They’re called “responsible”. They’re called parents.' http://bit.ly/7oLDUx #
• Aha, solved my own issue, it appears the #Myki site doesn't work with Konqueror, just #Firefox – another website #fail #
• Dear #lazyweb, what's best way to upload pics to #Twitpic from #N900? Web site works but that uploads full size image. #
• Oh great, now spammers have started putting their rubbish into the display-name of the From: line of emails #
• "SecurityFocus reports that #IE6 has 396 known unpatched vulnerabilities, #IE7 has 15, and #IE8 has 32" http://bit.ly/87tGBI #
• #Google #wardriving whilst streetviewing, plus #wifi mac address to location API + Python code – http://bit.ly/5LumgQ #
• #davmail 3.6.3 out with GUI setting to force ActiveSync updates so now thunderbird->exchange->#N900 works! davmail.sf.net #
• Got call back from #Myki about problem with website but wanted my home address or Myki pin to verify ID – closed case with neither #
• "Scientists 'losing climate fight'" – good points about why skeptics have won despite the facts – http://bit.ly/86E9U3 #
• Amazing photo of fine structure in solar corona during eclipse – http://bit.ly/4nmsIw – via @astronomyblog @finestructure #
• According to their blog the backdoor in e107 CMS systems affects all version 0.7 releases – http://bit.ly/4nS9on #security #
• WhisperingWulf: Design and build of a silent personal cluster – Jon Tegner on ClusterMonkey – http://bit.ly/8aJ396 #hpc #
• #SpamAssassin 3.3.0 released – almost 18 months since 3.2.5 came out! http://bit.ly/9TqBpX #spam #perl #
• oops – "I thought 'that's an f'ing shark!' I kicked at it and in the process I fell off the board." http://bit.ly/9Nbo7b #
• If #KVM says virtualisation disabled in BIOS of your #Dell #Latitude, and it is enabled, then check this http://bit.ly/9LdCmb #
• Looks like #myki interferes with Melbourne Uni staff cards, have to remove it from my wallet to get into the building now! #
• Lovely cartoon on Conroy's Great Firewall of #Australia http://bit.ly/agVHal #censorship #nocleanfeed #
• #Australia breaking more high temp records than low temp for last 50 years, and difference is increasing http://bit.ly/adjznc #
• #Oracle Exadata2 DB server based on #Sun hardware runs #Linux not #Solaris, according to spec sheet http://bit.ly/cjh25T #
• Grin – @ear1grey's 2005 April Fool on the #Apple #iPad is now on front page of Google image search http://toast.tw/100jar #
• This is the 2005 April Fool #Apple #iPad blog by @ear1grey http://bit.ly/9fPlFp #
• RT @BreakingNews Study linking vaccines to #autism 'dishonest,' 'irresponsible,' British Medical Council rules http://bit.ly/94a32V #
• Can't find any mention of #HPC or #Lustre on any of the Oracle presentations about takeover of Sun http://bit.ly/c1oACI #
• Sigh – the old #Sun webpage just goes straight to the #Oracle website now.. #
• Februrary 24th – Vindaloo Against Violence – http://bit.ly/cyBhs0 – via @abcnews #melbourne #anti-racism #food #
• Very good spoof of a generic TV news item by Charlie Brooker http://bit.ly/cnZkQK (via @makenosound @sabman) #humour #
• bah! "This video contains content from #bbc, who has decided to block it in your country." http://bit.ly/ctdrEl #fail #
• Next @linuxusersvic meet – "Using django to make web apps" + "Simulating the formation of stars" http://bit.ly/bnitI4 #linux #
• Know a good place in #Melbourne to get USB -> microUSB cable without paying the extortionate rate of mobile phone shops? #
• ShopBot looks like it has best info on micro USB cables – http://bit.ly/csDziJ – cheapest is $15, much better than $50! #
• Just learned that Bill McLaren, the voice of #rugby, died on 19th January http://bit.ly/clDHCu http://bit.ly/9wPtM9 #
• Today's random fact, both Gone With The Wind and Star Wars sold twice as many tickets as #Avatar – http://bit.ly/9gsQJ6 #
• Excellent riposte to the #XKCD #Mars Rover strip – http://is.gd/7n9SG – via @marsroverdriver + @barbylon #
• On thinking (and reading) further on Amazon vs McMillan – have no desire to buy something I cannot own, so no ebooks for me #
• Another nail in the coffin of #HPC at #Sun/#Oracle ? Rich Brueckner is looking for work http://bit.ly/c5nTc3 #
• H.264 covered by more than 1,000 #patents held by 25 patent owners – plus any undeclared – http://bit.ly/91hzKR #
• #CFA emergency #bushfire warning for Paton Road, Emerald "expected to impact between the hours of 05:00 PM – 07:00 PM" #
• #CFA emergency #bushfire warning for Stewart Road, Emerald "expected to impact anytime within the next two hours" south #
• Fingers crossed for @markbate who's had to evacuate in Emerald #
• Yay, @markbate got out OK to a friends place. #
• CFA has downgraded Emerald #bushfire down from "emergency" to "watch and act" #
• Yay! Rain at last! Hopefully this will get to the fire at Emerald too. #
• Amazing orange sky out there… #

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• Tridge automating #chocolate tempering with pyRoast http://bit.ly/4VYEsE #cooking #python #
• Neat #gdb hack – how to change what a file descriptor in a running process points to – http://bit.ly/7HNfMu #
• I've been wondering what to use my old #OpenMoko #Freerunner for – I think #MythMote might be it! http://bit.ly/4J7GVr #
• #MythMote is a remote control for MythTV that runs on #Android and uses the frontend "telnet" port http://bit.ly/4J7GVr #
• UK paper The #Independent thinks copyright infringement OK if it is doing the stealing http://ff.im/-esbvf (via @adriana872 @barneyc) #
• #VLSCI announces first call for applications for #HPC projects by life-science researchers in #Victoria http://bit.ly/8ciF2q #
• I'm on the programme committee again for Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC) http://bit.ly/5dMNMO #
• Submission deadline for Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC10) is 1st March! http://bit.ly/5dMNMO #hpc #
• Just been eating fresh blueberries from a friend who has been growing them in her garden, absolutely wonderful! #
• Nooo….. #Kraft will get #Cadburys after all! The board to recommend offer to shareholders. http://bit.ly/5q71WK #
• Naica Cave – the crystal cavern – looks like something from Hollywood, but it's very real – http://bit.ly/6zdBOK #
• 1.0.0.0/8 and 27.0.0.0/8 transferred to AP-NIC for real allocations according to @teamcymru bogon list – via @cefiar @jerub #
• for last few months thought I had data plan with #Vodafone but though I was told it was done it never happened, big charges #
• Given I'm very miffed at #Vodafone can anyone recommend a good low-cost no-contract 3G voice+data SIM only plan ? #
• With #Vodafone you only see the real info with the PDF bills: I am on a data plan but with an extra $40 charge I didn't ask for! #
• Yay, my donated MX helped catch an email harvester via Project Honeypot http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ #
• Hooray for #Vodafone – they have corrected and refunded the extra plan I didn't ask for – phew! #
• So Globus 5 is now out and yes – all the web services stuff from GT4 is gone. wonder what ARCS are going to do now ? #
• So the EU has given the go ahead for the #Oracle takeover of #Sun – http://bit.ly/8SfUUM (via @sijoe) #
• downloadin the yet-to-be announced #KDE 4.4 RC2 packages for Kubuntu #linux #
• Off to @donna_williams Footsteps of a Nobody show at the Woodbin Theatre in #Geelong at 8pm #autism #
• At the Woodbin Theatre in Geelong setting up for Footsteps show tonight with @donna_williams #
• http://twitpic.com/zc4vk – Setting up on stage at the Woodbin Theatre, Geelong. #
• Last night was thinking it would be great to have #navit on the Nokia #N900, this morning it appears in maemo-testing! #
• #KDE KOffice Based Office Viewer Launched for Nokia #N900 – in maemo-devel – http://bit.ly/6TBzEC #
• Samba4 talk at #lca2010 claimed "MS AD domain controllers do no validation of updates from other domain controllers" – oops #
• The claim on MS AD security from the samba4 talk at #lca2010 was relayed here – http://bit.ly/6iDqUH #
• Just downloading the .deb of #BibblePro 5 after paying for the upgrade, looks like they do native AMD64 builds at last! #
• Painless upgrade to #KDE 4.4 RC2 in Kubuntu PPA, working very nicely so far! #linux #ubuntu #
• http://twitpic.com/zifok – Went to see Earl play bass in Kryptonite Sandwich at Warrandyte #
• Velociraptor relative evolved venom 128M years ago – first report of venom in ancestor of birds – http://bit.ly/8nbhOk #

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• Interesting #N900 bug, if you create a tag for a picture but make a typo you can't delete it #
• "Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over" http://bit.ly/5RacT9 #facebookfail (via @penguinoid @arusbridger) #
• hooray for @metrotrains ComEng trains with aircon that breaks at 43C – it's damn hot in here! #
• RT @thecaffiend wants everyone who reckons their latte art rocks to email me a sample: editor@beanscenemagazine.com.au BIG COMP!BIG PRIZES! #
• for those who don't know @thecaffiend is involved in the #Melbourne #Coffee Review blog – vital reading if you live here! #
• now installing the #Maemo 44-1 update on his #Nokia #N900 – fingers crossed! #
• First day of work at #VLSCI; novel feeling to work for an entire day on a project without interruption or distraction! #
• I like the fact that the #Maemo updater on the #N900 prompts you to use the backup tool before installing the updates! #
• According to the ABC #Melbourne has had its hottest January day for 150 years http://bit.ly/7rz7QX #
• 11:48pm and still 30.7C outside according to my (sadly non-networkable) inside/outside thermometer – can haz cool change now plz? #
• 6:30am and still 30C outside here in #Melbourne! #
• If UK MoD believes '#Gurkhas are amongst the best and the bravest' why only pay those who retired before '97 1/3rd the pension? #
• Monday night/Tuesday morning was hottest night for #Melbourne for well over 100 years (since 1902) http://bit.ly/85EO2I #
• UK arbitrary stop-and-search powers ruled illegal by European Court of Human Rights http://bit.ly/7sc4lS (via @fooishbar) #
• Trying to set up DavMail (davmail.sf.net) to talk to the Melbourne Uni Exchange server with mixed results #
• #Marillion perform #Grendel, London '83 – so cool and almost 30 years old! http://bit.ly/4JPUAV http://bit.ly/5aKCBv #
• Score so far with #davmail and UniMelb Exchange: email both ways, read-only calendar + LDAP for contacts – pretty cool! #
• 10 #phones compared for usability: #N900 with #maemo wins, #iphone second, #android comes in 5th – http://bit.ly/5rDqbD #
• Wow! #VMWare bought #Zimbra from #Yahoo! http://bit.ly/76Jbrh #
• The BerliOS software development site appears to have been compromised – since 2005 http://bit.ly/5zWdUf #
• Nice blog by @cdsmart on how #Microsoft demonstrate that #Linux is easier to use than #Windows – http://bit.ly/5axBFX #
• New #N900 firmware seems really nice, now sync's with Melbourne Uni's Exchange 2003 server! via @PeterMaemo #

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• irony++ : racist FB group by Aussie schoolkids on immigrants not speaking English populated by schoolkids who can't spell #
• Magnitude 7.2 #earthquake in Solomon Islands – http://bit.ly/4ZT5Rs #
• Amazing what rubbish you find when sorting out files, log files of DEC Alpha SC cluster filesystem crashes for instance! #
• AdvFS Domain Panic; Domain sc_cluster_backup Id 0×3f337551.010416d7 #
• "This domain should be restored from backup tapes, or you can use the salvage tool to pull what files it can find off of this domain." #
• That message was from September 2003, before you start to panic() #
• BBC: Mars' ancient lake beds spied by Nasa probe – http://bit.ly/5n0SsM #
• Dear #SuperMicro – why do I need to disable passive FTP to be able to download from your FTP server ? #fail #
• Random fact: the worlds largest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, has almost 30 acres of glass windows that need cleaning #
• ABC: #Australia bakes through warmest decade on record http://bit.ly/8itOD3 #
• Why is it that you only spot the obvious typo *after* just as you hit send.. #
• BoM "Increasing global mean temperatures [...] are consistent with other independent indicators of climate change" http://bit.ly/7Dbrtb #
• Here's the direct link to The Planetary Societies page to send a birthday message to Buzz Aldrin – http://bit.ly/7xtlyE #
• Looks like the concession and real #myki's look different, but the letters sent to lots of people say concession #
• All this #uksnow makes me nostalgic, well remember opening the door in Great Malvern to see someone ski down the road! #
• In other news the forecast for #Melbourne is 28C Thursday, 36C Friday and 34C Saturday – no chance of #uksnow here.. #
• Been clearing out my office ready for my last day tomorrow, wow it's looking empty! #
• Apparently my #N900 has finally arrived! Only took the USPS and Australia Post almost a month for a 5-10 business day job #
• wow! RT @NASA Another major snow blanket! Great Britain covered in today's image from NASA's Terra spacecraft. http://bit.ly/88WtAR #
• First impressions of Nokia #N900 – it rocks – and contact import from KDE works great using vcard v3! #
• It's my last day at #VPAC today, on Monday I'll be starting at the #VLSCI project! http://bit.ly/7fMcNP #
• OK – who is going to the @linuxusersvic BBQ tomorrow ? #LUVBBQ #linux #luv #
• 'Bachmann to Obama: Don't let terrorists "lawyer up"' – http://bit.ly/6SdbLB – after all who needs human rights in the USA! #
• So that's it, I'm now officially unemployed until Monday! #
• "Behold The Android Powered Microwave And Washing Machine!" http://bit.ly/64gJRU #
• I'm enjoying a very nice glass of 12 year old @bowmore1779 whisky, part of my leaving gifts from the good VPAC people. #
• Happily Jabbering away on my #N900 – wow it rocks – even better than I was expecting! #
• Wow, this is amazing – Rodrigo Y Gabriella cover Metallica's Orion – on acoustic guitar! http://bit.ly/5QSjEO #music #
• US officials covered up details on scores of deaths in immigration detention – http://bit.ly/87rly3 (via @BreakingNews) #

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