The Musings of Chris Samuel

• Nouvelle Vague have a wonderfully atmospheric cover of #Bauhaus #039;s classic "Bela Lugosi's Dead" http://bit.ly/cgCjyQ #
• Lake Tanganyika, 2nd oldest lake, is warmest it's been for 1,500 years, biggest rise in C20th – http://bit.ly/bplsvi #
• In 1975 South Africa solicited #nuclear weapons from Israel, and Israel agreed it could supply them http://bit.ly/a32li7 #
• .@markbate what's Lost ? #
• Starting to wonder about #Apple #039;s rep for good hardware, Donna is on her 3rd iMac screen and now her MacBook HD has died! #
• #autism RT @newscientist: The GMC panel have recommended that Andrew Wakefield be struck off: he has 28 days to appeal #
• Looks like Donna's #Apple MacBook has suffered this failure http://www.apple.com/support/macbook/hd/repairextension/ #
• d'oh! RT @andydiggle: Daily Mail thinks Twitter pics "are placed in the public domain" http://bit.ly/dg3Ppr @NUJPhoto #
• RT @newscientist: Also this, from 2002: Study of 500,000 children finds MMR and #autism not linked http://bit.ly/aJXNWB #
• RT @GetUp: Conroy delays filter bill http://is.gd/cn4lZ All thanks 2 u! Watch our homage 2 #openinternet crew vid http://is.gd/cn4kL #
• "If I ever see you in public, I'll just tell my friends its Chuck Norris." comment on Schneier's blog http://bit.ly/bh0uQu #
• Thanks to @bbart to a pointer to Bruce Schneier's blog on being recognised by a TSA official http://bit.ly/bh0uQu #
• RT @newscientist: Ban for Andrew Wakefield: doctor who linked MMR vaccine with #autism http://bit.ly/c51gFV #
• GMC "points out that Wakefield's patent on an alternative to MMR called Transfer Factor meant he stood to gain financially" #
• UK higher education budget will be cut by £200 million – ouch for #science – http://bit.ly/dAQmAp (@newscientist) #
• Just used #git #039;s interactive add functionality to commit only part of a change, very cute! http://bit.ly/cwkWXs #
• .@googledownunder now if only Chromium would encrypt passwords it stored on disk in Linux! http://bit.ly/9mGLop #
• RT @stephenfry: In memory of a dear friend and very great man. Today is Towel Day http://towelday.org/ #towelday #
• RT @cubit42: I signed the "Ask Google to recognize Towel Day" petition! http://petol.org/towelday #petol #towelday #
• #RIP Pascal Brisset, leader of Paparazzi project working on creating FOSS autonomous flying vehicles http://bit.ly/aDfYou #
• #VLSCI cluster and website are offline due to an unplanned power outage in entire University of Melbourne data centre #
• This pretty much fits my feelings about Conroy's pronouncements on Google and Wifi http://bit.ly/9wo3r4 (via @arjenlentz) #
• #VLSCI cluster Bruce is back online after this mornings power outage in the University of Melbourne data centre #
• RT @mpesce: SMH: 'Put your money where your mouth is', Conroy told – http://tinyurl.com/27rm8nf #google #nocleanfeed #
• Congrats! RT @kattekrab: Somehow just got myself seconded to the state council of ICT in Education Victoria. #
• RT @BirdLife_News Today we announced that Alaotra Grebe is officially #extinct http://bit.ly/ciO26s #
• My #N900 is currently downloading #Maemo 5 PR1.2 before upgrading.. #
• Yay, with PR1.2 my #N900 now syncs calendar items with the Uni exchange server again! #
• Wondering why #N900 PR1.2 #Skype video calls don't work? It needs H.264 and that's only in latest Windoze Skype build #
• Obviously #N900 to N900 #Skype video calls will work because it supports H.264 #
• RT @BreakingNews: Apple overtakes Microsoft as most valuable technology company http://nyti.ms/bkHTBP #
• oops.. RT @stewartsmith: New blog post: A warning to Solaris users…. (fsync possibly doesn't) http://bit.ly/9ZYi1h #
• RT @GetUp: People aren't political pawns. @TonyAbbottMHR Seeking asylum ISN'T illegal. Check out the FACTS: http://is.gd/cgZn6 #
• #sequelsongs One Minute to Midnight (after Iron Maiden's Two Minutes to Midnight) #
• #Nokia and #Intel #039;s #Meego has Chromium, I guess this stores passwords in the clear in SQLite DB as on other Linux's #
• Happy Birthday to @WordPress, 7 years old today! #
• #VLSCI calls for Victorian life sciences researchers to apply for time at VLSCI including 'Blue Gene' http://bit.ly/9QWO2b #HPC #
• Thanks @SciMelb for the RT, good to get the word out about #VLSCI at Melbourne! #
• RT @KSC_MOCOP: Next launch from #KSC #CCAS ~June 2; SLC-40. Launch window 11:00am-3:00pm EDT. Demo flight for #SpaceX #Falcon9. #ISS #
• drug laws need science base: RT @newscientist: Teenagers who died DID NOT take Miaow Miaow http://bit.ly/9MW8fy #mephedrone #
• If you are interested in #photography the 3rd Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk is coming up http://bit.ly/ayHA4m #
• Jeremy Visser has packaged his python-iview program for Ubuntu with a PPA – http://bit.ly/daMNhp #
• Jeremy's python-iview application is the only way I can watch #ABC #iView as their website just doesn't work for me #
• Wow! RT@ VAXHeadroom RT @Makemagazine Stunning hyperrealistic glass flower models at Harvard http://bit.ly/bQQ9Yr #Make #
• Wow! RT @VAXHeadroom RT @Makemagazine Stunning hyperrealistic glass flower models at Harvard http://bit.ly/bQQ9Yr #Make #
• I'm going – are you ? RT @linuxusersvic: New event: LUV June Meeting (http://luv.asn.au/2010/06/01) #

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• Awesome @NASA APOD today – http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ – thanks to @alecmuffett for the tip off #
• #RIP Ronnie James #Dio – dead at 67 from stomach cancer (BBC) – http://bit.ly/dcQGdT #
• awful: "Top blokes, totally out of character: when five white men beat an Aboriginal man to death" – http://is.gd/ce0Pn #
• Thanks to Dave Hall (@skwashd) for the pointer to that article on a racist attack and the strange trial following #
• "How are we to know when we're hearing your true position and when you're fudging the truth?" http://bit.ly/dCrRr0 #
• Ever wondered what a steampunk stormtrooper would look like? Wonder no longer.. http://bit.ly/akjWRM (via @theretronaut) #
• "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal values" #wibble #
• The Hardware Locality (#hwloc) team is tremendously pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 – http://bit.ly/biVgNV #
• #hwloc provides CLI tools and C API to obtain hierarchical map of key computing elements e.g. NUMA nodes, cores, caches #
• Best way to get a quick idea of what #hwloc can do is grab and build then do ./utils/lstopo to get a view of your system #
• If you've got the Cairo dev libraries installed then lstopo will do a graphical map, otherwise it's ASCII art #hwloc #
• Hooray, finally have University wireless in the #VLSCI offices! Now if only SSH wasn't blocked.. #
• Google Maps has the #Welsh name of North Parade in #Aberystwyth wrong, it should be Rhodfa'r Gogledd not Rhodfa's Gogledd! #
• Fabulous @NASA APOD today combines two of my great interests, #archaeology and #astronomy http://bit.ly/90hOEN #
• #Google has open sourced #VP8 as foreshadowed, which is good, but I suspect that MPEG-LA will still claim #patents over it #
• Am trying to learn #Haskell by writing something to parse Torque (PBS) accounting logs, plus using git in the process #
• Wonderful view of M83 – RT @Mat_Kaplan PlanRad Want to see one hell of a beautiful galaxy? http://bit.ly/cUFxaa #
• Wonderful view of M83 – RT @PlanRad Want to see one hell of a beautiful galaxy? #
• Looking at this write-up up it appears that #VP8 is a lesson in how not to write a specification – http://bit.ly/97hMEr #
• ''the VP8 software basically is the spec–and with the spec being "final", any bugs are now set in stone.'' #
• "Such bugs have already been found and Google has rejected fixes" #VP8 #
• RT @skwashd: discovered a fast way of getting issues resolved with @telstra. ring to get service disconnected due to inaction on a problem. #
• BBC: Uganda debating law punishing gays with life sentence or even death (video report) http://bit.ly/aAaTsq #humanrights #
• There are 0.5M year old bacteria in Siberia – "If the permafrost isn't permanent, the oldest living things on the planet will die." #
• Rachel Sussman is on a quest to photograph living organisms that are at least 2,000 years old – http://rachelsussman.com/ #
• Siberian actinobacteria – currently the oldest known living organisms in the world – http://bit.ly/aDWM9e #
• Germany now has legal precedent for the enforceability of software patents http://bit.ly/bLq8I8 (via @lwnnet) #
• More delays at customs in #Australia now people will have to declare any porn they are carrying – http://bit.ly/bBmNkF #
• Why avoiding volcanic ash is a good thing for aircraft – http://bit.ly/9EX2q5 (via @fooishbar) #
• MPEG-LA looking at creating a #patent pool license to cover patents on #Google #039;s patent-free #VP8 – http://bit.ly/bWvH1l #
• Clark and Dawes with a wonderful take on the European #debt crisis http://bit.ly/cRQjBX #humour #
• Waka waka waka – happy 30th anniversary of #Pacman http://pacman.com/en/ #
• The Google doodle is a playable game of #Pacman today, got to go to the "Classic" home page and use #Firefox or #Chromium #
• Baby orphan sloths being what can only be described as very very cute.. http://bit.ly/cm3kfV #heartwarming #
• that baby sloth video was via @arjenlentz and @anthonybaxter #
• #N900 FTW – RT @smarthall: Lets see this much multitasking on the iPhone or Android! http://is.gd/ckdcc #
• Children in Texas to be taught that #UN could be threat to their freedom.. http://bit.ly/9wp2oQ #blackhelicopters #
• Fabulous photo of a hot air balloon, but you need to look twice to spot what's really going on! http://bit.ly/aaZbiK #
• Lovely sendup! RT @bbart: CAMRAP denounces 'beerification' of British pubs – http://bit.ly/dzPEsB #
• First light images of Earth from #Akatsuki #039;s camera's on Japan's first interplanetary mission http://bit.ly/auolbx #
• First review of Donna's Footsteps of a Nobody show (nb: she had no control over venue layout) http://bit.ly/bj8J5A #autism #

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• Amazingly awake after flying back from the US yesterday, working from home today to catch up on email, etc.. #
• Great photos of "Field of Women" breast #cancer event on Friday 7th at the #MCG by a friend of mine http://bit.ly/asY8Rr #
• "It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion." – tea++ time #
• Upgraded to #KDE 4.4.3 from the #Kubuntu PPA – bug fix goodness #
• Had real problems installing Bundle::BioPerl under #Perl 5.12.0, trying again with 5.10.1, seems to include most of CPAN! #
• Sigh, no joy with Bundle::BioPerl on #Perl 5.10.1 either – even XML::Parser won't install #
• Oh joy, my Perl problems appear to be because of the expat RPM in #CentOS 5.4 being too old for XML::Parser's needs #
• Nice web page on setting up a remote #git repository over SSH – http://bit.ly/aOXjmK #
• "GBO-3 found that none of 21 biodiversity targets set in 2002 were met on a global basis" @newscientist http://bit.ly/cNqqlI #
• There are two @nokia Australia twitter accounts, both have their tweets protected, seems rather counter-productive #
• Two *potential* @Nokia Australia twitter accounts of course, they could be fake.. #
• Saw @Nokia Australia advert claiming navigation now free on Nokia smartphones in Australia – but doesn't include #N900 #
• RT @alecmuffett The LibDems got fewer seats but more power. This has been the first homeopathic election. #
• Nice! @lwnnet reporting that #Meego (mobile #Linux distro under dev by @Nokia and @Intel) will use #btrfs by default #
• Ian Barclay, the digger operator from Time Team, peels a banana with a backhoe http://to.pbs.org/ctRU7M #archaeology #
• getting reports that #Yahoo Australia have broken their mail system, email addresses re-written to gruposyahoo.com.au #
• Dear #lazyweb how do I find the revision with the earliest occurrence of a string in a particular file with #git ? #
• found it – good old git pickaxe! needed to do: git log "-Scase 'm'" trunk/src/cmds/qdel.c #
• Inaugural Cosmic Variance #Whisky Tasting – the (inebriated) appliance of science – http://bit.ly/9xeGRz (via @elakdawalla) #
• In #Ballarat on 21st May and interested in #Autism ? @donna_williams is doing a Q&A forum + gig http://bit.ly/aBYX0m #
• So I know us #hpc folks run Linpack for meaningless benchmarks, but now #Android folks are at it too! http://bit.ly/aQS1Ao #
• The #InfiniBand Trade Association has published an "Introduction to InfiniBand for End Users" http://bit.ly/9WVXAR (PDF) #
• Hehe – 'Although the working title for this book was “#InfiniBand for Dummies,” its readers are anything but dummies.' #
• My little walk around #Tarrytown New York State, http://bit.ly/b0xb9y – was actually longer as some of it was off road #
• #hpc – high performance coffee – the new #VLSCI coffee machine http://twitpic.com/1nmqrh #
• RT @newscientist There's a new game in town: Guess how much oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico http://bit.ly/9tsqXV #
• An interesting comment on the record of the UK's new Minister for Equality by @msgracefh http://twitpic.com/1npcnt #
• The case for Neanderthals being considered part of Homo Sapiens (via @newscientist) http://bit.ly/amRt5H #archaeology #
• Steve teeing off on Iains birthday round of golf at #Olinda http://twitpic.com/1o73b3 #
• Fly Agaric mushrooms at the #Olinda golf course http://twitpic.com/1o7447 #

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• Spent most of day playing around with Coccinelle, semantic patching tool, using it for bug reports in Torque and Open-MPI #
• Tarrytown Music Hall http://twitpic.com/1kmvce #
• IBM Thomas Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights http://twitpic.com/1kra5d #
• Spent a chunk of spare time playing with Coccinelle recently, reported issues it found to Torque, Open-MPI and HWLOC so far! #
• Mark finishing lunch! http://twitpic.com/1l3n7u #
• Mark trying to finish a "monster" brownie http://twitpic.com/1l3ngt #
• The BP oil slick from space – RT @Astro_Soichi Oil spill of Gulf of Mexico, USA. http://twitpic.com/1laxzu #
• Trying to get my head around configuring slurm for BlueGene/P emulation on my laptop, not getting far! #
• You must have #Facebook #039;s written permission to crawl the site, despite robots.txt, or they'll sue – http://bit.ly/d0PZeu #
• Hat tip to @adriana872 for the link to that story on #Facebook #039;s legal stupidity and heavy handedness about web crawling #
• Seem to have Slurm believing that my laptop is a 8192 core #IBM BlueGene/P system, but can't tell if it's the right layout #
• Time to sign off from Tarrytown, car pickup at 3pm to go to JFK and then on QF108 to LAX to overnight there #
• Hybrid car parking only http://twitpic.com/1ljs94 #
• All non-Africans have small (different) bits of Neanderthal DNA in us http://bit.ly/cLUAWa (via @newscientist) #
• Arrived safely in LA, now in the Holiday Inn somewhat brain dead… #
• "This election looks to have had a truly dreadful outcome for science" – Mark Henderson http://bit.ly/dtFTZU #ge2010 #
• So LibDems got almost a quarter of the vote, and less than 10% of the seats http://bit.ly/cSy2aM (via @fooishbar) #ge2010 #
• Just checked out of the Holiday Inn waiting for a friend to pick me up, flying back to Melbourne tonight on A380 QF94 #
• Good news from one of the #IBM #039;ers at Watson who will be working with us at #VLSCI his Aussie visa just came through! #
• Found the #N900 browser can archive a full webpage, just grabbed the two weekly @lwnnet issues I missed to read on plane #
• Landed safely at Tullamarine, just waiting for the aerobridges to be connected #

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• ICAO been trying to get airlines interested in safe limits for volcanic ash since 2007, without success http://bit.ly/d8S9Ss #
• Leaving for #Melbourne airport for first leg of my trip to the #IBM Thomas Watson Research labs to learn about Blue Gene! #
• Arrived safely in LA on QF93 from Melbourne, long flight and little sleep due to crying & screaming babies #
• Cool! Coccinelle (http://bit.ly/bok0Lz – the semantic patching tool) is packaged in #Ubuntu 10.04 #ocaml #
• View out of my hotel window in LA http://twitpic.com/1iqogu #
• View out of other side of hotel (Bernie's room) http://twitpic.com/1iqoon #
• Submitted my first (C) kernel patch to the #btrfs mailing list for review, hopefully they'll be gentle! http://bit.ly/948kBJ #
• RT @andybotting Just accepted a contact role with a company called Group NBT. I'll be hard going back to working #
• Arrived Marriott Hotel in Tarrytown NY, ready for IBM work tomorrow. Hotel network (wired and wireless) painfully slow #
• (one for @Atlantean7001) RT @theretronaut Last orders in Macclesfield… – http://tinyurl.com/2castsj #
• Breakfast time, then off to IBM Thomas Watson lab! #
• #Facebook releases #Linux kernel module for SSD read/write cache for other block devices http://bit.ly/9R1kR8 (via @lwnnet) #
• My brain is now officially full after 3 days of IBM meetings, luckily it's the weekend now! #
• Time to go walking around Tarrytown, the others are heading off to NYC but I'm aiming for Tarrytown Lakes, forecast is 32C! #
• Perfect timing for a great Earth shot – RT @Astro_Soichi View of the round earth from Cupola. http://twitpic.com/1jlw2z #
• Walk to Tarrytown Lakes (via Main Street) took over 4 hours, Google reckons over 7 miles and that's missing one path #
• Wildlife count includes at least two chipmunks, pair of nesting swans, canada geese, grey squirrels, grackles and turtles! #
• Tarrytown Lake http://twitpic.com/1k3jkn #
• Reclaimed http://twitpic.com/1k3kt8 #
• Eastview Pumpstation, Tarrytown (abandoned) http://twitpic.com/1k3lfx #

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• RT @bbart "So OpenGLES is just a slight variant of OpenGL, in the way that unicycle is a slight variant of a city bus" http://bit.ly/cOequb #
• #Wikimedia Bug 23223 – Experienced shaman needed in Berlin – http://bit.ly/9IhCxZ #ashtag #silly #bugzilla #
• No volcanic dust problems for these guys RT @Astro_Soichi: http://twitpic.com/1gmo9a – Going straight home #
• Wonder if insurers of airlines impose limits on maximum amounts of volcanic ash, etc, for flights to be covered ? #ashtag #
• RT @leighsales NY Times has constantly-updating map showing airports affected by the ash cloud http://nyti.ms/9mgHf7 #ashtag #
• d'oh! RT @BreakingNews: Repeating for those who missed: Iceland weather service looking at wrong camera; Hekla is not erupting #
• RT @lwnnet: The SEC to require filings in Python? http://lwn.net/Articles/383984/rss #
• Anyone know what's happened to 32-bit Sun #Java in AMD64 #Ubuntu 10.04 ? Have a Java app that only works with it. #
• Ubuntu has moved Java to the "partner" repo, but the builds of Java into that don't appear yet, had to grab them from LP #
• Surreal thunderstorm from here in south east of Melbourne, tons of lightening but no thunder! #
• InsideHPC's take on the new Oracle #Lustre strategy – 'Less is Less' – http://bit.ly/aOJwlG #hpc #
• RT @newscientist: We report on the evidence UK authorities used to decide flying through ash is actually ok http://bit.ly/csMYuK #ashtag #
• #Hayabusa to land in Woomera Prohibited Area in June, hopefully returning samples from an asteroid http://bit.ly/dw3Ruo #
• For people who care about data – RT @sijoe: New blog post: Ceasing use of WD drives for a while http://bit.ly/c2F9Tn #
• Lunch and a good yak (and a Fat Yak!) with @steve_evil today, very pleasant (and I owe you a pint!) #
• RT @mgrahamnz: Why do people read mX on the train? Sure, its free, but so is dog pooh! #
• Jeff Layton has an interesting article on #Ceph the distributed filesystem merged for #Linux 2.6.34 http://bit.ly/cLKiiB #
• US White House releasing their changes to #Drupal (scalability, accessibility, etc) – http://bit.ly/ciyZv4 (via @lwnnet) #
• RT @astronomyblog: Amazing (need modern browser) RT @lukemedway_uk: Fun block based destruction of HTML5 video – http://bit.ly/cRlSrk #
• Last day at #VLSCI for 2 weeks, off Monday to #IBM Thomas Watson Research Labs to discuss and learn about #BlueGene P! #
• Nice comparison of NCBI Blast on AMD Magny-Cours, Istanbul and Intel Nehalem systems by @sijoe http://bit.ly/c2QjBv #hpc #
• Not Hiroshima, but San Francisco 6 weeks after the 1906 earthquake – http://bit.ly/cRL1mY (via @theretronaut) #
• RT @BreakingNews: New Jersey court rules blogger isn't a journalist, can't be protected by shield law – read the ruling http://bit.ly/cocL1l #
• Great parody of web blocking strategies – http://www.cleanternet.org/ – hat tip to @alecmuffett #nocleanfeed #
• #Hayabusa sample return due to land in Woomera range in Australia at midnight AEST June 14th 2010 #space #
• Setting up for Donnas's Balloombawop show in North Fitzroy http://twitpic.com/1hyz2b #
• Setting up for Donna's Footsteps of a Nobody show in North Fitzroy http://twitpic.com/1i096a #
• Donna and the Aspinauts performing Footsteps of a Nobody in North Fitzroy http://twitpic.com/1i1i9j #
• Meet Snow and Poppy, our Muscovy Ducks! http://twitpic.com/1i8h9l #
• Weapons of Mass Dilution – RT @
  bbart: New Age Terrorists Develop Homeopathic bomb! http://bit.ly/da9Bnf #

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• RT @donna_williams: Screening of the #autism doco, Jam Jar tomorrow in Ringwood http://www.donnawilliams.net/events0.0.html #
• It was fab! RT @donna_williams: went on a fab trip with Chris in the van for Easter. #
• Seeing the sync between your #N900 and #exchange 2003 hang? It might be this bug with recurring events http://bit.ly/9y0MLW #
• Wow, what a photo! – RT @Astro_Soichi: http://twitpic.com/1exv5i – Two lakes inside old volcano, Africa. #
• Interesting ABC piece on the chances of a double dissolution #election in #Australia http://bit.ly/cREZmi #
• RT @Jerub: Two more /8's allocated this week. 14/8 and 223/8. I'm buying stock in ipv6 companies. #sysadmin #
• RT @Astro_Soichi: Happy Yuri's night! 49 years ago today, Gagarin became the first human to fly in space. #
• "A /8 lasts about 1 month at current consumption rates" – Leo Vegoda, IANA, 2007 http://bit.ly/aj6zQZ #internet #
• Odd to think that we actually have a pretty good idea of what the first ever photo of a human was – http://bit.ly/923QPE #
• We have a pair of ducks! They're living in our large (hopefully) fox proof enclosure. Sadly too dark for photos. #
• Dear #lazyweb – know how to get #KDE developers to look at reopening bug #166788 ? I have a reproducible test for it.. #
• Rumours #Google will announce open sourcing of the #VP8 codec at Google I/O conference http://bit.ly/deYKEG (HT to @skwashd) #
• Noticed recently that #OpenOffice org on #Ubuntu Lucid beta starts with a large red #ORACLE on the splash screen.. #
• At Eltham Library for @donna_williams book readings this evening. #
• Good night at Eltham Radio with @donna_williams – had 73 people here! #
• Donna being introduced at Eltham Library http://twitpic.com/1ficcs #
• Donna reading poetry at Eltham Library http://twitpic.com/1ficrb #
• Earth seen from Mars by the #Spirit mars rover – http://bit.ly/bfAM9Z (via @alecmuffett) #
• Hang this up in your time machine – http://bit.ly/bodBn0 #
• RT @webmink US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus: http://icio.us/qoyqze #
• UK Sleep Council Insomnia Helpline only runs from 6pm to 8pm. (via Feedback in @newscientist) #
• "974 of 1080 processors in use by local jobs (90.19%)" very nice! #hpc #
• RIP #Lustre – #Oracle will EOL 1.8 in 2012 and 2.x will only be supported on Oracle Unbreakable Linux on Oracle HW #hpc #
• Dates and location for linux.conf.au 2011 announced: January 16 – 22, 2011 Gardens Point campus of QUT, Brisbane #lca2011 #
• Sigh, DFAT appears to have no contact info to report broken links too. In fact they have no email addresses listed at all #
• Confirmed case of Rubella in the University of #Melbourne community according to latest staff news. #
• From perl.org – "Perl — It's like Java, only it lets you deliver on time and under budget." #perl #
• "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice." #perl configure script output #
• Great photos of the Iceland volcano http://j.mp/czkWgA (via @fooishbar) #
• Amen brother! RT @huwlynes: IPMI SoL is such a lifesaver. #
• No, not tuning very small coffee's – RT @hpccouncil: New Best Practices Posted for Quantum ESPRESSO http://tinyurl.com/yywg72k #
• Reminds me of Tom Lehrer's Lobachevsky! RT @antonvowl Comment number 6 has won the internet. http://bit.ly/clPFFh #
• The Grauniad lives up to its name with a typo in the caption on Cory Doctrow's anti #DEbill article http://bit.ly/c41gGq #
• Flickr has a site called The Commons with many institutions uploading out-of-copyright #photos http://bit.ly/ako51x #
• #YouTube #Flash #fail – tells me to go upgrade Flash even though I have the very latest version according to Adobe #
• nice shuttle photo from ISS: RT @Astro_Soichi: http://twitpic.com/1g4tsm – So many Robot arms. Shuttle undocks tomorrow. #
• RT @NightSkyGuy: it's taken 164 years, but tonight Neptune is exactly where it was when discovered in 1846 http://is.gd/bwqCA #
• Yay, the University travel agent has got my name wrong on my flights to the US Monday week.. #
• Icelandic #volcano saves 206 kilotonnes of CO2 emissions by shutting down 60% of European flights – http://bit.ly/bZQ4OH #
• Sigh, @AmericanExpress hassling Danish cyclist run over by a customers car to pay for repairs http://bit.ly/9fGt8l #
• Hat tip to @alecmuffett for pointer to the #Amex cyclist story #
• Just got latest #Vodafone bill and can confirm they have fixed up all issues I had, and credited me for the unwanted plan! #

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• Back from roadtrip around eastern Victoria (and just into NSW), off to @linuxusersvic tonight for Rusty's talk #
• Not going to @linuxusersvic tonight, quiet night at home with @donna_williams after road trip around eastern Victoria! #
• Left on Friday, did Melbourne -> Paynesville -> Omeo -> Greta South (Benella) -> Echuca -> Melbourne, back today (Tuesday) #
• #IBM using software #patents against company offering support for a FOSS IBM #zSeries IBM emulator http://bit.ly/9r3Obx #
• Euthanasia group teaching elderly Australians how to bypass Conroys Internet filters http://bit.ly/9WRX0N #nocleanfeed #
• If you haven't been following the crazy Internet laws being debated in the #UK – read this http://bit.ly/able1j #
• #Twitter releases their sharding framework #Gizzard on GitHub under Apache license http://ff.im/-iDf1S (via @peakscale) #
• Another (small) nail in the coffin of Itanic – RT @insideHPC Microsoft Drops Itanium Support http://bit.ly/bCCSFZ #
• RT @alecmuffett Apparently "nfdbjajxgaknq" is "too simple" a password for #Linode – #ohtheirony #
• Worth a read: care worker on how old photos bring dignity to people with dementia http://bit.ly/dBUfDe (via @theretronaut) #
• Look ma, no O2! RT @newscientist: Zoologger: The "alien" mud creature that lives without oxygen http://bit.ly/dBXxe1 #
• RT @mrtonylee: I'm a writer, my comics are illegally downloaded but even I don't want this bill to pass. Don't speak for me. #DEBill #
• RT @astronomyblog Seems my MP couldn't be bothered to turn up for the Third Reading of the #DEBill either http://tinyurl.com/yh97579 #
• UK #DEBill has provisions for #Internet filtering to block access to "locations" re copyright infringement: e.g wikileaks ? #
• RT @NASAJPL Where, when, how to watch a meteor shower in 2010: Tips on making the most of major viewing opportunities: http://bit.ly/adknSl #
• Labor premier asked Governor to appoint Liberal govt, Governor asked Labor instead, now Liberals are blaming Labor ? #tasmania #
• http://twitpic.com/1e1evc – "The Shed", Paynesville #
• http://twitpic.com/1e1go6 – Paynesville floating shed docked, with band and eggs #
• http://twitpic.com/1e1he3 – Butterfly on oregano #
• http://twitpic.com/1e1iix – Donna with friends kitten "Socks" #
• http://twitpic.com/1e1iqp – Echuca #
• http://twitpic.com/1e1izc – The Thong (flip-flop) Tree, Echuca #
• http://twitpic.com/1e1j5u – Self-portrait in teapot #
• That twitpic/flickr upload brought to you by #Pixelpipe – upload once and it redistributes to your choice of services! #
• 40 #UK MP's turned up for #DEBill 2nd reading, 40 more for 3rd reading, 187 more arrived just to vote without listening #
• RT @doctorow: When corporations weaponize copyright to use against civilians they use artists as human shields #debill #
• Today's intriguing book title: "Care and Feeding of Power Grid Tubes" #
• #Apple slap restrictions on languages you can write #iPhone applications in http://bit.ly/d1j3m7 – glad I've got an #N900 #
• "more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals" http://bit.ly/cH0Ug0 (via @fooishbar) #
• Last compute node on #VLSCI #SGI cluster sorted out, now all 136 nodes are up for 1088 cores and 4.2TB of RAM total. #hpc #
• #Steampunk writ large courtesy of @theretronaut http://bit.ly/9J78ji "Dr Evermore & the Forevertron" #
• Another amazing photo via @theretronaut, this time a panorama of #Tokyo 145 years ago (1865) http://bit.ly/czo20P #
• Lots of news reports of the plane crash in Russia involving the Polish president and his wife, some say fatally. #
• Some reports say all 87 on board killed, some reports saying around 130 people on board and 87 dead. #
• Polish state news agency (PAP) reporting no survivors of plane crash carrying Polish President (via Reuters). http://bit.ly/9a0hp4 #
• The BoM are forecasting possible thunderstorms and possible hail tomorrow for #Melbourne hopefully not as bad as last time! #
• Wow, no wonder we're tired, Google Maps says our Easter roadtrip around Victoria was over 1,000 km! #
• Reuters reports Polish president and 95 others were killed in the plane crash near Smolensk in Russia http://bit.ly/cDzBFh #
• ''If someone tells you definitively that they know what is wrong with the system, they are lying [...]" (about #myki #
• "If they knew what was wrong they could fix it." – Dept of Transport employee about #myki in The Age http://bit.ly/aVOTaE #
• #coffee # art RT @thecaffiend: looking for Australia's best latte artists, email your best efforts: editor@beanscenemagazine.com.au #
• RT @SeeInANewWay: Cheerful mosaic of #photos sorted by color: Random got Beautiful http://cot.ag/bBf6ux ^MG #
• another great #photo – RT @Astro_Soichi: http://twitpic.com/1eqe9m – Another beautiful morning in space! EVA2 today. #

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• The Retronaut has a great #photo of Great Darkgate Street, #Aberystwyth #Wales in 1955 http://bit.ly/aljTZC #
• "we estimate Google contributes somewhere between 6-10% of all Internet traffic globally" Ann-Arbor http://bit.ly/9whMBc #
• I am impressed that #Vodafone spotted my whinge last Sunday about billing issues and have engaged to try and sort it out #
• Time for bed, said Zebedee.. #
• #VLSCI announces its 1088 core #SGI Altix XE supercomputer has gone live http://bit.ly/dAQmvc #hpc #melbourne #
• Finally thought I had CentOS directory server replication working, but the replication out to the new peer killed it.. #
• Yay! Two way multi-master LDAP replication with CentOS directory server achieved! Now I can go home.. #
• A point lost on some people – RT @alecmuffett: crypto lessons number one, people: crypto is not necessarily additive #
• New Scientist writer might stand on a pro #science ticket against astrology promoting UK #Tory #MP http://bit.ly/dhT8bI #
• #Sony to hobble #PS3 #039;s + #Linux with firmware "upgrade": removes boot other OS option for "security" http://bit.ly/d1xQoX #
• #ACLU and #PUBPAT overturn #patent on breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 http://bit.ly/9yfXP1 #science #freedomtothink #
• Replaced cranky old clock radio with #DAB clock radio, finally good reception for ABC stations and the clock sets itself #
• Seen glibc catch Aptitude doing bad things with free() and crashing on #Ubuntu 10.4 beta1 AMD64? http://bit.ly/bXZJU3 #
• Watching #LHC about to start collisions! http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/ #
• #LHC is now in collision mode – and the earth has not (yet) been destroyed by a black hole. #science #
• Bah, just bitten by #N900 Exchange sync CPU hog bug, looks like a repeated appointment from Lotus Notes has triggered it #
• So the #LHC is at 3.5TeV, #ATLAS has observed first collisions (about 40 events per second)! #
• #CMS now detecting collisions in the #LHC at 7TeV #
• The #LHC is actually at 7TeV, each beam has 3.5TeV but is travelling in opposite directions around the ring. #science #
• #CMS was expecting to see 1 event per second at start up, instead seeing around 100 per second. #LHC #science #
• Wasn't expecting to hear a Welsh accent on the #LHC webcast! #
• The inevitable change of copyrights for #Solaris RT @alecmuffett: sigh http://bit.ly/azmHe9 (via @webmink) #sun #oracle #
• (great photo!) RT@Astro_Soichi: http://twitpic.com/1by0pj – Mt. Fuji, JAPAN. On the morning of my 100th day on orbit #
• US court confirms Novell owns #UNIX copyrights, not #SCO fatally undermining SCO's attacks on #Linux http://bit.ly/ceNvgq #
• #Intel has launched their 8 core #Nehalem CPUs, in response to #AMD #039;s 8 and 12 core ones launched a few days ago. #
• "The recommended minimal memory requirement on x86 and x86_64 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 is now 1GB per logical CPU" #
• UK MPs say govt should review rules for public access to data "collected and analysed with UK public money" #science #
• RT @newscientist: #Climategate inquiry points finger of blame at university http://bit.ly/cZKYS4 #openaccess #science #
• Downloading #KDE SC 4.4.2 packages for #Kubuntu Karmic #linux #
• Shannon Entropy implies that Pictish carvings are really a written language http://bit.ly/9fQNcU (via @archaeologynews) #
• #Facebook force researcher to erase dataset compiled from public profile info http://bit.ly/aKXl3F (via @newscientist) #
• Very cute – NASA's @Voyager2 is on Twitter (and fairly vocal from what I can see ) #
• First code drop of #Intel #Nokia #Meego the merger of #Moblin and #Maemo No UI yet, just a shell. http://bit.ly/cDPRPp #
• Kudos to Kirsty at #Vodafone spotted my Twitter whinge, sorted out the billing problem and backdated the refunded! V.Happy! #
• RT @skwashd New post: ACMA Investigates #Nokia for SMS Spam http://tinyurl.com/ycrz5tb #
• Love #XKCD #039;s shell today – try the old sandwich routine, or maybe "hello joshua" #
• Been seeing spurious timeouts in #KDE #039;s #Konqueror web browser? This is the bug you need reopened: http://bit.ly/9ebuW5 #

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• UK to have peak time power cuts in 5 years due to coal generators preferring to close vs. upgrade http://bit.ly/9Nkpwp #
• How To Be A Retronaut on the Womens Air Service Pilot's – 38 of them died during WW2 – http://bit.ly/dqKBis #history #
• Russell Coker (of SELInux, etc) reviews the #Yubikey USB #security token, emulates a USB keyboard: http://bit.ly/b1yYnb #
• Russell is also trying to organise a bulk buy of the #yubikey on the @linuxusersvic mailing list http://bit.ly/chm3ML #
• State of Victoria will run an "App My State" comp in April to build mobile/web apps for Victorians: http://bit.ly/c3JzVH #
• Woo-hoo! Finally broken the 1000 core barrier on the #VLSCI #SGI cluster! #hpc #
• One for #Usenet veterans – the JAXA module for ISS is called #KIBO I wonder if that will cause headaches for James Parry? #
• Extreme entomology: evidence of a Victorian collecting insects with a shotgun – http://bit.ly/98QxFr (via @newscientist) #
• To paraphrase Inigo Montoya "This word socialist, I don't think it means what you think it means" – http://is.gd/aUCfy #
• My voicemail got set to the wrong type, so ITS fixed it for me. Now it doesn't work at all. #
• .@senatorsteve worth remembering that we are 16th on the list of countries in terms of refugees per year, hardly a flood.. #
• Just found out that blogs.unimelb.edu.au is hosted at @rimuhosting, same people who do my stuff, neat! #
• Was going to have an early night, but just found out I have a paper to review for VTDC 2010 by tomorrow.. #
• Yay, VTDC paper reviewed, time for bed! #
• Previously unknown hominid identified in Siberia, diverged from our lineage about 10^6 years ago http://bit.ly/c9em0X (#BBC) #
• Banging my head against SSH host based authentication on CentOS, it just won't work, going to give up on it now #
• Must read first hand account of US #health system from Australian ABC correspondent http://bit.ly/cbPEd8 (via @leighsales) #
• Australian DSD (Defence Signals Directorate) commissions a (possibly) 100TF Cray XT5 http://bit.ly/cX2dl0 (via @insidehpc) #
• End of the first week of having real users on the #SGI #VLSCI cluster and already 2 are using 344 cores between them. #
• #FF #tech: @insidehpc @alecmuffett @sijoe #space @marsroverdriver @elakdawalla @Astro_Soichi #news @leighsales #
• "Minchin is reportedly leaving the Senate in order to devote more time to his family and his Death Star project" (@abcthedrum) #
• #Aberystwyth seafront in 1958, courtesy of the Retronaut http://bit.ly/9nNnmh #Wales #Cymru #history #photography #
• Very arty #photo of #moon rise from the #ISS by @Astro_Soichi http://twitpic.com/1bcfqn – well done! #space #

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