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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Bleddyn Williams, who captained Wales in their last victory over the New Zealand All Blacks in 1953, has died 🙁 http://www.wru.co.uk/ … #
  • Let's try that link again – http://www.wru.co.uk/21807.php #
  • Reverse on our Golf died; great timing at 11pm when Donna had parked front in at the station to pick me up. Thanks Iain for towing us out! #
  • #luv was good tonight, talks by Ben on licensing in Oz and Jacinta on how to get a talk accepted at a conf, and tricks when presenting! #
  • I have grave fears for what's going on in Urumqi & Xinjiang http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/07/2619553.htm http://news.bbc.co … #
  • from @timfaas – WinCE ATM's hacked – wonder if they figured out what ctl-alt-del was ? http://cli.gs/Yqsv1J #
  • Teh Intertubes too bad for your LOLCAT ? You need Censordyne! http://censordyne.com.au/ #
  • SSH 0day exploit likely a hoax – phew – http://bit.ly/30dR9E #
  • Seeing lots of plasma crashes when windows go away in KDE 4.3 RC1 ? Don't worry, it's fixed already (apparently) http://bit.ly/MhtEH
    #kde #
  • I'm impatiently waiting for the AMD64 KDE 4.3.0 RC2 packages to hit the Kubuntu repositories! #
  • Just had a lovely veggie lasgna+salad at "Cafe Have Ya Been" in Upwey, Donna had soup, great to see my photos on display! #
  • Linux Weekly News is after someone to sell adverts, but has to be sensitive to their needs – http://lwn.net/Articles/340924/ #
  • Playing around trying to get a Logitech QuickCam S7500 going under Linux – picture seems tinted orange, very odd! #
  • Aha – its USB info isn't matched in the UVC webcam driver, just added it, let's see if it works.. #
  • 28 years of GUI desktops – http://bit.ly/18qGB0 #
  • d'oh, no change, because I added it to the list of cameras that don't announce themselves as UVC, and it does already do so! 🙁 #
  • qdbus is for KDE4 what dcop was for KDE3 – thanks Stefan! http://bit.ly/cfPwD
    #kde #
  • It's amazing what daylight does for a webcam, much better picture today! 🙂 #
  • The delay on the webcam is just long enough to be able to see yourself blink. A very peculiar sight! #
  • Some fabulous first light images from the @ESAHerschel spacecraft – http://herschel.esac.esa.int/FirstLight.shtml + http://herschel.cf.a … #
  • Linux based Open-PC project announced – http://bit.ly/u0u1D
    – http://open-pc.com/ #linux #
  • Open-PC already has a manufacturer signed and is looking to ship in around 9 months! #linux #
  • It's the 30th anniversary of Skylabs re-entry, including bits landing in WA – via @RandomSpaceFact #
  • Just found out about the James Bevan Trophy, competed over by Wales and Australia (Wales currently hold it) http://bit.ly/4fZyJj
    #rugby #

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