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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • 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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Last reply was March 28, 2010
  1. TimC
    View March 28, 2010

    We on alt.religion.kibology have been discussing the ISS module for a few years now. Kibo has not himself mentioned it to my knowledge; he only makes an appearance once a year now.

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