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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-04

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • 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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