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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • #Downfall Hitler learns of the Australian hung parliament 🙂 http://youtu.be/2pNDLzx9vyU (via @fooishbar) #ausvotes #
  • An interesting prediction from my friend Chris Borthwick (I hope he's wrong about 8 years of Abbott) http://bit.ly/bpKh2B #
  • Back to my old picture on Twitter, dropped the #nocleanfeed as it seems that it's not likely to come back anytime soon #
  • In other news – today we found 2 duck eggs for the first time, confirming that Poppy and Snow are both laying. #
  • In unrelated news we now have goldfish in an aquarium upstairs – very nice! #
  • The law says that you have to be 18 to be an MP (negating the constitutional limit of 21) http://bit.ly/cI51e9 #ausvotes #
  • Hi @skwashd – I can get to vtr.aec.gov.au from my VM in the US – local restrictions ? #ausvotes #
  • LNP "How to vote" card masquerading as a @Greens one http://twitpic.com/2goqja (via @abc_investigate @IanWoolf) #ausvotes #
  • SLES10/PPC64 is real pain at times, must manually dd CHRP boot partition (FAT16!) as installer can't handle SW RAID1 for it #
  • then got to sed /etc/lilo.conf to hardwire boot=/dev/sdb1, run lilo (yaboot), sed it back to /dev/sda1 and run lilo again! #
  • Lovely APOD today and almost local: Milky Way + Loch Ard Gorge (down the Great Ocean Road in Victoria) http://bit.ly/cpNnOJ #
  • Wow, one hell of a lot of (thankfully small) hail then! #
  • Walked home on road encrusted with millions of tiny ice balls and tall gum trees each side during thunderstorm. Eep. #
  • UK Gov and Catholic Church colluded+covered up priests likely involvement in 1972 car bomb http://bbc.in/cq80Yo #Ireland #
  • RT @VAXHeadroom: Excellent photo doc by CNN on the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) http://bit.ly/aEVfzr #
  • #ACTA creation, an international treaty likely to have big implications re Internet, continues in secret http://bit.ly/c3Edhc #
  • "Fix a theoretical problem in a theoretical script" – don't you just love descriptive SVN change messages 🙂 #xcat #
  • Nice one AutoYAST – it sets up /etc/ldap.conf just fine but neglects to configure PAM.. arghh #
  • "If LDAP is activated, NSS and PAM will be configured accordingly to use LDAP for user authentication." Oh no it's not! #
  • Dear #AutoYAST what on earth do I have to do to you to get you to configure LDAP as requested ? #lart #suse #sles10 #
  • David Rowe releases v0.1 alpha of his open source speech #codec targeting the 2.4 kbits range http://bit.ly/90oQpY #foss #
  • Awesome yo-yo work – reminds me more of a tiny diablo than a yoyo! http://bit.ly/bnUtKV (via @fooishbar @thommay) #
  • Important: when converting SVN to git and pushing to an external repo any tags won't get pushed – need to git push –tags ! #
  • Hey @andybotting, there's a new version of Zimbra out, time for an upgrade ? 🙂 (ducks) #
  • Anyone got a working AutoYAST XML snippet to enable LDAP with PAM/NSS in #SuSE SLES10 ? Example in docs doesn't work. 🙁 #
  • The next plague will be webcast – RT @774melbourne: DPI website to map locust hatchings http://bit.ly/dx02j2 #
  • Victorian #DPI "Australian Plague Locust" website with alerts and reporting – http://bit.ly/auZ9w9 #plague #
  • A coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim civic groups formed to support NYC Sufi centre – http://bit.ly/aeqGAn #
  • OK SuSE SLES10, why do you come up OK the first reboot after install but then not load the ehea 10GigE drives next reboot? #
  • Voting for Godot – Clarke and Dawe hit the nail on the head – http://bit.ly/aMygi7 #auswaits 🙂 #
  • 16 cores, vector extensions, 128 GF – RT @insideHPC: Architect talks about China's Godson chip http://bit.ly/dpHKzs #hpc #
  • #SC10 student cluster competition – best supercomputer using max 26A current – http://bit.ly/aMwwrh #hpc #
  • Sadly the original #TACC post (http://bit.ly/9zqVxC) says "26 amps of energy" not "26 amps of current" or equiv in Joules! #
  • "Python-iView is not a tool designed to allow copyright infringement. Python-iView is vigilante interoperability" @jeremyvisser #
  • Trip down to botanical gardens in Cranbourne, big walk with Donna, saw 2 wedge-tail eagles plus first ducklings of the year! #

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