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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • Photos of some of the items stolen from Cairo museum, #Egypt http://bit.ly/esEhnG (via @archaeologynews) #
  • "We are at #IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, I repeat, we are at IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, condition heliotrope" #APNIC #RedDwarf #
  • It appears that if you ifup an already up bonded dual IB interface on RHEL5 it stops working. Guess what #xCAT does.. #
  • Not every day that a Senator favourites a photo of yours on #Flickr thanks @KateLundy! http://flic.kr/p/8BVQw4 #
  • Support a firm, simple declaration against #ACTA — http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/acta-declaration #
  • Australian Government Web Guide includes Okular as a suggested PDF reader: 🙂 http://goo.gl/6K3Ft #KDE – via @jdub #
  • Armed police intercept intrepid foreshore archaeologists @ #MI6 HQ in case of mistaken identity http://bit.ly/eZ7izX #
  • "They accepted there wasn't much damage we could do with a tripod," – one the the archaeologists intercepted by police #
  • James McLay home @ #Moolort restored. In 2004 this had no doors or windows + walls were going http://flic.kr/p/9i7aTi #
  • This was the state of the James McLay homestead (1865) @ #Moorlort in 2004 http://flic.kr/p/8J9Aqf #
  • .@abcnr your answer to "Watson" was wrong, the answer was "The founder of @IBM", nothing to do with Holmes! #jeopardy #hpc #
  • Big congrats to the #Stardust team for what sounds like a successful flyby of Tempel-1! Now we wait for the imagery! #
  • Currently migrating my VPS within @Rimuhosting's data centre, no change of IP but an extra 500MB RAM for 1c/month more 🙂 #
  • Good for @JoeHockey – @ScottMorrisonMP + @TonyAbbottMHR attitude to #refugee funerals is repugnant http://bit.ly/gSxoly #
  • There is something rather amazing to see a good picture of a comets nucleus – twice – http://bit.ly/hwT7LG (via @apod) #
  • $300K flight for #refugees to attend #funerals is same amount as Liberal MPs spent on printer toner before 2009 election #
  • EFI – because the legacy BIOS system wasn't slow enough.. 🙁 #
  • I thought @google had closed their China office, so how come @googlejobs are recruiting for Beijing? http://goo.gl/Zl8K7 #
  • W00t, @lwnnet has introduced "conference network protection mode" (i.e. force SSL mode) for users. 🙂 #security #
  • http://theagevsheraldsun.tumblr.com/ 🙂 (via a friend not on Twitter) #
  • RIP Lindsay Hood, late of @Cray_Inc in Canberra, previously at APAC, a really nice person. You'll be missed.. 🙁 #hpc #
  • Full house to hear @donna_williams speak at Darley Community House, they had to open an adjoining room to seat people.. #
  • #IBM BlueGene/P node card, 32 nodes, 128 cores #hpc http://twitpic.com/40ztws #
  • Talk by @donna_williams had so many people interested they had to book her again, now that's full with a waiting list! #
  • Dear @Vodafone_AU – is there not a way to change your plan online ? #
  • The "Call For Papers" (CFP) for @SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) in Seattle has now gone out http://bit.ly/glQtlh #SC11 #HPC #
  • Why on earth would a read() block forever trying to open /proc/$PID/cmdline ? #Linux #
  • Appears #LIbya has done an #Egypt and pulled the plug on Internet traffic – @Google traffic report – http://bit.ly/eg14ru #
  • Anyone know a site that graphs #BGP prefix advertisements by country in semi-real time (hourly would do) ? #Libya #
  • Streetlight with streamer and sun at South Melbourne http://flic.kr/p/9hUU1V #
  • Silent – in memory of Lindsay Hood (1965 2011) http://flic.kr/p/8Gz18P #
  • Google report appears to be showing some traffic coming in from #Libya again http://bit.ly/i56pOE (caveated though) #
  • Following on from @MarkNewton, here's #Melbourne around 1965 http://bit.ly/fEDFbN courtesy of @ScreenAustralia #
  • You can follow @twisst to get tweets telling you when the ISS will be visible from the location in your Twitter bio! #
  • Fabulous #photo of an old turtle on a beach in the Seychelles http://bit.ly/hZSWQd – from the @austmus website #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • Photos of some of the items stolen from Cairo museum, #Egypt http://bit.ly/esEhnG (via @archaeologynews) #
  • "We are at #IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, I repeat, we are at IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, condition heliotrope" #APNIC #RedDwarf #
  • It appears that if you ifup an already up bonded dual IB interface on RHEL5 it stops working. Guess what #xCAT does.. #
  • Not every day that a Senator favourites a photo of yours on #Flickr thanks @KateLundy! http://flic.kr/p/8BVQw4 #
  • Support a firm, simple declaration against #ACTA — http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/acta-declaration #
  • Australian Government Web Guide includes Okular as a suggested PDF reader: 🙂 http://goo.gl/6K3Ft #KDE – via @jdub #
  • Armed police intercept intrepid foreshore archaeologists @ #MI6 HQ in case of mistaken identity http://bit.ly/eZ7izX #
  • "They accepted there wasn't much damage we could do with a tripod," – one the the archaeologists intercepted by police #
  • James McLay home @ #Moolort restored. In 2004 this had no doors or windows + walls were going http://flic.kr/p/9i7aTi #
  • This was the state of the James McLay homestead (1865) @ #Moorlort in 2004 http://flic.kr/p/8J9Aqf #
  • .@abcnr your answer to "Watson" was wrong, the answer was "The founder of @IBM", nothing to do with Holmes! #jeopardy #hpc #
  • Big congrats to the #Stardust team for what sounds like a successful flyby of Tempel-1! Now we wait for the imagery! #
  • Currently migrating my VPS within @Rimuhosting's data centre, no change of IP but an extra 500MB RAM for 1c/month more 🙂 #
  • Good for @JoeHockey – @ScottMorrisonMP + @TonyAbbottMHR attitude to #refugee funerals is repugnant http://bit.ly/gSxoly #
  • There is something rather amazing to see a good picture of a comets nucleus – twice – http://bit.ly/hwT7LG (via @apod) #
  • $300K flight for #refugees to attend #funerals is same amount as Liberal MPs spent on printer toner before 2009 election #
  • EFI – because the legacy BIOS system wasn't slow enough.. 🙁 #
  • I thought @google had closed their China office, so how come @googlejobs are recruiting for Beijing? http://goo.gl/Zl8K7 #
  • W00t, @lwnnet has introduced "conference network protection mode" (i.e. force SSL mode) for users. 🙂 #security #
  • http://theagevsheraldsun.tumblr.com/ 🙂 (via a friend not on Twitter) #
  • RIP Lindsay Hood, late of @Cray_Inc in Canberra, previously at APAC, a really nice person. You'll be missed.. 🙁 #hpc #
  • Full house to hear @donna_williams speak at Darley Community House, they had to open an adjoining room to seat people.. #
  • #IBM BlueGene/P node card, 32 nodes, 128 cores #hpc http://twitpic.com/40ztws #
  • Talk by @donna_williams had so many people interested they had to book her again, now that's full with a waiting list! #
  • Dear @Vodafone_AU – is there not a way to change your plan online ? #
  • The "Call For Papers" (CFP) for @SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) in Seattle has now gone out http://bit.ly/glQtlh #SC11 #HPC #
  • Why on earth would a read() block forever trying to open /proc/$PID/cmdline ? #Linux #
  • Appears #LIbya has done an #Egypt and pulled the plug on Internet traffic – @Google traffic report – http://bit.ly/eg14ru #
  • Anyone know a site that graphs #BGP prefix advertisements by country in semi-real time (hourly would do) ? #Libya #
  • Streetlight with streamer and sun at South Melbourne http://flic.kr/p/9hUU1V #
  • Silent – in memory of Lindsay Hood (1965 2011) http://flic.kr/p/8Gz18P #
  • Google report appears to be showing some traffic coming in from #Libya again http://bit.ly/i56pOE (caveated though) #
  • Following on from @MarkNewton, here's #Melbourne around 1965 http://bit.ly/fEDFbN courtesy of @ScreenAustralia #
  • You can follow @twisst to get tweets telling you when the ISS will be visible from the location in your Twitter bio! #
  • Fabulous #photo of an old turtle on a beach in the Seychelles http://bit.ly/hZSWQd – from the @austmus website #

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