- A day of gentle walking and getting sun to make up for 5 days in a hospital bed. 🙂 #
- Time to tackle pokie problem gambling. Sign the urgent national petition at: http://bit.ly/hta6XG #
- Brent Welch's talk slides on the state of parallel #NFS (pNFS) development for #Linux http://bit.ly/f4acV9 (PDF) #hpc #
- Steve Langasek on @Debian/#Ubuntu multi-arch support finally done properly – http://bit.ly/igmxxs #linux #
- Important to note that @Debian multi-arch support is more than ia32/x86-64 bi-arch done elsewhere, supports *any* arch.. #
- Thanks to @penguin_brian for the pointer by email on that @Debian multi-arch blog post! #
- Argh, forcibly upgraded to new @Twitter against my will, hate it, hate it hate it!! 🙁 #newtwitter #
- Sigh, the link to get back to old #Twitter interface from #NewTwitter gives a 403 forbidden error /cc @support #
- Survived a day in the office today, but will be working from home Thurs/Fri. #
- Got a @Garmin Nuvi 2350 today, quite good except it prompts me to accept the EULA every time I turn it on! 🙁 #
- Yay! @Support have fixed the button to let you go back to old #Twitter from #newTwitter the pain eases at last.. #
- At #VLSCI we currently have 18 Unix users (6 Linux, 12 Mac) and 3 Windows users.. 😉 #NotAnAprilFool #
- Sigh, does #Puppet *really* need to use 400MB of RAM ? 🙁 #
- Try #2 #Puppet client restarted, now using ~175MB. Damn memory leaks.. (previous <100MB was RSS not total) #
- Dear #Lazyweb is there *any* way to get Java to run via a SOCKS proxy? Tsocks doesn't seem to be able to.. 🙁 #
- Uni of Melbourne and Swinburne Uni are doing a survey of grandfathers (already done grandmothers) – http://bit.ly/ekJsI8 #
- Feeling sorely tempted to upgrade my home desktop to the #Kubuntu 11.04 beta 1 that is out now.. #
- Awesome quote – RT @marsroverdriver My day job is turning gods into places #
- I'm sure you're only meant to see that from inside an aircraft through a window! RT @BluestMuse Sky! http://t.co/71mbCWQ #
- Linear B writing tablet found in Greece, earliest known example of writing in Europe to date – http://bit.ly/floP7h #
- .@Donna_Williams currently talking for 8 different #Autism New Zealand groups via videoconferencing as part of #WAAD #
- Australian #chocolate blog (and no, I can't have any!) – http://gonechocco.com/ #
- Upgrading to #Kubuntu 11.04 beta to finally escape the last few releases broken Exiv2 packages when used with Nikon images #
- Where on earth does initramfs-tools get its list of "installed: kernels from? It keeps trying ones that are long gone.. #
- Updated to #Kubuntu 11.04 beta (Natty Narwhal) without issues (asides from running out of space on /var, easily fixed) #
- Good summary of impact of severe solar storms on Earth 1859-2003 (inc. Quebec power grid failure) http://bit.ly/fHOBrf #
- Radiation From Cornwall to Hong Kong Beats #Tokyo Amid #Nuclear Plant Scare – http://ow.ly/4qPon (via @BloombergNews) #
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During my recent job interview with them, VPAC mentioned the puppet client memory leak. So a task I performed on my second last day at AAO was to configure our new puppet clients[1] to go via cron rather than the daemon. Trivial changes using a pattern that ought to be trivially googlable if you’re that way inclined – using halfhour+randomish (based on the hash of the hostname) offset.
[1] Nothing like deploying a new unfamiliar technology in one’s last 2 weeks of work. It had only been on my TODO list for 2 years though.