• For working audio in #Kubuntu 11.04 beta I had to do "aptitude purge pulseaudio" (as in most recent Ubuntu releases) #
• Early night to get a decent nights sleep, got to be at Box Hill hospital at 7am for an ERCP to shift more gall stones! #
• Off to hospital for ERCP, should be back later! #
• Out of hospital, awesome surgeons removed at least 6 gallstones from bile duct to finally clear it. Phew! #
• It appears there will be no more temporary IPv4 allocations for conferences from @APNIC, it's #IPv6 only or nothing now! #
• #Ubuntu bug #596327 (exiv2 horribly slow manipulation of photos from #Nikon cameras) fixed in 11.04! http://bit.ly/gZPJsY #
• Somehow my hostid has changed after my upgrade to #Kubuntu 11.04, was 573ff8ff now 007f0100, it has confused #ZFS FUSE! #
• #Kubuntu 11.04 switches default audio backend to #gstreamer for consistency with #Ubuntu hence I need Xine to make it work #
• ..and now for the upside of a day on a clear liquids only diet following ERCP, mango jelly! 🙂 #
• #Kepler planet finder lets astronomers monitor the surface of red dwarf stars – http://bit.ly/fNIQqJ #space #
• If you're interested in #astronomy and haven't played with @chromoscope yet then you really should! http://bit.ly/gDqocN #
• #Tutankhamun Anatomy of an Excavation – website with heaps of photos and notes from original dig – http://bit.ly/elD3J0 #
• My word, our two Intel clusters are 98.5% and 97.5% utilised and our BlueGene/P is 100% busy! 🙂 #VLSCI #HPC #
• So @SpaceX #Falcon Heavy will be heaviest lift vehicle since Saturn V with half the SV ability; shows how good SV was! #
• Oh this is just so wrong.. 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YABGdai5k #
• ..and whilst on an 80's kick – "Eighties" by Killing Joke – http://bit.ly/fO0IAm – with Jazz Coleman looking scary 🙂 #
• Hmmm, is #Monash Uni having networking issues with @AARNET ? Everything seems ECONNREFUSED #
• .@CentOS 5.6 has hit the @AARNET mirror here in Australia, rsync'ing to our SGI Altix XE cluster (Bruce) management node! #
• "scp file user@machine" gives me 10MB/s, "sudo scp file user@machine" gives me 46MB/s – what ?!?!?! #
• of course those commands are really both "user@machine:" not just "user@machine" #
• Solved my scp problem, many moons ago when I was testing something I put "Host *\n Compression On".. Now nuked 🙂 #
• I just entered the draw to win $5000 of @Kogan gear. You could enter too – takes just 1 click: http://t.co/5wdX3IL #
• Well you never know your luck and @Kogan do stand up against the Internet filter and against overpriced rip-off retailers #
• Coalition dumping funded work to upgrade stations to fully staffed + instead have armed novices at night only, not smart #
• Wow, @sijoe has 5U box that sustains 3.4GB/s write to disk – that's 1TB in 5 mins or over 12TB/hour! http://bit.ly/gVOBVI #
• A late sci/tech #FF @sijoe @marsroverdriver @protectresearch @kattekrab @peakscale @astronomyblog @stewartsmith @lwnnet #
• More late sci/tech #FF @elakdawalla @hpcwire @insidehpc @hpc_guru @suhaibkhan @vallard @alecmuffett @linuxfoundation #
• Aurora Borealis via Airplane – http://beepshow.com/sf2cdg/ – via @grisch #
• Oh my word, this is awesome! Play with the solar system: http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ #space #planets via @twisst #
• #Groklaw to stop new articles May 16th, 8 years after it started, as battle with #SCO is won http://bit.ly/g1UePO #linux #

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