• Clubs Australia running scare ads w/ $100k of 90yo mum's life savings. Think that's un-Australian? http://is.gd/K5Hrxj #
• Women ditching science careers: oft dissuaded by impact of family on publication rate + hence funding http://bit.ly/hNXqZt #
• Male Eastern Grey Kangaroo – Cardinia Reservoir (black and white) http://flic.kr/p/9xHXHY #
• Going to be a busy few days for me here at #VLSCI getting ready for OS upgrade outage on our SGI system this Friday #
• .@AARNET's CentOS 5.6 mirror doesn't include the DVD ISO images which I need for #xCAT but fortunately Swinburne's does! #
• Gah, spent whole morning under misapprehension it was Wednesday, need more caffeine! 🙁 #
• Plus side is that I don't have a meeting this afternoon and can keep on trying to get CentOS 5.6 onto a Bruce test node #
• Sorry I can't be there at the rally but I support protecting funding of medical research.. /cc @protectresearch #
• Happy Yuri's Night everyone! 50 years of manned spaceflight… #space #
• First Orbit: a film with video from the #ISS audio from Yuri #Gagarin and music by Philip Sheppard http://bit.ly/hCq7Qa #
• Fabulous interview with Terry #Pratchett (@terryandrob) by @leighsales on the #ABC730 report – http://bit.ly/dOENGk #
• apt-get upgrade'ing my #N900 phone to latest #Maemo community SSU release #
• Right, that's all the meetings out of the way for they day, time to start work! Hmm, what time is it again? D'oh! #
• Awooga, awooga, @APNIC down to their final /8, maximum allocation *per customer* is now a /22 http://bit.ly/dJWKfR #ipv6 #
• Warning: Summoning #Cthulhu may cause lung cancer, night gaunts, fhtagn, and end of the world. http://bit.ly/eOPMQy #
• Hat tip to @AHGrayLensman for that link.. 😉 #
• Pulling data at 4Gb/s from our 4 @Panasas shelves onto #GPFS as part of our backup before Panasas f/w upgrade #VLSCI #HPC #
• 4Gb/s figure is with about 15 rsync's running in parallel on an IBM x3650 M2 – 10GigE to @Panasas and dual QDR IB for GPFS #
• Powering on the #VLSCI SGI cluster "Bruce" after OS upgrades and University electrical work in the data center #
• The #VLSCI SGI cluster "Bruce" is back in service after the electrical work and an upgrade to @CentOS 5.6. Enjoy! #hpc #
• Going to try installed Debian/kfreebsd-i386 on my old Olivetti Netstrada (quad PentiumPro deskside server) for giggles 🙂 #
• well that fun didn't last long, the install kernel crashes with: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c3925000 #
• Thanks for the #FF @suhaibkhan and @Atlantean7001 🙂 #
• Just noticed my first @WordPress blog spam (caught by Akismet) from an #IPv6 address – Peking Uni 2001:0DA8:0201::/48 #
• Realised my blog was looking crap on mobile devices due to left sidebar, shifted things around to remove that + fix it up. #
• Looks like videos uploaded to @Google Video will no longer viewable from April 29th – http://bit.ly/eg2JnU #
• Confirmation @Google Video going away on 29th April, uploaders have until May 13 to grab their stuff http://bit.ly/fmIQu4 #
• What would you do with 30 spare Cisco PIX 501 firewalls ? Test a 30 layer NAT setup.. 🙂 http://bit.ly/gNxNw1 via @v6ix #
• RT @sijoe file system surgery on borked #Lustre volumes http://bit.ly/dIPbGo #hpc #
• One of the reasons I'm hanging out for #Digikam 2.0, face detection and recognition in photographs: http://bit.ly/eNcG4U #
• The Father Ted house on Google Maps (in the Burren, Ireland) – http://bit.ly/dy3ftH (via @glinner's FAQ) #FatherTed #

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