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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-17

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • 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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