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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-01

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • Installing #FreeDOS onto old Dell Pentium 3 before it goes out for the hard rubbish so the local scavengers can use it #
  • With SysLinux and Memdisk I can PXE netboot install FreeDOS from ISO image. Fortunate really as there's no CD or floppy! #
  • FreeDOS install flawless right up to the point where PC resets and then doesn't boot. Left as an exercise for the finder. #
  • Congrats to @JimCameron on doubling the number of people alive who reached Earths deepest point. Vale Jacques Cousteau. #
  • First time people (Piccard and Walsh) got to Challenger Deep was 9 years before we got to the moon. /cc @deepchallenge #
  • Now @JimCameron with @DeepChallenge are second group of people to get there, ~40 years after man was last on the moon. #
  • Congrats to @JimCameron on doubling the number of people alive who reached Earths deepest point. /cc @DeepChallenge. #
  • Today I saw a terabyte of RAM, and it was good. #
  • In unrelated news it takes 44 hours for IBM diagnostics to do a full check of 1TB of RAM. #
  • Sigh, what a time for trams to be broken in the CBD. #
  • CBD trams fixed now. #
  • "When we give up synchronization, we of necessity give up determinism." – David Ungar (IBM) http://t.co/CukcoQFb #hpc #
  • Will AFACT change from "piracy funds terrorism" to "piracy funds NewsCorp"? Would put a lot more people off I reckon. 🙂 #
  • Highway patrol pulled over Mercedes for driving in bike lane on Queensberry Street 🙂 #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/6kBwQwu0 Galaxy Song #
  • Happy birthday Eric Idle 🙂 #
  • Congrats to Andrew Lonie and Bernie Pope at #VLSCI for being co-authors on XRCC2 breast #cancer gene paper! /cc @SciMelb #
  • Little penguin, St Kilda Pier http://t.co/GCJ18vVN #
  • Put up a new #painting by @donna_williams in her Dreamscapes gallery – Sweet Springtime – http://t.co/7iIE49X9 #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/nlHbOW0n Flanders and Swann – The Gnu Song #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/nvyHZXly Flanders and Swann – Ill Wind – Mozart Horn Concerto #
  • How do I fix timezone of remote ical calendar imported into Google Calendar ? Currently it's GMT+0, not useful in Melbourne! #
  • To those who thought DST ended today in Victoria – April Fool! 🙂 #meta #
  • Candied bacon aperitif courtesy of Chris and Rosemary! http://t.co/Uy7jOeBr #

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