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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Great photo of the moon from the ISS – RT @Astro_Soichi: Full moon today. Good night! http://twitpic.com/1s4v08 #
  • Indigenous Australian rock art painting could be over 40,000 years old, depicts extinct Genyornis – http://bit.ly/bz68xc #
  • ๐Ÿ™‚ #Linux 2.6.35-rc1 .. and thus endeth the merge window. #
  • RT @jdub: Conroy lied about #iiNet They've put a diplomatic sheen on the refutation, but that's the gist: http://is.gd/cwlOx #openinternet #
  • .@alecmuffett given the way that things are going regarding climate it appears that a lot of people seem to think so.. ๐Ÿ™ #
  • So #China is now number 2 in the #top500 supercomputers with a petaflop system, wonder how long before they get #1 ? #
  • #China #039;s #2 in the #top500 has a higher theoretical peak performance than US's Jaguar, the #1 system http://bit.ly/9FdxSb #
  • #China actually has 2 systems in the top 10 of the #top500 the other is an AMD GPU hybrid at #7 with 24 systems all up #
  • This means that #China has overtaken #Germany to be #2 in the #top500 in total installed #hpc capacity, behind the US #
  • Number of #Linux systems in the #top500 increased from 446 -> 455 (91%), still only 5 #windows systems (1%) ๐Ÿ™‚ #hpc #
  • More tellingly it looks like the 5 #Windows systems in the #Top500 are the same 5 as in November, total Rmax is unchanged! #
  • Very neat – check the OS stats! #hpc RT @top500supercomp: In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers http://bit.ly/bZX0eq #
  • Right, time to get off the computer and go do some reading! ๐Ÿ™‚ #
  • "I was going to invite the classroom to come to order" – Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives ๐Ÿ™‚ #
  • You deserve it mate! RT @cefiar: Got given a Handpresso for administrating the @linuxusersvic mailing list for about 10 yrs. W00t! #
  • <1/3rd full – RT @MelbourneWater Dams just had their best autumn since รขโ‚ฌโ„ข96 and now at their highest level for start of winter since รขโ‚ฌโ„ข06. #
  • "Massive sinkhole swallows city building" – http://bit.ly/aXQCsA – looks like something out of a movie #abc #Guatemala #
  • RT @HPC_Guru: Intel's KF is revised version of Larrabee — not a followup of the 48-core SCC. Will be a co-processor ala GPUs. #ISC10 #HPC #
  • #Sun to exit #HPC ? (via @HPC_Guru) RT @primeurmagazine: Will Oracle (SUN) stay in #HPC [..] Short summary: No. […] #
  • #Apple pulling all widget-like apps from their app store? http://is.gd/cztiZ (via @jdub @jimmac) – glad I've got an #N900 #
  • .@LapTop006 traceroute-nanog package (ubuntu/debian) is well worth playing with as an alternative to standard traceroute #
  • Oops, email from MATLAB advertising an academic tour is marked as a potential scam by Thunderbird.. ๐Ÿ˜‰ #
  • It's amazing what being able to spell Fremantle does for your Maemo5 extras repo – putting in freemantle doesn't work! ๐Ÿ˜‰ #
  • "Hezbollah couldn't beat them, but that's because they didn't have a ballcock and several boxes of plum tomatoes" http://bit.ly/bEbj51 #
  • "At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite?" – wonderful! http://bit.ly/aMch1p (via @jonoxer) #
  • Very impressive fake minature video, looks like it's filmed in Sydney – http://bit.ly/9bxWat #
  • They do point out it could be non-biological – RT @newscientist: Hints of life found on Saturn moon http://bit.ly/bfSH8B #
  • RT @peakscale: RT @wattersjames: NASA Nebula project drops Eucalyptus like a rock, moves to developing their own: http://novacc.org/ #thud #
  • RT @huwlynes: Apparantly we came one safety-system away from a similar oil spill in 2003 on a BP deepwater well http://bit.ly/dbf8zC #
  • RT @elakdawalla Second stage has shut down, dragon capsule is now in orbit! #Falcon9 Congratulations to #SpaceX on success on first attempt! #
  • Congrats to #SpaceX on a successful maiden launch of the #Falcon9 into orbit, best of luck for the future! #
  • Wonder if the #UFO reports over east Australia this am are #SpaceX #Falcon9? Would be about 2 hours post launch, reentry? #
  • At Poetry Idol in Box Hill at the library, @donna_williams will be 7th person up ๐Ÿ™‚ #
  • Half way through Poetry Idol, public transport seems to be a theme :-J #
  • Poetry Idol is over, people have voted, now waiting for the results! #
  • Back home, lots of rain, enoying the unusuality of it! #
  • If only it was just this – RT @cafuego: Gulf open source spill – tarballs washing ashore #
  • oh indeed! #bp #oilspill RT @alecmuffett: penny arcade, on the money: http://bit.ly/9Bvf40 #
  • RT @HPC_Guru: RT @regvulture: SGI ends Itanium era with UV supers http://reg.cx/1Jcn #HPC #
  • RT @elakdawalla: The June 3 #Jupiter Impact: 22 hours later (a coherent rundown of events & color pics) http://bit.ly/djh8I7 #space #
  • RT @elakdawalla: #Hayabusa #039;s TCM-3 was successful — spacecraft is now aimed for Woomera Prohibited Area, #Australia http://bit.ly/bysPKh #
  • #linux kernel 2.6.35-rc2 has just hit git.. #
  • where "just" = about 5 hours ago.. ๐Ÿ˜‰ #

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