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Tweets for 2012-10-14

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • Archers at the line – Australian Open #Archery competition at Sherbrooke Archers http://t.co/kJklCEXj ->
  • Panorama: Australian Open #Archery Competition, Sherbrooke Archers, #Melbourne http://t.co/mMWN8HwY ->
  • Sigh, what is the magic incantation for gdb to get it to catch calls to XIQueryVersion() from libXi in a Python program? ->
  • I can see the Python code loads & calls XIQueryVersion from libXi, xtrace shows that it calls it, but it won't breakpoint! ->
  • It shouldn't be so hard to find the call stacks for the 2 times XIQueryVersion() from Xorg libXi gets called from Python ->
  • Blog: Problems getting stack traces from a Python program (Kubuntu 12.10 development version): http://t.co/l2fBA4dG ->
  • Sad to learn via @ConversationEDU that @NASAVoyager2 will likely run out of electrical power around 2025. 🙁 ->
  • So it would appear that Twitter Tools no longer supports digests of tweets as of version 3.0. 🙁 ->
  • Tecoma anti-McDonalds protest http://t.co/rVenGi4D ->
  • What on earth was that big bang around Mount Dandenong? ->
  • Uh oh, CFA sirens, that doesn't bode well.. ->
  • All safe according to CFA app, that was reassuringly quick! 🙂 ->
  • Home baking gluten free,dairy free, sugar free Jaffa Lamingtons with @donna_williams 🙂 http://t.co/3DWOzv8R ->
  • Oops, ran out of chocolate icing and desecrated coconut! Oh well, two orange sponge cakes coming up! 🙂 http://t.co/vUafnkm2 ->
  • First transiting planet found in a *quadruple* star system – found by @planethunters volunteers http://t.co/sjRoiLAb ->
  • Star Wars family car, Boronia http://t.co/CzD2X6I0 ->
  • Escape velocity from small moons of Pluto (not Charon) small enough that @NewHorizons2015 may hit system wide dust cloud ->
  • Appears AGL Solar who installed our solar PV in May forgot to arrange our meter to be reprogrammed. Not impressed. ->
  • Then got off that call to find TNT have been trying to get hold of me for a delivery for work. Problem is I'm on leave! ->
  • All (hopefully) under control now, redirected to a colleague who can help.. 🙂 ->
  • Good news, new longbow has arrived at archery shop and the forecast for tomorrow is good! 🙂 ->
  • I wonder when @googlenexus will start pushing OTA Android 4.1.2 updates for their #GalaxyNexus's? Factory image is out.. ->
  • .@774melbourne more roads = more traffic. How about investing that east-west link money in public transport for a change? in reply to 774melbourne ->
  • Android 4.1.2 has arrived on my #GalaxyNexus 🙂 ->
  • Automotive computer #security problems, how to have your car pwned locally and remotely: https://t.co/46ABsPxo via @lwnnet ->
  • Blog: Paying for Freedom: Why you should support #Linux focused hardware companies http://t.co/5eS46PKW ->
  • Sun through clouds http://t.co/NC4pIsCx ->
  • New long bow makes a difference! Best round ever for me: 2 X's, 3 x 9, 1 x 8 @ 20m on 122cm face http://t.co/1XEpXl6I ->
  • As my brother @hAl1927 asked, here's a picture of the new longbow. http://t.co/jrethLzY in reply to hAl1927 ->
  • Black Moth on pale wall, Mount Burnett Observatory, Melbourne http://t.co/OBCh0bOc ->
  • Vale @thetimeteam, one of the most influential shows in my life, along with Carl Sagan's Cosmos. ->
  • RIP #TimeTeam http://t.co/RpnW6neY #archaeology ->
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-07

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • .@donna_williams and I watched the great ABC film dramatisation "Mabo" with Jim Bani + Deborah Mailman http://t.co/PkmtE6zI #
  • Sulfur Crested Cockatoo, Blackwood, Victoria http://t.co/yaaP9crr #
  • #Linux kernel 3.6 has been released. #
  • .@MultimediaVic @infovic will new IP policy of "fewest possible
    restrictions" apply to PT timetables? /cc @ptua @GregMLC #
  • Happy birthday @NASA ! 🙂 #
  • To little me: one day you will on the sofa looking at current photos from a robot car on another planet. The future rocks. #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/nmxsQdza Facilitated Communication – "I would not get to this stage if I did not get full #
  • Looks like I may not make @linuxusersvic tonight, scheduled maintenance still going on at @vlsci. #
  • #ARM multiplatform support just merged into the mainline #Linux git tree for the 3.7 kernel. The start of some sanity? #
  • One for @ear1grey and @LaceySnr RT @NLWales Have you ever been to the Mumbles? http://t.co/UZKVNhro #
  • You've got to love @ALDIAustralia supermarket specials, current one is an ARC welder.. #
  • Welcome to the @metrotrains entry for the worlds longest bus queue at Box Hill http://t.co/uLhHP3Fq #
  • Hope those who complain about inconvenience of changing to buses will spare a thought for family of man killed by train #
  • Large butterfly on corner of Victoria and Swanston Streets, Melbourne http://t.co/F8yePYYC #
  • Off to the @unimelb #HPC Forum! #
  • Off to working bee at Sherbrooke Archers, next week we're hosting the Australian Open! #
  • Making archery butts for the Australian Open @ Sherbrooke Archers http://t.co/vFwegCCV #
  • Finished archery butt (upside down) ready for mounting on trolley http://t.co/qmYG8no0 #
  • The reward for the workers at Sherbrooke Archers working bee! http://t.co/JKPZp2Qo #
  • Windswept and rainy fields at Ferntree Gully http://t.co/keOGOSFN #
  • .@googlemaps, there's no tram stop at junction of Swanston and Victoria St in Melbourne. Also new RMIT building is missing. #
  • Absolutely stunning! RT @apod: At the Heart of Orion : http://t.co/CmyrIXQS #
  • Interesting afternoon at archery, best round @ 20m 2*10, 2*9, 2*8 @ 20m http://t.co/cZu4OZoP #
  • Best #archery round @ 30m was 2*X, 1*9 and, er, we won't mention the others.. 🙂 http://t.co/JjverPKB #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-30

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • An excellent article on Malcolm Turnbull's versus the #NBN chief http://t.co/xGDuZrjF #
  • .@MarsCuriosity gets up close and personal witha Martian rock http://t.co/BuODDhG9 #
  • Reading @WorldArchaeo about sad fate of Bukit Brown historic cemetery in Singapore, destined to become 8 lane road. #
  • Bukit Brown cemetery is also a refuge for wildlife, home to 25% of Singapore's bird population. #
  • Predictions that Comet C/2012 S1 might get to magnitude -16, brighter than the full moon! http://t.co/joNy3PcW #astronomy #
  • "inherent bias: while we all need better public transport, we will only get bigger and better roads" https://t.co/BgzDXtqe #
  • Happy 29th Birthday #GNU http://t.co/CWGVpRzR #
  • My new @zareason UltraLap 430 ultrabook, 1.7GHz i5 CPU, 8GB RAM. Built for Linux! /cc @ZaReasonNZ http://t.co/YS24Bqee #
  • Fabulous multi-wavelength shot of Simeis 147 Supernova Remnant by "DeepSkyColors" on @Flickr http://t.co/BreoU9ue #
  • The current #xkcd reminds me of nethack. 🙂 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-23

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • Dealing with lawyers about software licenses gives me a headache. #HealthBenefitsOfFreeSoftware #
  • To clarify an earlier tweet… #
  • Dealing with lawyers about proprietary software licenses gives me a headache. #HealthBenefitsOfFreeSoftware #
  • Happy 21st birthday #Linux I remember you when you were just 2. 🙂 #
  • Two great oxymorons from UK politics overnight: "English baccalaureate" and "digital original" #
  • I suppose we should be grateful that the lawyers for the royal family didn't ask for the negatives to the digital photos #
  • Hooray, both ECG and ultrasound OK, still waiting on some blood test results to arrive. #
  • Bad news: only now have time for first coffee of the day. Good news: it's at Seven Seeds. 🙂 #
  • Good to see the whole python-iview #ABC cease-n-desist silliness getting some good twitter love.. 🙂 /cc @jeremyvisser #
  • Today is #talklikeapirateday also a day for statistics programmers who use aRrrrr.. #IllGetMeCoat #
  • Waiting for electricians. Already 30 mins late. I don't think either of them were named Godot.. #
  • Trivia: the quintessential Australian phrase "Thank your mother for the rabbits" is in Chapter 15 of "Ulysses" by J. Joyce #
  • See the letters page of the October 2006 Ozwords PDF from ANU: http://t.co/oseYaV12 for that "rabbits" reference #
  • Tonight I shall mostly be accepting delivery of 3 tonnes of new #HPC storage gear (~700TB raw disk). 🙂 #
  • Oh wow, the @VLSCI BlueGene/Q Avoca is 100% busy, all 4096 nodes (65,535 cores) in use! 🙂 #
  • "It takes a particular ahistorical amnesia to ignore the march of progress." – @SenKimCarr on #MarriageEquality #
  • Achievement unlocked: 3 empty racks to blinkenlights on 600x900GB SAS disk DDN storage system in 2 days – great team! #hpc #
  • after frantic building HPC storage, light relief @ Mt Burnett Observatory building Dobsonian telescopes http://t.co/L0eu1SWQ #
  • One of the completed Mt Burnett Observatory Dobsonian telescopes, kindly sponsored by @bendigobank http://t.co/SxbSg8sD #
  • Two CFA station sirens and CFA truck sirens, from the look of @IncidentAlert13 something nasty in Tremont. #
  • Ah of course, I keep forgetting I need to do "pulseaudio –kill" to make sound work again.. 🙁 #
  • The depressing state of long distance rail travel in Australia http://t.co/DAkHLeK1 #
  • 8 CFA vehicles at Tremont rescue according to CFA website http://t.co/tA3p4tZf /cc @IncidentAlert13 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-16

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • .@BATNZ_Media er, what have you folks been smoking? It's a complete non-sequitur.. #
  • Bomb scare on Swanston St between Victoria and Queensberry St, avoid area. #
  • Not prettiest #APOD ever, but maybe one of the most significant RT @apod Cosmic Rays at Voyager 1 : http://t.co/u58PtDuL #
  • Interesting, current releases of the #Intel compilers no longer supports IA-64 (Itanic) processors, 11.1 is last to do so. #
  • Umm, is MPI_SHORT_INT meant to use more storage than MPI_INT ? (6 bytes versus 4 bytes) #
  • Writing presentation on #FLOSS and #HPC for @sfd_melb, graphed #Linux growth on #Top500 talk about world domination! 🙂 #
  • If you want to see that graph you'll need to come to @sfd_melb in East Melbourne this Saturday! http://t.co/WQB2Vj7r #
  • The music in Ben Lee's "What's so bad about feeling good?" so sounds like Talking Heads! #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/SR67FvTo Mars Curiosity Descent – Ultra HD 30fps Smooth-Motion #
  • On my way into Melbourne for my talk on Free Software and SuperComputing for @sfd_melb . My bag weighs over 300GFlops. 🙂 #
  • First ducklings of spring in Fitzroy Gardens, East Melbourne. #
  • .@wessexarch have a really interesting survey of Scapa Flow shipwreck sites http://t.co/nZY386gy #archaeology #
  • #RedHat sued for patent infringement over #glusterfs #hpc filesystem, counterclaims #GPL infringement http://t.co/04oGU6x2 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-09

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • Australia's national #HPC allocation scheme wants new members, encourages women to apply http://t.co/y6Sq8TgA #science #
  • Apologies for the repost of that EOI request for NCMAS members, found better link that went to a web page not a PDF.. 😉 #
  • Mmm, Daringa Mead, thanks @lev_lafayette and @caseopaya 🙂 #
  • Rather than hold meeting about Federal #NatSecInquiry in Canberra, it's moved to Melbourne and announced at short notice.. #
  • Would you copy ASIO in on every personal email you send? Watch the video and sign on to stop #ozlog http://t.co/cM8wYFBK via @GetUp #
  • Details of tomorrows PJCIS hearing into the #natsecinquiry including PDF of agenda is here http://t.co/Awlz2UPh #ozlog #
  • .@joshgnosis if ISPs are going to pass on the costs of #OzLog can customers using #Tor get a discount? 🙂 #NatSecInquiry #
  • A wee dram of 12 year old Bowmore to celebrate resurrecting my home PC with a @zareason system. 🙂 #
  • Now to turn everything off before the high winds arrive and the power goes out.. #
  • You know you've been hacking too long when #torque refers to an IRC channel, not Twitter.. #
  • Happy 35th birthday @NASAVoyager 1, do you have a countdown timer to becoming VGER? 🙂 #
  • .@jimmy_wales says #wikipedia may force SSL for UK if they get mandatory data retention, wonder if they'll do same for AU? #
  • Someone is spoofing caller id of @sijoe 's company in the US and abusing people; anything he can do to track them down? #
  • 2 great talks on LHC from @unimelb #CoePP ppl today, grid @ #HPC forum this am and physics tonight @ Mt Burnett Observatory #
  • Wonderful view of the #ISS going over Melbourne, very bright indeed. @donna_williams and I waved to them. 🙂 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-02

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • My new @zareason Valta desktop would have been #1 on the #Top500 list of supercomputers in June 1993 @ 84GFlops. 🙂 #hpc #
  • I liked an @YouTube video http://t.co/WCLfIzip Anhrefn – Rhedeg I Paris #
  • Nice to see @therealrhysmwyn of #Anhrefn on Twitter, a vibrant memory of my time at @AberUni in the late 80's. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-26

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • Oh wow, I think this is the first @MarsCuriosity ChemCam image of the surface of Mars http://t.co/uYUrZLfw #MSL #
  • Old blog post of mine about #Linux on SMP PPro bug got reddit'ed (first time for me that I know of) http://t.co/NGxEhTpt #
  • To misquote the old (UK) Tango drink TV commercial – "You know when you've been reddit'ed" 🙂 #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/NwyCAW9C MARDI Image #
  • "Welcome to Perl/Linux. A Linux distribution where ALL programs are written in perl." – http://t.co/x1F8W9uM 🙂 #perl #
  • Someone is planning to subdivide the old Carlton United Brewery in #Melbourne http://t.co/hrXAJQjw /cc @PlanningAlerts #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/Cnrp3fbB AR.Drone 2 Schloss Alsbach #
  • The film of the book of #NobodyNowhere written by my wonderful wife @donna_williams now has a Twitter account @NNTheFilm! #
  • Lovely @NASA @apod today of star and planet trails of conjunction taken at Lake Eppalock in central Victoria. #space #
  • The #Open MPI project now has a git mirror of their SVN repo on Github http://t.co/4fVJ9vR9 #hpc #mpi #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/z3KD70S1 Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/MkWgA7qq A Capella Science – Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody) #
  • Tranquility Base, the Eagle has flown.. #RIP Neil Armstrong #WinkAtTheMoon #
  • One small step – the transcript of that famous moment – http://t.co/vdunUbdB #WinkAtTheMoon #RIP #NeilArmstrong #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-19

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • According to @metrotrains SMS service a train that didn't run today (with no notice) won't go through the city loop. Sigh. #
  • New @zareason desktop has arrived! First task download Kubuntu 12.04 AMD64 ISO, using quota as @internode don't have it. #
  • Oops I take that back, found the Kubuntu 12.04 ISO on @Internode mirror finally! 🙂 #
  • Had chance to fire up my new Ivy Bridge desktop from @zareason: 4 cores, 8 threads, 32GB RAM. Even from USB key it screams! #
  • This is my new desktop from @zareason http://t.co/PqNxYSCw (actually from @ZaReasonNZ) 🙂 #
  • "[embassies in UK] are inviolable and may not be entered without the consent of the Ambassador or Head of Mission." – CPS #
  • where CPS is the UK Crown Prosecution Service – http://t.co/ySJk5X2u #
  • where the CPS is the UK Govts "Crown Prosecution Service" – http://t.co/EJq0jTzk #
  • Sigh, 3 tweets to get that link to the CPS website right.. #
  • If Sweden was really interested in interviewing #Assange over allegations they'd fly people to UK to talk, as invited. #
  • The irony of Australian Senate removing human rights of refugees whilst Ecuador takes a stand on behalf of an Australian.. #
  • .@NewtonMark #Assange for Ecuadorian ambassador to Australia? 🙂 #
  • Julian #Assange granted asylum by Ecuador. #
  • Applause from journalists at Ecuadorian press conference for #Assanges #asylum bid #
  • "Couriers are entitled to personal inviolability and must not be searched, arrested or detained." http://t.co/hIZJyZ7w #
  • Just heard female powerful owl calling outside the house here, it's well worth living far out of the city! #
  • Oh what a surprise, Florian Mueller was/is on Oracles payroll. Worth keeping in mind next time you see him quoted. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-12

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Chris Samuel
  • Watching @NASA_TV feed for the @MarsCuriosity rover landing on Mars, just over 40 minutes to go.. #
  • 3 Australian groundstations in #MSL EDL; @CanberraDSN & Parkes listening to @MarsCuriosity and New Norcia to Mars Express #
  • The HiRise team on MRO are going to try and snap a photo of @MarsCuriosity on its parachute as they go over. #MSL #
  • 4 minutes to cruise separation #msl #
  • Great news that Mars Odyssey managed to do its out-of-spec roll to be able to do bentpipe telemetry back to Earth #MSL #
  • Higher than expected tone signal from #MSL (tones are the basic health status info) #
  • Re: tones – that means they're getting a clearer signal than forecast, which is good 🙂 #
  • Getting info from @elakdawalla and @marsroverdriver before live @NASA_TV stream 🙂 #
  • 7 minutes to atmosphere, 7 minutes from atmosphere to landing, 14 minutes delay – #MSL is already on Mars.. #
  • NASA now has bentpipe telemetry from @MarsCuriosity via Mars Odyssey #
  • That bentpipe telemetry from Mars Odyssey is coming to you via Canberra.. #
  • …and the crowd goes wild! 🙂 #MSL #
  • #MSL has returned photos from Mars, minutes after touchdown, what a wonderful experience! Well done NASA. #
  • Stuff the #Olympics #MSL is where the real excitement is and it'll last more than just a few weeks.. #
  • Wow, now my name and @donna_williams's are on Mars, on a chip sitting on @MarsCuriosity, about to take a ride. 🙂 #
  • Nice, NASA administrator Charles Bolden started address to @MarsCuriosity press conference with shoutout to @CanberraDSN #
  • .@Twitter @support your blocking of @elakdawalla is a false positive – she's reporting the #MSL landing for @exploreplanets! #
  • Thank you to @steltzner for a thoughtful, inclusive and moving address to the #MSL press conference. #
  • Hey, that's @elakdawalla sat next to Sally asking the Planetary Society (@exploreplanets) question! #
  • Timeto pack up the laptop and go get ready for tonights stuff! Congrats again to the #MSL team and collaborators! #
  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/6df8WdDm Curiosity's Descent #
  • Panorama of Mangroves, Hastings, Victoria http://t.co/j7y59xhY #
  • Dog Parking http://t.co/Ol52bfJM #
  • Drowned public telephone, Hastings, Victoria http://t.co/9GQPqMQA #
  • Dear @MarsCuriosity please can we have press conferences a multiple of 24 hours after landing time? Love, Australia. 🙂 #
  • It appears @ABCAustralia sent a heavy handed take-down notice to open source python-iview project https://t.co/guQl3nKS 🙁 #
  • Sounds like someone is dumping buckets of hail on our roof.. #
  • .@steve_evil TDK quarter finals? Is this some obscure retro-audio cassette competition? Rewinding with pencils? #
  • Even the rest of the Liberal Party don't believe what their leader says these days.. http://t.co/0TVLAaua #
  • Why you need off-site backups in a bushfire zone, Marysville doctors PC http://t.co/RaWOla27 #
  • Snow on Grass – Lake Mountain http://t.co/AChT30lY #
  • .@Donna_Williams with toboggan at Garretys, Lake Mountain http://t.co/AFk9I71r #
  • Anyone seeing #IPv6 issues from @internode ADSL to @HEnet IPv6 tunnels? Get admin prohibited at http://t.co/ihwlgqPV #
  • Aha, so my @Internode #IPv6 problem is real, apparently might be related to the LNS we auth through.. (?) #
  • Beach memorial cross in Spanish, Blowhole Bay, Flinders VIC http://t.co/Gx2kcBTu #
  • Detail of writing on memorial cross, Blowhole Bay, Flinders VIC http://t.co/ZLI2BTmm #
  • Just renewed my "maniacal supporter" subscription to @LWNnet, if you like LWN's #Linux coverage then please support them! #

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