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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • Photos of some of the items stolen from Cairo museum, #Egypt http://bit.ly/esEhnG (via @archaeologynews) #
  • "We are at #IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, I repeat, we are at IPv4 Exhaustion Stage 2, condition heliotrope" #APNIC #RedDwarf #
  • It appears that if you ifup an already up bonded dual IB interface on RHEL5 it stops working. Guess what #xCAT does.. #
  • Not every day that a Senator favourites a photo of yours on #Flickr thanks @KateLundy! http://flic.kr/p/8BVQw4 #
  • Support a firm, simple declaration against #ACTA — http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/acta-declaration #
  • Australian Government Web Guide includes Okular as a suggested PDF reader: πŸ™‚ http://goo.gl/6K3Ft #KDE – via @jdub #
  • Armed police intercept intrepid foreshore archaeologists @ #MI6 HQ in case of mistaken identity http://bit.ly/eZ7izX #
  • "They accepted there wasn't much damage we could do with a tripod," – one the the archaeologists intercepted by police #
  • James McLay home @ #Moolort restored. In 2004 this had no doors or windows + walls were going http://flic.kr/p/9i7aTi #
  • This was the state of the James McLay homestead (1865) @ #Moorlort in 2004 http://flic.kr/p/8J9Aqf #
  • .@abcnr your answer to "Watson" was wrong, the answer was "The founder of @IBM", nothing to do with Holmes! #jeopardy #hpc #
  • Big congrats to the #Stardust team for what sounds like a successful flyby of Tempel-1! Now we wait for the imagery! #
  • Currently migrating my VPS within @Rimuhosting's data centre, no change of IP but an extra 500MB RAM for 1c/month more πŸ™‚ #
  • Good for @JoeHockey – @ScottMorrisonMP + @TonyAbbottMHR attitude to #refugee funerals is repugnant http://bit.ly/gSxoly #
  • There is something rather amazing to see a good picture of a comets nucleus – twice – http://bit.ly/hwT7LG (via @apod) #
  • $300K flight for #refugees to attend #funerals is same amount as Liberal MPs spent on printer toner before 2009 election #
  • EFI – because the legacy BIOS system wasn't slow enough.. πŸ™ #
  • I thought @google had closed their China office, so how come @googlejobs are recruiting for Beijing? http://goo.gl/Zl8K7 #
  • W00t, @lwnnet has introduced "conference network protection mode" (i.e. force SSL mode) for users. πŸ™‚ #security #
  • http://theagevsheraldsun.tumblr.com/ πŸ™‚ (via a friend not on Twitter) #
  • RIP Lindsay Hood, late of @Cray_Inc in Canberra, previously at APAC, a really nice person. You'll be missed.. πŸ™ #hpc #
  • Full house to hear @donna_williams speak at Darley Community House, they had to open an adjoining room to seat people.. #
  • #IBM BlueGene/P node card, 32 nodes, 128 cores #hpc http://twitpic.com/40ztws #
  • Talk by @donna_williams had so many people interested they had to book her again, now that's full with a waiting list! #
  • Dear @Vodafone_AU – is there not a way to change your plan online ? #
  • The "Call For Papers" (CFP) for @SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) in Seattle has now gone out http://bit.ly/glQtlh #SC11 #HPC #
  • Why on earth would a read() block forever trying to open /proc/$PID/cmdline ? #Linux #
  • Appears #LIbya has done an #Egypt and pulled the plug on Internet traffic – @Google traffic report – http://bit.ly/eg14ru #
  • Anyone know a site that graphs #BGP prefix advertisements by country in semi-real time (hourly would do) ? #Libya #
  • Streetlight with streamer and sun at South Melbourne http://flic.kr/p/9hUU1V #
  • Silent – in memory of Lindsay Hood (1965 2011) http://flic.kr/p/8Gz18P #
  • Google report appears to be showing some traffic coming in from #Libya again http://bit.ly/i56pOE (caveated though) #
  • Following on from @MarkNewton, here's #Melbourne around 1965 http://bit.ly/fEDFbN courtesy of @ScreenAustralia #
  • You can follow @twisst to get tweets telling you when the ISS will be visible from the location in your Twitter bio! #
  • Fabulous #photo of an old turtle on a beach in the Seychelles http://bit.ly/hZSWQd – from the @austmus website #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • Today is second anniversary of the #BlackSaturday bushfires in Victoria which killed 173 people and destroyed many towns #
  • Australian archaeologist discovers hundreds of Saudi Arabian sites via Google Earth – http://bit.ly/heHdwi #archaeology #
  • Looks like the @Flickr API upload service is broken, keep getting either "general upload error" or "filesize was zero" #
  • Who else is going to the SAGE-AU Victoria meeting tonight on IPv6 ? #
  • Can't see any reason to go to new @internode plan, don't hit 60GB quota and it'd cost $10/month more to change to equiv #
  • Added a dozen or so new #photos to my photo set of Cardinia on @Flickr – http://bit.ly/fxwHyA #
  • #Kangaroo at rest at Cardinia Reservoir http://flic.kr/p/9grhNz #
  • Good example from @Nearmap of how recent rain has helped some of Victoria's lakes (e.g. Eppalock) http://bit.ly/g8wHYq #
  • Front door – keep out! Derelict house in Brunswick. Apparently boarded up for 20 years! http://flic.kr/p/9gWTjg #
  • 69 Rose Street, Brunswick – anyone know anything about this derelict house ? http://flic.kr/p/9gWPTk #
  • Looks like we might catch a bit of the thunderstorm that just went over Melbourne, might be time to go offline.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Sheesh, I go away for a few days and what do you folks do? #Nokia does a deal with the devil whilst #Egypt frees itself! #
  • Awesome shot of the shot tower in the Melbourne CBD by my friend Peter! http://flic.kr/p/9hwrBD #
  • Liberal party to bring back religious discrimination and bigotry – http://bit.ly/dV0tm5 (via @incorrect) #fail #stupid #
  • Hey #Nokia I think the market is saying it might be time for a new CEO – well, OK, an even newer CEO.. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • OK Western leaders, get off the bloody fence and call for democracy in #Egypt – if it's OK for Iran, etc, why not there? #
  • #Java isn't the answer, Java is the question – no is the answer.. πŸ™‚ #
  • V. interesting look at Intel Sandy Bridge instruction execution http://bit.ly/gcpNNF via @bkaradzic_rss @hpc_guru et. al #
  • Woken up by CFA fire sirens, fortunately it's a false alarm for a house fire nearby. Now to try and sleep again! #
  • Happy Mailman Plaintext Password Day everyone.. #feb1st #
  • Today would be the day I'd need to walk down to the data centre.. http://bit.ly/1l8L3D #hot #
  • Starting to think it's going to make it to 40C before this cool change (hopefully) arrives.. #
  • Now that's what I call a cool change – 10C drop in a few minutes πŸ™‚ #
  • Hmm, Mubarak's speech isn't sounding like a resignation speech, at least not yet.. πŸ™ #
  • So Mubarak won't stand in the next election, but next election seems like it'll be in a few months. #Egypt #Jan25 #
  • Mubarak – I think it's time to leave office to spend more time with your family. kthxbai #Egypt #Jan25 #
  • I suspect this is a an attempt at splitting the protesters and buying some time for himself #Egypt #Jan25 #
  • #Microsoft using IE toolbar to monitor your #Google searches and so copy Google's search results http://selnd.com/hqZKy7 #
  • I knew #IPv6 before it was called IPv6 #YouKnowYouveBeenHackingTooLongWhen (note – I didn't say I understood it πŸ™‚ ) #
  • Friends elderly father in Townsville refused to tape up his windows saying "it would be just a little wind" πŸ™ #TCYasi #
  • Winds getting up at Cannonvale in the Whitsundays – http://bit.ly/f342fA (via @abcnews) #TCYasi #
  • Looks like Innisfail is going to take a direct hit from #TCYasi πŸ™ http://bit.ly/gY7ZoA #
  • Monitor #Egypt Internet connectivity http://stat.ripe.net/egypt/ updates 15min /cc @AJEnglish @telecomix HT @atoonk #jan25 #
  • Time for bed – fingers cross for the folks I know in #FNQ keep safe.. #TCyasi #
  • "You know itÒ€ℒs a bad day in the office when youÒ€ℒre measuring sugar with a stapler" http://bit.ly/en8Jy9 (via @SciMelb) #
  • UK spent US$3M on Pope's visit – from their overseas aid running costs budget! http://bbc.in/e3qkNA #
  • Old Commerce building, University of Melbourne, at night http://twitpic.com/3w1nas #UniversityofMelbourne #University #Architecture #
  • Photo of the Old Commerce building was taken at night without a flash or a tripod using the #Nokia "lowlight" #N900 app #
  • Want to take RAW images (DNG format) on your #Nokia #N900? You want Fcamera.. http://bit.ly/fYycyp #photography #
  • I know that we're sympathetic to QLD but there's no need to import their climate to Melbourne, enough with the humidity! #
  • The BoM have issued a severe thunderstorm warning for most of Victoria including #Melbourne – http://bit.ly/hAQbQJ #
  • Amazing rain tonight, we got soaked avoiding getting flooded by water deciding to turn right off road & down drive… #
  • Right, going back offline now, more storms on the way.. #VicFloods #
  • Looks like Internet down in #Egypt again as of about 2.5 hours ago. http://bit.ly/gUsgdm /cc @AJELive @telecomix #jan25 #
  • Gah, Egyptian Internet *not* down – they've changed that website to have snapshots of the withdrawal and reconnection! #
  • Playing with http://www.archwilio.org.uk/ – brings together records of the 4 Welsh archaeological trusts #wales #cymru #
  • Just found out that Abergeldie House (1885) where I spent my last 2 years in #Aberystwyth is a grade 2 listed building! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • Detail of Bee Covered in Pollen – photo taken at Cloudehill Garden on Mt Dandenong http://flic.kr/p/9cpSFc #
  • What I'm doing on Wednesday – http://belgravesurvivalday.org/?p=125 #
  • PathScale are developing #GPL #039;d #GPGPU driver for nVidia cards based on Nouveau, on GitHub: http://bit.ly/ejE66W #hpc #
  • Anyone know what ""unable to map card memory!" means when inserting PCMCIA card into Libretto 70CT running #Linux 2.6.37? #
  • apart from "it doesn't work" of course.. #
  • Petition to remove 3 "Young Earth Creationism" websites from @Google Scholar due to lack of science – http://bit.ly/ePJyop #
  • #Linux ioctls to return info on loopback filesystems will sadly truncate paths to 64 characters, inc. device names.. πŸ™ #
  • Looks like #LKML org archive is b0rked, no updates since 23rd Jan.. #
  • #VLSCI is recruiting a systems admin – #HPC Storage & Infrastructure – http://bit.ly/gXO587 #linux #melbourne #unimelb #
  • Let Sleeping Dog(s) Lie πŸ™‚ http://flic.kr/p/9cpCqc #
  • Bah, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Collection website doesn't let you link to individual works πŸ™ #
  • Their use of forms and HTTP POST instead of URLs defeated my attempt to post some topical tweets of items from it.. πŸ™ #
  • Wow, @donna_williams has just made the most awesome gluten free dairy free cookies, I'm off! πŸ˜‰ #GFCF #
  • …and now for something completely different – Princess Bride Lightsaber Battle – http://bit.ly/hovKgj #
  • Right, it's gardening time.. #
  • Happy 7th Anniversary to the Mars rover Opportunity! #
  • Fox News invents new network protocol with 6 digit addresses.. and other errors http://me.lt/8L85S (via @incorrect) #
  • Fabulous picture RT @apod Hidden Treasures of M78: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110127.html #space #
  • Terrifying recording of @Guardian reporter @HackneyLad + protesters in police truck ordeal in #Egypt http://bit.ly/hLTWgY #
  • Anyone seeing evidence of alleged #Egypt internet shutdown? BGP changes ? /cc @NewtonMark @LapTop006 #
  • Eek, forecasting 40C for Sunday here in #Melbourne . #
  • Oh how I wish there was some way to tell #IBM #039;s ESC+ to remember I'm in Australia… #
  • #Locust or Grasshopper? Seen on Lilydale train. http://twitpic.com/3u3guu #Nature #
  • Locust or Grasshopper #2 – seen on Lilydale train. http://twitpic.com/3u3gzg #Nature #
  • Very pretty visualisation of scientific collaborations – RT @m57ring http://bit.ly/f8fKru #
  • "Anonymous" has posted free Spanish PPP dialup for folks in #Egypt on @atoonk's blog http://bit.ly/eBTKOP #jan25 – pls RT #
  • Big list of PPP Internet dialups here on the "We Rebuild" site for #Egypt – http://bit.ly/hXqVpG #jan25 #
  • Instructions on using PPP dialup internet (Windows centric) and more dialup numbers – http://bit.ly/gxJGZU #egypt #jan25 #
  • Want to track Noor Data Networks connectivity to #Egypt ? Recent info about BGP status here http://bit.ly/fXbYFQ #jan25 #
  • You can track current status of #Internet routes being announced from #Egypt via BGP here – http://bit.ly/fib87u #jan25 #
  • I wonder if #Egypt is blocking/filtering 6to4 tunnels over the few remaining #Internet links ? #ipv6 #
  • Tree fern detail taken with Nikon D90 and #Lensbaby 2.0 at National Rhododendron Gardens, Olinda http://flic.kr/p/8GyWSZ #
  • AS31065 (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) has no routes advertised via BGP, was 8 ~6 hours ago #Egypt #
  • Jake Shimabukuro plays Bohemian Rhapsody on a ukulele πŸ™‚ http://on.ted.com/8s7N (via @TEDchris) #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-23

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • Short link to Vic Roads closures is http://bit.ly/vicroadsnow, keep misreading it as being Vic Road Snow πŸ˜‰ #
  • Contrast – juxtaposition of rich and poor on the Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne http://flic.kr/p/9ak1va #
  • Proof that you don't have to be human to house sit.. http://bit.ly/gtyGk2 (via @NearMap and @MDotSmith) #qldfloods #
  • Sometimes I do wish I could spell.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • The concept of tagging photos of graffiti on #flickr has a certain irony about it.. #
  • "Neptunium muriaticum […] suitable for persons who evade reality and take refuge in illusion" πŸ™‚ http://bit.ly/hjHAQx #
  • Does anyone know where I can find docs on the #DDN API? #hpc #storage #IhateTelnet #
  • #Kangaroo in Flight – caught on the hop at Cardinia on Saturday evening http://flic.kr/p/9bfwSE #
  • Sunset at Cardinia Reservoir http://flic.kr/p/9bfxDY #
  • Don't know which is worse: the fact that someone on train has Knight Rider theme as ringtone or that I recognise it πŸ™‚ #
  • So apparently Australia is going to mandate ECMA-376 OOXML formats for govt, but can anything actually write that? #
  • Info on conformance and ability to write ECMA-376 OOXML hard to come by, #Wikipedia says MS Office 2010 read-only for it #
  • Here is how you should report a critical #security bug in your application – http://bit.ly/exOgOB – #tarsnap #crypto #
  • My reading is that ECMA-376 only supported for document import in MS Office 2010, not for authoring. Can anyone confirm ? #
  • If MS Office cannot export ECMA-376 OOXML documents (only ISO version) then is it excluded under AGIMO rules ? #
  • So it appears that the #AGIMO ECMA-376 OOXML format mandate has locked the Australian government into Office *2007*! #
  • Ben Sturmfels (http://identi.ca/stumbles) is going to @linuxconfau & will collect signatures for anti sw #patent petition #
  • Sunset over #Melbourne http://twitpic.com/3ro5zw #Sunset #
  • Cool change has arrived – 6C drop in about 15 mins.. http://bit.ly/1l8L3D #
  • RMIT, corner of Swanston and Franklin Streets http://twitpic.com/3s6zjs #University #Architecture #
  • "It is estimated the moving inland sea is 90 kilometres long and 40 kilometres wide." http://bit.ly/fVp4Qb #vicfloods #
  • Bought 4x750GB WD Elements SE lightweight drives for disaster recovery, using #btrfs based snapshots and rsync with my 2. #
  • Oh wow, Amazon EC2 has HPC nodes with dual GPUs.. #
  • Brother Island: New York's forgotten island, amazing photos of an abandoned place http://bit.ly/eHv9m2 via @theretronaut #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • "God is Funny" (entertaining youtube video) http://bit.ly/hKx6ac (via @donna_williams) #atheism #
  • So a #Palin aide says cross-hairs were never meant to evoke violence. What on earth else are gun sights going to evoke! #
  • Waiting for the #TrainReplacementBusService #
  • Sigh, why doesn't fio clear up its temporary files on exit ? πŸ™ #
  • .@alecmuffett assuming 1 storey is 3m, then that's a 16 storey house.. he must have been rich! πŸ˜‰ #
  • Main problem with scientific software – it's written by scientists (especially build systems) #hpc /cc @mage0r @myrddian #
  • Worrying for #lca2011 – potential for repeat of Brisbane 1974 floods – http://bit.ly/hMtYsT /cc @linuxconfau #
  • Palin's editors delete critical comments from #FB page in mins, but leave 1 saying OK to kill child http://bit.ly/dFR2ry #
  • Good job it's GPL'd! – RT @insideHPC Just in: Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked #Lustre to the Curb http://bit.ly/foPp0T #
  • Hydrologist on @ABCNews Radio said not expecting levels to exceed 1974 ones – and 1890's had much higher levels (over 8m) #
  • .@ABCNews Radio had headlines immediately after that saying Brisbane expecting "unprecedented" floods bigger than '74.. #
  • Rocking out to The Levellers, TMTCH, John Lee Hooker, Motorhead and Jello Biafra with DOA #amarok #
  • Wow, it's so long since I've listened to "Bomber" by Motorhead – and still a good one! #
  • OK folks, enough already with the SEO expert bar jokes, what are you, SEO experts? experienced? learned? educated? tutored? #
  • Dear #Thunderbird – I get heaps of email as it is, please don't duplicate them when filtering to IMAP folders as well! #
  • #Queensland #Flood Relief Appeal (run by #QLD government) – http://bit.ly/h7ePv4 – #qldfloods (please RT) #
  • Latest news from @AARNET (who seem to have fallen off Twitter) about their #QLDfloods status http://bit.ly/fWz9eK #
  • Luckily found doc on how my Libretto writes suspend state at fixed point – end of 8.4GB disk – but new one is 20GB πŸ™‚ #
  • Watching grub2 compile, again.. #
  • Just learned that Michael Jackson, author of "Complete Guide To Single Malt Scotch", died in 2007 πŸ™ http://bit.ly/fLxE5E #
  • Progress resurrecting my Toshiba Libretto 70CT: grub2 now boots a kernel, and the kernel doesn't panic, but… #
  • …my stripped down kernel is obviously too stripped down as it doesn't find the hard disk before trying to mount / πŸ™‚ #
  • Much progress in the saga of getting #Debian Squeeze #Linux (6) on to my Toshiba Libretto 70CT! #
  • 1st kernel booted but couldn't find HD, 2nd kernel mysteriously converted itself to i686 and wouldn't boot in i586. πŸ™‚ #
  • 3rd kernel boots and finds HD but missed option to mount largefile filesystem r/w, 4th kernel boots fine and I can login! #
  • Next step is working networking as 4th kernel has PCMCIA enabled but I forgot to enable drivers for PCMCIA net cards. πŸ™‚ #
  • Starting to sound like the building a castle sketch from Monty Python's Holy Grail… πŸ˜‰ #
  • ""Mum was just trapped under there and we took some pictures but she's all right now," she said." – http://bit.ly/eMqSpM #
  • Must not remember that I cannot cut and paste phone numbers into my phone – need more coffee #ENOCAFFEINE #
  • Who's going to @LinuxUsersVic Penguin Picnic tomorrow (Saturday 15th) @ Docklands ? http://bit.ly/gISjup #linux #melbourne #
  • Spray on liquid glass – you wouldn't want to get that mixed up with anything… http://bit.ly/edbBzH #
  • Uploading my photos from the #Melbourne #Flickr group photowalk on 9th January – http://bit.ly/hQGdp3 #
  • Who's going to @LinuxUsersVic Penguin Picnic today @ Docklands ? http://bit.ly/gISjup #linux #melbourne #
  • One day I want to copy someone's Tweet word for word and see if they notice. #
  • Hit 7,000 tweets, obviously talk too much πŸ™‚ (or retweet too much) #
  • Short video of shadow of the moon on the earth during the 2005 total #eclipse taken from the #ISS http://bit.ly/hx5TK4 #
  • Uploading photos from New Years Day photowalk in Melbourne's CBD with @donna_williams to #Flickr – http://bit.ly/i3EWwR #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • (Tim Robinson's) Babbage Difference Engine No.1 made in #Meccano by Graham Jost http://bit.ly/grNnVa #steamtoypunk πŸ™‚ #
  • So Twitter's "Who to follow" suggested @UKHPCGUY which would make sense, except he's not tweeted since September 2009… #
  • Aha, it appears that there is a #LibreOffice PPA available for #Ubuntu http://bit.ly/en85vQ #Openoffice #
  • One problem with the #Libreoffice PPA – it breaks the dependency that kubuntu-desktop has on openoffice πŸ™ #
  • Shopping with Donna to restock after Xmas, fell victim to half price leg of ham, got home to find it doesn't fit in fridge #
  • Fortunately have dairy free butter chicken sauce – am considering Zen Butter Chicken with no butter and no chicken.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Went a-wandering with Donna today, at Gembrook cemetery saw a blue ant – really a flightless wasp – http://bit.ly/ecmtfP #
  • Got to say that blue "ants" are quite breathtaking, very shiny blue-green colour – just glad I wasn't their prey! #
  • Also a bugger to photograph, constantly on move + as I thought it was a bull ant I was trying to keep out of its way πŸ™‚ #
  • Oh noes – end of holiday – work in the morning! Good job it's a fun job! πŸ™‚ #VLSCI #
  • Underhanded C Contest – clean code that passes inspection but does something evil – http://bit.ly/g9L2nx – appears defunct #
  • Blue #ant (really the flightless flower #wasp Diamma Bicolor) at Gembrook Cemetery http://flic.kr/p/97nkdg #
  • RIP Gerry Rafferty of "Baker Street" fame.. #
  • #Linux #Kernel 2.6.37 has been tagged in Linus's git repo! Huzzah! #
  • Versioning of images and non-destructive editing lands in #Digikam #039;s #KDE repo! http://bit.ly/e0GHwG #linux #photography #
  • First beta of #digikam 2.0.0 has appeared, including face recognition, nondestructive editing, etc: http://bit.ly/hpoP6m #
  • Some level headed first thoughts on #nvidia #039;s "Project Denver" by Joe Landman (@sijoe) – http://bit.ly/fkzbQE #hpc #
  • BMJ says #Wakefield #autism study contains 'clear evidence of falsification' + 'an elaborate fraud' http://bit.ly/g9IYWw #
  • How many deliberately unvaccinated children died due to the measles as a result of Wakefields bogus autism study ? πŸ™ #
  • Santa Monica Pier Sunset – #HDR photo taken using the #Nokia "HDR Capture" app on my #N900 http://flic.kr/p/8WHLQ2 #
  • RT @lachlanhurst Crash at corner of Plenty and Childs rd, Mill Park. Avoid. /cc @774melbourne #
  • Aide-mémoire: example of using ((warn_unused_result)) to catch unhandled errors in #mariadb #mysql http://bit.ly/es1UnY #
  • Wow, very impressive! RT @apod Sunrise, Moonrise: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110106.html #eclipse #
  • Javascript generated audio in Firefox4, cool or scary ? (or both.. πŸ™‚ ) http://bit.ly/hTgYoj #ff4 via @astronomyblog #
  • Tomorrow (Friday) is forecast to be a day of "very high" fire danger in the central #CFA region – http://bit.ly/fcN0Qa #
  • Merge window for 2.6.38 has opened – and I've got a (minor) patch to the perf userland stuff in.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Real problem with the north-south pipeline is it's just not long enough; I'm sure QLD would be happy to send water to VIC! #
  • Anyone know if the @Panasas v4 Linux filesystem client can talk to #Panasas v3.5 shelves #HPC #
  • Broadcom PR about open sourcing wifi drivers says "garnered applause", RedHat person said they caused "eye cancer" πŸ™‚ #
  • aptitude purge `dpkg -l | grep openoffice | awk '{print $2}'` && aptitude install libreoffice #libreoffice #FTW πŸ™‚ #
  • Nice one Glenn! RT @SciMelb New blog post: Directors appointed for $67 million Super Science projects http://ow.ly/1aLx8Z #
  • #Flickr – "GÒ€ℒday Chris Bloke! Now you know how to greet people in Australian!" – I think that's taking it a bit far πŸ™‚ #
  • Founder of @Wotif made record $1.6M donation to Australian @Greens http://bit.ly/h7S3tf – via @abcnews #
  • Spot the cool change in Melbourne πŸ™‚ http://www.baywx.com/melbtemp.html (replacement for old Uni of Melb temp graph) #
  • #Flickr says: "O HAI Chris Bloke! Now you know how to greet people in Lolspeak!" Er.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Well my home machine is now #openoffice org free – running #LibreOffice 3.3RC2 from the Ubuntu PPA πŸ™‚ #
  • .@marsroverdriver Awesome! My favourite was "So you control the tides! Neil deGrasse Tyson is god! Kneel before Neil!" πŸ™‚ #
  • So the BoM said there was likely to be storms this afternoon/evening – nothing so far, not even a shower of rain! πŸ™ #
  • Let's see if I can debootstrap Debian Squeeze onto this donated laptop disk (thanks @zootman!) and resurrect my Libretto #
  • fingers crossed – "debootstrap –arch i386 squeeze /media/LIBRETTO http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/" #
  • Install went really well, but found I ran into Debian bug #588293 with grub2 – need grub-legacy πŸ™ http://bit.ly/hW0nR0 #
  • Oh dear, it appears that 32MB is not enough to boot the 2.6.35 kernel that Debian Squeeze has πŸ™ Poor old Libretto πŸ™ #
  • At least I know that grub-legacy works where grub2 doesn't – sadly kernel panics whilst trying to decompress initramfs #
  • Downloading the 250 odd photos from todays #Flickr #Melbourne Group photo walk in Richmond #

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Posted on January 2, 2011 by Chris Samuel
  • #Moab 5.4.2 really doesn't like dealing with 40,000 queued jobs, have now limited users to 4,000 jobs each in Torque #hpc #
  • Bah, except max_user_queuable doesn't seem to be honoured in #Torque 2.4.8! πŸ™ #
  • Went to see #TheKingsSpeech last night, awesome film, top marks to Colin Firth + Geoffrey Rush! #
  • Anyone know how to disable #PulseAudio in KDE 4.6.0 RC1 on Kubuntu 10.10 ? I need my audio to work again.. πŸ™ #
  • Oh great plan coalition, scrap #Myki just when it seems to work. Then have to pay for a different #Metcard replacement. #
  • Indigenous rock art from Arnhem Land shows c1620's SE Asian fishing boat http://bit.ly/ijyiBK #archaeology (from July) #
  • A cracking live version of "World Turned Upside Down" by the #Oysterband – http://bit.ly/hsg8PU #
  • Dream double bill for me in #Melbourne would be #Oysterband and #NewModelArmy – both awesome live.. #
  • June Tabor and #Oysterband cover Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" – fab! http://bit.ly/f3dJiy #
  • Interesting research finds possible immune link between "feeling down" with flu and #depression – http://bit.ly/hQWYgX #
  • Unfollowing @linux_at_ibm, a repetitive stream of recycled marketing messages does not a good Twitter stream make.. πŸ™ #
  • On the 4th day of Xmas my #HPC brought to me – another 3 failed disks – that's not good.. #
  • Yay, #IBM engineer on site tomorrow morning to replace the 3 dead drives in our DCS9900 (rebadged #DDN , fingers crossed! #
  • Funny how #Intelsat regained control of their #zombiesat – waited for the battery to run down which forced a reboot. πŸ™‚ #
  • #IBM swapped out 2 of the 3 dead drives this morning in our DCS9900 (rebaded #DDN , 3rd is missing in transit.. #
  • Hmf, did an @internode plan change from SOHO-ADSL-50 to SOHO-REACH-60 last night and ADSL speed has halved! πŸ™ #
  • REACH change speed problem reported to @internode, will see what they can do about it.. #
  • Off to @melbournemuseum today! #
  • On the 6th day of Xmas my #HPC brought to me, 2 failed battery packs in the Uni's APC UPS.. sigh! #
  • So #NYE is a day of total fire ban – wonder if that affects the fireworks ? #
  • Fab afternoon at @melbournemuseum exploring Bunjilaka, Koori Voices, Mulana exhibition and the indigenous garden. #
  • Great dinner at Burwood Teppanyaki tonight. Really nice food, very friendly service + no prob with casein free for Donna #
  • Intro to High-Performance Scientific Computing – #HPC textbook, free PDF from Lulu http://bit.ly/gWTmo0 – via @insidehpc #
  • Friday will be 40C and winds of 60km/h around Melbourne, according to the BoM, so a severe bushfire danger.. πŸ™ #NYE #
  • Looks like it's already cracked 40C in Melbourne CBD today, just under 35C here in the hills.. #
  • Amused to see tourists feeding skittish parrots at Grants Picnic Ground, oblivious to the eagles circling overhead! #
  • Keiran demonstrating Newtons Laws of Motion http://twitpic.com/3lij1m #Friends #NYE #
  • Blwyddyn newydd dda pawb! Happy new year all! Goodnight… #nye #
  • "Ouch! Artist bolts camera to skull for year-long show" (BBC) http://bbc.in/dQh9ug @jonoxer eat your heart out! #
  • Currently uploading #photos a photowalk around #Canterbury with @donna_williams http://bit.ly/e3Zsxs #
  • Flight – lucky shot of pigeon in flight at Canterbury railway station http://flic.kr/p/96jNg5 #
  • Chimney – Reminds me of a Buddhist Lama's headdress! http://flic.kr/p/96gJh8 #
  • Accepted invitation to PC for #VTDC11 #Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing – http://bit.ly/eurL65 #hpc #
  • I think this will be my 3rd or 4th time on the #VTDC program committee.. #
  • Just posted a set of photos from 2007 from an abandoned property in Llanelly, Victoria http://bit.ly/dH8f3l #flickr #
  • Japanese Empress end of year Waka poems about #Hayabusa and #vuvuzelas http://bit.ly/gFok4A – way to go! via @Astro_Soichi #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • "The Ministry of Truth has been privatised" – Richard Stallman from http://bit.ly/gSxGEr (via @piawaugh ! @aryonoco) #
  • #lazyweb can #AutoYAST change DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE="yes" to "no" in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp in #SUSE #SLES10? #
  • D'oh! Sorry, tomorrow (22nd) is the summer solstice, not today! #
  • Totality for lunar eclipse is for North America, not Australia – best views in AU are QLD and NSW http://bit.ly/hlxTjW #
  • LRZ SuperMUC – 84 racks, 112K Intel Sandy Bridge cores, 3 MW, 3PF.. http://bit.ly/i2XsLc #hpc via @HPC_Guru @ICL_UTK #
  • Mick Aston reveals the secrets of #TimeTeam on the @CurrentArchaeo website – http://bit.ly/efU15N #archaeology #
  • Several shades of awesome! RT@ alomshaha Eight-year olds publish scientific paper http://bit.ly/eejxZL (via @edyong209 ) #
  • The PDF of the 8 year olds "Blackawton Bees" paper is on the UCL website here: http://bit.ly/gF1w9T #science #
  • Dear @panasas – why is a full volume an error & causes an email, but lots of errors on a drive is just a warning, no email ? #
  • How about your own #Batmobile with working flamethrower ? http://bit.ly/fD8Ir3 Only 8 made a year! Via @theretronaut #
  • Donna playing with light http://twitpic.com/3iooez #Family #
  • I wonder how much hype and bluster N Korea can generate before talking themselves into a corner and having to follow through? #
  • Oh joy, Novell emailed me to tell me there were 0 updates to SLES today.. #
  • Being vigourously reminded by my boss that I should go home now as I'll be the last one left in the office! #
  • Just read @lwnnet article on "git annex" to manage large files with git – including an archivist use case – must read more! #
  • Web site for "git annex" is http://git-annex.branchable.com/ #
  • Home for the holidays, first break between Xmas and New Year for many years! Don't even have to use annual leave. πŸ™‚ #
  • Sigh, all we need now is for terrorists to start hiding their explosives in pilots and the #TSA will ban them too… #
  • Dependency issues installing #KDE 4.6.0 RC1 from Kubuntu 10.10 beta PPA ? This bug report might help: http://bit.ly/dZoscW #
  • Just paid $20 for the DRM free Humble Indie Bundle – only 1 day left! http://t.co/VNwHiNT via @Humble #
  • Have a very happy #Newtonmas tomorrow (25th) everyone, I'm off to bed now! πŸ™‚ #
  • Fab Xmas lunch with @donna_williams; roast lamb and roast veggies including spuds from the garden, yum. Nothing left! #
  • Xmas present to myself, upgraded to #KDE 4.6.0 RC1 from beta 2. Fixes the annoying persistent akonadi crashes! #
  • Yay, spammers are trying to link spam SourceForge bug reports.. πŸ™ #
  • Ross Anderson strikes again – great response to fumbled take-down aimed at students MPhil thesis http://bit.ly/f8vYlt PDF #
  • Happy #Babbagemas everyone! (Boxing day for you traditionalists) #babbage #birthday #
  • Just posted best photos from @lev_lafayette and @caseopaya's civil union at Trades Hall on 18/12/10 http://bit.ly/efbO2G #
  • On the first day of Xmas my #HPC sent to me, a report of a failed DDN disk. D'oh! At least it's replaced it with a spare. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • US court dismissed Paul Allen's #patent suite against #Google for not being precise enough: http://bit.ly/g3l4aN #groklaw #
  • Found this 2cm insect on floor, any ideas what it is? http://twitpic.com/3f9i0i #
  • Looks like my "insect" was actually "Allothereua Maculata" – a house centipede (an arthropod) – http://bit.ly/hjSxj7 #
  • .@BronwynBishopMP does your party really advocate the torture of its own citizens for offences committed by others ? #
  • US Rental DVD's Starting to Have Features Removed – What About Accessibility ? http://bit.ly/gbw8yk #disability #
  • Australian Media chiefs (board of the Walkley Foundation) throw support behind #WikiLeaks – http://bit.ly/gjZsRV @abcnews #
  • Free Trade Agreements hinder, not help, Australia according to Productivity Commission – http://bit.ly/eV718K #copyright #
  • Hat tip to @NewtonMark and @1petermartin on that blog #
  • Trying to write a 10 minute talk about 3 aspects of #SC10 for tomorrow, already up to 13 slides for 1st bit – oops πŸ™ #
  • Sad to see archaeological dig in Little LaTrobe Street was a rescue dig and the old building walls are being cleared. #
  • .@UNAWE: outreach using beauty and scale of universe to inspire very young underprivileged children unawe.org HT @astromeg #
  • Retro rooms in UK care home reduced need for medication for Alzheimer's sufferers: http://bit.ly/fe6CVG via @theretronaut #
  • Pair of black cockatoos and a male king parrot flew overhead on the way to the station; what a fab place to live! #
  • So Assange says "It's great to smell the fresh air of London again" – the time in solitary must have upset his brain! #
  • #hwloc – BSD licensed portable hardware locality library – has just released versions 1.1.0 and 1.0.3 http://bit.ly/biVgNV #
  • Johann Hari: Your right to protest is under threat – Johann Hari, Commentators – The Independent http://ind.pn/eY79Xf #
  • #Linux users are willing to pay twice what #Windows users will for the @humble games bundle http://www.humblebundle.com/ #
  • Time-lapse with giant robot – http://bit.ly/gvZ5Xn – via @theretronaut #IforOneWelcomeOurNewRobotOverlords #
  • Larry PageÒ€ℒs Google Business Card c.1998 – and an expensive mistake – http://bit.ly/gppGBe #google #
  • At Lev and Erica's civil union, Trades Hall, Melbourne http://twitpic.com/3gx88h #Friends #
  • Trades Hall ceiling http://twitpic.com/3gx8j2 #Architecture #
  • Lev and Erica exchange vows! http://twitpic.com/3gxbiu #Friends #
  • Congrats to Lev and Erica – life partners! πŸ™‚ #
  • Great photos of #uksnow in #Cardiff from my brother @hAl1927 http://tinyurl.com/267xfub #
  • Requested @bordersoz update SD card image for their @kobo eReader to new 1.8 version of the firmware. Fingers crossed! #

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