• Uni of Melbourne part of planned Australian Gravity Wave Centre to be based in WA http://bit.ly/f7NXvr (via @abcnewsVic) #
• McDonald's sponsor Oprah's "insight" into Aussie culture – thinly veiled advert for crap McCafe's: http://bit.ly/fdjbK6 #
• What a day! IB card in login node crashed taking down GPFS, plus suspect a disk is on its way out in our DB server. #
• Fortunately we've got a great team so GPFS + clusters were back by midday; plus SGI are shipping a replacement drive out #
• .@CIO_Australia article has errors about #phpgroupware @skwashd points out errors, @swandives threatens #twitdef 🙁 #
• References: @skwashd is ex-phpgroupware lead developer, @swandives is editor of @CIO_Australia #twitdef #
• Hope for Australia! ANU poll finds more interest in #science vs sport, prefer scientists to pollies! http://bit.ly/htiGwx #
• Great blog by Jim Gettys on "bufferbloat" – possible pathological interaction between TCP and routers http://bit.ly/gUn83m #
• Open letter to Australian PM to support Julian Assange re: @Wikileaks makes @ABCNews front page http://bit.ly/e2EoyV #
• Assange must be presumed innocent and his accusers should also be presumed innocent of conspiracy. Ppl can do good + bad. #
• Read and despair on the disincentives: RT @ABCRampUp Fighting for access to work http://bit.ly/hYxOlX #disability #
• #Java – ideal for making a dual core 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo laptop with 2GB RAM feel like a PentiumPro with 128MB RAM.. #
• Hmm, why do I get the feeling I'm going to get very wet on the way home tonight… #
• Time to dash for the station before the next wave of rain hits! #
• .@MasterCard please explain what crime @Wikileaks has been convicted off in order for them to be classified as "illegal" #
• Happy 10th wedding anniversary to my fabulous wife @donna_williams! Here's to lots more decades together! 🙂 #
• Congrats also to #SpaceX for a successful #Falcon9 + Dragon launch, orbits and splashdown! http://bit.ly/dIVSNR #
• And for a final burst of awesomeness, my #NewModelArmy 30th anniversary boxed set arrived today! "I love the world" 🙂 #
• New Model Army – Anthology – 30th anniversary boxed set http://twitpic.com/3e723s #Music #
• Christmas house, Burwood Highway, Burwood, Melbourne http://twitpic.com/3eb085 #
• Christmas house, Burwood Highway, Burwood, Melbourne http://twitpic.com/3eb0b8 #
• Archaeological dig resumed in Little LaTrobe Street http://twitpic.com/3ekoe0 #
• Prints of my photos are for sale in a shop for the first time thanks to the fab people at @CreatureHouse in Olinda! #w00t #
• Moving video based on photos of Anne Frank and contemporary video – http://bit.ly/ehuqwG (via @TheRetronaut) #
• "Hark the Herald Tribune sings, advertising wondrous things" – from Tom Lehrer's excellent "A #Christmas Carol" 🙂 #
• Great video of Tom Lehrer talking and playing at the late Irving Kaplansky's 80th birthday in 1997 http://bit.ly/ekayIx #
• LBNL – Amazon EC2 interconnect limits #HPC apps – paper: http://bit.ly/gjs8KE news: http://bit.ly/fPPKoB (via @InsideHPC) #
• "95% confidence level APNIC will exhaust its address pools sometime between June 2011 and December 2011" – Potaroo #ipv6 #
• Thursday we went to #Marysville for first time since Black Saturday; where we used to live has gone but is being rebuilt #
• Saw Bruno's Sculpture Garden in #Marysville he's done an awesome job rebuilding it. Survived fire by going to oval. #

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• "Exeter university student sparks new Stonehenge theory" – using stone balls for moving megaliths http://bit.ly/hu19Qc #
• Flickr: Santa Monica Pier at sunset (HDR) #n900 http://flic.kr/p/8WHLQ2 #
• Bah, realised all my #N900 photos since the beginning of time (OK, January && !HDR) have been 1.2Mpxs due to pilot error. #
• The #N900 can do around 5Mpxs in high resolution mode. D'oh! #
• #TSA Terrorize A Disabled 4 Year Old Boy By Removing His Leg Braces, Then Forcing Him To Walk: CNN: http://bit.ly/gGNxzN #
• Oops, #RedHat #039;s support system fall down go boom: "A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0 of" #
• Phew, it's back again! #
• Running #HPC systems in #Melbourne Australia? There is a Melbwulfers mailing list – http://bit.ly/h8IAuC #beowulf #
• Intro by Rob Hulls – "I love this bloke" "every decision with the best interest of Victoria" – – he must have gone.. #
• Brumby has conceded the election. #vicvotes #
• I wonder if the new coalition government will support science in the same way that the ALP did ? #vicvotes #
• The #VLSCI supercomputers got a mention during Brumby's concession speech as one of the ALP govts achievements. #hpc #
• So @774Melbourne have cut off Brumby's concession speech part way through – is he going to stay in parliament ? #
• Wild guess: another election in a year or two due to the Libs loosing a by-election over failure to fix public transport #
• Oh joy, the Victorian coalition wants to use tax money to subsidise catholic schools.. #
• I cannot see a single mention of science in any of the Victorian Liberal Party policies. Website is a mess too. 🙁 #
• New blog: New Victorian Government – Where's the Science ? – http://bit.ly/hNpI4v #
• Mellanox press release on their purchase of Voltaire – http://bit.ly/dHZcRw #hpc #
• Interesting piece from VC of the University of Melbourne on absence of higher ed from politics in AU http://bit.ly/htmXBB #
• Anybody want to buy an aircraft carrier (second hand) ? http://bit.ly/gcTLNV (via @abcnews) #invincible #uk #NotQuiteEbay #
• "Product ID: Sale by Tender – HMS Invincible / Manufacturer: Vickers Shipbuilding / Availability: In stock" 🙂 #
• So apparently China is aiming for exaflop #HPC systems by around 2020, could make life interesting! 🙂 #
• Of the 251,297 cables that @wikileaks #cablegate has over half of them (133,887) are *UNCLASSIFIED* i.e not "classified" #
• Time to head for home before the next wave of thunderstorms hit.. #
• What is this tiny rodent or marsupial (about 2 or 3cm body) ? http://twitpic.com/3c4wxq #University #Nature #
• Looks like #KDE 4.5.4 packages have started appearing for Kubuntu 10.10 in the PPA, prior to the release announcement 🙂 #
• Awesome 🙂 RT @vallard #NASA announcement in perl: $discoveredlife = $life =~ s/P/As/g; #astrobiology #
• I rarely do a #FF (usually because it's gone before I've remembered) – but here's one for today: @ABCRampUp #humanrights #
• #Linux #kernel "longterm" project announced on LKML by @gregkh http://bit.ly/hwKC9e #
• Sigh, #Amazon #AWS can't count – claim @wikileaks cables are 250K classified docs – but less than half are classified! #
• Appears that @EveryDNS and @DynInc's infrastructure cannot cope with DDOS attacks on their client domains 🙁 #wikileaks #
• I wonder how long before someone starts selling #WikiReaders loaded with @Wikileaks content ? #cablegate #
• Every time I walk in the garden our ducks try and guilt us into feeding them again – I suspect fowl play.. #
• "Symphony of Science is a musical project [..], designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form" #
• "Sagan, Feynman, et al, sing along to a few tripped out beats with aid of auto tune" – @ear1grey http://bit.ly/fCnUzA #
• Symphony of Science – 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) – http://bit.ly/hxcuvq #
• Just watched Carl Sagan's last interview from 1996 on YouTube, very good – http://bit.ly/faG3Mc #science #superstition #
• Great talk about impedance mismatch between science publishing and expectations http://slidesha.re/fHc4bs via @ear1grey #
• Bought 2 USB gadgets from #Jaycar – tape player won't play tapes and the GE4056 record deck only produces mono 🙁 #fail #

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• Yay, business class upgrade confirmed to the UK for tonight! 🙂 #qf94 #qantas #
• #RIP Prof. Frank Fenner, Australian scientist who announced eradication of smallpox at UN in 1980 #science #
• I hate bugs that glibc free() reports but don't show up under valgrind or debugging malloc's like dmalloc. #
• Landed in Melbourne, back in Oz at last! #
• Wah, hwloc 1.1rc3 "make check" fails on SLES10SP1 PPC64 with "free(): invalid next size (fast)", works everywhere else! #
• But if I try with valgrind or dmalloc to try and track down what's happening it works! Wonder if it's a glibc bug? #
• My "free(): invalid next size (fast)" issue is getting weirder, it doesn't happen if I build it with -m64 🙁 #
• Interesting, #NBN plans on (eventually) having its own satellites for broadband delivery outside of fibre+wifi areas. #
• Pah, Valgrind did find that error in #hwloc on PPC, just was buried in heaps of warnings about unsupported syscalls! 🙁 #
• Yay! Can duplicate SLES/PPC #hwloc 1.1rc3 failure on Ubuntu/x64: install libnuma-dev and run MALLOC_CHECK_=3 make check #
• .@774melbourne has severe thunderstorm warning for #Melbourne but #BOM only has a warning for central area, who to trust? #
• Cool, the #hwloc bug was down to 2nd and 3rd arguments to memset() being swapped, devs are now patching it! #
• #hwloc bug was in code only enabled if configure found libnuma's migrate_pages() function, hence nobody else had hit it #
• So much for these thunderstorms that ABC Melbourne was warning about, only had a brief shower of rain here.. 🙁 #
• Over 10,000 attendees at #SC10 including record number of technical programme people, pretty amazing given economy! #
• Fabulous photo of a Powerful Owl chick on the @abcnews website – http://bit.ly/fOEaPo #
• Stuck on @metrotrains Xstrata train at UFG, driver made some announcement but PA stuffed, nothing on website.. 🙁 #
• Apparently a police operation up the line according to schoolkids, good to get some idea! #
• Finally an understandble PA announcement. Train line reopened. Phew. #
• S. Korean defence minister resigned for not taking actions that could have triggered war – hopefully next will be same! #
• Note to S. Korean govt critics of ex-defence minister – defence != offence #
• Dear @abcnews – people go to the ABC news website to read about news, not sport, so why are the #ashes the main headline ? #
• So #unimelb is moving all student email to @google – hopefully they'll do the same for staff too! #
• No @Google Apps shinyness for #UniMelb staff, ITS say: "No, staff are migrating to the new exchange server." #pain 🙁 #
• #BOM has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for east & north of Melbourne – http://bit.ly/h0LlVF #
• Colleagues partner called in to say that their front room is flooded in Eltham #thunderstorm #melbourne #
• Off to vote, had to solve Ubuntu bug #471738 to be able to print how-to-vote card customised with @belowtheline_au website #
• Note to self: next time I use @belowtheline_au double check which electorate I'm in, otherwise I'll have to wing it again! #
• Oh noes, my ancient Toshiba Libretto 70CT seems to have had a hard disk failure – uptime was over a year! 🙁 #
• It plays all sorts of sad sounds through its internal speaker when you power it on, won't get past the POST.. 🙁 #
• "Insert system in drive. Press any key when ready…." #GameOver #
• BBC report on Christopher Hitchens debating Tony Blair on "Religion is a force for good in the world" http://bbc.in/fs1rAd #
• Good (hype-free) FAQ by F-Secure on #Stuxnet – http://bit.ly/i5SbY9 #
• ABC says Monbulk electorate "has the state's highest proportion of residents who stated they had no religion (13.0%)" 🙂 #
• NYT reporter goes through "enhanced pat-down" 8 times in 1 day, each time they miss her pockets. http://nyti.ms/hw5IuU #
• Developer (debuggin) build of #KDE Plasma Mobile on #MeeGo with QML (YouTube video) http://bit.ly/fyUJtt #
• ABC predicts that Nationals will get 10 seats with 6% of the vote and Greens will get 0 seats with 10% of the vote, er.. #
• So why is the Australian threatening the person who reported the comments, not the person who made them? #twitdef #
• The spoof reviews of this ridiculously priced HDMI cable from Best Buy are total win! 🙂 http://bit.ly/epP6Gq #
• D'oh, forgot to credit @jeremyvisser and @markjaquith for the pointer to those spoof reviews of the HDMI cable. #

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• Brain full from #OpenSpeedShop tutorial this morning at #SC10 very useful but boy was the room cold! #
• Finally found one other Aussie here at #SC10 and briefly seen another in the distance, now where's all the rest ?! 🙂 #
• Yay a 3rd Aussie found! #sc10 #
• The problem with btrfs and transparent huge pages is not a THP bug, it's just exposing an already existing kernel bug 🙁 #
• Asia has 3 of the top 5 of the #Top500 (China at #1 + #3 Japan at #4 , the US just has #2 + #5 http://bit.ly/cnYMvi #
• 8192 core prototype #IBM #BlueGene/Q in the #Top500 at #115 "NNSA/SC Blue Gene/Q Prototype" http://bit.ly/bunqMp #
• 7,040 core Amazon Compute Cloud Instance makes it to #231 of the #Top500 – http://bit.ly/cvvK8T #
• That #Amazon compute instance on the #Top500 uses 880 nodes, so that's $1.4K per hour for a Top500 rated system. #hpc #
• In parallel performance tools hands on workshop, pressive stuff! Sadly #RHEL6 kernel is too old for the tools.. 🙁 #
• That's an old tweet, held in stasis since the workshop this afternoon after #SC10 wifi fell over. :-/ #
• Had a great time at the #Beowulf bash tonight at #SC10 a shout out to Penguin Computing for organising a great night! #
• For #Top500 they count 32 nVidia cores as 1 traditional CPU core. #SC10 #
• Poor old Roadrunner, first petaflop system now at #7 on #Top500 #SC10 #
• #1 from China is 2.56PF @ 4MW, #2 at ORNL is 1.76PF @ almost 7MW #top500 #sc10 #
• Presentation of #1 certificate to NSC in China #top500 #sc10 http://twitpic.com/37h91u #SC10 #
• Presentation of #1 certificate to NSC in China #top500 #sc10 http://twitpic.com/37h9di #SC10 #
• Cray is now #1 vendor of the #Top500 on 2 counts (I missed what they were) #SC10 #
• Award of #4 to CEA+Bull, 1st PF machine in Europe #top500 http://twitpic.com/37hb20 #SC10 #
• CEA+Bull #4 system is about 84 pc efficient, most efficient. Claim they'll be back in 10 yearsw with exascale. #top500 #SC10 #
• Last #top500 was well below Moore's law, this one is almosy back on track, but still below the line. #SC10 #
• Uni of Texas n Austin win HPCC part of #SC10 student competition with a 1.07TF system in 26A #
• China is now #2 in terms of both performance and installed systems on the #top500 #SC10 #
• The Chinese are coming! #Top500 http://twitpic.com/37hg46 #SC10 #
• Aha, so Cray are #1 for systems in the top 50 of the #top500 IBM are #1 overall. #SC10 #
• Interesting #Top500 BOF at #SC10 followed by excellent #SGI party on Bourbon St, New Orleans! 🙂 #
• #VPAC (booth #2501 has lots of free koala's, no details necessary! They've got 3,000 to get rid off. 🙂 #SC10 #
• I don't like tobacco advertising either, but censoring peoples Internet to try and block it would be crazy #nocleanfeed #
• In Australian #SKA talk at #SC10 plenty of folks here, talking about how it works and the data deluge – 1EB a week! #
• Estimate about 10-100 PB per *hour* for the #SKA #SC10 #
• Hmm, I wonder what #LinkedIn does if you accept 2 invitations from the same person ? 🙂 #
• One final #SKA fact from a conversation with Tim after his #SC10 talk, they expect 1-2Tb/s from *each* antenna on the SKA #
• If you are wondering, #SKA is the proposed "Square Kilometre Array" radio telescope @ Australia or South Africa #SC10 #
• So #Australia now has 4 systems on the #Top500 (51, 87, 144, 160), all in the top 200! http://bit.ly/ciFJIb #SC10 #
• Summary of the 4 teams DARPA funded for disruptive tech in #hpc global address space + locality for teh win. #SC10 #
• What on earth is "weatherization" ? #
• The prototype #IBM BG/Q tops the #Green500 at 1684 MFlops/W compared to #2 (a GPU system) at 958 MFlops/W. #sc10 #hpc #
• .@rektide they're all working towards exascale and concur that new architectures mean new execution models for codes #
• "Automake is your friend, like a bully on the playground. Give it your lunch money and it won't beat you up" @jsquyres #
• The #Kubuntu #KDE PPA ppl have built 4.5.3 for 10.04 (previous was 4.5.1). Downloading at over 200KB/s on hotel network! #
• "FlowChecker: Detecting Bugs in MPI Libraries via Message Flow Checking" – nice #SC10 student paper – hope it's released! #
• Just ordered a fruit platter for dinner – kiwi, orange, pineapple, melon, berries, yum! Making amends for #SC10 food. 🙂 #
• "FlowChecker: Detecting Bugs in #MPI Libraries […]" – abstract http://bit.ly/ctTlAV – PDF http://bit.ly/cvESJp #SC10 #
• Whole city of New Orleans is without water according to hotel reception, due to a water pipeline #fail #NOWater #
• Good job I've still got my glass of water left from dinner! #nolawater #
• Steve Martin: Atheists Don't Have No Songs http://youtu.be/ADNesm6F27U – awesome! 🙂 #atheism #
• #SC10 was a good conference, so nice to not be tied to a booth at last! Now if only the coffee was good in New Orleans.. #
• To be fair, I did find that PJ's on Canal St did OK coffee, + was a Community Coffee Shop in French Qtr that was OK. #sc10 #
• Almost time to check out and start long journey back to Australia: 4 hours to LA, overnight + then 14 hours to Melbourne #
• Nice video by The @Greens in Victoria, they don't take themselves too seriously 🙂 http://bit.ly/acUsNk #VicVotes #

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• Appears that #Oracle have changed their mind and will have a small booth at #SC10 http://bit.ly/czVcTL (via @insidehpc) #
• Nicaragua blames Google Maps error for invading Costa Rica "accidentally" http://bit.ly/c5DZe1 via @fooishbar #
• If you ever wondered what a comet looks like then here's the answer, courtesy of #NASA @apod: http://bit.ly/bN3qP1 #
• Avoiding last minute packing for #SC10 by packing 2 nights before. Inevitably will mean repacking at last minute. 🙂 #
• In the ice cream? RT @BreakingNews Qantas A380's will remain grounded after engine oil is found 'where oil shouldn't be’ #
• "enforcement of geographical indications (GIs)" in next #ACTA round http://bit.ly/aX0NVG – via @NewtonMark @glynmoody #
• Thunderbird just popped up a window to remind me of 0 upcoming events. Sounds like my memory.. 😉 #
• Interesting tool to do data mining of benchmarks – http://perfbase.tigris.org/ #hpc #
• Nice news item from Nature about some of the issues around scientific software http://bit.ly/9ONrHo #hpc (via @mage0r) #
• Blog: Celebration of Anne McDonald’s Life, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne – Saturday 13th November http://bit.ly/9W8qnr #
• Bemused about proposed #btrfs patches with names like "fail if we try to use hole punch" – is paper tape back ? #
• if (!path || !(foo % 1000)) return -ENOMEM /* Evil debugging trick from #btrfs mailing list – fail every 1,000 calls */ #
• "We have a confirmed and reproducible case where the transparent
  hugepages are corrupting #btrfs (and only btrfs)" #patches #
• NB: transparent hugepages is an external patch set in development, not in the mainline kernel, so don't panic #btrfs #
• There will be a #Torque BOF at #SC10 on Wednesday 17th at 5:30pm in 278-279 http://bit.ly/byrUFh #hpc #
• Sigh, just had to move all my #SC10 events in @googlecalendar because it lied about what timezone it was using 🙁 #fail #
• Remember I said that Kontact in #KDE 4.5.3 could access @Twitter RSS feeds? Well Twitter fixed it, it's broken again 🙁 #
• Time to sign off – straight to MEL in the morning for QF93 to LAX, overnight there and then on UA202 to MSY for #SC10 #
• about to leave on qf93 #
• Arrived safely in LA, overnight here and then onto New Orleans for #SC10 #
• Sigh, can't believe that #KDE doesn't have SOCKS support, I wish I was a real programmer so I could fix it… 🙁 #
• I wonder how long an edit to the "support" #Lustre wiki page noting other companies that offered support would survive ? #
• Los Angeles Sunset http://twitpic.com/363001 #Nature #
• Gordy at sunset http://twitpic.com/36307x #Nature #Friends #
• Arrived in New Orleans safely, ready to go and register for #SC10 tomorrow! Hotel internet is a bit of a puzzle though! #
• Internet at Westin says 1 week+2MB for $40 or 1 day+3MB for $12, decided to risk it and tried a day; 42MB so far so good! #
• Time to head off for #SC10 registration and go and see if I can find any of the #VPAC people at their booth! #
• VPAC booth #2501 at #SC10 in New Orleans http://twitpic.com/36jhid #SC10 #

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• #Welsh / #Cymraeg dropped from 1st beta of #Debian #Linux 6.0 (Squeeze) installer due to lack of updates since Lenny. 🙁 #
• Safe flight @sabman! (twitter playing up, lost 1st tweet!) #
• Congrats to Mike Kuiper of #VPAC as co-author and illustrator for #Nature paper on perforin today! http://bit.ly/bVfgfV #
• Wow Melbourne's water catchments were dry. 36% more rain than 30 year average but inflows 6% below over same period! #
• "If the Melbourne Cup stops the nation, just powercycle it a few times." – @mikestuchbery #
• Very cute, a multiboot #Linux reconfigurable netbook/tablet/MID device with TI ARM A8 CPU – http://bit.ly/aPYjYZ #
• Angry Muesli: Horrifying creature from another dimension. Will win race then destroy galaxy. Gluten Free. http://bit.ly/awauFD #
• Of course it makes perfect sense for a broke country like the #UK to develop new #nuclear weapons.. http://bbc.in/aIcXgI #
• I wonder why Twitter is suggesting I follow @sunmicrosystems, an account that has been idle since January ? #
• Just pushed support for the RFC 3834 header "Auto-Submitted" to the Vacation git repo at SourceForge for 1.2.7 and master. #
• Not yet got the hang of git merge, just applying changes by hand between branches so far.. #
• .@worldlandtrust has some fabulous webcams in rainforests, this one has audio and heaps of birds ATM http://bit.ly/cgIUJH #
• Amazing to watch the humming birds feeding on the @worldlandtrust feeder in the Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador #
• Just pre-ordered the 30th Anniversary New Model Army boxed set – looks like a ripper! http://bit.ly/domL4V #newmodelarmy #
• So I wonder if the attendees at #gov20cebit can persuade Customs to not block the main @OpenAustralia website ? #
• Looks like speculation about #Dell buying @Rackspace was a case of mistaken identity, it was @Boomi http://bit.ly/auLqQr #
• #HPC geeks probably want to check out the perf command on Ubuntu (linux-tools) or Debian Squeeze (linux-tools-2.6) #
• You'll need a recent kernel of course for perf, but 2.6.32 seems new enough. #
• Anyone know if #RedHat RHEL6 includes perf ? #hpc #
• Gah, apparently #HP claim that using VLC on their laptops can void your warranty.. http://bit.ly/cHMJai #
• The @PTUA now has a dedicated outer east twitter account – ingeniously called @ptua_outereast #
• Reuters says #Qantas has confirmed one of their #Airbus #A380's has crashed over Indonesia #
• Good to hear that it sounds like QF32 hasn't crashed, instead has done emergency landing at Changi in Singapore. #
• Amused to see people blame Twitter (and me) for incorrect news reported by Reuters on their website #
• Found a weird #RHEL5 mlx4_en bug, some packets arriving on eth1 get misdirected to eth0! http://bit.ly/bhunID #mellanox #
• Looks like the jets on Hartley 2 were created by a patch on the comet that's much richer in dry ice (CO2) not water! #nasa #
• 5 beautiful close up images of the comet from just a few kms away! #nasa #
• Comet Hartley 2 looks like a non-symetric dumbbell, the thin part has a much smoother surface than the larger ends. #
• The jets seem to just be coming off the rough ends, and often relate to specific topographic features according to #NASA #
• The smooth thin middle is suspected to be caused by fine material being redeposited from the ends. #harley2 #nasa #
• Time to go to work, perfect timing for that briefing #NASA to fit in between me waking up and leaving! 😉 #
• For those who don't believe me that Reuters reported an A380 crashed Thurs please read this link: http://reut.rs/cIqCPy #
• Added my 2007 "Emerging #Linux #Filesystems" LinuxWorld article (http://bit.ly/cKEl7r) to Linkedin http://linkd.in/a9bwwy #
• So either @Twitter has fixed the auth issues around their RSS feeds or Kontact in #KDE 4.5.3 can cope with it. #
• BBC reports on the "House of the Gladiators" collapse in #Pompeii http://bbc.in/99O870 #archaeology via @archaeologynews #

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• Unofficial "Talk Like Carl #Sagan Day" (Nov 1st) http://bit.ly/dzp1Wt via @alecmuffett (cc @exploreplanets @PlanRad) #
• RIP Anne McDonald, friend + woman of awesome courage, humour + inspiration http://bit.ly/c5SzKM http://bit.ly/bUOsJz #
• Anne McDonald, Rosemary and Chris fought + won in Supreme Court of Victoria for her human rights http://bit.ly/drgjn3 #
• In 2008 Anne McDonald won the Personal Achievement Award in the Australian National Disability Awards http://bit.ly/9WRR7X #
• Royal Observatory Greenwich building predictions for solar storms based on crowdsourced classifications @solarstormwatch #
• Our travel portal requires us to read + agree to the credit card policy, but click on it + no permission to read it! 😉 #
• Live aircraft flight overlay on Google Maps, wonder how long before it gets called a security risk ? http://radar.zhaw.ch/ #
• Sunrise at Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) in Australian desert from the #ISS http://twitpic.com/30vs0b (by @Astro_Wheels) #nasa #
• Today is the 25th anniversary of the return of Uluru to its traditional owners http://bit.ly/blQzB1 #
• Yay! @Internode got Telstra out to investigate my line fault, apparently affects others + claims will be fixed in a week! #
• Will have to wait until @Internode (hopefully) reports back on what Telstra told them, T. tech lost Donna with explanation #
• Anyone know if it's possible to persuade #GPFS to syslog() as well as logging to its private text files? cc: @ibmhpc #hpc #
• Hmm, my #N900 doesn't quite like the PR1.3 update, can no longer read SMS's! I suspect a package clash.. 🙁 #
• Yay, reflashing the rootfs seems to have fixed up my N900, much better now. Now to grab the apps I've lost. #
• I hate #Java apps, IBM SMclient for DS SAN boxes has 2 different JRE's bundled and gets the timezone wrong (wrong EST) 🙁 #
• Scored 39 on the #Autism Quotient Test http://bit.ly/9ttRpZ (via @atreloar); average for men is 19, women 17. #
• Odd that "slightly" + "strongly" score same on #Autism Quotient Test; also SBC doesn't buy into visual thinking stereotype #
• To clarify, I think it's good that SBC doesn't buy into visual thinking stereotype! 🙂 #
• Summer Internships in Computational #Biology at the #IBM #VLSCI Collaboratory now open for applicants http://bit.ly/bMgsGA #
• Public statement on the passing of Anne McDonald by Rt. Hon. Jenny Macklin + Senator Jan McLucas http://bit.ly/awSl1S #
• New: IBM Research Collaboratory for Life Sciences – Summer Internships in Computational Biology 2010/11 http://bit.ly/9ArIqR #
• Hmm, #N900 battery before reboot 83 percent, after 74 percent, where'd all the coulombs go?! #
• Someone rescued 900GB of #Geocities data, wonder how much of it is animated "under construction" signs and blink tags? #
• 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, 14,336 Intel CPUs, 4 MW of power and 2.5TFlops – Tianhe-1A from China looks set for #1 in #Top500 #
• Good article from @alecmuffett on Wikileaks in the cloud, Firesheep, SSL and government monitoring http://bit.ly/aEVfrF #
• 41 years ago yesterday (29th October 1969) was the first #ARPAnet transmission, from UCLA to SRI – http://bit.ly/99VAgt #
• Ugh, OpenJDK corrupted some images in @donna_williams's online gallery using JAlbum, switching to official Java fixed it.. #
• Fab lunch in city with @donna_williams courtesy of @sabman and his brother, much talk about photography. Thanks both! 🙂 #
• Got stuck in the horrible new @Twitter interface for a while, fortunately was able to escape.. #
• Wow, "make coccicheck" is still running after 12 hours on v2.6.36-9657-g7a3f8fe, perhaps I should have done it with -j3 ? #
• No, you can't run "make coccicheck" with -j as it runs single spatch for the whole kernel tree, no threading either. 🙁 #
• #Melbourne last had 50% of its water storages full in 2006, last time it was over 90% was 1997… http://bit.ly/9EIxe8 #
• It's official, #Melbourne has broken the 50% mark in its water storages, yay! #

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• Looks like old imagery in @GoogleEarth isn't limited to UK, there's air photos of German cities from 1943 (inc. Berlin)! #
• Hmm, turns out this 1940's era imagery has been in Google Earth for about a year, oh well! 🙂 #
• Rumours that UK's Severn Barrage scheme to be scrapped, to be replaced with more nuclear power – http://bbc.in/b9q3RJ #
• Looks like the weird network issues on the #VLSCI BlueGene/P were due to deteriorating GBIC in login node, sigh.. 🙁 #
• So with the new GBIC iperf tells me I can sustain 9.88Gb/s for 30 minutes to transfer 2.2TB of data – not bad for a VM! #
• Oops, in last tweet the 2.2TB should have been 2.02TB, but what's 200GB between friends ? 🙂 #
• That's 3 episodes of "Monkey" watched, only another 49 episodes to go! 🙂 #
• .@NewHorizons2015 now has fewer sleeps to get to Pluto than it has taken to get where it is (halfway chronologically) #
• On a train, going nowhere fast.. #
• #Google to put the Dead Sea Scrolls online http://bit.ly/daloTf (AFP) #archaeology #
• "Universities in England are being warned to expect an 80% cut to their teaching budgets" (via @fooishbar) #
• Looks like @BBCBreaking twitter feed is broken, or its got the hiccups, same tweet on Chechnya keeps appearing.. #
• Phew – @ear1grey tells me the category 1 accident in #Portsmouth is just a radiation drill, been planned for some time. #
• .@ear1grey has just nipped off to a tutorial, just had a quick chat with him on skype and all is well in #Portsmouth #
• Home at 7pm, fish fed, ducks fed, now 8pm and I guess I should eat something myself.. 😉 #
• Fab! Joshua backported a patch to exiv2 to fix 150-200x slowdown bug in ops on Nikon images http://bit.ly/atWlZg #ubuntu #
• Now just have to hope that someone at #ubuntu cares enough to take ownership and incorporate it, it's only been 4 months.. #
• Upgraded zfs-fuse to 0.6.9 (gone from #ZFS pool v16 to 23) and turned on dedup+verify, hoping to reduce space backups use #
• Damn, that patch to exiv2 results in Gwenview, Konqueror + Nepomuk crashing with segv on some images. 🙁 #ubuntu #
• Nice #HPC 101 poster from Ast.Prof. Mohamed Ahmed @ American Uni in Cairo – http://bit.ly/c6NQTz (via @insideHPC) #
• Yesterday was 20-10-2010 (offer not available not in the US or in ISO format) #
• Chinese censors censored 3 speeches by Chinese premier – titbit in http://bit.ly/dmqGla (via @NewtonMark @newmatilda) #
• "Apps are forbidden from mentioning the name of other computer platforms, such as Microsoft Windows or Google Android" #
• That quote was from the Apple Insider summary of new app store rules http://tinyurl.com/253kpdl courtesy of @bulletford #
• Spring might finally be here in Melbourne, forecast top is 29C! #
• #Locust spraying has started in Victoria, #bee keepers needs to be aware sprays are toxic to bees: http://bit.ly/dua7OG #
• Big gum branch down on corner Grattan + Bouverie Sts Carlton, hit a pedestrian; medics on scene, Bouv. blocked onto Grattan #
• Ambulance has taken felled pedestrian away, Bouverie St blocked onto Grattan by big branch, police on duty. #Melbourne #
• Big gum tree limb down on Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne http://twitpic.com/2zomrn #VLSCI #
• Public art in the lane near Melbourne Central Station http://twitpic.com/2zq0bb #Art #
• Big gum tree limb down on Bouverie St, Carlton, Melbourne http://twitpic.com/2zr0n9 #VLSCI #
• Wonderful animated version of Tom Lehrer's classic "The Elements" on YouTube – http://bit.ly/aEb8F2 #science #
• The #SCinet network for #SC10 will have 260 Gb/s of aggregate bandwidth! http://bit.ly/9ksPbW (via @SuperComputing) #
• Perfect photo on the ABC for the story of Peter Costello's reaction to John Howards memoirs – http://bit.ly/asuex8 #
• An interesting account of the Battle of Little Bighorn from the side of the victors – http://bit.ly/atps9B #history #

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• Just finished adding more paintings to @donna_williams gallery http://bit.ly/4PBCNa – now time to watch Mao's Last Dancer! #
• Just watched Mao's Last Dancer – fabulous film. Well done Jan Sardi et. al! #
• Hmm, @abcnews won't accept PNG, Ogg or Ogg-Vorbis media files. 🙁 http://www.abc.net.au/news/upload/ #
• "In 2010, news stories on a website are actually being optimised, and reorganised for Teletext." http://bit.ly/d0cEJ2 #
• Top tip: when grating lemon rinds try not to grate your finger as well. At least I didn't manage to draw blood this time! #
• Someone is working on #xCat to support #Debian and #Ubuntu for stateful node installs, w00t! http://bit.ly/9Yhty2 #hpc #
• Flood proof road destroyed by flood in QLD – http://bit.ly/9XoGpW #
• On trai replacement bus service with driver from hell, hope we survive! #
• They may say there are no atheists in foxholes, but there were precious few on that train replacement bus service! #
• Hmm, I think some email to my Uni of Melbourne email address is going missing.. 🙁 #
• iperf says 9.39 Gbits/sec locally – w00t! now if only it worked offsite too.. #
• Awesome #photo of a lightning strike on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour http://bbc.in/d4gUs4 #
• At this announcement at Melbourne Uni, lots of people here from all over, looks like a biggie. #
• Standing room only at big #Melbourne Uni / #IBM announcement http://twitpic.com/2xdw9b #
• It's got to be big, both Premier and @juliagillard are here #
• Hmm, title slide is "IBM Global R&D Lab, Australia" #IBMR amp;D – it's a new research lab for IBM at #UoM #
• Heh, the hashtag on their slide doesn't work #IBMR amp;D #
• Launch of new IBM Global R&D Lab by @juliagillard #IBMR amp;D http://twitpic.com/2xdylc #
• Federal govt putting $22M in to support the new lab according to @juliagillard #
• Premier John Brumby speaks at launch of new #IBMR amp;D lab http://twitpic.com/2xe0bv #
• w00t, #VLSCI gets big name check from Brumby at #IBM launch! #
• #IBM invests $6bn a year on R&D #
• New #IBM Global R&D Lab to Open In Australia (at the Uni of #Melbourne – news on IBM website – http://bit.ly/dvZHa6 #
• #IBM says #NBN will " underpin our ability to deliver solutions that reach out to regional and remote parts of our country." #
• Anyone got a 10GigE iperf server accessible from the big bad InterTubes I could hit for a quick test pls ? #
• Recursion, see recursion – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page (via @ everyoneandtheirdog) #
• Just registered for #SC10 now all I need are plane tickets to New Orleans via LA! 🙂 #
• Chilean Miners: The Movie – starring Chuck Norris as the escape capsule #
• Round 3 of #VLSCI #HPC Resource Allocation Scheme open for applications, ends 15th November! http://bit.ly/dktHdy #
• "Possible morning snow about Mt Dandenong and Mt Macedon." – w00t! #
• Dr Mike Kuiper talking at the #VLSCI Open Day – Open Lab event http://twitpic.com/2xqfn9 #Friends #VLSCI #
• Sigh, another case of bipolar misdiagnosed as depression leading to an avoidable suicide – http://bit.ly/bJZ7es #
• Even Linus has problems with Gmail and HTML email – http://bit.ly/95jI2q #
• Snow at Kinglake! http://twitpic.com/2y12hv #
• OK, admittedly there was a lot more snow than that there this morning, we just didn't get there until late afternoon.. #
• Just found that Google Earth has historical imagery (air photography) from December 1945 for Malvern (UK)! #
• You can see the original houses of the "ghost village" of Imber, Wiltshire, 2 years after being taken over by the MoD #
• http://phygg.com/ – digg for physics papers (up) + http://slashtro.ph/ – Slashdot meets Arxiv (soon) (via @astronomyblog) #
• Love the banner photo on Carrie Fishers "Wishful Drinking" talk site – http://bit.ly/cSsmtN #
• Photo of @donna_williams playing in the remains of spring snow at Kinglake yesterday. http://flic.kr/p/8KzSWz #

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• Bought soundtrack of "The Future is Unwritten: Joe Strummer" today, has cracking cover of Rock the Casbah by Rachid Taha #
• My fab wife @donna_williams taking a photo of me taking a photo of her in #Olinda http://flic.kr/p/8G1Di5 #
• Photo of @donna_williams with no processing, effect is with a #Lensbaby 2.0 from @seeinanewway http://flic.kr/p/8G1Di5 #
• Charles Dickens last words: "No, no, no; I have got the toothache, and shall be better presently." #
• Didn't make it into work this morning, stomach cramps on train led to swift exit at Nunawading and a lift home from Donna #
• Thanks also to the person who offered to call someone to assist at the station, very kind. Donna was on her way already. #
• #Melbourne #039;s water storages are at their highest level for 5 years, but still not yet half full (47%) http://is.gd/fJed4 #
• A headline worthy of Monty Python – RT @VOTPnews 6.4-inch Parrott Rifles, Part 3 http://bit.ly/9yzoNb #
• Reseating mini-PCI wifi card in my ancient laptop fixed it! Unfortunately don't think reseating CPU will speed it up.. #
• Today is the 53rd anniversary of the launch of #Sputnik 1 on 4th October 1957, first artificial satellite of the Earth. #
• Sigh, got a typo in the first version of that #Sputnik tweet! 🙁 #
• #VLSCI at University of Melbourne is advertising for post of Head, Life Sciences Computation Centre http://bit.ly/ajKAK6 #
• You've got to hand it to Cray, they can make their racks look very nice! http://bit.ly/9HZVw3 (via @insideHPC) #hpc #
• #RIP Norman Wisdom, Charlie Chaplains favourite clown, at 95 http://bbc.in/cdcn1e #
• Now listening to the Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace #
• Now listening to Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1975 #
• Bee Line – probably the luckiest shot from our trip up to Olinda last weekend http://flic.kr/p/8GyZPK #
• After churn to @internode I get drop outs every phone call in or out, got new filters + new Billion 7800N but still drops #
• Time to hit Whirlpool… #
• Australia publishes draft #ACTA agreement – ITNews – http://bit.ly/ckRHCs #
• Great photo of a wedge-tailed eagle about to get the shock of its life from a magpie (ABC website) http://bit.ly/do5xL9 #
• Loud mobile phone conversation on train "Username is aus-database, password is Meryl1 with a capital M" sigh.. #
• SGI just had a #Linux kernel patch merged to fix an overflow on a system with 16TB of RAM.. http://bit.ly/azLxTQ #hpc #
• If you use #ZoneEdit com for managing your DNS zones and have more than 2 free zones then read this! http://bit.ly/chRkFa #
• Absolutely wonderful – Sesame Street's Grover does @oldspice http://t.co/FFhJjEM (via @arjenlentz @eleybourn @youtube) #
• Just relicensed all my @Flickr photos under @creativecommons BY license (was BY-NC-SA) – have fun! http://bit.ly/ckoRul #
• Chose @creativecommons BY license as it matches my free-software thinking and I'd get a buzz from them being reused! #
• Just watched "Bran Nue Day" with @donna_williams, very silly! 🙂 #
• "Listen To The News" from Bran Nue Dae is very powerful; based on archival photo of indigenous people in neck chains #
• Found http://twitpic.com/2w8dwf #
• Next-gen #Intel platform to provide onboard SAS + HW acceleration for software RAID, but *not* RAID6. http://bit.ly/drqwPp #
• Excellent sanity check by @bulletford of "toxins" mentioned in @bbcnews report on Hungarian spill http://bit.ly/acPtv4 #
• "In the environment it'll probably react with CO2 in the atmosphere and become that well known toxin, calcite… limestone" #
• UK Ministry of Justice rules threaten archaeological research, bones must be reburied after 2 years! http://bit.ly/9m3bgF #

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