• Great photo from @Astro_Wheels of Tracy Caldwell Dyson viewing earth from the #ISS #039;s cupola http://twitpic.com/2sapus #
• Bah, upgrade to Maverick reinstalled PulseAudio despite me having explicitly removed it first, purging again! 🙁 #
• Hmm, was hoping for something better for a 10GigE connected machine, only 265Mb/s.. http://bit.ly/aA6L9M #speedtest #
• If you are puzzled about my 10Gb/s tweet just add a smiley to it – I wasn't seriously suggesting that as a real test. 🙂 #
• British Waterways and others on leaked list of UK heritage bodies to be scrapped http://scr.bi/bxODeV (via @CurrentArchaeo) #
• Time for a change – just started the process of churning to #Internode #039;s SOHO Fast 50 ADSL plan from CyberOne #
• PulseAudio – it's a bug, not a feature.. #
• Applied for @internode ADSL last night, just heard that they've processed order and have sent on churn request, yay! 🙂 #
• New @metrotrains platform announcements remind me of the PA announcements from (original) The Prisoner. Be seeing you! #
• #btrfs online survey to capture peoples experiences and needs/wants from this filesystem http://bit.ly/bialbs #linux #
• Great shot of an aircraft transiting the moon taken in SE QLD on @APOD today – http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100929.html #
• #Microsoft dumps MSN Live, switches to #WordPress com hosted blogs! http://bit.ly/aVsqQL http://bit.ly/cZ7dN4 #
• Computer necromancy – someone built their own binary-compatible #Cray 1A using an FPGA as the base – http://bit.ly/cWz2yj #
• 11:04am emailed #SGI asking if we can swap failed PSU with spare – 11:08am phone call from them saying "yes" + offer help #
• My home ADSL is down, and I'm happy! Just because that means the churn to @Internode is finally happening. 🙂 #
• I Can HaZ @InterNode! 🙂 #
• Suspect I might need new ADSL filter, Dynalink DSL-002 might be a bit long in the tooth. Whirlpool not that helpful. 🙁 #
• First #fail for @Internode – SMS'd me my account details including password in the clear 🙁 #
• Wish I'd realised @Internode had free Ubuntu mirror *before* I pulled down almost 500MB of updates for Kubuntu Maverick! #
• Exiv2 #Nikon bug (100x slower vs same shot with no maker name) still not fixed in #Ubuntu Maverick http://bit.ly/atWlZg #
• Exiv2 takes 4000ms to 6000ms to set maker name to "NoName" on Nikon D90 image, 30ms to set it back to "NIKON CORPORATION" #
• Moab #fail Friday we did triggers for dead nodes, today I reinstalled a bunch and it warned about OK ones instead #hpc #
• Polly Woodside http://twitpic.com/2u81dh #Historical #

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• 6+ months since last able to access the details of my UniSuper account due to their review, what on earth is going on? #
• Still no benefit statement for December 2009 either from UniSuper.. 🙁 #
• from latest git pull of the #Linux kernel – "alpha: fix a 14 years old bug in sigreturn tracing" – oops! #
• Rule 1: do not leave your coat in the data centre. #
• Rule 2: if you leave yourr coat in the data centre do not wait until 5 mins after the ops team have gone home to find out #
• Rule 3: if you fail on rule 1 and 2 pray that the good folks in the DC eng team are working late. Thanks Will and Robin! #
• An owl and a golf course (almost) went to sea, on a great big ocean liner http://bbc.in/9ARVYE (with apologies to Mr Lear) #
• Archaeological dig at Little La Trobe Street with big yellow trowel lurking http://twitpic.com/2qtd6n #
• It appears that one of the games on show at #SFD Melbourne was Osmos which is proprietary! 🙁 #sfd2010 #sfd_melb #
• Last of stage 1 #VLSCI #HPC systems went into production today after last minute hardware failure, already over 50% busy! #
• So now at #VLSCI we have 1080 cores of SGI Nehalem, 640 cores of IBM Nehalem (both 2.6GHz) and 8192 BlueGene/P cores 🙂 #
• Anyone know anything about this archaeological dig in Little La Trobe Street ? @melbournemuseum? @museumvictoria? http://flic.kr/p/8D6Sk1 #
• Hmm, don't think the #newtwitter works with Konqueror in #KDE 4.5.1, just get a blank page… #
• Aha, so #newtwitter works with the #webkit rendering engine in #KDE #039;s Konqueror, but not the default #KHTML engine #
• Stuck at Box Hill on Belgrave @metrotrains, no idea what's going on! #
• The #newtwitter interface is broken on #N900 browser, typing is very slow and spurious characters appear whilsy typing. #
• Train on it's way again after 10 mins or so at Box Hill, no announcement from @metrotrains driver about what was going on #
• What a fabulous afternoon; lovely spring sun, working in the garden fencing, weeding and paving and absolutely no #aflgf #
• Transportal lets you compare 5 transport methods between 2 locations in Victoria http://bit.ly/beVOA8 (via @kattekrab) #
• Well done to @gavinballard on #Transportal http://bit.ly/beVOA8 #
• #Linux kernel commit bb9c861ee1b94c97cd98c783a2b4c1cf53ff1712 has a "X-Roothole-Covering-Cabal: TINRCC" tag 😉 #
• Overclocked my phone thanks to hint from @andybotting, makes the #N900 much snappier! #
• I'm using the "power" kernel from the extras repository for overclocking the #N900 also includes IPv6 support + others #
• Issue for archaeologists: finds near water could have been trampled by animals, making dating harder http://bit.ly/9USawC #

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• "6400 of 8192 processors in use by local jobs (78.12%)" w00t! 😉 #vlsci #
• Email from Novell overnight says SLES10 security update to Linux kernel, click the link and it says it's for PHP5.. #
• ABC Election Live blog "stepping aside from politics to spend more time with its family" 🙂 http://bit.ly/cCeaMo #ausvotes #
• Thanks to @jeza_rocks for the pointer to that ABC blog 😉 #
• 70% failure rate of #Corsair CMFSSD-32D1 #SSD #039;s seen by system builder @sijoe, Corsair silent http://bit.ly/a7cQsF #fail #
• (please RT the tweet about the SSD failures in case others are using them, this is a data loss issue) #
• Anyone know why the rules for compensation for @metrotrains different for #Myki versus Metcard? @ptua? @mykimate? #
• Had a friend knocked back for @metrotrains compensation as her monthly #myki only used for 8 days, but metcard would be OK! #
• .@mykimate but *why* are there stricter rules for compo with #Myki than Metcard? It's hardly going to encourage uptake! #
• Confirmation that @metrotrains compo rules are stricter for #Myki than for Metcard : http://bit.ly/cbXzck via @mykimate #
• Off to the NICTA Richard Stallman lecture at Uni of Melbourne #gnu #
• This command rocks when you've done a commit of deletes and new dirs but missed some modified files: git commit –amend -a #
• Beware zombie racehorses: Phar Lap's skeleton unveiling at @melbournemuseum today! (via @ovandenberg) #
• It appears that #IBM #GPFS *really* doesn't like being run over a connected mode IB network, either RDMA or IPoIB! 🙁 #
• Er, 1982? RT @BreakingNews: Pope Benedict XVI lands in Edinburgh for first U.K. state visit by a pontiff in centuries #
• After almost 2 decades of benefiting from GNU software I've found I can support the FSF through membership. Now member 9037 #
• #Pope mistakes Nazi's for atheists (Hitler often attacked #atheism as associated with communism) http://bit.ly/aYVSLF #
• #Pope mistaking atheists for Nazi's strange given he was there + was member of the Hitler Youth; there goes infallibility! #
• Wikipedia has a section on Hitler ranting against atheism http://bit.ly/9YxWht – might refresh the #pope #039;s memory #
• Today is Software Freedom Day (@sfd_melb), off to SLV (@library_vic) as invited to take photos of the event! #sfd2010 #sfd #
• Lev Lafayette (LUV president) at #SFD Melbourne http://twitpic.com/2pftwu #
• Rami Olwan from Creative Commons talking at #SFD Melbourne http://twitpic.com/2phu5r #
• Senator Kate Lundy presenting Gov2.0 at #SFD Melbourne 2010 http://twitpic.com/2phu9q #Politics #
• All done at #SFD 2010 in Melbourne, time to go home and process 150 odd photos! #
• Fun day at @sfd_melb today, amused to find that both @sabik and I thought we were the only photographers! 🙂 #sfd #sfd2010 #
• Just started uploading the photos from #sfdmelb to Flickr! http://bit.ly/9sM7Ro Will fix CC licensing when done #sfd #sfd2010 #
• All #SFD2010 photos from #sfdmelb are now uploaded to Flickr, licensed as CC-BY, go for it! 🙂 http://bit.ly/9sM7Ro #
• Senator @katelundy talking about Gov2.0 at #SFD Melbourne #SFDMelb #sfd2010 #auspol http://flic.kr/p/8BVb62 #
• Donna taking photos at The Old Cheese Factory, Berwick http://twitpic.com/2punjj #
• Magnolia flowers http://twitpic.com/2pupwq #

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• Fabulous photo of M27 (a gaseous emission nebula) from a recent @NASA @APOD http://bit.ly/d050Nd #
• Today is the 175th anniversary of the founding/stealing of Melbourne – I will be celebrating by going to the dentist. #
• Removing 20% of guns in Australia cut firearm suicides by 74%, no change in other methods http://bit.ly/cu1N1V v:@johndalton #
• If told you're breaching #copyright by taking a #photo of an Australian building you might want this http://bit.ly/athLA0 #
• …and the world didn't end! #GetOverItAlready – RT @abcnews Tasmania recognises same-sex marriages http://bit.ly/blBgb8 #
• Amnesty reports 3 Sri Lankan asylum seekers tortured, jailed, after forced repatriation by Australia – http://bit.ly/bCIxp1 #
• Earth wrenched apart – http://images.smh.com.au/2010/09/04/1906314/quake4-600×400.jpg #eqnz #
• Got an email from @Twitter on Thursday, 2 days after OAUTH jump, saying it was going to happen "in the coming weeks" #fail #
• Off to opening night of Message Sticks, the indigenous film festival, courtesy of @MelbourneMuseum, thanks tweeps! #
• At #Bunjilaka for Message Sticks film festival @MelbourneMuseum #
• Just saw "Lani's Story" at Message Sticks at #Bunjilaka very powerful and moving story of triumph over domestic violence #
• The message is that #NoMeansNo and standing aside and ignoring domestic violence is wrong, no matter who or where #Bunjilaka #
• Apalled it took 4 years for the case to get to the point where a warrant was issued – and that's with constant pressure #
• When Lani's Story was shown on #SBS it got 200k viewers, more than twice the normal amount for that slot. #Bunjilaka #
• Sigh, I really am crap with home #email just replied to a Christmas email from a friend. Sent in 2002… #
• Hurricane Electric currently estimate 272 days until the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space #ipv6 #
• http://doesaustraliahaveagovernmentyet.com/ says "ALMOST" 😉 #auswaits #
• Australian Psychological Society: chaplains cash "better spent on evidence-based psychological services" http://bit.ly/aRHJms #
• Missed all the fun of the storm this morning, was working in the VLSCI machine room and came out to see water everywhere! #
• I CAN HAZ IBM BLUE GENE/P! 🙂 #vlsci #
• We're opening up the #VLSCI #IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer to those projects that have been granted time on it. #hpc #
• I'm betting a Bob each way, and who knows about Tony! #ausvotes #auswaits #
• Gillard is PM #
• Gillard is PM #ausvotes #finally #
• Feeling pretty average so won't make @linuxusersvic AGM tonight, heading for home to crash #
• Rainbow over Melbourne prior to opening of Message Sticks film festival http://twitpic.com/2m2avf #
• Sunset over Melbourne before Message Sticks film festival http://twitpic.com/2m2azc #
• All new ALP with added NBN – 2 out of 3 independent electorates say their MPs prefer it. #ausvotes #
• Dancing with the Dead (@NYTimes video) insight into a culture where death treated with less distance http://nyti.ms/bI9S8C #
• Only 2 of 23 arctic ice models in 2007 IPCC report are extreme enough to match current observations, rest too optimistic #
• Anyone confirm that the #Panasas filesystem does not support UNIX domain sockets? We are seeing EPERM from bind(2). #hpc #
• Group of US soldiers formed "kill team" to murder for fun in Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/2g9zee5 (via @arjenlentz) #
• Now have confirmation that #Panasas filesystem doesn't support UNIX domain sockets on PanFS volumes. 🙁 #hpc #
• Mrs Lincoln to her husband: the theatre tickets were a lovely idea, but let's just have a quiet night in #historicalspoilers #
• So Rev. Terry Jones, are you happy that your Quran buring threat has already led to the death of 1 person in protests ? 🙁 #
• Hmm, looks like I may end up flying to #SC10 on United not Qantas as Q are double the price. 🙁 #
• Congrats to @KateLundy, now Parliamentary Secretary to @JuliaGillard, shame it's not Communications though! #nocleanfeed #
• The nice @sfd_melb people have asked me to do photos of the event @Library_Vic on Saturday 18th Sept! Thanks folks! #SFD #
• Waiting for @donna_williams flight to land from Wellington. The coffee at Villa & Hut isn't much cop.. #
• Germany on peak oil "global economic system and every market-oriented national economy would collapse" (via @arjenlentz) #
• Peak oil study by German military body is reported on this NYT blog – http://bit.ly/d9BTgZ (of interest @abc_investigate?) #
• New York, September 11th 2001 from space http://bit.ly/aPuIFZ #911 #iss #nasa (via @VaxHeadroom and @bzwingzero) #

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• #Downfall Hitler learns of the Australian hung parliament 🙂 http://youtu.be/2pNDLzx9vyU (via @fooishbar) #ausvotes #
• An interesting prediction from my friend Chris Borthwick (I hope he's wrong about 8 years of Abbott) http://bit.ly/bpKh2B #
• Back to my old picture on Twitter, dropped the #nocleanfeed as it seems that it's not likely to come back anytime soon #
• In other news – today we found 2 duck eggs for the first time, confirming that Poppy and Snow are both laying. #
• In unrelated news we now have goldfish in an aquarium upstairs – very nice! #
• The law says that you have to be 18 to be an MP (negating the constitutional limit of 21) http://bit.ly/cI51e9 #ausvotes #
• Hi @skwashd – I can get to vtr.aec.gov.au from my VM in the US – local restrictions ? #ausvotes #
• LNP "How to vote" card masquerading as a @Greens one http://twitpic.com/2goqja (via @abc_investigate @IanWoolf) #ausvotes #
• SLES10/PPC64 is real pain at times, must manually dd CHRP boot partition (FAT16!) as installer can't handle SW RAID1 for it #
• then got to sed /etc/lilo.conf to hardwire boot=/dev/sdb1, run lilo (yaboot), sed it back to /dev/sda1 and run lilo again! #
• Lovely APOD today and almost local: Milky Way + Loch Ard Gorge (down the Great Ocean Road in Victoria) http://bit.ly/cpNnOJ #
• Wow, one hell of a lot of (thankfully small) hail then! #
• Walked home on road encrusted with millions of tiny ice balls and tall gum trees each side during thunderstorm. Eep. #
• UK Gov and Catholic Church colluded+covered up priests likely involvement in 1972 car bomb http://bbc.in/cq80Yo #Ireland #
• RT @VAXHeadroom: Excellent photo doc by CNN on the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) http://bit.ly/aEVfzr #
• #ACTA creation, an international treaty likely to have big implications re Internet, continues in secret http://bit.ly/c3Edhc #
• "Fix a theoretical problem in a theoretical script" – don't you just love descriptive SVN change messages 🙂 #xcat #
• Nice one AutoYAST – it sets up /etc/ldap.conf just fine but neglects to configure PAM.. arghh #
• "If LDAP is activated, NSS and PAM will be configured accordingly to use LDAP for user authentication." Oh no it's not! #
• Dear #AutoYAST what on earth do I have to do to you to get you to configure LDAP as requested ? #lart #suse #sles10 #
• David Rowe releases v0.1 alpha of his open source speech #codec targeting the 2.4 kbits range http://bit.ly/90oQpY #foss #
• Awesome yo-yo work – reminds me more of a tiny diablo than a yoyo! http://bit.ly/bnUtKV (via @fooishbar @thommay) #
• Important: when converting SVN to git and pushing to an external repo any tags won't get pushed – need to git push –tags ! #
• Hey @andybotting, there's a new version of Zimbra out, time for an upgrade ? 🙂 (ducks) #
• Anyone got a working AutoYAST XML snippet to enable LDAP with PAM/NSS in #SuSE SLES10 ? Example in docs doesn't work. 🙁 #
• The next plague will be webcast – RT @774melbourne: DPI website to map locust hatchings http://bit.ly/dx02j2 #
• Victorian #DPI "Australian Plague Locust" website with alerts and reporting – http://bit.ly/auZ9w9 #plague #
• A coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim civic groups formed to support NYC Sufi centre – http://bit.ly/aeqGAn #
• OK SuSE SLES10, why do you come up OK the first reboot after install but then not load the ehea 10GigE drives next reboot? #
• Voting for Godot – Clarke and Dawe hit the nail on the head – http://bit.ly/aMygi7 #auswaits 🙂 #
• 16 cores, vector extensions, 128 GF – RT @insideHPC: Architect talks about China's Godson chip http://bit.ly/dpHKzs #hpc #
• #SC10 student cluster competition – best supercomputer using max 26A current – http://bit.ly/aMwwrh #hpc #
• Sadly the original #TACC post (http://bit.ly/9zqVxC) says "26 amps of energy" not "26 amps of current" or equiv in Joules! #
• "Python-iView is not a tool designed to allow copyright infringement. Python-iView is vigilante interoperability" @jeremyvisser #
• Trip down to botanical gardens in Cranbourne, big walk with Donna, saw 2 wedge-tail eagles plus first ducklings of the year! #

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• First result of migrating to git, found all these changes in the 1.2.7 branch I'd not merged back to trunk, d'oh! #
• OK, pushed all those missed changes back to SourceForge, so master now has all the fixed from 1.2.7 branch, phew! #
• Anyone know if #xCAT can manage #IBM Power6 #LPAR #039;s in absence of an HMC ? (IVM doesn't work with xCAT) #
• Aussie govt just realised games for iPhone, Android, etc, bypass classification laws http://bit.ly/93Otbw (via @markbate) #
• It's the "cyber" word again RT @insideHPC: American-Chinese Cyberinfrastructure and E-Science Workshop http://bit.ly/dw4Wjb #
• Sigh RT @NewtonMark: Conroy: "430 child porn sites." err, no. That's 430 refused classification sites. #openinternet #nocleanfeed #
• "What happens when a car travelling near the speed of light turns on its headlights?" http://bit.ly/bePiji #
• RIP Piper Bill Millin, 1st Special Service Brigade, 1923-2010, who piped commandos ashore on D-Day http://bit.ly/arGlGk #
• "Cross your fingers that this makes the million and a half dependant things happy" – #xCAT SVN commit r7131 🙂 #
• #myvote @greens – only they seem to share my desire for a fair society which respects human rights and cares about the long term. #
• Hopefully not too late! RT @Djelibeybi: Happy birthday @kattekrab! 🙂 #
• I've voted in the @linuxusersvic election, have you ? 🙂 http://members.luv.asn.au/ #foss #opensource #luvvotes #
• SPARC and Itanic (IA-64) have been dropped from the Ubuntu 10.10 release due to lack of interest. #
• Pretty cool to see my photos being used on the SFD Melbourne site http://bit.ly/a2mOay – Yay for creative commons! #
• "Melbourne’s water storages topped 700 billion litres for the first time in almost three years" – almost 40% full! #
• Top 5 web browsers on my blog in last month – Firefox (52.7%), Chrome (17.4%), IE (16.6%), Safari (6.5%), Opera (3.2%) #
• "(SGE) 6.2 Update 6 release from http://sun.com/sge come with a 90 day time limited eval license only." #hpc http://bit.ly/cjXCnY #
• Found via the comments on this post http://bit.ly/9AuK8x by @sijoe about SGE no longer being open source at Sun / Oracle. #
• More on SGE going 90-day license only (happened some time ago apparently, just nobody noticed) http://bit.ly/cddaMi #
• Glad we're using Torque; long history with many copyright holders (no assignment) means changing the license would be hard #
• (via @fooishbar) RT @kernelslacker: today in audiophile lunacy: http://www.malcolmsteward.co.uk/?p=2479 #
• 1/2) Useful tip, if you are debugging #SuSE SLES #autoyast installs you can pass "usessh=1 nosshkey sshpassword=a" #
• 2/2) It stops before running autoyast and you can SSH in with X forwarding and run yast whilst poking around in the logs #
• The Separation Tree (NSW/VIC split) in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens ringbarked by vandals 🙁 http://bit.ly/dzUcqz #
• Reserve Bank of Australia in favour of stimulus package, "imminent withdrawal poses risks to growth" – http://bit.ly/9Q8wUb #
• Just voted in my first ever Australian election. Thanks to the OIC's and all the other volunteers who are makinfg this possible! #
• Listening to The Wonderstuff "Never Lovd Elvis" (1991), kind of Levellers meets Waterboys meets REM #
• Great #ausvotes CGI summary (subtitled) http://j.mp/98GvAK via @markbate @PieterPeach @brainsmatter @PaulDRyan @jonathannen #
• The last public #OpenSolaris commit from #Oracle – http://bit.ly/cMUDBu – no official word from their cone of silence #
• FSM courses Cthulhu some angst on UserFriendly – http://bit.ly/90NH44 #
• Alec is bang on (as usual) RT @alecmuffett: HTML5 as an analogue for the perennial security problem http://bit.ly/c2Y3yD #
• This is your 4 minute warning, voters… 😉 #
• That's it, times up voters! Pens down, papers must be handed in. Now for the results.. 😉 #ausvotes #
• Great meteor and lighting shot on todays APOD! RT @apod: Perseid Storm: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100821.html #
• Interesting, @abcelections describes our electorate (La Trobe) as a key seat – http://bit.ly/cst2Q9 #
• AEC finds LNP supporters illegally impersonated @Greens workers in Brisbane – http://bit.ly/buybCa #
• Happy Birthday to Miriam Schmierer, 111 today (born before Federation!) http://bit.ly/97IvC2 #
• .@Greens have stormed the seat of Melbourne with 35% of total vote, a swing of 12% primary vote and 7% after preferences #
• Looks like ALP edge out Liberals in La Trobe, @Greens have done well with 12.7% of primary vote, swing of 3.6% #ausvotes #
• I bet @KRuddMP is regretting not taking his double dissolution opportunity earlier in their term #ausvotes #
• First Senate numbers for Victoria, currently 2 ALP, 2 LIB, 1 Nationals, 1 @Greens, no Family First 🙂 Conroy still in 🙁 #
• Kerry O'Brien just predicted a swing to the ABC in La Trobe – if only! KOB for PM! 😉 #
• Oh crap, it looks like Wendy Francis (Family First) will get a Senate seat in QLD #ausvotes #homophobia #
• Antony Green predicts hung parliament – Labor: 73 seats; Coalition: 72 seats; Greens: 1 seat; Independents: 4 seats #ausvotes #
• Wow, QLD Senate seats have changed markedly after more counting – Wendy Francis gone from list, 3 LIB, 2 ALP, 1 @Greens #
• Moral of the story – it's too early to tell with Senate seats yet! (What a relief) #ausvotes #
• Oh dear, looks like Family First will get a seat in South Australia 🙁 #ausvotes #
• It looks like we're set for a hung parliament, so I'm off to bed; will catch up in the morning! #ausvotes #
• Puzzled why none of the ABC election website voting figures seem to have been updated for the last 9 hours #ausvotes #
• Good to see we have our first Indigenous MP ever (Ken Wyatt, a Liberal in WA) – *WAY* overdue.. 🙁 #
• Lunchtime in the Dandenongs http://twitpic.com/2h02kp #

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• OK, all final photos from @sfd_melb photo shoot uploaded and licensed CC-BY – #Digikam rocks! http://bit.ly/chca4K #
• AEC website re senate voting "However, if the elector completes both sections formally, the below the line section takes precedence." #
• Premier John Brumby launching #VLSCI IBM BlueGene/P http://twitpic.com/2d9rlw #
• USGS reports magnitude 7.5 #earthquake 24 miles from Port Vila #
• Oh. My. Ghod – the Coalition are preferencing Family First before any other party in Victoria. Very scary. #ausvotes #
• For reference – Family First have candidates who have espoused homophobic violence and generally seem anti-human rights. #
• It was One Nation's Victorian president John Groves to Family First's Wendy Francis on violence – http://bit.ly/9zzQfQ #
• University of Melbourne #VLSCI #IBM Blue Gene/P press release from today's launch by @vicpremier http://bit.ly/bSEGPx #hpc #
• Need just +17 ppl to get to 1,000 on open letter to Kim Carr to request end of software patents in AU http://bit.ly/9rLHva #
• Yay! Just heard from @donna_williams that we have our first duck egg from our Muscovy ducks, Snow and Poppy! 🙂 #
• I wonder why @TonyAbbottMHR won't give Riz the refugee the surfing lesson that @GetUp ppl paid for ? http://is.gd/ec9FJ #
• Except he's now avoiding it – RT @TonyAbbottMHR I’m looking forward to Getting Up on the surfboard with my successful auction bidders. #
• Our first duck egg! http://twitpic.com/2dnb6c #
• Sigh, another 2 false positives caught by the UniMelb anti-spam system this morning.. 🙁 #
• Dear SuSE autoyast GUI, when I ask you to remove a pre/post script please do so – and please make your LDAP config work. #
• Dear @TonyAbbottMHR, as you claim you don't understand technology then it's best not comment on it, especially the #NBN #
• Another day, another duck egg.. 😉 #
• So why aren't we hearing from Indigenous Australians on population and sustainability in Australia on #QandA ? #
• Very effective ad for the @Greens done as part of a regular section on The Gruen Transfer – http://youtu.be/BzoI-OQy-jw #
• Stephen Hawking's COSMOS group order an SGI Ultraviolet UV1000 http://bit.ly/cyrdLw (via @InsideHPC) #
• Ben Chociej has posted patches to make mkfs.btrfs and btrfsctl understand+use proposed "data temperature" ioctls for #btrfs #
• Ben Chociej also posted updated data temperature patches; includes ioctls so btrfsctl can relocate hot files to SSD's #btrfs #
• Reporters Sans Frontieres (@RSF_RWB) vs. @Wikileaks http://bit.ly/auPBLh http://bit.ly/a9ChVI (via @abc_investigate) #
• Anyone got any pointers to documentation for #xCAT and #IBM #039;s IVM ? #
• (as in – getting #xCAT to talk to an #IBM IVM system and build LPAR's there) #
• Yes! Another duck egg! Omlette time. 🙂 #
• HPCWire make convincing argument #Oracle abandoning #HPC http://bit.ly/cLyliG (via @HPC_Guru), bad news for BoM and ANU! #
• What makes it likely: #Oracle is not at #SC10 despite me being told by #Sun ppl at #SC09 that #Oracle would have a stand #
• Lovely Muscovy duck egg omlette, had heard rumours they had a stronger taste than other duck eggs but didn't seem to. #
• With Oracle going after Google over Java patents I wonder what the implications are for IBM's Java implementation ? #
• "Supercomputer to rival Google headed for Perth" "a staggering 9600 cores " http://bit.ly/ctg0Jy #journalism #fail #hpc #
• #OpenSolaris experiment is dead from an #Oracle POV – http://bit.ly/9QONYW (via @sijoe's blog http://bit.ly/daPmqv) #
• Fantastic view of the radiant of the shower: RT @apod: Night of the Perseids: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100814.html #
• One of the few big #biodiversity collections threatened by bulldozers http://bit.ly/bCxHOG (via @alecmuffett) #science #
• Bah, Symbian only, not for #N900 RT @ptua: Metlink has launched a beta application for Nokia smartphones http://j.mp/97lYV6 #
• Afraid of Oracle vs Google happening in Australia? Haven't signed the open letter on software #patents http://bit.ly/9rLHva #
• There's something particularly spooky about these abandoned amusement parks – http://bit.ly/a4460i #
• Muscovy duck egg #5 http://twitpic.com/2etbd2 #
• How #archaeology uses supercomputers in a BBC article on #HPC in the UK http://j.mp/cDYe8F (via @hpc_guru @grahampullan) #
• Currently doing a git svn clone of my Vacation project SVN repo on SourceForge, aiming to migrate to their Git system. #
• Hmm, git clone -s $REPO sort of works, but when I checkout an earlier branch none of the files change to match it. 🙁 #
• Hmm, something odd is up with http://appeal.kde.org/ (via http://blog.jasondonenfeld.com/364) #KDE #
• I had no idea there was a scale model of the solar system in #Melbourne http://bit.ly/ac30O3 #astronomy #
• I wasn't going mad, the reason #xCAT doesn't work with #IBM #039;s IVM is bit-rot in the code – it's broken. 🙁 #
• OK, having another shot at converting the SVN repo, this time with the ruby gem "svn2git", let's see what it makes of it.. #
• Aha, looks like svn2git has made a better fist of it than git-svn, at least branches work correctly now, though tags don't. #
• My bad, tags are working too! 🙂 #
• Yay, git push back to sourceforge has worked! Can't believe I hadn't touched vacation for all of 2009.. 🙁 #

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• Good review of the #iPad on both its good and bad points; don't expect it to replace a laptop – http://bit.ly/9GJagl #
• He also "bought The Australian's $4.99 app but soon reverted back to using its website [..], which is far richer and free" #
• Just noticed that the 2.6.35 #Linux kernel is out #
• RT @bulletford: #Microsoft crippled IE8 security so as to allow easy web user tracking: http://tinyurl.com/2f4r7pq #
• RT @jsquyres: If you could add 1 new function to #MPI what would it be? #hpc #
• Remember that filter is *NOT* about anything illegal according to Conroy, therefore it can only about censorship #ausvotes #
• RT @BreakingNews: The UAE's telecom regulator says BlackBerry services will be blocked for foreign visitors too – AP #
• Very interesting! RT @sijoe: New blog post: Interesting SSD results with a late model kernel http://scalability.org/?p=2457 #
• New release of OSC mpiexec (formerly by Pete Wyckoff, now Doug Johnson) 0.84 – http://www.osc.edu/~djohnson/mpiexec/ #
• RT @alecmuffett: When you visit uk.alpha.org … the survey says: http://twitpic.com/2b24hk #
• "Australia is the only western nation without an express guarantee to free speech" – Aaron Magner UNSW http://scr.bi/cSbmmd #
• AEC have told me that if you vote both above *and* below the line in the Senate it will be discarded as informal #ausvotes #
• Free software group awarded triple damages against company for wilful copyright infringement under #GPL http://bit.ly/bGw6U8 #
• #VLSCI got a mention in dispatches from the acting VC of the University of Melbourne last Friday. 🙂 #
• .@AntonyGreenABC responded on my blog, citing why voting above+below line is OK; am trying to get clarification from AEC #
• RT @BreakingNews: Barnes & Noble considering sale of company http://bit.ly/bSnP3p #
• SIgh, you've got to worry when you've got people citing the Predator movie as part of their conspiracy theory about 2012.. #
• "Images of the 5th dimension may not be viewable in your region" 🙂 http://bit.ly/aMaG3M #
• AppArmor has finally been merged into the mainline #Linux kernel for 2.6.36 #
• So the coalition have said they will oppose the filter; amazed they have one policy I can agree with! #
• Rumours that #Oracle has laid off lots of #Sun #HPC people – RT @regvulture Oracle chops Sun HPC jobs http://reg.cx/1K98 #
• Big congrats to @GetUp on a great win in court. Sad that it has to be activists and not politicians safeguarding democracy. #
• RT @jons68: This election reminds me of the Dr. Who episode in which all Five Doctors are present at the same time. #ausvotes #
• Flickr photo: Cybersource – We Do Linux – grafitti ad for local IT company visible from Burnley station http://bit.ly/9P4lHB #
• Been invited to take publicity photos tomorrow for upcoming Software Freedom Day in Melbourne (@sfd_melb) – wish me luck! #
• .@TonyAbbottMHR: Leadership is about where you stand // Please donate and give women a voice in this @GetUp ad http://ow.ly/2k9nO #
• Interesting slide set on hacking memcache – http://bit.ly/drrANQ – why on earth do people leave that port open? via @jdub #
• Seeing reports of potential big performance regressions in #btrfs in 2.6.35; Chris Mason is on the case. #
• On my way into State Library of Victoria to do promo photo shoot for the Melbourne Software Freedom Day group @sfd_melb #
• At SLV waiting for it to open, and for @kattekrab and Ben to appear 🙂 #
• SLV @sfd_melb photo shoot http://twitpic.com/2c9is3 #
• SLV @sfd_melb photo shoot http://twitpic.com/2c9izl #
• Software Freedom Day Melbourne (@sfd_melb) meeting in progress http://twitpic.com/2c9tcu #
• Just back from Melbourne after @sfd_melb photo shoot with about 200 photos on the camera, heaps of sorting to do! #
• Melbourne tower block, Swanston St http://twitpic.com/2ccckd #
• Just finished the first pass going through 198 photos from the @sfd_melb photo shoot at @Library_Vic, will do more tomorrow! #
• Spot on! RT @kattekrab: New Blog: http://kattekrab.net/elections-1 #ausvotes #election #policy #politics #
• "This election has officially jumped the shark" – James Purser – +1 – both parties and media have FAIL written all over them #
• Just finished going through all the pics from the @sfd_melb photo shoot at SLV, now to upload the 26 finals to Flickr! #

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• RT @astronomyblog: Just seen Transformers. Not appreciating the appropriation of Beagle 2 as a NASA JPL mission. It wasn't a rover either. #
• RT @mikal: Julia Gillard must be desperate — she's cutting renewable energy programs to buy people new cars? I'm voting green. #fb #ausvote #
• just left Box Hill for city, still travelling almost on time, no mention of problems yet despite SMSs from @MetroTrains #
• Want to claw my eyes out after using Novell website to do SLES10 activations, Java null pointer exceptions to get downloads?! #
• Celebrating over 40 years of the UNIX system . Win a classic license plate http://bit.ly/1wsWYl #unix 40 #
• 261 signatures asking Aus govt #patent review to remove software from eligibility, add yours! http://bit.ly/9rLHva pls rt #
• Recently found out a friend of mine at #VPAC was 2nd author on Nature paper in 2000, nice one Mike! http://bit.ly/bToVpf #
• Richard Stallman (RMS) will doing a seminar at NICTA in #Melbourne on the evening of Sept 15th http://bit.ly/dqwnKn #gnu #
• .@getup is the mental health vigil tonight (according to email and twitter) or tomorrow (according to website) ? #
• Building Poppler 0.14.1 from source to get newer pdftohtml to see if it helps #Calibre convert #IBM RedBooks PDF to ePub! #
• First discovery, Poppler 0.14.1 won't build with make -j 5 🙂 #
• Answer: No – pdftohtml from Poppler 0.14.1 still results in pretty bad ePub ebook from IBM RedBook PDF's 🙁 #
• Latest (last?) release candidate for Open-MPI 1.5 has just been released, grab rc5 from here: http://bit.ly/bqjh7w #hpc #ompi #
• #NBN map for Victoria is here (PDF) http://bit.ly/9PULxQ #ausvotes #
• It's been a good, if very hectic, week here at #VLSCI I've got a 2048 node, 8192 core NAMD job running to prove it. 🙂 #
• Uh oh, what's he up to now? 🙂 RT @jonoxer huge skip arrived today: weekend of demolition for the start of @SuperHouseTV #
• RT @FilterConroy: Stephen Conroy is NOT number 1 on Labor's Victorian senate ticket. Keep telling every Victorian you know to Filter Conroy! #
• Only 61% of Australians think it takes a year for the Earth to go around the Sun, wonder what the other 39% think? #
• USPTO wants *your* guidance on how #Bilski affects what is/isn't eligible for #patent e.g. software: http://bit.ly/aLOAZ1 #
• At New Voices festival in Eltham, @donna_williams is on in the next session! #
• Awesome session with @donna_williams and Sandy Jells at New Voices. Sandy has been shortlisted for The Age book of the year! #
• Awesome session with @donna_williams and Sandy Jeffs at New Voices. Sandy has been shortlisted for The Age book of the year! #
• Sandy Jeff's shortlisted book is "Flying with Paper Wings – Reflections on Living with Madness" http://bit.ly/blb3AQ #
• Big thanks to @kattekrab for being awesome @linuxusersvic president, hope you get a chance to get a rest now! 🙂 #
• It looks rather miffed.. RT @alecmuffett: how to clean your owl: http://bit.ly/bFhqxO #weekendlinks #
• RT @BreakingNews: Greenland ice sheet – 10% of world’s freshwater – lowered by 20 feet in a month in 1 region http://bit.ly/9KUKrJ #
• Back home after 4 hours setting up joint exhibition with @donna_williams at the 1812 Theatre in Upper Ferntree Gully #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – my photos http://twitpic.com/2akcvu #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – more of my photos http://twitpic.com/2akdm5 #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – Donna's paintings http://twitpic.com/2akdzx #
• Exhibition setup at 1812 Theatre – more of Donna's paintings http://twitpic.com/2akeb7 #
• PDF of petition to keep referrals to social workers and occupational therapists eligible for Medicare http://bit.ly/aXBhBY #

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