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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • irony++ : racist FB group by Aussie schoolkids on immigrants not speaking English populated by schoolkids who can't spell #
  • Magnitude 7.2 #earthquake in Solomon Islands – http://bit.ly/4ZT5Rs #
  • Amazing what rubbish you find when sorting out files, log files of DEC Alpha SC cluster filesystem crashes for instance! #
  • AdvFS Domain Panic; Domain sc_cluster_backup Id 0x3f337551.010416d7 #
  • "This domain should be restored from backup tapes, or you can use the salvage tool to pull what files it can find off of this domain." #
  • That message was from September 2003, before you start to panic() #
  • BBC: Mars' ancient lake beds spied by Nasa probe – http://bit.ly/5n0SsM #
  • Dear #SuperMicro – why do I need to disable passive FTP to be able to download from your FTP server ? #fail #
  • Random fact: the worlds largest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, has almost 30 acres of glass windows that need cleaning #
  • ABC: #Australia bakes through warmest decade on record http://bit.ly/8itOD3 #
  • Why is it that you only spot the obvious typo *after* just as you hit send.. #
  • BoM "Increasing global mean temperatures […] are consistent with other independent indicators of climate change" http://bit.ly/7Dbrtb #
  • Here's the direct link to The Planetary Societies page to send a birthday message to Buzz Aldrin – http://bit.ly/7xtlyE #
  • Looks like the concession and real #myki's look different, but the letters sent to lots of people say concession #
  • All this #uksnow makes me nostalgic, well remember opening the door in Great Malvern to see someone ski down the road! #
  • In other news the forecast for #Melbourne is 28C Thursday, 36C Friday and 34C Saturday – no chance of #uksnow here.. #
  • Been clearing out my office ready for my last day tomorrow, wow it's looking empty! #
  • Apparently my #N900 has finally arrived! Only took the USPS and Australia Post almost a month for a 5-10 business day job #
  • wow! RT @NASA Another major snow blanket! Great Britain covered in today's image from NASA's Terra spacecraft. http://bit.ly/88WtAR #
  • First impressions of Nokia #N900 – it rocks – and contact import from KDE works great using vcard v3! #
  • It's my last day at #VPAC today, on Monday I'll be starting at the #VLSCI project! http://bit.ly/7fMcNP #
  • OK – who is going to the @linuxusersvic BBQ tomorrow ? #LUVBBQ #linux #luv #
  • 'Bachmann to Obama: Don't let terrorists "lawyer up"' – http://bit.ly/6SdbLB – after all who needs human rights in the USA! πŸ™ #
  • So that's it, I'm now officially unemployed until Monday! πŸ˜‰ #
  • "Behold The Android Powered Microwave And Washing Machine!" http://bit.ly/64gJRU πŸ™‚ #
  • I'm enjoying a very nice glass of 12 year old @bowmore1779 whisky, part of my leaving gifts from the good VPAC people. #
  • Happily Jabbering away on my #N900 – wow it rocks – even better than I was expecting! #
  • Wow, this is amazing – Rodrigo Y Gabriella cover Metallica's Orion – on acoustic guitar! http://bit.ly/5QSjEO #music #
  • US officials covered up details on scores of deaths in immigration detention – http://bit.ly/87rly3 (via @BreakingNews) #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Chris Samuel
  • Just watched the film Northfork, very lyrical, well filmed, thought provoking with touches of Twin Peaks – worth seeing! #
  • Yay! the #Melbourne #Coffee Review (MCR) ppl are on Twitter – props to @mcrtwits + @thecaffiend – http://bit.ly/4Waic6 #
  • #Australian ACMA Blacklists #Iran Protest Video & Boing Boing – http://bit.ly/6JUrLk (via @lev_lafayette @CraigThomler) #
  • Someone drove into our car in a car park when they drove over a stop line without looking – car needs work but we're OK! #
  • Currently 27.4C in my home office, 32.2C outside… warm in #Melbourne! #
  • Trying out the "export QT_NO_GLIB=1" workaround to stop Adobe's Flash plugin from going crazy and eating all my CPU #
  • Listening to @brockpalen + @jsquyres RCE podcast summarising #SC09 #HPC conference – nice work folks! http://bit.ly/7eeCj2 #
  • Wow, already over 30C by 10am here in #Melbourne and still climbing… #
  • very much so – wish I'd had the camera! RT @cafuego: Wow, this cloud is like the mothership from indepedence day #melbourne #
  • knackered + sore throat, @donna_williams not well, so early(ish) night for us despite #NYEMelb – happy new decade all! #
  • If you want to see how Melbourne's water storages are doing you can follow @MelbourneWater – #FF for 2010! (almost) πŸ™‚ #
  • #10yearsago @donna_williams + I were starting out on our adventure in Malvern, UK with no thoughts of being in Australia. #
  • 2010 also means 100 years of Australian money – http://bit.ly/6eyfB4 #
  • RT @will_j: There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. (via @huwlynes +others) #
  • #SpamAssassin bug – dates in 2010 getting a large score added – http://bit.ly/5aQog9 – fix: score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0.0 #
  • OK, there appears to be a fixed version of the #SpamAssassin FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule now available via sa-update. #
  • sigh – survived #y2k with nary a scratch software wise but #SpamAssassin bit me with a #y2k10 bug instead! #
  • #Zimbra is also bitten by the #y2k10 #spamassassin bug – we had to fix /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin/72_active.cf #
  • RT @cosmos4u "Bright sungrazing comet in SOHO's field of view right now!" http://is.gd/5KaLE ! ( via @elakdawalla ) #
  • Not fun in #UK higher education sector, 1/8th of budget to be cut, #physics will probably cop a beating http://bit.ly/5vWsc7 #
  • Ò€œNoughtiesÒ€ℒ confirmed as the warmest decade on record – UK Met Office – http://bit.ly/7GdGxh #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Wish that @worldlandtrust accepted Maestro cards for donations, could have donated more for the folks I just did Xmas gifts! #
  • UK Xmas number 1 – Rage Against The Machine – Killing in the Name of – w00t πŸ™‚ #buyinginthenameof #
  • The irony is that both artists (RATM and the X Factor) are signed to Sony BMG, so they'll be loving this #buyinginthenameof #
  • But at least one of the RATM folks is donating his profits from this to the UK homeless charity #Shelter #buyinginthenameof #
  • Now this is neat! Google map of planning alerts around Melbourne CBD courtesy of @planningalerts – http://bit.ly/5wxmIR #
  • RT @KateLundy: New post: Further thoughts on the filter http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/12/21/further-thoughts-on-the-filter/ #nocleanfeed #
  • Hope my #N900 arrives before Xmas, only a few more days to go before it overruns 5-10 business days for post from the US #
  • ensemble contained 17 model runs, […] 13 showed a global average temperature rise of 4°C or higher by the 2080s http://bit.ly/7EXIaI #
  • Oops – Canadian mint accidentally sold $3 million worth of gold as refinery slag – via @BreakingNews http://bit.ly/5lwru1 #
  • #GE v. Thomsen: A British #Libel Case – http://bit.ly/6k3gW9 #
  • China says it didn't wreck #COP15 talks, India says they and China worked together to prevent agreement http://bit.ly/88fwlj #
  • They survived Black Saturday and now this, how heartless! – Thieves trash, rob #Marysville Patisserie http://bit.ly/4peXyL #
  • ABC News – Eyewitness: How China sabotaged climate talks #COP15 http://bit.ly/4JH1z0 #
  • Nice post – #2012: The Long Count does not end on December 21, 2012 – http://bit.ly/4nu8UP (via @2012hoax) #
  • RT @kattekrab: ancient #Aboriginal occupation revealed in northwestern #Australia (45k-50k years ago) – http://bit.ly/4vAJYX #
  • #RIP Arnold Stang, aka Top Cat – http://bit.ly/8YiIOE #
  • RT @marsroverdriver Seven US states ban atheists from public office. […] Props to this guy: http://bit.ly/8Xkgc4 #
  • Heard a great track on Dig Radio tonight – WaDJimbat Matilda by the Mills Sisters from the album "Culture: music from Black Australia" #
  • love the comment "the percussion is provided by pen and coffee mug" about "WaDJimbat Matilda" http://bit.ly/4r85Um #
  • Dear #lazyweb – anyone know where I can buy a copy of "Culture: Music from Black Australia" (ABC Music) from 2001 ? #
  • Merry Seasonal Festival of Your Choice (or not)! Just ticked over midnight December 25th here so time for bed (said Zebedee!) #
  • cooked a lovely xmas lunch with @donna_williams! #
  • We roasted chicken, home made GF sage+onion stuffing, pumpkin, carrots + home grown baby garlic with peas and gf gravy – yum! #
  • RT @elakdawalla Kids are in bed. Time to be Santa!! Why thank you, yes, I will have some milk and cookies. After my beer. #
  • Merry Newtonmass everyone! http://bit.ly/7lXmFT #
  • Interesting interview with @SabineEller about Vox Humanitatis and the Parley program in #KDE http://bit.ly/5JpGV3 #
  • Wondering if you can use gadgets on a plane to the US? Give up! #TSA says "These measures are designed to be unpredictable" #
  • Can't test betas of #KDE 4.4 as #Digikam not yet built against them, so it blocks their installation in #kubuntu πŸ™ #
  • Brendan Scott reports #Candian record companies in the dock for #music #piracy – http://bit.ly/5AYdSP – under their own laws #
  • Xena is FOSS from National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records http://bit.ly/6LD8Zr #
  • Simple #Melbourne real-time tram tracker for the #Nokia #N900 by Danielle Madeley – http://bit.ly/7OSyrA #
  • Writing to govt about #nocleanfeed and #censorship? Read "Bernard KeaneÒ€ℒs guide to writing to Ministers" http://bit.ly/6lN7YY #
  • #TSA I've got a great idea to improve security, if someone's father warns you about their son, how about investigating? #
  • "TSA wonÒ€ℒt allow planes to take off and land until all passengers are in a chemically induced coma" – from @sijoe's blog #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • "PayPal Conversion Rate as of 13 Dec 2009: 1 Australian Dollar = 0 US Dollars" #fail πŸ™‚ #
  • Hooray for #Texas! (yes, really) Putting common sense above prejudice. http://bit.ly/61nMeI #
  • ABC: #Australia accused of cooking the carbon books – http://bit.ly/4TDNNV – by trying to exclude "extraordinary events" #
  • Friday I handed in my notice at #VPAC, am moving in January to Uni of Melbourne to work on big #HPC @ the #VLSCI project! #
  • Octopus tool use "I almost drowned laughing when I saw this the first time" Dr Finn, Museum Victoria – http://bit.ly/5D0qcQ #
  • Could #Microsoft have been caught ripping someone else's code off again ? This time it's #Plurk – http://bit.ly/4Jh4on (via @arjenlentz) #
  • Enex report on mandatory #Internet #censorship in #Australia is mirrored here courtesy of @tardis_42- http://bit.ly/8O3RsW #
  • I wonder if this hardware issue affects production #N900's ? (blog is about a pre-production one) http://bit.ly/6imCY7 #
  • Dear @KevinRuddPM – due to lack of action on climate change and this crazy Internet censorship scheme I'm voting #green #
  • Australian Christian Lobby now wants filtering in .au of "other harmful X and R-rated material on the internet" #nocleanfeed #
  • Seen any odd toads in your potted plants recently ? ABC is reporting "#Melbourne on cane toad alert" http://bit.ly/5ZFJzH #
  • Woman has to use male pen name to get decent treatment for her writing πŸ™ http://bit.ly/7oyxDw via @FindingAda @kattekrab #
  • .@skwashd whilst I agree @KevinRuddPM is a pest cane toads are also pretty bad for us if they get a foothold here #
  • Today it made it to over 39C (102F) in #Melbourne, hottest day since the Black Saturday bushfires last January #
  • I've had a comment that a person saw 10+ retweets of a message by me, but I can't see any evidence, anyone else seen this ? #
  • 1st century CE burial shroud found in Jerusalem, believed typical, much simpler than Turin shroud – http://bit.ly/4MoRGO #
  • .@NewScientist debunks the Daily Express's claims that #globalwarming is natural and not man-made – http://bit.ly/7HGPJ9 #
  • RT @wilw: The best thing about #Avatar is that it imagines a world where a program to breed Thundercats with Smurfs has been successful. #
  • Just marked 15 of @donna_williams paintings sold in her gallery – wow! http://bit.ly/4PBCNa #
  • Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World – http://bit.ly/52JGTz – gotta love @TheOnion πŸ˜‰ #
  • Now grabbing @CFA_INCIDENTS twitter feed via RSS as new official #CFA RSS feed is broken (all entries have the same GUID) #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Dr Brett Parish has a great page on "Responses to Questions & Objections on #ClimateChange" http://bit.ly/8dGmq3 #
  • Ever written code that you wish you hadn't ? Want to make up for it ? Buy some Bad-Code Offsets! http://bit.ly/6INlw9 #
  • #VPAC is advertising for #HPC #Linux cluster sysadmins! http://bit.ly/70XDp2 #
  • Right, @andybotting and my #Nokia #N900's are on their final leg, this time from LA to Melbourne! #
  • [more 'War on Photographers'] RT @arjenlentz http://bit.ly/5zQgvc UK: The holiday snaps that could get you arrested… #
  • [run Palm OS Garnett apps on the #N900 via @maemoexperts] RT @quimgil: Garnet VM Working on the Nokia N900 http://bit.ly/50tU07 #
  • RT @huwlynes #HPC #Wales announcement for those that haven't already seen it http://bit.ly/6lOjjv #
  • #n900 battery testing "Wow. How did you leave your N900 untouched for 12.5 days? I couldn't leave mine untouched for 12.5 minutes." #
  • #n900 battery testing quote from here – http://bit.ly/5Uy2nL #
  • Some great joke captions at the #BBC for the photo of the spiral light over Norway πŸ™‚ http://bit.ly/8sGWP5 #
  • Why bottled #water is bad for you http://bit.ly/4nDXHB (via @astronomyblog @marksands @iamjwc) – please share #
  • The #Android drivers have been removed from drivers/staging for 2.6.33 #Linux kernel as they've been abandoned by Google πŸ™ #
  • SpamAssassin 3.3.0-beta1 now available – first release since July 2008! http://bit.ly/4sFmh0 (new URL as bit.ly failed) #perl #
  • .@774melbourne Station Pier now reopened according to Vic Police – http://bit.ly/8BBxvh #
  • Couldn't make it to the Walk Against Warming today, glad to see 40,000 turned out in #Melbourne alone! #waw #getup #
  • UK Met Office warns carbon emissions must peak by 2020 to have 50% chance of avoiding 2C+ temp rise http://bit.ly/6dIp4X #
  • Australians revealed working more hours in unpaid overtime than their annual holiday entitlement http://bit.ly/8XD4Li #
  • Not looking forward to Wednesday – forecast is 39C (102F) and it's still only spring! #
  • Taking a break from chainsawing + carting logs to listen to meteors via radar http://tinyurl.com/ybbq9l3 (via @astronomyblog) #
  • Security asked @plutokiller to delete the photo in this tweet from his camera http://bit.ly/8AyzeX – how last century! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Just updated the prices of a heap of #paintings on @donna_williams online gallery http://bit.ly/7lWGNZ #autism #art #
  • #CERN #LHC is the first machine to go over 1 TeV in collisions (according to the BBC) http://bit.ly/8fAwUt #
  • Will the last moderate to leave the Liberal Party please lock the door behind you so the nutters can't get out ? #spill #
  • Woo-hoo! "Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit – Nov 30, 2009 11:57:03 AM" #n900 #amazon #nokia #
  • RT @marsroverdriver: Cassini flyby shows Enceladus venting: http://is.gd/58zao (on APOD, mosaic by @elakdawalla — nice job, Emily!) #
  • Hmm, looks like the @twitter RSS feeds are broken, getting HTML not XML! πŸ™ #
  • Trying to get @Amazon to honour their "Pre-Order Price Guarantee" (http://bit.ly/7KFe07) for my #N900; should be automatic! #
  • Yay for @Amazon, they refunded the missing $40 to make the full $106 ($53/phone) to match their pre-order guarantee #n900 #
  • RT @maemoexperts Oh yes … πŸ™‚ RT @darthpelo: Maemo5 inside Ubuntu inside Snow Leopard inside… http://tweetphoto.com/5719028 #
  • RT @PTnews: Did American whalers discover the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook? http://ff.im/-cjZmV #
  • Amazon reports my #Nokia #N900 has been delivered to my friends in LA! Now to get it to Australia.. πŸ˜‰ #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Dear #IBM, please do not spam our helpdesk system with adverts! thxbia #
  • Worth noting that the margin of error is very large, but means Antarctica is not as stable as thought – need more research! #
  • RT @BreakingNews: Two circulating beams have created the first collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. #LHC #CERN #
  • At least some folks are getting #Nokia #N900's shipped by Amazon! http://twitpic.com/qp46f (via B. Brindle @ Amazon forum) #
  • It appears our #Samsung TV runs Linux – strings says "Linux version 2.6.17.14_stm22_0039-Samsung_7103 (root@sp1) […]" #
  • Open-MPI related papers from #sc09 now available here : http://bit.ly/5y8ARg #ompi #hpc #mpi #
  • RT @plutokiller: oh my. the spectrograph has noticed an odd new light source. i believe it is called "dawn" #
  • "We are preparing these items for shipment and this portion of your order cannot be canceled or changed." #amazon #n900 πŸ™‚ #
  • …and yes, #amazon can't spell cancelled πŸ™‚ #
  • Saw "Spontaneous Broadway" with Julia Zemiro etc, great show! They're at #Melbourne #Comedy Theatre next! http://bit.ly/6jLpWP #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Nice morning walk by Columbia River, now time for #sc09 #
  • Is anyone else with a phone running #Android having problems getting onto the #sc09 wifi ? Associates OK but DHCP fails. #
  • Re: Android DHCP issues at #sc09: looks like IPv4 DHCP is taking a long time, same issue on laptop now. IPv6 comes up fine. #
  • Thanks for the tip on the umbrella @flexrex and @marchamilton – but it seemed to take your booth folks by surprise πŸ˜‰ #
  • RT @GetUp: http://pic.gd/9e10a4 GetUp volunteers taking our message directly to the decision makers #GetUp please RT #
  • right, almost time to head off to #sc09 exhibitors party at Union Station, sadly 2 of our party arrived too late to register! πŸ™ #
  • RT @HPC_Guru: Nov Top500: Jaguar at ORNL dethrones Roadrunner for #1 spot. China enters Top 5 with Tianhe-1 #SC09 #HPC http://bit.ly/27PfTl #
  • RT @HPC_Guru: #Top500 highlights: 427 out of 500 are Quad-core processor systems #HPC #SC09 http://bit.ly/3EA51G #
  • RT @sijoe #sc09 : my talk at Minnesota Supercomputer Insitute's booth on Tuesday 3-3:30pm http://scalability.org/?p=1946 #hpc #
  • hatching a plot for a possible Torque (queuing system) devs meetup on Tuesday night at #sc09 #
  • RT @HPC_Guru Cray Dethrones IBM In Supercomputing #SC09 http://bit.ly/2osKd #hpc #ibm #cray #
  • Top500.org presentations will be 5:30pm-7:30pm Tuesday evening at #sc09 #
  • RIP Edward Woodward – star of Breaker Morant, Callan and The Wicker Man. http://bit.ly/4ge9ty #
  • The traditional #sc09 list of clear-text passwords captured by the #SCinet people is up! http://bit.ly/3tKATc #security #
  • Hmm, the Top500 website is down saying "Unable to connect to database server", looks like MySQL has died! #sc09 #
  • Top500 website back up again – didn't realise they used #drupal before. #sc09 #
  • So #SCinet has 400 Gigabits of bandwidth for #sc09 this year, not bad! Wonder how much the entirety of Australia has ? #
  • ultraviolet finally launched at #sc09 RT @insideHPC #SGI finally announces make-or-break HPC platform http://bit.ly/28zTkp #
  • Nice to see the UK Campaign for Real Ale @HuntsCAMRA) take an interest in #sc09 – always knew beer was a vital part of #hpc! #
  • Looks like the Arista booth opposite us is going to have a barrista for the #sc09 opening reception tonight! πŸ™‚ #
  • VPAC booth at #sc09 is 353 (next to HPC Advisory Council) we have Cadbury Caramel Koalas flown in from #Australia. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Seems to be at least one digital SLR mounted up on the walls at #sc09, presumably for a time-lapse. Anyone know details? #
  • mumble mumble still no sign of our posters by our Australian students for the #sc09 gala opening, booth looking bare! πŸ™ #
  • RT @adriana872 Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware http://bit.ly/F35Is Makes you wanna throw in the towel… #
  • RT @jsquyres: Be sure to say hello at the Cisco booth; get a Cisco t-shirt and watch some Open MPI talks http://bit.ly/3ghGdq #SC09 #
  • RT @mustali: flashing the #N900 was fast and easy on #ubuntu.. http://bit.ly/F0OIF #
  • RT @huwlynes: Oh joy. A creationist has decided to come and play in the comments to a post on my blog from 2004. http://bit.ly/SFR4N #
  • Congrats to all, was grt! RT @insideHPC: Beowulf Bash 2009: Success! http://insidehpc.com/2009/11/17/beowulf-bash-2009-success/ #
  • πŸ˜‰ RT @brockpalen: Sc09 bag includes a microsoft plane, mine crashed a few times #sc09 OT #
  • RT @HPC_Guru someone forget to tell #SC09 Keynote Justin Rattner not to repeat Micheal Dell's mistake at SC08? Keynotes are NOT commercials! #
  • V.busy + wifi problems hence lack of tweets #
  • RT @rimuhosting: Last call to pick up $100 worth of VPS hosting credits. Visit http://tinyurl.com/twittercredits for more info! #
  • RT @774melbourne: Total Fire Ban tomorrow: NW, NE and Central regions, includes Ballarat, Lilydale, Lorne and Dandenong. #
  • At Open-MPI community meeting – Jeff wants feedback so if you've got comments please come! #sc09 #
  • Coverity do nightly reports on Open-MPI for free! #sc09 #ompi #
  • #OMPI 1.3.4 will be last release on 1.3 branch #sc09 #
  • #OMPI 1.3.4 will be first version with native #microsoft windows support (not that I'm interested) #sc09 #
  • orte_report_launch_progress – progress meter for launching large jobs in #OMPI 1.3.x #sc09 #
  • #OMPI 1.3.2 and greater has ABI compatibility #sc09 #
  • #OMPI ABI compatibility in 1.3.x from 1.3.2 onwards (just to be clearer) #sc09 #
  • Lots of BTL improvements in #OMPI 1.3, including TCP wire up and private network rules #sc09 #
  • #OMPI checksum PML to detect memory corruption! #sc09 #
  • Better adaptive algorithms for multi-rail interconnect support #sc09 #OMPI #
  • fault tolerance – coordinated/uncoordinated checkpoint/restart, supports BLCR and self, handles network migration #OMPI #sc09 #
  • #ompi versioning system, even minor numbers = "super stable" (1.2, 1.4), odd numbers = feature releases (1.3, 1.5) #sc09 #
  • possible #ompi 1.5 features – better management of parameters, sysadmin locking of settings, validity checking (very hard!) #sc09 #
  • possible #ompi 1.5 features – better system + network topology awareness, more shmem improvements, knem kerenel module support #sc09 #
  • possible #ompi 1.5 features – output multiplexing, "screen-like" features, #mellanox collective op offloading to NIC #sc09 #
  • possible #ompi 1.5 features – "who is talking to whom over what" – affirmative confirmation of using best interconnect #sc09 #
  • #MPI 2.2 books are available at cost from HLRS booth #2245 for $25 – 647 pages (4c per page)! #sc09 #hpc #
  • #ompi ABI stability is from 1.3.2 through to 1.4.x and will try for 1.5 (no guarantee there) and will depend on MPI-3 #sc09 #
  • RT @Yeraze: hah.. Dilbert has an #sc09 Comic.. http://bit.ly/w5j0p #
  • Discussion of ABI compat for apps between different MPI stacks (e.g. MPICH2/#OMPI) – suggested as topic for #MPI forum this arvo #
  • RT @lwnnet Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages http://bit.ly/2cfkF #linux #
  • At HPC Advisory Council initiative session. #sc09 #
  • Fermi = Tesla 20 series, also announced direct GPU<->IB CPU-less copies with Mellanox #sc09 #
  • LS-Dyna 3 vehicle collision gets up to 10% performance improvement with CPU affinity #sc09 #
  • RT @AARNet: AARNet will be launching a book on the 20 Years of the Internet in Australia on 26 November. Media briefing at 10am. #
  • So #Nokia has a press release out yesterday saying the #n900 is available, but Amazon + the flagship stores don't agree πŸ™ #
  • [related to ARCS data services ?] RT @AARNet News: AARNet takes large files to the cloud http://is.gd/4YGM4 #
  • In the main hall for the #sc09 keynote by Al Gore, up at 5:45am for this, must be mad! πŸ˜‰ #
  • RT @bdogg64: welcome to another episode of "Dude, where's my phone?" starring the Nokia N900 #
  • Free goodies at the #VPAC booth at #sc09 – no sales pitch (we're not selling anything!) – #353 πŸ™‚ #
  • So that's it, SC over for another year, next year is New Orleans! See you there.. πŸ˜‰ #sc09 #sc10 #
  • At LAX in the Qantas lounge on way back from #sc09, just bumped into Joe Cox from Apple in Melbourne. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Two police wandered past led by a Qantas club person, wonder if that's related to the smoking warning earlier.. #lax #
  • Looks like I'm heading back to a cool Melbourne after time in cool Portland for #sc09, phew! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-15

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Great to know you can take as much water onto a plane as you want, as long as it's frozen.. http://bit.ly/4lGzvh #
  • Off to #SC09 at the end of this week, anyone know if there's any hope of decent coffee in Portland OR? (@stewartsmith ?) #
  • RT @mustali successful vpn into my office network using vpnc (beta) on #N900. perfect. http://pi.pe/15e6i4 #
  • #Liberal and #National MP's are even stupider than I thought πŸ™ http://bit.ly/3V0Wx4 #climatechange #australia #fail #
  • AP sent anonymised climate data to independent statisticians – they confirm decades long upward trend – http://bit.ly/1lEiW4 #
  • thanks to @Garden27 for the link to that article! well worth a read.. #
  • RT @thedeadline: If you are going to #SC09 be sure to come by the Beowulf Bash on Monday night. Here is the invitation http://bit.ly/2bNUEd #
  • RT @elakdawalla LightSail: A million dollars says The Planetary Society can make a solar sail fly! http://bit.ly/44KVMv #
  • RT @elakdawalla @jeff_foust is Tweeting from Senate room where LightSail announcement now being made. #
  • lots of false rumours about #N900 shipping yesterday in UK, ppl forgot Nokia said there would be a PR when they left factory! #
  • Reuters: #Nokia CEO says starts delivery of top model #N900 http://bit.ly/3cnXVV #
  • It's getting more official – Nokia Conversations Blog – "#Nokia #N900 begins shipping!" – http://bit.ly/FlGFc #
  • "Today sees the first batch of Nokia N900 handsets boxed up and shipped out on their maiden voyage into wild." – http://bit.ly/FlGFc #
  • #N900 "The factories are now working full speed and the devices are on their way to distribution." http://bit.ly/4eQ4yT #
  • RT @jimfinnis: My left arm is now immune to swine flu, my right arm is now immune to seasonal flu. I feel like I should have superpowers. #
  • #Nokia #N900 user manual back online – http://bit.ly/2cOKya (PDF) #
  • Why on earth are #Apple iMac screens so crappy? Donna's replacement screen has failed with a big black band. #
  • OK – time for bed then off to Melbourne Airport for trip to US, 1 day in LA with friends then on to Portland for #SC09 ! #
  • Waiting to board QF93. Next stop LAX! #
  • QF93 still on ground, maintenance crew working on some problem. 105 mins late so far. Better to fix than fly! #
  • arrived safely in LA, QF93 delayed for 3 hours to fix a problem with de-icing gear on engine 4 before take off #
  • just had breakfast/lunch/coffee with Bev at Hugo's in North Hollywood, yum! #
  • RT: @rimuhosting is giving away $100 worth of VPS hosting credits. Visit http://tinyurl.com/twittercredits for more info! #
  • (@rimuhosting are the people I use for my VPS) #
  • RT @Mat_Kaplan: In case you didn't see today's NY Times spectacular coverage of LightSail: http://bit.ly/3Gxmx6 . #
  • RT @2012hoax: Someone tries to defend a 2012 spamsite in comments. We have our way with him. http://bit.ly/3Vz8fK #
  • RT @stewartsmith: http://ping.fm/p/nofcz – #myki fail. it's 1045pm, not 743am #
  • RT @insideHPC: Beowulf Bash 2009: Free Beer Included http://bit.ly/GpaOW #
  • RT @plutokiller: OK, a hint: 13 planets=bad science. ~200 planets? fine. 8 planets? good. 13 planets? sign of lack of understanding. #
  • RT @VAXHeadroom: #LCROSS Discovers WATER ON THE MOON! More that 24 gallons of water in the dust cloud seen by LCROSS' own cameras. #
  • Good morning from LA, at least I think it's morning. Hate jetlag. #
  • RT @elakdawalla: http://twitpic.com/pfuia – Google homepage night of Nov. 13 celebrates water on the Moon! #
  • RT @NASAJPL: RT @NASA El Nino may be picking up steam in the Pacific. See latest satellite image: http://bit.ly/4hNe82 #
  • #hpc RT @jonoxer: just found a design for a 'supercomputer' done when I was 16. Had arbitrary CPU count, custom language. 8 whole MHz #
  • RT @jwb713 Who's following the #SC09 hashtag? If you are, please RT this. Welcome to social media experiment Friday. #
  • As long as you count 'following' as the occasional twitter search for #SC09 πŸ™‚ you can't follow a hashtag, can you ? #
  • Just had the odd experience of almost asking to be on @bioinfo's #SC09 list when I noticed I was already there! #
  • RT @cyanogen: ANDROID 2.0 DROPPED INTO AOSP!!! #
  • Just found I need to checkin for the flight to PDX (AS569) 2 hours before time! Lucky to find that now I guess. πŸ™‚ #
  • OK, bed time, up at 7am, breakfast then off to LAX for the flight to Portland for #sc09! #
  • RT @bbart: SSL reneg bug exploited: http://bit.ly/10AFiT #
  • Arrived safely in Portland for #sc09 with a bunch of Aussies I bumped into at LAX. Sadly all in different hotels. Food time! #
  • Had a nice lunch at a little Japanese restaurant a couple doors down from Pizza Schmizza on SW River Drive #sc09 #
  • Then met Mike from #VPAC and had dinner tonight at Pizza Schmizza – also good! #sc09 #
  • Sounds like the Microsoft booth at #sc09 has caught the Vista virus, it needs more space than last year. πŸ™ #
  • Is this Stumptown Coffee really the closest good (non-Starbucks) coffee in Portland ? http://bit.ly/2c5HKU #sc09 #
  • Went out with fellow Torque dev Garrick Staples and his girlfriend to Mccormick & Schmick's, very good beer selection! #sc09 #

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Posted on November 8, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • RT @Garden27: 1st paper on Climate Change "Note on the Transmission of Radiant Heat through Gaseous Bodies" John Tyndall PhD FRS May 26 1859 #
  • RT @HPC_Guru @jwb713: Considering a list of high-performance computing twitter'ers. Shoot suggestions my way. Please RT #HPC #
  • #Mozilla #Firefox Mobile on #N900 – includes tab + awesome bar sync using Weave from your desktop – http://bit.ly/3G0DTf #
  • [1PF peak, not measured] RT @insideHPC: China Daily reports 1 PF Intel/AMD hybrid super http://bit.ly/44ihrF #
  • [Under development by Skype] RT @lwnnet: Open source Skype client under development http://lwn.net/Articles/359925/rss #
  • RT @bbart: If Lord Mandelson's "three strikes and you're off the net" goes through it'll really be "connection reset by peer". #
  • RT @GetUp Take GetUp's mythbuster sheet to cup day lunch and become a champion of tolerance and truth for asylum seekers http://ow.ly/yJR2 #
  • If you think that #2012 is going to be something special you *really* need to go read this site – http://bit.ly/no9M2 #
  • RT @elakdawalla: OMG Run to Cassini raw images site http://bit.ly/fpw4W for new pics from Enceladus flyby e.g. http://bit.ly/2ctwes WOW! #
  • Spectacular raw images of Enceladus coming from Cassini, including some of it against the rings, eg http://bit.ly/3z32SY #
  • A very artistic (and beautiful) #Saturn shot from #Cassini – http://bit.ly/4rW3N9 #
  • To finish up, two great shots of the surface of #Enceladus from #Cassini – http://bit.ly/3nbf1j + http://bit.ly/2XbFGL #
  • #Linux.Conf.Au #LCA2010 Early Bird Registrations have almost sold out; you have been warned! #LCA #
  • Been updating Donna's list of events for the US (and Geelong), including adding online ticket sales for the Geelong show! #
  • You can find @donna_williams list of forthcoming events here – http://bit.ly/2gU6Wn #autism #music #
  • Joe Bonamassa – Blues Deluxe – http://bit.ly/2TOwHv – excellent #blues guitarist #
  • RT @astronomyblog: "Arrogant gods of certainty" says Daily Mail about scientists http://bit.ly/45lLmJ Certainty?! […] #
  • mercury? RT @cosmos4u: Observation made by LAMP on LRO during LCROSS impact measured strange chemistry: http://is.gd/4M3xX #
  • RT @HPC_Guru: RT @jwb713: Considering a list of high-performance computing twitter'ers. Shoot suggestions my way. Please RT #HPC #
  • RT @adriana872: serious #SSL issue RT @BenLaurie: Another broken protocol: http://www.links.org/?p=780 #
  • RT @VAXHeadroom: Happy Flux Capacitor Day!! http://bit.ly/1R0xhD #
  • RT @adriana872 what data is stored with your google account? google dashboard tells you: http://bit.ly/45KdHK #dataliberationfront #MINT #
  • Fed up of #Zimbra not warning you if people you book into meetings are busy? Vote for bug 23551! http://bit.ly/myTnG #
  • RT @Internode We've just launched Australia's first national native IPV6 trial for ADSL customers. Find out how to play http://bit.ly/19JLQS #
  • RT @AsteroidWatch: At its closest approach asteroid 2009 VA was about 8700 miles above the Earth's surface. #
  • Matt Porter's #Android Mythbusters presentation now available online as PDF, well worth a read! http://bit.ly/2eiKQp #
  • [store now down] RT @whoami1975: Nokia USA changed #N900 availability to "Out of stock" … after some downtime today … can it be true?! #
  • Hmm, Nokia's online store fall down go boom ? #
  • http://data.australia.gov.au/ – appears to be a portal to various Australian #government data sets under CC-BY license #
  • Nokia store back up and reverted to saying the #N900 is due at the end of November. http://bit.ly/2VTesU #
  • [ #2012 ] RT @NASA: Relax, the world is still going to be around: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html #
  • Another good #2012 FAQ on the #NASA Astrobiology site: http://bit.ly/2AKY4M #
  • RT @guardianeco: "It is an insult to science to rule that belief in man-made climate change is a religious conviction" http://bit.ly/2ZJfBG #
  • RT @donna_williams: The 1995 autism documentary, Jam Jar, featuring Donna Williams just released on DVD http://bit.ly/4CyrqN #autism #

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