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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • RT @HPC_Guru: #Apple dumps Sun's #ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X. http://bit.ly/LXxet #
  • MacOSX Forge "ZFS Project Shutdown – The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly." #
  • #Apple #ZFS ppl have set up a refuge prior to the deletion of their project and mailing list here – http://bit.ly/23LN6d #
  • #Apple apparently dropped #ZFS due to difficulties negotiating non-CDDL licensing terms with #Sun – http://bit.ly/3JylRg #
  • Another Monday morning, off to work! #
  • RT @VAXHeadroom Schrâdinger's doorbell…http://twitpic.com/mx9qf (from @Granstimahara of Mythbusters!) #
  • Atom feed of #Maemo bugs that are related to the #N900 if you're feeling masochistic πŸ™‚ http://bit.ly/3wJS1D #
  • RT @HPC_Guru: Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor. 64-bit, integrated DDR3 controller http://bit.ly/qrlN0 #HPC #
  • eep! just found out @donna_williams has an interview at SynFM at 7:30am so she has to get the 6:03am train! #
  • …and that means me on that same crazy early train too! #
  • RT @jsquyres: MPI Fortran developer community – MPI Forum needs feedback on a critical issue before making a decision: http://bit.ly/2OQy0D #
  • RT @cyanogen: Full OBEX support for Android: http://bit.ly/MC9fg (will be CM soon) #
  • RT @enomaly_ecp Microsoft "Opens" Outlook Personal Folders Format (.pst) http://bit.ly/298Ra7 #
  • Had the jab for #H1N1 today, just in case.. #
  • #Scientology convicted of organised fraud in France – http://bit.ly/3etYnx #
  • RT @AARNet: Events: Video anywhere at Deakin University http://is.gd/4E4nD #
  • RT @melburnian: If you tweet from Melbourne, please RT this so we can find all tweeples on twitter & follow you πŸ˜‰ #Melbourne #
  • hmmm πŸ™‚ RT @stewartsmith: mowing the lawn did not magically fix my bug. #
  • Great quote from our friend Earl, "the film had me on the edge of my toes" πŸ™‚ #
  • RT @roberthollow [Australian] Prime Minister's Science Prize to CSIRO's John O'Sullivan for WiFi from radio astronomy: http://is.gd/4FES3 #
  • RT @ESAHerschel It's been a long haul, but getting close to routine ops. A few routine science observations have already been carried out #
  • Congrats to Amanda Barnard, past #VPAC user from Uni of Melbourne now at CSIRO, on being "Physical Scientist of the Year"! #
  • Maemo.org ppl who reordered their #N900's due to issue with Nokias online shop report being told 9th November as ship date #
  • The end of time – Feb. 7th 2036, 6:28:16 GMT – the last date that can be expressed by #NTP! Found at http://bit.ly/3QcqYJ #
  • continuous lightning here, great thunderstorm! #
  • Wow it's hot in a bee suit on a morning like this! Still, got a new box onto the hive for them to expand into.. #
  • RT @kartar: Americans are weird. Interesting that "save the Constitution" stuff came under Obama and not Bush who crucified the Constitution #
  • Off to see Donna and the Aspinauts "Footsteps of a Nobody" at The Guild Theatre, #Melbourne Uni 8pm! http://bit.ly/2kZxYV #
  • setting up for the gig at the Guild Theatre! #
  • RT @astronomyblog: So ashamed that UK Borders Agency deported @phdcomics http://bit.ly/mHUGw #
  • At after show party, was a great gig! πŸ™‚ #
  • Amazon UK have dropped "November 2nd" date for #N900, now it's just "Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available." #
  • RT @xspyda: My Amazon UK order of my N900 has just been updated with an estimated delivery date of Dec 1st! πŸ™ #
  • RT @huwlynes: . @phdcomics finally let into the country. http://bit.ly/3nA5Bn
    #openborders #
  • Harold Welte has a binary patch to allow real Jabber support on #Palm Pre – http://bit.ly/RP1a2 #
  • [fab gig!] RT @donna_williams: New blog post: Footsteps of A Nobody on Halloween. http://bit.ly/4lRi05 #
  • Not a good morning on Belgrave line – person hit by train earlier (no info on how bad) and now line closed due to tree down! #
  • As it's been a month since I ordered my #N900 Amazon US just required me to confirm that I'm still interested. Said yes. #
  • Dear #Google, please don't send me Google Alerts for links on my own blog to itself, thx bia #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Nightly #Android – for – #Freerunner builds are very fast! New weekly build just came out.. yum! πŸ˜‰ #
  • Yay, working. GPRS! #imonthetrain #
  • http://bit.ly/ao08q – Petition on UK PMs website to protect the right to report proceedings of the Houses of Parliament #
  • RT @jonoxer: Practical Arduino cover and stats: http://www.practicalarduino.com/news/id/461 #
  • NSW Police: "If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a #Linux boot up disk" http://bit.ly/15Abwm #
  • [and ripped off by Nirvana!] RT @Atlantean7001 'Eighties' by Killing Joke. I have forgotten how good that song was! #killingjoke #eighties #
  • Just tried to book tickets for us to see the Black Arm Band @ the Arts Center: Friday sold out, Saturday only 1 left πŸ™ #
  • [you need windows to watch – #fail] RT @KARENnews Supercomputing seminar October 22 4:30pm NZDT (2:30pm EDT) http://bit.ly/15uBDj #
  • #Wordpress 2.8.5 is released, it's a security hardening release based on what's being done for 2.9 – http://bit.ly/G2UQg #
  • [ πŸ™‚ ] RT @ear1grey: LOL at #HTML5 editors draft "How to read this specification" http://bit.ly/3r0fY5 #
  • Some really great shots in the BBC's summary of the "Landscape of the Year" awards http://bit.ly/IEwF0 #photography #
  • RT @lwnnet: Red Hat share price passes #Microsoft's (The Inquirer) http://lwn.net/Articles/357734/rss #redhat #linux #
  • RT @plutokiller: Things I learned in Madrid today: 100 million virus particles in a milliliter of sea water. I'm no longer thirsty. #
  • RT @plutokiller: More virology: there are 10 virus particles for every single cell on earth. I'm no longer hungry, either. #
  • [what planet are #Microsoft on!] RT @Obdurodon: Most ignorant statement ever: #HPC has traditionally used #Java http://bit.ly/mxBsN #
  • It's interesting the commands you've never heard of which you stumble across through typos! #
  • Todays #Linux typo command is "ss" – provides socket info including CC mechanism – very handy! http://bit.ly/3kJVI5 #
  • Fake titanium may be in #NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Rover 'Curiosity' – http://is.gd/4v7p3 – via @marsroverdriver #
  • Good to see someone demoing #Ubuntu #Linux on a laptop to a friend at the station on #Windows7 launch day #
  • Finding it hard to be anything other than underwhelmed by Google Wave. Public waves too chaotic, private ones moribund. #
  • [good article] RT @astronomyblog: Geneticists speak against the 'British aborigines' claims from #bbcqt: http://bit.ly/13IDN9 #
  • RT @steve_evil: A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to 2 tables and asks, Can I join you? #
  • Hmm, seems like Twitter tools lost the link to that post, let's try that again! #
  • Ultimate unintended irony – FOX News CEO says U.S. needs "fair and balanced news more than ever before." #
  • heading off to the Sunday jam session at the Mount Dandenong pub #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • RT @webmink: Top rumour on US Sidekick data loss: Microsoft attempted SAN upgrade wi/out backup and it failed http://bit.ly/9PktK Epic Fail #
  • RT @GetUp: RT: Help GetUp fight coal lobby lies! We've made a parody of their deceptive ad campaign, check it out here: http://ow.ly/tSYi #
  • Better Model Predicts Faster Climate Change – HPCwire – http://bit.ly/137ASb #
  • #CarterRuck http://bit.ly/KRjSc #Trafigura http://is.gd/4fZlX #StreisandEffect http://is.gd/4fZps #democracy #lawyerfail #
  • If you are confused by that last tweet please do read http://bit.ly/2jGpea "The #Trafigura question #CarterRuck donÒ€ℒt want you to see" #
  • This is so bad it's good – AC/DC Thunderstruck meets Microsoft #Songsmith – http://bit.ly/9qNQF #
  • [it's not over yet] RT @alecmuffett #trafigura #carterruck – the final and best analysis: http://bit.ly/C5eZH #
  • "Check your #email servers – blackholes.us DNSBL is dead" – DNS servers saying everything is #spam – http://bit.ly/gAtE8 #
  • Rumours are on the Amazon forums that Amazon have the Nokia #N900 in the warehouse waiting for clearance to ship. #
  • Time to connect two meme's – Google #Wave running on the Nokia #N900 πŸ™‚ http://bit.ly/3UKO5T #
  • RT @andybotting It seems the ABC are deliberately blocking third party clients on iView. 60 seconds and the connection gets terminated πŸ™ #
  • Someone submitted over 8,000 jobs to Tango this a.m, took Moab past its default 4096 limit so it was ignoring the rest – fixed! #
  • [Congrats on finishing Practical #Arduino!] RT @jonoxer Final tally: 143048 words, 14 projects, 16 chapters. DONE. #
  • Amazon UK have posted a release date of 2nd November for the #N900 – http://bit.ly/2FoLsB #
  • [ yay! my wife is coming home soon! πŸ™‚ ] RT @donna_williams last 2 uk lectures http://bit.ly/4bohlW #autism #
  • RT @774melbourne: Some people who took refuge in bunkers last season died not from radiant heat, but from asphyxiation. #fireawareness #
  • #Melbourne now has more than at this time last year – and flood warnings – yay for late rain! http://bit.ly/H4rPn #
  • You really get my groat #medievalbumperstickers #
  • Sisyphus rocks! #medievalbumperstickers #
  • Black Death European Tour 1348-1350 – Supported by Iron Maiden and Dead Can Dance #medievalbumperstickers #
  • This is good for a chuckle – Matthew Ebel – Everybody Needs A Ninja – http://bit.ly/OMeta (via Steven Hanley) #
  • RT @huwlynes #Trafigura win today's Doublespeak Award. The injunction was to "help the debate". http://bit.ly/JfADe #
  • Hmm, does http://bit.ly/2xHnnn sound a bit like #TheMine, @alecmuffett @adriana872 ? #vrm #
  • Quake 3 Arena on the Nokia #N900 ! – http://bit.ly/3QANdi #
  • Hmm, I wonder why the Catalyst science videos (e.g. http://bit.ly/3aHWhZ ) on the ABC website don't work ? πŸ™ #
  • RT @elakdawalla: Way cool: Bounced boulder blocks a gully (or maybe a dry dust flow) on Mars! http://twitpic.com/lsry0 (via @mars_stu) #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • RT @webmink: Top rumour on US Sidekick data loss: Microsoft attempted SAN upgrade wi/out backup and it failed http://bit.ly/9PktK Epic Fail #
  • RT @GetUp: RT: Help GetUp fight coal lobby lies! We've made a parody of their deceptive ad campaign, check it out here: http://ow.ly/tSYi #
  • Better Model Predicts Faster Climate Change – HPCwire – http://bit.ly/137ASb #
  • #CarterRuck http://bit.ly/KRjSc #Trafigura http://is.gd/4fZlX #StreisandEffect http://is.gd/4fZps #democracy #lawyerfail #
  • If you are confused by that last tweet please do read http://bit.ly/2jGpea "The #Trafigura question #CarterRuck donÒ€ℒt want you to see" #
  • This is so bad it's good – AC/DC Thunderstruck meets Microsoft #Songsmith – http://bit.ly/9qNQF #
  • [it's not over yet] RT @alecmuffett #trafigura #carterruck – the final and best analysis: http://bit.ly/C5eZH #
  • "Check your #email servers – blackholes.us DNSBL is dead" – DNS servers saying everything is #spam – http://bit.ly/gAtE8 #
  • Rumours are on the Amazon forums that Amazon have the Nokia #N900 in the warehouse waiting for clearance to ship. #
  • Time to connect two meme's – Google #Wave running on the Nokia #N900 πŸ™‚ http://bit.ly/3UKO5T #
  • RT @andybotting It seems the ABC are deliberately blocking third party clients on iView. 60 seconds and the connection gets terminated πŸ™ #
  • Someone submitted over 8,000 jobs to Tango this a.m, took Moab past its default 4096 limit so it was ignoring the rest – fixed! #
  • [Congrats on finishing Practical #Arduino!] RT @jonoxer Final tally: 143048 words, 14 projects, 16 chapters. DONE. #
  • Amazon UK have posted a release date of 2nd November for the #N900 – http://bit.ly/2FoLsB #
  • [ yay! my wife is coming home soon! πŸ™‚ ] RT @donna_williams last 2 uk lectures http://bit.ly/4bohlW #autism #
  • RT @774melbourne: Some people who took refuge in bunkers last season died not from radiant heat, but from asphyxiation. #fireawareness #
  • #Melbourne now has more than at this time last year – and flood warnings – yay for late rain! http://bit.ly/H4rPn #
  • You really get my groat #medievalbumperstickers #
  • Sisyphus rocks! #medievalbumperstickers #
  • Black Death European Tour 1348-1350 – Supported by Iron Maiden and Dead Can Dance #medievalbumperstickers #
  • This is good for a chuckle – Matthew Ebel – Everybody Needs A Ninja – http://bit.ly/OMeta (via Steven Hanley) #
  • RT @huwlynes #Trafigura win today's Doublespeak Award. The injunction was to "help the debate". http://bit.ly/JfADe #
  • Hmm, does http://bit.ly/2xHnnn sound a bit like #TheMine, @alecmuffett @adriana872 ? #vrm #
  • Quake 3 Arena on the Nokia #N900 ! – http://bit.ly/3QANdi #
  • Hmm, I wonder why the Catalyst science videos (e.g. http://bit.ly/3aHWhZ ) on the ABC website don't work ? πŸ™ #
  • RT @elakdawalla: Way cool: Bounced boulder blocks a gully (or maybe a dry dust flow) on Mars! http://twitpic.com/lsry0 (via @mars_stu) #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Even #Microsoft canÒ€ℒt get #OOXML right.. http://bit.ly/2zVgVs #standardfail #broken #fail #
  • A case of two wheels good, four wheels better ? Segway concept 4 wheeler – http://bit.ly/SegwayCentaur – via @alecmuffett #
  • just picked up my photos from display at a cafe for the last few months. People liked them + the owner kept them up longer. #
  • Didn't sell any though, but not really surprising given it was only my second showing ever, and my first ever solo show! #
  • oh noes – calamari still frozen! random fridge pillage food time.. #
  • RT @elakdawalla More indirect evidence that the ringed planet may have a ringed moon: http://bit.ly/M3XSL #
  • Following on from @ids – AU #Apple TV ~ US$288/GBP181/AU$329, UK one ~ US$348/GBP219/AU$397, US is US$229/GBP143/AU$261 #
  • nice one #AARNET! RT @AARNet: News: AARNet provides unmetered access to Akamai's cached content http://is.gd/3Ym3I #
  • What Australian climate experts are thinking (ABC news blog) – http://bit.ly/3n5XVo #
  • #GDB 7.0 released – includes Python scripting support – http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ANNOUNCEMENT #
  • #N900 browser tricks and tips… http://bit.ly/t4DCI #
  • just printed out the #N900 manual, now to read it on the train home and try not to drool on it πŸ˜‰ #
  • #Tsunami warning for the Pacific after mag 8 #earthquake near Vanuatu – http://bit.ly/1OlmBT #
  • USGS #earthquake report for mag 8.1 quake near Vanuatu is here – http://bit.ly/4eMC62 #
  • Vanuatu #earthquake revised down to magnitude 7.8 – still big #
  • Now a magnitude 7.3 #earthquake near Vanuatu (also shallow) – http://bit.ly/RzCd2 #
  • day off today (after working Sunday) so now it's breakfast time! πŸ˜‰ #
  • #Tsunami watch for Queensland, Australia – "between Bowen and St Lawrence" and tsunami expected at Willis Island #
  • "a tsunami is expected to affect Willis Island off the Queensland coast at about 9:4am AEST" – http://bit.ly/UXoNv #tsunami #
  • If you see people labelling spam with vanuatu or tsunami to get into search results, please block them. #
  • RT @CAREAustralia CARE staff on Ambae Island,Vanuatu monitoring the impact of earthquake. Staff ion high ground ,can see tidal wave coming #
  • Australian BoM has cancelled tsunami watch for QLD. – http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/ #
  • Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PWTC) has just issued a tsunami warning supplement with some measurements http://bit.ly/4tprUD #
  • USGS have revised the mag 6.2 quake near Vanuatu to mag 7.1 – that's almost 10x more powerful (log scale) #
  • RT @BreakingNews BULLETIN — PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER CANCELS ALL TSUNAMI WARNINGS AND WATCHES. #
  • PTWC official bulletin cancelling #tsunami watch here – http://bit.ly/rcefm #
  • Just because the tsunami alert is cancelled doesn't mean that there won't be more quakes as the fault line settles. #
  • RT @Images of the Nokia #N900 from CTIA Fall 2009 http://bit.ly/XTWGC #
  • RT @allaboutmaemo Maemo 5 (Nokia N900) downloads now available – http://bit.ly/M8h87 downloads on maemo.org now has a listing for Maemo 5 #
  • Yay, one of the downloads for the N900 is for Ogg support! http://bit.ly/GoArY Nokia, this really should be by default! #
  • Off to Monash Uni for the launch of their new Apple #HPC cluster called "Orchard". Will there be cider @markbate ? πŸ˜‰ #
  • RT @alecmuffett Many cryppies will know Hal Finney http://finney.org/~hal/ but *everyone* who is human should read -> http://is.gd/44HAm #
  • The Maemo 5 team have a YouTube channel talking about the #N900 apps – http://www.youtube.com/maemo5uiteam #
  • RT @NewHorizons2015: […] DPS: Pluto's evidence for a CO-rich ice spot grows– but why is it there? A 1st hint of Plutonian volcanism? #
  • As a former Usenet admin and FAQ keeper this is sad news about Googles broken archiving – http://bit.ly/3nPQF6 (via @alecmuffett) #
  • RT @astronomyblog: Gloucester pub gets "Good Lighting" award from BAA http://bit.ly/oFK00 #
  • I wonder how long before I meet a sysadmin to whom I can say "I was an admin before you were born" – probably all too soon! #
  • RT @huwlynes Google study on DRAM errors in the real world (via arstechnica) http://tinyurl.com/yeyc5hu #
  • RT @plutokiller More on KBO occult. If you're in Aus. , NZ, HI, SW US w/scope for LCROSS, watch the pre-game show. http://bit.ly/2NkwwL #
  • Back @ home watching @LCROSS_NASA on NASA TV en route to a not-very soft landing – 20 min to impact – http://bit.ly/IAL4 #
  • RT @LEIGHSALES: the NASA moon probe is due to happen at 1030pm our time – if we can get the vision turned around in time, we'll run it. #
  • RT @VAXHeadroom "Look at the SIZE of that thing! Cut the chatter Red 2." #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA #NASA #
  • 5 minutes to Centaur impact #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA #
  • Nice of #NASA to schedule the impact of @LCROSS_NASA just after the last episode of Spooks at the start of the news! πŸ™‚ #LCROSS #
  • 2 mins to #LCROSS Centaur impact! #
  • Can I get my laptop up and going to be able to watch NASA TV and ABC news at the same time ? #
  • 60 seconds to Centaur impact! #LCROSS #
  • no sign of centaur impact ? #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA #
  • Last few seconds of @LCROSS_NASA #LCROSS! #
  • #LCROSS @LCROSS_NASA impact – report LoS #
  • ABC Late Line didn't manage to show the live @LCROSS_NASA impact footage, still leading on other stories. #LCROSS #
  • [um, it's not an *air*craft, it's a *space*craft!] RT @BreakingNews: BULLETIN — SECOND NASA AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO THE MOON. #
  • RT @elakdawalla RT @NASA_Langley Note to all: science is not always visible to the camera. Sensors and instruments give actual data. #LCROSS #
  • All hail Douglas Adams – RT @LCROSS_NASA Ò€œThat's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?Ò€ #
  • RT @astronomyblog Loving that @LCROSS_NASA's twitter account re-created the scene from HHGTTG. πŸ™‚ #
  • Oops – #Palm Pre southern hemisphere GPS #fail! http://bit.ly/1av7kI #
  • Catching up on overnight @LCROSS_NASA updates on @elakdawalla blog on the Planetary Society site http://bit.ly/897k5 #LCROSS #
  • [Lovely picture!] RT @marsroverdriver Thar be dragons! On Shelter Island! http://is.gd/498sM πŸ˜‰ #
  • A great gallery of @LCROSS_NASA impact related images by @elakdawalla here http://bit.ly/6yRtR #LCROSS #
  • [yay!] RT @lwnnet: Nokia ports #Qt to #Maemo 5 (the Inquirer) http://lwn.net/Articles/356335/rss #LWN #N900 #
  • RT @alecmuffett: one thing about #themineproject I'm very proud of: re-establishing that Open Source is something you "make", not "vend" #
  • Oh I wish the not-open-but-build-from-source scientific codes would open up – their build systems are generally awful! #
  • Typical, you wait weeks for a #Google #Wave invite and then two turn up at the same time.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Odd, the Nokia #N900 user guide has either been moved or deleted from the Nokia site, PDF has gone 404 πŸ™ #
  • Found a document on getting the #N900 talking to an #Arduino via Bluetooth – one for @jonoxer ? http://bit.ly/49WE2o PDF #
  • No answer to my blog on questions on the #N900 based on the manual (now gone from the Nokia site), so will ask here! πŸ™‚ #
  • Is #N900 offline mode really flight mode? Manual: "Calls may still be possible to the official emergency number programmed into your device" #
  • Why canÒ€ℒt the #N900 A-GPS service use Wifi ? Manual says that only "a packet data Internet access point can be used." #
  • #N900 guide "an update using the Nokia Software Updater may sometimes be necessary" but is windows only; Linux alternative ? #
  • Does the #N900 automatic time update use NTP, GPS or the GSM time information some carriers provide (or some combination) ? #
  • Can you charge the #N900 whilst it is off ? Might sound like a silly question but Neo Freerunner has to be on to charge. #
  • Hmm, testing tweeting from Google Wave.. sadly it seems to hide the identities of the tweeters in what it gets from Twitter.. πŸ™ #
  • The spammers are getting lazy, 4 people followed me all with the same 3 tweets and all sent through HelloTxt.. #
  • Carbon dioxide, water vapour and ozone were shown to be greenhouse gases by John Tyndall in *1859*. http://bit.ly/Zf5NB #
  • At last – on the worst bushfire risk days the VIC state gov will advise ppl to leave the night before http://bit.ly/upzbc #
  • RT @cyberdoyle went in asda today,4 litres milk £3.46. milk left our #farm in tanker this morning at 17p a litre.4x17p=68p #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-04

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • legislate in haste repeal at leisure: RT @alecmuffett latest news on Babysitting Ban, posted 10 mins ago on BBC website http://bit.ly/4lVWBF #
  • Hmm, don't know if I've seen a functioning system with a load average of over 750 before.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • Phew, the load average is going down, only 530 now.. #
  • [amazing!] Via @marsroverdriver @stumax, Carl Sagan & Steven Hawking Remixed: http://is.gd/3HYgb #
  • Solved some of my audio problems with #ubuntu #karmic – aptitude purge pulseaudio FTW πŸ™‚ #
  • Remember the Sandia Labs million machine #botnet simulation? Turns out that was done using lguest! http://bit.ly/19J1sQ #
  • RT @ESAHerschel: Herschel has just released its first science data to users. […] #
  • Got a friend on holiday in #Vanuatu at the moment, hope the #tsunami misses them.. #
  • Looks like the #tsunami watch & warning for the Pacific has now been cancelled – http://bit.ly/Nys6m #
  • #Tsunami cancellation only for Hawaii, not for the rest of the Pacific, PTWS website is confusing. πŸ™ #
  • Front page of the PTWS #tsunami warning says "low" and no warnings, but that's only for Hawaii πŸ™ #
  • The PTWS sub page specifically for the #Pacific area still says "High" with warnings in force #
  • Hooray! @donna_williams + I are now registered beekeepers with 1 hive! #
  • [Electoral boundaries in #GIS form] RT @kattekrab: @OpenAustralia – Oh Hello! seen this? http://data.australia.gov.au/27 #
  • Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (#PTWC) has RSS feeds of alerts for various locations with text version of the messages #
  • RT @insideHPC: Alcatel achieves 100 Petabits per second.kilometer optical transmission http://bit.ly/2xulce #
  • RT @kattekrab I am looking for journos interested in education and technology to invite to attend #openedge http://open-edge.info [#lazyweb] #
  • RT @insideHPC […] First silicon of Fermi running demo on screen. Side by side with GT200…5x faster. See it to believe it. #gputechconf #
  • Off to take @donna_williams to the airport to go to her UK speaking tour! #
  • So have ordered my next phone after the Kogan Android one fell through, this time it's a #Nokia #N900 #
  • Note to Apple, Garmin and Google – I ordered the #N900 'cos it's more open than your devices and not tied to a carrier #
  • [ πŸ™‚ ] RT @dailyclash: #Video: #SNES runs beautifully on #N900, makes our hearts flutter http://tinyurl.com/yaw6z4p #
  • Why #Starbucks failed in Australia: http://bit.ly/yDik0 a nice read and makes good sense with Melbournes coffee culture #
  • Just back from #Dali exhibition at National Gallery in Victoria – the jewels are something to see! Ends tomorrow. #
  • indie not for profit introing technology and Internet into remote Indigenous communities in Australia – @DotComMob – Follow Friday #
  • You can find out more about the @DotComMob on their website – http://www.dotcommob.org/ #
  • RT @MarsRovers Oppty. is developing a real knack for stumbling upon meteorites on Mars. Check out the latest find: http://bit.ly/lFoYX #
  • RT @insideHPC: Fermi: 512 cores, ECC, 8x faster DP maths, hierarchical cache, theoretical 1 TB memory, support for C++. #gputechconf #
  • Don't forget – clocks go forward one hour tonight for DST! (well, they do if you're in Victoria, Australia!) πŸ™‚ #
  • James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss http://bit.ly/lTvVg #TED #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • [ go Shoaib!:-) ] RT @sabman: can't sleep, I suppose the only logical thing to do is to map Braidwood via #osm #
  • "Neil Armstrong isn't worthy of Texas textbooks?" – http://bit.ly/Fenjg – 'cos not a scientist? (via @marsroverdriver) #
  • Oops… same thing as last time Huw ? – RT @huwlynes: Another day, another Lustre failure. I need more coffee. #
  • US universities fed up with poor science journalism, start own central news site called #Futurity – http://bit.ly/gQGl0 #
  • #Futurity found via tweet by @astronomyblog about this news article http://bit.ly/gQGl0 #
  • RT @HPC_Guru: Seagate claims first 6Gbit/sec, 2TB SATA hard drive. SATA 3.0 specs 3.5-in, 7200RPM 64MB cache. $299 http://bit.ly/3ljQKo #
  • RT @astronomyblog: I wonder if @LRO_NASA has spotted the Clangers yet http://bit.ly/zONKS #
  • RT @alecmuffett: Terry Pratchett with balancing ducks: http://is.gd/3wNWh – via amusing / scary story at http://is.gd/3wO24 and @glynmoody #
  • Internal QA audit this morning, then Altair talks and coffee with @markbate, @grisch, Mike and Chris in the arvo #
  • Sequoia (planned 20 petaflop #HPC system) to have 1.6 million cores in 96 racks, I make that over 16,000 cores per rack! #
  • Hmm, I wonder what the MTBF is measured in when you've got 16,000 cores in a rack ? Weeks? Days? Hours? πŸ™‚ #
  • [good news!] RT @lwnnet: GPL upheld in France http://lwn.net/Articles/353923/rss #
  • RT @johndalton http://twitpic.com/iwwdn – Finally, the difference between #geeks and #nerds explained! LibraryThing has hard data: #
  • RT @jonoxer Photos from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing ice sublimating away in fresh craters: http://bit.ly/D8tDa #
  • At least 5 helicopters hovering over #Melbourne CBD at present, presumably all because of the Grand Final parade #
  • Bah, pulseaudio is stuffed in #Ubuntu #Karmic, no longer makes any sound at all, thankfully #KDE doesn't rely on it #
  • RT @lwnnet: Google shutting down independent Android image developers? http://lwn.net/Articles/354308/rss #
  • #Google have sent cease-and-desist letters to #CyanogenMod developer due to redistributing non-free apps like Market+Maps #
  • #Google comment on why redistributing non-free apps is a no-no http://bit.ly/aYOLa #
  • You can follow @cyanogen for his thoughts on his run-in with #Google over #Android – follow friday #
  • #LOLcats meet #googlefail over @cyanogen mod – http://twitpic.com/j541b πŸ™‚ #
  • πŸ™‚ RT @Atlantean7001 #cantlivewithout drawing or writing materials; internet access; water. #
  • Played Upwords for first time in a long time last night with Donna, managed to get 44 points for one word with two tiles #
  • RT @elakdawalla: LCROSS sounds pretty cheery for someone(thing) who's anticipating a high-speed, unsurvivable crash in 12 days… #
  • [reminds me of the cubes I used to admin!] RT @huwlynes: From history. Burning a NeXT cube: http://bit.ly/TX1Yw #
  • Unbreaking my #Android install on my #OpenMoko FreeRunner after faffing, reformatted the partitions on the SD card. πŸ˜‰ #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Just uploaded my photos from yesterdays #photo walk in #Melbourne with Mike Kuiper to #Flickr – http://bit.ly/Qjih9 #
  • Let it not be said that everything must die without some mark made of its passing – New Model Army – Snelsmore Wood #
  • RT @astronomyblog: Today's World as seen by Tomorrow's World in the 60s & 70s http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8253236.stm (via @maggiephilbin) #
  • RT @jonoxer: #LCA2010 schedule is up: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/monday #
  • New Model Army (@officialnma) on Twitter – welcome folks! #newmodelarmy #
  • Awesome live acoustic solo version of Snelsmore Wood by Justin Sullivan of New Model Army – http://bit.ly/7sUfp #newmodelarmy #
  • Congrats to the LRO team! "LRO Mission Orbit Insertion Completed!" is at http://bit.ly/1bvD8e Now for the science.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • RT @BreakingNews World food aid is at a 20-year low and the number of hungry people is over 1 billion, the World Food Programme says. #
  • RT @elakdawalla: Yay! [LRO] is now in its 50-km science orbit — which means camera can now get images at 50 cm/pixel. http://bit.ly/4pN7v9 #
  • [oh so true] RT @kartar: Ah America – where jingoism is not only alive but well armed… #
  • RT @RandomSpaceFact: Space Shuttle descending through atmosphere has two distinct sonic booms: the second is from tail. [..] #
  • It's good to give back to the community so at #VPAC we host systems for #LinuxAustralia , including the #LCA2010 website #
  • thanks @cafuego @kattekrab! would have mentioned #VPAC hosts #LUV too but I ran out of characters.. πŸ˜‰ #
  • RT @ear1grey: wow the #renault #f1 team renault just confessed to race fixing & flav has quit, enough to save the whole team from expulsion? #
  • RT @Munchious I have 1668 followers. Rather annoying, as I only made uniforms and prepared poison capsules for 1500. #
  • RT @LEIGHSALES Tonight Chris Mooney, author of 'Unscientific America: how scientific illiteracy threatens our future' Lateline, ABC1, 1030pm #
  • RT @Planck: Image of the First Light Survey!! Lovely. http://bit.ly/4jeaLn #
  • RT @ESAHerschel: Congratulations to @Planck on the release of their first data http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8260711.stm #
  • The fabulous Linux Weekly News (@lwnnet) is now doing t-shirts via CafePress – http://lwn.net/Articles/353279/ #
  • RT @AARNet: KARENnews: Paper call: open source and parallel computing conf http://is.gd/3ozZq #hpc #lca2010 #
  • Aha, just found an archaeological twitter feed – @PTnews #
  • At Swinburne #HPC user group yesterday – neat fact – ordinary matter is irrelevant when modelling galactic evolution πŸ˜‰ #
  • You can just model dark matter and then infer the structure of ordinary matter later on for any point in the simulation #
  • Not going to make #SFD this year, have been helping @donna_williams out with band stuff! #
  • RT @alecmuffett: Read this #BofA #BankOfAmerica disaster story http://is.gd/3pWXc – note final paragraphs… #
  • RT @donna_williams Getting ready for my UK and Ireland tour Oct 1st-20th http://bit.ly/2DB2AY #autism #lecture #aspergers #uk #ireland #
  • Can't top up Donna's PAYG Three (UK) mobile broadband before she leaves as 3 need UK postcode for the credit card! #fail #
  • So have asked my brother if he can pick up a top up for us there and email me the code I'll need. #itshouldntbethishard #
  • I think I'm going to need to reflash #Android on my Freerunner, luckily there's a new version out – http://bit.ly/16DLXo #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • Just found out that the #mtwilson observatory #stationfire reports are back on the original site! http://bit.ly/3cDFdA #
  • Sounds promising from the reports on the #mtwilson website; also view from the now east-facing towercam is spectacular #
  • A weekend of working in the garden, including burning off a stack of sticks on Saturday we'd been gathering over winter #
  • Yay for ZFS-FUSE snapshots, just had to do a full recovery from the latest one to my /home due to ext4 going belly up #
  • [oops – Twitter Tools failed to post this itself] New Blog Post – #Ext4 fall down go boom – http://bit.ly/4G07Oc #
  • Finally a Dell netbook you can buy with Linux in Australia! Need a Premier Store account. http://bit.ly/3om5VZ (via @huwlynes) #
  • busy compiling 2.6.31 from git #
  • Tried Con Kolivas's BFS scheduler with 2.6.31, but it doesn't like my config with kernel mode setting, panic on boot πŸ™ #
  • RT @elakdawalla Today New Horizons reached the halfway point between the orbits of Saturn & Uranus. […] http://bit.ly/1knLsW #
  • 18th Century Twitter with @DrSamuelJohnson and @RealBoswell πŸ˜‰ http://bit.ly/18thcenturytwitter (via @adriana872) #
  • RT @plutokiller Holy anti-gravity. On my LAX-DC flight we hit turbulence so hard I spilled my coffee. ON THE CEILING! #
  • RT @elakdawalla: Images from refurbished Hubble Space Telescope are now online here! http://bit.ly/Nm35b #
  • Fab close up of a gravitationally lensed galaxy by the HST on the Planetary Society website – http://bit.ly/1R04gp #
  • Resources on glacier recession – http://bit.ly/SndMN (via @Garden27) #
  • Just trying the Swift twitter client on my Freerunner running Android, looks nice! #
  • Oops, just trashed my Android install playing around with files from a G1 to see if I could get Google Maps going.. #
  • Phew, a reboot seems to have recovered it OK #
  • Been burning off today, another big pile of sticks bites the dust. Sitting on the veranda keeping an eye on things. #
  • RT @donna_williams ready to fly up to Wodonga to do FOOTSTEPS OF A NOBODY this Sat 12th Sept #wodonga #donnawilliams #autism #theatre #music #
  • Just found #Booko, compares prices for books + DVDs (including shipping) for customers in Australia – http://bit.ly/SWnm #
  • Testing the #KDE 4.3.1 Twitter plasmoid, but it still seems to have the "configure" button floating and the text box is a bit strange #
  • Great shot of Horsehead Nebula by Martin Pugh wins #Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition – http://bit.ly/eZPkl #
  • RT @insideHPC: England apologizes for its treatment of computing legend Alan Turing http://bit.ly/7R5Q8 #
  • Donna is in Wodonga for her gig tonight so I came into the CBD and went up the Eureka tower with Mike; great view! #
  • [tabloid] Phew what a scorcher! [/tabloid] – #Melbourne sets new record for 1st half of September – http://bit.ly/KqkbJ #
  • [cute!] RT @astronomyblog And just because they can… a Microsoft Paint clone in HTML5 (no Flash)! http://canvaspaint.org/ #
  • ALERT Follow @laureenh for breaking story: #BoA trying evict family of 5 (3 kids) from house/boat (Oakland) without any prior contact #
  • More on #BoA bad behaviour towards ex-Sun employee: http://tinyurl.com/qn3llp – threatening people who are offering to pay off debts #
  • Previous 2 tweets are RT @alecmuffett #
  • RT @MarsRovers: via @mars_stu: http://twitpic.com/hhfdi – Opportunity's 2009 Tour of meteorite "Block Island" πŸ™‚ #
  • via @BreakingNews: Australians overtake Americans as world's biggest per capita producers of carbon dioxide, UK risk analysis company says. #
  • RT @adriana872: bing + google = bingle http://bingle.pwnij.com cute idea, playing with it to see what it's worth…. #
  • Just registered on Identi.ca as csamuel, this is a test of jabber-identica-twitter #
  • humf, email confirmation system in identi.ca seems b0rked, says Confirmation code not found #
  • Oh right, the first time I clicked on it as my ADSL went down it must have worked, confirmed OK! #
  • Paul Fenwick has an interesting blog called Dark Stalking on Facebook http://bit.ly/mlmdw on (ab)using the #Facebook API #
  • [boo for patenting it] RT @insideHPC: U of Sydney researchers patent energy-aware job scheduling algorithm http://bit.ly/kVAfN #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Chris Samuel
  • RT @elakdawalla India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter has been lost. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002072/ #
  • Mount Wilson Observatory (near Pasedena, California) threatened by fire – http://bit.ly/3cDFdA #
  • RT @elakdawalla 300-foot flames may get to Mt. Wilson in a couple of hours — firefighters may yet be able to defend towers and telescopes. #
  • Found why oil companies can't find more crude, had an email about an "Advanced Crystal Ball for Oil and Gas" course πŸ™‚ #
  • RT @thereallacanada Very interesting post about La Canada Flintridge station fire. "Go find your own water" http://gmei7.th8.us #stationfire #
  • Great video of a DC-10 waterbombing the #stationfire in California http://bit.ly/2AEfSb (via @thereallacanada) #
  • RT @CTOPathScale PathScale is going to be releasing a lot of #HPC software to open source in the coming weeks. I'll ping you with updates #
  • RT @elakdawallaFollow @plutokiller, who's now on his roof with a line of sight to Mt Wilson. Fire there can now only be fought from the air. #
  • RT @plutokiller "Roof" is short for "9th floor of Caltech Lib w/AC and comfy chair" #
  • RT @elakdawalla Fire crews removed from Mt Wilson because fire now burning both sides of Mt Wilson Rd, the only way out. http://is.gd/2Jy4A #
  • Today is the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 2. Lest we forget.. #
  • Looking at the Mount Wilson Towercam everything still seems OK at 06:21am California time, phew! #stationfire #
  • Mount Wilson Observatory still there, firefighters returned+backburning to control spread (via @plutokiller @elakdawalla) #
  • RT @plutokiller Mt. Wilson server appears gone. They have generators for ~30 hrs power, so probably means 'net connection lost. #
  • RT @jonoxer […] just got word that my talk proposal for conf.linux.org.au has been accepted. Now to get rocket parts through NZ Customs.. #
  • RT @NewHorizons2015 We had our 1st beacon contact w/the Deep Space Network since entering hibernation & received a green beacon. All's well #
  • RT @adriana872 ebay sells stake in skype http://bit.ly/NV03c would love to know why: "the planned integration failed to work" #
  • RT @alecmuffett Wanted: ZFS-FUSE on OSX / SnowLepoard. Anybody done it yet? #
  • RT @penguin_brian: @penguinoid So upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 is a bit like upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows XP? #
  • Australian Commonwealth funds $80M petascale #supercomputer for the #SKA in Western #Australia http://bit.ly/5HLRq #ivec #
  • Downloading #KDE 4.3.1 for #Kubuntu, announcement @ http://bit.ly/7et2s sad dedication to the baby daughter of developer #
  • [open vs proprietary] Code Red – How software companies could screw up ObamaÒ€ℒs health care reform – http://bit.ly/sQ7NH #
  • RT @adriana872 @webmink @ggreve Great Dilbert about MS-OOXML http://is.gd/2N3rH [Just how I visualise the team's interview with Balmer..] #
  • Nokia's N900 and Maemo may not be as free and open as they are made out to be.. http://bit.ly/oQZLP #
  • RT @plutokiller New twist: heading to the roof to see how close fire is to MY HOUSE, rather than Mt. Wilson. πŸ™ #
  • Via @alecmuffett: Security hole in major browsers, arbitrary websites can track you http://is.gd/2OcAv also http://is.gd/2OcFr #
  • RT @HPCwire: HPCwire Feature: Reliable Memory: Coming to a GPU Near You http://bit.ly/FCpiV #
  • RT @KoganTech @soviet4ever The Kogan Agora phone is still in development but has been held up due to External Factors beyond our control #
  • RT @alecmuffett: New blog post: EU probes Oracle's bid to buy Sun http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3420 #
  • RT @cafuego: And there we go. #Zimbra 6.0 has been released! #
  • Victoria has just had its warmest winter on record, to add to its driest first 6 months of the year.. #drought #australia #
  • RT @gridtalk: Over 18hrs of HPC training videos, for free! Over at the PRACE website http://tr.im/xRDe #HPC #
  • RT @NewHorizons2015: Science Never Sleeps on New Horizons. Check the latest PI's update at: http://bit.ly/DZFIE #
  • RT @LEIGHSALES Interesting SMH yarn on the film industry publicity machine http://bit.ly/30Z2Dd (via @palacefilms) #
  • RT @plutokiller TOWERCAM IS BACK! Now pointing east, so I can watch fire get closer and closer to me… http://bit.ly/k6Elq #stationfire #
  • Donna and I made fab GFCF pizza (OK, my part wasn't quite CF) last night, so cold pizza for breakfast this morning, yum! #
  • Nice review of #Digikam – http://bit.ly/dk4M4 – the #KDE photo application which I use a lot. Found via @lwnnet #
  • RT @kattekrab: Diversity isnt a luxury, its a competitive advantage. #
  • PC-Pro article – How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers – http://bit.ly/24esN8 #
  • [wow!] RT @alecmuffett: Neil Gaiman's bookshelves. Bloody Hell. http://bit.ly/3V9Z5s #
  • RT @marsroverdriver: Happy Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing Day! http://is.gd/2SUot (Planetary Society blog entry by @elakdawalla) #
  • RT @kartar: Puppet 0.25.0 is done and dusted and released! http://tinyurl.com/mlk5le #puppet #reductivelabs #automation #
  • RT @plutokiller The #mtwilson 100-inch telescope in the full moon. And fires, of course. http://www.twitpic.com/gj7fl (via @wilberfan) #
  • [not that Oracle are helping] RT @alecmuffett: oy veh – http://www.driveoffintothesunset.com/ — cheesy anti-sun fud #

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