• In autotools is it considered OK for –enable-foo and –with-foo to set up different behaviours? #programming #lazyweb #
• A quick archaeological #FF @CurrentArchaeo @WorldArchaeo @thetimeteam @WikiLoot @wessexarch @ThamesDiscovery #
• A week on leave with @donna_williams ! 🙂 If I'm lucky maybe my new desktop from @zareason will arrive. #
• Cloudy sunset and Mares Tails at Cardinia Reservoir http://t.co/7xHAlhQj #
• .@debian Installer 7.0 beta 1 released, includes support for #Welsh / #Cymraeg #
• Thanks to @penguin_brian for the loan of a PCMCIA wifi card, now my 9 year old laptop has working wifi again 🙂 #
• More info on the first beta of the @debian 7.0 Wheezy installer http://t.co/GuXZiscV #linux #welsh #cymraeg #

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• New blog post: A Quick Status Update http://t.co/0hQBaAB0 #
• Murder by gun stats per 100k population: US: 4.14 Canada 0.76 Australia 0.44 Germany 0.22 England/Wales 0.07 (via @iscool) #
• What, it's 5pm? It can't be 5pm, it wasn't even 4pm last time I looked! #
• There are 2 #IBM BlueGene/Q redbooks now available in epub format! http://t.co/jtQCYifY 🙂 #
• We watch deaths on the news every day and it passes us by. But when it is someone we know the immediacy and impact is gut wrenching. #
• Got hardware that's been abandoned by #Apple + #MountainLion You should be able to run #Linux on it rather than bin it. #
• Opened sad desktop, heatsink clogged with dust! Triumphantly cleaned it, powered it up, logged in + it reset again. #fail #
• Someone should write an opera about #UFOs they could call it Aria 51.. #
• Upgrading @donna_williams's MacBook to Snow Leopard. #WeDontNeedNoSteenkinMountainLion 🙂 #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/Z0r64Qz8 Clarke and Dawe – Articulating an alternative vision for the co #
• Working bee at Sherbrooke Archers yesterday to prep for Australian Open. In unrelated news, today I ache.. #
• Best round of the morning for me, 1×10, 2×9 and 2×7 @ 30m with horse bow. #archery http://t.co/xqeKXy93 #
• .@debian wheezy+1 (8.0) will be called "Jessie" according to the release team. #
• If I buy something from a NZ company to ship to AU, do I pay NZ GST on it? I'd guess not, but can't find confirmation. #

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• Happy 21st birthday to @AlecMuffett's Crack "the sensible password cracker"! Now I feel really old.. 🙂 #
• Glorious #NASA @apod today, gigapixel combined image of Orion Nebula. #astronomy #space #
• Free access to British scientific research to be available within two years http://t.co/tuiNO7Bi via @guardian #
• Please read this PDF letter to Australian politicians from over 200 researchers of refugees http://t.co/oXDHaawr #auspol #
• I appear to have the #Android 4.1 Jelly Bean release available for my Samsung Galaxy Nexus 🙂 #
• I can haz #Android 4.1.1… and it's fast! 🙂 #
• Don't like fact you no longer get punctuation on word autocomplete in #android 4.1? Turn off next word prediction (1/2) #
• Next word prediction is under input->advanced in the settings menu. (2/2) #
• Also odd it no longer autospaces on autocomplete, but inserts space on next letter. Wonder if that's an Apple patent? 🙁 #
• Awesome ASCII art pie charts generated directly in #MySQL http://t.co/s7ywq3MB via @BrettPemberton offline #
• In Europe 90% of health claims about food fail independent analysis http://t.co/6mwi8tB1 (via @CancerCouncilOz) #
• So glad there isn't a god because if there was they would be an utter bastard given what they're putting 2 friends through. #
• Steve Mann (@Hydraulist) assaulted by Paris @McDonalds staff for wearing augmented vision glasses http://t.co/PUXPKl9d #
• Pawsey Supercomputer Centre in Western Australia goes Cray for petascale supercomputer for #SKA http://t.co/b1fSBMkp #hpc #
• Ironically there's nothing on the @Cray_Inc, @iVEC_WA or ASKAP websites about the new Pawsey #HPC nor from @MinEvansMedia #
• So the 1.2PF Cray #hpc system at @ivec_wa for Pawsey will be "supplied by Cray, SGI and Oracle" – er?? #
• Now a paid up member of the Sherbrooke Archers (and hence Archery Australia)! Starting to get used to the horse bow. 🙂 #
• Congrats to Mount Burnett Observatory, granted $2700 by @BendigoBank towards 5 portable telescopes for public outreach! #

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• Image on "Britain from Above" website appears to be HMS Argonaut being broken up in Milford Haven http://t.co/aVTIlqiB #
• "Oppenheimer said that tea (time) is where we explain to each other what we do not understand." #
• I've signed the @EFF's software patent petition at https://t.co/UQHPjPpb, have you? #patents #swpats #
• RIP Eugeni Dodonov, Intel Haswell #Linux video device driver developer, killed in a bicycle accident in Brazil. #
• Great news that @NLWales managed to buy C14th manuscript of Laws of Hywel FDA to bring home to Wales http://t.co/jzu9UFmj #
• I just love finding GPL'd scientific code that has routines copied in which say "may not be distributed to third parties" #
• Any #astronomy folks in #Melbourne interested in doing talks for members of the Mount Burnettt Observatory, near Emerald? #
• Bloke on train with laptop covered in stickers for #FSF #LibreOffice anti-DRM, etc..Sadly didn't get a chance to say hi. #
• Dear #ALP perhaps you should be focusing on differentiating yourself from Liberals, not Greens? #auspol #JustSaying #
• Home Linux PC is unwell, just logging in causes it to reset. Suspect it succumbed to heat damage from leap second load. #
• OK #Melbourne tweeps, where on earth can I find someone reputable who stocks Intel LGA775 CPUs (and has them in stock)? #

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• Looking for a good #Android #astronomy app? Check out SkEye, it's free (and ad-free) and puts Google Sky in the shade. #
• Oh my, flying the @ardrone 2.0 outdoors without trees around is awesome, if only I'd remembered to turn the USB record on! #
• I've uploaded an @YouTube video http://t.co/ekX4CMY2 ARDrone 2.0 flying at University Square in Carlton (Melbo #
• My #Linux powered @ARDrone 2.0 flying at University Square in Carlton, Melbourne http://t.co/mhoCUmx2 #
• Just changed my shell to csh to do some testing.. ugh.. 🙂 #
• "This isn't the real CMS detector, it's down in the ground. This is the spare we keep upstairs". 🙂 #higgs #cms #cern #
• "This one page is for the theorists, it's all they deserve. Joking!!" 🙂 #higgs #cms #cern #
• #CERN #Higgs webcast – http://t.co/xiG7BWQP #
• Not sure, but I thought at one point the #CMS presenter said they could exclude the standard model? #higgs #cern #
• Rumours that UK politician has already congratulated #CERN #LHC on discovery of #Higgs Could easily be false.. #
• NIce graph showing deviation from line.. "significant" says the speaker.. #higgs #cern #lhc #
• Looks like they might be looking at a 126GeV #Higgs . #lhc #cern #
• Perhaps I should say, a particle at 126 GeV which may be #higgs boson.. 🙂 #
• Combined significance of 5 sigma! #higgs #cern #
• Congrats to #CMS on getting a 5 sigma result for their combined results, be interesting to see what #ATLAS has to report! #
• #CMS has a very likely #Higgs signal at 125.3 GeV +/- 0.6 GeV #cern #lhc #
• Taking all results into account #CMS has detected a new boson at 125.3 GeV +/- 0.6 GeV with 4.9 sigma #cern #lhc #higgs #
• Tweeps – forget the font! Concentrate on the content of the #ATLAS experimental results please.. grrr #higgs #cern #lhc #
• "Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV" – @CERN #Higgs PR http://t.co/PWGORYVd #
• Sadly can't hang around for rest of @CERN #Higgs (potential) discovery webcast, need to get a train home.. #
• Sad that Phil Williams (introduced me to #Higgs boson in inflationary theory @AberUni, late 80's) isn't around to see today #
• Great photo from @cern #Higgs presentations! https://t.co/5hja0uOf #
• I suspect that Melbourne currently has the highest density of hungover physicists in the world. #higgs #ichep2012 #
• A bunch of us unpacked + loaded 1,000 LTO5 tapes (1.5PB raw) into the @vlsci tape library in 3 hrs. That's 139GB/s. 🙂 #
• I've uploaded an @YouTube video http://t.co/4SeZvjyO VLSCI Tape Robot in Action #
• Good to see that @VPACltd have their RFP out for a new #HPC system to replace the old Power5 system http://t.co/HWlcFkkJ #
• Effectively @vlsci joint 12th in #green500 but ends up 15th due to alphabetical sorting. If only they sorted by hostname! #
• Dark matter filament directly observed via gravitational lensing http://t.co/mYWIl5lU(via @m57ring) #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/qJtPnJLA Koala #
• A very good point by @bergie in his Maemo/Meego blog: "App Stores are the new record labels" #
• "Not foolish and brave, these leaders of ours, just stupid and petty and unworthy of power" – New Model Army #auspol #

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• Mornington Crescent! #winning 🙂 #
• Amazing Fire Baton Throw – when I first saw this I thought "Wow! Did I take that?" http://t.co/hqEqH89L #
• UK heritage agencies launch old air photo website – http://t.co/8REc4gZX fabulous! #history #
• #Belgrave Lantern Parade 2012 – winter solstice celebration http://t.co/ZSb9yXvv #
• Dear me, the "fancy" editor in Drupal really sucks, it keeps throwing away spaces after </code> tags. #
• .@ardrone, I own an AR.Drone 2.0 which runs #Linux I would like to get sources for the Free Software in it, where do I go? #
• Liberal source says @TonyAbbottMHR would rather see Labor bleed from asylum hysteria than stop people dieing. Shame. #
• We have a bag of multipurpose potatoes. Am struggling to imagine what purpose other than "be eaten" they were thinking of. #
• #Android 4.1 includes DRM – apps are encrypted with device specific key before being delivered – http://t.co/AYG49sCj #
• Worth remembering that the Nexus 7's 16 cores are 4xCPU and 12xGPU cores, not all cores are created equal.. #
• Visited CSIRAC @melbournemuseum the day after opening up @vlsci BlueGene/Q supercomputer to users. We've come a long way.. #
• Storm over Melbourne, from St Kilda http://t.co/VxrcXq5l #
• Great time at Mesopotamia exhibition @melbournemuseum today, courtesy of my wonderful wife @donna_williams, fab present! #
• For wannabe archaeologist like me (still have my Young Rescue newsletters from 70s) seeing cuneiform tablets was real treat #
• Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC #
• If you're seeing odd behaviour on #Linux systems then it's well worth trying (as root): date -s "`date`" #
• So Tony Abbott advocated in 2009 for a tax he now says will cause #carbongeddon for Australia. #

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• Lots of people complaining about cost cutting @ The Age. I wonder how many buy it? If you don't then you're the cause.. #
• OK, Firefox Auto-Refresh extension installed, @top500supercomp June 2012 list page selected, auto-refresh 1 minute. #hpc #
• Ooh, the @top500supercomp website is currently being updated! 🙂 #top500 #isc2012 #
• New #Top500 is out, #VLSCI is #31 with Avoca, our BG/Q! Sequoia at LLNL is #1 with 16PF #hpc #isc2012 #
• Actually #VLSCI is really tied for the #29 place in #top500 with EDF and IDRIS/GENCI in France.. 🙂 #hpc #
• Australia – #31 (VLSCI), #139 (NCI/ANU), #156 (CSIRO), #248 iVEC), #301 (graphics company), #454 (Defence) on #top500 #hpc #
• Bug in #Linux RAID/MD code can lose config for assembling arrays on reboot http://t.co/F0tC0ybp via @lwnnet #
• Microsoft launched tablets, ARM will have secure boot but x86 one should allow secure boot to be disabled. #Linux anyone? #
• Wow, #earthquake in #Melbourne #
• So that #melbquake beats my first experience of an earthquake in Tokyo in 2000.. #
• Sigh, the Geoscience Australia earthquake site is already down.. 🙁 #
• USGS puts epicenter of #melbquake between Trafalgar and Narracan near Moe in Gippsland. #earthquake #
• Could @774melbourne + @abc_investigate look at why Geoscience Australia's site failed making people to use USGS? #melbquake #
• In other earthshattering news (sorry), it's just 3C outside at the moment.. almost getting cold! #
• ALP (and I presume Liberal/National coalition given it was their idea) are committed to unconstitutional school chaplains #
• Interesting times, @fusionio have now picked up 2 key #btrfs developers, Chris from Oracle and @josefbacik from Red Hat. #
• Just over 1/3rd way through Homo Britannicus by Chris Stringer, learned 2 new terms already: "vole clock" and "alder carr" #
• Analysis of flint tool reworking by early Neanderthals in Channel Islands shows ratio of right to left handers same as now #
• Just under 47 seconds to compile Perl 5.16.0 with make -j on our 32 core Power7 box (BG/Q service node). 🙂 #
• Pulling my hair out – why does a RHEL6 #Linux NFSv4 mount not permit suid binaries to run on the client? (errno=-EACCES) #
• User got free 30%+ speed boost running Trinity when I asked them to move from HSM filesystem to scratch filesystem 🙂 #hpc #
• Journalists covering #top500 IBM BlueGene/Q does *NOT* run #Linux it runs IBM Compute Node Kernel (CNK). #hpc #
• Only the BlueGene/Q IO nodes and support infrastructure (service nodes and front end nodes) run #RHEL6 #Linux. #hpc #
• Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Linux, but I prefer reporting of it (on the #top500 to be accurate. #
• Just because the #Top500 website says IBM BlueGene/Q runs #Linux doesn't make it true.. #hpc #
• Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Linux, but I prefer reporting of it (on the #top500 and elsewhere) to be accurate. #
• Belgrave Lantern Parade http://t.co/wGTsTt3s #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/DUnMqASL UNDER MILK WOOD. #
• Volunteers needed for annual lyrebird survey in Sherbooke Forest http://t.co/DP0GcOlv #
• Gluten free dairy free lemon biscuits and ginger biscuits! 🙂 http://t.co/TuIAWgqp #
• Italianette Maroondah Reflections – Maroondah Dam, Healesville http://t.co/1oQmcaOy #
• Walk Into The Light – Maroondah Dam, Healesville http://t.co/bEBI6R7u #
• Lyrebirds prove they're masters of mimicry http://t.co/kaeBes4o #abcmobile #

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• Using @stewartsmith's EatMyData wrapper to speed up a git svn clone, very useful! 🙂 #
• So Adaptive Computing are moving from NetSuite to Salesforce for their support system. Wonder if it'll be any better.. #
• To be honest I wish they'd never stopped using RT, that worked so well for us. #
• SELinux changes to Kerberos in RHEL6/CentOS6 cause slow downs due to huge regexps http://t.co/8fDM8KCG v/ @jamesdotcuff #
• So the #Linux kernel for @Intel's Knights Corner is the obsolete, non-LTS 2.6.34.. 🙁 http://t.co/Fiozg4CL #hpc #
• Why on earth would Cisco Nexus 7018's drop the initial SYN to a host they've not talked to for a while? /cc @incorrect #
• "64K of 64K processors in use by local jobs" – w00t! #VLSCI BlueGene/Q is now in acceptance testing with real #HPC code #
• #LVSCI BlueGene/Q clocked a Linpack (xhpl) score of 695TF, that's 82.7% efficiency given peak of 840TF #hpc #top500 #
• #VLSCI BlueGene/Q about double combined performance of all 4 Australian supercomputer sites on last #Top500 #HPC list! #
• #VLSCI BlueGene/Q clocked a Linpack (xhpl) score of 695TF, that's 82.7% efficiency given peak of 840TF #hpc #top500 #
• If Joe Hockey thinks 4G is better than #NBN he must think 35Mb/s > 1000Mb/s. Not a good sign for a wannabe treasurer. #
• Interesting kickstarter project to make #git annexe into an open-source automated Dropbox like tool. http://t.co/6G0o4XfU #
• Hat tip to @penguin_brian for pointer to that kickstarter project. #
• Gina Rinehart takes A.J. Liebling's "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one" to heart, wants to own them all #
• #ff #followFriday @TonyNicklinson #
• #VLSCI BlueGene/Q completed 3 days of reliability acceptance tests at full load with not a single hardware. 🙂 #hpc #
• Oops I meant no hardware *failures* on our BG/Q testing, not no hardware at all. Slurm BG/Q simulator isn't that good. 🙂 #
• First ever scored round at archery training this morning. Scored 199 with 30 arrows @ 20m with recurve. Pretty happy. #
• Impressed by @ibmhpc BG/Q techs: arrived Monday 28th to assemble+cable, had Linpack running on full system by Friday. #hpc #

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• Oh joy, another x.509 CA fail, this time with 2 Microsoft intermediate CA's compromised. Wonder how long they've been owned. #
• Partial lunar eclipse clouded out in Melbourne, hopefully better luck Wednesday morning for transit of Venus. #
• Survived yet another ERCP today, next one not until November or December. #
• Current #VLSCI #HPC utilisation – Bruce (SGI Altix XE): 98%, Merri (IBM iDataPlex): 98%, Tambo (IBM BlueGene/P): 100% #
• So at #VLSCI we currently have 9,965 cores in use out of a total of (precisely) 10,000 cores, so 99.6% busy! #hpc #
• You can tell it's the last month of the #VLSCI allocation quarter.. 🙂 #
• Any #HPC folks have contacts at Penguin Computing to let them know their http://t.co/X5jUSwnd website been down for ages? #
• Good view of first contact of #TransitOfVenus at Emerald, Victoria #
• Saw black drop through telescope with Hydrogen Alpha filter, good view of solar prominences too. #
• Transit of Venus, Emerald, Victoria http://t.co/BzPwZ91r #
• #TransitOfVenus through Hydrogen-Alpha solar telescope at Emerald, Victoria #tov http://t.co/38sWYby6 #
• I wonder if a human will ever see a #TransitOfEarth from Mars ? #
• #TransitOfVenus projection with binoculars onto paper. #tov http://t.co/VSoZpo35 #
• Fabulous #TransitOfVenus photo http://t.co/TOkKVwWC from SDO via (I think) @NASA_GoddardPix, probably my favourite #tov pic #
• Great movie from SDO of third contact of #TransitOfVenus http://t.co/dEe0gaMS #
• Sounds like #LinkedIn iThing app snarfs all your meeting details, wonder if Android version does same? http://t.co/qbQLZPZx #
• Fancy running a world class #supercomputer facility? My boss is retiring (sniff)! http://t.co/O5hccLua #hpc #vlsci #
• Mistaken for copper MT @mgdm
  Attempted subsea cable theft takes out phones and internet in Highlands http://t.co/CxVr28df #
• #RIP Alan #Turing died 7th June 1954, victim of prejudice http://t.co/4dxkWG6U #
• #VLSCI BlueGene/Q "Avoca" cabled up, powered up and in testing in just 5 days! #hpc http://t.co/Q3SKfca4 #
• Nearly there lads! – A photo from the delivery of the #VLSCI #IBM Bluegene/Q, "Avoca". http://t.co/97iaKxZR #
• First site of our first BG/Q rack. http://t.co/6TEzYEcU #
• "I for one welcome our new supercomputer overlords" – paying homage to VLSCI's new IBM BlueGene/Q http://t.co/Ho6OLuhK #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/HzF2c4Jo Make your own Archery targets. #

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• Dear Australia, if your Eisteddfod isn't in Welsh then you're doing it wrong. Diolch yn fawr. #
• Good blog from @sijoe about the mismatch between #storage performance expectations and reality http://t.co/OeBtBwjq #hpc #
• Nice to see @googledownunder doing a tribute to Ruby Payne-Scott, radio astronomer, especially after the #SKA news. #
• FPGA crypto HW backdoor discovered http://t.co/8AOcuUjc – FPGA with matching description http://t.co/Ffs0PQGm #security #
• Looks like Cambridge people who discovered the backdoor had targeted the same chip in side-channel attacks in prev. papers #
• Info on #VLSCI IBM #BlueGene Q supercomputer "Avoca" including obligatory install timelapse 🙂 http://t.co/rn1gPzwa #hpc #
• Congrats @terryandrob! MT @ramtopsgrum
  BBC: Sir Terry Pratchett wins Wodehouse comic fiction award http://t.co/JWTTBjBn #
• This #btrfs patch looks like it might be useful, especially for people using dpkg.. http://t.co/rY8ZkaSB #
• "Not foolish and brave, these leaders of ours, but stupid and petty and unworthy of power" – @officialnma, apt for #auspol #
• Lyrics are from "Ballad" written by Justin Sullivan in 1986 but apply perfectly to what passes for debate in #auspol #
• TIGHAR has made real progress in gathering evidence for Earhart castaway theory. #Archaeology relevant for recent history. #
• Being part of team building + running (hopefully) the most powerful supercomputer in southern hemisphere is a great honour. #
• Started unfollowing people retweeting #govhack stuff, too noisy. Hopefully will remember to follow once it's over! #
• Tomorrow, Sunday 3rd June, is the 20th anniversary of Eddie Mabo's historic indigenous land rights win in the High Court. #
• Eddie Mabo et. al overturned the doctrine of Terra Nullius, that Australia belonged to nobody before Europeans arrived. #
• It is shameful that it took so long to overturn such a painfully obvious false legal pretense. #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/p4nXNKzT Professor Elemental – I'm British #
• .@mjg59 updated blog on #Linux + UEFI secure boot to clarify payments go to Verisign not Microsoft https://t.co/NSSuMd7F #
• 24 hours to lunar eclipse Melbourne! #

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