• First 2 racks of next #VLSCI supercomputer arrived. Almost same TFlops as all 4 Australian Top500 sites combined. 🙂 #hpc #
• First half (2 racks) of #VLSCI #039;s next #HPC system are rated at ~420TF compared to ANU+CSIRO+iVEC+Defence at ~480TF. 🙂 #
• 62 refugees in indefinite detention in Australia due to unchallengeable secret security assessments. RIP habeas corpus. #
• .@marsroverdriver "I watched the #DragonLaunch on @twitter" #
• So it appears Ubuntu 12.04 no longer updates /etc/resolve.conf on a new network. Not very Precise. 🙁 #
• BBC has thought provoking item on how descendants of infamous Nazis handle their situation http://t.co/uQToCxEQ #
• Two Goering descendants chose to be sterilised rather than risk their surname continuing http://t.co/uQToCxEQ #
• VLSCI BlueGene/Q Delivery: small set of photos from delivery of first half of our BG/Q #hpc http://t.co/TNuAzDO4 #
• .@Donna_Williams talking about #autism in Coburg, Melbourne. http://t.co/uwDoT89y #
• Happy towel day all, kind of appropriate in Melbourne at the moment. Thank you DNA. #towelday #
• At the Mr Burnett Observatory for talk on transit of Venus. Very wet and windy and clubhouse is umm, well ventilated. 🙂 #
• It's almost like being back in Wales, only warmer.. 🙂 #
• An underage HTTP request walks into a bar and asks for a beer. The barman gives him 403. #
• A HTTP request walks into the Pub With No Beer and asks for a beer. The barman gives him 404. #
• Sigh, I moved all the way to Australia and I still can't get away from Eurovision! #
• I appear to have accidentally consumed 2 litres of Lapsang Souchong tea today. 🙂 #

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• Just seen the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image for first time, wow! #
• Dear #Lazyweb how do I grant select access to a user to all databases beginning with foo (for example) ? #
• Because "grant select on foo%.* to $USER;" gets rejected.. 🙁 #mysql #
• Use backticks around DB name appears to be the solution to my #mysql query about grants – http://t.co/yU6bcD6O #
• Sunlit Concrete Bouquet, St Kilda Botanical Gardens http://t.co/JW0bAde6 #
• Just curious, have any allegations against Slipper or Thompson been admitted or proven in court? #auspol #NotKeepingUp #
• If you use http://t.co/nhYJ9Vs0 and use it with #hpc queuing systems be aware bash doesn't do aliases in scripts! #
• Hmm, I'm being followed on Twitter by my local newspaper, should I worry ? 🙂 #
• Anyone have any recommendations of places in Melbourne to source Cisco SFP+ modules for 10gigE links? #
• Off to the Mount Burnett Observatory tonight for a talk on adaptive optics. #
• Is the Celestron 4SE a good starter telescope? Aus. Geographic has it on special for $999.. /cc @cefiar #astronomy #space #
• The big red #EMO button, for depressed equipment http://t.co/ePacipsj #

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• Spent afternoon at friends 80th birthday party, great time. No need to eat for a while! 🙂 http://t.co/aTYgcl9J #
• #archaeology wrap up blog about dig at St Lythan's burial chamber in South #Wales http://t.co/1SrGACK8 #
• Performing summon $COURIER spell, making a pot of tea thereby ensuring being called to a different building for delivery #
• http://t.co/P5iJVm9R MT @sijoe I can replace my ridiculously complex Apache log parser logic with a single Regex … WOOT!!! #
• Summon $COURIER spell worked, though they (again) ignored the instruction to phone 15 mins before getting here.. #
• Interesting to see that the European Synchrotron is migrating from RHEL/Centos to @debian #Linux https://t.co/7eIITu4p #
• Anyone know how to get updatenode in #xCAT to copy dangling symlinks to managed nodes? It uses rsync under the covers.. #
• .@MobiCity friend of mine has ordered a pair of GN's from you last night because you're firmware flash friendly, well done! #
• #Melbourne urban sunset from a @metrotrains train http://t.co/p9v6VlRS #
• Channelling query from #lwloc developers, has "inline" always been a part of C++? Need good source to confirm/refute. #

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• Spent afternoon at friends 80th birthday party, great time. No need to eat for a while! 🙂 http://t.co/aTYgcl9J #
• #archaeology wrap up blog about dig at St Lythan's burial chamber in South #Wales http://t.co/1SrGACK8 #
• Performing summon $COURIER spell, making a pot of tea thereby ensuring being called to a different building for delivery #
• http://t.co/P5iJVm9R MT @sijoe I can replace my ridiculously complex Apache log parser logic with a single Regex … WOOT!!! #
• Summon $COURIER spell worked, though they (again) ignored the instruction to phone 15 mins before getting here.. #
• Interesting to see that the European Synchrotron is migrating from RHEL/Centos to @debian #Linux https://t.co/7eIITu4p #
• Anyone know how to get updatenode in #xCAT to copy dangling symlinks to managed nodes? It uses rsync under the covers.. #
• .@MobiCity friend of mine has ordered a pair of GN's from you last night because you're firmware flash friendly, well done! #
• #Melbourne urban sunset from a @metrotrains train http://t.co/p9v6VlRS #
• Channelling query from #lwloc developers, has "inline" always been a part of C++? Need good source to confirm/refute. #

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• "RcvRemotePhysErrors – This indicates a problem ELSEWHERE in the fabric." #UselessErrors #infiniband #
• .@BBCBreaking usually "making something safe" is lingo for stopping it going off – so they want to stop the Olympics? 🙂 #
• Just updated @donna_williams #art gallery with a set of mini-paintings http://t.co/lte1TM11 #autism #
• .@David_Speers "inappropriate" not good enough Grahame Morris, how about "wrong", "offensive", "stupid" and "incitement"? #
• So tomorrows @TheTimeTeam is Dunwich, I wonder if @FluffCthulhu and relatives will make a guest appearance? 🙂 #
• Just came across http://t.co/oIC7NMfC by @siovene, a sort of @Flickr for amateur astronomers – lovely! #space #astronomy #
• Yeah, just before 5pm on a Friday is an ideal time to phone up to say you want to deliver a 50kg package to work tonight #
• Reflashing my Samsung Galaxy Nexus with @Google's #Android 4.0.4 "takju" factory image – rebooting now – fingers crossed! #
• Phone currently restoring all apps via the saved Google settings, looking good so far. #
• Looks like #GNOfficialUpdate needs an update itself, doesn't recognise the new @googlenexus "takju" build as official 🙂 #
• Right, time for an "adb restore" to recover the rest. #
• Nice to see New Model Army back tweeting after a gap of 2 years! They're at @officialnma (with a new bass player) #
• It appears @Google hide or remove Google Wallet from takju #Android @googlenexus firmware if you're not in the US.. 🙁 #
• Went with @donna_williams to see "Contact, the netball opera" – great fun, first experience of both opera and netball. 🙂 #

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• After the thunderstorm, Cardinia http://t.co/vWdx1xo3 #
• Traffic chaos on Swanston St, avoid at all costs. #Melbourne #
• Just discovered diffpdf (packaged in Ubuntu) – a tool for comparing #PDF files, *very* handy! #linux #
• Two must read blogs if you have an interest in the film industry http://t.co/I7O7rgcH http://t.co/rlaL5vU5 via @ABCTheDrum #
• A box with 108TB usable and can write at 4.5GB/s! RT @sijoe The TB sprint updated … http://t.co/CV8K5mvq #hpc #
• #VLSCI Resource Allocation Scheme Round 5 is now open! #HPC for life sciences! http://t.co/qPTd0ZPf http://t.co/Tp3DGob2 #
• #VLSCI RAS round 5 includes time on our forthcoming @IBMhpc BlueGene/Q, Avoca, as well as our x86 systems Bruce and Merri #
• If Kabul gets a new conference centre then there should be an LCA there, http://t.co/Fq4eheP6. Seriously. #
• xCAT deploying a non-RPM #Linux distro MT @arif_ali1 http://t.co/RAoa5tMU quick video of stateless #ubuntu in #xCAT #hpc #
• Can't believe #Apple would send 2 lawyers to court & lie to avoid repair that nVidia would pay for! http://t.co/AT8oWqKM #
• #Cray sells #hpc interconnect to #Intel not a good sign for Cray using #AMD cpus in future. #
• Huey Lewis and the Usenet News #InternetBands #TheHashtagGame #
• #IBM having another go at #Linux only Power boxes, PowerLinux is Power7 based http://t.co/nqJ90m1i prev was OpenPOWER 720 #
• This is the droid you are looking for.. http://t.co/FVM8Hfdh open source #Android app repository #
• Upgraded to Kubuntu 12.04 and found I had to "apt-get remove –purge gnome-keyring" to get rid of annoying warnings. #

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• Anybody want an @ibmhpc Power5 #HPC cluster? Here's one on E-Bay http://t.co/A403CIaJ #
• Tonight's odd soup with @donna_Williams is chicken, swertcorn, onion, bacon and brussel sprout. 🙂 #
• BTW the @ibmhpc Power5 #hpc cluster on eBay I mentioned? It's OpenPOWER 720, so only runs #Linux http://t.co/A403CIaJ #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/n0VQpwHK The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody #
• Anyone know if the Jasper Carrott sketch with "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard" is around on @YouTube? #
• Hey @Internode, your survey email doesn't display properly in Thunderbird 11.0.1 #
• For those in New York City in US, you may see space shuttle Enterprise fly over low on April 23rd http://t.co/r1rU5wwd #
• "cybercrime surveys they have examined 90 percent of the estimate appears to come from the answers of one or two individuals." #
• #Melbourne Australia, seen from the ISS at night #space #esa http://t.co/QquALGZ6 #
• gpu hang means an unwanted reboot whilst trying to work from home. OS was fine, could tell KDE to logout from VC. #
• Pray tell AFACT how will changing the law alter the fact that ISPs "had no direct technical power" to stop piracy? #iitrial #
• Please take the Parliamentary marriage equality survey – let us all count, not just the discriminators http://t.co/nVn8SlPi #
• Note Mr Jones bill compels celebrants to perform marriage ceremony, whereas @AdamBandt's bill does not. #equallove #
• I cannot support anyone being compelled to perform services against their will, so can only support @AdamBandt's bill. #
• If you use WD Green drives with #Linux you may want to look at this: http://t.co/0F3sgLRK #
• Unfortunately that idle3ctl from idle3-tools doesn't seem to work with WD 6400AAV external USB drives. 🙁 #
• Ever wondered just how much #caffeine may be lethal? http://t.co/SM8QrPZT (of course some are more susceptible than others) #
• At Cardinia with @donna_williams watching thunderstorm pass over from safety of our car. Quite spectacular! #

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• Sea Urchin shells on Point Cook Beach http://t.co/EIa84uLv #
• Tree silhouette, Birregurra http://t.co/xWhiMs4q #
• US politicians are very bad at working out what God told them to do. So don't believe anything they say God said to them. #
• 1981 paper in Science predicted significant temperature rise from then to now based on CO2 levels – http://t.co/caMjGMvs #
• OK, so any guesses why "java -version" would get stuck in a futex() call on Linux ? (apart from Java being, well, Java) #
• Pacific #tsunami warning that mentions UK is for island of Diego Garcia, not mainland UK (which isn't in Pacific) #
• Don't know which is more depressing, that people make untrue+defamatory comments or that others unthinkingly swallow them #
• Appears @Unimelb DNS has broken again and lost all the #VLSCI supercomputers – please use http://t.co/h1ma3LUK instead! #
• #Java isn't the answer, Java is the question. No is the answer. In unrelated news java -version still deadlocks. #
• Had a go with archery with @donna_williams. Last time was at university in Aberystwyth 20 years ago. Had a great time! 🙂 #

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• Sea Urchin shells on Point Cook Beach http://t.co/EIa84uLv #
• Tree silhouette, Birregurra http://t.co/xWhiMs4q #
• US politicians are very bad at working out what God told them to do. So don't believe anything they say God said to them. #
• 1981 paper in Science predicted significant temperature rise from then to now based on CO2 levels – http://t.co/caMjGMvs #
• OK, so any guesses why "java -version" would get stuck in a futex() call on Linux ? (apart from Java being, well, Java) #
• Pacific #tsunami warning that mentions UK is for island of Diego Garcia, not mainland UK (which isn't in Pacific) #
• Don't know which is more depressing, that people make untrue+defamatory comments or that others unthinkingly swallow them #
• Appears @Unimelb DNS has broken again and lost all the #VLSCI supercomputers – please use http://t.co/h1ma3LUK instead! #
• #Java isn't the answer, Java is the question. No is the answer. In unrelated news java -version still deadlocks. #
• Had a go with archery with @donna_williams. Last time was at university in Aberystwyth 20 years ago. Had a great time! 🙂 #

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• "The Null Packet is a zero-dimensional packet. The Null Packet exists since it is non-self-contradictorily definable" #
• The NULL packet – http://t.co/WA9BV3Zq 🙂 #
• Saw The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel tonight with @Donna_Williams tonight, good film, better than you'd think from trailer #
• AT&T Microcell includes "BackdoorPacketCmdLine" http://t.co/ONZMgLAA #failblog #security #att via @jedisct1 @ErrataRob #
• Yay, that's the second time today my access to the Uni Exchange server has randomly stopped working for a few minutes.. #
• Off to Big Mama's Korean Restaurant on Swanston Street before tonights @linuxusersvic meeting #
• Trying to install CyanogenMod on a friends ZTE v9, hampered by fact that root exploit and superuser package are 403 🙁 #
• Ummm, wow, @Nokia just posted my old #N900 photo of #RMIT – flattered! 🙂 http://t.co/9q11Pv3x #
• Got "Rise" by Public Image Ltd stuck in my head after ABC Dig Radio played it this morning http://t.co/gPTCq5vE #
• When running Arch #Linux it's good to run pacman -Sc occasionally, just gone from 300MB to 2.3GB free 🙂 #
• Nice early science #astronomy viz (supernovae and Big Bang) from Blue Waters at NCSA http://t.co/V1rScN2B via @insideHPC #
• I appear to have successfully root'd and installed CyanogenMod on friends ZTE V9 (Optus My Tab) for first time. 🙂 #
• .@elakdawalla looks like a huntsman spider to me, either that or the Shadows from Babylon 5 are back.. #
• .@Kogan what would be really interesting would be a modern Android tablet that shipped with CyanogenMod #
• Had kookaburra try to break into house through window. Fortunately discovered before it managed to break the glass! #
• Grilled pineapple with minced ginger and cinnamon – awesome creation of @donna_williams 🙂 #

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