• Installing #FreeDOS onto old Dell Pentium 3 before it goes out for the hard rubbish so the local scavengers can use it #
• With SysLinux and Memdisk I can PXE netboot install FreeDOS from ISO image. Fortunate really as there's no CD or floppy! #
• FreeDOS install flawless right up to the point where PC resets and then doesn't boot. Left as an exercise for the finder. #
• Congrats to @JimCameron on doubling the number of people alive who reached Earths deepest point. Vale Jacques Cousteau. #
• First time people (Piccard and Walsh) got to Challenger Deep was 9 years before we got to the moon. /cc @deepchallenge #
• Now @JimCameron with @DeepChallenge are second group of people to get there, ~40 years after man was last on the moon. #
• Congrats to @JimCameron on doubling the number of people alive who reached Earths deepest point. /cc @DeepChallenge. #
• Today I saw a terabyte of RAM, and it was good. #
• In unrelated news it takes 44 hours for IBM diagnostics to do a full check of 1TB of RAM. #
• Sigh, what a time for trams to be broken in the CBD. #
• CBD trams fixed now. #
• "When we give up synchronization, we of necessity give up determinism." – David Ungar (IBM) http://t.co/CukcoQFb #hpc #
• Will AFACT change from "piracy funds terrorism" to "piracy funds NewsCorp"? Would put a lot more people off I reckon. 🙂 #
• Highway patrol pulled over Mercedes for driving in bike lane on Queensberry Street 🙂 #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/6kBwQwu0 Galaxy Song #
• Happy birthday Eric Idle 🙂 #
• Congrats to Andrew Lonie and Bernie Pope at #VLSCI for being co-authors on XRCC2 breast #cancer gene paper! /cc @SciMelb #
• Little penguin, St Kilda Pier http://t.co/GCJ18vVN #
• Put up a new #painting by @donna_williams in her Dreamscapes gallery – Sweet Springtime – http://t.co/7iIE49X9 #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/nlHbOW0n Flanders and Swann – The Gnu Song #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/nvyHZXly Flanders and Swann – Ill Wind – Mozart Horn Concerto #
• How do I fix timezone of remote ical calendar imported into Google Calendar ? Currently it's GMT+0, not useful in Melbourne! #
• To those who thought DST ended today in Victoria – April Fool! 🙂 #meta #
• Candied bacon aperitif courtesy of Chris and Rosemary! http://t.co/Uy7jOeBr #

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• So the Liberal party are demanding medical information on an opposition MP they are not legally allowed to have.. sigh.. #
• #Media training for scientists – http://t.co/9y1Qyssa /cc @protectresearch #science #
• Dear Uni Exchange server, PDF's are *not* application/msword – thank you! #
• (and yes, it is *really* a PDF, not just a misnamed Word doc) #
• Got on the train and it was around 25C, when I got off it was just over 17C – autumn has arrived with a bang! #
• "so we need to do 100 billion UNMAPs to discard the 100 PB volume" – oops – http://t.co/ZtSpU1Ae #hpc #
• I can't believe I'm having to contemplate our own patched Java build to make it play nicely on our #HPC systems 🙁 #
• Into #Linux kernel developer BIOS/EFI war stories? @mjg59's latest is a good one (OK, a bad one) http://t.co/z3282waF #
• I suspect a new local record, one spam just got a score of 86 in SpamAssassin 🙂 #
• Yay for @metrotrains SMS service, got update of problems before their website or platform announcement.. #
• Of course that was 10 minutes or so after the @metrotrains train was meant to be here 🙁 #
• Great Walking in Autistic Shoes talk by @donna_williams at Balliang East Primary School tonight, hosts were wonderful. #
• Bruce Schneier on Australian security theatre at airports: http://t.co/CFkbPXBo #
• Bright side to #qldvotes might be the rest of #auspol getting an idea of unfettered LNP power and rethinking about Abbott #
• Oops, our antiseptics use by date was June 1998. It's now in the bin. Must have come with us from the UK! 🙂 #

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• So the Liberal party are demanding medical information on an opposition MP they are not legally allowed to have.. sigh.. #
• #Media training for scientists – http://t.co/9y1Qyssa /cc @protectresearch #science #
• Dear Uni Exchange server, PDF's are *not* application/msword – thank you! #
• (and yes, it is *really* a PDF, not just a misnamed Word doc) #
• Got on the train and it was around 25C, when I got off it was just over 17C – autumn has arrived with a bang! #
• "so we need to do 100 billion UNMAPs to discard the 100 PB volume" – oops – http://t.co/ZtSpU1Ae #hpc #
• I can't believe I'm having to contemplate our own patched Java build to make it play nicely on our #HPC systems 🙁 #
• Into #Linux kernel developer BIOS/EFI war stories? @mjg59's latest is a good one (OK, a bad one) http://t.co/z3282waF #
• I suspect a new local record, one spam just got a score of 86 in SpamAssassin 🙂 #
• Yay for @metrotrains SMS service, got update of problems before their website or platform announcement.. #
• Of course that was 10 minutes or so after the @metrotrains train was meant to be here 🙁 #
• Great Walking in Autistic Shoes talk by @donna_williams at Balliang East Primary School tonight, hosts were wonderful. #
• Bruce Schneier on Australian security theatre at airports: http://t.co/CFkbPXBo #
• Bright side to #qldvotes might be the rest of #auspol getting an idea of unfettered LNP power and rethinking about Abbott #
• Oops, our antiseptics use by date was June 1998. It's now in the bin. Must have come with us from the UK! 🙂 #

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• Matt Dillon (DragonFlyBSD) finds AMD hardware errata http://t.co/XdfFxtDg and http://t.co/eelm01sO (very cool debugging) #
• BoM have issued another IPS high-latitude aurora alert 1020 UTC (2120 AEST) http://t.co/gp39xD1v #
• Friends vegie noodles – "Rice, Water, Cabbage, Carrot, Sweet corn, Pea, Scallion, Onions, Vegetable oil, Salt, Tuner Knob." #
• Oops, that was vegetarian fried rice, not noodles.. http://t.co/adLojBGL #
• Great news, penicillin allergy scratch test is negative. Can't do dose test, have to be in a hospital for that these days. #
• If you saw @abc730 report then this article on Facilitated Communication is a must read http://t.co/wxTc7v4U #disability #
• That article on FC is written by someone who progressed from FC through to independent communication. #
• Just because someone cannot speak doesn't meant they don't have something to say. It is *no* reflection on intelligence. #
• Awesome #aurora photos from New Zealand at http://t.co/SvItWhMz http://t.co/2TaXOxdc #space #photography #
• Dear @cafepress, when sending out survey requests it is traditional to put the URL for the survey in the email. 🙂 #
• Saturday morning was obviously the perfect time for 2 drives to die and 4 to fail diagnostics in 1 draw in our DDN. 🙁 #
• Fortunately as our RAID6 arrays go vertically we can loose 1 (or even 2) draws without losing service. Still scary though! #

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• Lovely, if occasionally rainswept, #sunset at Cardinia Reservoir – #photo – http://t.co/YtmfJhOp #
• Portrait of @Donna_Williams and @Chris_Bloke with rainbow over Cardinia Reservoir lake http://t.co/p6rbuJ4Q #
• .@channel_21 are not tech savvy; they forgot to register their domain name, then publicly abuse @skwashd for grabbing it #
• Brian: "you're all individuals" Crowd: "we're all individuals" Dissenter: "I'm not" #qanda /cc @NewtonMark #ItsaMisquote #
• If they're going to talk accents they could at least have @mrjohnclarke on! #qanda #WatchingTwitterNotTv #
• Anyone know what's up with http://t.co/gJrMtCXK ? Been down for a while from what I hear.. /cc @steve_evil @linuxaustralia #
• MT @mage0r cloud is like "the fog". You know, makes driving dangerous, means you can't see where you're going. #
• Big congrats to @kattekrab for #DigitiseTheDawn http://t.co/WPqVeq4T #iwd #
• Impressive photo of a whirlwind on the surface of Mars http://t.co/FtXFDT3u @MarsCuriosity better be careful! 🙂 #
• http://t.co/SvItWhMz has issued #aurora alert for all latitudes – storm due to hit 6:25am UTC March 8th (< 3 hours) #
• Current #aurora prediction for southern hemisphere looks a little disappointing http://t.co/WUbPcNK2 #space #australia #
• BoM space weather site shows no #aurora alert for #Australia yet 🙁 http://t.co/SBHpO1i0 #
• Anyone want a repossessed CT scanner? pick up only of course (from NSW). 🙂 http://t.co/6gEiJAHh #
• Australian BoM IPS have issued a high latitude #aurora alert (first since May 2011) http://t.co/vRfF767W #space #australia #
• Wow, even for @apod, that's one hell of a good picture.. http://t.co/gyZFLotm #
• "Wearable Obstacle Detection System and Braille Cellphone for the Blind" http://t.co/LtzQVPeE /cc @adainitiative @ABCRampUp #
• Dear songwriters, if your subject "don't know nothing" then they must know something, if not everything. HTH, HAND. 🙂 #

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• Tree snapped and fell on corner of house (our bedroom). Both of us are OK, waiting for SES to arrive to patch roof up. #
• Waiting for the tree and tarp people from the insurance mob to turn up to patch the roof and clear tree away. #
• RT @abcnews: #BREAKING Julia Gillard has been officially retained as Labor leader, beating challenger Kevin Rudd 73-29 in the Caucus vo … #
• Who voted for Rudd? 🙂 RT @DavidParis: RT @wikileaks: Everyone should follow the WikiLeaks twitter feed closely. #
• Tree people have arrived, tree limb being chopped up. House took a battering when it landed, rolled and then fell off! #
• Tree limb that fell on our house, landing on our bedroom roof and narrowly missing the gas meter! http://t.co/ySGLkG0Y #
• The tree people RACV sent did a grand job today, tree all cleared away. Still waiting for the people to tarp the roof tho! #
• Hooray, man came about roof, had a look and reckons it's bent but unbroken, no need to worry about leaks! 🙂 #
• Is it just me, or does the music for REMs "Crush with Eyeliner" sound like Hawkwinds "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"? #
• This mornings earworm is "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" by Hawkwind, thank you REM (see previous tweet) #
• #ACCC accepts @Telstra's structural separation undertaking – http://t.co/OZQBh8F2 #nbn #auspol #
• Oh the irony, Thunderbird labels emails from Australian Access Federation (AAF, @ausaccessfed) as possible scams.. 🙂 #
• #Intel Nehalem and Westmere CPUs have a bug with deeper C states, hits newer #Linux kernels, e.g. http://t.co/JgHQwJ1f #
• New larger venue finalised for Brett Smith's talk about the #TTP #patents and free software – http://t.co/zZdNsD8W #
• Melbourne sunset with mares tails, contrail and moon http://t.co/9SW87Mqi #
• Add on to display tracking parties on web "@lwnnet: Mozilla: announcing "Collusion" http://t.co/SGUWqFkl&quot; #
• For St Davids Day (Dydd Dewi Sant) #wales #cymru http://t.co/4m9wibHH #
• This evening was the wake for Alfred (2003-2012), @unimelb 2.8GHz Pentium4 Xeon IBM Cluster 1350, now replaced by Edward. #
• Sad parallel to Marysville in Australia (lost to bushfire 2009), Marysville in US lost to tornado http://t.co/J0BBdkdD #
• Seekwatcher: generate graphs from blktrace runs to viz IO patterns + performance http://t.co/WW37jSeE #linux #benchmark #
• Yay for #GPFS 2:55am is the perfect time for mmfsd to crash with a segmentation fault. 🙁 #hpc #
• Got a #Facebook business page? Do you know you're being sued for software #patent infringement in US? http://t.co/FuNd3WiQ #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/ZBbz7n1A Clarke and Dawe – The History of Circuses #

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• Must read nostalgia for other veterans "Hysterical Raisins, or What did you do in the OSI Wars, Daddy?" http://t.co/dCrzDn70 #
• Good to see the old uk-mail-managers list (created 23 years ago) still exists.. https://t.co/ETnidAZc #
• It'd be great if there were archives of the ukmm list around covering the OSI wars and .gb versus .uk – anyone ? #
• Hmm, is mmencode really only packaged as part of Xemacs in Ubuntu ? #
• Sacrificed 115MB of disk space to get one 12KB utility (at least temporarily) #
• It appears that the CrypTweet crypto is not that well implemented https://t.co/zgT3NwGv via @telecomix /cc @AlecMuffett #
• This looks like it deserves a good read – 'The Great #NBN Fail' from the ABC tech blog http://t.co/xgWcM7aN #
• Tweet 13,000 – whilst eating pizza with geeks with laptops.. 🙂 #
• Dear oh dear, are the #ALP deliberately trying to loose the next election to let an even worse bunch in? #auspol #
• Big thanks to the most excellent @smarthall who brought over his spare @freetronics LeoStick from LCA last night! 🙂 #
• Recent photos of 2 re-excavated Moai on Rapa Nui by @KJBar http://t.co/Vn9EzKI9 /cc @WorldArchaeo #archaeology #
• Wonder whether Telstra's route flaps or Optus's damping (despite being bad practice) caused more damage? http://t.co/yZA68jeF #
• Only way to use the latest Flash for Linux will be to use Chrome in future – http://t.co/8yYiIztI #
• My fab wife, @donna_williams, talks about her double mastectomy for breast #cancer and fashion! http://t.co/VBWCWF5b #
• I think @kruddmp is only challenging so he can get his old Twitter name back. #spill #
• OK Melbourne, you weren't meant to try to get to 37C until tomorrow – today was meant to be 35C not 36.9C! #
• .@kruddmp says @JuliaGillard has lost the peoples support – I guess he'd know, he lost last spill for that reason #respill #
• Personally I think the #ALP needs a 3rd candidate for PM, someone more interested in substance than spin #respill #
• So if @kruddmp wins on Monday he could let the Libs in by mistake http://t.co/Qum1bcwT #
• If you are running an #IPv6 tunnel to @henet then you may want to tweak your MTU – http://t.co/1QllikAk #
• RiP Dad, it's been 4 years but I still think of you. Thanks. #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/BlZ5TyED World's Largest Rope Swing #
• .@Donna_Williams and Anthony Julian (The Aspinauts) performing at the Belgrave Buskers Festival http://t.co/ZnH1CZda #

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• So the Syrian regime has the West, the Arab League and al-Qaida against them and just China and Russia for them.. #
• #VLSCI to get 800+ TF IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer http://t.co/QzUqk9HQ #hpc #
• Quite a buzz to see the news of our new BG/Q spreading, looking forward to its arrival! #VLSCI #
• I recommend the @MelTrains train-alerts list for the stuff @metrotrains doesn't tweet https://t.co/l6QU9sLP #
• Nil by mouth since 7am for first ERCP of the year at Box Hill Hospital. I'll be glad when this is all over! #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/laD07ZKH Original 4 Yorkshiremen Sketch #
• Back home from Box Hill Hospital after successful ERCP, feeling quite dilated 🙂 #
• Seriously tho, big thanks to Mr Hassan and surgB team; next step would have been go in through the liver, now not needed! #
• New SSL cert weaknesses mostly limited to embedded systems https://t.co/QpnC7jLE #
• Sadly our beehive goes to new owners tonight, hard to do 2 ppl lift when only 1 of us is now allowed to. (1/2) #
• Good part is bees are off to a vineyard rebuilding after Black Saturday and now needs to replace the bees they lost (2/2) #

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• Lots of shouts and noise from the board room – no need to panic, just the resident yanks watching the superbowl.. #
• Today is the third anniversary of Black Saturday #bushfires which killed 173 people and destroyed towns on a 46C day 🙁 #
• Putney's First Rule: "Anyone can make up an axiom and call it the first rule of something" http://t.co/yBqo9Sj8 #btrfs list #
• Caused by computer fault MT @freepressleader FIREFIGHTER injured battling fire @ Ferntree Gully factory http://t.co/0nxpZr2Y #
• Marshall watch out, our @kogan stereo internet radio goes up to 20! Silent Hedges by Bauhaus sounds great. 🙂 #
• #nowlisteningto Lagartija Nick by Bauhaus – "crack the whip" #
• With #Android 4 you can now backup without unlocking/rooting your device – adb backup -shared -apk -all -nosystem #
• Oh how I hate the #newtwitter look, it's so cramped compared to the older new look. I hate fixed width sites.. #
• You can do RAID5 on that @zareason laptop I RT'd if you populate the 2 empty extra drive bays 🙂 #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/NrTYzJpq Who's your favourite scientist? #

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• .@penguin_brian @metrotrains train announcement by driver says Ill passenger in loop caused delays. Trains banked up. #
• A Hitachi train, very retro! At least it's less than 30C now. Will these ever get aircon @metrotrains @ptua? #
• Chris and @Donna_Williams by sunset light at Cardinia Reservoir http://t.co/lO15t5vA #
• Cardinia Sunset http://t.co/Y5z4ig9g #
• Perhaps booting #Android 2.1 in an emulator on this 768MB RAM P4 laptop wasn't a great plan – 80% CPU 25% RAM #
• I suspect running Eclipse, Android emulator and Chromium at the same time is probably beyond this poor things capabilities #
• Smell from fire at Yarra Vallley Grammar School seems to have made it over to the other side of Mount Dandenong.. yuck! #
• OK I take it back, I *can* run Eclipse, ARM emulator Android 2.1 AOSP & Chromium at the same time – 768MB RAM + 25MB swap #
• Folks, remember that Ubuntu is more than just Gnome/Unity pain – just install kubuntu-desktop or lubuntu-desktop! #
• You might need to purge any remnants of PulseAudio though to get working sound of course. #
• Joy Division on @ABCDigMusic – She's Lost Control – a little bit of light uplifting music. 🙂 #
• So Red Hat have pushed our November 2010 RHEL 5.5 Mellanox driver bug back again, this time to RHEL 5.9. 🙁 #
• Probably dumb #lazyweb question – how do I get Linux kernel to output to normal console as well as serial console ? #
• To answer my (deleted) question about output to normal screen and serial console: console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8r #
• 1964 – John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC
  1965 – Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964. #
• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages – http://t.co/nz73SZwX #
• Just turned off auto-rotate on my Galaxy Nexus running #Android 4.0.1 after watching this video http://t.co/NnjQHqxJ #
• Welcome the overlords "@wired: Scary video of a hive of tiny robotic helicopters acting with one will http://t.co/yu9KtEFf&quot; #
• Introduced to siphon coffee at @7seeds yesterday by @stewartsmith and @cafuego, rather nice! #
• Looks like an Android update has been pushed for my Galaxy Nexus! Will report back which version once done. /cc @MobiCity #
• Android 4.0.2 just pushed to my Galaxy Nexus, 3.0.8 kernel. /CC @MobiCity #

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