• Exhibition of my black+white photos at Cafe Have Ya Bean, Upwey http://t.co/rO5IMuHr mostly from this set http://t.co/7QUS5oIL #
• How do I check usage of equal cost routes to a destination (say for load balancing across multiple 10G-IB routers) ? #
• Forgot to say – that question about equal cost routing is about #Linux #HPC compute node (RHEL5.7/CentOS5.7 FWIW) #
• The #hwloc developers are trying to find people to test 1.4rc2 on #AIX can anyone help them out? http://t.co/RvCLbA3p #
• RT @r_netsec: Blu-ray encryption keys leaked, enable VLC playback [xpost from /r/technology] – http://t.co/ikqThYIT #
• US Defence Secretary on Iran – Sunday 22nd Jan "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No." http://t.co/AaEtgQKE #
• 4 trains cancelled this evening already on the Belgrave line – what's going on @metrotrains ? #
• Vendor replaced motherboard with dead IPMI controller. Now node boots, but only sees half the RAM. Try again Friday.. #
• #HHGTTG fans in UK – this is for you – http://t.co/wu4sxCwO – radio show cast perform show live on stage! #hitchhikers #
• Today is my 4th anniversary of becoming an Australian citizen. #
• Attempting to install Android SDK on Arch Linux via AUR and ABS. Not as painful as it sounds! 🙂 #
• Spent part of yesterday at the Survival Day celebration at Belgrave – lovely atmosphere! #WeNeedFirstAustraliansDay #
• #Symantec #pcAnywhere remote exploit only fixed when stolen source published, 6 years after theft, vulnerable all that time. #
• Info about #pcAnywhere remote exploit from #Symantec http://t.co/FhLEszgh #
• NB: the duck farms quarantined in Melbourne for LPAI do *NOT* have H5N1.. #
• OK Android wizards, how do I find out who does OTA updates for 4.0 build yakjzus? @google don't respond to queries. 🙁 #
• Person here http://t.co/UMAuGSOU told by @Samsung + @Google OTA updates for yakjzus Galaxy Nexus not up to them /cc @MobiCity #
• RIP Freddy the Fighting Fish, after a short illness. #
• Power gone out here, slowly cooking. 🙂 #

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• Melbourne summer morning – grass blowing in the wind at Lincoln Square in Carlton, on the way to work at VLSCI. http://t.co/fgC13ZcF #
• Why can't Android 2.3.3 phone see the CFA FireReady app my Galaxy Nexus can? Link from CFA site gives not found error too #
• Fact for the day: Papua New Guinea has 1 in 7 of the planets languages (@newscientist, 10th Dec 2011) #
• Why doesn't the IBM XL C++ compiler for BlueGene/P obey the CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable? It's meant to.. #hpc #
• "Do not edit below this line" – I laugh in the face of your pitiful warning Makefile! (Just needed to change -O3 to -O2) #
• anyone know if OVCC (Open Visual Communications Consortium – which @AARNet just joined) is pushing real open standards? #
• Or is OVCC just another vendor club pushing encumbered "open" standards? Their website is content free.. 🙁 #
• Rumour is that #VLSCI will be on a segment on the @abc730 program tonight.. #
• Swanston St Skyline http://t.co/WA92agMK #
• #Linux kernel 3.3-rc1 now tagged in git.. #
• A shame that the @CFA_Updates FIreReady app for Android crashes whenever it gets a push notification /cc @naturallybeing #
• Interesting @abcnews story about crackers using owned accounts to sell shares at high price to others http://t.co/siaAYWvV #
• Apparently the @abcnews weather people used this photo yesterday – shame I missed it! 🙂 http://t.co/fgC13ZcF #
• RT @ScienceCalendar Jan. 22, 1561-Birthday of philosopher Francis Bacon, formulated the principles of the scientific method. #
• At Fed Square waiting for @mikekuiper to arrive to go see Star Voyager at ACMI #
• The Light Side and the Dark Side http://t.co/UotAzd2l #
• Is it just me or is Google's AGPS system being particularly random this arvo? Keep popping up in Europe! #
• Played Quake at ACMI – did pretty well after not playing for many years + without keyboard config – fragged @mikekuiper #

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• Bright Red Eucalyptus Gum Flowers http://t.co/CI9J6LXK #
• Reflections on Reading a Newspaper (Kofi Beans cafe, Croydon) http://t.co/uWaJE3XR #
• Clouds and Sun at Cardinia Reservoir (HDR) http://t.co/2WYpM8Z1 #
• This mornings earworm is "Down In The Park" by Gary Numan – thanks @abcdigmusic (Foo Fighters cover is the best tho) #
• "Getting hit by a bus is not something we've developed an evolutionary response to" – Karim Brohi, trauma surgeon, RLH #
• Does any one know if the Dick Smith unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes with an Aussie warranty or is it a parallel import? #
• My friend @AlecMuffett is trying to find a good #Android cycling GPS app: suggestions? http://t.co/1MrHuxzy #
• Making morning drink, looked over and realised I'd lit different burner to one kettle was on. Sigh. #BootstrapProblem #
• return -EWRONGTEABAG; /* This is NOT meant to taste of Fennel */ #
• Raindrop rose – a rose in our garden after overnight summer rain http://t.co/gQYyuwwh #
• Fire hydrant gushing water on Swanston St south of Lincoln Square, any ideas who needs to know? #MFB #
• OK – time for coffee and then off to the DC's again for another exciting adventure in "Chris versus Hardware" #hpc #
• Dear #Drupal when we update a page please display it to all visitors, not just to people who are logged in. KTNXBAI #
• Hooray, so finally we have all #VLSCI #HPC systems back online. Merri and Bruce yesterday and Tambo today (after HW fixes) #
• Missed this when the last #Top500 supercomputer list came out – #Microsoft is down to 1 (from 4) Windows only #HPC system #
• The deed is done, Samsung Galaxy Nexus ordered from @MobiCity in QLD with 24 month warranty.. Android here I come! #
• Great picture of 3,300 year old bronze age wooden boat being excavated in Cambridgeshire on cover of @CurrentArchaeo 263 #
• Sigh, I hate inconsistent network issues, if I bang my head against it an longer I swear it's going to bleed.. #
• If you don't teach kids how computers work + how to program, then they are doomed to be controlled and not be in control #
• Another great piece of cappuccino art from Cafe Have Ya Bean in Upwey http://t.co/cEW0IaGF #
• A new update on our year old RedHat RHEL5 Mellanox driver bug! "We are still waiting from Engineering.". Oh well.. #
• Barcelona Supercomputer Center – where architecture is about buildings as well as #HPC systems http://t.co/MPck6v55 #
• Very sad, a lead #SKA scientist possibly murdered in the UK http://t.co/B9kIG6bz (via @rcrain_astro) #
• UPS reckon my Galaxy Nexus will take 6 days to get from Melbourne to Melbourne – it only took 24 hours from Hong Kong! #
• Pondering realisation that my two great fascinations, archaeology and astronomy, are inherently about looking back in time #
• Dick Smith won't price match a phone that DSE themselves *only* sell online because others don't have retail store – FAIL! #
• FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes – http://t.co/qOUqgtAM (via Jim Lux of NASA on the Beowulf list) #hpc #
• #VLSCI SGI Altix XE cluster "Bruce" should clock over it's 1,000,000th job this weekend! Not bad for less than 2 years. #
• My Samsung Galaxy Nexus has arrived! #android #google http://t.co/bnDB2iCy #
• Finally had a chance to turn on IPv6 via @Internode at home – hoorah! #
• .@twitter mobile web interface is actually quite usable on Android ICS, no need for an app #
• Android 4 ICS has native IPv6 support for Wifi, works like a charm. #
• Odd, only the official Samsung cable for my Galaxy Nexus works for it to charge or be recognised in a PC. Need more tests. #
• Aha, my trusty microUSB cable from Jaycar works in my Galaxy Nexus, phew! /cc @MobiCity #
• "All code in Linux will evolve until the point where it's implemented as a filesystem." – @mjg59 http://t.co/KtONtiXV #
• Lovely Melbourne day with @donna_williams lounging at friends place in Brunswick after long lunch. #

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• RT @CFA_Updates: Severe & Extreme Fire Danger Ratings and Total Fire Bans in areas of Victoria today. Stay informed at http://t.co/lHwDE … #
• in New York if you score too high on an "intelligence" test you cannot be a cop – says more about the folks in charge.. #
• Ignoring CO2 because we don't fully understand climate is like jumping off a roof because we don't fully understand gravity #
• Hopefully the UK policy to force publicly funded research to be published in open access journals will be carried through! #
• Ordered VGA cable for @donna_williams Macbook, #Apple #039;s delivery website says it was delivered, but no sign of it! 🙁 #
• Inflatable flying shark (needs helium) on Catch of the Day: http://t.co/l2zjmETb (via @fooishbar) #
• Reminder all #VLSCI #HPC systems down: Bruce is being moved to new location, Merri and Tambo for electrical outage this w/e #
• 9am-8pm day today at #VLSCI shutting down IBM gear ready for electrical work in the building over the weekend. Need sleep. #
• Thanks @katharineannear and @Atlantean7001 for the #FF #
• Other #Kubuntu 11.04 users waiting for LP bug 857828 (kontact migration to 11.10 fails) to be fixed before upgrading? #KDE #

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• Now nil by mouth before MRCP MRI lunchtime tomorrow. #
• My medical score for 2011: 5 ERCPs, 4 drain tubes, 3 MRIs, 2 CT scans, 2 ultrasounds, 1 keyhole + 1 open surgery #
• That's current score including todays pending MRI, hopefully won't manage to add anything else to it! 🙂 #
• Hospitals seem to be like buses, you spend 40+ years avoiding them then all that comes along in less than 12 months.. #
• Yea gods, @CityLinkMelb's login screen is a Flash application! 🙁 #
• Trying to figure out how to upgrade Donna's Macbook from 10.5 to 10.7 and whether 10.6 is needed or not with USB Lion disk #
• After reading a bunch of articles I'm still none the wiser – a lot of hassle just to have a current version of Firefox! #
• Maybe doing "git gc" on this ageing laptop wasn't a great idea, ended up using 86% of my 478MB usable RAM.. #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/qfJHXSCA Magic Roundabout Theme #
• Our lives are brief but bright victories over entropy; the point isn't what we are here to do but that we are here at all. #
• Good explanation as to why there have been virtually no external contributions to #Android in 2011 https://t.co/3KMHT8Bb #
• Spending #nyemelb with a weather eye on the CFA website, spot fire (controlled) about 1 mile away from our house. #
• Had a lovely evening with @donna_williams and Morghana who dropped around to spend time with us. Now T-17 mins and counting. #
• The nearby party is playing "Killing in the name of" by Rage Against the Machine. Could be worse I guess! 🙂 #
• If the "Enemy Expatriation Act" becomes US law you could lose US citizenship for protesting (aka "low-level terrorism") #
• When questioned the US DoD said the exam question should have differentiated between peaceful and violent protest.. #
• So I guess the American participants in the War of Independence should be classified as terrorists.. #
• Happy new year folks, welcome to 2012 – off to watch fireworks on TV.. #nyemelb #
• Sadly the party nearby that was playing RAtM has degenerated into playing house and other kids music.. 🙁 #
• A special happy new year to the CFA crews out dealing with the various bush and grass fires tonight – thanks! #
• Happy new year to all my UK family and friends, glad you could join us in 2012, only 11 hours late again! 🙂 #
• Total fire ban declared for Melbourne (and rest of central districtj by CFA for Monday 2nd January. BoM forecasts 40C! #

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• The BoM radar seems to show the thunderstorm heading towards #Melbourne easing a bit for now, no sign round here yet #
• Piracy so crippling Australian music industry that it's only selling 50% more than 2005 – wait, what? http://t.co/vVl7aU1X #
• BoM radar seem to show thunderstorm going north of #Melbourne CBD and on a bee-line for Mount Dandenong /cc @774melbourne #
• Just had the biggest thunder I've ever heard in #Melbourne #
• Fighting grub2 in the data centre, and it's winning.. 🙁 #
• When in doubt make sure grub2 in @debian is using the old skool console mode, not the new fangled graphical console #
• Corruption and incompetence in US local government – http://t.co/szaEY1w3 #
• Ahh, IPMI IERR's on both CPUs in a (secondary) database server, just what I need on the run up to the holidays.. #
• I wonder if Kim Jong's gravestone will adapt Spike Milligan's comment – "I told you I was Il" #
• Hey @PopSci, some articles don't work from Australia, eg. http://t.co/7IHixa4z redirects to http://t.co/Gv43EgoG and is 404 #
• A friend makes good point on how the Australian govt makes drowning more likely for refugees http://t.co/0ITSicbe #auspol #
• For those who think 1,200 #refugees a year is a flood – it's just half a refugee per postcode http://t.co/vMt2grjf #auspol #
• Off to hospital for routine ERCP check up, back this arvo! #
• House in Emerald (just down from Woolworths) has fabulous Christmas lights on and around it! /cc @markbate #
• #VLSCI helpdesk is now closed for the University Christmas break, we'll be back on January 3rd! #
• Interesting new #git merge feature for signed commits on its way via Linus Torvalds https://t.co/0SpNj8jM #security #
• Great to catch up with so many former colleagues from @vpacltd this evening, if only briefly. Sad to see so many leaving.. #
• According to @23andMe I have 0.2 percentage points more Neanderthal DNA than your average European.. could explain a lot.. #
• I do believe that Jeff Mahoney wins the Internets for Christmas with this suggested mod to #btrfs http://t.co/X5IMcMIt #
• Open letter from @simonhackett to all @Internode customers – http://t.co/Ce8Hr9Q6 #
• Awesome video of #Comet #Lovejoy rising over Tasmania just before dawn taken from the #ISS – http://t.co/pdyaYsDl #space #
• If you use #FreeBSD and expose telnet to the world (why?!) be aware there is a remote root exploit http://t.co/EG5Ex8pt #
• Over 28C in the shade up here in the hills, a pretty warm Xmas eve day.. Warmer than the CBD according to the BoM! #
• Signed #SaveFatherBob petition to reinstate @FatherBob, a man who walks the walk for the homeless etc http://t.co/LluOxbqn #
• Is it really just 25C in #Melbourne CBD as per BoM? Still almost 30C here in the hills and we're meant to be cooler! #
• Thunder at last, now we wait and see if there'll be any rain with it – last thing we need now are dry lightning strikes.. #
• So merry seasonal festival of your choice everyone, I'm off to bed.. #
• Seems like the thunderstorm has pootled off over Lilydale, very distant thunder but spectacular light show behind Mt Dandy #
• Mosquitoes, can't live with them, can't chase them round the house with flamethrowers… #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/G5bHCSrM Tom Lehrer – A Christmas Carol #
• Typical, after whinging last night about storms missing us Melbourne waits until I'm away to put on a really good one! #

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• This mornings earworm: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi's Dead #
• ObBauhaus: Complete this sentence: Maxell…. #
• It appears @SMSGlobalHQ made this court ordered "media message" an image only message, wonder why… http://t.co/dMXNMpI8 #
• The news about the Higgs Boson is that there is no news about the Higgs Boson http://t.co/IRx0SyBG #arXiv #physics #cern #
• Remember CERN announcing that they've not found the #Higgs boson yet is still very important and valuable information #
• I wonde if the #CERN ATLAS Higgs paper will be like HEP's version of Kevin Bacon ? #
• Despite what @HPCwire says I see no evidence that @nVidia is "open sourcing" their #LLVM based #CUDA compiler #
• It appears that @nVidia will allow restricted access to their #LLVM #CUDA compiler, presumably under proprietary license #
• Anyone know what the hold-up time for a @Supermicro_SMCI PWS-981-1S PSU is ? #hpc #lazyweb #
• Kudos to @mrjohnclarke (of Clarke and Dawe) for taking the non-DRM name your price path – let's prove it's a good choice! #
• Anyone know how to set default mount options for #IBM #GPFS filesystem on a remote cluster? mmchfs refuses #hpc /cc @ibmhpc #
• Wow, Melbourne's dams haven't had this much water in them since 1998! #
• So SGI's new machine for iVEC and SKA will be called Fornax – what a stellar name.. (I'll get me coat) #hpc #
• Want to help @debian? Install devscripts + run wnpp-alert : RFH=Request for Help, RFA=Request for Adoption, O=Orphaned #
• .@debian wnpp-alert script only tells you about help wanted for the packages on your system, i.e. ones important to you #
• Regression in #Linux 2.6.32 + later causes reading /proc to be slow on high core count systems http://t.co/JlXw0cB9 #hpc #

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• Ah Monday, must be time to whinge about OpenFOAM's build system again.. *whinge* 🙁 #
• [about OpenFOAM] RT @a7ndrew @chris_bloke after I'd compiled that, I felt like a MAN! #
• Does Pandoras Box mean anything to #ALP Pakistan wants AU uranium as per India http://t.co/RHjQJD3t via @sallysaraABC #
• So the Liberal Party in Victoria are going to bring us all of the costs of the ALP's PT plans with none of the benefits? #
• Struggling to debug why #xCAT rcons not longer works to LPARs under IVM since upgrading from 2.4.2 to 2.6.9 🙁 #hpc #
• Japanese whalers get $28M in "earthquake aid" from Japanese government http://t.co/5VnBhpaS (via @abcnews) #
• Achievement unlocked: less than 60 unread emails in my work inbox. It won't last… #
• Kudos to @metrotrains for finally having someone who will respond to tweets! #
• #ACL blocking/censoring other Christians on their website who disagree with them http://t.co/BJ0MZSLt – via @claudinec #
• Kudos to #xCAT devs, < 24 hours of reporting rcons issue they pointed me to an already existing patch in trunk to fix it! #
• Down to 38 unread emails in my inbox! Time to go home.. 🙂 #
• Great news, my fab wife @donna_williams doesn't have melanoma, it was a non-malgnant blue nevus! Big relief @ Chez Samuel #
• Tomorrow is @donna_williams and mine's 11th wedding anniversary, here's to a lot more of them! #
• We've both seen too much of hospitals, both as patients and visitors, this year. Hopefully 2012 will be much less medical! #
• Next turn 260km 🙂 #

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• RT @HappyExhaustion: Please RT if you know someone who has been raped. Help me prove: It's not an issue that only effects a small minority. #
• Fire alarms and fire engines at Melbourne Central #
• Luckily the fire alarms went off shortly after the firemen sauntered in, obviously weren't very worried. #
• Amazed at no. of ppl who went in to Melbourne Central whilst alarms still going and fire trucks with sirens turning up #
• Sigh, why can't RHEL5 or CentOS5 "yumdownloader –source kernel" find the #Linux kernel sources like it's meant to ? #
• Space is big – @MarsCuriosity is travelling at 163,000 km/h and it's still going to take over 8 months to get to Mars. #
• Dear Melbourne cyclists, which bit of red traffic light and pedestrian crossing do you not understand? #
• .@metrotrains definitely big improvement, but it'd be nice if the old ones stayed up until new ones were ready! /cc @ptua #
• Braille-It labeller, cheap+easy to make and sightless construction – via http://t.co/fAmXY4rG @engadget /cc @ABCRampUp #
• .@Borders (not B+N) sells /16 netblock for $768,000 as part of liquidation ($12 each) http://t.co/cqZCJjua via @atoonk #
• Kookaburra poised to pounce – black & white #photo http://t.co/Jpp7qkVz #
• Making a cup of tea before settling down to listen to the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio4 courtesy of the Intertubes #
• I would have loved to have heard Dylan Thomas read the Shipping Forecast for Radio4, he had the perfect voice for it.. #

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• In 1997 ASCI RED broke the 1TF barrier at 850kW, now #IBM BG/Q can do 2TF per Watt, and #Intel have a 1TF chip… #hpc #
• In 1997 ASCI RED broke the 1TF barrier at 850kW, now #IBM BG/Q can do 2GF per Watt, and #Intel have a 1TF chip… #hpc #
• Thanks to @nsccap for pointing out I went straight from MFlops/W to TFlops/W without stopping at GFlops/W – now fixed! #
• New pull request for #btrfs fixes for 3.2 #linux kernel includes possible filesystem corruption fix http://t.co/BW4C5lB4 #
• So $350 #Dell DFO SandyBridge i3 arrived, first action nuke #Microsoft Windows and install #Kubuntu Linux, it just works.. #
• DUST – Driver UpdateS Tool – "like a working DKMS, but without all the broken bits" – http://t.co/ij2Ter3E (via @sijoe) #
• First contact with Phobos-Grunt! http://t.co/pzySnmW3 #space #
• Person lying in front of tram on Swanston St #
• HTC Sonic (#Android 2.3.3) SMS app not updating text input display in landscape mode, works when in portrait! Ideas? #
• Of course this is a Huawei Sonic #Android phone, not HTC! #
• Solution to no #Android SMS text updates in landscape found – answer is to reboot phone.. 🙁 http://t.co/zgXVSaYb #
• Solution to no #Android SMS text updates in landscape found – answer is to reboot phone.. 🙁 http://t.co/tcULw475 #
• I wish I could get to less than 90 unread emails in my inbox, been trying for days now! #
• #Linux kernel 3.2-rc3 now out with important #btrfs fixes! Linus wants testers around world as US has some sort of holiday #
• First try of the honey from our own bees this morning – absolutely beautiful, tastes completely different to shop honey! #

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