• Fab arvo with @donna_williams celebrating 25 years of DEAL + relaunch as Anne McDonald Centre + great to meet @ABCRampUp! #
• Lots of reminiscing about Anne McDonald today, an amazing person with a wicked sense of humour, would have enjoyed the show! #
• Congrats to Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) and team for winning #BAFTA for Choosing to Die doco! #alzheimers #dignity #
• According to their countdown timer SC12 starts in Salt Lake City 3 days! 🙂 http://t.co/KxTNeSVs /cc @Supercomputing #
• It's official, the 'K' computer in Japan breaks the 10 petaflop barrier @SuperComputing 11 http://t.co/ItVPdwDQ #SC11 #
• To all scrambling to revoke #DigiCert CA cert – you realise you need to revoke Digicert Sdn Bhd not DigiCert, Inc., yes? #
• Delicate Flower – black and white photo http://t.co/1obJumjU #
• Cascade of Leaves – black and white photo http://t.co/DHEVjGmG #
• #Top500 '07 #1 (now #22 LLNL BG/L, Rmax 478TF, 96 racks, 2329kW, now #17 is #LLNL BG/Q, Rmax 677TF, 4 racks, 340kW! #hpc #
• Passwords are bad tech, but cracking complex password hashes with rainbow tables on SSD's in seconds may focus attention #
• Altogether now… "all you need is lapack".. 🙂 #sc11 #hpc #
• Darth Vader claims Ukrainian plot to dock spaceship http://t.co/tFgMVubW via @guardian #
• #IBM BlueGene/Q systems take top 5 slots on the Green500 #HPC list at around 2TF per Watt.. http://t.co/Fqz4N3f8 #sc11 #
• Cosgrove Hall were responsible for DangerMouse, sad to hear that co-creator Mark Hall has died.. 🙁 #

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• DELETE FROM wp_commentmeta WHERE comment_id NOT IN (SELECT comment_id FROM wp_comments); /* Dump junk info from akismet */ #
• That SQL statement took my wp_commentmeta table down from 47MB to less than 1MB in size.. #
• More on that #WordPress #Akismet here – http://t.co/3kLgfwzD #
• My wonderful wife @donna_williams has done her 4th and final chemotherapy last Thursday and is doing well! #
• Problem is, I've now come down with a cold onmy week off to be here with her! 🙁 #
• Commited changes to #Vacation #039;s git to support DESTDIR and to use /usr/share/man not /usr/man #WelcomeTo20thCentury #
• The rumble you can hear in the sky #Melbourne It's not just a thunderstorm, it's Joe Frazier + Henry Cooper warming up.. #
• Time to shut computers down and unplug them.. #
• Just saw beautiful kingfisher on Greenlink section of Koonung Creek with @donna_williams! #
• Added "make gitpackage" target to #Vacation so I don't have to remember git-archive magic for a tarball every time. 🙂 #
• Aus Christian Lobby's petition to block marriage equality is growing – sign ours and demand equality! http://t.co/kIr2SvQO via @GetUp #
• Very busy week of being ill, looking after Donna being ill and rearranging the house as part of a big spring clean! #
• At the Anne McDonald Centre (formerly DEAL Communication Center) birthday party http://t.co/4oBacS7x #
• Great talk by Marie Ireland and very funny (and ever so accurate) talk by @abcrampup at Anne McDonald Centre launch! #

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• My favourite of @donna_williams new collage paintings – "Discover" – http://t.co/cxjFCsmT 🙂 #art #
• Actions of @QantasAirways reminds me of someone who stabs themselves and then shouts 'but they made me do it!' #qantas #
• "We all – in the end – die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories." http://t.co/8AaA2jWV #
• Fabulous black cockatoos overhead whilst walking to station – a great counterpoint to an overcast and damp morning #
• Train dead quiet this morning, anyone would think it was a public holiday.. #
• #MelbourneCup humans beating horses to run faster so other humans can win+lose vast sums of money #
• So is there a simple way in Drupal to find all pages linking to a particular page ? #
• On train home after long day at work, I really hate hard disks… #
• 12K signatories for 12k civilians detained by mltry courts in Egypt. @accessnow petition to #FreeAlaa http://t.co/6s8N6C1I #
• Life imitating art (well Banksy really) and doing a very good job of it! http://t.co/b8HfDlz3 #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/JomeA7sI Warumpi Band – Black Fella White Fella (1987) #
• Dear @BBCBreaking, when you say "watch live" please make sure that it actually works, and doesn't say "not available" #
• You know your parsnip patch is out of control when you find them coming up in the middle of your brick paths! 🙂 #
• OK – so #Vacation 1.2.7.1 is now tagged in git and ready for release.. #
• #Vacation email auto-responder 1.2.7.1 has been released – RFC 3834 compliant + other bug fixes! http://t.co/fd6rOq1E #

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• Gary Numan does "Cars", with a bit of help from Nine Inch Nails.. 🙂 http://t.co/DxehRCJo #NIN #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/z3gUhW1V NIN: "Cars" with Gary Numan, London 7.15.09 [HD] #
• First day back at work after a week off and already I have to fight #OpenFOAM – I hope #SGI can fix its build system! #
• #NAB (verb) steal, pinch, take without permission, evicting tenants without notice when landlord defaults #
• Why do I have to provide a business case for #RedHat to fix a driver bug reported a year ago in RHEL5.5 in the 5.8 release? #
• Surely the fact that #RedHat haven't tried to fix it in 5.6 or 5.7 despite already being fixed upstream by Mellanox counts? #
• Ed Alleyne Johnson, busker electro-violinist extrordinaire plays Gun'n'Roses Sweet Child of Mine http://t.co/kG6sItBV #
• Server Error in Application "METRO TRAINS" 🙂 /cc @metrotrains #
• This mornings earworm is from #Genesis – 'Home by the Sea' #
• So #Linux distro's no longer allowed to redistribute 'official' Oracle/Sun #Java now it's OpenJDK or nothing for them. #
• Tell @JuliaGillard to end Australia's immigration detention disgrace. Add your name to the petition here: http://t.co/AoXGs8mC via @GetUp #
• According to Washington Post Obama is about to cut @NASA's future planetary exploration missions http://t.co/v8fcO9eV 🙁 #
• That potentially awful @NASA news via @budiprasetya and @markbate #
• Applications for time on #VLSCI supercomputers open until November 17th – more info here: http://t.co/ZlEjANCG #hpc #
• Congrats to Bernie on getting his #Haskell MPI article published in the Monad Reader! http://t.co/4l1fiWDV (PDF) #HPC #
• VIC Police minister doesn't understand law he cites for evicting #occupymelbourne protestors doesn't apply to protests #
• #VLSCI gets an acknowledgement in the Nature paper "Ascaris suum draft genome" http://t.co/BlsHPeZL #science #
• Also nice to see that Nature paper is published under a #CreativeCommons license (BY-NC-SA)! #
• Making a run for the station before the storm arrives… #
• Cool, my CC licensed photo http://t.co/7M93K9OT was used on a Scientific American @sciam blog post – http://t.co/mhTMNowE #
• Hitchcock and The (Angry) Birds – fab proposed t-shirt design! http://t.co/p5uAqX5N #
• 8 of the 10 Twitter trends for Australia relate to the #Qantas outage.. #

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• I can run Firefox under X with LXDE and a terminal in 512MB RAM under Arch Linux and not hit swap. Nice.. 🙂 #
• New Model Army – Ten Commandments #atheistanthem #
• 360 Degree Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera – this looks like it could be fun! http://t.co/ImXNKBIT (via @redbubble) #
• #Vacation autoresponder for #Linux 1.2.7.1 beta 2 released, http://t.co/RxIiw4w6 – please test and report OK or bad! #
• The more I learn about git (and I'm still a novice), the more I like it… #
• Gum trees + tree ferns in the mist, near Sherbrooke Falls, Mount Dandenong http://t.co/A7FhpJlZ #
• Decided not to rewrite history with git rebase -i HEAD~3 – it's probably safer for all involved.. 🙂 #
• Another good blog from @mjg59 about the issues of control of secure UEFI booting http://t.co/TcMz5R8a #linux #security #
• Updated my blog to use @WordPress 2011 theme, flexible width and no annoying header picture, looks better methinks! #
• Tidying up old PATA hard disks, score so far: 1 undetectable, 2 unusable, 5 OK but tiny, 1 60GB salvaged for old machine #

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• Precisely what in UK Prevention of Terrorism Act makes it illegal to take photo of offspring? http://t.co/VFvKECy2 #fail #
• I just love Perl modules that depend on obsolete versions of other Perl modules.. #
• "You think it's difficult bringing up a compiler on a new architecture? Try bringing up a fruitfly from scratch" – @mjg59 #
• Safe to say that without Dennis Ritchie my career wouldn't exist in a way as enjoyable as it is. Vale #dmr #unix #
• sleep(60); /* A minutes silence for #dmr */ #
• Segmentation fault (core dumped) /cc @cafuego #
• I heartily recommend reading @patentology's blog on the Apple vs Samsung decision http://t.co/NmxQXLal #
• Whilst judge accepted Samsung made good case that Apple touch screen patent is invalid, it didn't matter for injunction #
• Interesting that "Australia has no customs seizure provisions for patent infringement", so Aussies can just buy o/seas #
• Congratulations to the #KDE project on 15 years of #KDE 🙂 http://t.co/zCHN2EcP #
• Great thing about Linux is there are so many distros to choose from, bad thing about Linux is there are so many.. 🙂 #
• Trying to find a distro to give my ancient (8 year old) laptop a new lease of life, about to try Arch linux on it.. #
• Well that was quick! Console only Arch Linux installed on laptop, 113MB RAM used, 353MB RAM free, no swap used. 🙂 #

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• 276K outside at the moment – welcome to Australian Eastern Summer Time! 🙂 #
• Surely there must be *some* way to stop ZMD going to sleep – I hate SuSE SLES 10! 🙁 🙁 #
• Yay for rug on SLES10 – they managed to misspell "removed" as "installed" – very disconcerting.. #
• New #hwloc releases – stable version 1.2.2 and a new development release candidate 1.3.0-rc2 http://t.co/RvCLbA3p #hpc #
• What do you get if you cross a metal band, a motorway and a motorcycle ? http://t.co/uOymDxPu #
• Usual @metrotrains issues, train not appeared after 10 mins, no announcements + website says 'good service' /cc @ptua #
• Usual @metrotrain hasn't appeared, now automatic announcement for next train, almost 10m late, no reason. sigh.. /cc @ptua #
• So at last on a @metrotrain after 25 mins waiting. I was optimistic, the next train was over 10 mins late 🙁 /cc @ptua #
• #Apple can't quantify damages for Samsung #Android tablet due to losses from users tempted out of walled garden (12:29pm) #
• You can not be #siri ous! #ThatIsAll #
• Interesting to hear that #Oracle are going to make #btrfs the default filesystem for their RHEL #Linux rebuild #
• I hope #Oracle #039;s choice of #btrfs as default fs isn't what Sir Humphrey would call a 'courageous decision, Minister' 🙂 #
• Update LibreOffice to 3.3.4 or 3.4.3 (OpenOffice.org users need to switch to LibreOffice) http://t.co/A9ZremjK #security #
• RIP Steve Jobs – I hope the end wasn't a difficult one for you 🙁 #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/XD8aFDzj Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address #
• Interesting little howto about using #glusterfs in an NFS like (i.e. simple) manner http://t.co/zaM7d5f6 #linux #
• Chuffed #Meego chose my Supermoon over Cardinia pic as default background for N900 1.3 Fall Release! http://t.co/m54pXN16 #
• I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/XD8aFDzj Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address #
• Astrologers shuts down source of UNIX timezone database http://t.co/B0l4P3Eb – I am not making this up! (via @lwnnet) #
• "Photos must be sent in .jpeg, .jpg or .gif format" – someone doesn't know difference between file extensions and formats #
• Cool – so both Wales and Australia are through to the #rwc2011 semi-finals! Bonus that France knocked England out. 🙂 #
• Is it just me or has @Google Latitude gone 404? #

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• So, who else with an @ibmhpc iDataPlex has been told it's only supported with RHEL 5.3 (for RHEL installs) ? #hpc #security #
• #btrfs "This is all of my enospc rework stuff. It is amazing and will cure all of our enospc woes and possibly cancer." #
• Previous quote by @josefbacik in a pull request to Chris Mason on the #btrfs list 🙂 #
• left our venus fly trap in bathroom with a fly last night – this morning there are 2 flies – not meant to work like that! #
• #MySQL com hacked to serve malware – @lwnnet http://t.co/h7Fb7R2X #
• The National Library of #Australia @nlagovau has joined the @Flickr Commons project! http://t.co/i1yBQ3wO #
• Hmm, looks like the @MetroTrains website has foundered under the deluge of the thunderstorm in Melbourne.. #
• git log –oneline –decorate is neat.. #
• So it would appear that #Amazon #039;s Silk browser will come equipped to do a MITM attack, er, proxy, for SSL sites for you.. #
• Andrew #Bolt first opposes bill of rights (to protect free speech) and then complains he's not got free speech.. #fail #
• I predict that @2012hoax will really like this years #IgNobel Mathematics award winners.. 🙂 http://t.co/i3WAzYqj #
• Vale @Tevatron, so long and thanks for all the beams.. #
• Tree fern fiddle head next to the footpath at Sassafras Creek, Victoria. http://t.co/DWZMdFNt #
• Night Train – taken whilst out walking during #FlickrMassageOct2011 http://t.co/VgOiEfcb #

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• Melbourne CBD made it to 28C today, still over 22C here near Mt Dandenong.. no sign of the high winds promised (yet).. #
• So Iran has arrested 5 BBC staff for reporting 'negative news' – that would pretty much cover most media worldwide.. #
• Pacific Black Duck in mid shake – 1/3200th of a second at f/1.8 http://t.co/15kk0O5w #
• Good to see the #Adminspotting text doing the rounds on @twitter, over 14 years after its Usenet posting by Gary Barnes #
• All x86-64 #VLSCI clusters running at over 90% utilisation, our BG/P at 100%, all hardware OK, time to go home.. #
• I have just booted a University College of Wales #Aberystwyth 5.25" floppy disk from 1988. A8 lives.. 😉 #
• It's got a save file from Moria on it.. 😉 #
• UCW Aberyswyth 5.25" floppy system disk from 1998 – booted and running http://t.co/YRuJyd6H #
• Resurrecting 5.25" floppy disks – hardware – borrowed and owned http://t.co/gpjjArc3 #
• Next problem – must netboot the Epia Eden V the floppy drive is in because it can only power one device, IDE or floppy! #
• Sigh, all that time getting a diskless mythbuntu setup to complete and then I find the kernel won't boot on VIA Eden CPU #
• Close – but not close enough – time for bed! #
• I hate #Java – apparently it starts as many threads as cores in the system, despite being constrained by a cpuset to less #
• Anyone know if you can tell #Java to only use a maximum of N threads from command line or via an environment variable ? #
• Indigenous Australians have been in Australia for at least 50,000-75,000 years! http://t.co/ckw3zaYB /via @mgrahamnz #
• Dates derived from DNA of lock of hair given with consent in 1923, research done with consent of current indigenous ppl #
• Sigh, the @Debian kernel not having CONFIG_NFS_ROOT enabled would explain why diskless booting isn't working.. 🙁 #
• PLOP Linux – mini Linux distro for recovery work, intended to be booted from CD/DVD, USB and PXE http://t.co/SYOzVm5Z #
• Hey @insideHPC, might be an idea to moderate comments by default, the amount of spam in comments RSS feed is huge! 🙁 #
• Amazed, recovered 20 of 21 5.25" floppy disks, all 20+ years old! 21st wasn't labelled and couldn't even ddrescue it.. #
• Nice one @lev_lafayette on making front page of @abcnews – charged @JuliaGillard with breach of ALP policy over #refugees #
• Actually the @WhiteHouse hasn't asked for that input over software patents, it's a petition against software #patents #
• Dear oh dear, @abcnews did have to pick a very bad photo of @lev_lafayette for that article! #
• BBC News – A Point of View: Churchill, chance and the 'black dog' http://t.co/7hyZh0Cj #
• Status update on the rebuild of #Linux kernel.org (no shell access for git for a start) – http://t.co/x0K28O4W #security #
• A very nice #XKCD – Depth Perception – http://t.co/uWpyCmq6 – it'd be fun to try that out.. #
• Today is the 945th anniversary of the Battle of Stamford Bridge, where Harold beat Harald after a forced march north #

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• Sigh, so #Linux com and @Linuxfoundation.org have been hacked too – possibly related to the kernel.org hack.. #security #
• Old and new on Swanston Street, Melbourne http://t.co/oD4nOI8 #
• Having problems with GPS locks on your #Nokia #N900 phone? Change your A-GPS server to supl.google.com.. #
• Just sold my first greetings cards from @redbubble! 6 of http://t.co/t24KoHB and 2 of http://t.co/REIeUUN #photography #
• Steamed red cabbage tossed in a little sesame oil with garlic salt and pine nuts is very nice! #
• Shame that @googledownunder think that Android and Chrome are open source – Chromium is, and Android wishes it was.. 🙁 #
• "Both IPv4 and IPv6 can be used, but olduse.net does not support Arpanet NCP." 🙂 http://t.co/6sMEf6rs #
• Cooking gluten-free crumpets with @donna_williams for breakfast! Yum! 🙂 http://t.co/tHP1RVw1 #
• Gluten free crumpets – 28 left after @donna_williams and I had 5 each for breakfast! 🙂 http://t.co/7pcWjxWd #

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