• 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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• 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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