Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-08

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Chris Samuel

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 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-01

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Chris Samuel

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! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-25

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Chris Samuel

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! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-18

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Chris Samuel

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 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-11

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Chris Samuel

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 🙂 #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Chris Samuel

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.. #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Chris Samuel

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! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Chris Samuel

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.. 🙁 #

Black and White Photography on RedBubble

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Chris Samuel

Thanks to the encouragement of my wonderful wife I’ve started transforming some photos I’ve got into black and white and learning that a lack of colour can be quite magical. So much so that I’ve started a “Black and White” category in my RedBubble gallery. There are six there so far, of which you can see two examples below.

Hope you like them!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Chris Samuel

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! #

The Musings of Chris Samuel

Computers, science, archaeology and other random burblings