@BernardKeane “That royal steer”? Which one’s that?
Smirking.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Anybody with Mac app recommendations, pls feel free to fire them my way. [Calling all trojans! Calling all trojans!]
So here’s my nomination for Wrong Tweet of the Night so far… https://t.co/SYQNPRVu
This weather forecast for tonight. Isn’t there meant to be another digit in front of that “0”?
@NewtonMark I just get annoyed with cyber-bullying being “different”. Surely the dynamics are ever the same. @SBSNews @Trent @GeordieGuy
I’ll have soup.
@trentyarwood @NewtonMark @GeordieGuy Next up, federal government bans rudeness, pushing into supermarket queues and poorly drawn cartoons.
RT @SBSNews: Federal government vows to stamp out bullying - Watch: bit.ly/MYMRQJ [This, @Trent @NewtonMark @GeordieGuy?]
@trentyarwood I don’t know anything about an announcement by Garrett. Been doing other things, nothing in my email. @NewtonMark @GeordieGuy
@andrewdotnich Thanks for your kind words about the podcast. I do think that they’re slowly improving. I think. I hope.
@cheshireb Was on the board of AIDS Council of SA, and did quite a bit of radio on the sex industry back when I was with the ABC.
@cheshireb I’m not across recent changes or proposals for change to prostitution law, but was up to speed on the issues in a previous life.
@Kaptain_Kaos Where’s this supposed apologia for Telstra I’m meant to have written? I’m afraid you’ve missed the point entirely. Ignoring.
Earache. Oh.
@QantasAirways Well, glad you responded, and glad DFW works for you. I’m not sure how that’s meant to make me feel better. Oh well. Thanks.
Done on the radio.
On hold for FM 99.3 and @phildobbie. Stream at fm993.com.au And I’ve dropped out. Hang on.
At 1915 AEST I’m talking ISP data retention on @phildobbie’s Balls Radio, Sydney FM 99.3. Stream at fm993.com.au
@JonathanHepburn Thank you. I just had to say something when the boundaries between sex slavery and ordinary prostitution was so distorted.
@andrewdotnich Either listen to more music, yes, or seek medical attention. I an’t be good for you in heavy doses.
“Political party or lobby group? The dark side of the Australian Sex Party”? Huh? “Dark side”? I have commented. https://t.co/nJz6HMDL
RT @leslienassar: Twitter snakes another “feature” out from under a third-party developer; Cashtags http://t.co/vVhhSLXt
Why am I on the Sunshine Coast? http://t.co/CiZdsc3s Why am I going to San Francisco? http://t.co/PDMAAexb
@SnarkyPlatypus MInd you, that’s business class on an Emirates Boeing 777. That’d be comfy.
RT @semiboganman: Fuck Texas as a whole. [You missed a potential pun there, Sir.]
@SnarkyPlatypus So, MCY-SYD-BKK-DBX-SFO? Sure. That works for me.
oberonsghost @stilgherrian I believe someone dared Qantas to see how far it could get a plane to fly before it fell out of the sky. (Dallas is about it).
I’ll put my money on UA870 departs SYD 1445 arrives SFO 1106. Varies with daylight saving, but I’ve caught that flight before.
Fuck Dallas.
These are the trans-Pacific options for that Sunday. http://t.co/icWo4LaE
So, given that, why do I even care? Underlings will book flights, and if they’re unworkable I just whinge at them. DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?
Well, I don’t get a choice. VMworld books flights. Sun 26/8 I have to fly MCY-SYD-[maybe LAX]-SFO. Breakfast Sunshine Coast, cocktails SFO.
FUCK YOU QANTAS WHY DID YOU DROP YOUR SYD-SFO FLIGHTS WHAT SORT OF LAME IDIOT AIRLINE HAVE YOU BECOME WHAT EVEN IS DALLAS FORT WORTH.
You surprise me, @simonhackett, I thought you’d become a meek little sheep with no opinions whatsoever! ;) @Internode @iiNet
@juhasaarinen What’s “Siri”? Is she here at the pub?
Was I meant to be doing something this afternoon other than screaming at the internet?
@SnarkyPlatypus Well just for that I’ve put you down as my emergency contact.
This does seem to be the same fucked-up registration system they have for every conference at the Moscone Centre. They just don’t learn.
@stubrightwell Well indeed, but then it’s not just about personal virtualisation not by a long shot.
@dannolan Nah, you shan’t see me today. I’m at Wentworth Falls and won’t be in Sydney until… Thursday, I think.
I am now registered for VMworld as “Stilgherrian IDONOTHAVEASURNAMEANDYOUWILLDELETETHIS” but I bet they don’t until I draw their attention.
Please wait, the request is in progress.
RT @jeamland: @stilgherrian I still reckon you should register as Vic Gundotra whenever they do that. [Yes, that would be a Message…]
Oh lovely, VMware! Everyone MUST be in a company with a department and a role and region and a job title? Are you really so unimaginative?
Surname a required field, VMware? Sigh. When WILL you arsehats learn?
Registering for VMware’s VMworld SFO. Let’s see if they’ve done a Google on global naming practices…
There are murmurings at the pub that they haven’t seen me on TV for a while. Look, I won’t say there’ll be violence… but…
So what’s going to happen now is that I’m walking into the village for lunch at The Grand View and you’re going to sort yourselves out.
@jonoabroad @handmethepanda We. Are. Not. The. Same. Please. Give. Up. The. Drugs. There’s. A. Good. Chap.
@NickEvershed The Shelbourne isn’t exactly a welcoming venue. More a herd ‘em in, fleece ‘em and piss ‘em off fast sort of venue.
WHY DO ALL THESE FUCKING THINGS HAVE TO BE AT THAT HELL-HOLE CALLED THE SHELBOURNE HOTEL? IT’S FUCKING DIABOLICAL. IT MUST STOP.
Thank you. Someone will be in contact with you shortly.
@SnarkyPlatypus Are tentacles absolutely necessary? @RealNickHodge @purserj @chrisjrn
I see that @paulwallbank has been fisting the O Games… or fisted by them. http://t.co/CwOfsC0T
@RealNickHodge @purserj @chrisjrn Corporations, and companies in general, are weird fuckers. Kinda psychotic, actually.
Trying to understand why a conference organiser needs any on-screen material a whole month before the event. Timeliness FTL.
Me at @CSO_Australia: “Six tips for developing a security culture” http://t.co/6DzF0aIo based on #security2012 material.
Tue plan, v2: Tidy all the things; lunch & errands Wentworth Falls; finish @technologyspec story; 1915 @phildobbie’s Balls Radio; collapse.
@jeamland Well, you’ve convinced me. And I’ve also worked out a faster clone process, but still over two nights. Booting back to my drive…
@jeamland I got sidetracked by the Time Machine backup going dodgy and then that appalling SATA to USB adapter. Yes, I’ll stop it for now.
@jeamland Or, I check block size of the source drive and manufacturer’s documentation. But yes I need to restart with a better block size.
@jeamland No it’s good to tell me when I’m only two hours in. But if I didn’t specify bs= does it default to the source drive’s block size?
@riskybusiness Exactly. I’m interested to see what submissions JCIS gets. This is abnormally high profile for them.
Tue plan: Reading and research, while the hard drive is cloned; errands Wentworth Falls; sysadmin stuff while a second clone happens.
@riskybusiness Thank you, but did he though? An example is not necessarily the totality.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis à l’écoute des fans.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai découvert de nombreux nouveaux passe-temps. Et vous?
One drawback: zero feedback on how this is progressing. But my guesstimate the other day was 6 hours or so. WD MyBook drives are slow.
Let’s try: sudo dd if=/dev/disk2 of=/dev/rdisk1 conv=noerror,sync
Erm no. Current estimated put this at taking 187 hours, or 8 days. One way. Then back. Let’s try something different.
This is going to take some hours…
Here we go: sudo dd if=/dev/disk2 of=/Volumes/My\ Book\ 01/drive.dmg conv=noerror,sync
Reformatting the 1TB drive onto which I’ll be copying the boot drive image before copying it back to the new HDD.
@jonathan_may It’s OK, I’ve done this shit before. But I do have tweezers…
Yay! Just found a terabyte USB drive containing nothing but ancient backups. I can clone the 750GB drive in two steps. I do so love dd…
I’m fairly sure I don’t actually want to cry at this point. But I don’t feel like A Journey to solve this either.
Evidence on the internet suggests that the driver on the CD is for MacOS 9.x and before anyway. Why this was still in stock is beyond me.
@dananimal Good thinking. Shows up as a JMicron Technology Corp drive. Can’t read partition map to reveal OS X recovery image.
@dananimal Looking for a website now. I’d planned to clone the HDD, wasn’t expecting it to be a puzzle.
BTW the thing I am dealing with is http://t.co/K7xDtDul Elegant, is it not?
So I guess I’ll download some random driver file of the same name from the internet. Yes, that’s bound to be secure.
I HAVE FOUND THE DRIVER CD FOR OS X! Wait. It’s a 3” CD? How does that go into a MacBook’s slot drive? This is becoming Kafkaesque.
I can find no driver CD. I wonder if @R_Chirgwin has seen a CD labelled “Skymaster”, there or here.
@izevaka I’ve technically been “no fixed abode” with all that in storage for 18 months, but I managed to find the requisite kettle cord.
Sorry, what do you mean the adapter needs a driver CD to talk to OS X? ARE YOU MAD?
Ah. Shitty no-name adapter’s kettle cord doesn’t actually fit its power supply. Hopeless. Dismantling kettles ensues.
Grrr! The new, cheap SATA to USB HDD adapter appears to be unreliable. I am somewhat irritated.
Fiddly screws are fiddly.
Damn. The teabag string has failed to be a suitable HDD removal tool. Farting about with pliers ensues.
OK, “Backup 02” is still geb0rken to read-only, but that’s OK ‘cos I’m about to clone the startup drive anyway. Screwdriver time!
I wonder what proportion of OS X users actually use the console messages to troubleshoot problems.
While I’m restarting all the things, I might as well fsck the living daylight out of them. That’ll only take 12 minutes or so.
Mind you, this has created the urge to do a semi-regular personal sysadmin blog. Someone might get some value out of it.
RT @tardis_42: machines obviously know the skill-level of the user, and use that knowledge to throw appropriately irritating hissy-fits.
I’ll restart all the things, confirm “Backup 02” is still readable, then just go ahead and clone my boot drive (using a standby boot drive).
No, ‘OS X cannot repair the drive “Backup 02”’, but at least it’s mounted it, decrypted, read-only, and tells me I can get the files off it.
Why the fuck doesn’t this shit happen when I’m working on other people’s machines, so I can charge $200 a hour for this insanity?
Ah! Disconnected and remounting “Backup 02” has triggered it being treated with fsck_hfs. I shall leave that run before doing anything else.
Drive “Backup 02” is encrypted, and now it’s not responding to the known-correct encryption key. Does this mean no known-good backups?
Before I clone it, I’m doing a current Time Machine backup. But my backup drive just threw “Mac OS X can’t repair the disk “Backup 02.”
My comatose MacBook Pro’s HDD, currently in an old loaner MacBook, needs cloning so it can go back to Apple with the MBP for its repairs…
Well, it’s very early Tuesday and we have technical difficulties to resolve. Unpretty ones. There shall now be a whinge.
@jamezpolley Oh I’m already familiar with the Muni. This’ll be my fifth visit to San Francisco, from memory.
RT @jamescmcpherson: @stilgherrian could be an iSnort http://t.co/RTElDits [So, there’s an app for that. Excellent.]
KimKierkegaard All feel the dread of being alone in the world, overlooked by God. A pop of red gives your look a boost & helps you feel more confident.
So, when I’m in San Francisco at the end of the month, is this recommended? pic.twitter.com/RppZfY9U
RT @lukehopewell: Ever wondered what it would look like if you stuffed a cockatoo into a chocolate fountain? imgur.com/gJY10
@6564828 Japanese Twitterclientseparatism makes sense from a typo-design POV, but German? Dunno! Need stats. @SnarkyPlatypus
@6564828 Yeah, odd that. Is there something about Twitter and Japan? BTW thanks for your tip before. @SnarkyPlatypus
@craigthomler Who “needs” to be outraged? Recreational outrage annoys me. @mrgrumpystephen @ABCthedrum
@SnarkyPlatypus Some of the cool kids use YoruFukurou, but it didn’t handle multiple account in a way that suited me.
@mrgrumpystephen I sometimes read the comments, when I have the time and the mental energy. Though usually not at @ABCthedrum.
RT @Arash_Mohebbi: Deep breaths mate. Now show us on this dolly where the evil trolls touched you. [It isn’t rendered big enough.]
I READ THE COMMENTS I READ THE COMMENTS I READ THE COMMENTS I READ THE COMMENTS I READ THE COMMENTS I READ THE COMMENTS I READ THE COMMENTS.
@Kaptain_Kaos So did you read the article, and have specific criticisms? Or is that a response to the headline tweet? @crikey_news
@belindafarrelly Ouch! Although Wentworth Falls has gone sub-zero a couple of nights this year, I haven’t been here at the time.
@Andrew_Zammit Indeed. Now if only we could get ASIO and ASIS to take part in something similar… ;)
Poo Parade! http://t.co/prV7DzOz
@Andrew_Zammit Thanks very much. It helped immensely that Asst Comm Gaughan was available. @BernardKeane #natsecinquiry
I see @GetUp has a thing about the National Security Review, of which data retention is a part, so if you want more than 3 mins of clue…
RT: “Patch Monday” podcast: “The politics of data retention” with AFP Asst Comm Neil Gaughan, @BernardKeane @NewtonMark http://t.co/BDmf3xmi
RT: Me at @crikey_news: “An Anonymous attack in search of a purpose” http://t.co/zcqs1b7p
@McDermie No argument there!
@McDermie Indeed, oversight is a cost burden. I get your points, but the law isn’t written generally enough to work the way you want.
@McDermie Classic example, surveillance ops less likely to be used arbitrarily when they cost $50k, more when $5. Oversight needs to change,
@McDermie I think you’re being reductionist. Change in tech changes the role it has in society, which changes cost or power balances.
At this juncture I’d like to thank the gods of the weather for their planned balmy minimum tonight of 2C.
New blog post: “Visiting San Francisco for VMworld 2012” http://t.co/lTsJ2HHh
@SoYoureJayce Paris? Hmmm. I suspect full bottle of Grey Goose vodka should do the trick.
@derekbradley I did try to point out that I was somewhat melanin-deficient for this appellation, but he’d have none of it.
@derekbradley True. Second-last time at my fave SFO dive bar I ended the night being fed booze and substances and being called “m’nigger”.
@derekbradley Thanks you again. Now all I need to do is find a person in San Francisco to drink beer with.
@derekbradley A beer mecca? That will somehow have to fit in with my planned visit to my favourite little cocktail bar… ;)
@derekbradley I was going to say “Why visit SFO to visit a website?” but then I looked. Thank you so much!
@HarrisonPolites And that, Sir, is why I don’t do daily news cycle any more. And I’ve had to endure at least twice as many years of them!
@expectproblems Yes. Seattle is exactly San Francisco. The 3-hour flight between the two is an illusion made possible by in-flight scotch.
@HarrisonPolites So a bit like all sports journalism then? ;)
Looks like I’ll be in San Francisco from 26 Aug to 3 Sep. So that’s either a warning or a blessed relief, depending if you’re there or here.
@HarrisonPolites Yes, so you know what’s wrong with news? The first three letters… ;)
Story filed for @CSO_Australia. That’s my media production done for the day. Monday, it has been a success.
@charispalmer I’m afraid I did not write the thing that you point to. It was @neerav, it says,
That @lukehopewell bloke is looking quite OK on the TV these days.
Photographer? Want to win a trip to Kenya and Zimbabwe, like, now? ActionAid’s “Exposing Hunger” closes Wed 1 Aug. photocomp.actionaid.org.au
RT @swearyanthony: @dr_nic Journalism is a proud profession. [HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]
RT: “Patch Monday” podcast: “The politics of data retention” with AFP Asst Comm Neil Gaughan, @BernardKeane @NewtonMark http://t.co/BDmf3xmi
@benmcginnes Yep that’s a mistake, and a new MP3 file has already been uploaded.
@Tullo Well, purpose/point aren’t my words (editors write the headlines), but the AAPT hack was politically naive IMO.
@barrysaunders @chrisbrownie Even trained programmers receive precious little exposure to security principles. Or used to.
@McDermie But new technology creates new concepts too, or blurs previous ones. Where is a tweet published, for example?
Me at @crikey_news: “An Anonymous attack in search of a purpose” http://t.co/zcqs1b7p
“Infiltrating computers using hidden webpage computer code known as ‘comments’.”? WTF? Please explain. http://t.co/OvzOg1s6
@barrysaunders @chrisbrownie I’ve kinda done the op-ed on Anonymous already, for today’s Crikey. I am the future.
@chrisbrownie @barrysaunders Stop it. This has to be a serious opinion about something security-related.
The slightly annoying thing about having to write an op-ed this afternoon is having to have an interesting opinion about something.
@Steve_Lockstep Ah yes, I believe I’ve ranted about Target etc somewhere. Probably multiple times. ;) @jturner_ibrs
@jturner_ibrs So Big Data is the new Cloud? Awesome. @Steve_Lockstep #EMC
RT @sylmobile: Twitter, recommend a hot dish to warm up an old man. [Denise Drysdale?]
@dobes Yep, the ol’ channel-below-the-fold glitch. Sigh.
Oh right. Production error in “Patch Monday” podcast. Spurious theme music at the 34-minute mark. Preparing fixed version now.
@jturner_ibrs Why is it always storage companies going on about Big Data? ;)
And that’s the radio done.
@mukimu No that’s true. And I missed your first tweet.
@mukimu You must really hate me then.
Actually I’m not first up after Mr Cave. THEY ARE TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE FIRST.
On hold for ABC @1057darwin to talk modern busy lifestyles. After Nick Cave. Audio stream at abc.net.au/darwin/
@franksting Nah, I think it’s just that many (most?) podcasts are made by people with little training of skill in program construction.
I’m talking about our modern overwhelming digital lives on ABC @1057darwin at 1100 AEST / 1030 ACST, stream at abc.net.au/darwin/
@intrepidfear Thank you very much. Do tell us when you discover us doing shit, though. @riskybusiness
@franksting I’ve had trouble finding podcasts that don’t make me want to throw things and scream “Plan first, edit afterwards, arsehats!”
Story filed for @crikey_news. That’s the only tight deadline for today, so this pleases me.
@BernardKeane You’re right, the claw machine scandal is a great tech story! @franksting @joshgnosis @NewtonMark
@franksting Thanks for the heads up. I’ll check them out.
@franksting Nope, haven’t heard the 5x podcasts. They’re about…? @joshgnosis @BernardKeane @NewtonMark
“Patch Monday” podcast: “The politics of data retention” with AFP Asst Comm Neil Gaughan, @BernardKeane @NewtonMark http://t.co/BDmf3xmi
@joshgnosis And in my case, when I finished recording with @BernardKeane and @NewtonMark after, erm, a few beers and saw the time.
@joshgnosis Yeah but I was thinking of junkies just like you when I left in all of @BernardKeane’s political trivia… I mean vital history.
@mukimu Heck, it doesn’t take a genius to realise hacking AAPT is a political own goal, but I know Journalism requires Experts to say it. ;)
“Anonymous may help, not hinder, data retention laws”, writes @mukimu with his Stick of Obviousness. http://t.co/ychjyHgL
Mon plan, v2: Write for @crikey_news; 1100 radio spot; write for @CSO_Australia; review certain procedures; clone HDDs before MBP repairs.
So that would be an unexpected story commission for this morning. So it was a good thing I was up early, right?
@leslienassar Angry-on-Twitter isn’t even a filler. IT’S A WAY OF LIFE!
RT @paulwallbank: South Korea shows how real names policies don’t improve user behaviour. [This tweet is so tempting…]
Mon plan: Plan the next month; 1100 ABC radio spot; write for @CSO_Australia; review certain procedures; clone HDDs before MBP repairs.
@juhasaarinen Reading your tweets as a summary of the world gives the impression that there’s too many psychotics.
@sylmobile Use the emergency duck.
Pondering another visit to San Francisco, since the opportunity has come up.
I agree with this polar bear, broadly speaking. http://t.co/TxrvLuNt
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 112: Security, hacks, unexpected encounters” http://t.co/HLGLsows
I’m not going to scroll back to weekend tweets. That way madness lies.
@rob0tika It’s probably the traitor thing, but also that’s not the future tense but, um, something more subtle that I can’t understand now.
Hello fellow pandas (and everyone else, who is a traitor). This is going to be Monday, OK?
No more tweets. Waiting for cab. It’s maybe 2C? Must. Put. On. Gloves.
As the 4-car double deck train pulls out of Wentworth Falls, fewer the 20 passengers remain en route to Katoomba or Lithgow.
Once again I’m the only person on this car of the train.
I wonder if there’s an easy way to count the pandas. #notaeuphemism #pandafest
It is already tomorrow, and I am still on a train. Another 10 minutes to go. I feel dreadful. 0500 starts will do that. Sigh.
@adm_76 You’ll be pleased to know that you’ve successfully chosen a panda. #PandaFestÂ
@juhasaarinen There is no such thing as an inappropriate #PandaFest avatar. It is quite unpossible.
I think it’s also appropriate, somehow, that a pro-Furrie propagandist has found this old post… http://t.co/Mth7XaZW #pandafest