Linux Updates, Invasion Day

A big event for the week: Trifid, the almost-super computer which I have done most of the project management and application installs on, is now available for general use from RMIT and La Trobe researchers et al. Also went to MLUG on Wednesday, interested a controversially entitled presentation "Why C is not faster than Python". The title was, unsurprisingly, not entirely true, but the meeting was saved by an excellent presentation by Mark Atwood on OpenStack. Also impressed by the venue, although the website is horribly overdone. This week, I'm off to Canberra for Linux Conf AU, which has an impressive schedule. Looking forward to meeting Tim Berners-Lee, inventor the world-wide web.

What is officially called "Australia Day", and more accurately called "Invasion Day", is upon us. Pleased to see that Tom Uren has received recognition, horrified that the would-war war criminal Alexander Downer is also in the honours. Letters to the SMH remind us of our history as boat people and how we treat our current migrants. With recent discoveries of potential oil wealth, it is probably about time we started sharing more of that with our community; original, settled, and recent.