Well I can tell you that the rest of us at CERN were kept quite in the dark by the management too. There are pictures of the cryo incident which they won't allow to be released.
The LHC is its own prototype. Similar beam related incidents happened at Fermilab. It's shit but it happens, and they handled it dreadfully.
Some big numbers were thrown out there about how much the accident will cost, but in real terms it comes our as a very small fraction compared to overall LHC costs.
Everyone at CERN is very disappointed about it, naturally, but it's up to us now to better prepare ourselves for the new startup.
The experts say it's a 1 in 50 million possibility of something "bad" happening. At most. And these guys don't mess around. They'll take the zaniest theory they can find. And still the best they can come up with is 1/50,000,000. I think we're pretty frickin' safe.
Plus it's in Switzerland, when have they ever done anything that's been considered a threat?
I put Ubuntu on my macbook recently and was seriously impressed. Really looks up to scratch for the desktop. First off, pretty much everything worked without too much googling. Picked up the graphics, sound, wireless, etc., no problem. I read I can get the webcam working quite easily too. The only thing I didn't try was the dual screen/extended desktop. The compiz stuff worked as soon as I turned it on (I'd miss exposé otherwise). I have a usb tv-receiver that won't work but I expected that since it's built for Mac. It was the responsiveness that really got me though, Ubuntu was far snappier than OSX (and I've 2GB of memory) - Mac apps like to think about things for a while sometimes (and they're not using the CPU to think, whatever the hell they're doing).
There are a couple of Mac apps I'd miss. Number one is Omnigraffle. Really handy for making diagrams. There's nothing close on linux as far as I can see (although I've just tried the OpenOffice Draw program and there's potential there). Second one is Keynote. OSX also has PDF built in as a native format, which is really nice, and the drag and drop support is unparalleled.
I use Linux in a virtual machine on Mac for college. It's about a 2GB code base (or something ridiculous) so I won't be trying to recompile for mac any time soon. It works, but native would be much nicer.
I think the Apple hardware is pretty decent. They cram a lot of good stuff into a small space. I've been hard pressed to get all the same features in a Dell for the same price last time I tried (and it's usually twice the size/weight).
So I think Linux on Mac makes sense for some of us.
So LHC is basically this big search engine. It searches lots of new particles and new physics. But unfortunately it's a bit dirty - when the hadrons collide they produce a whole mess of crap, so sometimes it's a little hard to see the particle for the trees. So what you do is make a new linear collider (ILC) with leptons (read - electrons) which give a much cleaner collision. Also you can tune the new collider to the correct energies found by LHC and Tevatron, refining your results.
On a personal note, I would hate to see ILC built in the US. It's a bad idea. They were going to build SSC (superconducting super collider) there and decided to can it after it ran over budget. Like someone mentioned already these things take decades to build. I can't imagine what that did to people careers. It's the equivalent of sending a probe to Mars and the thing fails - just devastating. It's too political in the US. One change of administration and the thing could get scrapped. With the likes of CERN in Europe, with many host nations contributing, that's a lot less likely.
There's also Scalable-TCP, High-Speed TCP, FAST-TCP, BIC-TCP, H-TCP. Each with their own advantages. Check out the site. These guys are doing interesting evaluations. H-TCP is specifically what they work on:
TCP Evaluation Discussion Interesting plots too
The end result is that TCP is not particularly suited to high-speed networks.
Alright so, it's a little plain with the vanilla install. But you can move around the menubars, make them transparent, change the background etc. You can add more menus and menubars. You can have none. You can change nautilus to browser mode if you like. I personally like the "just my folders and files" thingy. I see where I want to go quicker. You can modify the terminal all over the place. You can have tabs etc. Gnome's got some nice themes too.
I think a clean interface is a good thing. I stopped using backgrounds a while ago in favour of plain colour. I get less distracted, so I now actually work.
And for all the hacker-esque secret options you have gconf-editor (or the source code:P)
This is some of the coolest use of the technology:
SubEthaEdit lets a group of people work on a document at the same time using Bonjour.
This is the way networking should work.
If the boys there get their act together and create a Windows (and Linux) version, this app could be used everywhere!
The notice says that "The European commission has just passed its directive on software patents, violating democratic rules and procedures to the sole benefit of big non-European corporation and Ireland". As an Irish citizen, I'd like to know how the hell this benefits us.
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The thing is it's not frowned upon in Europe in general. Nobody gives a shit if I have a beer with lunch. And I do.
As someone who uses it everyday, I can tell you that it's a pile of crap. I like Linux, but Scientific Linux is about 4 years behind Ubuntu etc.
Well I can tell you that the rest of us at CERN were kept quite in the dark by the management too. There are pictures of the cryo incident which they won't allow to be released.
The LHC is its own prototype. Similar beam related incidents happened at Fermilab. It's shit but it happens, and they handled it dreadfully.
Some big numbers were thrown out there about how much the accident will cost, but in real terms it comes our as a very small fraction compared to overall LHC costs.
Everyone at CERN is very disappointed about it, naturally, but it's up to us now to better prepare ourselves for the new startup.
The experts say it's a 1 in 50 million possibility of something "bad" happening. At most. And these guys don't mess around. They'll take the zaniest theory they can find. And still the best they can come up with is 1/50,000,000. I think we're pretty frickin' safe.
Plus it's in Switzerland, when have they ever done anything that's been considered a threat?
I suggest you open with a movie trailer. Like for the Bourne Ultimatum. The trailer I have is about 2 hours long, if you would like a copy. :P
I put Ubuntu on my macbook recently and was seriously impressed. Really looks up to scratch for the desktop. First off, pretty much everything worked without too much googling. Picked up the graphics, sound, wireless, etc., no problem. I read I can get the webcam working quite easily too. The only thing I didn't try was the dual screen/extended desktop. The compiz stuff worked as soon as I turned it on (I'd miss exposé otherwise). I have a usb tv-receiver that won't work but I expected that since it's built for Mac. It was the responsiveness that really got me though, Ubuntu was far snappier than OSX (and I've 2GB of memory) - Mac apps like to think about things for a while sometimes (and they're not using the CPU to think, whatever the hell they're doing).
There are a couple of Mac apps I'd miss. Number one is Omnigraffle. Really handy for making diagrams. There's nothing close on linux as far as I can see (although I've just tried the OpenOffice Draw program and there's potential there). Second one is Keynote. OSX also has PDF built in as a native format, which is really nice, and the drag and drop support is unparalleled.
I use Linux in a virtual machine on Mac for college. It's about a 2GB code base (or something ridiculous) so I won't be trying to recompile for mac any time soon. It works, but native would be much nicer.
I think the Apple hardware is pretty decent. They cram a lot of good stuff into a small space. I've been hard pressed to get all the same features in a Dell for the same price last time I tried (and it's usually twice the size/weight).
So I think Linux on Mac makes sense for some of us.
And Palestine and anywhere else that needs the money bady. Screw the legality. I want cheap music. They need the money.
So LHC is basically this big search engine. It searches lots of new particles and new physics. But unfortunately it's a bit dirty - when the hadrons collide they produce a whole mess of crap, so sometimes it's a little hard to see the particle for the trees. So what you do is make a new linear collider (ILC) with leptons (read - electrons) which give a much cleaner collision. Also you can tune the new collider to the correct energies found by LHC and Tevatron, refining your results. On a personal note, I would hate to see ILC built in the US. It's a bad idea. They were going to build SSC (superconducting super collider) there and decided to can it after it ran over budget. Like someone mentioned already these things take decades to build. I can't imagine what that did to people careers. It's the equivalent of sending a probe to Mars and the thing fails - just devastating. It's too political in the US. One change of administration and the thing could get scrapped. With the likes of CERN in Europe, with many host nations contributing, that's a lot less likely.
Check out the go faster stripes down the side! This is the kind of mouse Vin Diesel would use if he was a nerd.
I say sod that. I'll go to the cinema, beat the shit out of the fucker that DARES SPEAK DURING REVENGE OF THE SITH, and then download that bad boy!
There's also Scalable-TCP, High-Speed TCP, FAST-TCP, BIC-TCP, H-TCP. Each with their own advantages. Check out the site. These guys are doing interesting evaluations. H-TCP is specifically what they work on:
TCP Evaluation Discussion
Interesting plots too
The end result is that TCP is not particularly suited to high-speed networks.
Alright so, it's a little plain with the vanilla install. But you can move around the menubars, make them transparent, change the background etc. You can add more menus and menubars. You can have none. You can change nautilus to browser mode if you like. I personally like the "just my folders and files" thingy. I see where I want to go quicker. You can modify the terminal all over the place. You can have tabs etc. Gnome's got some nice themes too.
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I think a clean interface is a good thing. I stopped using backgrounds a while ago in favour of plain colour. I get less distracted, so I now actually work.
And for all the hacker-esque secret options you have gconf-editor (or the source code
So where the problem? What exactly is missing?
You don't drink decaf for the same reason as you don't eat yellow snow. They're both piss. End of story.
There's always one isn't there. I was looking too. Close but your comment should have been: "I'm blogging this."(tm) :D
That's right Mother Nature, I'm going to climb up to the top of this building and shit upon you from on high!
Violating copyright? He's dead, you gimp. What does he give a fuck?
This is some of the coolest use of the technology: SubEthaEdit lets a group of people work on a document at the same time using Bonjour. This is the way networking should work. If the boys there get their act together and create a Windows (and Linux) version, this app could be used everywhere!
Bastards!
The notice says that "The European commission has just passed its directive on software patents, violating democratic rules and procedures to the sole benefit of big non-European corporation and Ireland". As an Irish citizen, I'd like to know how the hell this benefits us.
...I'm not wanking to bloody "Cosmo", I want cumshots and I want them now!
CHECK IT OUT before you rape your hd