Gordon Freeman got his equipment: The CERN is safe now
Posted by Lennart | Filed under Uncategorized
Disturbing image material appeared when the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN was about to be fired up the first time. Reddit immediately pulled out all the stops and sent Gordon the equipment he needed to fight the head crabs that would appear after the LHC startup.
These days his equipment arrived at the CERN! Thank you reddit. (Oh. And also for all your referers!)
No, really. Every research organisation should be more like the CERN. You could make all of us nerds happy!
Tags: CERN, gordon, gordon freeman, half life, LHC, reddit
The LHC is using KDE
Posted by Lennart | Filed under *NIX, Free Software, GNU/Linux
I just read that the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that started it first “live” runs today is using KDE for at least some parts of the projects software. This screenshot of a KDE at CERN/LHC looks like a monitoring program (with a knote ;)):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/gallery.shtml?select=13
I think this is a great prove for stability and flexibility of free software. I mean… The “biggest experiment of all times” seems to use KDE to at least monitor the systems. It is highly presumable that other parts of the LHC systems are using KDE, too.
Do you have other screenshots of the LHC experiment? Comments are welcome!
Check out kde.org and the blog of Aaron Seigo (the KDE hacker I got the information from)
[Edit]
I found some more interesting images:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-35141-3.html
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-35141-5.html
http://img388.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ohptoftimemeasured13sepjy2.png (from slashdot.org)
Tags: CERN, KDE, large hadron collider, LHC
