OT Own-up Whoever Did This

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7616622.stm

 

<shaggy>
Wasn't me!
</shaggy>

It's a bit of a pain, as we have to mentally adjust the website
name (to a replacement) as we try to monitor the experiment (in this case
the "experiment" is CMS, the LHC is the overall infrastructure that allows
CMS to operate). AFAIK, cmsmon was truly a monitoring site; it pulls up
data from the control computers, but by a secure channel that doesn't
allow commands to be executed. So, they defaced our display ads, but they
didn't get to control how Kylie models our products...

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Ivan D. Reid

I see there's been a bit of a quench tonight. Bummer. Still, omelettes,
eggs, etc.

 

Bit more than that, a connecting lead between two magnets melted.
Whether that was a cause of the quench or a consequence is unclear. I
heard we lost a tonne of LHe. Safety and rescue are overstretched so
we've shut the detectors down for the weekend. My midnight-to-dawn shift
was cancelled so that makes my record out of four so far -- two done, one
returned to CERN immediately, one cancelled.

It will take two months to warm the sector, make repairs (two days)
and cool down to 1.9 K again. No Higgs this year...

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Boson - "boring" in Sundanese

 

I'll let *you* tell Peter that!

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".