Re: For Wayne...

I'm not a real doofus, but I play one at a national laboratory. (BAISLEY@fndcd.fnal.gov)
Wed, 5 Feb 1997 16:45:52 -0600

Thanks, I enjoyed them, even if it did take me 2 days to get around to saying
so. It's those pesky users' fault, of course. Griping that they can't use
their hot new Alphas because of silly little details like the 1/4 TeraByte of
disks' not being connected and mounted yet. Picky, picky, picky.

BTW, I tested the Seagate Elite 23 over the weekend. Yep, 23 GigaBytes in a
5-1/4" box. I filled it up 30 times or so, and it worked just fine. May be
the last of the 5-1/4s (there are rumors of an Elite 45), but it's hard to say.
We also just got in 18 9GB 3-1/2" drives. Not the 10,000 RPM jobs, though.
Maybe only 5400, or 7200 at best. You know, the cheap ones.

The Trib has a nice fluffy piece on the Lab today, even if they can't get their
units right. We sit on 6800 *acres*, not square miles.

http://chicago.digitalcity.com/features/extreme/fermi/fermitop.htm

The powers that be also got some pretty new pages set up.

http://www.fnal.gov/

The Science of Particle Physics "tour" has some interesting discussions. If
you're interested, of course, and vice versa.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/hep_descript.html

They even whipped out an applet to show p-bar/p collisions.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/java/java_accel.html

Well, coffee break's over.

Wayne

P.S. Semper ubi sub ubi