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Subject: Re: "Did you know that over 8000 Windows PCs are used at CERN everyday?"
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 04:23:07 +0000 (UTC)
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Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 9:40:11 AM UTC-7, owl wrote:
>> DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>> > On 11/20/2018 10:31 AM, owl wrote:
>> >> DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>> >>> http://cds.cern.ch/record/2647090/files/Poster-2018-664.pdf
>> >>>
>> >>> I did not know that, CERN, but thanks for telling us.  I'm glad you're
>> >>> not forcing bogus Linux hobbyware on the employees and scientists and
>> >>> engineers.
>> >>>
>> >> 
>> >> LOL!  It looks like a warning poster.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I see red!
>> > 
>> > https://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/
>> > 
>> 
>> Fairly normal looking patch list.  Nothing like the "WARNING! WINDOZE
>> IN USE!" poster that you linked. 
> 
> LOL! Funny as that sounds, there is a point here, with the proprietary 
> stuff the user won't hear about anything until Zharykhin Grigorievich 
> or Feng Yijun danced across their hard drive.
> 
>> Even so, it's important that CERN
>> keep their Linux systems up to date, so that the backbone of their work
>> doesn't collapse.
> 
> And then there's that...
> 

I was telling Dufus that I saw a couple winders machines in CERN control
room.  Probably there in case some suit sends out a Word memo.

https://bruceherwig.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/standout.jpg