{"id":651,"date":"2005-09-26T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T17:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:05:54","slug":"tech-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/26\/tech-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is just one of many replies to this post<\/a> over at Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I have to say that we in my lab are thrilled with the progress in the Linux kernel. We have been running Linux in our labs for ages, and it now controls the massive coils that circle all the corridors in our buildings, ominously humming in the night. Before, we had Windows XP controlling the (sic<\/em>) titantic voltages that flow through the rings, and we found that very often the control threads would become scheduled into irrelevance and the voltages would become unstable. This would lead to devastating magnetic fields that would reverse the path of time across the carpet in my room, staining it really badly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Am I the only one who finds this highly amusing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I have to say that we in my lab are thrilled with the progress in the Linux kernel. We have been running Linux in our labs for ages, and it now controls the massive coils that circle all the corridors in our buildings, ominously humming in the night. Before, we had Windows XP controlling the (sic) titantic voltages that flow through the rings, and we found that very often the control threads would become scheduled into irrelevance and the voltages would become unstable. This would lead to devastating magnetic fields that would reverse the path of time across the carpet in my room, staining it really badly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fun-stuff","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-av","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1526,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/04\/dont-reboot-just-logoff\/","url_meta":{"origin":651,"position":0},"title":"Don’t Reboot – Just Logoff","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A while ago I wrote about how Windows still works just fine for me, and I wanted to follow up on that. 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