Caption CERN Contest Week 22

Week 22: 7/1/2015 - 9pm PDT 7/8/2015

Holy cable gore, Batman! This image may make a network engineer or IT person weep, but it was business as usual back in the early days of CERN. 14 racks of equipment, with coaxial cables running everywhere. Let's hope all those patches are connected to the correct ports! What were these two CERN scientists working on? It's up to you to tell us, as CERN has lost the records!

While you're working on your captions, check out the old oscilloscope the standing scientist is using. Scope carts used to be necessary. Today all but the most powerful oscilloscopes weigh in at under 10 pounds.

This week's prize is a Stickvise from The Hackaday Store.

Add your humorous caption as a comment to this project log. Make sure you're commenting on this contest log, not on the contest itself.

As always, if you actually have information about the image or the people in it, let CERN know on the original image discussion page.

Good Luck!

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J.D. wrote 07/06/2015 at 01:01

I wonder if Bob feels inclined to help me out with debugging the exact source of the buffer overflow instead of just reading the rulebook again to see if inserting strange peripherals found in the parking lot is against regulation.

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Reg wrote 07/05/2015 at 23:13

"Well it says in the log book that rack seven has 3kW of power available, and is totally empty. If Tom could not bother to update the log, well then technically his atomic clock is not there. Shove your gear in quick before anyone notices, and I'll update the logs."

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Nuno Sousa wrote 07/05/2015 at 21:55

"Electrical Ivy was thought very fashionable. The project was later discarded due to poor market adoption".

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hackaday wrote 07/05/2015 at 20:29

"I will not play with the wires again.

I will not play with the wires again.

I will not play with the wires again..."

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Dewet wrote 07/05/2015 at 19:37

Sticky note on lab door: You thought it was funny hiding my sandwich last week Bill... Good luck finding the wires I disconnected! -Steve

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Kid Iccurus wrote 07/05/2015 at 18:38

"Here's your problem. That wire spaghetti is actually made from spaghetti."

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Rémy B wrote 07/05/2015 at 17:55

And this is how the CERN failed at "Cable management 101"

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ccates wrote 07/05/2015 at 13:52

Google, circa 1997

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TiBounise wrote 07/05/2015 at 10:21

John finally realised that cloud computing at CERN wasn't a great idea, especially when you have to use an oscilloscope instead of GDB to debug your applications.

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surubarescu wrote 07/05/2015 at 09:43

Here's the blown fuse. Now call for the forklift, the fuse panel is on the back of the case.

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alan_r_cam wrote 07/05/2015 at 09:05

These Daleks may be primitive, Doctor - but they have us surrounded

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john.r.flint wrote 07/05/2015 at 04:59

Dammit, my wind up alarm clock at home is more accurate than our new 'Real Time' Clock. Screw it, if the UNIX programmers want to know time it is, they can start counting seconds after Midnight on 1 January 1970.

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Andrew Eliason wrote 07/05/2015 at 04:56

Got another quarter, Howard? I can sse my toe bones!

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rpdox wrote 07/05/2015 at 02:02

Bob is using his portable spectroscope to find the purple cable in a black and white photo.

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Mushroomglue wrote 07/05/2015 at 00:25

After the fourth rack cabinet, Bob lost hope in Gary's pocket E-reader.

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Kryoclasm wrote 07/04/2015 at 23:06

Ok Max, CERN minicomputer assembly guide; step 32,768... Connect cable "green42" between output adc983 and data-in 457.

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macsimski wrote 07/04/2015 at 23:04

CERN's first webserver took at least two people to manage the request from tim bernes lee's computer.

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macsimski wrote 07/04/2015 at 22:59

At CERN, there is no such thing as "just boil an egg". As these people know their quantum theory, they just monitor the EBS (egg-boil-supervisor) behind some serious concrete blocks.

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mime wrote 07/04/2015 at 22:06

"I swear! Once the wires are taken care off, this new ebook reader prototype is going to be a great success!"

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satindas wrote 07/04/2015 at 21:26

It says here," If the problem persists, please contact CERN for assistance.... followed by YOUR number !"

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