This blog entry is kind of a quick notebook entry so that i don’t forget about the rough timeframe when CERN’s Large Hadron Collider goes live.

You remember? Its that physics thingy that generates an awful lot of data to be distributed and dissected by computing grids all over the planet. ;)

So here it is: http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/06/20/the-lhc-dashboard/

Its probably outdated by now but the best hit i found with any actual dates.

In me previous article i linked to another blog where some german bloke keeps all his entries in morse code.

I posted a comment there in which i wrote something in morse code and added the lines of perl code listed below.

He just emailed me that he deleted the comment for he does not have any clue about what that code does, this is just another example where the effects of german law really disappoint me.

While it does not thrill me i can understand his decision as there were some contradicting court rulings on whether the operator of a forum is legally responsible for the utterances of its users.

However, if you want to ‘read’ his blog on a debian system just do an “apt-get install bsdgames” and run the following perl scripts:

demorse.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while (my $l=<STDIN>) {
        chomp $l;
        my @ary=split(/\|/,$l);
        foreach my $part (@ary) {
                my @res=`echo \"$part\" | /usr/games/morse -d 2>&1`;
                foreach my $val (@res) {
                        chomp $val;
                        print "$val ";
               }
        }
        print "\n";
}

enmorse.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while (my $l=<STDIN>) {
        chomp $l;
        my @ary=split(/\s+/,$l);
        foreach my $part (@ary) {
                my @res=`echo \"$part\" | /usr/games/morse -s 2>&1`;
                foreach my $val (@res) {
                        chomp $val;
                        print "$val";
                }
                print " | ";
        }
        print "\n";
}