SIEminar: "Feel like at /home by knowing your Environment",
by Nicola - 10 May 2006 at 12.30 in the Aula
Certainly everybody wishes to live comfortably in his or her own home, by
keeping it organized and tidy, with nice and functional furniture, things
kept in their appropriate place, etc. The same should apply to our
"computing" home: knowing our /home environment and improving it
will help make our computer work more efficient and pleasant. In this talk
we will have a look at the Environment Variables, explaining what they are,
how they can be defined or changed, and warn against "/home
disasters" made by incorrect modifications to such variables or in the
startup files.
XHTML/CSS course at the end of May
The highly acclaimed "
XHTML and CSS: standards-complying Web
design" course is back! Those of you who missed the course given
last year, and new scientists who joined the IAC recently have the
opportunity to participate in these interesting interactive classes. Jorge
will give an introduction to XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets, and teach how
to build attractive personal or project pages by following modern
standards. The course will be held on 23, 24 and 25 May from 16:00 to 18:00;
registration instructions will be communicated by email in a few days.
New SIE fellow
Borja Jim énez has joined the
SIE de Investigación y
Enseñanza as the holder of a 6-month fellowship. His tasks are to
collaborate in the update of the RedHat distribution to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4 - kernel 2.6, assist in the migration of existing astronomical
packages to work under the new kernel (recompiling and reinstalling them
when necessary), and help out users experiencing problems after the kernel
update. He will also participate in testing and installing software for the
new 64-bit machines and for the new Beowulf.
Tips for working from outside the IAC!
Are you away from the Institute but would still like to check up the
Intranet pages? or read the e-mail using Thunderbird? or run your local copy
of IDL but using the IAC license? Well then, you will have to check out
this
article,
where we show you how to do it step by step!