SIEminar: "Version Control: The Open Source secret",
Wednesday 20 September at 12.30, by Maurizio Panniello
Back from the scorching summer we continue with our SIEminar series, this
time with a refreshing talk by Maurizio Panniello on Version Control. He will
show us some of the tools that we can use to easily keep track of different
versions of our projects (either code or text) in a personal or a
collaborative environment. The full abstract in Spanish can be found in the
SIE's Talks and Courses Web page.
Customizing Perl by adding modules
If you use Perl at all, chances are that at some point you will like to add
one of the hundreds of available modules for it. If you have a private
installation, this is probably not an issue, but what about customizing the
IAC-wide perl with your own favourite modules? In this new
HOWTO
of our
SIEpedia
we show you how to easily do it by installing modules to your home directory.
Angel is a monkey, albeit a distinguished one!
No offence intended, but Angel
is
a monkey, at least according to the editor of the
ClusterMonkey on-line magazine.
ClusterMonkey is, as far as we know, the only magazine devoted exclusively to
clusters (a continuation to the paper-based Cluster World Magazine), and the
recently published article by Angel entitled "
Building A Virtual
Cluster with Xen (Part One)" has gotten plenty of interest, at least
measured by the "
hits"
received. So, it looks like he will continue
monkeying
around for some time...
Sunglasses recommended to visit our new shiny and sparkling webpages!
Recently some of the webpages we have been working on have gone live: the page
to replace the old F ísica del Cosmos program, rebranded as the new
Máster
en Astrofísica, featuring style switching and an open-source Content
Management System; the website of the
Pathways
Through an Eclectic Universe conference (celebrating John Beckman's 40 years
of active research in astrophysics), which includes amongst other things automatic
participant registration and abstract submission; and last but not least, the
IAC
Preprints Archive is now installed in the external IAC website, so the submitted
preprints will be available from the external page (though only local users will
be able to submit preprints, of course). As usual, any comments or suggestions
about these web pages are welcome at
.
Some Tips about RPM usage
The RedHat Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package
management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying,
and updating computer software packages. It is used by RedHat, Fedora and
other Linux distros. While installing RPMs generally requires root
privileges, as a regular user you can use rpm to check what packages and
versions are installed in your desktop machine or laptop, or find out which
RPM a specific file belongs to. Read our SIEpedia's
RPM
Tips for a quick description of basic rpm usage.