+ <eventitem date="2004-03-23" time="6:00 PM"
+ room="MC4058" title="Extending LaTeX with packages">
+ <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
+ <abstract>
+ <p>
+ LaTeX is a document processing system. What this means is you describe
+ the structure of your document, and LaTeX typesets it appealingly.
+ However, LaTeX was developed in the late-80s and is now showing its age.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ How does it compete against modern systems? By being easily extensible,
+ of course. This talk will describe the fundamentals of typesetting in
+ LaTeX, and will then show you how to extend it with freely available
+ packages. You will learn how to teach yourself LaTeX and how to find
+ extensions that do what you want.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ As well, there will be a short introduction on creating your own
+ packages, for your own personal use.
+ </p>
+ </abstract>
+ </eventitem>
+
+ <eventitem date="2004-03-16" time="6:00 PM"
+ room="MC4058" title="Distributed programming for CS and Engineering
+ students">
+ <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
+ <abstract>
+ <p>
+ If you've ever worked with other group members, you know how difficult
+ it is to code simultaneously. You might be working on one part of your
+ assignment, and you need to send your source code to everyone else. Or
+ you might be fixing a bug in someone else's part, and need to merge in
+ the change. What a mess!
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ This talk will explain some Best Practices for developing code in a
+ distributed fashion. Whether you're working side-by-side in the lab, or
+ developing from home, these methods can apply to your team. You will
+ learn how to apply these techniques in the Unix environment using GNU
+ Make, CVS, GNU diff and patch.
+ </p>
+ </abstract>
+ </eventitem>
+
+ <eventitem date="2004-03-15" time="5:30 PM"
+ room="MC4040" title="SPARC Architecture">
+ <short>A talk by James Morrison</short>
+ <abstract>
+ <p>
+ Making a compiler? Bored? Think CISC sucks and RISC rules?
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ This talk will run through the SPARC v8, IEEE-P1754, architecture.
+ Including all the fun that can be had with register windows and the
+ SPARC instruction set including the basic instructions, floating
+ point instructions, and vector instructions.
+ </p>
+ </abstract>
+ </eventitem>
+
+ <eventitem date="2004-03-09" time="6:00 PM"
+ room="MC4062" title="Managing your home directory using CVS">
+ <short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
+ <abstract>
+ <p>
+ If you have used Unix for a while, you know that you've created
+ configuration files, or dotfiles. Each program seems to want its own
+ particular settings, and you want to customize your environment. In a
+ power-user's directory, you could have hundreds of these files.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Isn't it annoying to migrate your configuration if you login to another
+ machine? What if you build a new computer? Or perhaps you made a
+ mistake to one of your configuration files, and want to undo it?
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ In this talk, I will show you how to manage your home directory using
+ CVS, the Concurrent Versions System. You can manage your files, revert
+ to old versions in the past, and even send them over the network to
+ another machine. I'll also discuss how to keep your configuration files
+ portable, so they'll work even on different Unices, with different
+ software installed.
+ </p>
+ </abstract>
+ </eventitem>
+
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