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<!-- Winter 2004 -->
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<eventitem date="2004-03-23" time="6:00 PM"
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room="MC4058" title="Extending LaTeX with packages">
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<short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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LaTeX is a document processing system. What this means is you describe
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the structure of your document, and LaTeX typesets it appealingly.
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However, LaTeX was developed in the late-80s and is now showing its age.
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</p>
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<p>
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How does it compete against modern systems? By being easily extensible,
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of course. This talk will describe the fundamentals of typesetting in
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LaTeX, and will then show you how to extend it with freely available
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packages. You will learn how to teach yourself LaTeX and how to find
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extensions that do what you want.
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</p>
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<p>
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As well, there will be a short introduction on creating your own
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packages, for your own personal use.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2004-03-16" time="6:00 PM"
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room="MC4058" title="Distributed programming for CS and Engineering
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students">
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<short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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If you've ever worked with other group members, you know how difficult
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it is to code simultaneously. You might be working on one part of your
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assignment, and you need to send your source code to everyone else. Or
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you might be fixing a bug in someone else's part, and need to merge in
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the change. What a mess!
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</p>
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<p>
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This talk will explain some Best Practices for developing code in a
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distributed fashion. Whether you're working side-by-side in the lab, or
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developing from home, these methods can apply to your team. You will
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learn how to apply these techniques in the Unix environment using GNU
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Make, CVS, GNU diff and patch.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2004-03-15" time="5:30 PM"
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room="MC4040" title="SPARC Architecture">
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<short>A talk by James Morrison</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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Making a compiler? Bored? Think CISC sucks and RISC rules?
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</p>
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<p>
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This talk will run through the SPARC v8, IEEE-P1754, architecture.
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Including all the fun that can be had with register windows and the
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SPARC instruction set including the basic instructions, floating
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point instructions, and vector instructions.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2004-03-09" time="6:00 PM"
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room="MC4062" title="Managing your home directory using CVS">
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<short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>
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If you have used Unix for a while, you know that you've created
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configuration files, or dotfiles. Each program seems to want its own
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particular settings, and you want to customize your environment. In a
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power-user's directory, you could have hundreds of these files.
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</p>
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<p>
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Isn't it annoying to migrate your configuration if you login to another
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machine? What if you build a new computer? Or perhaps you made a
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mistake to one of your configuration files, and want to undo it?
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</p>
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<p>
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In this talk, I will show you how to manage your home directory using
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CVS, the Concurrent Versions System. You can manage your files, revert
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to old versions in the past, and even send them over the network to
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another machine. I'll also discuss how to keep your configuration files
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portable, so they'll work even on different Unices, with different
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software installed.
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</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2004-03-02" time="6:00 PM"
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room="MC4042" title="Graphing webs-of-trust">
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<short>A talk by Simon Law</short>
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