The first openSUSE translation round started on April 1st, and as always since Novell opened the translation process, it involves a lot of openSUSE users and volunteers that provide high quality translations of the 179491 strings required to localise openSUSE, and make openSUSE accessible to more people. Since the beginning of open translation at Novell, the number of languages added to the distribution grew significantly, including many minor ones, as it can be seen from the list of translation teams which reports 57 teams for the development versions of openSUSE, This year a new and powerful instrument to manage translation, POAT, was added thanks to Gabriel, who developed it and…
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OpenFOAM introductory course
As a user of OpenFOAM who received a lot of free help from the developers, I think that helping spreading the voice of the OpenFOAM training course is the minimum I can do. ICON organizes an introductory course to OpenFOAM on Thursday 3rd April and Friday 4th April 2008, at Beaumont House, Windsor, UK. The main goals are: Introduce C++ within the OpenFOAM context Explore the OpenFOAM code structure and commonly used classes Analyse, modify and create basic solvers and utilities Understand and customise basic OpenFOAM libraries You can find further information on the ICON site.
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Some more pics from Ames…
Last weekend it was a nice one in Ames, not too cold but still with the snow, so I took some picture of the city and of ISU. Enjoy 🙂
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A quick look to openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 – GNOME
I have just gave openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 a try installing it in a virtual machine. I used the GNOME single CD. Here there are my first impressions: The installer improved significantly, with a lot cleaner workflow. There are some minor problems, mainly cosmetical, like popups in the top-left corner instead than centere, but in general it worked like a charm and in 20 minutes I had openSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 installed in my virtual machine. The desktop appears identical to the one of openSUSE 10.3, just with the PulseAudio icon in the notification area. The gnome main menu didn’t react to clicks on its button. The only way to…
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Contours plots with gnuplot
Working in CFD, I often have to create contours plots starting from rough data in a text file generated by in house codes. This can be easily accomplished using gnuplot. Here you can see a simple example of what you can do. Being an openSUSE user, I will explain how to install gnuplot on this distribution, but the instructions to generate contours plots are absolutely general. The installation of gnuplot on openSUSE 10.3 is straightforward. Just use the 1-click install link available here, and follow the procedure shown by the installer. Gnuplot requires the data to be saved in a text file organized in one of the two following ways:…
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openSUSE news!
OpenSUSE 11.0 alpha 2 release was recently announced. The development and testing are going on, and openSUSE 11.0 is candidate to be a nice openSUSE release. Here there are the most important new features introduced in this release KDE 4.0.1 GNOME 2.21.90 Linux 2.6.24 OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta Alsa 1.0.16rc2 D-Bus 1.2rc2 Recently some mockup for the new openSUSE 11.0 look have been proposed on the openSUSE wiki, and they look very cool! Give them a look here. Another important novelty from the openSUSE community is the possibility to apply for membership for all the users who are making continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project. You can find more…
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One month in U.S.
It’s already a month I’m in the United States. Time really flies!
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Food!
Someone asked me what I eat in the United States. Well, with some rare exception at lunch, when I’m at work, I exercise my cooking skills and prepare Italian food at home (Some simple examples here). With some effort I was able to reproduce almost everything I used to eat in Italy, and it’s not too difficult to find Italian products like pasta Barilla, various brands of our olive oil and other products. The hardest thing to find is real Espresso coffee, but I’m trying the number of coffees I drink to zero, so its lack is helpful!
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Comments opened!
Starting from today, you can comment on my blog without being registered thanks to the service offered by reCaptcha, which protects from spam and at the same time helps in digitalizing books! Enjoy! 🙂
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Writing from the United States
It’s about a week I arrived in the United States, where I will work for a while! It’s a very nice place and people is very helpful and supportive. I opened an account at Flickr, so to share the pictures I’ll take with my family and my friends. You can find it here.