This is how I would like to structure a git workshop if I had to prepare one.

The structure of the workshop is thought to be split on three different sessions, separated by at least one day, although possibly it's better to leave a week between them:

Session 1: Using …

GNU/Linux

If you want to connect to eduroam at the University of Barcelona you will need the following information:

• Security: WPA Enterprise
• Authentication: TTLS (Tunneled TLS)
• Anonymous Identity: anonymous@ub.edu
• CA Certificate: /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/AddTrust_External_Root.crt
• Internal authentication: PAP
• User name: jherg006.alumnes
• Password: **

If you …

condformat v0.2.0 has made it into CRAN!

condformat helps visualizing DataFrames. With a ggplot2-like syntax we can format columns of our DataFrame and view it directly in the RStudio Viewer (screenshot). See how we combine several formatting rules in this simple example:

I recently bought the Humble Indie Bundle 6, which among very nice games, it has "Space Pirates and Zombies". When playing it on Ubuntu precise 12.04, I had this sound related error:

    AL lib: oss.c:168: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

In order …

If you have problems with the webcam in skype with Linux, you may have read that you need to run skype with:

    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

However, you may get the message:

    ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored …