Kategorie: ‘General’
SysAdmin Day 2024: A Big Thank You!
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Today we are honouring the invisible heroes who work behind the scenes to ensure that our IT infrastructure runs smoothly. Whether it’s computers, networks, data backups, printers or internet connections – the people we’re talking about are of course our system administrators – SysAdmins for short.
In fact, today we are celebrating System Administrator Appreciation Day!
A Look Behind the Scenes of Apprenticeship – Part I
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After Daniel Malenkovic successfully completed his apprenticeship as a dialog marketing specialist at the IT Center in February 2024, we were delighted to welcome another graduate in June: Yasin Kalem.
After three years of hard work, he too has finally achieved his goal. But what was it like for him? What did he do with us, how did he feel and what’s next for him?
That’s exactly what we asked him and we take a look at his journey with us in a one-to-one interview.
The Evolution of Emojis Part 2
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In the last part on the evolution of emojis, you were able to delve deeper into the development process and historical background. Today it’s all about the evolution in terms of influencing our digital communication.
Archer: Error Detection for HPC
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The world of high-performance computing is developing rapidly and computing capacities are reaching new heights. In this context, tools for error detection and correction are essential to ensure the reliability of applications. One such tool is Archer, which was specially developed to detect data races in OpenMP programmes.
The Evolution of Emojis Part 1
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Everyone knows them and almost everyone has used them at some point – welcome to the world of emojis!
But when did emojis come into existence and what exactly is the difference between emojis and emoticons and what does emoji mean?
We answer these and many other questions in the following blog post.
Exam Scan – Digital Inspection
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Digital inspections offer a number of advantages: They save resources by reducing the use of staff, students can participate remotely and receive a copy of the exam without additional effort, which they are allowed to request in accordance with the Higher Education Act in NRW.
In order to be able to use these advantages for paper pencil exams, the IT Center, CLS and the Chair of Controlling at RWTH Aachen University have developed Exam Scan, a Moodle plugin that prepares such exams for digital viewing.
ZKI – From Project to Working Group
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As a partner, the IT Center actively supports the design of digitalisation processes at RWTH Aachen University. This also includes the use of cloud services and the correspondingly increasing needs of teaching staff, researchers and students at RWTH Aachen University. The flexibility and scalability of cloud services can be a means of meeting the ever more rapidly changing IT requirements of users.
“Help, I’ve deleted the internet!”
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Do you know any such experts who have deleted the Internet from their PC? How did they come to think that in the first place? It often happened by mistake that you deleted the icon of the browser you were using (often Internet Explorer in the past) – and thus the usual way of opening “the Internet”. But is it even possible to delete the internet? In this blog post, we want to get to the bottom of this myth.
Women in IT: Challenges and Successes
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Welcome to the first edition of our new blog series “Women in the IT industry”!
In this series, we will be looking at the many challenges, successes and experiences of women in the IT industry. We will highlight the key issues affecting women in IT, from overcoming prejudice and promoting equality and diversity to the biggest successes and stand-out achievements. These topics are particularly relevant for women in this dynamic and forward-thinking field.
Torrential Rain, Party Atmosphere and Pure Fun – A Review of the Wet IT Center Summer Party 2024
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On June 21, 2024, the annual IT Center summer party took place despite adverse weather conditions. The day was characterized by uninterrupted rain, which, however, could not dampen the party mood of the employees or the atmosphere of the event.