It’s starting again:
The IT Center Christmas baking season is open
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It’s finally that time again, the Christmas market is opening, the scent of print is in the air, warm lights brighten up the dark season. At the IT Center, we continue to work from the home office and therefore make it especially nice at home.
In addition to the Christmas decorations at home, of course we can’t do without treats.
For us, stollen and Christmas simply belong together.
Baking stollen –
the flavor needs time
Our IT Center baking professionals have told us: A Stollen needs time so that the aroma of the fruits and spices permeate the entire dough and it tastes especially good on Christmas Eve.So the Stollen should be baked four to six weeks before Christmas. Well then, let’s get to work on the raisins!
Stollen recipe
Ingredients for the dough
150 g raisins
½ tsp grated lemon peel
50 g candied orange peel
50 g candied lemon peel
50 g ground almonds
60 ml rum
430 g flour
½ cube fresh yeast
75 ml milk
100 g butter
1 egg
50 g sugar
1 packet vanilla sugar
1 pinch of salt
½ teaspoon organic cinnamon*
1 pinch cardamom
1 pinch nutmeg
To coat
40 g butter
75 g powdered sugar
1) First preparations the night before
The easiest way is to mix the raisins with lemon zest, candied orange peel, candied lemon peel, rum and ground almonds the night before, so that everything can be properly infused.
2) The next day
Put the flour in a bowl. Crumble yeast and pour over it. Add two tablespoons of lukewarm milk and a little sugar over the yeast, mix
briefly. Sprinkle some more flour on top and let the mixture rise, covered, in a warm place for half an hour.
3) Continue with the butter
Chop the butter and add small pieces on top of the flour. Add the eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt with the spices. Mix everything briefly and then knead well with a dough hook. Meanwhile, gradually add the milk and knead it in. Finally, briefly knead in the fruit-rum mixture. Cover again and let rise for half an hour.
4) Now it’s time to shape the dough
Knead dough again briefly and shape into an oblong loaf. At the long edge of the stollen, roll half of it a little flat with the dough roller. Place the thicker part on top and shape the loaf again.
5) Put it on the baking tray
Line a baking tray first with aluminum foil and then with baking paper. Put the stollen on it and let it rise covered for another 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 220°C top and bottom heat. Bake the Stollen for about 45 minutes. After 30 minutes, lower the temperature to 200°C. If the stollen gets too dark on the outside, cover with aluminum foil.
6) Add the butter
Melt butter in a saucepan and brush the hot Stollen directly with melted butter. Allow to cool. Then brush again with melted butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
The right storage
It is best to wrap in aluminum foil and put again in a plastic bag so that everything is airtight. Store in a cool place.
We wish you lots of fun baking and a wonderful and delicious Advent season.
Responsible for the content of this article are Linda Jörres and Janin Vreydal.
News from POP – Performance Optimisation and Productivity
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The POP Service for SMEs in Aachen
In a separate article we have already introduced the POP service to you. In summary, the IT Center offers industrial and academic users free performance analyses and optimizations for their software within the framework of the POP service.
IT Security Awareness: Increasing Consciousness for IT Security
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Computers have become an indispensable part of our everyday lives. Whether at work or during leisure time, information technology often facilitates our daily lives. Every day and at any time, we surf the internet and provide various institutions with our personal data. Cyberattacks too are becoming more frequent and often cause great damage, not only to the individual user, but also to entire companies and institutions. It is of great importance to protect those sensitive data from being stolen and misused.
Access to RWTHmoodle learning rooms via direct link
On the go on RWTHmoodle and suddenly no access to the learning room anymore? This could help!
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You are looking for the learning room of a certain lecture or exercise and don’t know how to get it?
We would like to show you a small workaround to access your learning rooms or courses via direct link.
Onboarding – Digital and with heart
Nadina Binz in interview
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Onboarding in the Systems & Operations department
Nadja has been part of the Identity Management and Software group in the IT Center’s Systems & Operations department since April 1. In this interview, she tells us how she experienced her first time at the IT Center and how her induction went. Read the rest of this entry »
Datensicherung.NRW – Infrastructure for Data Protection @ RWTH Aachen University
Datensicherung.NRW
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The first service center is equipped with hardware!
The kick-off for the backup software, which will be used in future by 29 state universities in NRW for backup, took place back in September. The DH-NRW project Datensicherung.NRW is in full swing. Now the hardware equipment of the first service center for data backup for NRW universities is starting. This winter, the hardware for Datensicherung.NRW will be delivered to Aachen and installed at a total of six distributed locations.
SC21 – Supercomputing Conference
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The largest HPC conference in the world and we are a part of it
This year at SC21, from November 14-19, thousands of researchers, developers, students, exhibitors, managers, and speakers from institutes of all shapes and sizes will gather to share ideas about the power of high performance computing (HPC) and discover the latest innovations. There are opportunities in St. Louis to attend the conference on-site or to experience SC Remote. Read the rest of this entry »
The new RWTHapp is on its way – and you can test it as the very first!
New app, new welcome!
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We plan the relaunch of the RWTHApp for mid 2022. To get your feedback during the development, we will launch an alpha test at the end of November 2021! If you use Android or iOS, you can test the new RWTHApp before anyone else for three weeks – from November 22 to December 12, 2021.
Introducing: The DC Admin
Network contact persons know the situation: After the virtual machine (VM) has been ordered via the SeviRe portal, it still needs a network substructure (also called model or application design). Until now, this required correspondence with the IT Center via e-mail.
Since this can involve a lot of back and forth, colleagues Benedikt Paffen and Philipp Tomazin from the Division Networks looked into the issue and came up with a more convenient solution.
Based on the data center fabric (Cisco APIC, SDN), a web interface was programmed for self-service, which fetches the required data from the APIC via API requests. The result: The DC Admin*.
Currently the web interface is still in the beta test phase with a few customers. For all who are interested or would like to participate in the beta test phase, we show today which functions the DC Admin provides.
Onboarding – Digital and with Heart
The Incorporation-Team in interview
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The onboarding concept of the Service & Communication department
In order to successfully bring new employees on board, the IT Center’s Service & Communication department has introduced a mentoring concept. Read the interview to find out how the concept is structured and why it has proven successful. Read the rest of this entry »
