Ok, so the planet has stalled slightly because the simplepie feed catcher is running out of puff on the cron process and getting killed.
Platon has been updated and all good and there is now a new cctbx in the testing repo.
Enjoy
Debroglie had a hardware failure yesterday evening. The motherboard has been changed and Debroglie is running again. So far I have not seen any data loss.
This announcement is a reminder that as of 2009-12-17, Fedora 10 has
reached its end of life for updates.[1]
Debroglie will continue to ship updates for fedora 10 for a little while as statistics reveal some activity on the repo. Please send an email or post a comment to confirm, so we won’t close it.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-December/msg00014.html
Need to figure this one out still have Olex2 issue?
Olex2 will be missing from the update. The rest are moving now.
Ok, Pascal is going to shout at me and that is ok. I’ve not been posting my updates to the repo so things are not really up 2 date here. Sorry.
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve posted:
With that in mind I’ve had no feedback good or bad in that respect.
In the pipeline with the latest Beta release of Olex2 will be a new set of RPMs to follow the Alpha, Beta, Stable model they are using. We will have the good, the bad and the ugly or the bad and the ugly and the normal if you want. This means that all three versions can be installed at the same time for testing but the alpha and beta will live solely in the test-repo only the stable will exist in the release repo. Hopefully that will work?
Fedora 12 repository is finally open. If you are knew, in order to use debroglie, just install the debroglie-release rpm as specified in: Setup the repository link.
MolIso has been (is being) added to the testing-repo. For all distributions. Here is the blurb:
Moliso is a program to generate color mapped transparent 3D iso-surfaces from experimental XD grid and gaussian cube files.
Features
* Correct transparency mode
* Isosurfaces with adjustable colour gradient.
* Atomic displacement ellipsoids (ADP’s) with xd.res-/xd.mas- or *cif-files.
* Line, point and filling mode.
* Easy to control via menu, mouse, keyboard and ini-file
* Easy to create screenshots(*.ppm)
* Easy to create rotating videos (*.avi) in various codecs (vfw)(Windows Version only).
* Experimental resolution independet *.PDF file export.
* XD grid files and gaussian cube files can be used.
* Constrainable colour gradient.
* Sphere maping for pseudo reflection.
* Windows and LINUX-versions are avaiable.
Hübschle C.B. and Luger P. ,J. Appl. Cryst. (2006). 39, 901-904
website
Next planned release will have some examples bundled too. Let me know how it runs using the trac and comment system.
Ok, so with no feedback to the contrary I’m working on the premiss that the latest test Olex2 is stable and happy and all is good with the world. My tests seem to show that it is so I am now in the process of committing it to be in the release repo. Along with this goes the latest CCTBX and the GUI. What fun.
I’ve also cleaned out loads of the Platons we have acquired over the past few months and of course uploaded the latest new version. There should even be Fedora 12 versions of all this stuff! I’m working on also porting all the existing Fedora 11 stuff into 12 that should happen by the end of today – as I only have bandwidth for today.
There is an astonishing progression on the number of visitors. For this month, at the current trend, Debroglie.net will nearly receive 700 visitors. Next month, above 1200 visitors. I hope it will not continue this way, exponential increase is never a good idea 
Here the fitting (made with fytik, open source of course):
0.319344*exp(0.803458*x-0.835402)+274.245
2010 will be the time for a new server.
The xForum or the X-ray Forum is a place where chemical crystallographers, SMX people in general and even neutron crystallographers can go, chat, talk post problems and advice and generally be at Zen with each other. There are no pre-requisites to membership. If your a chemist and want some help with a structure an A-level (high school student) wanting some advice for your homework, or lower. Even if you are a grand old Prof of crystallography, software guru or the president of the BCA you can join!
Normally around this time of year, I was reminded recently by Jeppe (a forum member), we have a membership drive/push. Normally we set a target number and then encourage all the non members we know to register. Last year we made out 200 members by 2009 so can we make 300 member s by 2010?
100 new members per year is not a lot so lets see what we can do, we are but 11 short at the moment?
So if you are a software user from debroglie.net I think you could readily become a forum member as well. You can even post about the software you’ve used from here on there!
