dec edition

Author: hschellman

docs/Computing-Newsletter-2025-12.md

@@ -35,25 +35,25 @@ Users can currently run jobs with a fair-share priority.  But we often find seve
 ## Updates and reminders from last month
 
 
-### **Reminder: Official Datasets**
+### Reminder: Official Datasets
 
 The Production Group makes official datasets.  The Rice group has created a website for finding them. There are also command line tools for exploring further.  See [the tutorial ](https://dune.github.io/computing-basics/03-data-management/index.html#official-datasets-) for details or go straight to the [website](https://dune-tech.rice.edu/dunecatalog/) to find your samples.
 
 
-### **New Spack “workflow” release **
+### New Spack “workflow” release 
 
 V. Hewes has created a new spack v1.0 dune-workflow environment for AL9.  This includes the recent versions of rucio and justIN and allows setup of a basic environment with root and data access tools. The Spack team is still working on full LArSoft.  See the release notes [here](https://github.com/DUNE/data-mgmt-ops/issues/990#issuecomment-3407061445).  
 
 
-### **Reminder of Wednesday down times**
+### Reminder of Wednesday down times
 
 A reminder that the Fermilab compute nodes and disk servers undergo monthly maintenance on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Systems are partially unavailable for 3-6 hours, which leads to things not working.  
 
 
 
 
 
-### **Tokens**
+### Tokens
 
 Tokens are the new way to authenticate to access dCache disk, our data catalogs (rucio) and submit batch jobs (justin and jobsub). On SL7, follow [these instructions](https://dune.github.io/computing-basics/Tokens/index.html) .  On AL9, it still depends on which Spack environment you are using.  The recent dune-workflow spack environment (above) can make tokens using justIN get-token. We suggest you upgrade to that one.  
 
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ export X509_CERT_DIR=/cvmfs/oasis.opensciencegrid.org/mis/certificates
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-## **Tips and Tricks: **
+## Tips and Tricks: 
 
 
 ### Want to read HDF5 files with LArSoft - for now you need to load a special library on the same line as your lar command.
 
  `LD_PRELOAD=$XROOTD_LIB/libXrdPosixPreload.so lar -c standard_reco_protodunehd_keepup.fcl $DATA -n 1`
 
- ### **Using SL7**
+ ### Using SL7
 
 Just a reminder that running larsoft still requires Scientific Linux 7 in a container.  You can find sample scripts for setting up your container [here](https://dune.github.io/computing-basics/sl7_setup).