Not all universities make students and professors sign away their work. University of Waterloo policy is that the creators retain all rights, presumably because the university likes to brag about students who started companies based on work done in their research or as design projects. It's easier for students to form companies to brag about if you stay out of the way and let them do the heavy lifting if they want to. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find other schools with similar philosophies.
Try looking around Bandcamp. They offer the option of buying all albums in FLAC. Pricing varies - artists set their prices with a set-your-price system for if you want to give more than the min price.
And hey, the ability to listen to complete albums as much as I felt like led to the purchases that I've made there. Funny that.
Actually, you're probably best off dumping your data to text and then running gnuplot (or whatever plotting tool you prefer) separately. Octave has problems submiting to gnuplot that simply don't pop up when I use gnuplot directly or through a perl script (e.g. finding fonts when exporting to png which is what prompted me to try separating out plotting in the first place).
And this is a real problem... how exactly? Using MATLAB for courses consisted almost entirely of writing scripts and typing a few commands into the prompt. (I presume that we did something involving the GUI at some point but it evidently wasn't memorable.) The only real benefit I gained from MATLAB having a GUI was that they implemented a better terminal than I'd expect to find otherwise on the uni's windows machines. I don't bother installing an octave GUI because it makes about as much sense as installing a GUI for ksh.
Konqueror has run flash (and more generally nsplugins) in a separate process since before Chrome was even a rumour. I used to run Konqueror as my primary browser and when I stopped using it I was surprised to discover that other browsers didn't run flash as a separate process.
dwm had its multihead support improved back in July. Since pretty much all of dwm's window management is by keyboard, of course it has keyboard shortcuts for moving windows between monitors. So yeah, this feature exists in even one of the most minimalist window managers out there.
So you're saying that Chrome doesn't support connecting through an http proxy? So long as it can connect to Privoxy you can add adblocking to a browser.
Privoxy works just fine for me. I rather prefer having a browser-independent ad blocking solution. It's one less feature to worry about when 'shopping' around for browsers and as someone who uses more than one browser it means only having to manage one filter list, not two or four or whatever.
Or you could install privoxy. I've stopped caring about whether or not a browser has built-in (or plug-in) ad blocking since I'd rather have every browser I use share the same blocker and settings.
After playing around a bit with your translator, it looks like it translates any first person present latin verb into the english infinitive. So the confusion is coming from a bad translation convention.
Wrong part of the word. It's not the addition of the ad- prefix that people are complaining about. That's rather clearly modifying the meaning in a sensible way. The issue is that with the suffix -o, the verb is in the first person present indicative whereas they're translating it as the infinitive (which would have the -are suffix).
Funny, I use aptitude all the time and yet only ever enter the gui by accident when I completely forget that aptitude has one. It's still a frontend to apt, but it's certainly not exclusively a GUI one.
Forget Debian/Ubuntu/etc. Then, ask yourself what an "apt" is. And why it has anything to do with installing programs.
I have the good fortune of being able to recognize "apt" as an (english) adjective which roughly means "suitable". So far so good: "apt" might be an attempt to describe quality rather than function. But hm, maybe it's an acronym. The "p" might be for "program" but in this case I'm coming in with enough knowledge to realize that I'm installing "packages" rather than programs. "a" for "advanced" because it's a pretty good buzz word. "t"? Nope, stumped, so let's just look it up... "Advanced Packaging Tool". Huh, 2/3 guessed for how to get from "something that installs programs" to "apt".
Sure, I would never guess on my own that the installer was called "apt", but being able to recognize an adjective when I see one was enough for me to avoid confusion.
Then, still remembering that you're forgetting you know Debian/Ubuntu, ask why you need "install" at the end of "apt-get", which sounds like you're already asking the system to get the program you're asking for. Non-geeks don't care about the difference between "get" and "install", and the redundancy throws a wrench in their understanding.
And there's a very simple, already implemented way to work around any confusion coming from this hyphenation problem. People could simply stop telling new users to type in "apt-get install" and instead use "aptitude install". As a bonus, you don't have to use two different base commands for installing and searching since "apt-cache search" becomes "aptitude search".
Yes, this still leaves the "what does a word that means 'skill' or 'talent' have to do with installing programs" issue (oh, haha, the program has a 'talent' for installing programs). But giving things arbitrary-but-sometimes-maybe-sorta-related names applies as much to dogs (going back to the previous comparison). Or taking a well-known program: do people really wonder what 'firefox' has to do with the internet? Seems to me that the understanding is as simple as "there's this program that happens to be called firefox that you can use for browsing the internet".
Because during a freeze the updates to testing (i.e. the fixes to remaining RC bugs) still go into unstable first. Updates to unstable could make staging updates to testing a mess if the version gap between packages in unstable and testing became large.
Right now the situation is such that people are forced, whether at work or at home, to use software where you aren't allowed basic rights to the software you use: to use your software in any fashion, to modify it however you want, and to distribute it to whoever who want.
Of course, the Free Software movement's idea of basic rights covers developer rights that most users don't really care about and would happily waive. Getting proprietary software EULA-free is probably good enough for the average user (and even then there's probably enough people who don't realize that EULAs are a problem, thanks to not bothering to read any).
OpenBSD sells CDs but you can freely get an image from their FTP servers to burn your own install CD. Giving people the option to pay you for your work (and throwing in extras with the paid option) hardly makes the work proprietary.
Two fields of competition. The GP's post wasn't referring to competition between Silverlight and Flash. He was referring to Silverlight's effect on OS competition. That is, if Silverlight's relevance to the internet increases without the plugin getting ported, then it's bad for the ability of other OS's to be/become competitive choices.
The point to the coalition is to defeat the government without causing a new election. If the governor general is even halfway reasonable, she'll allow the coalition to form the government rather than call another election.
Or maybe Harper will finally get it that in a minority government you need to try to work with the other parties at least some of the time. Yeah...
Considering that Iceweasel 3.0.3 is in unstable as a fix to a security related bug, I would not be particularly surprised if it migrates into testing by the time that Lenny is officially released.
Well there's the part where Lenny isn't the unstable version - Sid is and the name "Sid" manages to both fit Debian's naming scheme and convey the concept of "unstable". The testing branch is somewhere between stable and unstable. It's metastable, if you will.
(Yeah, yeah, I know. Responding to a joke with a serious response is bad form and all that...)
Debian Testing also comes from Debian Unstable. So considering that packages have been migrating from Sid to Lenny up until the freeze (subject to the criteria intended to keep Testing from breaking), Lenny's packages will in general be more recent than those in Ubuntu 8.04. And a quick look at the Intrepid release schedule shows a Debian Import Freeze a full month before Lenny was frozen. Which gives one good reason to expect similar package versions between Debian Lenny and Ubuntu 8.10. That's the theoretical analysis anyhow. Looking at the actual version numbers... well, from the packages tracked by DistroWatch I don't think that I'd say that Lenny's lagging behind.
Sure, based on Debian Sid - a little ways back on the scale of stability vs current versions. So while, yes, Ubuntu is based on Debian, its choice of where to branch off cuts out some of Debian's QA process. How you feel about the advantages and disadvantages of that choice is of course a matter of taste.
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Not all universities make students and professors sign away their work. University of Waterloo policy is that the creators retain all rights, presumably because the university likes to brag about students who started companies based on work done in their research or as design projects. It's easier for students to form companies to brag about if you stay out of the way and let them do the heavy lifting if they want to. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find other schools with similar philosophies.
And hey, the ability to listen to complete albums as much as I felt like led to the purchases that I've made there. Funny that.
Actually, you're probably best off dumping your data to text and then running gnuplot (or whatever plotting tool you prefer) separately. Octave has problems submiting to gnuplot that simply don't pop up when I use gnuplot directly or through a perl script (e.g. finding fonts when exporting to png which is what prompted me to try separating out plotting in the first place).
And this is a real problem ... how exactly? Using MATLAB for courses consisted almost entirely of writing scripts and typing a few commands into the prompt. (I presume that we did something involving the GUI at some point but it evidently wasn't memorable.) The only real benefit I gained from MATLAB having a GUI was that they implemented a better terminal than I'd expect to find otherwise on the uni's windows machines. I don't bother installing an octave GUI because it makes about as much sense as installing a GUI for ksh.
Konqueror has run flash (and more generally nsplugins) in a separate process since before Chrome was even a rumour. I used to run Konqueror as my primary browser and when I stopped using it I was surprised to discover that other browsers didn't run flash as a separate process.
dwm had its multihead support improved back in July. Since pretty much all of dwm's window management is by keyboard, of course it has keyboard shortcuts for moving windows between monitors. So yeah, this feature exists in even one of the most minimalist window managers out there.
So you're saying that Chrome doesn't support connecting through an http proxy? So long as it can connect to Privoxy you can add adblocking to a browser.
Privoxy works just fine for me. I rather prefer having a browser-independent ad blocking solution. It's one less feature to worry about when 'shopping' around for browsers and as someone who uses more than one browser it means only having to manage one filter list, not two or four or whatever.
Or you can stick APT::Get::force-yes "true" into apt.conf. Granted it's a reckless approach, but stupid technicalities are a pedant's wages.
$ sudo aptitude install w3m-img
Infection cured?
Or you could install privoxy. I've stopped caring about whether or not a browser has built-in (or plug-in) ad blocking since I'd rather have every browser I use share the same blocker and settings.
Depends on the source. Knowing what I was looking for, I was able to find a listing of the whole conjugation table on wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adamo#Latin) and another site that used the standard 4 forms for listing a latin verb (http://www.latin-dictionary.net/info/word/728.html).
After playing around a bit with your translator, it looks like it translates any first person present latin verb into the english infinitive. So the confusion is coming from a bad translation convention.
Wrong part of the word. It's not the addition of the ad- prefix that people are complaining about. That's rather clearly modifying the meaning in a sensible way. The issue is that with the suffix -o, the verb is in the first person present indicative whereas they're translating it as the infinitive (which would have the -are suffix).
Funny, I use aptitude all the time and yet only ever enter the gui by accident when I completely forget that aptitude has one. It's still a frontend to apt, but it's certainly not exclusively a GUI one.
Forget Debian/Ubuntu/etc. Then, ask yourself what an "apt" is. And why it has anything to do with installing programs.
I have the good fortune of being able to recognize "apt" as an (english) adjective which roughly means "suitable". So far so good: "apt" might be an attempt to describe quality rather than function. But hm, maybe it's an acronym. The "p" might be for "program" but in this case I'm coming in with enough knowledge to realize that I'm installing "packages" rather than programs. "a" for "advanced" because it's a pretty good buzz word. "t"? Nope, stumped, so let's just look it up ... "Advanced Packaging Tool". Huh, 2/3 guessed for how to get from "something that installs programs" to "apt".
Sure, I would never guess on my own that the installer was called "apt", but being able to recognize an adjective when I see one was enough for me to avoid confusion.
Then, still remembering that you're forgetting you know Debian/Ubuntu, ask why you need "install" at the end of "apt-get", which sounds like you're already asking the system to get the program you're asking for. Non-geeks don't care about the difference between "get" and "install", and the redundancy throws a wrench in their understanding.
And there's a very simple, already implemented way to work around any confusion coming from this hyphenation problem. People could simply stop telling new users to type in "apt-get install" and instead use "aptitude install". As a bonus, you don't have to use two different base commands for installing and searching since "apt-cache search" becomes "aptitude search".
Yes, this still leaves the "what does a word that means 'skill' or 'talent' have to do with installing programs" issue (oh, haha, the program has a 'talent' for installing programs). But giving things arbitrary-but-sometimes-maybe-sorta-related names applies as much to dogs (going back to the previous comparison). Or taking a well-known program: do people really wonder what 'firefox' has to do with the internet? Seems to me that the understanding is as simple as "there's this program that happens to be called firefox that you can use for browsing the internet".
Because during a freeze the updates to testing (i.e. the fixes to remaining RC bugs) still go into unstable first. Updates to unstable could make staging updates to testing a mess if the version gap between packages in unstable and testing became large.
Right now the situation is such that people are forced, whether at work or at home, to use software where you aren't allowed basic rights to the software you use: to use your software in any fashion, to modify it however you want, and to distribute it to whoever who want.
Of course, the Free Software movement's idea of basic rights covers developer rights that most users don't really care about and would happily waive. Getting proprietary software EULA-free is probably good enough for the average user (and even then there's probably enough people who don't realize that EULAs are a problem, thanks to not bothering to read any).
OpenBSD sells CDs but you can freely get an image from their FTP servers to burn your own install CD. Giving people the option to pay you for your work (and throwing in extras with the paid option) hardly makes the work proprietary.
Two fields of competition. The GP's post wasn't referring to competition between Silverlight and Flash. He was referring to Silverlight's effect on OS competition. That is, if Silverlight's relevance to the internet increases without the plugin getting ported, then it's bad for the ability of other OS's to be/become competitive choices.
The point to the coalition is to defeat the government without causing a new election. If the governor general is even halfway reasonable, she'll allow the coalition to form the government rather than call another election.
Or maybe Harper will finally get it that in a minority government you need to try to work with the other parties at least some of the time. Yeah...
Considering that Iceweasel 3.0.3 is in unstable as a fix to a security related bug, I would not be particularly surprised if it migrates into testing by the time that Lenny is officially released.
Well there's the part where Lenny isn't the unstable version - Sid is and the name "Sid" manages to both fit Debian's naming scheme and convey the concept of "unstable". The testing branch is somewhere between stable and unstable. It's metastable, if you will. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Responding to a joke with a serious response is bad form and all that...)
Lenny's at 2.6.26
Debian Testing also comes from Debian Unstable. So considering that packages have been migrating from Sid to Lenny up until the freeze (subject to the criteria intended to keep Testing from breaking), Lenny's packages will in general be more recent than those in Ubuntu 8.04. And a quick look at the Intrepid release schedule shows a Debian Import Freeze a full month before Lenny was frozen. Which gives one good reason to expect similar package versions between Debian Lenny and Ubuntu 8.10. That's the theoretical analysis anyhow. Looking at the actual version numbers ... well, from the packages tracked by DistroWatch I don't think that I'd say that Lenny's lagging behind.
Sure, based on Debian Sid - a little ways back on the scale of stability vs current versions. So while, yes, Ubuntu is based on Debian, its choice of where to branch off cuts out some of Debian's QA process. How you feel about the advantages and disadvantages of that choice is of course a matter of taste.