Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread aliasbody
I know this isn't a solution (in the short term) but in my University we also do our assignments via Online and for this we use the Moodle platform (plain HTML, CSS and JS), this is cool because it works for everyone and it gives the note (grade) just after finishing it. You could propose i

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread aliasbody
I agree with you, the real problem here is the fact that we have a software without any free (functional) replacement. We have GNS3 but it requires the Firmware from the Cisco router in order to work (since it emulates it). And therefor there is no solution here at all. I have a little bit

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are Adobe's new fonts violating free software?

2012-10-04 Thread Michał Masłowski
> Michał Masłowski, Trisquel has fonts that cannot be built by anyone > else than > the original developers since they don't publish a source? > > That seems to go against the FSF's guidelines > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html as > it appears to indicate that fon

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread onpon4
Will do, thanks for the suggestion.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread alonivtsan
For math, LaTeX creates much more professional looking equations than LibreOffice. The easiest way to use it is via a graphical editor such as Lyx which either produces its own format or lets you export to LaTeX or lets you export to PDF. If you plan on sharing source files in LaTeX format wi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are Adobe's new fonts violating free software?

2012-10-04 Thread jason
Michał Masłowski, Trisquel has fonts that cannot be built by anyone else than the original developers since they don't publish a source? That seems to go against the FSF's guidelines http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html as it appears to indicate that fonts in

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread slasha3
Quick suggestion: you can enter formulae into LibreOffice Writer directly, using Insert > Object > Formula. I used to use Microsoft Office last year (before using Trisquel), and formulae from LO import fine. I think I may have had to use .doc to make it work, but I can't remember. PDF is

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread chris
You are getting much farther than I would have expected. For better or worse.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread onpon4
A small update on my issue: I talked to my professor earlier today about this, and although he doesn't seem like he really understands the issue of free software vs. nonfree software (he didn't read the link that explains free software, and of course assumed that I meant "free of cost" when

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread chris
If anybody has a complain start blogging about it. Name the schools, professors, and let others know not to apply/transfer to them. Bad publicity might actually make a difference.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread slasha3
Wow, that's the same as my university. We have to use Cisco Packet Tracer in an exam but it makes it difficult to study because I can't study at home. I've been in contact with the unit coordinator, with no luck. However, I'm going to see if some of my friends will complain about it as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread chris
The fewer people who have flash installed (including gnash) the better. The reason companies can get away with this is because everybody has it installed. You might want to complaint, call technical support, etc. The more i costs them the less likely it'll be used in the future.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread em9002
No problem. I was hoping other people could get some use out of it, too. Like I said, this problem seems to come up fairly frequently here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread tegskywalker
A pen is a pen no matter what brand it is and it is a universal tool that anyone can use. With Adobe Flash being used with his school, I am guessing they contracted a 3rd party company to assist with the schoolwork and that company sold the idea that their solution is the best. The 3rd part

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread aliasbody
I based my email on yours, and add a little bit of information like the license that I don't agree (Oracle License in this case), and send it to all of the teachers in school teaching this technologie... I will do the same for every other software with the same problem. Just need to find a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are Adobe's new fonts violating free software?

2012-10-04 Thread nirmawashing6
This range of cisco experience is very useful now-a-days as large companies are being affected by improved problems of risks each day. By saying risks, we simply do not mean the http://www.certificationkey.com/Microsoft-Certification-Training/70-516.php

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread onpon4
Well, it can't hurt to send the E-mail first, then talk in person. I sent my professor an E-mail based on that and he basically said "OK, you can talk to me in my office at the usual time." So I'll be talking to him today, hopefully he'll be understanding! :)

[Trisquel-users] JavaFX on OpenJDK

2012-10-04 Thread aliasbody
Hello Everyone, I need to use JavaFX and I know that it has been integrated to the Oracle Java7 since a week or two, and everything was (fallowing the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX) under GPLv2 licence except for the Runtime. Does anyone know anything about the OpenJ

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software phone OS - Firefox OS

2012-10-04 Thread migatheotaku
I understand the modem is still a bit of an issue zone, but at least the main CPU can run a free operating system.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are Adobe's new fonts violating free software?

2012-10-04 Thread Michał Masłowski
We already have fonts packaged that cannot be built by anyone else than the original developers since they don't publish a source (while there are papers documenting them as having a more useful source). (I know several other examples of nonfree software by Adobe, I don't know how important these

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash required by math professor; how to confront him?

2012-10-04 Thread moilami
That is a very good text, however I strongly recommend to go talk face to face with the teacher/professor instead of sending email. He can just trash that email but he can't ignore you as easily.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hurd

2012-10-04 Thread pascal
I have to, thanks.