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I did use Octave during my university time even though the course I was doing recommended and used Matlab. And I think for nearly the entire course, Matlab comm
by psibi 11y ago
I did use Octave during my university time even though the course I was doing recommended and used Matlab. And I think for nearly the entire course, Matlab commands were an one-to-one translation to Octave. I personally feel science should be done using open tools.
- cozzyd 11y agoI know some people who use Matlab to take data and every once in a while their experiments "break" due to forgetting to update their licenses. Also for a long time Matlab broke on systems using the new Linux network interface naming convention (i.e. en0 instead of eth0) since the license manager was stupid.
- moonbug 11y agoThe charge of stupidity could equally well be levelled at the gratuitous change to interface naming.
- cozzyd 11y agoEven before, the interface names could be whatever one set them to, so it seems hacky to assume a certain form.
- moonbug 11y agoWell, I've no great love for FlexLM, but even less for changes to userspace that willfully break things in pursuit of this year's dubious concept of 'better'.
- raverbashing 11y agoWell, you're right about not wanting to breaking things But there was no 'naming convention' for network cards. And people can and will have more than one network card, with different names. And it was changed for a very good reason https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/appe-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp... But of course people who do "license management" stuff only cares about this when it breaks.
- moonbug 11y agoI'd just observe that we can agree on the problem without agreeing on the quality of the eventual/current solution.