any one here uses M on Linux? I start it ok, but the top menu bar is missing ! Only the splash screen comes up.

Yearling badges might go out today (or tomorrow?)...

I can create notebooks fine, and use M, but have to do eveything from the splash screen. No main bar with all the other options.

@rm-rf are you sure? I didn't think we had anyone who broke the 200 rep mark this year, whatsoever.

Just checking, 10 pages worth of people with 200+ reps! While not everyone on that list will be getting the badges today (not even close), but for some reason the Tetris sound when you get make 5 rows disappear at once comes to mind ...

Quick question: where is the Method option of Eigenvalues documented?

@Szabolcs as far as I can tell: it isn't.

Is there a way to get LayeredGraphPlot pick up the vertex styling of a Graph?

@rcollyer There is some obsolete documentation here:

reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/…

@Szabolcs but it references the invalid option LAPACK in place of the valid option BandedMatrix

trying to make a "family tree" type graph, with pictures at the vertices

i have a nice Graph but it's not layed out as nicely as the LayeredGraphPlots

Thanks @WReach!

@Szabolcs you are most welcome :)

@WReach good info. tried to hunt down something more recent, but haven't been having any luck.

Something is very wrong with Histogram in 9. Anyone else having trouble? I get Histograms like this:

Sorry ... not like this ...

OK, it's funny that the Uploader Palette shows the correct histogram, but I see something broken in the notebook:

Looks like some Dynamic problem

I figured it out: somehow I managed to disable dynamic updating in the notebook.

And a kernel restart doesn't fix that.

Someone here was raising concerns about Demonstrations, specifically the licensing of the code. While I don't think this is an issue (all demonstrations are public ... ), can someone point me to information on this?

For example, is it possible to put a restrictive license on the code included in the demonstrations (e.g. the GPL)?

The relevant part is:

> By submitting material, you grant WRI a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, sublicensable, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, translate, publicly present, publicly display, and distribute your submission (including any portion or derivative thereof) in any form and by any means for any purpose whatsoever. WRI may sublicense all or part of its rights and licenses or assign them to third parties.

I guess this means that I can put restrictions on it that will apply to others than WRI, btu WRI itself can do whatever it wants with it, including authorizing others to do whatever they want with it. Correct?

@Szabolcs GPL is not compatible with most other licences so I am not sure you can meaningfully licence it to WRI under the GPL terms. However, you can dual-licence it under the WRI terms to WRI and under the GPL terms to anyone else. Although if WRI then makes the demonstration available on the demonstrations site they presumably do so under their own terms and not your preferred licence.

@rcollyer hey, congratulations on the new job!

@acl thanks.

@Szabolcs can you send me or post the data you used. I'll look into it.

@rcollyer so what are you doing there, if you can say?

@acl it's particularly relevant to what @Szabolcs posted: i'm in charge of visualization testing. (Of course, that means I'm the only one doing it, but that's normal.)

@rcollyer sounds good. glad it's worked out. the thesis stuff is over, I take it?

@acl almost. I've blown a couple of dates with my committee, so we'll see if they still accept it. at this point, I'm more than a bit exhausted.

I've got to run. See you.

@rcollyer alright, good luck with it. just get it to them and you're done once and for all

I'll not mention this again