This survey found a small increase in professor’s pay, from April in the NYTimes.
Average faculty salaries rose 1.4 percent from 2009-10 to 2010-11, even though average pay decreased at 30 percent of colleges and universities, according to the annual pay report being released Monday by the American Association of University Professors.
10 Essential Books for Thought-Provoking Summer Reading , by Maria Popova, The Atlantic is where I have decided to start my summer reading list. I like the idea of these books. Now I need someone to send me the Amazon $ as many of these are not available in my local library. Or send me a Kindle loan for 14 days. Thanks.
Everything from cutting-edge scientific ideas to a new philosophy of learning to art that honors living in the moment
Memorial Day weekend has come, which means summer has officially begun. And what’s summer without a good summer reading list? So here it is–a cross-disciplinary selection of the 10 most essential cognitive fertilizers for a season of creative and intellectual growth. (Want more? Don’t hesitate to revisit last year’s list, full of timeless gems to catch up on.)
There are countless more links in the article, even links to TED talks about the books (I have the list attached so I don’t forget it three years from now) …
I went to begin watching online Lynda.com training on my third monitor. You may remember I use Synergy to control the screen as I use an entirely separate computer to drive it. That computer was recently updated to Fedora 15. When I went to watch the video, using the Advanced QuickTime format which allows me to control the speed, one of the many things Lynda.com does right, I get the message: Need to download an MPEG-4 AAC decoder, and H.264 decoder. I clicked on the Fedora Search button and it informed me that I already had them installed.
A quick Google search made me remember that I hadn’t installed VLC yet. Which means it was time to install the rpmfusion repository rpmfusion.free.release.stable.noarch.rpm. Installing VLC also installs the Gstreamer codecs and now the video displays quite nicely.
It is finally summer and I recently updated my workstations and servers to Fedora 15. All that are not awaiting new hardware. I use both Gnome and LXDE and I scour the Internet for articles such as 20 Things to do after installing Fedora 15 for tips.
These articles are great starters, but not to be adhered to religiously. For example I have already covered that I disagree with items such as #3 on this list. Learn the new command and see if the designers might have a point when they change things. I am not suggesting that this is the case, but there are so many ShortCuts to learn, that one perhaps should learn some of the important ones.
The one I was after was #8, Show Date on Top Panel; however, no luck with the command as written. Hmmm, otherwise, some I do, and some I am not interested in pursuing at present. Rats, will have to continue to chase the Show Date on Top Panel through Google.
UPDATE
That was silly, the same command actually works, apparently the copy and paste did not. Thanks to Musings of an OS plumber for the quick lesson on gsettings. That was a lot of work just to see the date, but I did click more than three times on the calendar and it was either learn how to change this on Gnome 3 or end up in Kansas.
I used Instapaper to save a number of tweaks to Fedora 15 that I thought I might like after I settled in. I didn’t want to make a large group of changes to remain behind without giving myself a chance to truly get settled into appreciating a different workflow and point of view on the Desktop.
That being said, the RESTART being missing is driving me nuts in Gnome 3, and as I use LXDE on a number of desktops I still count on a simpler, reduced number of clicks to shutdown and/or restart. As an experienced Linux Administrator I appreciate and utilize the no-reboot philosophy a great deal and yet, on a new distribution, I find myself rebooting every now and again for my own reasons. I find these alternatives from a recent post, mislabeled, on Ars Technica. Specifically I am employing this one:
Users can override this behavior and get the shutdown menu option to show up by holding the alt key when they click the menu. The keyboard modifier is not even remotely discoverable and will leave many users feeling confused when they try to turn off their computer. I had no idea that it existed until I asked on Twitter. During my Fedora 15 testing, I had to shut down the computer by first logging out of GNOME 3.0 and then using the shutdown feature in the login greeter.
Fortunately, there is an easy fix. You simply have to install the
gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menupackage from the Fedora repository. It will install a GNOME Shell extension that will make the reboot and shutdown menu items permanent, thus obviating the need for the keyboard
I leave it for you to guess whether I will add the alternative package or use the ALT key.
