https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=06djg&feedformat=atomWillipedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T15:35:29ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.32.1https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Linux&diff=6963Linux2006-01-28T15:31:01Z<p>06djg: /* So where do I go? */</p>
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<div>== What's so great about Linux? ==<br />
<br />
It's free. It's fast. It's reliable, and not that hard to use once you have it installed. It is ''extremely'' configurable. If PC spyware is ruining your life, or if you're serious about doing more with computers--with web pages, with programming, or with scientific computation--Linux is the way to go. BUT--you don't have to be a computer expert to find that Linux is a desirable alternative. You don't even have to commit to it all the way; you can use part of your hard drive to try out Linux, and if you don't like it just keep using Windows.<br />
<br />
A few concrete advantages:<br />
# No viruses, spyware, or weather bugs<br />
# Installing new software is really easy. Like, in many cases it takes about 20 seconds, and you don't even have to visit a web site to download it.<br />
# Linux is open-source, and so a lot of people have built cool extensions to the software that's out there.<br />
# There are free and decent clones of Microsoft Office products. You save $$$.<br />
# Absolutely essential if you desire any sort of geek cred.<br />
<br />
Drawbacks:<br />
# There's a slim chance your hardware isn't supported. Really, it's slim. I've installed a half-dozen Linux computers on laptops and desktops and never had a problem.<br />
# It takes time to become familiar with Linux.<br />
# It's not as purty as Mac OS X.<br />
<br />
== So where do I go? ==<br />
<br />
Step one: Come to a Linux Install Party! The last one was Sunday, October 9 from 1:30-5 pm in [[Jesup]] basement, right outside the [[WSO Cage]]. Here's what you need to know:<br />
<br />
* Back up your important files first. If you don't know how, ask Evan Miller.<br />
<br />
* Pick a distribution. Members of WSO can help you with [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] and [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu]. Ubuntu is really easy to install and get going. Gentoo is highly configurable, and is recommended only for masochists.<br />
<br />
* Decide if you want to keep a Windows partition so you can boot into Linux or Windows, or if you want to go whole-hog Linux. If you're dual-booting, decide how much of the hard drive that you want to dedicate to Linux, and how much to save for Windows. The number and type of partitions on your hard disk will determine how you exchange data between Windows and Linux. If you store your data on a Windows NTFS partition you will be able to access your Windows files from Linux, but not the other way around. A lot of people leave space for their music on the Windows partition, so they can listen to it from either operating system. However, if you create a separate FAT32 partition for data then both Windows and Linux will be able to read from it and write to it. <br />
Step two: Join the Linux listserve: [http://wso.williams.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux]. We're here to help if you have problems, and if you're willing to spend time trying to figure them out.</div>06djghttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=6962Students with language skills2006-01-28T15:29:05Z<p>06djg: /* Spanish */</p>
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<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bahasa Indonesia===<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] lived in Jakarta for seven years, still has an okay grasp of the language.<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned a bit while abroad in Barcelona and completed a phonetic study of it as his final project for LING 111.<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung '07] (Wishes she had Cantonese soap operas to watch.)<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao 08's] second language. <br />
<br />
[[Jason Ren '08]], but only after disgusting losses in Beirut.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06kjb Kristyn Bretz '06], but only when drunk<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ryz Richard Zhang] I'm counting on it to get me a job<br />
<br />
Ted Haley '07<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] back in the days ...<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Lingwei Gu '07<br />
<br />
Richard Zhang '07 You wish you could speak this exclusive dialect<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Amy Chin '08, but not really.<br />
<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien Penang Hokkien]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09tk Teng Jian Khoo] '09 can speak it tolerably, but will not be understood by pretty much everyone on campus.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===Dutch===<br />
<br />
[[Jason Leith]] lived in the Netherlands for a few months, and can tell you what "neuken in de keuken" and "let op zakkenrollers!" means. He had little opportunity to actually speak the language, though, which was probably actually a good thing, as he values the integrity of his velum.<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
'''British Accent'''<br />
: [[Katie Montgomery '07]] can distinguish British accents from each other, and can identify Glaswegian, general Scottish, Northern Irish, Southern Irish, London, Liverpool, and (more hesitantly) a few types of international British Empire accents. To say nothing of being able to hear a Canadian from 20 yards. <br />
<br />
'''Canadian Accent'''<br />
:<br />
'''Chinese Accent'''<br />
:[[Jing Cao]] speak Proper Chinese Flavor English<br />
<br />
'''East European Accent'''<br />
:[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
'''Indian Accent'''<br />
:[[Nirmal Deshpande '07]] speaks with a British-tinged Indian accent when drunk, specifically responding "You can make me drink, but you cannot make me get you a beer!" to demands that he wait hand and foot upon someone. <br />
<br />
:[[Sean Milano]] '09 tries to immitate his neighbour upstairs, but fails miserably. He just isn't cool enough.<br />
<br />
'''Japanese Accent'''<br />
:[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
'''Scottish Accent'''<br />
:<br />
<br />
'''Southern Accent'''<br />
:Evelyn Robinson '05 has an occassional native Southern accent so sudden and endearing you'd swear she is joking, but she aint.<br />
<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09wem Will McClain '09] speaks with a Southern accent on and off during regular conversation (something out of his control), but can speak Mississippian at will.<br />
<br />
'''Wisconsin Accent'''<br />
:[[Katie Montgomery '07]] has heard and can imititate an accent so strong that you will not believe that it actually exists.<br />
<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] can't speak it that well, but she can make fun of it like no one else.<br />
<br />
:[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv Cat Vielma '09] hates it, and reminds people that Chicago is universes apart from the rest of the grand ol' Midwest<br />
<br />
<br />
"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manglish Manglish]"<br />
:Teng Jian Khoo '09 speaks this at home, but again would be unintelligible, owing to Manglish's status as virtually another language.<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
[[Katie Montgomery '07]] can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
[[Tosin Adeyanju '08]] third language I can kinda speak.<br />
<br />
[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] spent last year in Paris. He can say a lot more than 'voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir', althought that phrase comes in handy quite often.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06itj Ikem.T.Joseph] after 5 yrs of study can pretty much read and write with good understanding. In terms of speaking, that's a work in progress.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
ich wuerde kimis film sehr gern anschauen. machen wir das, ge? <br />
und was lustiges fuer euch- wenn ihr jemanden um eine cigarette bitten wollt, sagt mal einfach-"chill mir eine cigarette." ohne scheiss. funktioniert hervorragend. die deutschen...<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
[[Kimi Gilbert '06]] spent more than a year in Berlin. Hence, she is legitimately badass. Her German skills are unbelievable. And she starred in a Deutsch Scheiße Video. Go figure.<br />
<br />
[[Kat Jong '07]] Is currently spending the Year in Munich and can thus speak enough to get by, read books she'd already read in English, and play an entire game of [[Magic The Gathering]]. <br />
<br />
[[Vlado Nedkov '06]] used to kick ass in German. Unfortunately, he's a sell out and has moved on to romance languages.<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Joe Gangestad '06]] speaks a mad Munchen Deutsch, and will one day teach astrophysics to unassuming little German children.<br />
<br />
Teng Jian Khoo '09 reads children's books in German.<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
====Ancient====<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
====Modern====<br />
[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
[[Jim Prevas]] knows all the bad words.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
Emily Ente '06 can exchange pleasantries such as "I love my breasts" and "I eat the grapefruit and I am not in the camel." (And really, isn't that all you need to get by?)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
[[Jason Leith]] rejects the notion that a velar trill is impossible. It is, however, so ugly a sound that not even languages like Dutch and Danish have adopted it. He uses IPA when indicating pronunciation in his music.<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103! It comes like a breeze after all those DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson '08] is in 101 and discovered she can speak Italian by throwing in vowels here and there while speaking French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] knows all of the great insults and generally vulgar phrases.<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
[[Ebonie Little '07]] can karaoke most hit Japanese pop songs...albeit in an unflatteringly squeaky voice. She's also in Japan for a year leveling up on language skills.<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ayl Angela Lee] '06 can speak, read and write Korean surprisingly well, even though she emigrated at the age of 6. She also has a (dare I say) encyclopedic knowledge of Korean pop culture.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] can count to 8 in Korean, say "attention," "master," and "bow."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jkk James Kim '08] obviously sucks at Korean, but do get by. Do not be fooled by his genuine Korean features.<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So do [[Joe McDonough '06]] and [[Richard Rodriguez]].<br />
<br />
A rather cool internet program created by Lee Butterman of Brown University is a text to speech program that will read any latin poetry or verse aloud and give you a decent pronunciation of it. Find it [http://www.poetaexmachina.net/ Here]<br />
<br />
===Love, the Language of===<br />
<br />
[[Marilyn]] is quite fluent. She lives in [[Dodd]] 201 if you need lessons in this language.<br />
<br />
===Malay===<br />
<br />
Another one on the list of Teng Jian Khoo's lonely languages.<br />
<br />
===Middle Earth (assorted languages)===<br />
<br />
[[Laurie Brink]] was the "official unofficial" translator and pronunciation expert for the NYC area premiere of the Lord of the Rings Symphony, and, as such, can say a variety of things in Quenya, Sindarin, Ad&ucirc;naic, Rohirric, Khuzdul, and the Black Speech. It also helps that she has, in a certain sense, been speaking Quenya since the day she learned her own name.<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] propetty swopeet, Opalden.<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] isay uentflay.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Rumanian===<br />
<br />
[[Laurie Brink]] knows just enough to sing the entirety of "Dragostea din Tei" (a.k.a. the Numa Numa song).<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06sdb Sara Beach '06] (a.k.a. Zlaya Antonovna)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08evb Eugene Berson '08] puts the hammer together with sickel.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] can do a Ukrainian accent, but no one would know the difference.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09mm_2 Monsie Muñoz '09] speaks Mexican Spanish- is slowly adopting a chilanga accent<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09adr Alejandro RodrÃguez-Prieto '09] also speaks Mexican Spanish- but can speak an even more special subversion- the Chihuahuan accent<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08lmg Luz M. Gómez '08] speaks paisa Mexican Spanish, can speak "proper spanish" when needed and can do a messed up chilanga accent----oh, and a beatiful Xicana accent<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ps Pablita Santos '07] speaks Mexican Spanish and has a beatiful Chicana accent when slightly intoxicated<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David RodrÃguez] speaks Dominican Spanish to his fellow Dominicans and a more comprehensible Latin American Spanish to others, but often swears like a Spaniard for no good reason. <br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]] - like your high school Spanish teacher.<br />
<br />
When traveling in non-Hispanophone countries, [[Alexander Lavy|Alex Lavy's]] brother pretends he is from Spain, where he "fights the bools" and "stoodies the art".<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st SofÃa Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette RodrÃguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09cjv Cat Vielma] can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jkb Julia Brown] speaks Ecuadorian Spanish with an American accent.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06if Ilya Feldsherov '06] with a lisp that offends most Puerto Ricans, despite dropping his "s"s.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06itj Ikem T. Joseph] can get by with the few years of study he has but don't ask him to carry a convo, it's for your own good!<br />
<br />
[http://www.gerlanc.com Daniel Gerlanc] speaks Spanish with a peninsular accent. His accent cannot be traced to any particular country; however, most Spanish-speaking Europeans guess that he's from northern Europe.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08xjh Jerry He] lo habla<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
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All these students are fluent in written and spoken Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. Urdu is a unique language adapted from Persian and written in Arabic text, though it sounds identical to Hindi, the national language of India, which is written in Sanskrit script.<br />
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Aatif Abbas<br />
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S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
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Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
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Ali Moiz<br />
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Samreen Kazmi<br />
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Murtaza Hussain<br />
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S. Kashif Akhtar<br />
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===Yooper===<br />
[[Katie Montgomery '07]] Oh ya. <br />
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===Yoruba===<br />
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Tosin Adeyanju</div>06djghttps://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Linux&diff=6713Linux2006-01-16T04:18:36Z<p>06djg: /* So where do I go? */</p>
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<div>== What's so great about Linux? ==<br />
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It's free. It's fast. It's reliable, and not that hard to use once you have it installed. It is ''extremely'' configurable. If PC spyware is ruining your life, or if you're serious about doing more with computers--with web pages, with programming, or with scientific computation--Linux is the way to go. BUT--you don't have to be a computer expert to find that Linux is a desirable alternative. You don't even have to commit to it all the way; you can use part of your hard drive to try out Linux, and if you don't like it just keep using Windows.<br />
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A few concrete advantages:<br />
# No viruses, spyware, or weather bugs<br />
# Installing new software is really easy. Like, in many cases it takes about 20 seconds, and you don't even have to visit a web site to download it.<br />
# Linux is open-source, and so a lot of people have built cool extensions to the software that's out there.<br />
# There are free and decent clones of Microsoft Office products. You save $$$.<br />
# Absolutely essential if you desire any sort of geek cred.<br />
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Drawbacks:<br />
# There's a slim chance your hardware isn't supported. Really, it's slim. I've installed a half-dozen Linux computers on laptops and desktops and never had a problem.<br />
# It takes time to become familiar with Linux.<br />
# It's not as purty as Mac OS X.<br />
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== So where do I go? ==<br />
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Step one: Come to a Linux Install Party! The last one was Sunday, October 9 from 1:30-5 pm in [[Jesup]] basement, right outside the [[WSO Cage]]. Here's what you need to know:<br />
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* Back up your important files first. If you don't know how, stop by the [[WSO cage]] between 1 and 5 on Saturday, October 8. We have a few gigs of space you can use.<br />
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* Pick a distribution. Members of WSO can help you with [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] and [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu]. Ubuntu is really easy to install and get going. Gentoo is highly configurable, and is recommended only for masochists.<br />
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* Decide if you want to keep a Windows partition so you can boot into Linux or Windows, or if you want to go whole-hog Linux. If you're dual-booting, decide how much of the hard drive that you want to dedicate to Linux, and how much to save for Windows. The number and type of partitions on your hard disk will determine how you exchange data between Windows and Linux. If you store your data on a Windows NTFS partition you will be able to access your Windows files from Linux, but not the other way around. A lot of people leave space for their music on the Windows partition, so they can listen to it from either operating system. However, if you create a separate FAT32 partition for data then both Windows and Linux will be able to read from it and write to it. <br />
Step two: Join the Linux listserve: [http://wso.williams.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux]. We're here to help if you have problems, and if you're willing to spend time trying to figure them out.</div>06djg