Re: Is there anything I can use in place of MATLAB on OpenBSD?

2010-09-05 Thread Matthew Emmett
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 01:34:58AM -0700, Adam Getchell wrote: > You managed to build Sage on OpenBSD? Got some directions on how you > did it? Sorry, I mis-spoke. I haven't built Sage on OpenBSD. Matt

Re: Is there anything I can use in place of MATLAB on OpenBSD?

2010-09-04 Thread Matthew Emmett
Hi, Another option is Python with the NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib packages (all of these are in ports). For some symbolic computations, you might try SymPy and/or Sage. Matt On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:50:39AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anything I can use in place of MATLAB o

Re: Xconsole using Xfce

2009-10-20 Thread Matthew Emmett
> > 'pkill xconsole' in ~/.xsession is what I used to do. > > Yeah sure, hide the problem under the carpet instead of trying to > solve it. On a multiuser system, or when you don't have root access, using pkill is a very reasonable solution.

halt -p on a thinkpad x61; _PTS broken?

2009-05-22 Thread Matthew Emmett
Hi, First, thanks to all developers of OpenBSD for such a fine operating system! I noticed some strange behaviour when issuing 'halt -p' on my ThinkPad X61. Namely, that the laptop hung most of the time, and powered down only some of time, after 'halt -p' was issued under both 4.4 and 4.5. After