[sage-devel] Re: Wiki is down

2007-08-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
There appear to be a bunch of wikis on various UW public web servers. On 8/9/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know. UW shut it down because it violated some security policy they > have. I just got back in the country and should be able to get it > going again in some form soon

[sage-devel] Re: Wiki is down

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
I know. UW shut it down because it violated some security policy they have. I just got back in the country and should be able to get it going again in some form soon. - William (Sent from my iPhone.) On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:50 PM, "Timothy Clemans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On sagema

[sage-devel] Re: Wiki is down

2007-08-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
On sagemath.org homepage the Wiki link is missing from the top but is on the bottom but the wiki is down. On 8/9/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that the wiki has been down for the past few days. Did it > move or is it just down? > > --Mike > > > > --~--~-~--~---

[sage-devel] Wiki is down

2007-08-09 Thread Mike Hansen
It seems that the wiki has been down for the past few days. Did it move or is it just down? --Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more opti

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE in TeXmacs

2007-08-09 Thread Mike Hansen
I posted it to the TeXmacs-dev list. I just started playing around with TeXmacs today. You want to make sure that the sage executable is in your PATH. Then, from the menu, do Insert -> Session -> SAGE. --Mike On 8/9/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wasn't able to get this wor

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE in TeXmacs

2007-08-09 Thread David Joyner
I wasn't able to get this working but I am not much of a texmacs user. Anyway, could you perhaps email the texmacs guy and let him know abour it? Maybe he could add a SAGE link on his webpage and post your tarball. On 8/9/07, Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was playing arou

[sage-devel] Re: Planning for SAGE-2.8 -- help wanted

2007-08-09 Thread legout
Hi, when will sage 2.8 be released. I´ve got some problems, while reinstalling and bulid sage with gcc<4.2 on my system. So i´m looking forward to build sage, especially linbox with gcc-4.2 Best regads and thans for this great software volker On 4 Aug., 03:37, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[sage-devel] Sage IDE

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
For the past few weeks I have been putting together a cross platform IDE for Sage. It is based on jEdit, it has most of the features that a typical programmer's text editor has, and it can also be extended to support Java3D. My next step is to add the protocol to it that is needed to talk with t

[sage-devel] SAGE in TeXmacs

2007-08-09 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, I was playing around this afternoon and was able to pretty easily create a TeXmacs mode for SAGE. It has support for tab-completion, LaTeX display, help (via ? and ??), and displaying graphics within TeXmacs. Just untar the attached file into your ~/.TeXmacs/plugins directory. It might b

[sage-devel] Pari matrix methods

2007-08-09 Thread Thea Gegenberg
There is a pari method called matsolve, used for solving matrix equations which is not interfaced to. It is interfaced for gp though. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[sage-devel] Re: ams notices opinion column

2007-08-09 Thread Jonathan Bober
I've been meaning to reply to this, since I've been specifically mentioned. Sorry for the delay. On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 11:49 -0700, William Stein wrote: > On 8/5/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/4/07, Alec Mihailovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> From: "Alec Mihailov

[sage-devel] Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-09 Thread Nils Bruin
I understand the necessity to quit ignored worksheets in many cases, to save resources. However, it does kill a highly desirable behaviour that existed before: 1) start very long computation at work 2) kill browser, log out (process still running) 3) from home, connect to worksheet to check par

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE talk at CECM

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Chiasson
What you should have told them was that SAGE is going to eat their lunch, then spun on your heels, and walked out. Just kidding. On Aug 9, 2:41 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I substantially updated the 1-hour SAGE colloquium-style talk I posted earlier > today (thanks

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE talk at CECM

2007-08-09 Thread David Joyner
On 8/9/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 24:41 , William Stein wrote: > > > My impression repeatedly, is that with SAGE it is best to focus as > > much > > as possible on young people and new users, and not worry much about > > old fogies. Older people have

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE talk at CECM

2007-08-09 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Aug 9, 2007, at 24:41 , William Stein wrote: > My impression repeatedly, is that with SAGE it is best to focus as > much > as possible on young people and new users, and not worry much about > old fogies. Older people have repeatedly seen generations of failures > with free math software,

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE download stats -- how to increase SAGE usage?

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Chiasson
I agree with most of what Paul said, except that the thread on karakas has a page rank of 2, so I am not sure what the ROI would be on that one. For comparison, SAGE's homepage has a page rank of 6. My homepage, which can easily be located, has a page rank of 5. Slashdot's homepage has a page ran

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE download stats -- how to increase SAGE usage?

2007-08-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not a SAGE developer, and I'll probably say things that most of you know already, but I thought about this so I might as well email the list. Here is how to go about and possibly improve rankings on Google (*): Step 1: Everyone on this list could make sure to add a link to sagemath.org on th

[sage-devel] Re: AMS Notices column

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Chiasson
Er, I know it looks strange, but the (pedantically) correct spacing of the em dash is to have no spaces around it. See, for example: http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm On Aug 9, 2:08 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everyone. I posted a new version here: >

[sage-devel] Re: sage custom search engine

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Chiasson
I officially donate the contents of http://test.chris.chiasson.name/sage/ to the SAGE project. :-) On Aug 9, 2:13 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/6/07, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >http://test.chris.chiasson.name/sage/sage-search-engine.html > > > Feedback

[sage-devel] SAGE talk at CECM

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
Hi, I substantially updated the 1-hour SAGE colloquium-style talk I posted earlier today (thanks for the feedback). The slides (sfu.pdf) and worksheet are at http://sage.math.washington.edu/tmp/sfu/ --- The talk went very well. This was at one of the Maple development centers, the very

[sage-devel] Re: sage custom search engine

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
On 8/6/07, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://test.chris.chiasson.name/sage/sage-search-engine.html > > Feedback is welcome. Should I cross post this to sage-forum? > > If you want, I will donate the contents of this directory to the SAGE > project: > > http://test.chris.chiasson.n

[sage-devel] Re: AMS Notices column

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
Thanks everyone. I posted a new version here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/papers/oscas/oscas-ams-notices.pdf On 8/8/07, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really think some kind of a closing, final sentence/statement needs > to be placed right before the "full disclo