[sage-devel] Re: Sage registered trademark

2009-11-01 Thread J Elaych
Well it looks like their software is "financial" in the business sense of bookkeeping and accounting and related business support. When someone uses Sage for financial applications its more for modeling and differential equations and stuff. After they lost the famasoft battle they may not want

[sage-devel] Wordpress, XMLRPC, Notebook

2009-10-30 Thread J Elaych
A few months back there were some discussions about XMLRPC in the Sage notebook server, and there was an implementation in XMLRPC of a Sage server to send computed notebooks to Wordpress. There was also an XMLRPC Wordpress plugin that could take the Sage results and format them for Wordpress. It

[sage-devel] Re: pari compilation failure on Ubuntu Karmic

2009-09-12 Thread J Elaych
The problem is now fixed with the latest gcc/g++ in Ubuntu Karmic. On Sep 10, 12:48 am, Dan Drake wrote: > I installed an Ubuntu Karmic virtual machine to see how Sage compiles > there...and right now, it doesn't. > > I've tried on a 64-bit and 32-bit VM, with between 768 and about 1250 MB > of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.1 source released

2009-08-14 Thread J Elaych
I untar'd the pari-2.3.4.p1.spkg, changed the -O3 to -O in MACHINES and config/get_cc, retarred it into original name and put it in with the spkg directory. Then I just did the usual 'make' and Sage built and tested fine on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. The pari folks just say its probably a bug in

[sage-devel] Re: proposal to make PIL standard

2009-08-14 Thread J Elaych
No brainer. +1 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/s

[sage-devel] Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and gcc-4.4 failure

2009-08-06 Thread J Elaych
++ updates, so I'll keep trying the pari build until they work. On Aug 6, 4:45 pm, William Stein wrote: > 2009/8/6 J Elaych > > > > > Hi all, > > > I've been working with the Sage / Python package which > > includes pari-2.3.4 and noticed that the build f

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.1.rc1 build halt

2009-08-06 Thread J Elaych
> > I just upgraded to karmic and the exact same thing happened. > Please tell me (in terms an idiot can understand:-) how to get > the Sage make command to use a different gcc. > > Good question, and I hope somebody else can improve my response. I didn't find a gcc switching tool like I've used

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.1.1.rc1 build halt

2009-08-05 Thread J Elaych
l work. I backed out of gcc-4.4 and pointed gcc -> gcc-4.3, and sure enough the sage build has passed through pari just fine. I'd be interested in other Ubuntu user's experiments with gcc-4.4. On Aug 5, 5:19 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:12 PM, J Elaych wrote

[sage-devel] Sage 4.1.1.rc1 build halt

2009-08-05 Thread J Elaych
I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 beta with amd64 x2 and the gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-1ubuntu1). The build just stops at base3, for hours so far, though 'top' shows cc1 using 99% cpu. I can't find any related info by searching the group but that doesn't mean there isn't a fix. Does anybody have any sug

[sage-devel] Re: notebook rewrite

2009-07-21 Thread J Elaych
> > There is one more thing I want to try -- pyjamas, as pointed out > above. I already played with it yesterday, and what I saw so far is > *impressive*. So my next step will be to rewrite what I did into > pyjamas (e.g. just pure python both on the server and in the browser). > If that works an

[sage-devel] Re: PIL interface questions

2009-07-15 Thread J Elaych
> > > I'd like to hear what other people think:  is that factor of 1.5 or > > 2.0 in speed > > enough to motivate switching to vips for the default sage imaging > > library? > > Is PIL really the default? I did not know that. > > I don't mean for my comments to be interpreted for or against PIL.

[sage-devel] Re: PIL interface questions

2009-07-13 Thread J Elaych
Interesting, but I'm especially impressed by how well PIL stands up to VIPS. It looks like vips was primarily designed to have a small memory imprint, especially for image files that are larger than physical memory. PIL takes only about 1.5 times as long as vips on a dual core processor, so I wo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread J Elaych
On a beta Ubuntu 9.10, sage-4.1.rc0 built and tested fine. However, Jaap Spie's ETS install doesn't work for vtk- cvs-20090316.spkg. Its looking for a libpython2.5.a and a Python.h file. Sage of course has a Python.h in its python2.6 directories, but it seems that vtk is looking for a 2.5. In

[sage-devel] Re: firefox 3.5 and jsmath

2009-07-01 Thread J Elaych
Me too. On Ubuntu 9.10 alpha, today's Firefox 3.5 release. Worked fine with no changes (using jsmath image fonts) but broke when I installed the jsmath from Synaptic. On Jul 1, 4:22 am, Kevin Horton wrote: > On 1-Jul-09, at 04:21 , Jason Grout wrote: > > > > > > > Firefox 3.5 is now officially

[sage-devel] Re: Web page looks pretty poor compared to Mathematica's

2009-05-23 Thread J Elaych
I just want to make sure to add my vote: I think the Mathematica page sucks, for reasons that have already been posted here. I decided to adopt Sage after the new page was up, but I remember the older page and can tell you that the new one is a big step forward. It really makes Sage look like a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc0 released!

2009-05-21 Thread J Elaych
As usual 4.0.rc0 compiled and tested fine on Ubuntu 64 amd64 x2 9.x. I did notice that desolve still uses maxima; is anyone planning to change that? I couldn't find DE support in pynac so it looks like maxima will still be with sage for a while. On May 21, 4:29 pm, Tim Lahey wrote: > On May 2

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.alpha0 released!

2009-05-17 Thread J Elaych
Ubuntu 9.04 64bit amd xp2 builds fine. The -optional and - experimental package list is the same as always so I'm wondering if that is going to be upgraded to the latest scipy/mayavi2 and so on. Graphviz does not build with 'sage -i graphviz-2.16.1.p0' but thats an old graphviz so I'm just using

[sage-devel] Re: plotting in the notebook

2009-04-16 Thread J Elaych
On Apr 16, 6:27 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:14 PM, J Elaych wrote: > > > > > > > For 3d plots it's really very similar, but of course they aren't > > always png's.  Calling show with viewer="tachyon" just renders a p

[sage-devel] Re: plotting in the notebook

2009-04-16 Thread J Elaych
For 3d plots it's really very similar, but of course they aren't always png's. Calling show with viewer="tachyon" just renders a png, and we're in the above case. Calling show with no options (no viewer="tachyon") uses jmol, which means that a certain file type is output. The notebook then noti

[sage-devel] Re: Quick Reference: Calculus

2009-04-11 Thread J Elaych
Really cool, but there's a typo in the Piecewise example: it should be 'sin(1/x)' to sync with the plot. On Apr 10, 6:11 pm, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I made the first topic-specific Sage Quick Reference guide.  It's for > Calculus. > >    http://wiki.sagemath.org/quickref?action=AttachFi

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.4.1.rc2 released

2009-04-11 Thread J Elaych
Ubuntu 9.04 beta (Jaunty), compiled and tested fine with 'export MAKE=make -j2' and 'make'. Using it now. On Apr 11, 1:22 am, mabshoff wrote: > Hello, > > this is 3.4.1.rc2. Loads of Solaris fixes for doctests, additional > doctests, several spkg updates and misc fixes. All the details can be >

[sage-devel] Re: Enthought tools install issues

2009-03-18 Thread J Elaych
On Mar 18, 8:37 am, Jaap Spies wrote: > You need the development part of tcl/tk. In Ubuntu you should do > something like apt-get install tk8.4-dev or so. I don't remember > exactly (I'm not on Ubuntu right now). > > Note those packages are experimental! > > Cheers, > > Jaap I followed sequen

[sage-devel] Introduction with Time

2009-03-17 Thread J Elaych
Hi All, At the end of the Sage 3.4 tutorial I was invited to send the list the time I spent, so here it is: sage: quit Exiting SAGE (CPU time 0m52.07s, Wall time 43m1.91s). Exiting spawned Maple process. Exiting spawned Maxima process. I drank the Kool-Aid (Flavor-Aid?) at the recent Sage Days