[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 5:54 PM, wdbragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right now I have it as a symlink > > sager:/# ls -la /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-12-08 13:10 /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook > -> ../init.d/startnotebook > > and after I boot, here are the contents of nohup

[sage-support] Re: Plotting in sage versus plotting in matlab

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 6:07 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 9:03 AM, pgdoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I told a colleague about sage, wondering if he would see it as a > > viable > > alternative to matlab for numerical work. This was his response: > > > > > I don't

[sage-support] Re: Plotting in sage versus plotting in matlab

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 9:03 AM, pgdoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I told a colleague about sage, wondering if he would see it as a > viable > alternative to matlab for numerical work. This was his response: > > > I don't know SAGE - it looks great. I'm looking forward to trying it once > > things s

[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread wdbragg
Right now I have it as a symlink sager:/# ls -la /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-12-08 13:10 /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook -> ../init.d/startnotebook and after I boot, here are the contents of nohup.out The notebook files are stored in: //.sage//sage_notebook Please

[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 4:50 PM, wdbragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can now ... I made it that far from when I typed the question and > when you replied. > > Now the script is runnable ... I can type (as root) "/etc/init.d/ > startnotebook" and the server will spring to life. > > But, when I reboot,

[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread wdbragg
If you wanted to restart a running notebook server, from a script, what would you do? How do you kill it? On Dec 8, 4:22 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 3:51 PM, wdbragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > William, > > > I have been trying for hours to get the

[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread wdbragg
I can now ... I made it that far from when I typed the question and when you replied. Now the script is runnable ... I can type (as root) "/etc/init.d/ startnotebook" and the server will spring to life. But, when I reboot, it does not work correctly. The nohup.out file is created, but is a zero

[sage-support] Re: Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 3:51 PM, wdbragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William, > > I have been trying for hours to get the notebook server to start > automatically using init scripts. > I am trying the method you posted earlier in this list. > > ( All of this is on a fresh install of debian etch ) > > I

[sage-support] Script to start notebook at boot time

2007-12-08 Thread wdbragg
William, I have been trying for hours to get the notebook server to start automatically using init scripts. I am trying the method you posted earlier in this list. ( All of this is on a fresh install of debian etch ) I have an init script called /etc/init.d/startnotebook that is called in rcS.d

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-12-08 Thread Mike Hansen
http://www.sagemath.org:9002/sage_trac/ticket/1235 should be faster. --Mike On Dec 8, 2007 12:50 PM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote: > > > As a start I've implemented find_root (and some minizing and > > maximizing functions) > > and posted a patch here: > > http://tr

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-12-08 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: > As a start I've implemented find_root (and some minizing and > maximizing functions) > and posted a patch here: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/1235 This is great :-) I will try the code as soon as the slashdot traffic subsides from the server. Ted --~--~

[sage-support] Plotting in sage versus plotting in matlab

2007-12-08 Thread pgdoyle
I told a colleague about sage, wondering if he would see it as a viable alternative to matlab for numerical work. This was his response: > I don't know SAGE - it looks great. I'm looking forward to trying it once > things settle down. > I've used python for a project and it was excellent. I thi

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-12-08 Thread Paul Zimmermann
> By the way, we'll definitely want to create an arbitrary precision find_root > using MPFR etc. at some point -- that will be very exciting. (The above is > just supposed to do some wimpy machine precision root finding.) a possible starting point is http://komite.net/laurent/pro/these-20070228

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 1:39 AM, Paul Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One interesting thing is that I made it so that > > > > f.find_root(a,b) > > > > works even if the sign of f(a) and f(b) are the same. In that case, > > it will find a min or max of f on the interval, and use that as a

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-12-08 Thread Paul Zimmermann
> One interesting thing is that I made it so that > > f.find_root(a,b) > > works even if the sign of f(a) and f(b) are the same. In that case, > it will find a min or max of f on the interval, and use that as a new > endpoint as input to the root finding algorithm. The root finder > itsel

[sage-support] Re: Questions about solve()

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Nov 27, 2007 9:25 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ondrej wrote: > > > > Could you please clarify, what exact functionality in solve you expect > > > in order for 1235 to be solved? > > > > > > Should it just run the iterative numerical solver if it cannot find > > > the solution an