On 5/4/07, dave dobbs wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> Thank you ever so much for the rapid & comprehensive reply to my questions -
> frankly, I was amazed to hear back so quickly & in such detail!
>
> I took your advice and subscribed to the group & will post further questions
> there, but following are my responses to your questions:
>
> > Just out of curiosity do you prefer using SAGE via VMware to possibly
> > using it via cygwin? Also, did you find the size of the vmware download
> > to be a major problem or not?
>
> I'm not a user of cygwin and the Installation Guide that I downloaded
> today suggests the use of colinux instead. I intended to try that, and was
We're not using colinux anymore for SAGE due to stability issues.
I better fix the install guide so it doesn't suggest colinux.
> looking to see if there was mention of the new version I saw announced today
> for running a Fedora oriented version of colinux when I saw the availability
> of the VMware module. I've been a big fan of VMware for several months now
> so I opted to try that first. Perhaps next week I'll install the full SAGE
> suite on a small Linux PC I maintain just to play with (it currently has the
> latest release of Kubuntu installed.)
>
> I have a fairly robust DSL connection so the VMware download was no problem
> at all - less than 1-hour and then I had it running notebook within 10
> minutes.
Excellent.
> > None of those examples should work via the notebook. They are only for
> > running SAGE via Cygwin. Don't worry about that particular problem at
> all.
> > Anyway, it's much better to plot directly and not use maxima, as you've
> > done. We'll actually likely remove those examples, or at least make it
> much
> > clearer that they won't work via the Notebook.
>
> Ah, that explains things - I'm very bad about not reading all of the docs,
> I'm usually too anxious to just jump in and play ;-)
> >
> > (1) Type
> >
> > optional_packages()
> >
> > for a list of packages.
> >
> > (2) Type
> > install_package('exact package name')
> > to install an optional package.
> >
> > Write back if you have problems with (1) or (2). Also, consider
> subscribing
> > to the sage-support mailing list, so you can ask your questions to a large
> > number of "highly trained volunteers":
> > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support
>
> That's more than clear, I'm certain it won't be a problem.
>
> > Just out of curiosity how did you find out about SAGE?
> >
> A friend had e-mailed me the page detailing the work on E8
> and I read about SAGE on the link to its web site on that page. I had
> already played with quite a few of the pieces so the ensemble sounded
> irresistible ;-)
> I'm retired and spend quite a bit of time dinking around with my PCs.
> William, when searching for your e-mail address I noticed the link on your
> homepage that takes one directly to a SAGE session on the University's
> system. It wanted a password to start a new session, but I was able to
> freely open the sessions that other folks had left. Is that a no-no? I'll
> admit, I even tried a simple command to factor a large number & it executed.
Enjoy! That's the free public SAGE Notebook, which anyone is welcome to
use. It's sort of a public scratchpad for math computation. One neat thing
is that it's running on the so-called "SAGE supercomputer", i.e., the computer
that the E8 calculations were done on, so when you use that public notebook
you have access to 16 cores and 64GB RAM.
> Again, thank you very much...Dave Dobbs
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://www.williamstein.org
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