[sage-devel] Re: AMS Notices column

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Chiasson
Strangely, Google Groups converted my em dash into a regular dash. The em dash character can be easily found elsewhere, though. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: sage -clisp fails in sage-2.7.3

2007-08-09 Thread Justin C. Walker
Maybe something else is going on, but... On Aug 8, 2007, at 22:59 , William Stein wrote: On 8/8/07, Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sage-2.7.3-x86_64-Linux$ ./sage -clisp clisp: /home/was/sage-2.7.2.rc1/local/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run: No such file or

[sage-devel] Fwd: Reduce package for Sage

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
On 8/7/07, Bill Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some months ago I promised to look into the issue of creating a Reduce package for Sage (as usual: as and when time permits :). While at the ISSAC conference where Sage was conspicuous by it's complete absence! Sorry about that... :-(, I had a

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

2007-08-09 Thread William Stein
On 8/8/07, Ted Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've discussed stuff like this before on sage-devel, and the decision was made to not put any automatic call home features in SAGE. For example, SAGE won't automatically check for updates, report usage patterns, etc., without the user

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

2007-08-09 Thread Ted Kosan
William wrote: We've discussed stuff like this before on sage-devel, and the decision was made to not put any automatic call home features in SAGE. For example, SAGE won't automatically check for updates, report usage patterns, etc., without the user explicitly doing something to opt in.

[sage-devel] Re: AMS Notices column

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I really think some kind of a closing, final sentence/statement needs to be placed right before the full disclosure. I'd try and come up with something but I'm exhausted right now. - Robert On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:03 PM, David Joyner wrote: Hi: The version at

[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

[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.name/sage/

[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

[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

[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, so I

[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 repeatedly

[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 for

[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

[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 Mihailovs [EMAIL

[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] 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

[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

[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 around

[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] 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