Why University of California at Berkeley chose Google over Microsoft for email/calendaring services on Dec 23, 2011 in Cloud servies Google Microsoft As a public univerity supported by people's taxes, the transparency of UC Berkeley in selecting Google over Microsoft to provide online email and calendaring services is very welcome. Here is a decision table showing the strengths and weaknesses of t...
Install Sympy: A symbolic math software package in pure Python! on Oct 30, 2011 in Sympy What is nice about Sympy? It aims to be a simple but full-featured, extensible computer algebra system and it is written in pure Python. There is no need for external libraries! Here are some information extracted from the home page of sympy. What...
Kile works in KDE window manager in Ubuntu! and the video cam, wireless, and microphone divices all work! on Oct 23, 2011 in KDE Kile Ubuntu 11.10 kdm I got a surprise when I tried KIle in the kdm (KDE window manager or desktop). Kile latex IDE works fine in it and there are no more annoying messages about creating a default factory method. I can now insert math symbols selected from the left pane...
Dr Python is a nice lightweight Python editor but there is something wrong with screen rendering. on Sep 28, 2011 in drpython The following image shows that the screen rendering of drpython leaves much to be desired. You have to scroll down and up so that the screen will be properly rendered.
Scite 2.03 is immovable on the desktop! on Sep 28, 2011 in scite Editors After trying out drpython, I installed scite and run it. But bad luck struck under Ubuntu. The editor screen cannot be moved! It was immobile on the left side of the screen and I cannot strangely zoom it. So another editor bit the dust in our Ubunt n...
Alternative sites for information on free-software. on Sep 11, 2011 in References for further explorations I will start collecting some urls which are good sources for free-software. The first esteemed entry is Feeding the Snake I may adopt some of the softwares suggested. As usual, most posts I have written are works in progress.
Installing Gretl in Ubuntu Natty on Sep 9, 2011 in gretl econometrics I get segmentation fault on startup of gretl. Here are some steps I took to make it run again on my 64 bit ACER laptop. Download the 1.9.5 source code by clicking on sourceforge: gretl The actual download site link I got was http://nchc.dl.sourc...
Links to Online Documentation on Jul 24, 2011I am starting to gather links to manuals, tutorials of free software. Maxima Computer Algebra System.Manual: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima.html Python Programming Language.Main Documentation Page: www.python.or...
Plotting Small Samples with R. on Jul 8, 2011 in Statistics and viaualization with R R has a comprehensive set of routines for visualization of data. Here we show some of its capabilities on a small sample Y containing positive values. library("vioplot")X <- c(rnorm(50, 10, 3),rnorm(50, 15, 5))Y <- c(runif(10, 5, 20))par...
Updating Opera to Version 1.5! on Jun 28, 2011 in Browsers Opera I am currently updating the Opera software to Version 1.5 codenamed Swordfish. Opera is a standards compliant software with a history of introducing innovations liked tabbed browsing and speed dial. Further reading: Inquirer.net And click here...
