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    Re: Fortran or Pascal -- Anyone use these?

    All the physics professors I know use fortran and a bunch of the engineers too.
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    Re: I have 3GB of ram...

    for avid firefox users:

    http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/speed-up-firefox-by-mounting-profile-in.html
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    Re: Octave 3.0 - Can't run .m files

    % test file
    disp('This is a tester File::::!')
    A = [3 4 5
    6 7 8
    9 2 1]



    $ octave -q test.m
    This is a tester File::::!
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu Owner's Manual?

    If you prefer text and not google this far surpasses the official book

    http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ubuntu-Linux-Novice-Professional/dp/1590599918
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    Re: Creating polished Charts in Ubuntu

    Take a look at gnuplot it is command based though, but has a large community if you can google.

    If you know python matplotlib is a step up in quality I think.

    Edit: You might want to look into...
  6. Re: has anyone ever seen this pic of bill gates..

    Yes I have seen it, it is in one of my books because he didn't give permission for one of his better pictures.
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    [kubuntu] Re: graphical sudo under Jaunty and KDE 3.5

    you could also just do sudo kate in konsole and enter your pass there it would work the same, check to see if the correct package is installed i don't know what it is for kde EDIT: I see you put...
  8. Re: Does anyone offer server hosting with gNewSense?

    You are not going to find something like that unless you go out and install/manage it and have money to spare.

    Maybe you should look at VPS like linode and slicehost but they don't offer your...
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    [ubuntu] Re: installing java

    for the runtime environment

    install the sun-java6-jre package from synaptic or aptitude



    and if you want the browser plugin install sun-java6-plugin
  10. Re: Google Chrome help questions, or why Linux will never be popular

    Yes but as time goes on the younger generations become more technically inclined you can give a phone to someone who is 15-25 and theyll be able to find a large number of features quickly and be much...
  11. Re: Stats and Graphing for the Mathematically disinclined

    It is really hard to make graphs with a gui (you pretty much have to enter programming input of some sort) unless your using a spreadsheet program in my opinion, gnuplot is really easy to learn (the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: install fonts

    if you open up a terminal this should do it



    cd ~
    mkdir .fonts
    cp /path/to/yourfont.ttf ~/.fonts/

    where /path/to/yourfont.ttf is where your font is and its name
  13. [ubuntu] Re: Dual Monitors [Sorry If Wrong Place To Post]

    To have two monitors your video card needs to support two, and by posting that cable as a link I would assume you do not have an extra vga/dvi plug on the back of your video card so I would assume...
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    Re: Setting up apache with Ruby on Rails

    if you just want to see and create your apps, not go into putting them on the web

    1: install ruby through apt
    2: install rubygems from tar
    3: install rails through gems
    then just do:

    $ rails...
  15. Re: Programing the fibonacci sequence with 2 variables

    something like?
    http://code.activestate.com/recipes/66316/
  16. Re: Big bug in IE, can you translate it please?

    He doesn't say that he says that safari the mac default browser is available on windows.



    The average person knows little about how computers work and would not understand any details, he gave...
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    Re: how to install/uninstall netbeans

    you could always use the binary version in synaptic


    sudo aptitude install netbeans
    sudo aptitude remove netbeans # REMOVES THE PROGRAM

    or follow directions on the website if you have a...
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    Re: Out of the way

    Matlab is a bit over 100US for a student license and a few grand for a commercial version, octave has a lot of the functionality that matlab has and even a large amount of the commands

    if you go...
  19. Thread: Why BASIC?

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    Re: Why BASIC?

    any of my new engineering books ( particularly statics and dynamics books) usually have basic programs, my guess it is probably popular because it is common and close to fortran, electrical engineers...
  20. Re: learning python, need some advice

    vi is actually probably a week of working in it to learn to a point you can use it well, emacs can take a very long time and probably won't be of very much use to you

    if you do learn vi go through...
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    Re: [Python] Plotting package

    matplotlib seems to work well for me in hardy

    but for gnuplot you can always save files and plot data

    http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/datafile-e.html

    but I believe there is a python...
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    Re: Perl Scripting

    I have always liked this about perl,

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use warning;
    $name = "Steve";
    print "My name is $name \n";

    semicolons are sometimes hard to remember with a new language, usually a good...
  23. Re: Project Euler challenge 1 - what is failing ??????? (python)

    This is really a matter of learning the language before you attempt it, as the project euler problems grow much harder quickly

    the python website has many helpful books tutorials and a wonderful...
  24. Re: What python suite do I need to replace matlab

    I've never had any problems running matlab in linux enviroments, even my school uses ubuntu servers to run matlab as well as X tunneling even seems to be semi-fast on campus...

    unless you want to...
  25. Re: Super basic python problem (I'm very new and trying to learn python)

    Try starting off with a much lighter book than dive into python, the FAQs at the top have a few links for beginners,

    here is a more friendly book:

    http://www.swaroopch.com/byteofpython/

    How...
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