Two ideas and two questions
kcrisman
1) Easy: Make a VMWare link on the download page (as in the past) in
addition to the MS Windows link where it currently resides; we are
trying to get Sage up and running on the local network using VMWare on
Linux but unfortunately the admin didn't know the binary was lurking
under Windows! There's even an open table spot for it in the table.
(It's now up and running.)
2) Not so easy: The same admin professor wondered aloud whether it was
possible to have some sort of Javascript or other script which would
query the JMOL applet for current "visual" output and allow one to
save and (most importantly) print it out; apparently one can't
currently print out the JMOL pictures (I have *not* tried this myself,
though). It sounded like he thought this was really more of a browser
feature idea than a Sage feature, but I thought I'd put it out there
in case anyone knew of an easy solution, or whether it turns out to be
impossible.
Questions:
3) Kudos on the "evaluate" button returning! But it doesn't seem to
always work. When I logged in to sagenb.org today, the first time it
did work, the rest it didn't. It doesn't work at all on our local
server system.
4) What happened to the various sagenb.com, .org, etc? Currently
there only is .org. Are all accounts from all those previous ports
still active? Not a big deal for me, but could be for some other
folks.
William Stein
>
> Ideas:
>
> 1) Easy: Make a VMWare link on the download page (as in the past) in
> addition to the MS Windows link where it currently resides; we are
> trying to get Sage up and running on the local network using VMWare on
> Linux but unfortunately the admin didn't know the binary was lurking
> under Windows! There's even an open table spot for it in the table.
> (It's now up and running.)
Done.
>
> 2) Not so easy: The same admin professor wondered aloud whether it was
> possible to have some sort of Javascript or other script which would
> query the JMOL applet for current "visual" output and allow one to
> save and (most importantly) print it out; apparently one can't
> currently print out the JMOL pictures (I have *not* tried this myself,
> though). It sounded like he thought this was really more of a browser
> feature idea than a Sage feature, but I thought I'd put it out there
> in case anyone knew of an easy solution, or whether it turns out to be
> impossible.
Maybe. Currently I just take a screen shot (which is trivial in OSX).
One *can* right now from Javascript easily get the current orientation and zoom
in jmol, and that could be used to generate a nice static image using tachyon3d.
(This is not implemented yet though.)
>
> Questions:
>
> 3) Kudos on the "evaluate" button returning! But it doesn't seem to
> always work. When I logged in to sagenb.org today, the first time it
> did work, the rest it didn't. It doesn't work at all on our local
> server system.
This has been reported about 5 times. That button is FLAKIE. Tom Boothby,
help!
> 4) What happened to the various sagenb.com, .org, etc? Currently
> there only is .org. Are all accounts from all those previous ports
> still active? Not a big deal for me, but could be for some other
> folks.
The servers at
https://sage.math.washington.edu:8101
https://sage.math.washington.edu:8102
https://sage.math.washington.edu:8103
are all still running. But sagenb.* all point to 8101. You can still
access the old urls
to migrate your worksheets, etc.
> >
>
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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org