Re: Is there anything I can use in place of MATLAB on OpenBSD?

[Matthew Emmett]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 01:34:58AM -0700, Adam Getchell wrote:
 You managed to build Sage on OpenBSD? Got some directions on how you
 did it?

Sorry, I mis-spoke.  I haven't built Sage on OpenBSD.

Matt

Re: Is there anything I can use in place of MATLAB on OpenBSD?

[Matthew Emmett]

Hi,

Another option is Python with the NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib
packages (all of these are in ports).

For some symbolic computations, you might try SymPy and/or Sage.

Matt

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:50:39AM +0530, Siju George wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is there anything I can use in place of MATLAB on OpenBSD?
 
 http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/
 
 even at least through Linux emulation?
 Looking for a free Alternative :-)
 
 thanks
 
 --Siju

Re: Xconsole using Xfce

[Matthew Emmett]

  'pkill xconsole' in ~/.xsession is what I used to do.
 
 Yeah sure, hide the problem under the carpet instead of trying to
 solve it.

On a multiuser system, or when you don't have root access, using pkill
is a very reasonable solution.

halt -p on a thinkpad x61; _PTS broken?

[Matthew Emmett]

Hi,

First, thanks to all developers of OpenBSD for such a fine operating
system!

I noticed some strange behaviour when issuing 'halt -p' on my ThinkPad
X61.  Namely, that the laptop hung most of the time, and powered down
only some of time, after 'halt -p' was issued under both 4.4 and 4.5.
After reading archives of misc@, I believe others have experienced
this.

I did some further reading on the 'net, and (naively) tried commenting
out the _PTS ACPI command that is issued in

  acpi_prepare_sleep_state()

which is in sys/dev/acpi/acpi.c.  My laptop now powerdowns every time
I issue 'halt -p'.

This doesn't quite seem right: surely _PTS should be called?

If I discover anything more, I will write more.

Thanks,
Matthew