[sage-support] Re: unable to start Sage notebook after VMware/Windows crash

2010-10-19 Thread Brian
Thanks to Enrico and Dan. Enrico, I appreciate your response! But that advice isn't going to work in a commercial environment with locked-in OSes. And - regardless of the fact that it might be nice if we went Linux! - that's not likely to change. As to the alpha version - I agree with you in princ

[sage-support] Re: unable to start Sage notebook after VMware/Windows crash

2010-09-30 Thread Enrico
Forgive my impertinence but this sounds like a slightly unstable setup to be using. I'd just reinstall if dumping a file into sagenb/storage doesn't work, preferably on a Linux partition rather than in VMWare and not using an alpha version of Sage. Enrico -- To post to this group, send email to

[sage-support] Re: unable to start Sage notebook after VMware/Windows crash

2010-09-29 Thread Brian
Thanks, Dan. I'll give that a try. I had figured that was probably the case - but had no way to efficiently figure out what had gotten chomped on by the crash, as I'm very far from a Python guru. Brian -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

[sage-support] Re: unable to start Sage notebook after VMware/Windows crash

2010-09-29 Thread Brian
cont'd. Oops. my apologies, I have Sage 4.4.alpha0 running on that VMware player 3.1.0 build-261024... Brian On Sep 29, 1:31 pm, Brian wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Sage in a commercial environment to perform physics > simulations of optical systems. As our computing environment is XP, > I'm runnin