Interesting suggestions. Thanks! Having not had a Mac since about 2005, I'm curious if having one really is the silver bullet for having it all. As appealing as the walled garden sounds, the price tag keeps it on the periphery off my radar.
Vagrant wins the awesome name and dope design award. For now it looks like a simple request to support will resolve my SciPy issue. But I'll be very interested to see if virtualbox or vagrant resolve my bifurcated (personal) computing crisis. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Nick Bolten <[email protected]> wrote: > If you don't have root and have linux skills, gentoo prefix is a great > option http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/. It basically > gives you a linux installation (though arguably the most difficult version > to use) in your home folder. I've used it many times to get scientific > python packages working (like installing RabbitMQ for Celery). > > -Nick > > > On 07/19/2013 11:24 PM, Nimret Sandhu wrote: > > I assume requesting 'sudo' access is not an option? even with being locked > down into specific commands? > > I run various versions of windows on linux via > https://www.virtualbox.org/ mostly for things that still only work on > windows (eg netflix) .. just got OS X snow leopard running on it (bought a > disk). Simultaneously. In hardware emulation. Trying to figure out how to > upgrade to Mountain Lion on there right now. Apple obviously doesn't make > it easy to do these sort of things. The shiny new mac laptop they got me at > work is nice and all (wayyyy more slick than windows) but I am a lot more > productive on linux and my linux laptop >> the mac hardware + price/perf > wise. > > if you want to step up from Virtualbox check out > http://www.vagrantup.com/ for firing up on demand VMs. you can also use > that with a specific VM image that contains specific distros/libraries etc > and redistribute/reuse/share it. > if u really want to get fancy, hook that up to rackspace, aws, etc for a > cloud on demand for HPC. > > btw you may also want to check out https://www.scientificlinux.org/ > > cheers, > - > Nimret Sandhu > http://www.nimret.org > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Matt S. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Feeling the pain as we speak... trying to figure out how to install >> SciPy in a virtualenv on a system that I don't have root privileges on (and >> therefore can't use a package manager rather than compile from source some >> significant dependencies). Funnily and thankfully though, this group, >> Continuum >> Analytics <https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/>, was mentioned >> the other day in the Training thread, and just moments ago I happened to be >> looped back to their site while the desperation of not making much progress >> was setting in. Turns out they make a Python distro called Anaconda? >> Looks very cool and pretty tricked out for number crunching and free to >> ALL and without any root requirement. I haven't tried it out but it looks >> like it could be a huge help to many. >> >> In the past, at times, I used the Enthought Python distro but got >> nervous that I was being too coddled by it (and b/c it's only free to >> academics). Nowadays I mostly go the DIY route (using virtualenv/pip as >> much as possible). But boy does it get dicey when you don't have root >> privileges (on Linux and therefore can't use a package manager), or you're >> on Windows (especially when trying to do the next task--see next), or >> you're trying to get a package with a lot of dependencies installed into a >> virtualenv (or non-standard place). >> >> Getting a little off topic now... >> >> Lately I've been experimenting with Ubuntu and trying to take a Windows >> diet (figuring out 8 was not my first choice). But it's damn hard to take >> the diet too far b/c neither system is perfect for all tasks (and lack of >> iTunes and Picasa in Linux was a big shock to my routine). But despite >> some inconvenience in my attempt to figure out how to optimally use >> multiple OSs for work and play, it's been good to find Git for Windows >> (msysGit) and delve into Pandas (which precipitated wanting to get SciPy >> installed). What's not been good is a lack of closure on figuring out why >> I can no longer paste from Windows into an X window. Realizing that I >> can't use Ctrl+C in ipython on Windows has been another pain. Out of >> curiosity, do any of you simultaneously use a Windows and Linux machine >> (without or without Wine, etc.)? >> >> Cheers, >> Matt >> > >
