Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Use of Math Languages and Packages in Research? CEHT asks: "As a research programmer at the university, I have encountered numerous times when I need to choose which language(s) or package(s) to use for different projects. Maple, Matlab, Magma, and Mathematica are among the most well-known packages. Libraries such as IMSL are also popular. The question is, how useful are these [ math packages? Do researchers use only one or two packages for most of their projects? Or do people like to mix things a little by pulling the strength of different packages together to solve a math problem? [Slashdot] 8:38:51 PM     "We don't serve your kind here..." Dive Into Mark, a great blog whose name inevitably conjures slightly disturbing imagery when read the first few times, has a cool article on how Mark used Apache and the mod_rewrite module to stop evil spambots, spybots, and unwanted robots [~] by definition, those that don[base ']t respect the Robot Exclusion Standard [~] from stealing his bandwidth, content and email addresses. [PlaybackTime] 8:24:15 PM     BusinessWeek: An open-source opening for Apple In BusinessWeek's latest "Byte of the Apple" column, Alex Salkever writes about Microsoft's recent purchase of Virtual PC, and how Apple could gain independence from the software giant by helping to develop Bochs, open-source software that functions as a Windows emulator on Unix machines... [MacMinute] 8:14:38 PM     Controlling Your Mac with AppleScript and Java AppleScript, while a fantastic language for running scripts locally, has minimal support for doing anything else, like sockets or serving Web pages. This is where AppleScript and Java form a powerful team. Scott D.W. Rankin shows you how to put this dynamic duo to work to control your Mac from remote locations. [MacDevCenter] 8:11:51 PM

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