[geeks] Proper tools

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 07:39:48PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 06:34:39PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > How do these people here expect me to work without proper tools?
> > 
> > At my last two jobs, I had to provide my own computing power and training
> > and reference materials, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do my job
> > (or would've been very slow at it).
> > 
> > > To that end, I just did an unauthorized install on xmaxima on this
> > > win2k machine.  We'll see what the fallout is.  I really don't care at
> > > the moment since I have better things to do that to solve matrix
> > > equations by hand.
> > 
> > Can't oleo or octave do that?
> 
> Probably.  But Octave's page isn't working for me from here.  Never
> heard of oleo.

On a side note, this xmaxima for windows is a heck of a lot nicer than
the CLI only version I've been using at home on linux.  I'm going to
have to look into upgrading.  Although I do really like Symmax
(perl-gtk frontend).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd