Archive for June, 2008

Installing wget on Mac OS X

Wget is a great command line  for grabbing things from the web, but it doesn’t ship with macs. So if you want to install it here are a few steps:
1. download the source file: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.tar.gz
2. compile and install it:

tar -zxvf wget-1.11.tar.gz
cd wget-1.11/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Now the binary file is located in /usr/local/bin/. If you use bash [...]


Opera 9.50 ready for download, enjoy a new experience

Yes, it is true, my favourite web browser is ready for download, I really like the new look and its new features. Look:

More than 2x faster than Opera 9.2 in rendering JavaScript and HTML
Faster handling of third party plug-ins
Much faster start up time
Superior support for Web standards

Check their web site for more. Download and enjoy [...]


Installing Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) on OpenSUSE 10.3

The Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) is a collection of components developed by Enthought to construct custom scientific applications. It includes a wide variety of components, including:

an extensible application framework
application building blocks
2-D and 3-D graphics libraries
scientific and math libraries
developer tools
MayaVi Data Visualizer

It is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, but they don’t provide binaries [...]


SciComp on Windows with Python(x,y)

If you are doing a lot of Scientific Computing and you want to use Windows as a platform, then my advice is to switch on Linux/Unix. If you don’t agree with me then a good solution for you is Python(x,y).
What is it? From their web site:
“Python(x,y) is a free scientific and engineering development software for [...]