Recent content by Gavin Harper

Clean install. You can never realistically trust the system's integrity from this point on.

Unless you are doing something seriously wrong (namely opening system files intentionally or writing extensions in C that utilise some Win32 API functionality you do not understand), then no, a simple Python install is not going to corrupt anything.

Has anyone tried these binaries? http://r.research.att.com/tools/ (under MacOS)?

Aren't the Intel compilers terribly expensive? Or am I not looking properly?

Most of my work for university requires little more than Vim, Terminal, GCC Suite and Make. Realistically, this is where most of my Fortran work will be done. I will, for my own personal purposes, only be using Xcode for App Store Development and as such, will be largely using C for the main...

I, personally, found Slackware to be the single most elegant and beautiful Linux Distribution. I love that with Slack, the user is in control of the software, dependencies and most importantly removal of software with almost zero interference from the operating system. HAve you ever tried to...

Sadly the posts I read were in a passing search that I am unable to source at this moment. It was vague but mentioned something regarding incompatibilities with xcode (That said, Vim is my editor for most tasks).

Having experience with BSD and Gentoo, I am extremely familiar with Ports/Portage and like the system very much. However, I am trying ensure consistency on my system and avoid multiple package sources. If it turns out that this is the best way to go, then of course, I will use MacPorts. I am...

Thank you! I read from some sources that the hpc builds were not good, can you please verify this claim? I should add, I will be using Lion.

I am making the switch to OSX from Linux and am unable to find any solid reference to the best way to get gfortran onto my mac without using MacPorts? What (other?) compilers are people using on OSX? I will have xcode installed as I typically develop in C and am looking to target the new Mac...

I disagree. If you wish to learn Linux (Read: UNIX-Based systems), Ubuntu is a terrible choice. Avoid any distro that purposely abstracts the inner machinery from the user. Ubuntu is a prime candidate of this. In such cases, you learn the distribution, not Linux. I recommend starting with...

Thank you for the update! I am now just using Tikz in TeX now as it also avoids the redundant step of compiling a separate file.

Currently I am forced to use dot2tex to convert my graphs from .dot to .tex for inclusion in a latex document as I cannot find a working method for including subscripts in my graph vertices, for example: v1, v2. The dot2tex method is fine but I would like to know if a "native" functionality...

Thank you!

I have the readings from a signal in a file (floating point values) that I wish to apply the Fourier Transform to. The samples (mV) were taken every 4 milliseconds and I wish to transform them into the frequency domain. How would I apply the FT to a set of values without knowing any...