How-To's, Field Reports and Position Papers
Scilab 6.1.1 for Mac currently – January 2023 – runs on macOS High Sierra to Monterey. However, except for one small limitation, Scilab 6.1.1 also works on macOS Ventura. This how-to shows how to suppress the annoying version warning, too.
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Those who want to use the math software Scilab on Ubuntu or its derivatives fail when installing Scilab via package management. It does not work as expected. This how-to describes how to install Scilab system-wide on Ubuntu Linux.
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Introducing, setup, review and field report of Eclipse for Scientific Computing on a Mac. Ranking for usability for different target groups.
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Evernote has removed the Outlook plug-in in the new versions of its note-taking program. Many users have often used this – especially in professional use […]
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DISLIN is a very nice and well-documented 2-D and 3-D plotting framework for Fortran and some other programming languages. Furthermore DISLIN provides some widgets to […]
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Sometimes you want to visualize data in LibreOffice Calc, which you only get time by time. In the meantime, however, you want to view the […]
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If you have comma-separated data which has timestamps in ISO 8601-format (e.g. 2018-11-20T14:26:12+01:00) collected e.g. by a datalogger as SerialLogger and you want to use […]
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After a macOS Upgrade MacPorts does not generally work properly. A fast sudo port selfupdate does not do the work either in almost all cases.
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Nach dem Upgrade auf macOS Sierra (10.12) und MacPorts 2.4.1 scheitert sudo upgrade outdated. Das Problem ist der Port transfig. transfig wurde durch fig2dev ersetzt. […]
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