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Steve Jobs died today
Image via Wikipedia The big news today is the death of Steve Jobs, the primary force behind Apple’s success. He was a couple of months younger than I am, so his obits raise my awareness of mortality...
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Breaking every application on Mac OS X
John Burk, in his blog post Designing a new type of tech PD-feedback wanted, said “There is almost nothing you can do from the keyboard to harm or permanently damage your computer.” Ah, if only that...
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Installing gnuplot—a nightmare
My son and I use gnuplotfor all our graph plotting, because it is free, it has good curve-fitting tools, it can produce graphs in many standard graphical formats (both vector and raster formats), and...
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Asymptote drawing program—hard to install
My son has been using Asymptote, a drawing program for geometric drawings, with the Art of Problem-Solving classes that he has been taking. He’s been running it on their website through the TeXer...
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