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So I also had to fight with the Octave graph difficulties - that's a pity because octave by itself is truely a great thing.

Nevermind, there is another alternative but scilab not yet packaged it seems: freemat. I did it, and here is what you have to add to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get it:

#
## Freemat and its Matio dependency
#
deb http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/matio sid math
deb-src http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/matio sid math
deb http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/freemat sid math
deb-src http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/freemat sid math

Then you install the freemat package, its dependency with (also unpackaged) matio will come with it.

I am not an official debian packager, so there is a high chance that the package should be improved, don't hesitate to drop me a message.

Alternatively you can also install freemat by hand, as described in Paul Sundvalls blog: Freemat - Matlab alternative.

If you google for "beryl svn debian" you will get debian repositories of Beryl, c.f. for example:

http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/dists/debian-unstable/beryl-svn/

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb debian-unstable beryl-svn
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb debian-unstable beryl-svn

http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-210.html

deb http://www.juliepeez.plus.com/repo/debian-sid/beryl-svn/unstable-daily/ ./

The second URL seems very uptodate, and I choosed that.

I have been disappointed by the rt2570 opensource progress on linux, though I still think this is a great stuff.

I own a Belkin Wireless G USB network card, this is using the ralink family chipset.

I used the rt2570 opensource for months with 100% success, and things started to degrade. Progressively. But definitely.

It started to not be able to connect at boot, few months ago (it messed up with the logic about jiffies - I even posted something about that in their forum saying exactly which cvs revisions were ok and not ok... anybody would have done a cvs diff using the two revision numbers I gave would have seen immediately it has to do about jiffies..).

Then I observed corruption on my ext3 filesystem, and I highly suspect again this module. Ok there is no strict proof.

More recently it simply hanged my system, that was running 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 at that time. The 2.6.18 worked for weeks - and I am always on the edge about this driver - so I can really tell that it stopped being stable on the 2.6.18 kernel. About the 2.6.19; ok this was a very new kernel at that time so I can understand. But not for the 2.6.18.

So I decided to give up and move the official ralink driver, since they officially support Linux! Argggh... Their driver was not supporting (yet - I have not cheched since some days) linux 2.6.19.

So you know what? I came back to good and old ndiswrapper method. And damn now it ROCKS AND WORKS PERFECTLY (even with my smp+preempt+4K stack kernel...)

I am now mixing prototype.js and xajax...! Because the refresh of the element in the right side does not need accesses to the server (can be cached on the client side) - this is using prototype.js, and because I do not know how to dynamically change the height of the iframe in the middle w/o xajax - I searched how to do that with prototype.js, maybe this is obvious but well I did not found.

Not sure the caching in IE works for the moment, I might symply cache the pages in memory with a global js variable, since the links on the right side are in very small html files!

This site is still under construction - question of finding some spare time!

There is now ajax, css, javascript, ajax mixed in quite a lot of places, I want something where easy navigation is a leitmotiv.

So here we go, the first entry of the first blog of my life.

I imagine this blog to be mostly computing oriented, although diversions can happen from time to time.

Also, I apologize in advance for the language errors - I mean that any english reader will notice that english isn't my native language. Nevertheless this is not a reaon not to post here in that language isn't it!

Oh well, I am almost 36, as of date of this entry, french nationality, have been a scientist (I even have a PhD!), worked 10 years in the computing side of a scientific international organisation located in switzerland, and is now in a private company, still in switzerland!

I hope you 'll enjoy reading this blog,

Cheers.