Well, it was a security measure - I had to restore wiki after a couple of vandalism attacks from 2 other sites (located in Latvia and India) just a few days before that. They were caused by a virus, distributed as an email attachment,  installing a program (so called trojan horse) attacking various wikis.

It was only one IP address, not a range. Probably, it was the IP address of a server through which Maplesoft access Internet - that's how other computers get affected.

Anyway, that was just a protecting against vandalism measure, not a censorship.

Do you use spam filters, for example, in your email, and do you call that censorship of the spam sending sites, too?

Alec

Well, it was a security measure - I had to restore wiki after a couple of vandalism attacks from 2 other sites (located in Latvia and India) just a few days before that. They were caused by a virus, distributed as an email attachment,  installing a program (so called trojan horse) attacking various wikis.

It was only one IP address, not a range. Probably, it was the IP address of a server through which Maplesoft access Internet - that's how other computers get affected.

Anyway, that was just a protecting against vandalism measure, not a censorship.

Do you use spam filters, for example, in your email, and do you call that censorship of the spam sending sites, too?

Alec

First, it is wiki - everything can be edited by everybody, and one doesn't even have to log in to do that. It can be done completely anonymously. Frankly, I am quite surprised that you, obviously, spend a lot of time there, and didn't leave any comment, or made any change there.

Access to the site is completely open, and as far as I can tell, it was accessible all the time since its openning, even during site updates, in sharp contrast with, for example, this site, or Maplesoft main site, regularly broken, especially during weekends, for a couple of days or more.

I didn't exactly understand the censorship comment. I don't censor anything there, again in sharp contrast with this site, for instance, or Maple beta site, where few of my posts were deleted by moderators, and a lot of my old posts simply disappear.

About Maple community activity. First of all, there are no many active people there (and here) and most of them (including me) have their own websites. Not many people, obviously, (again you and me including) feel that the work of putting their materials there is worth their time needed for that.

Still, it is currently the most active and the most interesting Maple wiki out there. If more people participated, it would be certainly more valuable.

Alec

First, it is wiki - everything can be edited by everybody, and one doesn't even have to log in to do that. It can be done completely anonymously. Frankly, I am quite surprised that you, obviously, spend a lot of time there, and didn't leave any comment, or made any change there.

Access to the site is completely open, and as far as I can tell, it was accessible all the time since its openning, even during site updates, in sharp contrast with, for example, this site, or Maplesoft main site, regularly broken, especially during weekends, for a couple of days or more.

I didn't exactly understand the censorship comment. I don't censor anything there, again in sharp contrast with this site, for instance, or Maple beta site, where few of my posts were deleted by moderators, and a lot of my old posts simply disappear.

About Maple community activity. First of all, there are no many active people there (and here) and most of them (including me) have their own websites. Not many people, obviously, (again you and me including) feel that the work of putting their materials there is worth their time needed for that.

Still, it is currently the most active and the most interesting Maple wiki out there. If more people participated, it would be certainly more valuable.

Alec

There are, certainly, many things needed improvement. The most important for me would be dropping that Java monster (as well as 2D-input) and returning back to a normal native interface, with 1D-input and normal help - in the pdf form perhaps (say, using recent RoboHelp), with graphics in png and svg, and worksheet export to pdf (with links and bookmarks), to LaTeX, and to html.

Alec

It's actually quite easy to implement (even manually) using (free) Visual Studio shell.

Alec

Sure, the more people contribute, the more helpful that would be. The problem with Maplesoft developers is, however, that they don't post in the maple newgroup and don't post on this site (except a couple of them) - why would they start to post there? The only hope is the community, which also doesn't seem to be very active (or knowledgeable) neither here, nor in the maple newsgroup.

Alec

Sure, the more people contribute, the more helpful that would be. The problem with Maplesoft developers is, however, that they don't post in the maple newgroup and don't post on this site (except a couple of them) - why would they start to post there? The only hope is the community, which also doesn't seem to be very active (or knowledgeable) neither here, nor in the maple newsgroup.

Alec

AFAICT, there is no a good solution for working with real numbers in Maple. Just some ad hoc tricks.

Alec

AFAICT, there is no a good solution for working with real numbers in Maple. Just some ad hoc tricks.

Alec

It works without expand as

solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x});
                           3
                     {b = a  + 2, x = -1 + ln(a)}

or as

subs(solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x}),b);
                                 3
                                a  + 2

Alec

It works without expand as

solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x});
                           3
                     {b = a  + 2, x = -1 + ln(a)}

or as

subs(solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x}),b);
                                 3
                                a  + 2

Alec

It works without expand as

solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x});
                           3
                     {b = a  + 2, x = -1 + ln(a)}

or as

subs(solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x}),b);
                                 3
                                a  + 2

Alec

It works without expand as

solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x});
                           3
                     {b = a  + 2, x = -1 + ln(a)}

or as

subs(solve({exp(3*x+3)+2=b,exp(x+1)=a},{b,x}),b);
                                 3
                                a  + 2

Alec

Jacques, 

Thank you!

8-monitor system looks really nice (and I hope 12-monitor systems are also available.)

Alec