Old Al's Home Page
Preamble
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This is my home page, hosted on TIP - The Internet Project, a joint not for profit venture of PC Users Group of Canberra PCUG and the Australian Unix Users Group AUUG in Canberra. TIP is run be a group of dedicated administrators, whose efforts are hereby gratefully acknowledged.
Current Interests
- A Short Introduction To Structural Analysis is a text about civil and aeronautical engineering structures. It is in pdf format. You are welcome to read it or download it from here.
- A tar_ball of source for a newbie PyQt tutorial. The tutorial, named simple, is presented on the PyQt wiki at http://diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/simple/ in several stages of development of one program. The tutorial on the PyQt wiki and the source code here go hand in hand and should be read together. The user is expected to have current version of Python and PyQt installed.
- Super Short Sphinx Tutorial is a very brief introduction to Python's documentation system, named Sphinx. Simply put, these are notes, written by an old man and helpful to an old man with a failing memory. Enjoy!
- Matalg is a Python Matrix Algebra module, downloadable from pypi (Python Package Index aka "Cheese Shop"). Presented here is the documentation for the module. To download the package with python installation, search for Matalg at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/. Matalg is pure Python3 paackage.
- matalg27 is a module, written in Python2.7. It is the backport of a similar Matalg module written in Python 3.2. There are many Python users who have not yet moved to Python 3.x and because generally Python 3.x is not fully backwards compatible with the earlier Python versions, it has been necessary to provide backports of Python 3.x modules to Python 2.x.
- wrapnumpy3 A wrapper for numpy in Python3 with a much simplified syntax for using numpy for matrices of real float numbers.
From Distant Past
- Lithuanian Editor for Internet converts Lithuanian phonetic symbols to a code at the end of the text, preserving simple lower ascii text in the email body. This allows the text to be safely transmitted to all known operating systems and computers. The receiver of such email can restore the phonetic symbols to the text with the aid of the editor or can choose to read the text without the phonetic symbols. It was very useful in Win3.xx, as Win3.xx did not support Lithuanian language. Since Win98 and with utf-8 this editor is of a historical interest only.
- A samle of Lithuanian text is just that - a sample. No promise that you will see it correctly the appearance depends on the setup of your browser to display text in utf-8 system.
- Linux is an Open Source Operating System. Here are some old notes about it
- TIP User's kits for Win3.xx consist of selected freeware and shareware clients for Win3.xx, intended for TIP use only, including some information about TIP and kit use. Literally hundreds of PCUG members had their first experience of internet with those kits...
- Personal -- well, that's about me (and very important - for
me, that is!). My full name is Algis Kabaila. My nick nowadays is OldAl in most mailing lists. If you wish to contact me, please write an email to algis.kabaila@gmail.com