Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 01:16:11AM +, boB Stepp wrote: > I just now checked on IDLE, found it was not installed, and typed in > the terminal: > > sudo apt-get install idle3 > > The interesting part is since IDLE needs tkinter, it installed that > dependency as well. As far as I can tell aft

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread David Rock
> On Jun 29, 2016, at 20:16, boB Stepp wrote: > > > The interesting part is since IDLE needs tkinter, it installed that > dependency as well. As far as I can tell after typing "help(tkinter)" > in the Python interpreter, it looks like *all* of tkinter got > installed. Is this in fact true? M

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread boB Stepp
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 29/06/16 23:58, boB Stepp wrote: > >> One point I just discovered for those new to this and Linux: tkinter >> does *not* come pre-installed with the Python distributions; it will >> have to be installed separately. > > Yes, but it

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread boB Stepp
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:37 PM, David Rock wrote: >> I typed both "python" and "python3" in the terminal window to see what >> is here: Python 2.7.6 and Python 3.4.3 [Does this mean we are *on* >> topic now? ~(:>))]. Question: Is Python 3 used by any of Mint's OS >> functions? Or does it o

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread David Rock
> On Jun 29, 2016, at 17:16, boB Stepp wrote: > OK, I'm into a live Mint Linux session off my USB flash drive. The Cool. > I typed both "python" and "python3" in the terminal window to see what > is here: Python 2.7.6 and Python 3.4.3 [Does this mean we are *on* > topic now? ~(:>))]. Questi

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 29/06/16 23:16, boB Stepp wrote: > No Git is pre-installed, but it immediately tells me the command to > type to get it! Cool!! If you really want to see what's on offer open the Menu->Administration->Software Manager tool And browse away... :-) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program we

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread boB Stepp
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 7:56 PM, boB Stepp wrote: > Now I can get into BIOS. BIOS sees my USB flash drive as "UEFI: Lexar > USB Flash Drive 1100", but it silently refuses to boot to the iso > image installed on it. Something new to puzzle out! OK, I'm into a live Mint Linux session off my USB

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread boB Stepp
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:12 PM, David Rock wrote: > >> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:32, boB Stepp wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:02 PM, David Rock wrote: >>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 11:20, boB Stepp wrote: My Christmas present of a Corsair mechanical gaming keyboard was not

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread Roel Schroeven
boB Stepp schreef op 2016-06-29 01:16: On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: What about running Win7 in a virtual machine? What type of performance hit will I take when running CPU intensive processes? Purely CPU-wise, the performance hit is pretty small (normal instruct

Re: [Tutor] Reading in large .dat file

2016-06-29 Thread Colin Ross
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Colin Ross wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > > >> Colin Ross wrote: > >> > >> > Good afternoon, > >> > > >> > I have a .dat file that is 214 rows by 65 columns that I woul

Re: [Tutor] Reading in large .dat file

2016-06-29 Thread Peter Otten
Colin Ross wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > >> Colin Ross wrote: >> >> > Good afternoon, >> > >> > I have a .dat file that is 214 rows by 65 columns that I would like to >> > read into python and plot the 1st column versus all other columns. >> > >

Re: [Tutor] Reading in large .dat file

2016-06-29 Thread Colin Ross
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Colin Ross wrote: > > > Good afternoon, > > > > I have a .dat file that is 214 rows by 65 columns that I would like to > > read into python and plot the 1st column versus all other columns. > > > > My code: > > > > ##

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread David Rock
> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:32, boB Stepp wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:02 PM, David Rock wrote: >> >>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 11:20, boB Stepp wrote: >>> >>> My Christmas present of a Corsair mechanical gaming keyboard was not >>> _seen_ during the boot up sequence until *after* Windows s

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread boB Stepp
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:02 PM, David Rock wrote: > >> On Jun 29, 2016, at 11:20, boB Stepp wrote: >> >> My Christmas present of a Corsair mechanical gaming keyboard was not >> _seen_ during the boot up sequence until *after* Windows started up. >> So I could not get into my BIOS area! I had n

Re: [Tutor] Reading in large .dat file

2016-06-29 Thread Peter Otten
Colin Ross wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I have a .dat file that is 214 rows by 65 columns that I would like to > read into python and plot the 1st column versus all other columns. > > My code: > > # > > import numpy as np

[Tutor] Reading in large .dat file

2016-06-29 Thread Colin Ross
Good afternoon, I have a .dat file that is 214 rows by 65 columns that I would like to read into python and plot the 1st column versus all other columns. My code: # import numpy as np import scipy import pylab as pl import

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 29/06/16 17:20, boB Stepp wrote: > that Logitech does not support Linux for this product, but others who > have done a dual-boot setup with Windows installed before Linux seem > to have found that once the mouse is connected with Windows, it will > be seen by Linux. This remains to be seen!

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread David Rock
> On Jun 29, 2016, at 11:20, boB Stepp wrote: > > My Christmas present of a Corsair mechanical gaming keyboard was not > _seen_ during the boot up sequence until *after* Windows started up. > So I could not get into my BIOS area! I had not noticed this earlier Which keyboard do you have? Most

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-29 Thread boB Stepp
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:34 PM, David Rock wrote: > >> On Jun 28, 2016, at 18:16, boB Stepp wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> What about running Win7 in a virtual machine? >> >> What type of performance hit will I take when running CPU intensi