There was an article about MIThenge, the semi-annual alignment of the moon with MIT's Infinite Corridor in today's (Sunday, Feb. 04) Boston Globe. My Frinnk...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 5, 2007 5:08 am
... Oops! I forgot to mention the URL: http://tinyurl.com/2bv7ch As noted before, you'll need to register or bugmenot to see page 2. -- Alan Eliasen...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 22, 2007 9:34 am
There have been a variety of Frink updates recently, including the following: * Fixed language translations. This includes fixes for Java Web Start translator...
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overgauss
Feb 24, 2007 12:23 pm
... the ... download ... with ... will ... objects. ... to be ... with ... rational ... hashes. (I ... accommodate ... Cool. I love how Frink is constantly...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Feb 28, 2007 12:11 pm
... Sorry I didn't get to this earlier. I told myself that I'd have Frink doing its first symbolic algebra by the end of February, and it looks like we're...
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overgauss
Mar 2, 2007 4:53 am
Hopefully I don't miss anything and am able to keep the incoming wall o text to a manageable size. So I will attempt a micro-burst transmission. I understand...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 9, 2007 9:54 am
If you write programs that use Frink's sun.frink library, I have made some changes that may affect your programs. The functions that perform navigation...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 9, 2007 10:27 am
... These are great suggestions! Sorry for the delay in responding. I was hoping that I'd get a chance to build one or two of them, but I've gotten stuck on...
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overgauss
Mar 10, 2007 8:06 pm
Well, quite Frinkly I'm abit of a knucklehead so I appreciate your patience! I saw that Frink calculates Trig functions but I wanted to be able to pull up the...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 12, 2007 10:24 am
... Ah, this is an interesting tradeoff. As I'm building symbolic algebra capabilities into Frink, there are lots of tradeoffs of this type that I'll have to...
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overgauss
Mar 13, 2007 5:56 am
... I didn't feel this to be a shortcoming whatsoever btw. I just wanted to create a cheat sheet to work basic newb trig functions. ... /selfbonk thanks for...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 14, 2007 8:50 am
... Keeping Frink's file size reasonable is quite important, especially for people who run it on very memory-limited handheld devices. The more functions and...
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overgauss
Mar 14, 2007 10:20 pm
... AHHhh! I'm starting to catch on now. I also agree that keeping Frink free from clutter is optimal. I started to wonder when I was pressing up/dwn on my...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 15, 2007 8:18 am
... I see what you're saying. One could probably check for a control- or alt- or whatever-modifier key when reading the page up and page down keys. I think...
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overgauss
Mar 17, 2007 5:14 am
Many thanks! You are very helpful and patient as usual! Once I get my server up and running I will experiment. Best regards and thanks. -og...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Mar 30, 2007 9:23 am
I've made a significant improvement to the integrated help (that is, the question mark operator) in Frink. It now searches through and lists any *function*...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 12, 2007 10:58 am
I've made some changes to the addition (+) operator in Frink. It's entirely likely that you'd never notice these changes (except that the code may be slightly...
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dazednbemuzed
Apr 19, 2007 6:50 pm
First off, thanks for creating such an amazing tool! The potential for what can be done with it is truely mind boggling! I recall seeing it in passing about a...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 19, 2007 8:04 pm
... Thanks, Glen. Hopefully it will come a long way further soon, as Frink learns to do symbolic mathematics, too. ... Frink can handle almost any unit of...
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Marcus Downing
shrink_laureate
Apr 25, 2007 8:30 am
Some very confused maths is going on in this thread, so I'd appreciate a wiser eye than mine being cast over it: ...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Apr 26, 2007 4:00 am
... Ah, excellent. I was writing about this topic a little while ago, and I found an excellent resource on what's called the "relativistic rocket equation."...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
May 10, 2007 11:17 am
Note: This message is also available with better formatting in the Frink "What's New" file, http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/whatsnew.html ...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
May 11, 2007 10:25 am
There's been a flurry of new features in Frink today. One of the more interesting developments is that I've finally been able to build an experimental...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jun 7, 2007 10:46 pm
The current release of Frink fixes a significant bug that was introduced recently. This bug could occur when multiplying by zero. I had added an over-eager...
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ilkkaxx
Jul 1, 2007 8:24 pm
I tried to install Frink in my Nokia E61 device with the frink.jar file but the installer claimed that the jar is not acceptable. Does anyone know how to get...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 1, 2007 8:43 pm
... I'm not quite sure what the Java Virtual Machine on your device supports. Any information you might have about the Java implementation would help. If...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 1, 2007 9:48 pm
... I have added more information to the FAQ entry here: http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/faq.html#WillFrinkRun -- Alan Eliasen | "Furious activity...
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Alan Eliasen
aeliasen
Jul 2, 2007 12:19 am
There have been several bugfixes and new features in Frink over past weeks: * Java Introspection has been improved to work around bugs in Sun's Java...
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K. Gibsganich
knbknb00
Jul 2, 2007 8:44 pm
Slightly off-topic: Since 2003 or so I have installed Frink on my Nokia Communicator 9210i. This is one of the devices that indeed supports "Personal Java", as...
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K. Gibsganich
knbknb00
Jul 2, 2007 9:52 pm
Success! Frink 4.00 still installs and runs on a Nokia 9210i Communicator with < 4 MB of free RAM. It takes a while (2 minutes) until the result of the first...
