Re: Octave Online Interface

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Doug Stewart <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Shane Carr <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Good morning,
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>> My name is Shane Carr, and I am an engineering student at Washington
>> University in St. Louis.
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>> As a summer project, I decided to try writing an updated online interface
>> for GNU Octave.
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>> I read some of the old threads in the mailing list about making an online
>> GUI for Octave.  They described two main stumbling blocks: security and
>> performance.  I made sure to address these concerns.
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>> - For Security: I have Octave running inside a restricted SELinux sandbox.
>> I have not been able to perform any malicious attacks on my system using
>> Octave within the sandbox.
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>> - For Performance: I currently have the application running in the
>> Rackspace
>> Cloud.  The application can delegate processes to several separate cloud
>> servers in order to support more simultaneous users.  In addition, the
>> server sends a SIGINT to Octave after a command has taken longer than 5
>> seconds (10 seconds when you are logged in).
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>> Here's what I came up with.  I just got it to a working state a few days
>> ago, and it is still very much in "beta".  But for the most part, it works
>> well:
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>> http://octave-online.net/
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>> I was wondering if the Octave community could play around with the GUI a
>> bit, making sure that your favorite commands work and stuff like that.  No
>> one besides me has yet interacted with the site.
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>> Thanks!
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>> Regards, Shane
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> octave:1> pkg list
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> no packages installed.
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> What are you going to do about Packages?
> Doug
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I would recommend you change the title text from "Matlab in your
Browser" to something else before you get hit with some type of C&D
letter from our friends at mathworks.

nickj