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Mar
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accepted Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
Mar
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Mar
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awarded  Nice Question
Mar
12
comment Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
@Robinaut Posted answer of another workaround. Hopefully Todd will be dropping by to offer his thoughts.
Mar
12
answered Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
Mar
12
comment Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
I actually spent about an hour on the phone with @Todd Gayley and we traced the source of the hangup to a particular feature that involves the way MMA interacts with the internet during search queries. I'll post the workaround Todd gave me and will ask him to comment on which approach is best. BTW, did tech support suggest the 'direct connection to the internet' setting?
Feb
6
awarded  Popular Question
Feb
4
comment Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
@Searke - Already tried clearing prefs/cache (noted in opening paragraph of my question) :) Will clear once again with 9.0.1 on the off chance it may help. Are you with WRI?
Feb
3
comment Applying TextRecognize on alpha-numerical table
I wish someone would write an article on how to customize Tesseract for MMA. A while back I went digging and discovered grammar/dictionary files---but I'd have no clue how to customize these, or if the version distributed with MMA would even allow for it.
Feb
3
comment Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
@RolfMertig Please see update. Still work correctly on your machine?
Feb
3
comment Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
Good observation on the known MMA symbols. I updated my question with some info you might be interested in.
Feb
3
awarded  Editor
Feb
3
revised Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
Updated answer to reflect comments and to report on effect of upgrading to 9.0.1.
Feb
3
asked Documentation searches hang frequently: Anyone else dealing with this?
Jan
23
awarded  Yearling
Jan
14
comment How to modify function argument?
All this talk of 30k and 40k club reminded me of the real xk club champion: google.com/search?q=wilt+chamberlain+women
Jan
11
answered Creating a notebook that has cells of a certain style password protected
Jan
2
comment Reading Early Version Notebooks
You might want to choose to accept your own answer, as you seem to have figured this out on your own. Just a suggestion. :)
Dec
21
comment Time-series decomposition in Mathematica
@rselva Agree on Eviews (I wish I could afford a personal license). FWIW, as much as I love MMA, using it for econometrics is at best a challenge, and at worse a time killer. I wish MMA's design could be made more flexible for econometrics, but I understand why this would be a messy chore-and-a-half. I plan to learn some R myself (and am pleased they've built in this new capability). For those interested in a version of R that is automatically linked up to Excel, check out: rcom.univie.ac.at