lfuture

for my own documentary and for those who need this.

Something Unrelated:

I used to use AMPL as my modeling language and solve the problem with CPLEX. However, later I realized that AMPL is just a modeling language, but not a generic programming language, which makes it incapable to handle my problem since I have to customize some parts of the algorithm. Then I started to use CONCERT from ILOG. At the same time, a "fancy friend" introduced me to use Python. I do not know for what reason I switched to LINUX, maybe because of the powerful command line. I got cplex set up, I got ampl set up and I got gcc set up, and then I need an IDE. I chose the popular one, eclipse. However, annoying things happened, I cannot compile my programs inside the IDE, while I can compile it with a self written make file. I need IDE because I want to make the debug easier. During that time, I need to reboot my computer many times to switch between windows and Linux, (I was thinking to use a virtual machine, but I did not do that). Fortunately, I got eclipse to work with cplex. It maybe not the best solution, but good enough to me, a newbie of Linux, programming, eclipse and cplex.There was another story of installing Linux in my thinkpad T60, and make everything run smoothly.