So, those of you who are running Leopard’s X11 may be interested to check out the download page at MacOS Forge which contains all the new changes made to Xquartz/X11, etc. since the release that made it into Leopard. They even have nice .pkg installers for people who want to install the latest versions before they become available in OS X Software Update.
Grab the 2.1.0.1 release and see the changes that have been made over the version in Leopard.
Tags: installers, Leopard, x11, xquartz — .
IRAF 2.14 has been announced and is available for download. The Mac (PPC and Intel) versions appear to work properly on both Leopard and Tiger. I’ll try and have installers made for these today. Certainly, I can test the Intel one easily but it’s harder for me to test the PowerPC version so once it’s up if someone out there could test it, that’d be appreciated.
Update The Intel installer is available here – Download IRAF 2.14 for Intel Macs .pkg installer (57MB). My prescribed update method is simple. Change to the IRAF user and do:
% cd /
% mv iraf iraf_old
Run the installer and then:
% mv /iraf_old/extern /iraf/extern/
That should preserve all your external packages. You will most likely want to copy over the extern.pkg from your old install.
% cd /iraf_old/iraf/unix/hlib
% cp extern.pkg /iraf/iraf/unix/hlib/extern.pkg
That should work. Let me know if there are any problems – it worked ok for me. I’d keep /iraf_old around for a while just to be safe. And remember any installer errors are probably permission issues but be sure to check the log first before emailing me with any problems.
Tags: 2.14, installers, IRAF, iraf.net, Leopard, Tiger, unix — .
Via Daring Fireball, Tidbits has an interesting article on the new Airport Menu in Leopard. While I noticed the new “lock” icon that shows if a network is encrypted or not, the holding-down-option-key trick I did not know about. I like that it shows the transmission rate so you can tell if the connected station is 802.11g/b/n, etc.
Tags: airport, Leopard, networking, wireless — .