IRAF and More - For Mac Using Astronomers and Astrophysicists
I’ll be trying out Leopard on my Macbook and seeing how nice it plays with IRAF, IDL etc this weekend.
You can buy Leopard from Amazon using my affiliate links and, to borrow a term from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, make me rich. Amazon’s price is actually better than the higher educational price (which is […]
Tags: apple, Leopard, OS X — .The problem - your department’s network won’t let you ssh or connect directly to your work Mac, you can only ssh to one special computer, and then from there you can ssh to your Mac. But, you’d like to be able to use Apple file sharing or sftp directly to your work Mac.
Well, SSH […]
Tags: apple, appleshare, networking, port forwarding, ssh — .If you have any issues getting IDL to properly record/recognize the cursor position or mouse clicks, you may want to try this command in the terminal
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true
Frank Varosi here at UF gave me this tip, which he found at this french site. What this command does is it […]
Tags: apple, IDL, Leopard, x11 — .I’ve noticed a reasonable number of Macintosh users who, when giving a presentation, use Powerpoint rather than Apple’s Keynote. Furthemore, there is another group (with some overlap) who use Firefox(not even the more Mac-like Camino).
Obviously, these are matters of personal preference - but I wonder how many Mac users use Firefox because they have […]
Tags: apple, unix — .Welcome to the Mac IRAF FAQ. If your question is not here, contact me, and I’ll see if I can help you out or add the question here. I’m always open to suggestions for things for the web site. Use your browser’s find feature, command-F, to search the questions for a word […]
Tags: apple, command line, IRAF, unix, x11 — .Introduction
You really need 3 things to run IRAF: * Apple’s X11 (see the X11 tab at the top) * IRAF (from the download page) * X11IRAF (mainly xgterm, but this isn’t 100% necessary, just wise - also on the download page.)
If you will ever need to compile programs for IRAF; this could be from source for some esoteric […]
Tags: apple, bash, IRAF, unix, x11 — .The IRAF Button is an AppleScript Studio GUI launcher for IRAF, display clients, and X11. Updated to version 0.98 on … I don’t know when. Universal Binary.
It’s very important you download IRAF for the correct processor type - Intel or PowerPC. If you’re not sure what kind of processor you have […]
Tags: apple, IRAF, x11 — .