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A friend recently needed a Fortran compiler, and I pointed her to the useful high performance computing. However, things didn’t work and that’s because the program also needed to Apple’s developer tools – which include a compiler, etc. – to install properly.
Xcode is usually included somewhere when you buy a new Mac. Either [...]
Tags: apple, compiler, Leopard, unix, xcode — .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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: airport, Leopard, networking, wireless — .Juan Cabanela writes of his Leopard upgrade. Of particular note, there’s a beta of ds9 that seems to play nicer with the way the DISPLAY variable in X11 in Leopard.
Also, for people interested in patching X11 to the latest updates ahead of Apple’s official deployment via software update there is a “quick [...]
Tags: apple, ds9, Leopard, x11 — .I’m not running IDL of any stripe on my Macbook, but it would seem there is a patch for IDL 6.4 that will fix compatibility issues you may encounter with Leopard. From what I can tell from this thread the problem sounds related to the X11 changes in Leopard.
Tags: IDL, Leopard — .No full screen yet, but some progress is being made with Apple’s X11, though not officially coming from Apple.com yet.
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve posted source and binaries on Xdarwin.org for Xquartz 1.2a7. Since 1.2a6, the following issues have been resolved: JIS (Japanese) keyboards are now correctly [...]
Tags: Leopard, unix, x11, xquartz — .The excellent Papers has been updated to 1.5 and includes additional search engines as well as the ability to use search engine plug-ins. New search engines include Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. No ADS yet but Google Scholar does an okay job finding ADS and ApJ papers.
It also boasts improved Leopard [...]
Tags: ADS, bibtex, journals, Leopard, papers, PDF — .You can subscribe and look at the archives to Apple’s X11 User’s mailing list here. Ben Byer has been doing some heroic all hours work to try and fix some problems in X11 in Leopard, mostly from switching code bases and other issues. It’s pretty impressive to see Apple’s staff interacting directly with [...]
Tags: apple, Leopard, unix, x11 — .Update at the bottom
According to commenter Erin, the Spot and Leopard tools from Spitzer don’t work on OS X 10.5 due to a Java issue. I haven’t tested this myself but I’ll try to verify this evening when I’m back on a Mac running Leopard (and Leopard, boy that’s confusing.)
There have been conflicting [...]
Tags: java, Leopard, spitzer, spot — .Bad Behavior has blocked 290 access attempts in the last 7 days.
