IRAF and More - For Mac Using Astronomers and Astrophysicists
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 — .Ok, so I’ve obviously been doing a lot of Leopard posts. I’ll try to round things up here.
I should say that if you’re upgrading, uninstall unsanity’s “application enhancer” and be advised that it may be installed by some other utility you use - I think it appears as a preference pane if it’s installed. [...]
Tags: apple, Leopard, OS X — .Updated at the bottom | Second Update
So, here’s the quasi-official word from Ben Byer, one of Apple’s x11 developers on Apple’s x11-users list.
Biggest architectural change in Leopard for X11: Switched from XFree86 codebase (based on, IIRC, X11R6.8) to X.org codebase (X11R7.2) Biggest user-visible change: launchd support for X11. The only [...]
Tags: Leopard, unix, x11 — .So, I installed Leopard about 5 hours ago or so, and here are just random initial reactions on my white Macbook (Core 2 Duo).
Updated at the bottom
Installation took about an hour but I had no foreign language installations (thanks to Monolingual) so it didn’t update them - I think that saves a lot of time. Quicklook [...]
Tags: Leopard, OS X — .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 [...]
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