Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Friday, June 25th, 2010
An increasing number of people are concerned that Mac OS X as a computer OS may be on the way out. That would not be a good thing.
Apple Considering Rebranding Mac OS X Under New 'iOS' Umbrella?: "Hardmac reports that it has heard that Apple is considering rebranding Mac OS ...
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
The serendipity of the web has ensnared me once again and, fortunately, this time it is leading me towards improvements in my digital world. Here is what happened.
I was listening to a recent Macbreak Weekly, one which had John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame on. John was describing some ...
Posted in Mac OS X, Vim | 3 Comments »
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
I spent the morning experimenting with getting Ubuntu up as a dual boot on my Macbook Pro. Pretty straightforward process with everything pretty much working with only minor tweaking. I'll post more details on the dual-boot install and usage in another post.
After exploring around a bit, it came time to ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Lately on different boxes I've been working on I've been getting the following message
serge@highfalls:~/Research/e/Econometrics/spatialEconometrics$ svn update
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'. You need
to get a newer Subversion client, or to downgrade this working copy.
See http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#working-copy-format-change
for details.
serge@highfalls:~/Research/e/Econometrics/spatialEconometrics$
This has been on both Leopard and ...
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Here are my settings to get this working under Leopard:
Preferences:
and the file iat.sh
#!/bin/sh
open -a /Applications/Macvim.app "$@"
Posted in Mac OS X | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
For those folks running Freemind 0.9.0 on Leopard and finding that FM won't start, there is a simple fix. Here are the steps:
In Finder, show the contents for ~/Applications/Freemind:
Then open the file info.plist using the Property List Editor:
In the plist editor change the string JVMVersion to have a value ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
#!/usr/bin/python
"""
Set background color of latex dropped images (from latexit) embedded in
Keynote slides.
In Keynote I like the black background theme and I use LaTeXit to do my
equations. I also like to give handouts with a white background. But
unfortunately, the equations are white so they "disappear". The solution is to
use this script ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
One of the things I was missing on the Mac that I use heavily on Gnome was the
concept of Bookmarks in Nautilus which get me to a specific directory (i.e.,
folder) with a few keystrokes. Well, after a bit of research I found a nice
analogy in the Finder. First step is ...
Posted in Mac OS X, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
R and Vim
Originally uploaded by sergerey.
Using a nice Vim file type plugin lets you have one xterm (left) to edit R code and use visual select together with the key mapping of r to send the selected text to ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
For some reason I was moving around my office and in the process had moved Jessica, my Dell Desktop back to a single monitor from its original dual setup. Hardy was running duals great and when I restarted the single monitor set up things were fine. Then I decided to ...
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