Category Archives: Snow Leopard

Read this article. sed ‘s/#X11Forwarding\ no/X11Forwarding\ yes/’ /etc/sshd_config > /tmp/sshd_config sudo mv /tmp/sshd_config /etc/.

There seems to be no stable release for PSFex yet.  So we download source from subversion. Before doing that, you need to install FFTW and ATLAS first.  (You need a single-precision library for FFTW.) Download a tarball (for trunk) from … Continue reading →

The pysao (or python-sao) version used here is svn rev. 115: $ mkdir /usr/local/src/pysao $ cd /usr/local/src/pysao $ svn checkout http://python-sao.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ python-sao $ cd python-sao $ python xpa_download.py $ tar xf xpa-2.1.12.tar.gz $ ln -s xpa-2.1.12 xpalib $ cd xpalib … Continue reading →

There is a .dmg for pdftk 1.41 for OS X 10.6.2.  Thanks to fredericiana.com.  What a time saver.

You can’t have enough of hot pants in your life, so you need to reinstall HOTPANTS on Snow Leopard. First of all, you need a development version of CFITSIO already installed.  See this page if you need to install it … Continue reading →

It’s handy to have CFITSIO against which you may build miscellaneous packages for science computing. To have this in your system, download the tarball (here it’s version 3.24) and build as follows: $ mkdir /usr/local/src/cfitsio # Need a correct file … Continue reading →

Well I had this heart-stopping moment when I did not see all the “hidden” files (on Linux those are files with names starting with a “.”) while browsing Time Machine backups. It turns out a widget called hiddenfiles can toggle … Continue reading →

Yup.  Given I need the power of 64-bit computing, I upgraded my Leopard box to Snow Leopard.  So far, so good. For using Logitech MX Revolution on Snow Leopard, just download and install Logitech Control Center for OS X.  Works … Continue reading →