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Possible fix for Leopard not remembering ssh passphrase
According to several accounts, Leopard has now a built-in support for remembering SSH passphrases in the systemwide keychain, which is great, great, great. However, if at some point during your and...
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X11 2.1 for Leopard is out
At least as a preview release, in a nice easy-to-install package. You can get it from Jeremy Huddleston account on freedesktop.org: X11-2.1.0.pkg. Here is the (kind of hard-to-read) changelog since the...
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Google Talk in iChat behind a firewall
Note : this is an updated and (somewhat) tightened version of this hint at macosxhints for my personal reference. If it helps someone, great. At work my computer is blocked from the outside world by a...
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Papers + Word 2008 = Bibliography heaven
Papers is a Mac sofware aimed at simplifying the management, searching and reading of scientific litterature. It’s more or less iTunes for your science papers — you can browse through them by authors...
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Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage
For the past two months or so, I’ve been slowly migrating my scientific workflow (that’s a fancy way of saying “my chaotic data hacking”) from Matlab ((R) (TM) (C)) to Python. The results are...
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Python for Science on Mac: Enthought Python Distribution
As a sort-of follow-up to my own post praising SAGE as an all-in-one Python distribution including tons of science goodies, I want to also point out that the Enthought Python Distribution is now...
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Python in Science proceedings
The proceedings for Scipy2008 (ie the 7th Python in Science conference) are now online. It would be worth mentioning for the State of Scipy article alone, but there’s tons of nifty up-to-date...
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Enthought Python Distribution, now with basemap
A new beta 2 of the Enthought Python Distribution has been released. It includes updates to the latest versions of wxPython (2.8.7.1), VTK (5.2), IPython (0.9.1), matplotlib (0.98.3), ETS (3.0.2) and...
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NVChannel Fifo: Graphics Channel Exception… and Plex
For this first post in a long, long time, why not explain another weird problem I had with the iMac ? Yay, let’s. During the past two weeks or so, the iMac began behaving strangely. The problems were...
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Shapely
For those who just ditched Matlab for another scientific package and miss the inpolygon function, I suggest taking a look at the Shapely package. It’s full of good stuff having to do with polygons and...
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