2007-04-02

• Installed Audacity
• installed monolingual - removes superfluous languages and binares from your application bundles.
• Installed Adobe Acrobat
• Installed ffmpegX in order to transcode movies.
• Installed itexmac, cocoAspell, and bibdesk for tex writing, and mactext-2007.dmg from the tug.org.

2007-02-18

• Installed the new version of Adium, version 1.0.1
• Installed MemoryCell? Beta for the new intel macs, got the tip from brock.

2007-01-26

• Installed Cicso's vpn client from the cites webpage.

2007-01-21

• installed spirited away, hides apps after idle for a set period of time.

2007-01-17

• Installed a new version of quicksilver so it would stop nagging me to update.

2006-11-10

• Installed Chicken of the VNC for my mac, so I can view things remotely.

2006-10-25

• Installed Vienna. It's a pretty good RSS reader, though it has a few problems. It occasionally marks things as new when I've already read them, and it doesn't read feeds behind SSL.
• Installed an intel version of octave in /usr/local because I couldn't compile it through ports.
• Installed TheDailyGrind? , a time tracking dashboard utility. I still long for karm.

2006-10-16

• Installed Thunderbird. Asking around, it's the best way to read newsgroups.
• Installed iJournal so I can edit my livejournal.

2006-09-18

• installed Mail Act-On
• thinking about installing Mail tags 1.2.2

2006-09-14

• Installed an aqua version of LyX? : http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac?from=LyX.Mac
• Installed a program called InsomniaX? . It allows you to shut the lid of your computer without putting the computer to sleep. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30315

2006-07-29

• Installed MoinX? : http://moinx.antbear.org/
• Had to make a fix for the fkeys kernel module.

  Keyboard: Internal USB PowerBook keyboard
  Class: IOHIDKeyboard
  Provider: AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver
  
  
  

2006-07-14

• Installed a (probably) PPC version of Office 2004 on my machine, courtesy of John
• adjusted the fKeys setup so I could get easy pageup/pagedown:

  Keys:
          # For some strange reason, the keycode for ENTER is NOT the same
          # between the ADB and USB internal keyboards.  <sigh>  Also,
          # unlike the ADB keyboard, the USB keyboard CAN differentiate
          # left & right modifiers -- so we'll borrow the keycode for the
          # external USB keyboard's right Option key and make ENTER a
          # proper right Option key.
  
          ENTER: 76       # NOT A TYPO!  See above.
          CAPSLOCK: 57
          LCONTROL: 59
          ROPTION: 61     # Cheating: code from external USB keyboard
          DASH: 27
          FN: 63
          LSHIFT: 56
          LEFT: 123
          RIGHT: 124
          UP: 126
          DOWN: 125
  
          HOME: 115
          END: 119
          PGUP: 116
          PGDOWN: 121
  
  Normal:
          ENTER:
                  Down:
                          SetState 1
                          Drop
  
                  Up:
                          ClearState 1
                          Drop
  
          UP:
                  Down:
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey PGUP
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
  
                  Up:
  
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey PGUP
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
          DOWN:
                  Down:
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey PGDOWN
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
                  Up:
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey PGDOWN
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
  
          LEFT:
                  Down:
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey HOME
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
                  Up:
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey HOME
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
  
          RIGHT:
                  Down:
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey END
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
                  Up:
                          If Set 1
                                  ChangeKey END
                          Else
                                  Pass
                          End
  
  
          CAPSLOCK:
                  Flags:
                          DropFlag Caps
                          Drop
  
  Special:
          CAPSLOCK:
                  Down:
                          AddFlag LeftShift
                          SynthFlagChange LSHIFT
                          SynthNorm Down DASH
                          Drop
  
                  Up:
                          SynthNorm Up DASH
                          DropFlag LeftShift
                          SynthFlagChange LSHIFT
                          Drop
  
  

2006-07-13

• Found an app called TinkerTool? that lets you adjust hidden settings in OS X. http://www.bresink.com/osx/0TinkerTool/download.html

2006-07-12

• Customizing Adium:
  • Made my own theme: http://wiki.rblake.net/pub/Rob/CainaAdminLog/Rob-Glassy.adiumicon.tgz
  • Figured out how to stop adium from flashing
    • Set the "unviewed content" setting in the contact list theme to black text on white background.

2006-06-30

• Customizing Firefox:
  • Tab mix Plus (close button, fix order of opening tabs, mark unread, progress bars): https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/
  • Tabs retain session history. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1859/

2006-06-28

• Figured how to turn off the beeping in Emacs:

     $ ;;;;;  ~/.emacs ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
  ;; Keep emacs from beeping ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
  (defun nop ()
    "A function that does nothing."
    nil)
  (setq ring-bell-function 'nop)
  
  

• Installed fKeys Beta, 0.2.1. You can find out more about it here : http://www.kodachi.com/download/fKeys?0.2.1 . After reading the documentation at length, I figured out how to make the program tun my caps-lock key into an underscore. Here is the relevant section from my .fkx file:
  • turns the right enter key into an extra alt+option key
  • turns fn into an extra control key for most programs
  • turns capslock into a underscore

    Keyboard: Internal USB PowerBook keyboard
    Class: IOHIDKeyboard
    Provider: AppleEmbeddedKeyboard
    
       1. We've seen types 37 and 38 for PowerBook internal keyboards -- so just
       1. match the provider and call it good.
    
    Type: *
    
    Keys:
            # For some strange reason, the keycode for ENTER is NOT the same
            # between the ADB and USB internal keyboards.  <sigh>  Also,
            # unlike the ADB keyboard, the USB keyboard CAN differentiate
            # left & right modifiers -- so we'll borrow the keycode for the
            # external USB keyboard's right Option key and make ENTER a
            # proper right Option key.
    
            ENTER: 76       # NOT A TYPO!  See above.
            CAPSLOCK: 57
            LCONTROL: 59
            ROPTION: 61     # Cheating: code from external USB keyboard
            DASH: 27
            FN: 63
            LSHIFT: 56
    
    Normal:
            ENTER:
                    Down:
                            AddFlagOrDrop RightOption
                            SynthFlagChange ROPTION
                            Drop
    
                    Up:
                            DropFlagOrDrop RightOption
                            SynthFlagChange ROPTION
                            Drop
    
            FN:
                    Flags:
                            ChangeFlag Function LeftControl
                            SynthFlagChange LCONTROL
                            Drop
    
    
            CAPSLOCK:
                    Flags:
                            DropFlag Caps
                            Drop
    
    Special:
            CAPSLOCK:
                    Down:
                            AddFlag LeftShift
                            SynthFlagChange LSHIFT
                            SynthNorm Down DASH
                            Drop
    
                    Up:
                            SynthNorm Up DASH
                            DropFlag LeftShift
                            SynthFlagChange LSHIFT
                            Drop
    
    

2006-06-27

• Installed a better Emacs: http://www.porkrind.org/emacs/
  • I had to fix the font to be more readable: preferences -> faces -> Basic Faces -> Default -> height = 110
• Installed Skype: http://www.skype.com/

2006-06-25

Got Darwin Ports up and working. Ports puts everything in /opt/local by default, so I had to add that directory to my bin and man paths. Perhaps there is an initialization file I can source in there somewhere? If there is, I can't find it.

So far, I have installed the following via port:

• gnome-terminal
• subversion
• grace

I have also built and installed the following by hand:

• MPICH - I used version 1.2.7, with the following configure string: --prefix=/usr/local -rsh=ssh
• boost - bjam was easy to build, and boost was easy as well. I installed boost to /usr/local. Also, I had to disable an annoying warning when I ended up compiling memfem with boost. Boost_1-31 is what I have been using to build memfem, and it was released before the gcc 4.0 compiler, which is what is needed to compile intel binaries. Even though the boost library seems to work, it constantly complains that it's not tested against gcc-4.0. Therefore, I had to edit a file in /usr/local/include/boost_1-31/boost/config/gcc.hpp and comment out the warning on line 92.
  • also, I symlinked /usr/local/include/boost_1-31 to /usr/local/include/boost
• Lzz - I finally got lzz to compile! To do this, I had to:
  • • add util_AppendWithSpace.h as an include to smtc_BuiltInType.h
    • Change the -O3 in maketools/Make.gcc.opt to -O2. This removes the std::_Destroy linking error, which muct be caused by aggressive optimization.
    • I've put the new lzz source on the CompilingMemfem? page.
• Petsc - Installed petsc in /usr/local/petsc-2.3.0
  • My configure script: attachment:gcc-mpich
  • My bmake/gcc-mpich/petscconf: attachment:gcc-mpich-petscconf

Other notes:

• Things can't be statically linked on OS X. What a drag. See Apple's rude developer message here: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1118.html

Other things that I have installed today:

• MenuMeters? - http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ Gives CPU usage, netowrk usage, IO and memory in the menubar. Will work in lieu of gkrellm.

I also had to add /usr/local/bin to my path inorder to use mpirun.

Things to do:

• figure out how to map caps_lock to _! This is driving me crazy!
• look for a better emacs. I don't like the Aqua version that Brock suggested.

2006-06-24

I'm disappointed with the selection of packages in fink, so I'm looking at darwinports: http://www.darwinports.org . Hopefully, it will have the things that I need, like gnome-terminal.

2006-06-22

Trying to install X11 without much luck. I can't find anywhere on my system. Right now I'm installing the bundled software that came with my mac. Hopefully this will put X11 somewhere accessible.

Nevermind, I found the X11 package on the first disk. You have to scroll down when it first presents you the window.

Working through the instructions on CompilingMemfem? , trying to get it running on my new Macbook.

• Python - version 2.3.5 already installed.
• Gnosis - was able to build and install without becoming root.
• Lzz - having some troubles compiling with 4.0.
  • Had to add util_AppendWithSpace.h vi gcc.opt/gencode/smtc_BuiltInType.tpl
  • Getting strange errors related to std::_Destroy<IfState*>. Need to investigate further.

Tips:

• When setting up a hostname for synergy, the host name for this computer is caina.local

2006-06-21

After talking with Brock, I decided to leave the file system as case insensitive, just in case I run into some weird problems because case insensitivity is the default for Mac.

Installed via packages

• QuickSynergy? - http://quicksynergy.sourceforge.net/
• firefox - http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2006/06/04/firefox-1504
• VideoLanClient? - http://www.videolan.org/
• Colloqy - http://colloquy.info/downloads.html
  • No good. Not good enough for use on the weekends.
• Emacs.app: http://emacs-app.sourceforge.net/
• Xchat aqua - http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• iTerm - supposedly a replacement for Terminal. Refreshes rather slowly.

Installed via fink

Tips:

• you can set up visual bell flash under the accessibility options in system preferences.

2006-06-20

Finally! My macbook came! I checked her over and started customizing her. I have installed the following programs, in this order:

• Adium - http://www.adiumx.com/download.php
  • Adium installed Growl as well, at my instruction.
• Quicksilver - http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
• Fink - http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php?phpLang=en

From fink, I have loaded the following:

• fileutils - colored ls and other low level file system goodies.
• svn - so I cah check out the source code.

Here are little tips and tricks that I have discovered today:

• You can change the name of the machine in the sharing section of the System Preferences.

Here is a list of what I would like to find:

• How do I set up visual bells?
• Is it possible to switch the function of the fn and ctrl keys?
• I'd like to get a better terminal if possible. The standard terminal is nice, but I can't live without tabs.
• Go through this document and find out what I need to know: http://soiland.no/doc/osx