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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51216 is a reply to message #51214]

Mon, 06 November 2006 09:58

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:58:08 -0700, David Fanning wrote:

> Jeff Hester writes:
>
>> In the world I live in -- Astronomy -- there is currently a dramatic
>> move away from PCs and Linux boxes to the Mac platform. I'm sure that
>> is the case more broadly as well. A compilation of Mac-related
>> questions/answers/discussion would probably be well-read. I'm not the
>> right person to maintain the list, but if I knew someone was keeping
>> track, I'd certainly contribute anything that I ran across.
>
> Having spent five weeks in Hawaii last year in the
> company of astronomers, I witnessed this dramatic
> enthusiasm for Macs, and also noted the almost
> universal inverse correlation of this enthusiasm
> with UNIX knowledge.

Actually, most astronomers are from a Sun/Solaris background, or, more
recently, Linux background [1], yet want a laptop that:

a) Works well out of the box with no driver/kernel futzing.
b) Runs Microsoft Office for those occasional yet unavoidable brushes
with NASA HQ, the aerospace industry, etc. (where sending a
complete Word document containing a single sentence with an agenda
item is considered completely acceptable).
c) Has support for all their favorite X11 tools, like DS9.
d) Runs all of their accumulated C and/or FORTRAN code, usually
compiled with GCC.
e) iTunes, iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, iMaSuckerForPrettyApps.
f) Has Apples' Keynote, for postscript/PDF-savvy presentations.

Macs do all of the above, though not without some compromises. And it
appears Apple knows this is a growing user segment, and occasionally
throws the sci-users a bone (Control-key remapping, virtual desktops
in Leopard: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/spaces.html, etc.).

Though I don't know of an "IDL for Mac users" guide, there are several
astronomer-written guides for OSX converts, e.g.:

http://satchmo.as.arizona.edu/~jrigby/osx.html

and links within.

JD

[1] Primarily differentiated by whether they remap the Control key to
its God-given location, just left of the "a".

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		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 17:01
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:28
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Wed, 08 November 2006 16:11
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:57
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:51
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:42
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 15:12
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 08 November 2006 12:06
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:35
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Tue, 07 November 2006 13:27
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:32
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 November 2006 11:21
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 21:16
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 11:09
		Re: Mac Cursor By: K. Bowman on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:44
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 November 2006 10:31
		Re: Mac Cursor By: JD Smith on Mon, 06 November 2006 09:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: news.verizon.net on Sun, 05 November 2006 12:39
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Sat, 04 November 2006 07:58
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Jeff Hester on Fri, 03 November 2006 21:56
		Re: Mac Cursor By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 November 2006 17:14
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Edd Edmondson on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:08
		Re: Mac Cursor By: James Kuyper on Thu, 09 November 2006 03:37
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 08 November 2006 18:46
		Re: Mac Cursor By: Christopher Thom on Thu, 09 November 2006 11:47

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