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Re: Mac Cursor [message #51161 is a reply to message #51160]

Wed, 08 November 2006 12:06

Christopher Thom
Messages: 66
Registered: October 2006

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Quoth JD Smith:

> 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.

In this category, but worth it's own mention, is the ability to connect
practically any projector and have it JUST WORK, out of the box. This
*never* happened with my linux laptop.

Not experienced any of the Macbook Pro crashes. Mine has been pretty
rock solid.

Major pet peeve, though, is the lack of highlight-copy and
middle-click-paste in OSX. 5 months after switching, it STILL catches me
out. doh!

Then Quoth David Fanning:

> JD Smith writes:
>
>> Actually, most astronomers are from a Sun/Solaris background
>
> Ok, ok, Wayne and JD convince me astronomers know more about their Macs
> than I give them credit for. I'll make my argument more narrowly next
> time: almost no one with a Mac in an IDL programming class can figure
> out how to get a directory of perfectly sensible IDL routines onto their
> IDL PATH. Maybe that's an IDL problem. Probably is. But it seems to be a

This seems partly an OSX problem, too. I run idl command line, from within
CarbonEmacs using idlwave. So I can't just set the IDL_PATH var in my
.bashrc. I discovered that OSX Apps launched by clicking an icon do not
pick up any environment vars defined in .bashrc et al. So none of my
.bashrc.idlpath definitions are read. The best work-around I could find is
to "open /Applications/Emacs.app" from an iTerm.

cheers
chris

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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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