Hi, This is slightly off-topic, so feel free to ignore me! Can anyone recommend a laser pointer and remote control do-hicky for presentations with a powerbook....
Ben Maughan
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Jul 20, 2005 2:20 pm
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Hi All, One last chance to register for the Mac Astro Workshop. Marcos Huerta of Rice University will be explaining the use of the Mac version of IRAF at the...
I highly recommend this one made by Keyspan: http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/presentationremote/ It has a laser pointer, and works via radio frequency....
Hello list! I'm a middle school technology teacher, and I'm looking for some software which will help my students visualize/move in 3 dimensions. My students...
Hi Bill, there is a program called Partiview ( http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/hp/vo/du/partiview.html ) developed by the Hayden Planetarium which may be able...
Hi Bill, For simple XYZ 3D plots, see Grapher - you will find it in the Utilities folder under Applications. Please also checkout: Celestia (this is a very...
Thank you very much for your suggestions and help!! I'm not sure I've found what I'm looking for yet....I'm not sure a graphing-type application is what I...
Hi all, I have run into this annoying problem after upgrading to Tiger. The Preview application fails to open a postscript file. It attempts to do the...
... Yeah, I get that too. I figured it was something about the file, so I hadn't tried logging out. I generally save the file to disk and view with "gv", or...
Nimesh, Can you reliably get Preview to sometimes work, but sometimes fail, on *the same file*? You said that it seems to work again after logging out and...
[cutting stuff about that problem with some postscript files in Preview] Some useful diagnostic information might be provided by Console.app. See if it reports...
Thanks everyone for your replies. Jim- regarding your suggestion of TeXShop, I believe this uses the ps2pdf program. Eric- after logging off and on again,...
Hi all, Back in June I mentioned that xgterm running under Tiger would not read back key presses. This created a problem when xgterm was used as a plotting...
Hi all, I've been rather busy lately, so have been rather lax in keeping the website ( http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/ ) up to date, in particular...
Hi Naomi, The Karma visualisation suite (kvis, kpvslice etc..) works under Tiger, and that was a new install. Best wishes, Jenny. ... -- Dr. Jennifer Hatchell...
Jennifer Hatchell
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Nov 7, 2005 9:20 am
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Hi, I have a student who is trying to install pgplot via fink on a new Tiger system, and is having problems. I haven't had the machine to play with...
... I ended up having so many problems with the pgplot installation from fink that I ended up applying the patches myself and keeping a compilable version of...
Juan Cabanela Ph.D.
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Nov 23, 2005 2:22 am
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Hi Naomi, I had a lot of trouble installing PGPLOT (under OSX 10.3). I solved this by installing FTOOLS, which comes with a precomplied version of libpgplot.a...
Hi all, Apologies to those of you who received spam via this group this morning. We had been happily safe from it up until now. I have changed the group...
I posted about this last year, but as far as I am aware, the problem still exists when transferring a powerpoint file made on a Mac to a PC, so I thought it...
Curious to know whether there exist reports regarding everyone's favorite astro applications on the newer Intel-based macintoshes. X11? IRAF/ds9? IDL? ...
Bernie Walp
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Jan 25, 2006 9:42 pm
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... X11 will no doubt be recompiled by Apple and work out of the box. IRAF has reports from http://spac-21.rice.edu/maciraf that a port is planned as soon as...
... Actually, it sounds like it may take a lot more time than we might hope. According to rumors passed along on the IDL newsgroup, RSI has apparently said...
Marshall Perrin
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Jan 26, 2006 7:47 pm
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Hi All, I have an outstanding undergraduate student that is looking for a summer internship in Astronomy. All of the REU programs that I have found require the...
Dear Jeff, The Experimental Astrophysics Group at Fermilab, which is a member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SNAP, and the Blanco Dark Energy Survey, has ...