May 17, 2010

KDE 3.5 on MacOS 10.6 mainly for Kile

Kile is a very nice and comfortable LaTeX editor (yes, and it runs under MacOS 10.6 - hint hint hint for avocadohead). It is installed quite comfortably using MacPorts.

May 16, 2010

Matplotlib, NumPy and SciPy for Python 2.6 on MacOS 10.6 - the hard way

Prerequisites: have Macports and Python 2.6 installed on MacOS 10.6 (for 10.5 users, please note the side note at the bottom of this post) as explained e.g. in this blog post.

May 10, 2010

Useful software add-ons for MacOS 10.6

This list is by far not complete and unordered, but more a mere reminder to myself and for interested people and will be updated (thanks to a friend who had always a tip handy, as soon as I ran into problems during changing from the Windows to the MacOS world - see his Mac Blog - I also stick to many of his suggestions, which I will not always repeat here)

May 4, 2010

Samba 3.4, Webmin 1.510 and some trouble

For some odd reason, my webmin is not able to correctly create users in the samba module unsing smbpasswd.