I have a 150GB USB external hard drive (IDE/Parallel ATA disk in an enclosure) which was formatted as one partition, FAT32 in Windows XP. I wanted to extract the files off of it using my Macbook Pro running Apple Macintosh Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.6).
However, when I plug it in, I get a dialog box [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2009 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X | 4 Comments »
The Google team about a year ago added IMAP services to gmail. This is a great way to be able to manage your mail from several different places (e.g. client software at work, and web based gmail page on the road) and have everything automatically be in sync.
I’m also a big fan of the open [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X, Original | 5 Comments »
Trying to use the Imagemagick toolbox (for me, installed via MacPorts) sometimes doesn’t work (for example, converting a png image) in Matlab because Matlab for some reason uses the libraries in its path over those given in system call (this is for Mac, but probably for *nix and maybe even Windows).
This is an example call:
[s,w] = [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X, Matlab, Original | 11 Comments »
I have a rev B (Core 2 Duo from Dec, 2006) Apple MacBook Pro laptop running Leopard OS X (version 10.5.2) and have Matlab version 7.5.0.338 (R2007b). I’ve just found that I can NOT use the built-in serial port object, instead, I get the following error:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no rxtxSerial in java.library.path thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver
??? [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X, Matlab, Original | 6 Comments »
With a fresh install of MacPorts version 1.6.0 on Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard, then issuing the command:
sudo port install tcl
returned:
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:35: error: nested redefinition of ‘enum NXByteOrder’
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:35: error: redeclaration of ‘enum NXByteOrder’
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:36: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘NX_UnknownByteOrder’
/usr/include/architecture/byte_order.h:137: error: previous definition of ‘NX_UnknownByteOrder’ was here
/usr/local/include/mach-o/arch.h:37: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘NX_LittleEndian’
/usr/include/architecture/byte_order.h:138: error: previous definition of [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X, Original | 3 Comments »
In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you could use Finder (GUI) to mount an SMB mount which was being tunneled through ssh
For example:
From Terminal establish the tunnel:
ssh -L 139:remote_machine:139 user@remote_machine
Then, in Finder, Go ? Connect to Server…
In “Server Address”, smb://localhost/mountpoint
However, this doesn’t work in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard anymore!
The workaround is instead of [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X | 3 Comments »
There are a few complaints and bugs with the X11.app which shipped with Leopard Mac OS X 10.5.0. You can download and install updates from x.org which incorporate many fixes. Works great. Also, you can get Darwin 9.0 source code.
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X | No Comments »
Mathworks Matlab version 2007b in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has a scrolling bug where the desktop GUI is sluggish and scrolls slowly. There is a bug fix posted at the Mathworks website, bug #412219, (login required). It’s due to a different default Java Graphics2D rendering engine used by OS X 10.5 (Sun2D), where OS [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2007 by Kirk Ireson
Filed under: Mac OS X, Matlab | No Comments »