Feb 04
2023
In order to install the arcgis package in conda, you have to specify the architecture osx-64 otherwise the package will not be found. This works because MacOS will capable of running x86_64 code on Apple Silicon processors - that is how efficient they are!
conda install -c esri/osx-64 arcgis
In fact to make everything else work you need to add the channels with architecture specified exactly, e.g. conda-forge/osx-64, esri/osx-64 and defaults/osx-64. Otherwise packages will be installed with a mix of architectures and appears not to be able to find each other.
Jan 10
2023
Backups are a great idea, and encrypted backups are a even better idea. When backing up iOS devices on macOS, it is possible to set an encryption key to protect local files. There is however no straightforward GUI method to verify the encryption key.
Enter mvt:
Sep 14
2012
Pixelmator wins hands down. Compared to Pixelmator Acorn is anaemic in terms of features and costs more than twice as much.
Disclosure: I originally got Acorn as part of MacHeist, so I didn't pay full price for it. I did pay full price for Pixelmator.
Cheers,
Steve
Aug 23
2012
I used to use Jumpcut a long time ago, and was a big fan of it. At some point, I think around 10.5, it stopped working, and I let it go -- too busy at the time to poke at it.
Recently however my interest in it was piqued again …
Jul 21
2012
By default system python loads "fake" readline (fake because it actually uses libedit) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/readline.so. Even if you install readline (which goes into /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages), it will still load it, even if you fiddle …
Jan 27
2012
- Create a virtual env and activate it
- hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pyglet/
- pushd pyglet; python setup.py install
- popd
- easy_install pyobjc==2.3 # the ==2.3 is required as of 2012-01-27, or pyobjc-core will not install
- python -c "import pyglet" # this step should not fail
Cheers,
Steve …
Mar 26
2011
The installers Ralink provides for some of their chipsets, like the RT2770 does something retarded: they attempt to unload a kext in a pre-install script, and when it fails the script fails and the entire install fails.
This means on a new machine, or one that never had the kext …
Feb 25
2011
I took delivery of my Linksys WUSB600N V2 today and was very excited to get my G4 Mac Mini online. The many online sources suggests all I need to do is change a few values in an Info.plist. However as it turns out, that wasn't enough. In order for …
Dec 31
2009
I use a custom script to insert the current git commit into GeoNote, so when I get bug reports I have a better idea of which version the user is running. The script is as below:
``` brush:c
import os
from Foundation import NSMutableDictionary
version = os.popen4("/sw/bin/git …
Apr 28
2009
Firstly, my usual approach of s/\s+$//g doesn't work since it eats up the newline too. s/\s+$/\n/g doesn't work either because the Replace: field in the find dialogue doesn't escape the \n.
Final solution is as shown: s/[ \t]+$//g …
Sep 21
2008
Ever since I got my 2nd monitor, I been using VNC to work on my laptop. Leopard's inbuilt VNC server isn't really VNC compliant, and has many issues when used with a normal VNC client. I have found Vine server to be an excellent replacement. The client side is a …
Dec 13
2007
Two strange and weird things happened to me recently. One is my /dev/null disappearing from leopard!
A large number of programs, both Cocoa and *nix relies on /dev/null being present. As you can see I could not gain root privileges, and thus could not recreate /dev/null (character …
Aug 26
2007
Raison d'être
There is preciously little information on the WWW on how to write a CV using Lyx under OS X with a tex installation supplied by Fink. There is a outdated tutorial which failed to work, and thats about it. This document should hopefully shed some light on the …
