ForestMacStuff
setting up wireless
shoose EDUWIFI
Key is 1CBE991A14
neet to send MAC address of card to ISU helpdesk in order to get permission to use
Enabling password requirement when waking from sleep
There is a check box under the "Security" icon within "System Preferences"
setting root password
Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- From the Finder's Go menu, choose Utilities.
- Open Directory Utility.
- Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.
- Enter an administrator account name and password, then click OK.
- Choose Enable Root User from the Edit menu.
- Enter the root password you wish to use in both the Password and Verify fields, then click OK.
Setting up printers
Choose "print" from within any application
Select "Add printer" from the pull down menu
choose "HP Jet Direct - Socket"
Enter IP address of printer
It should auto detect the printer
add a label
Unix utilities
Most of the commands below require that you either be a superuser (su) or have superuser priviledges (sudo)
Xcode
First download Xcode from apple
http://developer.apple.com/TOOLS/xcode/
MacPorts
installed in /opt/local/bin
do the command
port -d selfupdate
to update ports
- some commands
- to search for packages use
- sudo port search string
- to install a package you found do
- sudo port install packagename
Installing older port versions
MacPorts is my preferred way of installing, managing, and upgrading much of the software I have on my Mac. I’m setting up a new work machine today and I need to install ruby 1.8.5 on my machine for Rails to be happy. Unfortunately, you can’t do something simple like specifying the version of the port you want to install unless it’s in a local repository. Fortunately, my friend Stephen Chu had this problem about a year ago and has a nice procedure on how to do it. I’m going to update it for MacPorts and ruby 1.8.5 here.
1) Find out the svn revision number of the Portfile that has 1.8.5 by looking at: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/log/trunk/dports/lang/ruby/Portfile In my case it is 21127.
2) Set up a local port repository. In the file /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf, add this line before the rsync line: file:///Users/Shared/dports and create that directory.
3) Install the port into your local repository. cd /Users/Shared/dports && svn co --revision 21127 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/ruby/ lang/ruby/
4) Run portindex so that ports now finds your new (old) version of ruby. portindex /Users/Shared/dports
5) Now you should be able to see ruby @1.8.5-p12 in addition to @1.8.6 by running: port list
6) Install Ruby sudo port install ruby @1.8.5-p12 You should be up and running now, so to check, run: ruby -v You will see something like this: ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i686-darwin8.10.1]
SVN
port install subversion
from command line type
=SVN commands
svn -help
svn info URL
svn co URL
Xmgrace
http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
installation using macports
ports install grace
Xfig
sudo port install xfig
Tex
sudo port install teTex
gerbv
port install gerbv