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

1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Utilities.
2. Open Directory Utility.
3. Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.
4. Enter an administrator account name and password, then click OK.
5. Choose Enable Root User from the Edit menu.
6. 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

http://www.macports.org/

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

http://subversion.tigris.org/

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

GEANT4

Installing geant 4.9.2 p01

Get CLHEP 2.0.4.2

http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/DISTRIBUTION/

after downloading to a good place "be sure to set the prefix path to where you want to find the CLHEP libraries"

tar -zxvf clhep-2.0.4.2.tgz 
cd 2.0.4.2/CLHEP
./configure  --prefix=/users/tforest/src/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.4.2/
make

The above prefix will put the CLHEP libraries under the subdirectory /users/tforest/src/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.4.2/

the source code is under the subdirectory /users/tforest/src/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.4.2/CLHEP

when asked in the GEANT4 configure script below for the CLHEP_BASE_DIR subdirectory youwill enter /users/tforest/src/GEANT4/CLHEP/2.0.4.2/

unpack data libraries

create a "data" subdirectory under your geant4 directory and untar all the data "tar files

tar -xvf G4NDL.3.13.tar
tar -xvf G4EMLOW.6.2.tar
tar -xvf G4RadioactiveDecay.3.2.tar 
tar -xvf G4ABLA.3.0.tar
tar -xvf PhotonEvaporation2.0.tar

Configure -build (without visualization)

download the geatn 4 distribtuion and untar it

then enter the directory and type

./Configure -build

Lets first build the distribution without any graphics to be sure the bare bones are working

then type

./Configure install

to create the env.csh file which will set up your environmental variables

enter "csh"

compile exampleN01 to check that things are working

[tony-forests-macbook-pro:examples/novice/N01] tforest% cd /Users/tforest/src/GEANT4/geant4.9.2.p01/examples/novice/N01

[tony-forests-macbook-pro:examples/novice/N01] tforest% make
Making dependency for file exampleN01.cc ...
Making dependency for file src/ExN01PrimaryGeneratorAction.cc ...
Making dependency for file src/ExN01PhysicsList.cc ...
Making dependency for file src/ExN01DetectorConstruction.cc ...
Compiling ExN01DetectorConstruction.cc ...
Compiling ExN01PhysicsList.cc ...
Compiling ExN01PrimaryGeneratorAction.cc ...
Creating shared library /Users/tforest/geant4/tmp/Darwin-g++/exampleN01/libexampleN01.dylib ...
Creating/replacing object files in /Users/tforest/geant4/tmp/Darwin-g++/exampleN01/libexampleN01.a ...
ar: creating archive /Users/tforest/geant4/tmp/Darwin-g++/exampleN01/libexampleN01.a
Compiling exampleN01.cc ...
Using global libraries ...
Linking exampleN01 ...
... Done!

Configure -build (with visualization)

[tony-forests-macbook-pro:~/src/GEANT4/geant4.9.2.p01] tforest% ./Configure -build

               --- Geant4 Toolkit Build  ---

Would you like to see the instructions? [n]

Definition of G4SYSTEM variable is Darwin-g++. That stands for:

1) OS : Darwin

2) Compiler : g++

To modify default settings, select number above (e.g. 2) [Press [Enter] for default settings]

There exists a config.sh file. Shall I use it to set the defaults? [y] Fetching default answers from your old config.sh file...

I can set things up so that your shell scripts and binaries are more portable, at what may be a noticable cost in performance. In particular, if you ask to be portable, the following happens:

    1) Shell scripts will rely on the PATH variable rather than using
       the paths derived above.
    2) ~username interpretations will be done at run time rather than
       by Configure.

Do you expect to run these scripts and binaries on multiple machines? [n]

Where is Geant4 source installed? [/Users/tforest/src/GEANT4/geant4.9.2.p01]

Specify the path where Geant4 libraries and source files should be installed. [/Users/tforest/src/GEANT4/geant4.9.2.p01]

Do you want to copy all Geant4 headers in one directory? [y]

Specify the path where are the Geant4 data libraries

PhotonEvaporation2.0 RadioactiveDecay3.2 G4EMLOW6.2 G4NDL3.13 G4ABLA3.0

are installed. For now, a flat directory structure is assumed, and this can be customized at the next step if needed. [/Users/tforest/src/GEANT4/geant4.9.2.p01/data]

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