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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

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