On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 06:37 -0700, William G. Scott wrote:
If you update to 10.7, keep a clone of 10.6 just in case it drives you nuts.
There are all sorts of perverse changes, and (unlike the reversal in
scrolling direction) not a lot of over-ride options.
I guess this is one of them:
I've bitched enough about all things Mac, but this one's just too good
to pass on (from the article that Peter linked to):
The fundamental issue here is Lion's assumption that you don't know
what you're doing, and it's going to ensure you're protected from
cock-ups that, in your ignorance,
Listening to Jobs speak recently, I got the distinct impression that the end of
the era of general desktop computers PC's may be on the horizon. Of course
that's iPad sales rhetoric, but it may be that the public moves away from
general computers and that surely will have implications for
Of course this has to be the case. I think most of us walk around with with
mobile phones that have memory and processing power more powerful than all of
the computers available before 1990.
Some of the things that seem difficult in Lion and are nanny-state-ish such as
automatic file
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 14:39 +0300, Adrian Goldman wrote:
Of course this has to be the case. I think most of us walk around with with
mobile phones that have memory and processing power more powerful than all of
the computers available before 1990.
Some of the things that seem difficult in
I use my MBP with external screen, keyboard mouse all the time. The new ones
are fast, mine should easily cope with Lion
My question about Lion was because
1. on the one hand as far as I can see Bill Scott only builds latest
stand-alone Coots (0.7...) for Lion, and these don't work on 10.6
Dear Phil (and everyone):
1. I've now got automated build systems for coot for 10.7.1 and 10.6.8. I
just haven't had a chance to get the 10.6.8 one on line. I'll try to do this
today. (Also, the last few haven't build due to a change in the code with
which the compiler can't cope, but
Well in fact, it all depends on the type of detector these small angels
end up on and on the speed of this godly radiation. Only once you have
considered both these elements can you say poor little things.
My 2p worth.
Fred.
Ed Pozharski wrote:
The best X-ray related typo I ever seen was
Regarding MBP versus MBA, one of my graduate students just got a new MBA and
her machine is much faster than my MBP 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM.
Both machines are running Lion.
The new MBA is hot, only disadvantage you can't lock it down, there's no option
for it.
Jürgen
On Sep
Dear Herbert,
I've come across quite a few people that are using mac books as their main
development computer. This site ( http://usesthis.com/ ) can be an good way to
learn about various setups. A popular trend seems to be using a mac book along
with the apple thunderbolt display for more
Hi,
Overall, the transition from 10.6 is seemingless, crystallographically-wise.
Of course you need to have the new XCode 4.1 installed, and you should also
download new, 10.7-dedicated 64bits gcc/gfortran/g77 bundles from
http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
And then, CNS, Phenix, CCP4, etc... will
Hi
My two ha'porth.
If you are thinking of upgrading your sole Mac software development
box to Lion I'd say don't do it unless you like a lot of pain.
Anything built on Snow Leopard should run okay on Lion (my Tiger
builds seem okay on 10.4, 10.5, 10.6...), so unless you really have
an
One really nice feature though comes with what Bill's wife hates. No worries
about saving an edited file in many programs. The background versioning is
great no more needs of having my_manuscript_###1.doc :-) one file to handle
them all. And you can go back to older versions of course. The only
The best X-ray related typo I ever seen was the Small angel scattering
- poor little things!
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 18:23 -0400, Patrick Loll wrote:
Still doesn't beat my all-time favorite, an early Microsoft spell-checker
that changed diffract to defrocked.
I forgot to mention how
Dear Colleagues,
Lion is an reality all developers have to live with. While I
agree that it would be a bad idea to update one's primary
development environment to Lion, it does seem a good idea to have
at least one system with sufficient memory, disk and good enough
graphics and the new UI
Is there any opinion or experience about whether Lion is ready for
crystallographic use? Should I upgrade?
Phil
Phil,
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Phil Evans p...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk wrote:
Is there any opinion or experience about whether Lion is ready for
crystallographic use? Should I upgrade?
MacPyMOL works fine on Lion.
Cheers,
-- Jason
--
Jason Vertrees, PhD
PyMOL Product Manager
Schrodinger,
Hi Phil:
I've found few, if any advantages. I fear for the future.
I've had problems getting coot to run stereo due to the X11 implementation in
10.7. Apart from that, no major problems with crystallographic software.
Lion greedily uses memory, and any computer I have with less than 4 gig of
I have noticed, in new versions of OSes, that there generally is
rampant violation of the concept of if it ain't broken, don't fix.
Shouldn't there be more moments of delight, when you see they have
solved a previous poorly-engineered feature with an elegant solution?
But a lot of the time, you
On Sep 9, 2011, at 11:09 AM, William Scott wrote:
(nothing us usual in of itself)
I forgot to mention how delightful the spelling auto-correction feature can
be. (It should have read nothing unusual in and of itself).
That, at least, can be turned off.
Still doesn't beat my all-time favorite, an early Microsoft spell-checker that
changed diffract to defrocked.
I forgot to mention how delightful the spelling auto-correction feature
can be. (It should have read nothing unusual in and of itself).
That, at least, can be turned off.
Shoshana Wodak once told me that Word kept suggesting
Shoeshine Kodak as the correct spelling of her name.
I just tried my copy of Word and it seems to have improved.
Frances
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