May 2005 - apple-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

Re: [APPLE-L]: Fwd: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage
by Will Christie 06 May '05

06 May '05

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Juris P. Svenne wrote: > >4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software > >licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists > >the existing software licences held by the University? > > No, would like to know. Hi Juris (et al), I'm copying the list on this E-mail as they may be interested in this section. The typical inquiry for software should go through: 1. Your LAN administrator, if they don't know then, 2. Myself. If I don't have it or know about it then, 3a. ACN's Software Team to request funding (for a course). 3b. The Bookstore (to purchase an individual copy). I try to keep a list of all licenses held by the University. The information I collect is done on a voluntary basis, so I won't claim to know all of the available licenses the University has. http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/dept_sw.html I also keep a list of the licenses that ACN maintains for the general use of the University. Online application forms are available here. Most of these include at least a media fee, and some of them require yearly licensing fees (although their costs are significantly cheaper than if you purchased the package on your own). http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/acn_site.html Over the years ACN's Software Team's discretionary budget has been going more and more into maintenance agreements for existing packages, which leaves little for course requests. We'd still like to support funding for student courses, so this has resulted in licensing fees for some packages, and our most recent request to discontinue the SAS for Mac usage. If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to contact me. > >5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which > >software application(s) are you using? > > I foresee a need to use Mathematica. We have an application form here: http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/support/pdf/mathematicaapp.pdf Home-use licenses are available however there is a yearly license fee for those. -- Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the moralists are Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable sentiment. Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, repent, make University of Manitoba what amends you can and address yourself 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better next Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."

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Fwd: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage
by Doug Hamilton 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello Everyone, Many of you might not realize is that there is an internal email list, like the apple-list, but for University computer support personnel. ACN (Academic Computing and Networking) recently submitted a request for input to that email list. ACN is looking into the possibility of recovering budgetary dollars by terminating unnecessary software licences, of which SAS for the Macintosh is a potential candidate. To that end, they are asking Macintosh users to respond to the following questions: 1.) Are there any users of SAS for the Macintosh on campus? 2.) Are the University's SAS users being served via the Windows, Unix and Linux versions instead? And I'll add three more questions, 3.) Were you even aware that there was a SAS licence for Macintosh systems on campus? 4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists the existing software licences held by the University? 5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which software application(s) are you using? I would ask that if you know of any graduate students, staff or faculty whom you believe should be given an opportunity for input into this issue, please forward this message onto them. For the sake of thoroughness, I've including the original posting from Will at the end of this message. Please respond directly to Will Christie (chrstie(a)cc.umanitoba.ca), and if you don't mind please 'cc' me as well, as I would be curious to see the responses. ACN will be renewing the SAS contract in August, so they would like feedback as soon as possible. Regards, Doug ------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Senior Apple Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/ Begin forwarded message: > From: Will Christie <chrstie(a)cc.umanitoba.ca> > Date: May 5, 2005 2:03:20 PM CDT (CA) > Subject: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage > > > The University has an enterprise license for SAS that is not based > on machine count but rather on the number of operating systems that > are required by our institution. The cost of this contract is > substantial and ACN is looking at discontinuing the licenses for > unneeded operating systems. SAS for Macintosh is one potential > candidate. > > The current version of SAS is 9. SAS for Mac is still on version 6 > with no plans to bring it up-to-date with other OSs. Are there any > users of SAS for Mac? Are the University's SAS users being served > with the Windows, Unix and Linux versions instead? ACN will be > renewing our SAS contract in August, so your feedback before then > will be appreciated. > > -- > Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the > moralists are > Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable > sentiment. > Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, > repent, make > University of Manitoba what amends you can and address > yourself > 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better > next > Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over > your > wrongdoing. Rolling in the > muck is not > Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."

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OSX: Tiger Upgrade. well, where to begin?
by billing 05 May '05

05 May '05

There are various things you should do before you actually move over to TIGER. 1) Purchase a copy of Tiger. Well OK, this could the second last thing on this list but who can wait?! ::-0 The other items should be done before you bring your Tiger DVD near your computer.... just to be sure. 2) Back up your important data. There are various ways of doing this: - burn important data to CD: the definitive source of help for this is.... the HELP menu. In the search field select "Search all Help" and type in the word "burn". This should get you on the way. - burn important data to DVD (if you're lucky enough to have a DVD burner) (see previous HELP suggestion) - copy important data to another hard drive/computer. There are various ways of doing this but the simplest is to connect an external FireWire drive to your computer and use that. You can also connect another computer in "Disk Mode". Search all HELP for "disk mode". You should see an entry for "Transferring files between two computers using FireWire". Check it out. - if you have a .Mac account, you might also contemplate using the .Mac Backup utility. Backup is free with .Mac and fairly straightforward. You check off the bits you want backed up and set the backup destination (.Mac account, CD, DVD, other hard drive, etc.) and you're off. It didn't seem to list everything I had wanted to backup, however, but it did do things like preferences, iTunes catalogue, etc. - lastly, is Carbon Copy Cloner, a free utility (although donations are accepted) available at: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html The downside of this is this won't work under Tiger... yet. The author is making changes even as you read this. I haven't used this but have heard people talk about its use. It is easy to back up everything, apparently, and restore it later..... to versions 10.1-10.3. Like I said, 10.4 is coming.... - all of the above. Just how important is your "important data" to you?! 3) fix your hard drive. Chances are that things have gone slightly awry on your drive over time and you may not be aware of it. Apple provides the "Disk Utility" to handle this. Now you can find this utility on your hard drive but to be able to fix anything you must boot with your original OSX install disk 1 and launch "Disk Utility" from that menu. If you launch from your local hard drive you will be able to Find problems but not Fix them. HELP can be helpful here as well if you search for "disk repair" and also check out the HELP within "Disk Utility" itself. I would suggest that you do both "Repair Permissions" and "Repair Disk" for you drive since they fix different things. 4) Now that you've spent countless hours backing up (you did back up your important files that you can't recreate and won't be able to work without, didn't you?) and fixing things, now you're ready to install Tiger. You have basically two choices (well, technically three but two are just variations on a theme). You can "install in place" (referred to in the "Installation and Setup Guide" as "Upgrade OS X". This basically deletes anything to do with your old system and installs 10.4 in it's place. The variant of this is "Archive and Install". This will install the complete new system for you but first it archives your old System, applications, etc. (into a folder named "Previous System) and then does the install. You won't be able to boot from the "Previous System" but you can copy things out into your new Tigerly world. There is also a "Scorched Earth" option - well, OK, Apple doesn't call it that but, well, you get the idea. "Erase and Install" does just that. It erases your entire hard drive (well, the one you select during the install process) and then installs 10.4 into this pristine space. The upside is that you are pretty much guarenteed no hard drive problems (yes, I know, you did the hard drive repair earlier.... but what if...) and you are definitely guarenteed that OS 10.4 Tiger will be the first things installed onto this hard drive - which might make it perform better since it now has the choice real estate on your hard drive. The downside? No user IDs. No applications. No preferences.... other than the defaults that come with OS X. If you've used the .Mac Backup utility, some of this can readily be restored.... but probably not all of it. For example, user IDs must be created before you can restore the preferences for same. All of that having been said, it's not a complicated process. It just takes some time to be safe. FYI: I did the Archive and Install choice. Things are working well so far and I'm happy (so far) with the performance I'm seeing. Good luck and happy Tiger'ing, Wayne Billing You can also find an audio version of this at: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~billing/casting/Install%20Tiger%20Prep- postprod.mp3

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Invitation - Apple IT seminar on 10.4 (Tiger)
by Doug Hamilton 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hello Everyone: For those of you who have not already registered (and those of you not on apple-list who I'm spamming with message), please find the attached invitation to our OS X 10.4 Tiger Technology seminar. The Winnipeg event is on May 10th from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Sheraton Winnipeg, 161 Donald Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1M3. Please feel free to invite anyone who you feel would be interested in this session. You can register online at: www.apple.ca/go/tiger_education Regards, Doug

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FYI:"Tiger in Scientific and Technical Computing" webcasts
by billing 02 May '05

02 May '05

Internet May 25, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" for Scientific and Technical Computing For General Audiences Join Apple in this densely-packed webcast on how each new feature in Tiger applies to Apple's scientific customers. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=34802&s=300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Jun 16, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server for High Performance Computing For General Audiences Learn about the technical underpinnings of Apple's latest OS, and how new features and updates will benefit users of Mac OS X-based clusters and grids. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=34901&s=300

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OS X Tiger: trade DVDs for CDs
by billing 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Tiger ships on DVDs. To trade in your DVD for CDs. Apple offers a Media Exchange Program whereby you can return your Tiger Install DVD (along with $10) in exchange for a set of CDs. For complete details of this offer, which expires on July 9, 2005, download this PDF file: http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexchange.pdf.

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OS X Tiger Up-To-Date program
by billing 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

...from: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/ Customers who purchase a qualifying new Macintosh computer on or after April 12th, 2005 that does not have Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" included can upgrade to Tiger at a cost of US$9.95. The program ends on July 22nd 2005. Your order must be postmarked or faxed by July 9th 2005, so order your upgrade now. The list of qualifying computers can be found at: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/list.html

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