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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 01 May '05

01 May '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 01 May '05

01 May '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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Quicktime 7.0 - gotcha's
by William Douglas Hamilton 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hi, Some of the very technology savvy people on list will have realized that Apple has posted the next major revision to Quicktime (QT), now at version 7.0. There seems to be consensus on the web regarding four accepts of the QT: 1. The video quality to absolutely phenomenal - High Definition video over the web ... who would thought it possible so soon. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/ 2. If you purchased the upgrade to QT Pro 6.0, your release key will not work to enable the pro functionality in QT 7.0. However, the upgrade price has not changed from version 6.0. Please bear this in mind if you are running FinalCut Pro in a production environment, as you might inadvertently disable your workstation until you pay to obtain the QT 7-Pro upgrade. 3. QT 7 includes the new video codec H.264. Okay so you're thinking "what does that mean" ... see point (1) above. This kind of modern mathematical compression technique requires significant CPU power to drive H.264 video at full frame rate (24 frames/sec). Specifically a high speed G4, 1.5GHz or better to see full frame rate. 4. For content creators H.264 also requires significant CPU power to encode video in H.264 (e.g. G5 processor). That said, QT 7.0 looks to be a excellent product for video professionals and regular users of video content. However, you might want to pause for a second a review your use of QT and how the new version will run on your equipment BEFORE downloading the update. Regards, Doug

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Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" -- Apple Event
by Doug Hamilton 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Good Morning, Please find the attached invitation to the Apple Canada 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 on-line at: www.apple.ca/go/tiger_education 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/

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Strange (but useful) OS X tricks...
by billing 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

...from: http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/secrets/mayosxhints/index.php http://www.newmediamanuals.com/podcast/OMT-Summarize-Services- OSX_030.mp3 http://www.acqyr.com/home/2004/02/summarize_your_.html - Sherlock's Lost Translation: Sherlock has a built-in translation function (it actually uses the SYSTRAN engine http://www.systransoft.com/index.html). Launch it. Click the Translation "flag" button. Enter the text you want translated. Click translate. Here's an example: By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part of our every day life. Serlock's translation: French: De loin, il y a trop d'information nous entourant tous. Elle est près d'impossible d'absorber tout ! Après tout, nous vivons dans l'"économie de la connaissance" ainsi les états, les articles, les email et les documents de lecture est une partie de notre chaque vie de jour. Greek: Κατά πολύ, εκεί πάρα πολλές πληροφορίες που περιβάλλουν μας όλοι. Είναι κοντά σε αδύνατο να απορροφήσει όλα! Τελικά, ζούμε στη "οικονομία γνώσησ" έτσι διαβάζοντας τις εκθέσεις, άρθρα, τα ηλεκτρονικά ταχυδρομεία και τα έγγραφα είναι ένα μέρος της κάθε ζωής ημέρας μας. ...and back: By far, there is too much information surrounding us all. It is close to impossible to absorb all! After all, we thus live in the "economy of knowledge" the states, the articles, the email and the documents of reading is a part of our each life of day. By far, there very a lot of information that surround us all. It is near impossible it absorbs all! Finally, we live in the "economy of knowledge" thus reading the reports, articles, the electronic posts and the documents it is a part of our each life of day. ...and, of course, English->Japanese->English->French->Greek->French->English: Very, they are there of many data elements which surround us whole. It is roughly impossible thing which absorbs of all! Very back, we lived in the <economy of knowledge>, consequently the State of the book, the article, the ELECTRONIC MAIL and the document it is a part of our everyday lifes. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ - Summarize Proust: "By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part of our every day life." So begins one description of Apple's OS X "Summarize Services". To summarize, "Summarize Services" is a service which will summarize a large body of text attempt to distil out the essence - you get to choose how much distillation takes place. Here's an example where the text has been taken from: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/proust.htm. This entry has 13 paragraphs and nearly 2000 words (according to Microsoft WORD). OS X's "Summary Services" at summarize to setting 1 and "Paragraphs": --------------------------- Remembrance of Things Past does not have a clear and continuous plot line. The narrator is Marcel. He is not Proust but resembles him in many ways. Marcel is initially ignorant - only slowly does he begin to grasp the essence of the hidden reality. At the end he is preparing to write a novel which is like the one just presented to the reader. Marcel's childhood memories start to flow when he tastes a madeleine cake dipped in linden tea such as he was given as a child. "And as soon as I had recognised the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy) immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set to attach itself to the little pavilion opening on to the garden which had been built out behind it for my parents (the isolated segment which until that moment had been all that I could see); and with the house the town, from morning to night and in all weathers, the Square where I used to be sent before lunch, the streets along which I used to run errands, the country roads we took when it was fine." -------------------------------- Microsoft WORD summarizing at 1% setting: --------------------------------------- From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet. Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life.Proust and Bergson knew each other socially. --------------------------------------- Microsoft WORD summarizing at 5% setting: -------------------------------------- From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet.(Proust inReading in Bed, selected and edited by Steven Gilbar, 1995). From 1895 to 1899 Proust worked on an autobiographical novel that remained unfinished. Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life. Proust is generally considered a pioneer of the modern novel. Proust's work widely influenced authors in different countries, among them Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. One biographer mentions that Proust liked tight underwear. A prolific writer, Proust also was an avid letter writer. --------------------------------------- You can access OS X's "Summarize Services" by selecting a piece of text (email, text document, web page) and choosing "Summarize" from the Application>Services menu. Changing the settings will dynamically change your summary. WORD provides an AutoSummarize... tool in the Tools menu. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Use iTunes to Organize PDFs Looking for a different way to organize a massive collection of PDFs? Use iTunes. That’s right, iTunes. When Apple released The Complete U2 digital box set last year, it distributed the collection’s liner notes as PDF files. To make sure people found them, Apple modified iTunes to handle PDF files in its library. The side effect was that iTunes (thanks to its Smart Playlist feature) also became a good way to organize large PDF collections. To test this out, just drag and drop a PDF (or several) onto iTunes. It will show up in your library, with its Finder name listed as its song name. To organize your PDFs, use smart playlists. Create a new smart playlist (File: New Smart Playlist) and set the conditions to Kind Contains PDF. Select the Live Updating option and click on OK. Now you have a playlist that contains all your PDFs. If you name your files following a certain pattern, you can add rules to the smart playlist to further sort your PDFs. Make a Recipes smart playlist that gathers all files whose names (“song” names) start with Recipe. Or create a medical-journals smart playlist that gets all the files with the prefix "Med_". Double-clicking on the iTunes entry for this document will open it using OS X's Preview. Wayne

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GRASS GIS gone to version 6.0
by William Douglas Hamilton 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Hello, Thought you'd want to know as of yesterday GRASS GIS is now at version 6.0 after two years in development. Mac OS X, MS-Windows, and Linux distributions are available. Oh, for those of you who don't know this product its a FREE (open-source) commercial grade GIS (Geographic Information System). Details can be found here: http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass600.html Cheers, Doug

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