Actually, on OSX you just have to sniff the revision level, which tells you which libraries have been installed. If you need a newer version, you just specify needs (10.4.5 or later) or whatever, and there you go.
Did anyone notice that Microsoft's encouraging phrase is generally only seen in old movies, where the protagonist, having royally screwed up, is sitting in an otherwise empty room while his superior places a pistol on the desk and encourages him to, "Do the Right Thing"?
This may not be the revenue-enhancing event Microsoft is hoping for.
You have to drill around in the ParagonPlus submission guidelines, but at software you'll find the preferred (or knowing most editors, allowed) packages. Again, because ChemDraw caught on as a standard, and it integrated easily with Word, the chemists who submit to non-physical journals (Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallics, et al., tend to use Word or Wordperfect. Even the physicals are coming around (I worked for a senior editor in another capacity for a while, and the TeX macros changing between some old version of TeX, and tetex or whatever ships with Linux now was a major issue.), as students all know Word, and it's quicker to cut and paste from Mathematical and similar programs into Word than export and then embed in a TeX document.
So, yes, officially they'll accept TeX, but outside of J. Phys. Chem., you'll find very few users.
I'll have to look into that, as I always heard, including from SGI-types, that they didn't want the underpowered Sparc system in their lineup, so they dumped it for cash.
Sun can be aggressive and boastful, but periodically right.
Sorry, I've become so attuned to the "imagine a beowulf cluster of..." meme around here, being modded funny, I presumed you were just keeping it alive. My bad. You can (allegedly) still buy the preconfigured 8-node version in the sound-proof case, but the web-page claims it's G5s, so someone needs some updating.
The confused business plan which placed them squarely in the path of bigger, more established, and better funded competitors didn't help either. Then there was buying Cray, and selling the SMP Sparc based system to Sun, because they couldn't figure out how to make money off it. Sun called it an E10K, and made a mint (and continued to develop it). SGI became roadkill.
I know you're trying to be funny, but Apple publishes a guide for doing precisely that, without replacing OSX. If you're creative, you can always skip XGrid and use SGE (GridEngine) instead.
I believe the OP was in Bioinformatics or similar field, and I'm a chemist. LaTeX only caught on amongst my people in p-chem, and even there, because of the rest of us, they had to learn to use Word. Our original Mac killer app was ChemDraw, which while it now runs on Windows (*sigh*), for years ran most cleanly on Macs, and due to some quirks in Windows metafiles, doesn't always convert correctly between Windows and Mac versions (frequently)h. Add in a couple of solid graphing programs that do good 3d graphs, and you begin to see why Mac on Desktop is so prevalent. This has caused both Mac inertia, (we have software, and don't want to/can't change) and a certain culture (I'll hire an undergrad as a scribe before I'd switch from Mac to Windows/Linux/FutureOS2000) to grow up around them. I know profs who keep around an OS9 mac, just for old files from the above.
Plus, ACS guidelines generally specify Word files as the desired submission format.
That's why it's a pity that SGI (much as I dislike Irix) got so thoroughly thumped. Those 8-proc O2000 nodes connected into a distributed shared memory system which looked like a single, flat, address space for many purposes were nice machines, and relatively simple to program. Affordable BlueGenes, Altixes, and E25Ks (affordable being a relative term) are still useful due to their simpler to use shared design, over purely distributed code.
Let's not forget that with Pam, you only got one rack. IBM gives you *several*.
Of course, they're all blue, but picky, picky.
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That's also where the Mac shines; no Solitaire. They ship with Chess, which forces users to either get back to work, or improve their minds while goofing off.
Not to mention that that extra dollar cost may push a Mac over the line into capital equipment where overhead isn't charged. My first laptop for work ran into that issue: I picked a nice model for ~$1800, and was told I wasn't spending enough. As it turned out, the $2600 ibm was cheaper, because the lower cost one came with 50% overhead attached.
You could have also ssh'd into a real cluster, or built a Mac cluster for a price similar to an Opteron system, and just quietly integrated it with your desktops (how my lab runs now). They just work, and they just work smoothly. It's also nice that tools like VMD come in native form, and run very smoothly. It's nice taking VMD, GAMESS, and Amber on the road with you, running in native mode the same way they run on the big clusters back home, just in case. (yes, I know about the windows ports or cygwin, but they always feel somewhat clunky)
Finally, sometimes the commercial software really does just work better, and fighting a journal over file formats is an exercise in futility.
fully stocked first-aid kit or three lights that don't require wall-power; led stick-ons in critical places can be good ear protection (that room is louder than you think) extra tape and permanent markers in multiple colors for labeling. high-intensity snake-type lights mirror and magnifier for reading small labels on machines clearly labeled signs "to Power, Cooling, Bob's Office", so no mystery cables Lots of spare parts. Preferably 1-2 servers, switches, etc which serve only to be hot-swapped or cannibalized in case of emergency.
Everything written down in a big, thick, hard to ignore binder, from policies, to what rack 6 does, to how (and when) you fixed the last incident.
I'd rather get the middle-aged Scottsman with the can do attitude of, "There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman!" You never know when one of those will be indispensable.
Spend a little money on Parallels (or be a guinea pig for VMWare), or just run bootcamp for a while. The last would be most informative, as you could clock which one gets booted into more often and for longer periods. You could also stretch yourself a bit and run Solaris 10, or one of the BSDs, since there's more to PC unix than the various Linuces. More sensibly, open up a terminal, dredge the ports sites, or just learn to compile and install the bits of Linux you actually care about.
If you've decided your politics or wallet won't support OSX software, then more power to you and your decision, but it seems silly to pay the Apple tax and then run desktop Linux on your machine full time. This is kind of "I bought a BMW, and then put the 4 cylinder engine from a Ford Escort in it".
Of course, people claim to have booted and run PPC Ubuntu on IBM 590s, rather than AIX, so what do I know?
>>Mmm, yes. Thar be dragons young one. Go back to your pre-packaged world and don't you worry your pretty little head about >>this "Linux" thing. Let the soothing tone of Steve Jobs' voice sing you to sleep
Pfft. There are the three options for anything valuable from Linux: Fink, DarwinPorts, pull up a shell and run./configure;make;sudo make install yourself. You still get the clean OS-X interface, the access to polished software that actually works, and the rest of the Mac experience, plus you can run your XLib/GTK/QT apps alongside the rest.
This is why Macs are spreading in scientific computing; as put by a researcher at FermiLab, they're Unix boxes that run iTunes. Not everyone has the time or inclination to futz around with software that's 85% of the way there, and has been for years.
Even ones that get into college aren't necessarily that bright.
Some people, despite other outward signs of intelligence, take a magical realism approach to computers. Despite similar functionality, OO looks different from Word, so any PBKC problems will be blamed on "bad" or "wrong" interface and "defective" product.
Recommending Office is partly so that those who aren't going to college will have a useful skill, partly because tech support staffs don't want to have to translate Word menus to OO menus, and partly because to 99% of the user base, OO doesn't exist. Dell doesn't preload it, there's no nice shiny box (Sun could do better on that score with StarOffice), no machine shows up with a trial version installed, and nobody takes out two page spreads in glossy magazines extolling its benefits. Outside a small and rabid community, it's simply invisible. You would probably get more adopters of WordPerfect's suite, if you gave users the choice between the three, because they would have heard of WP.
When I first heard about this years ago, it was because someone noticed that when cops sat under the flashing blue lights for too long, they got queasy. Separating whether it was the lights, or (seriously) too many donuts and coffee at 3:00 a.m. was part of the challenge.
I had to give up my 3100/38 (with 8-bit graphics adapter) and 3200 when I started my postdoc, because the monitor wouldn't fit in the car. The 3200, running VWS with a pair of RD54s that sounded like a sabre saw when they started was no great loss, but that 3100 was a nice machine.
My boss the crystallographer once asked me if I needed the entire Grey Wall, or if I was just anal-retentive. I said I needed all of it, he pulled a volume off the shelf and asked what was in it, and at the time (15 years ago), I just needed to know that it was volume 8a to tell him the contents. That got me another one of his, "I've hired a Martian" looks.
If I could afford an Itanium, I'd be tempted to get the VMS on IA64 hobbyist license, but only if it came with Fortran. I miss "Compile, Link, Run" I'll have to scrounge physics when they start cleaning again, and see if there's still a VAX or Alpha workstation hiding in a corner.
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Actually, on OSX you just have to sniff the revision level, which tells you which libraries have been installed. If you need a newer version, you just specify needs (10.4.5 or later) or whatever, and there you go.
Did anyone notice that Microsoft's encouraging phrase is generally only seen in old movies, where the protagonist, having royally screwed up, is sitting in an otherwise empty room while his superior places a pistol on the desk and encourages him to, "Do the Right Thing"?
This may not be the revenue-enhancing event Microsoft is hoping for.
Wait until they release the robotic M1A1 Abrahms. Three ought to do it. It'll come with the Three Laws of Army Robotics.
1. If it moves, shoot it.
2. If it doesn't move, make it move.
3. See Law 1.
You have to drill around in the ParagonPlus submission guidelines, but at software you'll find the preferred (or knowing most editors, allowed) packages. Again, because ChemDraw caught on as a standard, and it integrated easily with Word, the chemists who submit to non-physical journals (Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallics, et al., tend to use Word or Wordperfect. Even the physicals are coming around (I worked for a senior editor in another capacity for a while, and the TeX macros changing between some old version of TeX, and tetex or whatever ships with Linux now was a major issue.), as students all know Word, and it's quicker to cut and paste from Mathematical and similar programs into Word than export and then embed in a TeX document.
So, yes, officially they'll accept TeX, but outside of J. Phys. Chem., you'll find very few users.
I'll have to look into that, as I always heard, including from SGI-types, that they didn't want the underpowered Sparc system in their lineup, so they dumped it for cash.
Sun can be aggressive and boastful, but periodically right.
Sorry, I've become so attuned to the "imagine a beowulf cluster of ..." meme around here, being modded funny, I presumed you were just keeping it alive. My bad. You can (allegedly) still buy the preconfigured 8-node version in the sound-proof case, but the web-page claims it's G5s, so someone needs some updating.
The confused business plan which placed them squarely in the path of bigger, more established, and better funded competitors didn't help either. Then there was buying Cray, and selling the SMP Sparc based system to Sun, because they couldn't figure out how to make money off it. Sun called it an E10K, and made a mint (and continued to develop it). SGI became roadkill.
I know you're trying to be funny, but Apple publishes a guide for doing precisely that, without replacing OSX. If you're creative, you can always skip XGrid and use SGE (GridEngine) instead.
So, quit imagining, and just run!
I believe the OP was in Bioinformatics or similar field, and I'm a chemist. LaTeX only caught on amongst my people in p-chem, and even there, because of the rest of us, they had to learn to use Word. Our original Mac killer app was ChemDraw, which while it now runs on Windows (*sigh*), for years ran most cleanly on Macs, and due to some quirks in Windows metafiles, doesn't always convert correctly between Windows and Mac versions (frequently)h. Add in a couple of solid graphing programs that do good 3d graphs, and you begin to see why Mac on Desktop is so prevalent. This has caused both Mac inertia, (we have software, and don't want to/can't change) and a certain culture (I'll hire an undergrad as a scribe before I'd switch from Mac to Windows/Linux/FutureOS2000) to grow up around them. I know profs who keep around an OS9 mac, just for old files from the above.
Plus, ACS guidelines generally specify Word files as the desired submission format.
That's why it's a pity that SGI (much as I dislike Irix) got so thoroughly thumped. Those 8-proc O2000 nodes connected into a distributed shared memory system which looked like a single, flat, address space for many purposes were nice machines, and relatively simple to program. Affordable BlueGenes, Altixes, and E25Ks (affordable being a relative term) are still useful due to their simpler to use shared design, over purely distributed code.
Let's not forget that with Pam, you only got one rack. IBM gives you *several*.
Of course, they're all blue, but picky, picky.
That's also where the Mac shines; no Solitaire. They ship with Chess, which forces users to either get back to work, or improve their minds while goofing off.
Not to mention that that extra dollar cost may push a Mac over the line into capital equipment where overhead isn't charged. My first laptop for work ran into that issue: I picked a nice model for ~$1800, and was told I wasn't spending enough. As it turned out, the $2600 ibm was cheaper, because the lower cost one came with 50% overhead attached.
You could have also ssh'd into a real cluster, or built a Mac cluster for a price similar to an Opteron system, and just quietly integrated it with your desktops (how my lab runs now). They just work, and they just work smoothly. It's also nice that tools like VMD come in native form, and run very smoothly. It's nice taking VMD, GAMESS, and Amber on the road with you, running in native mode the same way they run on the big clusters back home, just in case. (yes, I know about the windows ports or cygwin, but they always feel somewhat clunky)
Finally, sometimes the commercial software really does just work better, and fighting a journal over file formats is an exercise in futility.
fully stocked first-aid kit or three
lights that don't require wall-power; led stick-ons in critical places can be good
ear protection (that room is louder than you think)
extra tape and permanent markers in multiple colors for labeling.
high-intensity snake-type lights
mirror and magnifier for reading small labels on machines
clearly labeled signs "to Power, Cooling, Bob's Office", so no mystery cables
Lots of spare parts. Preferably 1-2 servers, switches, etc which serve only to be hot-swapped or cannibalized in case of emergency.
Everything written down in a big, thick, hard to ignore binder, from policies, to what rack 6 does, to how (and when) you fixed the last incident.
I'd rather get the middle-aged Scottsman with the can do attitude of, "There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman!" You never know when one of those will be indispensable.
Hey! Confusion is a quite relevant state.
Feh. I'd rather have the option of being Kodos for the day.
Spend a little money on Parallels (or be a guinea pig for VMWare), or just run bootcamp for a while. The last would be most informative, as you could clock which one gets booted into more often and for longer periods. You could also stretch yourself a bit and run Solaris 10, or one of the BSDs, since there's more to PC unix than the various Linuces. More sensibly, open up a terminal, dredge the ports sites, or just learn to compile and install the bits of Linux you actually care about.
If you've decided your politics or wallet won't support OSX software, then more power to you and your decision, but it seems silly to pay the Apple tax and then run desktop Linux on your machine full time. This is kind of "I bought a BMW, and then put the 4 cylinder engine from a Ford Escort in it".
Of course, people claim to have booted and run PPC Ubuntu on IBM 590s, rather than AIX, so what do I know?
>>Mmm, yes. Thar be dragons young one. Go back to your pre-packaged world and don't you worry your pretty little head about >>this "Linux" thing. Let the soothing tone of Steve Jobs' voice sing you to sleep
./configure;make;sudo make install yourself. You still get the clean OS-X interface, the access to polished software that actually works, and the rest of the Mac experience, plus you can run your XLib/GTK/QT apps alongside the rest.
Pfft. There are the three options for anything valuable from Linux: Fink, DarwinPorts, pull up a shell and run
This is why Macs are spreading in scientific computing; as put by a researcher at FermiLab, they're Unix boxes that run iTunes. Not everyone has the time or inclination to futz around with software that's 85% of the way there, and has been for years.
Let's start with a few propositions:
People are creatures of habit.
Even ones that get into college aren't necessarily that bright.
Some people, despite other outward signs of intelligence, take a magical realism approach to computers. Despite similar functionality, OO looks different from Word, so any PBKC problems will be blamed on "bad" or "wrong" interface and "defective" product.
Recommending Office is partly so that those who aren't going to college will have a useful skill, partly because tech support staffs don't want to have to translate Word menus to OO menus, and partly because to 99% of the user base, OO doesn't exist. Dell doesn't preload it, there's no nice shiny box (Sun could do better on that score with StarOffice), no machine shows up with a trial version installed, and nobody takes out two page spreads in glossy magazines extolling its benefits. Outside a small and rabid community, it's simply invisible. You would probably get more adopters of WordPerfect's suite, if you gave users the choice between the three, because they would have heard of WP.
When I first heard about this years ago, it was because someone noticed that when cops sat under the flashing blue lights for too long, they got queasy. Separating whether it was the lights, or (seriously) too many donuts and coffee at 3:00 a.m. was part of the challenge.
I had to give up my 3100/38 (with 8-bit graphics adapter) and 3200 when I started my postdoc, because the monitor wouldn't fit in the car. The 3200, running VWS with a pair of RD54s that sounded like a sabre saw when they started was no great loss, but that 3100 was a nice machine.
My boss the crystallographer once asked me if I needed the entire Grey Wall, or if I was just anal-retentive. I said I needed all of it, he pulled a volume off the shelf and asked what was in it, and at the time (15 years ago), I just needed to know that it was volume 8a to tell him the contents. That got me another one of his, "I've hired a Martian" looks.
If I could afford an Itanium, I'd be tempted to get the VMS on IA64 hobbyist license, but only if it came with Fortran. I miss "Compile, Link, Run" I'll have to scrounge physics when they start cleaning again, and see if there's still a VAX or Alpha workstation hiding in a corner.
There was that, of course, but the internal consistency of the interface carried to the point of absurdity was always worth a smile.
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and my favorite "OPCRASH".
You could also (with some hacking) get it running on the Pro380, but not, alas, on the Pro350 that I owned.