Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Mac OS X, Word and the quest for the unbloated PDF

Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 by

I’ve found out two things to deal with PDFs in OS X: how to unbloat the huge files coming from Save to PDF in Word, and how to password protect PDFs. Continue reading →

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Buy me ! Upgrade me ! Register me !

Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 by

Since when nagging screens have become cricket for bought wares ? Continue reading →

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No easy answers

Posted on Monday, June 6, 2011 by

Barely a few months (6, 7 ?) since using Mac OS X and my system has got basically unusable: MacPorts has died and gone to hell, root certificates get systematically rejected by Safari, the system is sssoooo ssssllllloooowwww that using … Continue reading →

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I can haz SciPy !!1!1!

Posted on Sunday, February 6, 2011 by

My SciPy installation on Mac finally works — Well, at least it looks like so (the self-test does not smoke anymore). I will try to reconstruct a walkthrough, but bear in mind that I have installed, uninstalled and reinstalled so much stuff in my Mac that the reproducibility of this recipe should be taken with a grain of salt. If you try it and it works, I would be thankful if you’d leave a note describing exactly what you did. Continue reading →

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Then you just have to add another dependence…

Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by

This short version of the story does not include all the comings and goings — installing Python 2.7 and discovering very late in the process its incompatibility with Ccipy for Mac, finding out that the concept of automatic uninstallation simply does not exist in Mac OS X, it has been lots of fun ! It feels just like UNIX, only worse — I have fallen in the rabbit hole and I am waiting for the floor to arrive. Continue reading →

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Oh Turing, Why Hath Thou Forsaken Me ?

Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 by

I am flabbergasted by how the simplest things can become huge hairy juicy nightmares when it comes to computers. (…) Continue reading →

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