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Mac OS X, Word and the quest for the unbloated PDF
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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Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Mac OS X, Microsoft Word, os x, pdf, preview, tech for scholars
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Buy me ! Upgrade me ! Register me !
Since when nagging screens have become cricket for bought wares ? Continue reading
No easy answers
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
I can haz SciPy !!1!1!
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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Tagged dependency hell, Mac OS X, macports, matplotlib, numpy, scipy, tech for scholars
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Then you just have to add another dependence…
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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Tagged Mac OS X, numpy, scientific computing, scipy, tech for scholars
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Cooperations, developments, projects: taming the complexity of research
As I move towards more complex research involving several labs, many students and audacious experimental designs I feel increasingly the need of using more formal management tools. But techniques created for Business (or even Engineering) do not seem to translate well to Academic research. Continue reading
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Tagged academic world, career in science, cooperation, management of research, tech for scholars
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Language Mishaps: Looking for Perfection
The wait for the “Perfect Programming Language” might be a long one. Continue reading
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Tagged c#/.net, c/c++, java, programming, programming languages, python, tech for scholars, thesis, xkcd
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What is worthy and what is puffy ?
For the last few months I’ve been trying a lot of stuff (web 2.0, web 1.0 or not web at all) which I think could be useful for my research team. Though it is not easy to separate the hype from the facts at the early stages, soon real value starts to separate from bloated expectations. Continue reading
