SCOTT The SCOUT Mac OS
The Complete Beginners Guide to Mac OS X Sierra (Version 10.12): (For MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini) by Scott La Counte 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions. Scott-Macon’s Healthcare Group acted as exclusive financial advisor to National Elder Care Referral Systems, Inc., also known as CareScout in the acquisition. Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW), an international financial services organization, has acquired CareScout, a leading provider of long term care support services in the United States. About CareScout CareScout is a privately held.
From OS X Scientific Computing
FM XML is an important tool for graphics creators who use it to make the special config.xml files that make the graphics work in game. Some years ago, I created the first version of FM XML for Mac and today brings its first major update. #!/usr/bin/env python3 # # Resolve Mac OS X 'aliases' by finding where they point to # Author: Scott H. Hawley # # Description: # Mac OSX aliases are not symbolic links. Trying to read one will probably crash your code. # Here a few routines to help. Run these to change the filename before trying to read a file. Install the latest OS X releases on your unsupported 32-bit Mac. To conclude, SFOTT can help you prepare for installing OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite on unsupported Mac computers. The overall procedure is explained in detail by the script’s developer, but you still need to judge on your own if your Mac can support the OS or not.
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This is nothing more than a repackaged fink installation, combined with an automatic nightly build system. It should have the most current bleeding-edge pre-release. If you need something more current than what is in fink, or you just don't want to install fink, then use this.
By far the most straightforward way to compile Coot from sourcecode is to use the Fink package management system. Paul Emsley and I have invested considerable time into getting this to work well, and it is the best pathway to obtain the most stable version. Once you have a working fink installation, all you have to do is issue the command
whenever you require the latest version.
A more detailed description on how to install coot with fink is linked here.
If you have set up fink to use my pre-compiled debian binaries, you can speed up the process considerably. Just issue the command
A more detailed description on how to install a pre-compiled coot with fink is linked here. Be sure to use the so-called 'unstable' branch of fink to get the latest pre-releases of coot: How to Activate the Unstable Branch
The official Coot Wiki is now part of the CCP4 wiki.This page deals with issues specific to installation on OS X.
The fink package for coot recommends installing raster3d and/or povray. When this is set up, simply pressing on the 'F8' key on your keyboard will result in a ray-traced image of the display popping up in Preview. Preview in turn will let you enhance the image, as it comes out a bit subdued by default. The following screenshot shows how this enhancement works. (You can see I tweaked exposure slightly, and gamma a bit, and saturation a fair amount).
Click here or on the image above to see a full-sized screenshot.
I wrote a coot wrapper shell script that lets you convert xplor/cns maps on the fly (you need to install mapman first) and has a few other enhancements.
I also made a Coot OS X applet that allows you to drag and drop a cns/xplor or ccp4 mapfile or any other coot-compatable file (mtz or pdb file, for example). Using the File > Get Info dialog, you can program this applet to open all .map and all .mtz files, if you want to, making these files double-clickable.
Download the Applet (requires a separate working coot installation)
LCD Stereo: Zalman monitor
The least expensive and perhaps best option for stereographic display is the new Zalman LCD monitor.
Please refer to the COOT wiki page that describes how to set everything up.
Hardware Stereo
Please note: Apple broke stereo support in earlier versions of 10.5, but with 10.5.6, it is now reported to be working correctly.
Apple now supports stereo in a window with Apple's implementation of X11, so coot should be able to work with this if you have the appropriate hardware (CRT and video card, as well as transmitter and glasses). I do not, so I will have to leave this for someone who does.
To get this to work, you need to have the latest version of Apple's X11.app installed, and then each user needs to issue the following command:
Hardware stereo on coot requires you compile with gtkglext1. The fink version of coot forces you to do so, so it should just work.
Side-by-side crosseyed stereo
As of version 0.2, coot can also have a side-by-side cross-eyed stereo display. Then all you have to do is cross your eyes and you see stereo. Never mind that this will destroy your vision and eye muscles, it works really well. I only got the map displayed on one side until Paul suggested including the following in my .coot(rc) startup file:
Scott The Scout Mac Os Catalina
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The official Coot Wiki is now part of the CCP4 wiki.This page deals with issues specific to installation on OS X.
Scott The Scout Mac Os Pro
Mac OSX aliases are not symbolic links. Trying to read one may crash your code.
In an app I’m developing, I want users to be able to easily create a “library” of symbolic links toother places on their machine, and this is most easily achieved for many of them by Cmd-Option-Dragging and dropping the files.This creates an “alias”, which is a special file that Apple dreamed up. UNIX users are accustomed to symbolic links, and codeswritten in UNIX will not follow or “resolve” Mac aliases. Instead, they will cause an exception to be thrown.
There used to be some libraries to handle this, but they relied on Apple’s old Carbon framework which is no longer supported.There is a mac_alias package but the documentation is lacking. So, I found anold post on MacWorld where one solution is given, and I ported thatfor what I need.
Happy to share with you, so that you won’t have to worry about this. As an added bonus, you can tell it to convert aliases to symboliclinks, so that “next time” you won’t have to deal with this. Enjoy.
The above code is part of the utils/ directory in my Panotti package.The way it’s called is in the context of trying to read an audio file, called in the file panotti/datautils.py:
Happy coding!
NOTE: Currently this code only follows _one_ alias. If there’s an alias pointing to an alias to a file, it won’t resolve to that file.Full generality would involve adding an iterative or recursive way of traversing multiple aliases which…I may do later. ;-)
(c) 2020 Scott H. Hawley