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Install Mutt on Mac OS X using Homebrew

Administrator — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:05:51 +0000

The recent version of Homebrew can’t install Mutt. After a quick check of the error info, I found that maybe due to either Tokyo-Cabinet need to be installed with sudo, or the config for Mutt on Homebrew never check whether Tokyo-Cabinet is installed, even though it claims a dependency.

To solve this, you can try both of the below steps or just edit the Mutt config file as below:

sudo brew install tokyo-cabinet (as you do in Macports)
brew edit mutt. Add “–with-tokyocabinet”, below line41 “–enable-hcache”, don’t forget the quotation mark and the comma.

Now install Mutt. If it still states the linking step fails, sudo it.

This is too COOL

Administrator — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:48:05 +0000

But it is way expensive.

Use XeTeX with latexmk

Administrator — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:28:52 +0000

Just find out that it is easy to set XeTex to work with latexmk. From TeX on Mac OS X mailing list by Herb Schulz:

Move the engine files from ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Latexmk/ two directories up, to ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ to activate them. Once that is done restart TeXTShop.

To use the xelatexmk engine simply put the line

% !TEX TS-program = xelatexmk

at the top of the source file.

Collecting iPad Reviews

Administrator — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:41:39 +0000

Yes, people are getting theirs before 3rd, April.

Mossberg saying:

After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop.

David Pogue saying:

Speaking of video: Apple asserts that the iPad runs 10 hours on a charge of its nonremovable battery — but we all know you can’t trust the manufacturer. And sure enough, in my own test, the iPad played movies continuously from 7:30 a.m. to 7:53 p.m. — more than 12 hours. That’s four times as long as a typical laptop or portable DVD player.

and Boingboing:

iPad is a touch of genius. But it’s the things I never knew it made possible — to be revealed or not in the coming months — that will determine whether I love it. Each app for iPad can’t be more than 2 gigs in compressed archive form (a limitation imposed by the zip compression standard at work here, not something of Apple’s own design).

I think the 2g limit might be a good thing, since I just want to buy the 16g version of iPad of the moment.

Via DaringFireball and from Boingboing

BTW, The Big Storm Picture posted an interesting comparison between CS4 and coming CS5 for image manipulation, and the difference is quite huger than I expected. You should click the link to see it.

使用 Alpine 通过 IMAP 访问 Gmail

Administrator — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:16:11 +0000

过程简单：

启动alpine，输入msla。在nickname处随便写个你要用的名称，就写gmail好了。Server处填写：imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=id@gmail.com/novalidate-cert。
继续在alpine中操作，输入msc。SMTP server输入：smtp.gmail.com/submit/user=id@gmail.com/novalidate-cert
使用whereis命令，找到Display Character Set和Posting Character Set，都设为UTF-8。
如果不想把邮件保存在本地，则需要输入msl，然后删除那个local的文件夹设置。

Ricoh CX1 seems interesting

Administrator — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:26:08 +0000

This seems a common DC, but dpreview tells that this one has a wider dynamic range than normal DCs, “(i)t helps to suppress white-out and expands dynamic range by up to 1EV compared to previous models.” And they also pointed out that the technology Ricoh uses “is in contrast to many existing dynamic range expansion technologies that limit the available ISO range (and can result in increased noise), or reduce the camera’s performance when engaged.” And they further note that “(f)or more extreme lighting situations, there is also a built-in high-dynamic range mode. This shoots two, differently exposed, images consecutively and combines them to enable to capture of a greater dynamic range than would be possible in a single exposure.”

Finally, Ricoh “claims the CX1 will be able to capture and convey dynamic range of up to 12EV. However, Rioch stresses that its feature isn’t trying to produce the fashionable, heavily-processed ‘HDR-look.’ ‘it aims to portray the scene in as natural a way as possible.’”

This sounds very interesting, I look forward to seeing the samples made buy CX1.

Auto hide others on Mac OS X

Administrator — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:17:19 +0000

This is a useful tip if you like to focus on your present task:

$ defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool TRUE
$ killall Dock

From Macosxhints.com

Bye, my iBook G4

Administrator — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:18:31 +0000

3Three weeks ago, my iBook G4 was stolen in the lab while I was away for a seminar. Life sucks. Just a few photos for the memory of my first mac.

ITunes 7 更好用了

Administrator — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:54:00 +0000

在启动 iTunes 时按下 “alt/option” 键可以创建或开启多个 library，就如 iPhoto Buddy 一样。

在 iTunes 内可以选择备份到指定位置。

Poor man exchanged his battery for another defective one from Apple

Administrator — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:49:35 +0000

Someone happily sent his battery to Apple China for a new one. However things ended up that he received another defective one whose serial number also is among the serial numbers listed on Apple’s Battery Exchange Program page. Now, he just filled the form again and hoping to receive a good one.

Read the poor guy’s story in Chinese.