I’ve run into this one a couple of times so far, so I thought it might be good to post the solution :-) In OS X, with Matlab versions R2008b, R2008a, R2007b and R2007a, a Java update on the system may have made the cursor in the text editor not align with the text: you align the cursor with a character, hit delete, and a character several spaces over goes away. VERY annoying. Mathworks has a patch to fix this, available at http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/details.html?rp=495091 (you’ll [snip...]
Is it fair to give iPhone (& little brother iPod touch) special treatment just because they’re cool?
Well, I bet you can guess where Apple stands on that question. They are clearly engaged in a serious push get their multi-touch mobile devices in the hands of as many students, teachers, and staff as possible.
At EDUCAUSE 08 Apple is quite present, which is not unusual, but what is interesting is that every scheduled Apple-run session implicitly (if not blatantly) tries to bootstrap the iPhone into whatever [snip...]
As most Mac owners know, yesterday Apple released OS X 10.5, code-name Leopard. Some lucky customers, including those of us in Computing Services here at Thayer School received our copies and have begun installing and playing. I have successfully installed it on my MacBook Pro, but have run into a few software issues that I thought I’d document in the hopes that it may save someone some time and effort somewhere.
- Cisco VPN
I know this is an odd one to have first, but I use this
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Due to recent changes to Dartmouth wireless networking and limitations on one of our print servers, wireless printing for Mac and Linux is only available from Dartmouth Secure and Dartmouth Wireless Portal. You will be unable to print if connected to Kiewit Wireless.
All Windows PCs and Mac & Linux computers connected to the wired network are not affected.
Instructions for connecting to the new wireless networks can be found at our help pages.
If you run into trouble connecting, please e-mail [snip...]
Here’s an obscure one, about as far from Frequently Asked as you can get, but if it can help but one stumbling interneter then it was worth the typing.
If you’re getting getting an error on your Mac whenever you try to use the built-in iSight camera complaining that “Your camera is in use by another application“..
and you’ve made dag-nabit sure there’s no other iSight hogging app running…
and you’ve rebooted…
and you’ve cmd-opt-P-R-ed…
and you’ve Software Updated…
and you’ve tried every hair-brained tip from every far-flung forum that comes [snip...]
