We have a couple of machines that are still running Snow Leopard, so the Apple patch won’t work. One option is to recompile bash and its patches from source, but why do that when I already have MacPorts on those machines. Testing the vulnerabilities From Stack Exchange, there are multiple vulnerabilities: The first one is […]
Category Archives: computer stuff
Mail in Mavericks is screwed up
Around the same time that I got this new laptop, TAMU switched from hosting its own mail to a Google Apps-based system. As part of the changeover, you can import your mailboxes from the old system to the new system. After hooking up the new account in Mail.app as an IMAP account, there are messages […]
New laptop
I’ve been working on a 2011 MacBook Air since Spring of 2012. A&M is really nice in having a program to subsidize computer purchases for faculty, but unfortunately I had do spend my faculty workstation funds a month or so before Apple updated the Airs, which meant that I got the version where 250G was […]
WordPress shortcode plugins with multiple instances
I’ve been working on the JSmol2wp plugin used in these previous posts. There have been a couple of challenges associated with putting multiple copies of the JSmol viewer applet in the same post, and in having multiple posts with viewers. The WordPress shortcode API doesn’t provide an obvious way for a shortcode to know its […]
Testing JSmol2wp
[jsmol pdb=’1LMB’ caption=’lambda repressor headpiece’ debug = ‘false’ wrap = ‘5’ commands = ‘arm = select 1-6:3, 1-6:4; color yellow;||| helix-turn-helix = select 33-52:3, 33-52:4; color yellow; hide hoh;||| helix 5 = select *:3,*:4; spacefill off; cartoon; select 84,87; color yellow; spacefill on; select *; hide hoh; hide *:1,*:2; #moveto 2 0 1 0 0 0 […]
Updating to Mavericks Server
We have a mini that we got to support a program to train undergrads in bioinformatics. Over the past week or so I’ve been working on updating it to run Mavericks and Mavericks Server. I first decided to go with OSX servers back when I had a G5 blade running Panther Server for the user-friendly GUI […]