How-To's, Field Reports and Position Papers
Scilab 6.1.1 for Mac currently – January 2023 – runs on macOS High Sierra to Monterey. However, except for one small limitation, Scilab 6.1.1 also works on macOS Ventura. This how-to shows how to suppress the annoying version warning, too.
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Introducing, setup, review and field report of Eclipse for Scientific Computing on a Mac. Ranking for usability for different target groups.
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Update: March, 27th, 2025 I use the HP Thunderbolt Dock G2 (120W) from HP professionally with my HP Probook 440 G7. I asked myself if […]
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Serial tools are rare and no longer maintained due to the age and limitations of interface technology. However, two of my tools are available for Apple’s M1 ARM architecture now.
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Evernote has removed the Outlook plug-in in the new versions of its note-taking program. Many users have often used this – especially in professional use […]
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PP3 is THE program to produce printable star charts in TeX, EPS or PDF format for LaTeX or word processors, even if it is not […]
Continue reading »To replace a simple carriage return with a paragraph end mark Microsoft Word® offers a solution out-of-the-box. LibreOffice does not provide any functionality for this […]
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After a macOS Upgrade MacPorts does not generally work properly. A fast sudo port selfupdate does not do the work either in almost all cases.
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Nach dem Upgrade auf macOS Sierra (10.12) und MacPorts 2.4.1 scheitert sudo upgrade outdated. Das Problem ist der Port transfig. transfig wurde durch fig2dev ersetzt. […]
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After the upgrade to macOS Sierra (10.12) Scilab 5.5.2 did not start and displayed the following error message: This version on Scilab will probably fail […]
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