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HP Thunderbolt Dock G2: Dual-monitor-support with MacBookPro?

Posted on Wednesday September 29th, 2021

Update: January, 15th, 2024 I use the HP Thunderbolt Dock G2 (120W) from HP professionally with my HP Probook 440 G7. I asked myself if […]

German Posts, English Posts, Field Reports, Hardware, macOS

Serial Tools for Apple Silicon M1

Posted on Wednesday July 7th, 2021

Serial tools are rare and no longer maintained due to the age and limitations of interface technology.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.

German Posts, English Posts, Java, macOS, Software

PP3 – Star Charts for macOS

Posted on Sunday February 7th, 2021

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 […]

Astronomy, German Posts, English Posts, macOS, Software

CelestlabX for Scilab 6 on macOS

Posted on Sunday November 17th, 2019

Fortunately the astrodynamics toolbox Celestlab is available for macOS on Scilab 6.0 and 6.1 as a binary. Unfortunately the extension module toolbox CelestlabX is not. […]

English Posts, Programming, Scilab, Software

Stixbox on Scilab 6 for macOS

Posted on Sunday November 17th, 2019

The popular statistics toolbox STIXBOX for Scilab cannot be installed via ATOMS on Scilab 6.0.x or 6.1.x on Apple’s macOS. Binaries of the dependent toolboxes […]

English Posts, Programming, Scilab, Software

Install Octave 4 on Mac OS X El Capitan

Posted on Sunday August 14th, 2016

To install GNU Octave on a Mac is not as easy as on Microsoft Windows® or GNU/Linux.

Ready-to-use App bundles are outdated and/or do not run reliably. The installation with a package manager as MacPorts or Home Brew does not work out-of-the-box.

This How-To describes how to install Octave 4.0.3 with MacPorts (Version 2.3.4) on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). It shows how to avoid pitfalls and workaround bugs.

German Posts, English Posts, How Tos, macOS, Octave

Octave 4 upgrade via MacPorts fails after “port upgrade outdated”

Posted on Sunday August 14th, 2016

To keep MacPorts and its ports up to date a frequently performed sudo port selfupgrade and sudo port upgrade outdated do the job. Unfortunately the […]

German Posts, English Posts, macOS, Octave