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Wednesday, April 9, 2003
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Interview With Fink's Project Leader Max Horn: "The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. They modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and make it available for download as a coherent distribution." (OSNews.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Reviewing Bioinformatics for Dummies -- Comment()
I finally had the time to draft a review of the book Bioinformatics for Dummies (by Claverie and Notredame). I also experimented with the examples given in the book, and managed to find a (small) mistake. According to the book, the Dotlet program doesn't work on a Mac. There are indeed problems if you are using Internet Explorer, but at least Mozilla (version 1.2 or later) works all right. (I have Mac OS X 10.2 and Java 1.4.1.) Although the book has the words "Windows-friendly" on the cover, almost all of the examples work as such on Mac OS X. And some things are easier on Mac OS X. For example printing to the PDF format is possible just by pressing a button in the "Print..." dialog. Some things are of course different, such as making a screen capture (Command-Shift-4 on a Mac). As a bonus, most of the Unix applications mentioned in the book work on Mac OS X. One such application is EMBOSS, which is also available through Fink. When the review is ready, I'll post it here (in Finnish).
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