How-to Esoterica

Finding your user agent when dealing with nasty MSIE-only sites.
Combining PDFs using Automator (and getting good permissions)
Sampling from dataset in MS Excel.
Combining calendars in iCal
Getting the printer at Bellarmine to work properly in the Printer Setup Utility
Putting TeX on the MS Winders machines at school: installing MikTeX and its friends.
The somewhat tricky task of getting ultra-tex-mode to work with noweb-modewithin ESS for typesetting for Sweave in emacs. (holy moly, does anyone even understand such a phrase?)
Recovering from a hang on compare in Retrospect.
Trying to get the quartz device working from ESS in R. (now ain't that a load of gibberish!)
Setting up and using fiesty docushare printers. The durn thing just sits like a lump!
Accessing your iTunes music when it is stored on another network (i.e. across networks). This works via ssh, so it works only for people who can log into the computer doing the sharing, and hence is not a method for pirating.
Quick method for complicated graphics in Stata --- go to UCLA's site and choose your graph!
Fixing white noise and 60Hz hum when recording albums (LPs) using a Griffin iMic.
Novell Groupwise and Mac OS X -- how to cope.
Two-sided printing from a Xerox Docucentre 440.
Some places to get started using the Unix innards of Mac OS X. (This started as Yet Another Terminal Intro, and may very well soon be one.)
Getting Started with Emacs

Here are some nasty things which need some notes (and so that I don't forever forget the fix).

If applications crash when trying to print, it could be because the installable options for the printer do not match the type of printing which has been requested.
If M$ Word is having trouble printing, be sure that the Format on page setup is for the printer you want, and not set to Any Printer.
If you are getting double punctuation and whitespace in TextEdit and other Cocoa applications in Panther, then you probably have an old version (1.3 or earlier) of CocoAspell sitting around. Go get a newer version and install it.
Unpacking all messages in Claris Emailer(!).
Adding custom math environments to ultra-tex.
Installing the TeX pstricks package and using it with TeXShop.
Backing up a MacOS laptop
Changing help.start() to use the proper browser for the Mac OS X version of R.
Possible patch for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) modem scripts
Installing the VPC 5.0.2 upgrade
Putting Mathematica 3.0 EPS files into LaTeX documents.

Things which probably are of no interest to anyone else...

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Last Updated Monday, November 6, 2006, 7:33