Astronomy and Coffee

Today checking the things for the new flat in Garching. Finally all set to the flat I rented, but I have to take everything (from kitchen to bedroom). The flat comes with the furniture, but only :-)

Complaining about X11 on Mac. Connected a monitor to the MacBook, to use a bigger screen to mask the objects ... open DS9 and put it to the "side" monitor ... it stops working!! GRRRRR You drag it back to the "main" screen, it works perfectly. Even getting the last version of it, no menus, no mouse control ... it happens the same with skycat and xterms (this you can use, but you have to go on X11/window and mark which term you wanna use now ...). On Tiger (tested with a friend) it happens almost the same. The menus appear in the main screen, even though the application is in the side one ... Apple really has to do something and make X11 works properly, after all the "full linux compatibility, is part of their marketing for science users. 

Besides that, it works well. Leopard is more stable with 10.5.2 and the newer versions of X11 don't crash so often ... I got really impressed yesterday, while running the SExtractor first part in Galapagos. It was running for already 2 hours when it finished field 4 out of 8 ... I have to leave, so decided to take my chances and suspend the notebook ... got to the institute, opened it and it started at the point it stopped ... great, that suspend REALLY works!