Gathering! :-)
So, two friends that worked with me at INPE are coming to Munich next weekend (30-31/01)! Alex Wuenchen (INPE) and Rodrigo Leonardi (ESA) will be coming for the weekend, so tourism and music! We used to play together.
Thursday back up day. Finished to copy my back up and started to see how could I expand my Time Machine partition. Turns out I'd need the iPartition and I'm not in the mood for paying about 40 USD for it. So I'll have to copy data to another disc, then change the partitions and re-copy. Tried it last night and it didn't work fine with a "cp". Turns out there're too many cyclic references and it copies everything (I could tweak the parameters, I know).
So you search and talk to people and got this info:
http://www.macyourself.com/2008/12/10/how-to-copy-your-time-machine-backups-to-a-new-larger-drive/
It works.
(actually done in the weekend and worked fine)
Science. Identifying and correcting the GALFIT failures (not running them yet). This will go on monday and reading the draft of the UCDs paper. It's getting good!
Labels: hcg_ucd, hi-z morph, life, Mac_hints
FIMS for Mac day
OBs from yesterday were accepted and today me and Michael Hilker selected the Lick stars we want to observe. OBs for that are ready. Tomorrow I'll review them and check them in.
More on catalogue organizing for the clusters.
The "fun" for the day was making FIMS 2.52 for MacOSX. I have got yesterday version 2.43, which is no longer accepted by ESO to prepare masks with it. New period, new version :-)
First thing was to find out the difference between the Mac and the Linux version for 2.43. Turned out to be much simpler than I thought (of course, simpler when it's done and you're only seeing what was changed, figuring out what to change is a whole other story and I'm thankful to Marco Lombardi and whoever else did this part). The modifications are all related to the standalone version of Skycat that comes with FIMS.
Basically, instead of having a pre-compiled skycat 2.7.3 for linux a Mac version of skycat 3.0 was included. Then is basically changing the version number (some places have it hardwired, some ask the system for it and they were bypassed and hardwired) and changing the "instalation" of skycat, instead of copying a file and making it executable, the whole Skycat.app directory is copied. The copy must be done with options -RL, so that the skycat link inside Skycat.app/Content/MacOS/ gets properly copied, as a link, and not that the file is copied replacing the link. If the file is copied, skycat doesn't run, because paths will become a problem.
Anyway, is a hand full of modifications, and it works. At least it seems to. Did some tests with masks and couldn't find any important difference. It should not have any, since the modifications are only to make skycat install and run, not at the FIMS plugin. Of course it requires the remark "comes as it is, use at your own risk"!!! :-))
In any case it is possible to have a MacOS version of FIMS .If I ever find out how maintains it, I'll give them the information, so that they can do a MacOS version of it.
Also some coding on the KG project.
Labels: eso_preimaging, hi-z morph, kg, Mac_hints
Masks finished
The main topic of the day was finishing the masks, by discussing the opened issues and submitting the OBs for that. That's done! Still the OBs for the Lick stars to go. I'll see that tomorrow.
Some catalogue organization and some discussion and data analysis to improve and give input to our PNs in HCGs proposal.
The digging part of the day was FIMS on MacOSX. Got the version from Marco Lombardi that he and some colleagues have managed to run on MacOSX 10.4 some time ago.
Problem, it doesn't run on MacOSX 10.5 (Leopard) ... looking carefully that was a problem with FSMOSAIC, that the binary was not running on 10.5 ... then I started digging on a version of FSMOSAIC to be compiled. Found version 1.0 (2002), but I knew that a lot of improvement happened until version 1.3 (2007-2008), probably including the FORS2 new CCD mosaic and surely including FORS1 new CCD mosaic ... then Marco gave me version 1.2, that allowed me to open non-FORS images, old-FORS images, but was giving an error message and collapsing with FORS2 images that were already processed with FSMOSAIC ...
Then my old friend Sandra Castro from ESO's Software Development Division got me version 1.3 with Carlo Izzo (could have got to him directly if I know he was the responsible) and it has work! Now I have a version of FIMS that work on a Mac!!! The problem now is that it's version 2.43 and the last version is 2.52 ... and P2PP (the OBs preparation task) checks for the right version ... so I still have to see the differences between the two version and update my Mac version accordingly ... but that will be done some other time! In any case I may have a version of FIMS running on MacOSX any time soon ...
Labels: eso_preimaging, hi-z morph, Mac_hints
Gemini Phase II, II - the saga continues
Today I had the keyboard of my macbook replaced. The edge of it start to crack, as usual in macbooks, but warranty is warranty.
Working on the details of the phase II of Gemini. Tomorrow last details and then, phase II of VLT.
Also some coding, a lot of it, in a conceptual mode, to check the logic.
Labels: gemini_preimaging, hcg_ucd, kg, Mac_hints
