Recent content by coogsteve

The Omni group makes a tool called OmniDiskSweeper. I think it is what you need. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/

C or Obj-C that is question? It really depends on what you want to do with your learned skills. If it's mathly types of things, C is what you want to learn first. If it's pretty GUI things, go for Obj-C and Cocoa. And if you have the developer tools installed on your system, you should have...

Sorry to hear of your problems. I use fftw a lot in my work, but indirectry through python2.3. All the packages and libs installed via Fink, with very few headaches. There is another ports tool that I've used from time to time, http://darwinports.org . When you feel up to it, take a look...

if not . . . Fink Commander will default install everything under /sw/ I know, that's not a typical location, but that's were it goes. If you add it to your path you should be okay. If you are having trouble getting Fink and Fink Commander up and running, check the versions of the tools...

scacinto, The easiest way to set it up, IMHO, is to use Fink and Fink Commander. The Fink project is setup to give Mac guys access to the open source tools with a click or two. http://fink.sourceforge.net/ is the site. I've installed a lot of tools using Fink and they work great...

IMHO, Perl is great for scripting OS activities, but I much prefer Python for scientific applications. Like Perl, Python os open source and runs on just about any platform and the MacPython community is very helpful. Steve