Just for you (well, also me and anyone who wants it):
http://code.google.com/p/zsh-templates-osx/source/detail?r=138
(Powermate and Zalman monitor specific)
On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Wataru Kagawa wrote:
> Hi Bill:
>
> I am excited to hear that Coot works in stereo using the combination
> of the Zalman LCD display and Mac mini/iBook.
> Is it possible to the same thing with a Mac Pro or an iMac (Intel)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Wataru Kagawa
>
> On 2009/07/29, at 16:08, William G. Scott wrote:
>
>> Yo people:
>>
>> Following Warren DeLano's recommendations at pymol.org/zalman, I
>> got a Zalman monitor for about $US 300, which, in California
>> dollars, is about a week's worth of groceries at our local rat-
>> infested Safeway.
>>
>> The latest PyMOL and Coot both work great in stereo. I would go so
>> far as to say these look as good as they did on my ca. $12K (1999
>> dollars) SGI R10000s with Sony trinatron monitors, which I finally
>> got rid of earlier this year. Also, the quality of the migraine
>> these induce seems to be a bit more tolerable.
>>
>> I found it worked fine with a Mac mini (the one my kids have
>> connected to a TV to watch old Flintstones episodes), and also my
>> wife's first generation iBook, the latter of which has no separate
>> graphics card. So if you set it up with a mini, you can have a
>> dedicated stereographics workstation with a reasonable quality
>> monitor for under $1K (or just have a monitor and have your users
>> bring their own laptop and a DVI connector.
>>
>> It comes with DVI and VGA cables, and 1 pair of normal and one pair
>> of clip-on circularly polarized glasses, and enough styrofoam
>> packing to get rid of the last remaining wisps of an evanescent
>> ozone layer.
>>
>> Thanks to Paul (and Warren) for implementing this.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> William G. Scott
>>
>> contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott
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