More Mac installing...

Spent some of the day setting up the new work Macbook. Firefox 3 instead of Safari. iTerm as an alternative to the Terminal. More importantly. I installed Xcode 3.1.2 from the Apple Developer Connection, gfortran direct from GNU itself, fink 0.9.0 from http://www.finkproject.org/, and then a whole bunch of fink packages installed tetex using FinkCommander.

For now I've decided against installing MacTex, despite it being a more up-to-date Texlive-based tex/latex distrbution than fink's tetex.

It looks like getting scipy installed will take some work (or at least more work than installing it on Fedora, "yum -y install scipy python-matplotlib ipython"), as its not available by default in fink.

Anyway, the most important set of software installation is now over with compilers on the system and access to installable unix tools through fink, so I should be able to continue at a more relaxed pace while starting to do actual work (at the very least, paper writing) on the laptop.