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Running RasMol from Firefox and Finder in OS X

A colleague asked me today, how can we set up someone’s Mac to open .pdb files in RasMol when clicking a .pdb link in Firefox. This turned out to be a non-trivial operation. Here’s how I did it, with RasMol 2.7.2 and Firefox 3.0.7 on OS X 10.4.

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2009 03 24 Andrew Tips Comments (0)

Installing Flash on 64-bit Linux (Centos 5)

This took a fair bit of searching, and the answer’s non-obvious… Everybody (?) knows that in theory, if you have 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Linux (x86_64), you can use nspluginwrapper to install 32-bit plugins, like the Flash Player. There’s some instructions here for example. However, those instructions are flawed in two regards.

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2009 01 29 Andrew Tips Comments (3)