Month: January 2006 (Page 1 of 2)

Google’s decision to enter the Chinese marketplace does not come without a moral cost. Even the US Congress is worried about what the human rights issues involved.

It’s a pretty slippery slope. Haven’t we been down it before?

I had been wanting to get a better terminal for OS X since … well, since starting with OS X several years ago. I prefer the Linux terminals: gnome-terminal or konsole. Much more elegant.

I had also tried, without much diligence, to install GNOME and/or KDE on my Mac using Fink and DarwinPorts. Neither with success.

Finally had some success today, as I decided not to take errors for an ultimate answer. Spent a lot of [fruitless] time on Google with lots of conflicting advice from newsgroups, faqs, etc.

Here’s what worked for me, for posterity:

 % sudo dpkg -r --force-all system-xfree86 \ 
system-xfree86-42 system-xfree86-43 
 % sudo fink selfupdate
 % sudo fink index 

 % sudo fink install bundle-kde 

And voila!

Update:

Alas, I can’t seem to copy/paste between Konsole and my native OS X apps. Something about the paste buffer that Konsole uses. Specifically, I can copy from Konsole, but not paste into it.

Bummer.

Red Hat Magazine has an article this month about open source software and nonprofit organizations.

I’d been doing similar things for years, as have other OSS types I know. Nice to see it getting more high-level exposure.

My nomination for the most overused word on the web today.

Google’s book indexing project has been in the news a lot in the last year. Here’s a Congressional Research report on the subject. Only 6 pages!