The critters across the street like the warm weather too. Living here in the park as I do, I can attest that the animals are out and about a lot more in this tepid winter.

I’m famous. City Pages mentioned me. I’m basking in my 15 minutes.

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.