Rubenerd

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Singapore is a great place to visit
It’s an English speaking country
It’s an old colony
It’s very amusing!

John C. Dvorak

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Just buy [pirated discs] in Singapore! No wait, Malaysia… I should be accurate about this

John C. Dvorak, Cranky Geeks 092

Apple's Leopard release of Mac OS X has been great in the user interface department, but their bundled X11 implementation is seriously broken which is a crying shame given it worked so well in Tiger. You can read my rambles about fun with X11 and some applications that didn't work on it on my Software Compatibility with Leopard post.

Fortunately the X.org folks and Apple have stepped in and provided updated (albeit unofficial… what does that mean exactly?) XQuartz software which you can install from the command line.

bunzip2 Xquartz-<version>.bz2sudo install -b Xquartz-<version> /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz

I'm running the latest downloaded version and it seems to have solved most of my Leopard X11 problems including having several X11 icons appearing in the dock, the slow tool movements in The Gimp, Inkscape refusing to boot, weird GTK theme failures and so forth.

What I want to know is why Apple didn't choose to bundle and distribute this lifesaving X11 update using their Software Update mechanism or with the 10.5.1 update. I can only theorise that because it's targeted mostly at power users who probably already run MacPorts or similar utilities that this was more appropriate, or maybe it has something to do with the fact that this is an "unofficial" release or beta.

As far as I'm concerned the X11 that ships by default with Leopard on disc is seriously broken, and this patch solves the problems. I can't help but wonder though how many people who don't know much about X11 have been put off Leopard because some of their apps are broken.

You can keep up to date with X11 on Leopard by keeping up to date with the XQuartz on Mac OS Forge website.

My old man turns the big 55 today, so a big happy birthday shout out to him :-D.
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

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We need a world government. We need to stop being patriotic towards arbitrary countries and start identifying ourselves as “human beings”.

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Germans are really fetishists about quality.

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Some people are idiots and some aren’t.

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Before starting lighttpd it must be configured. Lighttpd is configured by editing /opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. There’s a sample config file at /opt/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.default. Please note that the launchd daemon relies on the PID being at /opt/local/var/run/lighttpd.pid.

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Congratulations, you have successfully installed the MacPorts system. To get the Portfiles and update the system, run:

sudo port selfupdate

Please read port(1) and the MacPorts Wiki at http://trac.macports.org/ for full documentation.

Stray sources might have been left in the legacy /opt/local/var/db/dports directory after this upgrade, which moved most of what it could to /opt/local/var/macports, so you might want to look in the former and cleanup manually.

He shoots…

He scores!

Don't you love insomnia?

If you want to get yourself KMahjongg from the KDE project and you're running FreeBSD or NetBSD, update your ports tree or pkgsrc and make install clean in the kdegames3 subdirectory in the… wait for it… games directory.

If you installed the entire KDE system from scratch, or if you're running PC-BSD, Kubuntu or another such system with KDE pre-installed, you've already got it in your Games KDE menu folder! Just don't expect to get any work done with this game and any of the others that install along with it!

And now I'm off to bed. Just read on Twitter that Dave Wares is sitting at Costa Coffee having a Gingerbread latte and a biscotti. I'll be having food related dreams again tonight. Is that normal? Ah but we all know how I hate to be normal right?

Oh and the desktop background on my FreeBSD desktop machine is Nodoka (the one on the far left, one of my favourite anime/manga characters!) and friends from Negima; I like having festive backgrounds at this time of the year you see :).