I find Mac OS X for Unix Geeks very, very helpful. I own the the Tiger paper version, and also the Leopard PDF.
(If you hold an O’Reilly account, and if you register your Leopard paper version of this book by simply entering the right ISBN und My Account, then this month the PDF upgrade costs you only $4.99. Pragmatic Progammers also ask you a question like “what’s the 1st word on page 203”, which  you can obviously also answer correctly, if you sit in the coffee corner of your book store with your computer on your lap. But you are an honest book owner, aren’t you?)

Download fink from sourceforge! This opens a wide realm of extra UNIX utility to you. A very nice installer and repository!!

Tell fink to install emacs22-carbon for you! Yes, there is also a carbon native version of emacs. There is also an an emacs23-app (this is a carbon version!!) in the unstable area of the repository, but you don’t want to start your UNIX life on OS X with unstable utilities, as I do, do you?!?

MacPorts is another nice installer and repository, that you may want to get hold on.

Is there any such beast?
The emacs, that comes with Leopard’s X11 optional package, seems to be an alphanum only one.
To be continued …

I was recently communicating with “somebody” on a revanche-seeking person,
and “somebody” was creating the German word vingativ from the Portuguese word vingativo.

It actually took me a moment to find out, what it really means and where it derives from. Initially I had not clue at all, to be honest.

The English wiktionary entry on revanche did not help at all,
but the French one on vengeance
and the Portuguese on vingar did.
They both refer to the Latin vindicare (which is actually a pretty empty entry),
but that word in fact means going to justice (maybe somebody wants to replace this English phrase).

So that word made quite a way from going to justice to do-it-yourself justice, didn’t it? What dou you think?

There has been some news today that NY’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will sue Tagged for doing bad things like identity theft.

I do care about my informational identy and privacy,
but I frankly want to tell everybody,
I have got not worries WRT this and Tagged.

both the english word hazard
and the portuguese word azar
sounded so similar to me, when I first heard that word used by my Love,
so that I considered them to mean the same.
that’s incorrect, as I had to find out very soon,
when we looked up the dictionaries on Sunday evening.
what a time for looking up dictionaries?
but what else would adults do beyond 23:00 on Sunday evenings?

but me being a little strongheaded I finally found out,
that both words go back to the same root,
which is the arab word “az-zahr” resp. “al-zahr” meaning “the dice”.
weird, isn’t it?!? same root, opposite meanings. wow.

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