I keep wondering about the slate of games offered as part of the Humble Bundles. Both of the previous bundles have included a really good "headline" game (World of Goo and Braid), and a bunch of games which to my eyes vary between clever but very light (Osmos), of limited appeal (Machinarium), just plain unimpressive (Gish, Lugaru), and simply unfinished (the still-incomplete Cortex Command, the beta Revenge of the Titans, and this "prototype" Jack Claw). Plus a few I'm simply uninterested in. I'm sure the other games have their fans, and I'm not saying they're bad -- just not especially high-caliber, and generally not something I'd pay more than a couple bucks even if they weren't part of the bundle. Can Wolfire not find more developers to take part, or is this the best available slate of indie-cross-platform games?

(I've bought both of the previous bundles and will buy the third. I'm just disappointed that a) I don't have much money to contribute and b) what's on offer isn't really worth much more to me).

All true, to be sure. I've had a look at Modern Greek, yes; I can sometimes make out the gist of the old Katharevousa dialect but not Demotic, which yields no more than a few familiar roots to my inspection. While there are a fair few common roots, the grammar has undergone massive changes since Aristotle, to the extent that the Attic and Demotic dialects are probably less mutually intelligible than, say, Italian and Spanish.

I think that's correct. It's a Greek paradigm although the original name is presumably Lydian. Woodhouse has it as Guges, -ou, ho, which ought to make the accusative Gugen. The TLG agrees. (Slashdot's dropping the Greek characters for some reason, but the 'e's are both etas).

I'm two weeks away from a master's degree in Ancient Greek. I'm not sure I'd pass the Greek portion of the exam. Why? Because it focuses on extremely rigorous memorization of obscure details (and I'm talking obscure details of an arcane dead language, mind you). I can read even difficult Greek pretty well, but that doesn't mean I can decline 'trirs' (a noun in a highly unusual declension), or form the correctly-accented participles of 'histmi', or decline much of anything in the unusual dual number, off the top of my head and without consulting a grammar. Nor, I think, could most of my colleagues. The translation *into* Greek, however, is quite easy. It's a hard test for college freshmen, to be sure, but it's also testing based on a very different sort of educational objective. Passing the Greek section requires more memorization than actual competence in the language.

I am a Mac developer (on Mac, for Mac), so I'll try to address your questions - bear in mind though I have little experience with non-Mac systems.

1: Terminal.app is bare-bones but fairly usable. If you need more bells and whistles by all means go for iTerm. Also, I recall reading somewhere that Leopard will have an upgraded Terminal with more features.

2: My familiarity with Linux/UNIX is not high, but I'm pretty sure what you're looking for is launchd. You can manage launchd's daemons via the command-line launchctl, which I assume can be done through ssh though I've never tried it. (There's also a very nice FOSS Cocoa app called Lingon that interfaces with launchd locally).

3: X isn't bad; it starts automatically when you attempt to open an X app, which can be packaged and opened from the Finder just like a native one or from the command line. In my experience it's a bit slow, especially on first startup, but usable. There are a few quirks of integration with the OS X window manager and controls, but nothing too serious. Oh, and Fink is very very valuable, though it can be somewhat out of date (you absolutely must use the unstable package tree).

4: Of a sort, yes; there is a hierarchical list view and a column-based browser. I find both very clumsy myself and tend to stick with the old-style Mac icon view. Fair warning, the Finder is widely -- and correctly -- considered a piece of junk needing a total rewrite. It's not well (or at all?) multithreaded and tends to balk on things Konqueror wouldn't even bat an eyelash at.

Hope this helps.