A Website for Ubuntu Tips

I’ve decided to try starting a website dedicated to various Ubuntu tips. The “beta” version is available at: http://ubuntutips.kendeeter.com This is meant to serve the same purpose as MacOSXHints, but for the Ubuntu community. I realize there is a lot of good info on ubuntuforums.org already, but the information there is unstructured and sometimes difficult […]

Disabling Arial in Ubuntu

Just because I don’t use Ubuntu regularly at home, doesn’t mean it’s the same at work 😉 For some reason, I just cannot get Arial to look good on my Ubuntu box at work. I’ve tried all the various fontconfig settings, and nothing looks as good as how it looks on Windows. The closes result […]

Fighting the Feisty font battle

Just in case anyone was wondering, at least I’m not the only one that is annoyed by fonts on Ubuntu . As described by that bug report, the most annoying aspect of it is that different applications seem to behave differently. And other reports claim that settings change even if only have a blank .fonts.conf.. […]

Shell commands for Linux/Unix newbies

Normally, I don’t write stuff like this, but Qian asked me for a reference of basic shell commands and I got really depressed about what I found. This page (top 10 linux commands for newbies) has over 1000 diggs, and what’s in it’s top 10? vi ! are you kidding me? Yea, that’s sure a […]

Using the Monaco font in gvim on Linux

I wrote a previous tip about how to use Monaco while running an xterm on OSX’s X server. Here’s a similar tip, except running on Linux this time. I like Monaco for it’s legibility at small screen sizes, so I wanted to use it in my gvim session. The first step is to copy the […]

Notes on Google Indexing

I got a sudden spike in my regular daily traffic last week, and it’s all from Google, and all for an article that I wrote quite a while ago. After googling a bit, I discovered that Google apparently does a full rebuild of their indexes approximately once a month. That means that even if it […]