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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been always kind of planning on running Linux on my desktop again, given that I now have pretty much unlimited access to vmware software ;-). I had been running Windows for a while now, mainly because I couldn’t get Ubuntu Edgy to install (jmicron driver bug). With the release of Feisty Fawn, that changed, […]
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.. […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve come to believe that the number of the Service Pack for any Microsoft product actually is code for how they feel about the release. Initial Release = “Hey this doesn’t crash for most people! Good luck getting any work done with it though!” SP1 = “Ok, all the really broken crap is fixed. But […]
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 […]
As is the case where I’m put in any situation where there are multiple options, I’ve switched blog software many times. Mainly between WordPress, Textpattern, and now Moveable type. While the migrations for most of these are fairly well supported (well, WP to MT is a bit of work), the one thing that gets you […]
For some reason, the setup process for the NFS server on Window Server 2003 R2 is very different than it is on XP. Note that what I’m about to describe is for sharing a directory hosted on my Windows box to another machine on my switch. No integration with active directory or anything like that. […]