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Microsoft’s new ClearType fonts for Vista are great. The fonts include Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas.
Getting them installed in Ubuntu is a breeze, thanks to a script I found.
To install the Vista ClearType fonts in Ubuntu, you need to install cabextract first. Cabextract is a utility found in the universe repository, so before […]
With the cursory hat tip to Marketing Pilgrim who does a sentiment analysis for firefox Vs. Internet Explorer, lets get started on Ubuntu and Windows. Sorry folks, I just could resist plugging in the words and let them duke it out.
Most interestingly, according to opinmind, 87% of all bloggers who have blogged about Ubuntu like […]
I was looking for a replacement for SecureCRT in Ubuntu. Something that would let me save all my SSH connections and make it possible to open a connection with the least effort.
As is often the case, I found something better than SecureCRT - a panel applet for GNOME that gives me a drop-down list of […]
I read the impressive growth and traffic details for WordPress.com at Matt’s Blog. WordPress has always been very dear to me, and it makes me happy to note that the WordPress team grows from strength to strength, without compromising on values, and while keeping things open, almost entirely so.
However, the stat freak in me […]
Ans: A guy in a pic….
Trivial, I know, and not too original either, since I got it from LiveJournal, but I couldn’t resist posting this
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fubuntulinuxhelp.com%2Fwhat%25e2%2580%2599s-common-to-ubuntu-and-circuitcity%25e2%2580%2599s-firedog-3%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘What%E2%80%99s+Common+to+Ubuntu+and+CircuitCity%E2%80%99s+Firedog%3F’;
addthis_pub = ‘ubuntulinuxhelp’;
I was in love with Acer laptops. I bought my first one, an Acer Travelmate 290 LMi in my second year of grad school. I did pay ~ $1200 for it, but it was awesome, right until the moment there were errors with the hard disk controllers about 3 years later. When I sold it […]
The utility “tee” is very useful for plumbing on the command line. Curiously enough, it gets its name from the T-splitter used in plumbing, shown below:
Say you want to run a command, and be able to see the output and errors on the screen, and be able to save them to a file. That’s where […]
Ubuntu offers a lot of fonts, in addition to the defaults installed, and the MicroSoft msttcorefonts package, in its repositories. All these fonts mentioned here are provided as packages, which can easily installed using command line tools like apt-get or using Synaptic. These fonts will come in handy for designing flyers, or for designing headers […]
You guys must remember Jessamyn, the librarian who posted a video about installing Ubuntu at, where else, the library.
Well, by some strange coincidence, which cannot be explained rationally, I ran into her again on the tubes. I followed the user profile link at this comment on Ask MetaFilter to end up at her profile page. […]
Via Chris Ilias’ Blog comes this gem of a tip.
If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, and love the threaded view, but hate losing the threaded view whenever you click on “Sender” or “Date” to sort the messages, then this is the tip for you. This helps you keep the threaded view regardless of how you sort […]
