Category Archives: General

IE accounts for 95% of browsers – survey

Adding fonts to Red Hat 8.0 – I knew about ~/fonts but I didn’t know I had to run fc-cache, I should have read the release notes – /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RELEASE-NOTES-i386.
True Type fonts were already in a system directory so I didn’t lose out.. Xft handles other dirs.
And specific to Open Office, here’s how to add fonts to that application. Even does TT fonts! I pointed it at ~fonts, dialog box popped up and it kindly informed me that 63 fonts had been imported! I fired up Open Office then, and Arial and all your favourite Windows fonts were there for the picking. My boss would be happy.

Wired 11.01: Google vs. Evil

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | J.R.R. Tolkien — enemy of progress

A few ‘small’ things that would make a huge difference to a Linux desktop. Found this via Google.

Mathew posted some hints on configuring Open Office. He has a couple of good points, but I haven’t decided if I agree with point 5 yet. I like to see my bullet points shaded as the default bullet is quite small and can be mistaken for a full stop (AFAIR).
My Dad didn’t like the page boundary around each page, but after using Word 97 here at work I found it infuriating trying to find the first line of a page. I usually backspaced through too many lines by 1 or 2 lines.

How to Ruin American Enterprise – Not just in the USA…

Interview with a Kernel Hacker, Robert M. Love.

Vanishing Features of the 2.6 Kernel – it’s not all bad, the in-kernel web server is now a user-mode program for instance.

NEW HYPOTHESIS OF THE TUNGUSKA EXPLOSION – it may not have been a comet.