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Installing Vista Fonts in Ubuntu 17 Sep 2007 | 06:57 am
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 f...
Bring Jorge’s Blog Back, Please. 14 Sep 2007 | 06:43 am
So Jorge Castro is now a Canonical employee! Jorge, I for one, would love to see your mug again on Planet Ubuntu. I would love to see whiprush.org up and about again. Jorge’s disappearance from the ...
End of a Love Affair with Acer 13 Sep 2007 | 06:13 am
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 err...
What’s Common to Ubuntu and CircuitCity’s Firedog? 9 Sep 2007 | 05:43 pm
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
Ubuntu’s Audience Defined 21 Aug 2007 | 06:31 pm
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 ...
SSH Menu – Save and Open SSH Connections from the Panel 18 Aug 2007 | 12:08 pm
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,...
Thoughts that make me go hmmm! 14 Aug 2007 | 06:01 pm
This thought just struck me: the GNOME “save file” icon is still an image of a floppy (or it is at least in Gnumeric). How many people still remember what a floppy looks like? Should the save icon be...
Alright you drooling idiots! 4 Aug 2007 | 04:59 am
Jem Matzan thinks we technical writers treat you as stupid drooling idiots. Do I? I can honestly say I don’t. I write for the competent computer user who has switched to Ubuntu. Anything that 90-95% ...
I ran into that video-posting librarian again 26 Jul 2007 | 12:37 pm
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 i...
Typing Break and WorkRave: Keep RSI at Bay 5 Jun 2007 | 02:29 am
I woke up on Thursday with a left arm more painful than a 100 episodes of Wheel of Fortune. I had almost pulled an all-nighter the night before to finish reviewing/correcting a paper. I went to the do...
