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Firefox Fonts Hurts in Linux

kranny — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:51:49 +0000

Are you tired of the small fonts you have been lookin in firefox for months?Many of use the ctrl++ option to make it bigger…but it makes the webpage look ugly.Here is a complete solution to change that into clear and crisp fonts..(Tested in Ubuntu 8.04)

—>Install msttcorefonts , gsfonts , gsfonts-other and gsfonts-x11.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts gsfonts gsfonts-other gsfonts-x11

goto System—>preferences–>appearance–>fonts
Change Everything to Verdana except the windows title font which u change to Verdana Bold
If u use LCD Select the Subpixel smoothing Option or else leave it to Monochrome

—>Goto details in the same window and Smoothing should be Subpixel and Hinting should be Full
—>Open Firefox–>edit—>preferences—>content
Under Fonts change it to times new roman and under advanced change the size to 12..
Close Firefox and restart the X-server for the settings to take effect..
U should Be done with

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Kranny — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:24:52 +0000

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Realplayer Problems on fedora7

Kranny — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:03:22 +0000

Well, it was commonly heard that when realplayer was installed on fedora 5,6,7 it never started; even though it was installed properly and yeah I did face the same problem.

And here is the solution - “Install compat-libstdc++-33 before installing realplayer”

[root@kranny~]# yum install compat-libstdc++-33
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-61 set to be updated

Dependencies Resolved

========================================

=====================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
compat-libstdc++-33 i386 3.2.3-61 fedora 232 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 232 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): compat-libstdc++-3 100% |=========================| 232 kB 00:46
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: compat-libstdc++-33 ######################### [1/1]

Installed: compat-libstdc++-33.i386 0:3.2.3-61
Complete!

[root@kranny~]# cd /softwarez/Rpms/
[root@kranny~ Rpms]# rpm -ivh RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:RealPlayer ########################################### [100%]

This worked for me. Hope it works for u.

Crappy Article at Microsoft

Kranny — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:21:03 +0000

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314458

It says “This article assumes that Linux is already installed on your computer’s hard disk, that Linux native and Linux swap partitions are in use (which are incompatible with Windows XP),”

Microsoft LIES again! Or at least, they are myopically unaware of the information about file-system support for BOTH Linux native filesystem ext2, and the Linux swap partition format. YOU CAN use BOTH of these file systems AND get support for them, through their respective webpages (3rd party, of course).
Linux Swap partition driver AND support, for use under Windows XP:
Download “SwapFS”: http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/
Get support: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=245393
Linux “ext2″ partition read/write driver, AND support, for use under Windows XP:

Download “Ext2IFS” AND get support: http://www.fs-driver.org/

The page, nor the one linking to the use of fdisk talk about the “fdisk /mbr” commands, the most useful and important for removing linux and getting LILO, GRUB or some other bootloader out of the Master Boot Record. They say you can do it, they just don’t say how.i wonder why microsoft publishes such Least Useful ones.

6 Reasons Why I Love Perl

kranny — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:13:18 +0000

I’m a Recent convert to Perl,having only started using it a few months ago.Before this I had Handful experience with Shell Scripting which was quite useful.But switching to something new is always somewhat uncomfortable because there’s new syntax to learn, and sometimes whole new ways of doing things.Same is the case with Perl,but the pain was offset by the sheer joy of being able to do so many formerly clumsy tasks so simply and elegantly.

Many People Think that Perl is pretty much unreadable..But the fact is Perl is as unreadable as a terminal is unusable..

Before Starting this article i would like to dispose one thing than i am no perl expert.I just want to share these so that you might be intersted with this beautiful language.Enough With the introduction.Lemme dive into the Matter.

—->Perl’s pattern matching can be a little confusing at first,but once u get familiar,it becomes natural,and so much easier than anything else you’ve ever worked with.If you are used to “sed” and”awk”,then welcome to super combination of those two…

—->I’ve always felt Python to be sluggish in comparison to Perl, but never had any stats to back it up.I’m not sure if the speed advantage still exists.Now Plz dont start Flame Wars on this…:)

—->Perl has ways to cut down on the amount of code you need to write (like using a regex on a file and then sticking the whole thing into a hash).

—->Though it becomes tedious to write some bigger applications in Perl(again its easy if u have a good session management builtin),its great for manipulation and quick and dirty scripts, without a doubt.

—->Also because OO is a hack and everything can be accessed as a hash, so you can list anything the hash includes. Don’t know if any other languages do this.

—->AFAIK the Benchmarks tests,Perl leads the way.I would suggest going through this

“Python vs Perl vs Java vs C++”

“PerlOpenGL (POGL) vs PyOpenGL”

Thats All for now guys.Enough of reading Grab the Book and Share the joy of Learning a Poweful language.