Installing true type fonts for system-wide use in Gnome, KDE, etc.: Become root: su – As root, create the fonts directory: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf Copy the font files in, cd into the fonts directory: cp [fontfiles] /usr/share/fonts/ttf cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf Make fonts.dir:…
True type fonts in Linux
Dependencies of ffmpeg
Once in a blue moon I decide to compile ffmeg from sources. Ffmpeg depends on (borrowed from this site): libogg libvorbis libvorbisenc libvorbisfile libamrnb libamrwb libgsm libtheora lame libtheoradec libtheoraenc libxvidcore libx264 libnut liba52 mplayer codecs at /usr/lib/codecs , /usr/local/lib/codecs…
Non-www to www Redirect on Plesk Hosting
Plesk hosting offers you an option of “Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content”. Using it is sometimes bring in some problems when people type in the url starting with www and some ajax scripts are tuned…
Numlock / numpad not working in Gnome / KDE
You accidentally pressed and did not notice it. Press it again (you should hear a BEEP). If it does not work, try these solutions.
Backup and Restore Evolution Data
Backup gconftool-2 –shutdown evolution –force-shutdown cd tar -cvzf evolution-backup.tar.gz .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution .gnome2_private/Evolution
Setting Up Samba
Objective: create a rather simplistic samba share for a small office or home network. I started from these articles: http://www.howtoforge.com/samba-fileserver-with-swat-fedora8 http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml
Hello world!
This is obviously the first record, so I decided I will not delete it for historical purposes (unlike the first wordpress-supplied comment). Everybody is welcome to my blog.



