Been setting up my Linux machine and getting everything setup the way I like it. I had to install a few fonts that I like using. Found the following info:
If ~/.fonts does not exist, create it:
$ mkdir ~/.fonts
Copy the font, from the command line, run the following:
$ cp [fontfile] ~/.fonts
From the command line, run the following:
$ fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts
or alternatively, log out, and log back in.
Works great.. found on this site.
If you’ve installed both GCJ & Sun JDK installed on the same Ubuntu Linux install then you might have the problem I add. I installed both Eclipse and NetBeans and now the default Java Runtime was set to GCJ. To fix this you just have to try run the following:
update-java-alternatives –set java-1.5.0-sun
This should switch everything to use the Sun JRE. Found this info on the Java – Ubuntu Community Documentation.
I had a bit of trouble getting Twin View to work on my new machine (Blizzard) to work.
Blizzard arrived yesterday (Thursday) and below are a few photo’s of what the lounge looked like after the un-boxing and assembling it.
On Tuesday a friend and I went to watch a movie (Hot Fuzz, pretty good movie) and while collecting the ticket from the TicketLine machine it crashed with the “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” error message, which I think every programmer has seen at least once in their life.
I have a Mac Mini that sits in my lounge and is hooked up to my LCD TV and hifi. I use it with front row to watch “stuff” and listen to music. I’ve been wanting to work out a way to access all the music on my other Linux machine for a while now. Continue reading
I was reading a post, “Recording Your Entire Life” and all the comments about it on Slashdot, then went on to reading the linked article at Scientific American (A Digital Life).
I was immediately reminded of a movie called “The Final Cut” with Robin Williams. The movie is a little creeping.. basically the idea is that people could have a “Zoe Implant” put into there unborn children that would record everything they see and hear. When the person dies, the implant is removed and loaded into a fancy editing station where a cutter then edits it into a highlights package that is played for the family and friends of the person who died.
Joel @ Joel On Software has a post up about Customer Service and how important it is that you have good customer service.
I have to agree with what he’s written, Customer Service is important, very important but it’s also important how you deliver that customer service. I get to deal with a lot of companies and it’s true that the ones I recommend to everyone else and the ones I constantly use are those that provide good customer service.
Let me tell you a true story about something that happened a few weeks ago that should illustrate my point.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I like watches of all shapes and sizes and while I’ll admit that I prefer a digital timepiece I love the elegance and genius of the true analogue watches, those that work and keep accurate time with out even a battery. But can you improve on the normal everyday wrist watch?
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No I haven’t all of a sudden gotten interested in poetry. Haiku is a new Open Source Operating system designed from the ground for Desktop Computing, according to the website it’s “inspired by BeOS“.
Does the world need yet another OS?
