Ubuntu is starting to fail me more and more often
My Uncle mentioned that the audio on this aging PC wasn’t working ever since he got it “repaired”. It was running Windows XP and we were initially unable to find the right audio drivers online so I thought I’d give Ubuntu a go on it. Sure enough, the audio worked fine in Ubuntu. However, with […]
Fixing WiFi on a Dell XPS L702x Laptop in Ubuntu 11.04
I have a Dell XPS L702x Laptop and the wireless is dodgy in Ubuntu 11.04. By Dodgy I mean it drops out and doesn’t automatically connect very often especially when a Ethernet cable is unplugged. It seems the problem is that Ubuntu doesn’t get on well with wireless-N (perhaps the driver is buggy?). I fixed […]
WordPress failing to email me about new blog comments
Did you know that WordPress sends you emails when you get a new blog comment? I didn’t – because it has never worked for me. But once I knew it was supposed to email me I looked into it and found a fix. Setup: My setup is running WordPress.org on a Ubuntu 9.04 box called […]
Default search engine in Ubuntu Firefox
Ubuntu will be switching their default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the next release (v10.04) because they have struck a deal where they will get a cut of the money made whenever a user clicks on a advert after doing a search. The only reason that this is interesting is that Yahoo search […]
Ubuntu 9.10 on a Sony Vaio VGN-AR51E
I recommend the new Ubuntu 9.10 release (Karmic Koala), it works well on a Sony VGN-AR51E. Karmic Goods: It includes a new piece of software called “Ubuntu One”: Ubuntu One currently gives you 2GB of free cloud storage via a folder called “Ubuntu One” in your home directory or via a URL (https://one.ubuntu.com/). Ubuntu One […]
Why does some website text look bad on Windows?
Look at the difference between these two 50px headers that use the Georgia font: The top one is from IE8 on Windows Vista, whereas the bottom one is from Firefox 3.0.15 on Ubuntu 9.04. On Windows, the text is clearly less pleasant on the eye? It is has jagged edges, has a pixel or two […]
Web Design Tutorial – scripting Gimp
In a previous tutorial we went through some tedious steps to generate 3 images that could be used to create a page shadow. The great thing about the GIMP is that anything you can do with a mouse and keyboard, you can also do via script. We will generate the following images automatically: Why script […]
Using the Purisa Light font on a Website
If you want to use the “Purisa Light” font on your Linux hosted website, you can follow the following steps: Copy the font file from your desktop machine to your webserver. On Ubuntu the “Purisa Light” font file is located at /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai/Purisa.ttf. e.g: scp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai/Purisa.ttf <username>@<webhost>:/<pathToWebsite>/fonts/Purisa.ttf Add the font face to your stylesheet: Now you […]
Installing fonts in Ubuntu
If you have a font file with a “ttf” extension you can easily install it in Ubuntu (v9.04) and use it in applications such as the Gimp. Essentially, all you have to do is drop it in the correct folder: cd /usr/local/share/fonts If the truetype/custom directory doesn’t exist already: sudo mkdir truetype sudo mkdir truetype/custom […]
Perfectly sized “Powered by Ubuntu” Sticker (18/Aug/08)
If you have a Laptop with a small circular power button (e.g. a Sony VGN-AR51E) the stickers in issue 110 of Linux format magazine seem to be perfectly sized to frame it if you cut a hole in the middle of the Ubuntu logo. Of course, the other thing you have to do is peel […]
