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Use custom font on konqueror
There’s this really beautiful font i just love! Its Linux Libertine and has more than thousands of characters!
Since i’m studying japanese i’ve been visiting alot the wikipedia’s hiragana page ! and with their default font, for some particular characters, i was seeing alot of squares!
So after a while i figured out that it was the [...]
How to prevent emacs from showing the splash screen
Emacs‘ splash screen is enable by default, even if it’s started with a argument, like opening a file. So the solution was always in the splash screen but you’ll find out how to remove the splash screen using the essencial dot emacs file
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to start a new X server with Quake wars to work as a minimizer for GNU/Linux
I’ve played Enemy territory since early 2006 in GNU/Linux and one of the things i missed from the beginning was the lack of a good minimiser. There was a ET minimiser ( ET Switch ) but it didn’t worked very well. So an alternate solution was the even more elegant solution of launching a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )How to create and remove a soft link, symlink or symbolic link
A soft link, or more common, a symlink, is link a shortcut to the targeted file or directory. So when is removed the original target stays present. This is the opposite of a hard link which is a reference to the target and so, if the hard link is removed, so is the target.
A [...]
long string : kernel_downgrade
i’ve downgraded to 2.6.21-ck2 (yes, thats the Con Kolivas patchset) which means no more happy daily panicking. AND i’ve almost burned a cd with k3b!! halted at 68% and gave to the system hiccups. Real hiccups.. really. For every 2-3 seconds the system halted for some 5-6 seconds. Which made writing so much fun! i [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )short string : kernel_panic;
So my kernel, which suposed to be working for several years without a halt, is having daily panics.
I went to find out more, and found that my kernel suffers from Panic disorder.
I call him hysterical. (or as the kernel doctor called: medically unexplained)
Nano – Shortcuts, syntax highlight and nanorc config file – pt1
I have been using nano as my favorite console editor (i use emacs/kate for the rest) for some time now. It’s simplicity, the speed and usefulness of it made it what it is. But recently, i’ve been trying to find out more features that i might been missing. One of those were the shortcuts. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Nano – Shortcuts, syntax highlight and .nanorc config file – pt2
And now, let’s look at the .nanorc file.
Here, i’ll go through the .nanorc config file, try to explain parts of it and set the syntax highlight on.
See the first part for shortcuts .
