stuff on linux

microsoft fonts on ubuntu

Sunday, 7 October 2007 5:12 pm by noel
posted in linux, software, web development

i, being part web dev, had to make sure that the fonts i used are “standard” web fonts. in the name interoperability, microsoft released its true type core fonts years ago. its was a free download and, in a way, successful in its intended purpose — a large number of websites use it because of [...]

ubuntu, pcbsd and me

Thursday, 4 October 2007 10:23 pm by noel
posted in hardware, linux, software, stuff

after two days and several retries, i was finally able to install ubuntu 7.04 on this friggin’ laptop and continue writing this post.

a friend of mine lent me his old laptop for a couple of months — an hp compaq nx6120 — with a note “have fun. do what you want.” cute. next thing i [...]

before posting

Monday, 1 October 2007 10:40 pm by noel
posted in linux, stuff

found in the ubuntuforums.org site:
- please consider not posting when you are upset -

easy things

Sunday, 30 September 2007 10:24 am by noel
posted in hardware, linux, software

i met with a couple of people a few days ago about making e-mail newsletters and maybe some web dev. as the meeting started, two of them brought out their mac books. as for me, the tech nerd that i am, brought . . . nothing. at one time, as [...]

what you can do with linux

Wednesday, 19 September 2007 6:17 am by noel
posted in hardware, linux, software

there are plenty of things that you can do with linux. i’ll make this post simple so that it doesn’t sound so overly technical. please remember that you’d still have to do a lot of reading before, during and after setting up these systems. no spoon feeding here.
linux usually comes in two [...]