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Installing Vista Fonts in Ubuntu

Posted: September 16th, 2007, 1:57pm CDT by Carthik

Microsoft’s new ClearType fonts for Vista are great. The fonts include Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas. Getting them installed in Ubuntu is a breeze, thanks to a script I found. To install the Vista ClearType fonts in Ubuntu, you need to install cabextract first. Cabextract is a utility found in the universe repository, so before [...]
Bring Jorge’s Blog Back, Please.

Posted: September 13th, 2007, 1:43pm CDT by Carthik

So Jorge Castro is now a Canonical employee! Jorge, I for one, would love to see your mug again on Planet Ubuntu. I would love to see whiprush.org up and about again. Jorge’s disappearance from the interwebs was followed by pleas for his return, about 9 months ago (you can find his last post here if [...]
End of a Love Affair with Acer

Posted: September 12th, 2007, 1:13pm CDT by Carthik

I was in love with Acer laptops. I bought my first one, an Acer Travelmate 290 LMi in my second year of grad school. I did pay ~ $1200 for it, but it was awesome, right until the moment there were errors with the hard disk controllers about 3 years later. When I sold it [...]
What’s Common to Ubuntu and CircuitCity’s Firedog?

Posted: September 9th, 2007, 12:43am CDT by Carthik

Ans: A guy in a pic…. Trivial, I know, and not too original either, since I got it from LiveJournal, but I couldn’t resist posting this

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