Archive for July, 2009
Adding msttcorefonts to Fedora
Once you have enabled the appropriate software repository, you can install the msttcorefonts (Microsoft truetype core fonts like Arial, Times Roman, Verdana, Georgia, etc.) package on Debian and Ubuntu. With Fedora, it surprisingly isn’t so straightforward. There is a recipe using the command line that worked for me and I’m not going to repeat it [...]
Making Nautilus work like it does in Ubuntu for another GNOME using distro
It’s a personal preference but I like the way that Nautilus (GNOME’s default file manager if you need to know) is set to work in Ubuntu by default. For some tastes, it might look too similar to Windows Explorer but having all the action happening in the same window is a convenience that users of [...]
Using the Windows Command Line for Security Administration
While there are point and click tools for the job, being able to set up new user groups, attaching them to folders and assign uses to them using the command line has major advantages when there are a number to be set up and logs of execution can be retained too. In light of this, [...]
Enabling DVD playback in Ubuntu 9.04
This information is scattered about the web but I decided to collect something together in one place in case it helps anyone else. Here are two commands that appeared to do the deed for me: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread4 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh The libdvdread piece is what sorts out encrypted disks and needs [...]
A spot of roughness with VirtualBox 3.02 on Ubuntu
Among the various things that I needed to do on Saturday, I got to looking at why VirtualBox Windows guests could not shut down and the processes killed. Though it wasn’t clear at the outset, my suspicions began to centre on the sound hardware emulation and how it interacted with the host’s sound capabilities. A [...]
Anquet and VirtualBox Shared Folders
For a while now, I have had Anquet installed in a virtual machine instance of Windows XP but it has been throwing errors continuously on start up. Perhaps surprisingly, it only dawned upon me recently what might have been the cause. A bit of fiddling revealed that my storing the mapping data Linux side and [...]