Michael Geist has completed his posts about Bill C-61 and as I liked those, I wanted to post a link to his blog entry which contains all of them. The article that list all of them is here. Great job, Michael !!!
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By default, fonts under Ubuntu are not smooth by default. This is a setting that can be turned on by doing the following: – Create the file ~/.fonts.conf (using vi, gedit o r your faavorite editor) – Insert the following: <?xml version=”1.0″ ?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM “fonts.dtd”> <fontconfig> <match target=”font”> <edit name=”autohint” mode=”assign”> <bool>true</bool> </edit> [...]
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Hey, I’m a fan of Ubuntu and Firefox. This trick is about using GMail as your default mail sender when your OS refers to your email sender program. The hack is rather simple, using multiple command line pipings and string manipulations. When Ubuntu is to invoke the email program, from a mailto: link, it will [...]
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Today’s September 11th. Seven years ago, the biggest attack to America happened in New York, and although I’m Canadian, we were all shaken by this. Alan Jackson sang “Where were you when the world stop turning…” I was in a training class after we were let in the building. There was a strike of PSAC [...]
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GNOME-Do, and the GNOME Deskbar are two other solutions that will let you quickly launch applications from a single keystroke with few “hint” type characters. There was another solution posted earlier on this blog, known as Launchy. Gnome-Do and the Gnome Deskbar were reviewed here. Just to say that those are two more solutions for [...]
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From Geek Reviews, I found about this Dia, a free diagram editor which could one day replace Visio. Of course, it is free, and open source. It is currently available for both Linux and Windows. You can get Dia at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Download.
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I found this UNetbootin package, from SourceForge.Net, which looks very easy to make bootable memory sticks to boot all kinds of Linux Distributions. The main link ot the page is: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Definitely worth the read !
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Here is a template PDF to print for on-paper solving of Tri-Doku. Download Here.
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