April 2003

Basement Tuesday, April 22 2003
Well, I'm sitting in the Taylor basement right now... skipping Automata Theory again (hope she doesn't hand out a quiz today =). I would have been out of here 30+ minutes ago, but some girl just sent 45+ jobs to the printer... so I have to wait for her to get done before mine reaches the end of the queue. Ugh. Oh, and the other printer is dead... I tried printing to that one until I noticed that the job at the front of the queue had been sitting there for three hours. Ugh Ugh Ugh.

Hmm... well that's all for now. Maybe I will sneak into the end of Automata and see if she handed out a quiz....

-Oliver
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More Debian Sunday, April 13 2003
gtk2 apps have really small fonts:

Create .gtkrc-2.0 file with:
style "user-font" { font_name="Sans 12" }
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

Hmm... guess that's all for now.

-Oliver
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Debian Friday, April 11 2003
Ahhh... my leap into the world of Debian. Turned out much better than I expected! I installed using my Knoppix CD, which made the whole process much easier! The HD install script didn't allow me to specify different partitions for different mount points, so I did that after the install was finished. I made a seperate partition for /home so that in future installs, I wouldn't have to kill it.

I'm just going to throw a few notes here now:

Antialias in Phoenix (installed from here):

userChrome.css and userContent.css - make sure it uses Luxi Sans or another antialiased font

Konsole AA fonts:

Just grabbed a ton of fonts from baghat and threw them in /usr/share/fonts. This messed up the default sans font though and made it look really ugly.
To fix that... see this Gentoo thread. Basically, turn off hinting for sans fonts.

Let's see... oh yeah, dhclient:

Wait time was too long originally for dhcp. So: "apt-get install dhcp-client" installs dhclient, which worked quite well. Edit /etc/dhclient.conf and edit timeout value.

Alright, I think that's all I want to say for now. =)

-Oliver
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Funny Stuff Thursday, April 3 2003
Time Traveller

-Oliver
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