Sep
5
Fix wine fonts in CentOS
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I use wine from rpmforge repository.
It works well, but all system (bitmap) fonts are missing. DAG could not confirm this as bug, but several other CentOS users confirm that this problem exists.
How to fix:
Install wine (You need rpmforge repo enabled)
yum install wine
Install msttcorefonts
Follow these instructions
move /usr/share/wine/fonts to fonts.old (if already exist remove c:\windows\fonts folder too)
cd /usr/share/wine
mv fonts fonts.old
It is done.
You can use wine and all fonts appear.
Sep
5
How to fix problems with RPMforge
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Recently site http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge went down and this broke my YUM. Here is the error:
Setting up repositories
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge
As a solution I’ve edited manually my /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
And commented out problem site.
Then edited /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
And commented live list and uncommented file. Like this
#mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
Now YUM it is back. Still get some mirroring errors, but at least I can use it.
Sep
5
Will wireless replace all wires into house?
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High definition video transmission was latest territory where wires had monopoly.
Now AMIMON announced their new wireless product (WHDI) capable of transmitting uncompressed HD video.
 AMIMON’s WHDI technology is based on a unique video modem approach. WHDI supports delivery of uncompressed 1080p (with equivalent video rates of up to 3 Gbps) in a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band, in compliance with FCC regulations. Uncompressed 720p, 1080i and 1080p 24/30p (with equivalent video rates of up to 1.5 Gbps) can be delivered in a 20MHz channel, conforming to worldwide 5GHz regulations. Range is beyond 100 feet through walls (entire home), and latency is less than 1 millisecond.
Lower resolutions fit in 20MHz and fit worldwide.
They also announced that firs products will be available next year.
Sep
4
Hotmail Upgrade
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Hotmail recently without much noise upgraded user e-mail storage space from 2G to amazing 5G.
Sep
3
Google to publish full news stories
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Google news moved from simply linking to news stories to publish full stories after deal with four news agencies.
News stories from the Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP), UK Press Association (PA) and the Canadian Press will now be hosted on the Google News site. In addition Google will detect duplicate stories.
Sep
2
Google Earth = Flight simulator
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It is reported that new version of Google Earth includes a Flight simulator of F-16 or SR-22.
It seems that this goodie is included only in Windows version.
Sep
1
KompoZer is now at 0.7.10
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New version (0.7.10) of the “Web authoring system” – KompoZer is available.
Fixes were added to Application itself, HTML editor and CSS editor.
Language packs will be available soon on the web site.
To download the rpm go to http://hbcom.info/kompozer.
Changelog (0.7.7 => 0.7.10):
- Application
- fixed: the extension manager is now able to use the extensions proper locales (BIG thanks to Motohiko!)
- fixed: the same source code now builds on Linux (gcc4.1), MacOSX (gcc3.5), Win32 (vs7.0) and OS/2 (?).
- fixed: (win**) KompoZer and Nvu can run simultaneously (various similar bugs have been corrected)
- fixed: (win9x) KompoZer now has its own icon in the taskbar (Motohiko again)
- fixed: the icon has been changed (thanks Alain & Aubin!)… /Besser so?/ 😉
- HTML Editor
- fixed: the toolbars can be customized without relaunching KompoZer
- fixed: links can be styled in WYSIWYG (‘why do my links stay blue?’)
- fixed: display a clickable label on objects, scripts and hidden form inputs (‘normal’ & ‘HTML tags’ views)
- added: red dotted borders around <div> containers (‘normal’ & ‘HTML tags’ views)
- added: undo/redo buttons in the main toolbar
- fixed: hiding the rulers improves speed and reliability
- fixed: bug in the vertical ruler that causes Nvu/KompoZer to be stuck in ‘source’ mode
- modified: the markup cleaner does not remove empty blocks with ID/class attributes any more
- modified: the markup cleaner now considers <ol>, <ul>, <li>, <dl>, <dt>, <dd>, <pre>, <address>, <blockquote> and <tr> elements as blocks
- CSS Editor
- fixed: CaScadeS is now disabled in ‘HTML Source’ mode
- modified: easier creation of style rules
- added: ‘Edit selector’ dialog in the CSS editor
- fixed: exporting a stylesheet now always use relative URLs
- fixed: in the ‘general’ tab, the stylesheet’s URL is displayed in a fixed-width, read-only box (to avoid this bug reported by Charles Cooke)
- fixed: a few bugs in the ‘background’ tab (opacity, background-position)
- fixed: small UI bug in the ‘border’ tab
- added: spin buttons in the ‘box’ tab
- modified: the top / left / right / bottom properties are reordered ‘clockwise’, to be consistent with the CSS specification (top / right / bottom / left)
- modified: no more ‘expert’ mode in the CSS editor
- modified: -100px on the CSS editor window width
- modified: single window for all inline styles
- added: in the status bar, tags are written in italic if they have inline styles
Aug
31
Yahoo Mail receives liftoff
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Yahoo Mail received new interface with integrated IM and functional right click on the messages (Not like others) even in Linux.
In addition you have possibility to quickly switch to your yahoo home page just by clicking the tab.
Other yahoo services like calendar are also integrated .
The overall look is improved, it is still little bit slow, but do not forget that it is BETA.
Enjoy your too.
Aug
28
College and Finance have a list of most overlooked items to bring when going to College/University campus.
It is really interesting list, unfortunately is little bit late for me I hope that t will help you.
I personally will add personal printer. Probably you will print most of the content at campus provided printer, but sometimes you need one or 2 pages urgently. In addition if you opt for MFU (multyfunctional unit) you will have scanner/copier too.
Aug
27
TorrentSpy block USA users
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Recently the leading torrent search site start blocking searches from USA based users. Instead they see this message.
Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website.Torrentspy’s decision to stop accepting US visitors was NOT compelled by any Court but rather an uncertain legal climate in the US regarding user privacy and an apparent tension between US and European Union privacy laws.