Comments on: Ubuntu Feisty: How to stop fonts looking like shit.

By: I heart muppetcore

I heart muppetcore — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:27:44 +0000

I can’t believe they haven’t sorted this font business out already.
And how come I have to install GCC manually? What dreamworld are they living in that they assume most people won’t need it?!
I want my money back tbh :/

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:09:06 +0000

I find the best way to do that is to install… the Microsoft true type core fonts

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Ubuntu Intrepid seems pretty good. I’m running the beta on my little eeepc and it picks up all of those usb mobile broadband devices automatically. Getting those to work in the previous version was a proper pain in the nuts.

By: oh dear lord

oh dear lord — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:51:18 +0000

Hmm, ok that ubuntu trick worked great, but now how do I get rid of the shitty, tiny, randomly-squashed-together-looking, unreadable, piece of shit, times-new-roman-like font firefox seems to love using?

Urge to remove Linux… rising…

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:01:04 +0000

Ah its easy enough. You just sign up for an account on wordpress.com and they mail you the api key. You can opt out of having a wordpress.com blog and all that shite.

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Discount finger-nail enlargement pills! — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:52:58 +0000

Meh, getting an API key sounds like a royal pain in the balls… are there many hoops to jump through? Or do you just throw an email address at them, then click on the validation link?

I think I’ve only gotten one comment like that so far… I think I approved it too! Just to make it look like people read my blog, plus it was an alright site… though between rel=nofollow and the whopping PR2 I weild, I think the joke’s on him
Ah bless.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:23:29 +0000

bang! and the spam is gone.

And Akismet was doing so well. That’s the first one its let through since I installed it. Now that its been marked as spam it shouldn’t reappear though

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By: Master of the Obvious

Master of the Obvious — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:10:13 +0000

I’m the same, I dabble with Linux, but only because I want to be prepared when the revolution comes.
Not quite sure at this stage what that revolution might be, but whatever it is I think Linux is going to come into it somewhere.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:07:19 +0000

Agreed. Windows is my main OS both at home and at work. I use Linux on my laptop more out of geeky curiosity than anything else, and because I have a Windows laptop that I use for work anyway.

I had to do a load of other shite after I installed it to get the laptop’s card reader working, and until the current release of Ubuntu I used to have to do a massive load of utter bollocks at the terminal to get WPA encryption working with my wireless lan.

By: Master of the Obvious

Master of the Obvious — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:57:08 +0000

Always a bloody long-winded sequence of commands isn’t it?
I thought I had a lot of stuff to tweak and set up when I do a fresh reinstall of Windows… I think Linux would drive me bonkers if I had to use it as my full time OS and go through this over and over.

As a Windows “clear type” fan, I can appreciate how funky it must be to get rid of shit-looking fonts.
Congrats on the discovery.