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What I mean with system font here is the font that is being used in the menu bar.. etc. That would include anything that is shown in the About window, task bar, tab bar. For this exercise we will use terminus. This may not be the best font for menus as this is a fixed width font i think. Anyway, we need to first install the font first. ~: su #: apt-get install terminus #: exit ~: cd ~/.mozilla/firefox Here you need to determine what is the first part of *.defualt. Once you have the name then do change into that directory, example: ~: cd xpwzepdt.default Now make a copy of userChrome-example.css ~: cp userChrome-example.css userChrome.css Do edit the file, then make the following changes # ~: nano -w userChrome.css # this one will set the default system Iceweasel font to terminus * { font-family: terminus !important; font-size: 8pt !important; } Enjoy! ~ts

My home network is quite non-standard. I have an AirLink 101 wireless router which act as a DHCP server as well. I haven't found a way to configure this device so that the data returned by the DHCP server to the clients will include my real gateway machine's address. I think this is possible with this device but since the manual is so sparce and I haven't encountered information online that shows me how to do this so I change the gateway address instead on the clients. For machines with Debian Etch installed, this can be configured in /etc/network/interfaces. See below for my configuration: #: nano -w /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp gateway 192.168.1.10 up route del default up route add default gw 192.1...

Freemind is a mind mapping application. Latest version can be found in http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page , it was at version 0.9.0 beta 14 when I wrote this document. I really like this application and the design is quite intuitive. Since this program is still in beta there are rough around the edges. Like say setting the keyboard shortcut for removing the last icon for a node is not working. What I am going to do here is to document how to get this one functionality working. By default (at least for 0.9.0 beta 14) "Remove Last Icon" is assigned to "BACK_SPACE" key. But for some reason it is not working. Here are the steps on getting this guy working: 1.) Extract a copy of mindmap_menus.xml. For zip installation, this can be found in <Extracted_Dir>/lib/freemind.jar. I used 7-zip to extract the file. Tough 7-zip's website didn't mention that it supports jar files it is capable of handling the file type successfully. Jar is p...

There are some advantages on running STAF as a Windows service. Common reason being that the STAF functionality is available even without user logged into the system. Configuring STAF to run as a service needs an auxiliary application, like srvany.exe. This file is part of Windows Resource Kit. Due to licensing restrictions I cannot attach the file here but it should not be big of a problem as you can download the resource kit from Microsoft for free. Do a google using the keywords "Windows Resource kit" and start from there. The filename of the installer normally is rktools.exe. Once downloaded, install the software look for srvany.exe and instsrv.exe.  You can copy this files somewhere so that you can use it other machines. See below for the steps for configuring STAF to run as a service: 1) Copy instsrv.exe and srvany.exe into C:\Windows\System32 (actually $windir\system32 ). 2) In Windows console ( Start->Run "cmd.exe"), change to directory C:\Windows\Syst...

I am not sure if I messed up my Ubuntu system or something but it does not search hostnames within our intranet on different domains. On Windows systems, this is automatically done for you through DNS Suffix Search List which I believe is being supplied by DHCP server, not really sure. Now to get my Ubuntu machine ping other hosts on another domain we have to do two things. First we need to do this . Then configure our Ubuntu box for the search order. This can be done in two ways. GUI via System->Administration->Network, it should show something like this: Or this can be done through the file /etc/resolv.conf. See below for an equivalent configuration. #: nano -w /etc/resolv.conf # ~ts