Archive for November 2008
easily get your Luxi fonts back in Fedora 9, Fedora 10, +
I roll with Luxi Sans – that’s just the kind of guy I am. The font looks fantastic on LCD/laptop screens of varying dimensions (I use 1400×1050 on a Thinkpad T43, 1600×1200 on a Dell 2007FP, and 1900×1200 on a Dell XPS Gen 2) and to me is the best available. Luxi Mono as a console font is great. Sadly with the release of Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 the team removed the fonts from the distro due to licensing reasons (read about it here). See below for a quick and easy way to get it back on your system.
enable root GDM (GNOME) login with Fedora 10
Update: newer post for Fedora 12:
http://tacticalvim.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/enable-root-gdm-gnome-login-with-fedora-12/
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Fedora 10 disables root logins from the GDM. Read below on a super simple edit to change this and allow the root login to happen.
where is the G1 Android SD card and how to remove/insert it
I just took a glance at the search terms people are reaching this site with lately, and noticed a distinct trend – people can’t figure out where the SD card is on their G1 Android and how to get it in and out! I remember it took me a bit too, I was looking under the battery and along the sides where most phones put it. See below for a pic and some helpful hints.
mount your G1 Android SD card automatically (RC29, RC30, +)
With the introduction of the RC29 and RC30 updates, mounting your SD card when plugged into your computer is no longer automatic; you have to tap the Notification area and click a button. It’s obvious this confuses a lot of people, and honestly I feel it’s just a bad choice of the part of the G1 team to make this change. Anyone I know just expects this to happen no matter what their device is, be it a Nokia or a BlackBerry or a G1.
Never fear though, here’s a quick little trick you can do using a hidden tool already on your device to configure it to automatically mount the SD card like before and how you expect.
fix your GMail contacts to be G1 Android friendly
There’s a big disconnect between what you see in your GMail contacts list and how it works on your new G1 Android phone; I’m going to file this under “Google quirks” as most of the problem is in their contact management user interface, and how it really misrepresents what you think you’re seeing inside GMail.
After importing all my contacts (which in itself was painful, why can’t they import a damn VCARD formatted file like the rest of the planet?) my association of information to Google/GMail labels was all whacko; I couldn’t send SMS on my new G1 Android phone for instance because the phone didn’t see the ‘Mobile’ tag properly from my GMail contacts. Here’s what I discovered what it wants and what you need to do – hang in there, because fixing all this can be painful.
