adobe reader font fix

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   [SOLVED] Adobe Reader Font Fixed

32bit Hardy Install

I searched the forum and could not find an answer to this problem so I am posting it here. Hopefully it helps some people.

I use the adobe reader 8.1.3 package for pdf files:
Located Here

I have noticed that often I get errors saying that a certain font cannot be displayed. This happens frequently with Microsoft fonts like Arial,Bold or Arial,Narrow. In the reader these fonts come out as little black dots instead.

I simply could not find a fix here nor on the Adobe forums. After some hacking though I have a solution:

First install the msttcorefonts package (if you haven't already)

Code:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Next edit the the reader's startup file:

Code:

sudo gedit /opt/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread

And uncomment these two lines:

Code:

ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG=1
export ACRO_ENABLE_FONT_CONFIG

Now reader acts as should be expected.

AR8161 on-board lan to work (ASUS P8H77-V board)

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential
wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.5/compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc.tar.bz2
tar -xf compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc
./scripts/driver-select alx
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe alx


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2050126&highlight=p8h77-v

Edit mime type

Install file type editor ( command name : assogiate )

(some file types are unable to edit.)

or

cd [path]
 where, path = /usr/local/share/mime  or ~/.local/share/mime or /usr/share/mime
cd packages
gedit [file_type_you_want]

sudo update-mime-database [path]

** Don't forget BACKUP !

Increasing the sheet name tab size for libreoffice calc in ubuntu 12.04

In libreoffice calc, the font size (or horizontal height) for the sheet name tab is related to the scrollbar slider width.

Open "/usr/share/thmemes/[a theme used, e.g. Ambiance]/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

find "GtkScrollbar::slider-width = xx", where xx is a number.

then, change the number xx to a larger value.

Logout and login, or, (this is better) change theme to other one and then return to current theme using ubuntu tweak.

ubuntu ssh server setting

* ssh 서버 설치 및 설정


http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/DocbookSgml/SSH-KLDP


1. 설치


    $ sudo apt-get install ssh


2. 포트 변경


    $ sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config


    # port 22 에서 '#' 를 제거하고 원하는 포트로 변경


    IF >>  X-window 사용하고 싶을 경우, 
        
        /etc/ssh/ssh_config
        위의 파일의 다음내용을 변경한다
       
        # ForwardX11 no -> ForwardX11 yes 로 설정변경)


3. 데몬 재시작


    $ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart


4. 서버 작동 확인


    $ netstat -ntl




ref: http://towanouta.tistory.com/71

ubuntu 11.10 add my program to "open with other program" menu

$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/myProgram.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=whatever
GenericName=whatever
Comment="whatever comment"
Exec=exeFilePath %f
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/x-mimeType;
Icon=icon-name

terminal timer command

$ sleep 60; gmessage -bg RED -geometry 800x600 -center "Time is up." & echo "Time is up." | festival --tts

sleep 60 -> 60sec waiting.
gmessage -> display messagebox
echo "something" | festival --tts  -> Text to speech

Enabling systray in Ubuntu 11.10 Unity

1.


$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist


['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier']


$ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier', 'DaumCloud']"


-> then re-login


2.


install dconf-tools


$ dconf-editor
-> desktop > unity > panel > enable the notification area


$ dconf-editor
> 

Ubuntu 11.10 unity sucks!

This unity interface is ... sucks !

Flexibility has gone... customizing become more difficult....

Linux mint or debian.. I'm considering..

Ubuntu desktop cube rotating by human physical motion.

Not so complicated as it appears.

Two distance measuring sensors detect motion and send signals to the AVR board behind the monitor.

Then, the AVR board analyze whether the object is moving to right or left, and send analyzed result to PC (ubuntu) through USB serial port.

On ubuntu, python program daemon read the serial data, and rotate desktop cube.

It was my first AVR playing.
Very funny.

samba IP allow setting

samba IP allow setting

$ sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

in [global] section, add this line

hosts allow = 192.168.0.11 192.168.0.12


$ sudo service smbd restart

set mysql charset to utf8 in ubuntu 10.04

1. MySQL setting

Edit my.cnf with this command :

$ sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf

in [client] section, add this :

default-character-set = utf8

and, in [mysqld] section, add these :

default-character-set=utf8
default-collation=utf8_general_ci
init_connect=set collation_connection=utf8_general_ci
init_connect=set names utf8
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
character-set-client-handshake = TRUE

The restart mysqld

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Confirm :

mysql> show variables like 'char%'
-> ;
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

* IMPORTANT : Create database with "defalut charset=utf8" option.

user@myserver:/home/user$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 56
Server version: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.7 (Ubuntu)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> create database DBNAME default charset=utf8;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> Bye

2. Django settting

in settings.py add this :

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'ko-KR'

./managy.py syncdb should be run.


Then, 한글 입력 is ok in Django application.

Setting mp3 quality when using rhythmbox to sync iphone or ipod

When I sync music library with iphone in ubuntu, rhythmbox convert almost any type of music file into mp3 file automatically.

However, the default quality set is vbr, and I want the best quality, i.e., 320kbps, not vbr.

Rhythmbox - Edit - Preference - Music - Edit Preferred format
Select MP3.

Change the setting like this :

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=0 bitrate=320 ! id3v2mux

.

ubuntu nautilus dirs config

$ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/바탕화면"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/다운로드"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/서식"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/공개"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/문서"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/음악"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"

Extract icon from EXE file in ubuntu

$ wrestool -x -t14 TARGET.EXE -o result.icon
$ convert result.icon result.png

why -t14 ?

wrestool -l TARGET.EXE
-> shows a list of resources included in TARGET.EXE file, where type=14 (type=group_icon) is the icon image we want to extract.

-x option means extract
-o where to place extracted files

Let google desktop find MS doc, xls, or ppt files

sudo apt-get install wv
sudo apt-get install catdoc

http://desktop.google.com/support/linux/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76816

scanning port state whether opened, closed or filtered by using nmap

[root@localhost ~]# nmap -sT -p 1-65535 localhost

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2008-02-19 01:47 KST
Interesting ports on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:
Not shown: 65531 closed ports
PORT    STATE SERVICE
22/tcp  open  ssh
80/tcp  open  http
111/tcp open  rpcbind
645/tcp open  unknown
ref: http://kldp.org/node/91134





Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.391 seconds

changing menu font color in firefox

$ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/[blahblah~].default/chrome/userChrome.css

menubar, menubutton, menulist, menu, menuitem {
font-family: sans !important;
font-size: 10pt !important;
color: black ! important;
}

$

It is useful when a firefox theme such as OSX theme makes menu font size too small or font color not distinguishable.


Modify the OSX theme -> remove shadow in toolbar and tab

/* ----- DEFAULT PRIMARY TOOLBAR BUTTONS ----- */

.toolbarbutton-text-shadow,
.tab-text-shadow {
color: #f0f0f0;
padding-top: 0px;
opacity: 0;
}

.tab-text-shadow {
padding-top: 0;
font-size: 10pt;
font-weight: normal;
font-family: "sans";
}

/.mozilla/firefox/jwi2ie5q.default/extensions/{00352F14-3F76-4e4d-ACFF-9972D7E4B3B9}/chrome/MacOSX.jar

edit -> browser/browser.css file

Always show nautilus location bar in text format

gconf-editor

/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry

-> check

.


Virtualbox on Ubuntu 10.04

repo :

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid non-free

key :

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

install :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1