Linux
Nice looking fonts in GTK applications on openSUSE 11.4
12 June, 2011 - 19:20 — gunnarWhen I installed Open SuSE 11.4 yesterday I thought that the fonts used in GTK applications like Firefox and Thunderbird were really ugly.
Why do my Linux Samba share show underscores in file names when viewed on a Samba client?
21 December, 2010 - 08:51 — gunnarWhen a Samba client, Windows or Linux doesn't matter, connect to any of my shared directories all national characters in file and directory names are shown as underscores. Why?
Probably the directory character encoding used on your server doesn't match the setting unix charset in the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf. If you don't use UTF-8 you need to specify the character encoding with this setting.
Running the BitNami LAMP stack with the system MySQL
6 October, 2009 - 08:36 — adminThe excellent BitNami LAMP stack contains its own MySQL, which is started automatically and used by PHP.
NVidia Suspend HOWTO
28 December, 2008 - 09:36 — gunnarTop Ten Mac OS X Tips for Linux Geeks
16 September, 2008 - 15:45 — gunnarActually called "Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks".
Cherry Linux keyboard and Java
13 May, 2008 - 18:04 — gunnarSince I couldn't get the KeyMan utility that came with my Cherry keyboard to work with SuSE 10.3 I had problems getting the Cut, Copy and Paste keys to work.
Editing crontab for QNAP, and making it stick
3 May, 2008 - 17:50 — gunnarIf you have a QNAP you may want to run some scripts regularly. Editing the crontab seems to work but your changes don't survive a reboot. There is however a fairly simple solution:
Subpixel hinting in SuSE 10.3
9 February, 2008 - 11:00 — gunnarFixed DPI with NVIDIA driver on Linux
13 January, 2008 - 18:36 — gunnarHow do I tell the NVIDIA driver to use a fixed DPI that does not depend on my screen size?
Add the following to the Device section in your xorg.conf:
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "75 x 75"
Substitute the DPI you want for 75 above.
