Posts tagged Ubuntu
Ubuntu Quick Tip: Installing New True Type Fonts
Sep 30th
Hey boys in girls out in Admin land! It is I, El Di Pablo coming straight at ya from Bauer-Power with some quick Ubuntu knowlege!
I am always playing around with different fonts and such in Windows as I strive to play around in various graphic programs for promotional material and other stuff. Every once in a while I have to add a new font that I downloaded from the Internet. Most of us know how to do that already in Windows (If not, email help_at_asktheadmin_dot_com), but what about Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is starting to gain share in the computer OS realm, and a lot of people want to know how to do average everyday things on it. One of those things people want to know (I know they want to know because they ask me…you know?) is how to add fonts to Ubuntu.
Well its simple, all you have to do is to download your favorite font. Then in your home directory, crate a folder called .fonts (The ‘.’ makes it a hidden file). Just drag your newly downloaded font into that folder and, you guessed it, you are done!
Just open up your favorite graphics program, or whatever else you use fonts in, and your new font will be ready to go!
Got any other Ubuntu tips you want to share with the group? Hit us up in the comments!
-El Di Pablo of www.Bauer-Power.net
Ubuntu Tip of The Week: Configuring Static IP Addressing
May 15th
Hello fellow geeks and geekette’s! It is I, El Di Pablo back with another quick Ubuntu tip. I thought of this because I am working on creating an Ubuntu 8.04 VMWare GSX server for my company. I figured I might as well write about it on aTa while it is still fresh in my mind.
As with most servers, you want to configure it for static IP addressing to make life a little more simple for everybody. Linux servers are no exception. The only trouble with some flavors of Linux servers is that they are strictly command line for less overhead and better performance. So how does one configure Ubuntu server for static IP addressing in the terminal you ask? Simple:
- First you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces using your favorite text editor (I like nano):sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
- Next you need to enter your static IP information:#The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1 - Save your changes.
- Now you need to point your server to your DNS server. To do this, you need to edit /etc/resolv.conf:sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
name server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Replace the x’s with the IP address of your DNS server)
- Save your changes, then restart your network:sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
- Now test it by pinging www.asktheadmin.com. If all went well, you should be all set!
Have you had to set up a production Ubuntu server in your environment? Tell us about your experience in the comments!
Honey, We are a Ubuntu Household Now.
Nov 3rd
Flash Back Two Months Ago…. Let me give you the story how I kicked my Microsoft addiction. Well actually my computers had an intervention!
This is my first post as an Ubuntu user
The Admin has been through computer hell these last few days. First my Dell Latitude X1 refuses to charge… So I have been trying to be savvy and save my 7 hour battery just for emergencies. This is not for the faint of heart!
After troubleshooting galore I have come to the conclusion that it’s the power module on the motherboard of that mother clucker. Dell does not sell that module – but they say it should just be re-soldered. but they won’t tell you to do it…Nor will they tell you how to do it with a small soldering gun…
The dude continued to tell me that I was probably better off getting a new machine. That caused me to inquire into the price of the board. He said he couldn’t be sure but with installation it would be in the area of a G bone…Without the processor!!! I didn’t pay a thousand bucks for the whole thing (I love eBay)!
I found a spot downtown, near my office, that says they can fix it for me for $250. We’ll see about that! Then to top it off my desktop hard drive just up and died on me. I was down to running strictly off my Dopod. Which wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be! But we will save that for the Dopod review this weekend. (I promise… Stop the emails… No Wait We Like Them… Keep The Emails Coming!).
I was so fed up I just pulled the hard drive out connected via a IDE to USB joint and popped an UBUNTU CD into the drive. I pushed a 4gb memory stick in that bitch and called it a day. Out of the box all I needed to do was activate the network and that’s it. I was off Ubuntuing around. Firefox, Gimp, MSTSC… I was golden. I haven’t found anything that I can’t do in Ubuntu yet – built in Bit Torrent client, CD/DVD burning tools and a repository with a shit-load of other crap you don’t need but will probably download anyway!
Then I went to try and explain this to the wife :)…
Honey, We use UBUNTU now… Its the same but different…
So thats it all I have to say is “go to hell you cold unforgiving Windows…” @ least until we demo Windows Server 2008 this weekend!
_TheUbuntuAdmiN_
Anyone got any tips for an Ubuntu n00b??…
Two months later still loving Ubuntu – Actually upgraded to the Gutsy Gibson AND my buddy helped me resolder my X1. So far so good. Any other converts out there?
What a Dream Come True! DreamLinux that is!
Oct 20th
I mentioned in a recent post that I recently aquired an older Pentium III laptop with only 384MB of RAM. It really isn’t fast enough to run Windows XP without trimming the fat.I originally was going to put Xubuntu on it, because Xubuntu is designed to be more light weight than regular Ubuntu, because it uses the more minimal XFCE interface. It turns out though that XFCE is still a little too beefy for even this computer. Sure it installed, and ran fine, just a little slower than I would like. I did try XP with the fat trimmed like I mentioned above, but that was still God awfully slow.
Not wanting to give up, or revert to an older version of Windows, I decided to keep poking around in the Linux world for a solution. There are a lot of them out there that will run just find on such a machine, but the trick it so get one that my wife won’t mind using when going to the Java Mama’s coffee shop with my little girl.
II found the perfect distro for my wife in Dream Linux! This is one of the many lightweight live CD distros out there that also have the ability to install to hard drive. The cool thing about Dream Linux that I like, and my wife likes especially since the popularity of MAC’s now days (Damn they have good marketing don’t they?) is that this is pretty much a MAC clone complete with the animated launcher bar at the bottom, and yes, that bar works well on the Pentium III without slowing it down!
If you have a relatively newer computer, it also supports Berly and AIGLX, which means sweet 3D desktop goodness!
Of course, I wouldn’t even try using Berly on a Pentium III, but it does make a strong case to test it out! Another cool thing about it is the graphical front end to ndiswrapper, which lets you use Windows drivers for hardware that isn’t supported under Linux! Just open the GUI, point it to your driver inf file, and away you go! I did have to add the following line to my /etc/rc.local script to make some hardware work after boot up, but that is a minor tweak and hardly a deal breaker:
The best thing though is that it is Debian based, so apt-get is in full effect, which means that if something you use normally is missing, you can get it and install it easily! For me, network manager is essential for easy WPA configuration. It didn’t come pre-installed on Dream Linux, but a quick apt-get later and I was good to go!I’m not quite ready to name Dream Linux as a replacement distro of choice yet, for me my favorite is still Ubuntu, but it really is pretty great, and works well on older computers!
Have you tried it out? Do you have a favorite Distro for similar Situations?
Originally Posted on http://www.bauer-power.net
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