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I love GTK2. It’s *uber* pretty and smooth. However, before such nice pretties came to be, there was a dark age where fonts were not so smooth and freakishly big. Unfortunately, despite modern advances, necessary applications (like the VMWare Toolbox for Linux) are still built with GTK1. …And they look like crap. Here’s a quick fix, to make the fonts look not so ugly.
- Edit /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8 and replace the 120 with 100 in the following lines:
style “default-text” {
fontset = “-*-arial-medium-r-normal–*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*”
} - Copy /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8 to ~/.gtkrc.mine
- Restart X.org/XFree86 (Use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, but be careful, it will dump you out of X without warning).
There ya go!
Here’s an external forum clip for you as well if you want a more involved solution:
http://www.compatdb.org/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/139605/page/1
This looks hella cool. It’s a dock-like app for Linux/Gnome that looks like the dock from OS X. And with all sorts of eye candy. 
How to Install:
http://fredcpp.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/install-ki…
KIBA Dock on SLED 10:
http://rakeshvk.wordpress.com/2006/08/21/kiba-dock-on-sled-10/
A woman in Surrey, England couldn’t figure out why her car wouldn’t start. An Automobile Association patrolman arrived on the scene and the two realized that the woman’s dog had swallowed the car’s immobilizer chip fob. The immobilizer contains an RFID chip that must be within a certain proximity of the steering column for the key to work. According to a BBC News report, the patrolman put the dog in the front seat, turned the key, and the car started right up.Link (Thanks, Paul Saffo!)
We’re still struggling with a spat of fainting fits across the Engadget HQ, but that Nokia N95 pre-release info leak last night wasn’t no hearsay. Nokia just dropped their complete fanboy specsheet of a S60 phone in the Nokia N95 today, including a 5 megapixel camera, integrated GPS, 802.11g WiFi, HSDPA, microSD, 150MB of internal memory and pretty much any other spec you could ever care to have stuffed into your phone by a Finnish “multimedia computer” manufacturer. The 2.6-inch QVGA screen should provide plenty of room to partake in all this specification glory, and there’s a full-on 3.5mm audio jack to enjoy your multimedia in a convenient manner. Of course, that 550 euro pricetag ($700 US) wasn’t no joke neither, but luckily we have until Q1 ‘07 — that’s when they’re busting this thing out in Europe — to get all practiced up on our petty thievery. Keep reading for the pr0n.
Sweet Jesus, that’s hot. And I thought my phone (Nokia N70) was cool. 
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/nokias-n95-smartphone-goes-legit/
Saw this on Kotaku.com – this is the version of the minus world from the Japanese Famicom Disk System. For those of you not quite in the know, while the North American NES had those big grey cartridges only, the Japanese version (which came out years before the North American version) had a disk drive. This is a clip from the minus world of the disk version of SMB.
Here’s the data you’ll need in the /iPod_Control/Devices/SysInfo file once you Update/Restore your iPod with iTunes 7 to be able to use the iPodLinux installer – I’m sure this will be fixed in a future release, but for now…
BoardHwName: iPod M25
pszSerialNumber: XXXXXXXXXXX
ModelNumStr: MA003
FirewireGuid: 0×000A2700147FDCA9
HddFirmwareRev: BU011A
RegionCode: FB(0×001A)
PolicyFlags: 0×00000000
buildID: 0×06118000 (6.1.1)
visibleBuildID: 0×01118000 (1.1.1)
boardHwRev: 0×00000000 (0.0 0)
boardHwSwInterfaceRev: 0×000B0005 (0.0.11 5)
bootLoaderImageRev: 0×00000000 (0.0 0)
diskModeImageRev: 0×00000000 (0.0 0)
diagImageRev: 0×00000000 (0.0 0)
osImageRev: 0×00000000 (0.0 0)
iPodFamily: 0×00000000
updaterFamily: 0×00000000
And here’s some links to what you’ll need:
- The forum page where I found this info:
http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17508 - iPodLinux Installer2 Download:
http://ipodlinux.org/Installer_2
“It’s true that for a number of years the ATMs have had a default passcode. Almost everything you buy that’s technology-based has some default password that you have to change once it becomes yours … Anyone that’s trained on how to install an ATM is taught to change that password.”
I told him about the guerilla field test I blogged yesterday — in which a computer security professional tried the Triton default passcode on the first ATM he found, and got in. Does that suggest the number of vulnerable machines is high?
“I suspect, if it’s a larger percentage than I’m hoping, that it won’t be long until most of them are changed, if not all of them … We fully intend to make sure our customers are very aware of need to change their passcodes.”
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1561329
- Drop-in on a class at Reed
- Photography course
- Biking through Forest Park
- Swings.
- Paintball
- College concerts
- Central Library
- Japanese Garden
- Papaccinos in Winter
BetaNews | Windows Live Coming to Nokia Phones
Nokia said Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Microsoft to integrate Windows Live Search into its phones, meaning consumers would be able to access the service via both Nseries and S60 phones. The agreement is the second major partnership between the two; Nokia and Microsoft joined in February to support Windows Media on select phones.Nokia handset users would also be able to access stock quotes, movie times and the Encarta encyclopedia (in select markets) as a result of the deal. The experience would be integrated into the user interface of the phone, meaning a Web browser is not needed to access the services.
“Adding the advanced searching capabilities of Microsoft’s Live Search to our Mobile Search platform provides our customers with unique and powerful new ways to search the internet on their multimedia computers and many other compatible Nokia mobile devices,” Nokia multimedia vice president Ralph Eric Kunz said.
The application would be available in 14 languages in select markets as a standard feature on the Nokia N80 Internet Edition, Nokia N73, Nokia N93, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6680, and Nokia 668. Series 60 users would be able to add the functionality via a software download.
Content from Yahoo is already available on Series 60 phones through an earlier agreement signed in April 2005. That deal allows users access to Yahoo e-mail and search, as well as an area where users will be able to download wallpaper, ringtones and games.
Contrary to popular belief, this isn’t *entirely* Dell’s fault.
It’s that bastard Sony again. As if the rootkit wasn’t enough, now they have to make exploding batteries to maim people.
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