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If you don't know about kerning please visit wikipedia article on kerning . Kerning deals with space adjustments between letters to make words more readable. Now a days most of the fonts are shipped with kern hinting but very few applications make use of this extra information. Firefox 3 now officially supports kerning for text elements. Please make sure you only apply kerning to the elements which use larger font sizes because you won't observe much difference with smaller ones. And use kerning carefully as it could slowdown page rendering because of extra math calculations. With Firefox 3 you can use the css property text-rendering to enable or disable kerning. text-rendering takes following 4 possible values. auto - If the font size is less than 20px then Firefox uses fast text rendering method provided by operating system otherwise it enables both ligatures and kerning. optimizeSpeed - will disable font kerning. optimizeLegibility - this option enables both ...

Mozilla deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/ubuntu intrepid main Google Gadgets deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy main Ubuntu Netbook Remix deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu hardy main Banshee Team deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main Ubuntu Backporters deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-backporters/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-backporters/ubuntu hardy main Mythbuntu deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/ubuntu hardy main KDE4 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-member...

TimeVault is a little python application that runs on Linux. timevault is mainly used to create snapshots of the files on your system, here a snapshot is close to restore point on windows xp. And only super user can delete these incremental snapshots to conserve space on disk. The beauty of this system is timevault uses links to take backup of these files and linux filesystem won't delete these files until link count reaches to zero. SQLite is used to store meta information of snapshot. This application nicely integrates with nautilus so that you can see snapshot properties from within nautilus. Color coding is used to easily understand snapshot status. TimeVault uses filesystem watches for changes so when ever you change or delete files they will be automatically backed up. You can download timevault deb binaries from launchpad. Download timevault binaries.

People who are using compiz have two ways to automatically start emerald upon login. Using Sessions This method involves adding following command to sessions. emerald --replace & Using compiz-decorator This method involves changing a line inside the file /usr/bin/compiz-decorator from USE_EMERALD="no" to USE_EMERALD="yes"

rdesktop is used to login into windows machines from linux/unix machines. By default rdesktop won't enable caching. Because of this default behavior rdesktop fetches portions of the screen that weren't updated at all. This is particularly painful if your target machine is geographically situated somewhere else. You just have to add two flags -P -z to your rdekstop command to enable local disk based caching and compression of transmission. rdesktop -P -z [target machine ip] I have no clue why this option was not enabled by default since it consumes very little disk space.

Execute following command to see the easter egg. apt-get moo Enjoy ubuntu. :)

There are situations where you don't want a new tab to take focus in Firefox. Its been pain since you don't find any option under Firefox preferences to change this behavior. Now there is a fix and you can force new tabs to open in background. Start your firefox browser, enter about:config in address bar and search for following key. browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground Now change this key to true by double clicking on it. If the above entry doesn't exist then create a new boolean key with above name and set it to true. Enjoy Firefox. :)