Tahoma font legally...

As far as I remember reading, Tahoma font is not allowed to be distributed by itself so that you could use it in Linux like you can with some other Windows True Type fonts...

As far as I know if you already have Windows installed on your machine with Tahoma font in it (it's *CORE* in Windows XP) there's nothing against using the existing copy...


lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 18 18:08 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma.ttf -> /mnt/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/tahoma.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 18 18:16 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahoma.ttf -> Tahoma.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 18 18:17 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahomabd.ttf -> Tahoma_Bold.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 18 18:08 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf -> /mnt/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/tahomabd.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Apr 18 18:22 /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/Tahoma.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Apr 18 18:22 /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Apr 18 18:23 /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Tahoma.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Apr 18 18:23 /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Tahoma_Bold.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf



#!/bin/bash

WINDIR=/mnt/c/WINDOWS

# -rwxrwx--- 1 john john 355436 Jul 18 2004 /mnt/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/tahomabd.ttf
# -rwxrwx--- 1 john john 383140 Jul 18 2004 /mnt/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/tahoma.ttf
# -rwxrwx--- 1 john john 460728 Jul 18 2004 /mnt/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/micross.ttf

# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 18 18:08 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma.ttf -> /mnt/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/tahoma.ttf
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 18 18:16 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahoma.ttf -> Tahoma.ttf
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Apr 18 18:22 /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/Tahoma.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma.ttf
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Apr 18 18:23 /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Tahoma.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma.ttf

# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 18 18:08 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf -> /mnt/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/tahomabd.ttf
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 18 18:17 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/tahomabd.ttf -> Tahoma_Bold.ttf
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Apr 18 18:22 /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Apr 18 18:23 /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Tahoma_Bold.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf

FONT=micross.ttf
UPPER=Micross.ttf

SOURCE=$WINDIR/Fonts/$FONT

MSTT_CORE_DIR=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts

ln -sv $WINDIR/Fonts/$FONT $MSTT_CORE_DIR/$FONT
ln -sv $FONT $MSTT_CORE_DIR/$UPPER
ln -sv $MSTT_CORE_DIR/$FONT /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/$FONT
ln -sv $MSTT_CORE_DIR/$FONT /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/$FONT

fc-cache -fsv


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Unix Review > The Open Road: Creating your own man pages

Unix Review > The Open Road: Creating your own man pages

Perl:: at's Debugger

ysth's post

At the top:


use constant DEBUG => $ENV{DEBUG};


or just:


use constant DEBUG => 1;


Then later:


printDebug("some message") if DEBUG;


or


DEBUG and printDebug("some message");


It's good if you want to hard wire the debug level by editing the script, but unfortunately this falls down when you want to use a variable to set it... say a command line flag... in this case, this will work:

use Getopt::Std;

getopts('v', \my %opts);

sub VERBOSE() { $opts{v} }

print "Message...\n" if VERBOSE;

Explanation and benchmark tests are in stefp's thread.

Spyware

Two nasties I've had to deal with in the last few months, both of which installed registry hooks into the Windows startup and Explorer launch so that they required Windows to load dlls which then locked them as system files, and they would sit there watching the registry to make sure that they re-added any registry entry you deleted, so you couldn't turn them off or remove them.

The only way to get around them in the end was to boot off an XP install CD or some other boot image that can write to NTFS file systems and remove the offending files from C:\Windows\System32 - generally the newest files in that directory.
(From time to time there are a number of files of exactly the same size and different time stamps = the spyware making clones of itself)

The two I've removed (off two different machines) were WinFixer and SysProtect.
Nasty little buggers.

Must-have toolbox for dealing with nasties:

AdAware Anti-Spyware
SpyBot S&D Anti-Spyware
ewido anti-spyware Anti-Spyware
AVG Free Free Anti-Virus
Sysinternals Process Explorer Kill bad processes.
Sysinternals Autoruns Clean out start-up entries for bad processes.
RegSeeker Clean your registry afterwards.

If you need a boot CD:

Trinity Rescue Kit (85MB)

Paragon NTFS for Linux NTFS for Linux trial version (includes a self-burning .exe - only 26.3MB to download)

NTFS driver for DOS (could work from boot floppy if you have a floppy drive. (Haven't tested this)

How do I read the Volume ID of a CDROM under Linux?

If you want to read a CDROM Volume ID under Linux (as set by 'mkisofs -V volID') (which Solaris & Windows can read, and Windows displays as the disk label) you can do:


# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1 skip=32808 count=32


Or do:


# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=8 skip=4101 count=4


Getting Skype installed properly...

I got the up-to-date Skype package working, so I don't need to use the "Static binary tar.bz2 with Qt 3.2 compiled in" one...

I downloaded the latest version (currently skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb) from here: http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/

If you try and install this you get:


# dpkg -i skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading skype from 1.2.0.18-2jgh to 1.2.0.18-1.
(Reading database ... 52930 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace skype 1.2.0.18-2jgh (using skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement skype ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
skype depends on libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.3.3.2); however:
Package libqt3c102-mt is not installed.
dpkg: error processing skype (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
skype


Which you can get around by doing:

dpkg --force-depends -i skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb

but that's not nice.

This can be fixed by correcting the DEBIAN/control in the .deb file.
One way to do this is: download the .deb package, move it into a new directory
& cd into that directory, then do this:


mkdir skype
dpkg-deb --extract skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb skype
dpkg-deb --control skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386.deb skype/DEBIAN


Now use your favorite editor to edit the Depends line:


vi skype/DEBIAN/control


I changed:

Version: 1.2.0.18-1

to:

Version: 1.2.0.18-2sg


and more importantly changed:

Depends: ... libqt3c102-mt ...

to:

Depends: ... libqt3-mt ...


I also added a menu entry like this:


cd skype
vi usr/share/menu/skype

add this to the file:

?package(skype):needs="X11" section="Apps/Net" title="Skype" command="/usr/bin/skype" icon="/usr/share/icons/skype.png"


Then you need to rebuild the DEBIAN/md5sums file so it knows about the menu file:
# find etc usr -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > DEBIAN/md5sums.new
# diff DEBIAN/md5sums DEBIAN/md5sums.new
36a37
> 6033460bf835d754b25451943db3e92f usr/share/menu/skype
# mv DEBIAN/md5sums.new DEBIAN/md5sums


Then cd back up a directory and rebuild the package:


cd ..
dpkg --build skype
mv skype.deb skype_1.2.0.18-2sg_i386.deb


That's it. Now you can install it:


dpkg -i skype_1.2.0.18-2sg_i386.deb


I found the basic of these instructions here: http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=44138 and added a bit to it...

Soundcard again...

Ages ago I recall finding that the ALSA drivers didn't work on the Tosh, so I was running OSS, but then when I upgraded to 2.6.15-1-686 they stopped... whether that was just because I didn't know to run alsaconf I don't know - but it *did* work fine on the Vaio.

debian-faq-wiki::UseSoundCard
had everything I needed to get ALSA going this time.

ALSA vs OSS

ALSA rocks! - now my Gaim has sound too I can hear when people login or out or send me messages... and my console beeps work :o)

Best of all... I can now use that *gorgeous* AlsaPlayer again... which lets you speed up and slow down and even reverse tracks!!! - crazy :o) great thing to have access to if you're getting bored with listening to your music collection!

Gaim spell check

It seems there are quite a few dependencies to get this working, and the gaim package doesn't actually recommend the bits you need, so I had a look at the Vaio and a few looks with apt-cache search and ended up getting it working...

I *think* this is pretty much what you need:


gaim (shock, horror!)
aspell
aspell-en
dictionaries-common
libgtkspell0


Installing XML::Simple

http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/1473


cpan> install XML::Simple
Running install for module XML::Simple
Running make for G/GR/GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.14.tar.gz
Is already unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/XML-Simple-2.14
Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0,
'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
# Package Version
# perl 5.8.7
# XML::Simple 2.14
# Storable 2.13
# XML::Parser Not Installed
# XML::SAX 0.13
# XML::NamespaceSupport 1.09
# XML::SAX::PurePerl 0.90 (default parser)
t/0_Config........ok
t/1_XMLin.........ok 1/122Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/
local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
t/1_XMLin.........NOK 32
# Failed test 'no warning issued (as expected)'
# in t/1_XMLin.t at line 380.
# got: 'Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/sha
re/perl/5.8.7/XML/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
# '
# expected: ''
t/1_XMLin.........ok 33/122Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr
/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
t/1_XMLin.........NOK 38
# Failed test 'CDATA section parsed correctly'
# in t/1_XMLin.t at line 426.
# Structures begin differing at:
# $got->{cdata} = 'Hello, world!>'
# $expected->{cdata} = 'Hello, world!'
t/1_XMLin.........NOK 39
# Failed test 'CDATA section containing markup characters parsed correctly'
# in t/1_XMLin.t at line 432.
# Structures begin differing at:
# $got->{x} = 'one>two>'
# $expected->{x} = 'onetwo'
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96, line 1.
t/1_XMLin.........NOK 122
# Failed test 'successfully read an SRT config file'
# in t/1_XMLin.t at line 1443.
# Structures begin differing at:
# $got->{pubpath}{test1}{title} = 'web_source -> web_target1'
# $expected->{pubpath}{test1}{title} = 'web_source -> web_target1'
# Looks like you failed 4 tests of 122.
t/1_XMLin.........dubious
Test returned status 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
DIED. FAILED tests 32, 38-39, 122
Failed 4/122 tests, 96.72% okay
t/2_XMLout........NOK 47
# Failed test 'generated document with escaping'
# in t/2_XMLout.t at line 302.
# Structures begin differing at:
# $got->{c} = '&C&'
# $expected->{c} = '&C&'
t/2_XMLout........ok 99/196Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr
/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
t/2_XMLout........ok 196/196# Looks like you failed 1 test of 196.
t/2_XMLout........dubious
Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 47
Failed 1/196 tests, 99.49% okay (less 1 skipped test: 194 okay, 98.98%)
t/3_Storable......ok
t/4_MemShare......ok
t/5_MemCopy.......ok
t/6_ObjIntf.......ok
t/7_SaxStuff......ok
t/8_Namespaces....ok
t/9_Strict........ok 2/38Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/l
ocal/share/perl/5.8.7/XML/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/XML
/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96.
t/9_Strict........ok
t/A_XMLParser.....skipped
all skipped: no XML::Parser
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/1_XMLin.t 4 1024 122 4 3.28% 32 38-39 122
t/2_XMLout.t 1 256 196 1 0.51% 47
1 test and 1 subtest skipped.
Failed 2/11 test scripts, 81.82% okay. 5/454 subtests failed, 98.90% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force



tcpdump syntax


/usr/sbin/tcpdump -A -s 65535 -i eth0 -l host $ME and host $IT