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Metric-compatible Replacements for Calibri & Cambria
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Metric-compatible Replacements for Calibri & Cambria

Calibri ↔ Carlito Cambria ↔ Caladea

  • Rob Ireton
    Rob Ireton
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In the Market for a Good Text Editor
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In the Market for a Good Text Editor

I’ve been using Geany for most of my development work for several years now and, while I’ve been generally happy with it, as I’ve started to do more web-based work

  • Rob Ireton
    Rob Ireton
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Fix MS TrueType rendering
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Fix MS TrueType rendering

I was experiencing very poor font rendering at small point sizes for the Microsoft fonts (Calibri, Arial, etc.). The solution was to tell the system to ignore the embedded bitmaps in the font

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    Rob Ireton
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Boot Linux in text mode
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Boot Linux in text mode

I needed to boot to a Linux live USB on an old machine with a video card that was causing problems. I learned from Ask Ubuntu to replace “quiet splash” with “text” in

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    Rob Ireton
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VirtualBox failed on upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10
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VirtualBox failed on upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10

I upgraded my work desktop from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10 today, and none of my virtual machines would load all the way—they would start to boot then fail before the

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    Rob Ireton
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