I use Skype extensively for communication with clients as well as low cost international calls. But, I have to admit that every time the configuration of the sound system on my Asus V6J (Gentoo powered) it takes me several days to get the microphone working again (even though it continues to work with every other [...]

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It has annoyed me for some time that when I print pages from Firefox on Gentoo my default printer settings were not recognised. However I didn’t spend any time trying to solve the “problem” because it was just an annoyance.

But recently I added a HP Color LaserJet to my office network and found that printing [...]

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My earlier post referred to the Liberation fonts on Gentoo.

As you know, although I use Gentoo personally, I also use Mepis on desktops. The fonts are not installable from packages on Mepis so here are the steps required to install them and set them as your default fonts in Firefox…

Download the tarball file from here
Uncompress [...]

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While browsing recently I came across reference to the Redhat Liberation Fonts, and a number of favorable reviews of the quality of the fonts. Since they are genuine Open Source fonts I decided to install them on my laptop.

This was dead easy ad the fonts are installable with emerge…

angus ~ # emerge liberation-fonts-ttf
 
…
 
>>> No packages [...]

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This isn’t for everyone! However, users like myself and my team involved in software development and testing typically have several konsole terminal sessions open and spend much time switching between applications and terminals. On my machine this is compounded by the need to switch between desktops — you can see from the screenshot that I [...]

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In my previous post I described installing Reader v8 on Gentoo.

After that installation I discovered that I could not view PDF files in Firefox. Being a pragmatic Linux user, I ignored this inconvenience until tonight when I thought that I’d find out what I did wrong.

Firstly I checked what plugins were installed in Firefox by [...]

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AdobeReader (also known as Acrobat or acroread) is the free Adobe PDF viewer which is an essential for any modern PC or workstation. While this has been available for Linux for some time, we Linux users have often had to make do with an outdated version, ie a version older than available to Windows users.

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It always amazes me that there are so many options for us on our PC/Workstation. I doubt that there is a week that goes by when I do not discover a new application to add to my toolkit. And, for each one that I start to use, there will have been 4 or 5 that [...]

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