Beautify gitk font on Debian/Ubuntu

Install tk8.5, if not yet installed: # apt-get install tk8.5 # update-alternatives --config wish Selection Alternative ----------------------------------------------- 1 /usr/bin/wish8.4 *+ 2 /usr/bin/wish-default 3 /usr/bin/wish8.5</pre> There are 3 alternatives which provide wish. Type in the number that corresponds to tk8.5 (in my case was 3) then hit enter. Change fonts in ~/.gitk to DejaVu Sans Mono. set mainfont {{DejaVu Sans Mono} 9} set textfont {{DejaVu Sans Mono} 9} set uifont {{DejaVu Sans Mono} 9 bold}

September 4, 2011 · 1 min · 74 words · kenno

How to replace default fonts in MIUI rom

MIUI (1.7.22) uses Arial as the default font. If you hate it as I do, here is how to change it. I assume you have adb working. We are going to replace only 2 fonts - Arial.ttf and Arial-Bold.ttf. First, let’s back up the old fonts just in case thing didn’t go well as we want to. (I learned this the hard way, and keen to avoid it at all cost) ...

July 24, 2011 · 1 min · 142 words · kenno

PHP extension "mcrypt" must be loaded.

On Ubuntu or Debian: $ sudo apt-cache search php|egrep ^php5- $ sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt Ref: Install php extensions on ubuntu

May 22, 2011 · 1 min · 21 words · kenno

Kill all processes of a user

The following command will kill all processes belong to a single user on Linux. pkill -u username Credit: Linux – Kill all processes for a user

May 9, 2011 · 1 min · 26 words · kenno

[FIXED] bind9 is running bind9 status reports failed!

bind9 runs in a chroot environment on lenny. The service can be started as usual: # /etc/init.d/bind9 start Starting domain name service...: bind9. Let’s check bind9 status: ` /etc/init.d/bind9 status bind9 is not running failed! ` Well, the first thing I did was to check the log file, in which I found no error related to named. So I tried another way to check the status: # rndc status version: 9.6-ESV-R3 CPUs found: 1 worker threads: 1 number of zones: 17 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF recursive clients: 0/0/1000 tcp clients: 0/100 server is up and running I was convinced that the DNS service was running. So what went wrong? It must be something in the /etc/init.d/bind9 script that incorrectly reports bind9 status. Opened up this file, I found: ...

December 19, 2010 · 1 min · 195 words · kenno