Rendezvous
I’m due to fly to Port Moresby tomorrow and will be there for 3 days, returning on Monday. I will meet up with Lily and my folks. Jeez…I haven’t been home for almost 4 years!
A CSS styled table
Veerle presents A CSS styled table.
Turn off transparency in title bar
Some of the following information are taken from here.
By default, the unfocused window title bar is rendered semi-transparent. This is particular annoying and bad for some of the low-end systems. Here is a simple way to turn the transparency off.
- Open the run dialog (Alt+F2) and bring up the gconf-editor.
- Browse to /apps/gwd/ and set metacity_theme_opacity to 1. By default it’s set to 0.75.
Getaway in PNG
Hey guys! Great to see you again.
Today I travelled with grandma (daddy’s mummy) to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It’s my first time here but it’s where daddy grew up. The weather is so hot here and there are so many unfamiliar faces. The first thing I said when grandpa got into the car was “yie yie” (grandpa in Mandarin). Grandpa was so happy and I said it again when we got home. Then I met our hausmeris Mary and Betty who were really excited to see me.
In the evening we dinned out at the Airways and I terrorised the hotel with my talented piano skills. Then I decided to throw everything they give me to the floor but grandpa made me to pick them all up and gave me a very serious talk. When we got back home grandpa taught me how to kill little ants running on the walls and I think I did a pretty good job. For the rest of the evening I kept on switching the TV channels like I did back in Australia which got grandpa really annoyed but I think he will forgive me.
Anyway, I had a great day today. I’m so tired and exhausted. By the way…I wonder where is mummy and daddy? La la la…
How to manually mount USB drives
Some of the following information are taken from here.
1. Insert USB drive.
2. Run the following command to determine if USB drive is detected.
lsusb
3. If the USB is detected, you can then list the device.
fdisk -l
4. You will be able to see something like “/dev/sdf1″ under “Device”. Remember this.
5. Edit the file /etc/fstab and add the following line with the disk information you obtained in step 3. I created a directory (/media/usb) for my USB drive. You can use whatever you want really, but you must use that when you mount the drive.
/dev/sdf1 /media/usb auto noauto,rw,users 0 0
6. Once you completed all steps above, you can mount and access the USB drive.
mount /media/usb
7. To unmount
umount /media/usb
Installing fonts for system wide usage
1. Create a directory called .fonts in home directory (eg. /home/username/.fonts):
2. Copy the fonts into the .fonts directory.
3. May need to restart but otherwise the fonts should be available in all applications.
Temporary PR granted
Lily and I received our temporary permanent residency status as of today.