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For w/e reason they are no longer included in the official repositories – I know, I know… There are replacements around, which I use, but for work purposes you unfortunately just need them.

wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/scripts/fetchmsttfonts.sh
chmod +x ./fetchmsttfonts.sh
./fetchmsttfonts.sh

Done.

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… gosh, I always forget what I do to my font configs on my machines.
KDE: Enable Antialiasing/Subpixel hinting RGB/Style Medium
Fontconfig system wide: Replace Helvetica with something readable in .fonts.conf
Link 10-autohint.conf and 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
To be never forgotten again for my fonts to look gorgeous.

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… my Sidux has bash-completion enabled for all apt-commands.
apt-get install amarok<tab> simply rocks instead of using apt-cache search everytime.

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Alsa woes

Note to self: Intel’s HDA chip on my P35 motherboard sucks and doesn’t support hardware mixing. Debian’s libasound2 sucks too since the plug:dmix is broken for w/e reason.
Solution: Reactived my trusty old Creative Audigy2. Sweet piece of hardware and does hardware mixing.

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Boy, my NSLU2 is slow…

Decided to compile a new version libtorrent and rtorrent since well… I was bored and the new version got DHT support, which is awesome.
7 hours later I realized I forgot to put the proper CXXFLAGS in place … AGAIN! It’s a known bug when compiling with GCC 4.xx, all goes well until you [...]

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… at least when using Sidux.
I was quite annoyed yesterday because my KDE fonts looked simply crispy and marvellous, yet the ones in Pidgin and Iceweasel/Firefox (pretty much the only GTK apps I use) looked like shit. gtk-qt-engine does a good job keeping my fonts the same, but there was simply no anti-aliasing going [...]

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Font tweaks

Thanks to some helpful comment at osnews.com I tried changing my KDE fonts to the excellent Bitstream Vera Sans Fonts with medium Subpixel Hinting enabled and boy… Did that make a difference. Crispy, excellent looking fonts that you can actually read a mile away now. Makes me wonder why no distribution I ever tried [...]

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