6 comments Does this sound like a familiar scenario?: You’ve found your favourite Seinfeld clip, you’ve waited for it to buffer, you’ve clicked fullscreen mode, swiftly alt-tabbed to check your mail (the thousandth time today), switched back into Firefox, clicked fullscreen again, only to find the comedy genius’ face has vacated your screen, or frozen, glass-eyed and unanimated, as the sound plays on?… Read the rest
0 comments Here’s a one line command that will install additional Hebrew fonts on Fedora 20. There’s a fair few in here, including a Free version of Hebrew Arial (much sought after). They’re all in repositories already so with yum it’s a breeze:
sudo yum install culmus-* alef-fonts* google-noto-sans-hebrew-fonts
1 comment A week has passed since this year’s Free Society Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, where last weekend I travelled to speak about "The case for Free Software Crowdfunding". Several talks have stayed with me, and crept into my thoughts over the last seven days.… Read the rest
0 comments Is PHP’s composer package manager pulling in dependencies successfully on your development machine but failing on your continuous integration server? In my case, Drone.io, the young, ludicrously simple CI platform, was failing in setup of a PHP project because of strange 404 “Not found” errors.… Read the rest
9 comments Today my new Thinkpad bluetooth keyboard arrived. It’s beautiful; I’m thrilled. It’s such a better companion for my XPS 15 9530 laptop than my old Penclick K2 the two don’t even compare.
NFC comes built in to the new keyboard, but unfortunately Gnu/Linux doesn’t support NFC well yet.… Read the rest
