MahdiMirzadeh

Font Configuration in Linux

A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats.

Most computer fonts used today are in either bitmap(BDF) or outline data(otf/ttf) formats.

Many non-English users have problems with their language's rendering, at least Persian users have problems with viewing Persian charactars that can happen because:

1. Proper fonts are not installed/found by fontconfig. Click here
2. Fontconfig order is wrong and the latin fonts are above Persian fonts and don't have a good support that causes problems. Click Here

Notes

0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

plembo

VMware Player: "No 3d support is available from the host"

Facts: VMware Player on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the standard Gnome desktop running an AMD WX-2100 graphics card. Both glxinfo and glxgears show 3d acceleration is enabled and working on the host. In addition to VMware Player, the host is also running the qemu-kvm/libvirtd stack from Ubuntu's official repositories. My use case for 3d accelerated graphics in a Windows guest is to occasionally play a Windows-only game.

Issue: Player barks this warning during installation of... anything.

Solution: This askubuntu post, Powered by StackExchange[TM], provides the solution:

scalahub

Markdown License badges

Collection of License badges for your Project's README file.
This list includes the most common open source and open data licenses.
Easily copy and paste the code under the badges into your Markdown files.

Notes

• Badges are made with Shields.io.
• This badges do not fully replace the license informations for your projects, they are only emblems for the README, that the user can see the License at first glance.  
• 🇫🇷 Cette liste en français
• 🇨🇳🇹🇼 这个中文名单

BenniG123

function Get-DirectoryName($initialDirectory)
{
    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms") | Out-Null

    $openFolderDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog
    $openFolderDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null
    return $openFolderDialog.SelectedPath
}

Write-Output "Select image folder"

maxwelleite

#!/bin/bash
# Author: Maxwel Leite
# Website: http://needforbits.wordpress.com/
# Description: Script to install the latest Wine Tahoma Regular and Wine Tahoma Bold fonts on Ubuntu distros from the Wine Project.
#              The Wine project includes the free and open-source fonts Wine Tahoma Regular and Wine Tahoma Bold released under LGPL
#              designed to have identical metrics to the Microsoft Tahoma font. This was done because Tahoma is available by default
#              on Windows, and many applications expect the font to be available.
# Dependencies: wget
# Tested: Ubuntu Saucy/Trusty/Xenial/Bionic
# Latest Update: 20/11/2020