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I’m more seriously investigating the feasability of moving my main desktop environment to Linux.
I’ve just found a package of fonts vital for the web that has brought me one step closer.

It contains Verdana, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Arial, Trebuchet, Comic Sans, Impact and others

http://avi.alkalay.net/software/webcore-fonts/

Reference:
http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO/fonts.html

Hi,
This is just a heads up. Sitepoint are launching a new CSS reference that sounds very promising. They’ve hinted in the latest newsletter that you’ll need a Sitepoint forums account for access to it.. and I’m guessing they might be charging people who don’t have one created before Dec 1st for access.

Their technical writing has been excellent to date, so I think it’d be worth your while signing up for an account.

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“So, when’s this fancy reference launching, anyway?” you ask. That I can’t tell you just yet. But I can tell you that you’d better make sure you have a SitePoint Forums account by December 1st, or you’ll be disappointed!
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Create an account here…
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/register.php

Hope it turns out nice!

This is a small selection of the open source desktop software I use. As with most open source stuff, I believe they are all cross software to some degree and they are all really useful. Apps I’d struggle to live without now I use them regularly!

Firefox
The bestest web browser ever for starters and then the plugins launch it to another level.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Inkscape
Vector graphic editor
http://www.inkscape.org/

GIMP
Image editing software
http://www.gimp.org/

Pidgin
Instant messenging software that is actually nice to use
http://www.pidgin.im/ -windows
http://www.adiumx.com/ - mac

Vector Magic
An raster(bitmap) to vector converter that actually works! (online tool)
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

Audacity
Multi-track audio editing software
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

KeePass
Secure password store and manager - just vital these days
http://keepass.info/ - windows
http://www.keepassx.org/ - linux

Open Office
A full office suite that opens and saves to MS Office or open formats.. the featureset definitely surpasses MS Office 2000 and I’ve heard the same said for MS Office 2003 (I switched to openoffice rather than pay for MS Office 2003 so can’t offer a real opinion)
http://www.openoffice.org/

I got fed up of hunting down what css list style produces what, so I made a quick page that shows you.
see examples of list styles

Part 1
Retrieve the full license key from Plesk using the web control panel License Manager.
Backup and download the key.
# cp /etc/psa/psa.key /var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs/
Visit http://<domain>/psa.key

Part 2
Get the CentOS install script
# wget http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/tests/aooi-installer.sh
# chmod +x aooi-installer.sh
Edit the script
# vi aooi-installer.sh
:%s/www.gtlib.gatech.edu/mirror.linux.duke.edu/g
:wq

Run the install
# ./aooi-installer.sh
Open a serial console and watch what happens during reboots etc.

Part 3
Login as root with password ‘atomic555′
Change the root password
# passwd
Copy my firewall scripts to server and customise with new machinename
/root/fw.on
/root/fw.off
/root/getfw.sh
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall_off
Make them all executable
# chmod +x /root/fw.on /root/fw.on /root/fw.off /root/getfw.sh /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall_off

Write and install an iptables firewall
# ./getfw.sh

Part 4
Install latest Plesk (don’t use auto-installer psa_installer_v3.2.0_build070705.20_os_CentOS_4.3_x86_64 - busted)
# wget http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.2/CentOS4.3/psa_installer_v3.1.2_build070321.17_os_CentOS_4_x86_64
# chmod +x psa_installer_v3.1.2_build070321.17_os_CentOS_4_x86_64
# ./psa_installer_v3.1.2_build070321.17_os_CentOS_4_x86_64
You can login to plesk at https://<domain>:8443/
user: admin
pass: setup
Once you’ve logged in change your password

Part 5
Add yourself a user account so you don’t have to login as root
# useradd <username>
# passwd <username>
If you’re going to be using the Plesk migration manager, add your new user to the ‘wheel’ group and enable sudo
# usermod -a -G wheel <username>
uncomment %wheel line in /etc/sudoers

Part 6
Update yum to use atomic channel and run an update
# wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh
# yum update
If it complains about dependencies involving php-pear
# yum install php-pear
# yum update

Part 7
Make sure you are using all the latest conf files. Use my ‘rpmnew.sh’ manager script to speed the job.
Make sure httpd service is running (probably have to move /etc/php.d/ioncube-loader.ini)

Part 8
Buy and install ASL channel
# wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/install-asl.sh |sh

Further tweaks
Set kernel to attempt reboot (panic) on oops