Osugi Sakae

Quick note: PCLinuxOS and tiny fonts in Skype. You may already know that you have to use qtconfig to set the font size for QT apps, including Skype. But the problem is that with the current PCLinuxOS, there are actually 2 qtconfig apps — one for QT3 and one for QT4. The one you want is for QT4 and it is not in your $PATH. So, in a konsole type:


/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qtconfig


this will open up the QT4 qtconfig. Set the font to something bigger and don’t forget to save your changes. Next time you open Skype, you should have bigger fonts.

If you don’t have the file listed above, you might need to install the package qt4-qtconfig.

Hope this helps.

I switched from Gentoo to Kubuntu a month or two ago and while it was generally OK, there were several things I didn’t like about Kubuntu. I was a hardcore Gentoo user for many years and a KDE user even longer, so there are some features I just have to have. Like all of the functions for KRename, for example. Gentoo has them but I could not find any way to get all of them in Kubuntu. Long story short, yesterday I installed PCLinuxOS.

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Wow. Linux is really moving up in the world. I just read a fair review of a Linux distro in the mainstream press.

Think on that for a moment. A fair review. Not a FUD-fest. Where lots of non-techie people are going to read it.

This is very good. I believe most Linux distros are fully capable of holding their own against MS Windows in a fair comparison. Maybe not winning every time, but that is just reality. Fair comparisons have been pretty rare in the mainstream press, unfortunately.

Who knows, maybe they still will be rare in the future and today’s was just a fluke. Possible, but I don’t think so.

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Who would have thought anyone could not know how to use a paper clip?

Some students I teach did not. Elementary school students, eight, nine years old. They had never used paper clips before and didn’t know how they worked. Some of them attached the clip as in the picture.

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