Archive for June, 2008

Wireless access in some parcs in the capital

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Sorin Oprescu announced (mediafax) that some of Bucharests parcs will soon benefit from free wireless access points. The municipal council has had such a project in plan but was not to be finalized untill 2013. Sorin Oprescu stated that is is too long a time and the people of Bucharest couldnt wait that long.

Interesting. I wonder who won this contract.

Ubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3 and Large fonts

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Ive been playing around with Ubuntu Hardy since it was in alpha and have enjoyed it greatly. When it was finally released I had just changed my laptop. The new laptop, an HP 8510w mobile workstation, supports larger resolutions.

I use 1900×1200 and this created some problems for me. First gnome set the DPI to 146 and everything looked very wrong. Unfortunately I did not think to look at the DPI settings for firefox because I would have been able to resolve this issue much sooner.

For those of you struggling with large fonts in firefox (or just horribly wrong deformation of fonts) look to changing the DPI for firefox to 72 ot 96. To do this open firefox and in the address bar type “about:config” and search for “layout.css.dpi” and set it to 72 or 96.

Thanks to this post for the solution.