On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:13 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 03:09, jokerman64 wrote:
> > OK, so here i am after p-chem lab and i open my mail and get the new
> > "updated mandrake club" website mail. So i go and check it out, kinda
> > excited to see if it's "worthy of me" now so that i can join and I see
> > that it's still the same crappy site. lemme explain:
> > 1. The fonts suck!
> > 2. The fonts are sh*te
> > 3. The fonts on all the mandrake site suck @$$.
> > Yes, that is my one and only complaint. You see i don't care so much how
> > things work if i'm not going to use them a lot as much as I care about
> > how they look.
>
> Agree 100%, assuming this means the site still has Helvetica set as its
> preferred font. We've spent years in the distro fixing the reliance on
> this ass-ugly piece of bitmap crap, so why does the website of the damn
> distro want to use it?! Since we now have such lovely fonts in Mandrake,
> the website should have the default font set as "sans", so it actually
> looks half acceptable. Sites that default to Helvetica bug me so much
> I've actually wiped the font from my system (I tried setting up that
> thing you can do in fonts.conf that make it use Vera in place of
> Helvetica, but I could never make it work), so now the MDK page looks
> okay to me, but this is a hack I should NOT have to use.
Wiping Helvetica off my system. That's a brilliant idea. I shoulda thought of
that. It's a hack, yes, but i really hate that font too.
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illogic out
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$ partimage -od -f1 -j9 save /dev/hda1 /mnt/stuff/mdk91.bak
