Last meeting notes (FONTS)

[Charles Rishel]

Hey Pete,

I also run coyote Linux.. running it on what used to be my P166, which has 
been scaled back to a P133.  I have 64MB of RAM in it (donated the other 
un-necessary 64MB to a friend who needed it) and it runs awesome.  It is 
extremely stable, and not hard to configure.

After install, I made sure to move my ftp and telnet ports to non-well 
known ports.. at first I left ftp on 21, but was getting a lot of hits [all 
refused of course :-) ] and so I figured to keep a low profile, I would 
move them, haven't been hit since :-)).  I am not running a web server yet 
as I haven't had time to work on a suitable index page, but my web server 
is available to my internal boxes.

At any rate, I have found that it (CoyoteLinux) normally runs on about 10MB 
of ram, talk about a small footprint!! I would be willing to email you my 
configs if you would like, I didn't setup anything extravagant, just what I 
needed at the time.

It is extremely nice to be able to have my lan online 24/7 and telnet into 
my box from work.  Gonna look into installing SSH onto my fileserver soon 
so that I can sleep even BETTER at night, knowing that I am quite well 
protected.

Oh, as a side note, since Adelphia is my cable inet provider, and they 
prohibit running servers, I find it QUITE convenient to have my open ports 
off of the well known ports, that way if they scan for web servers and 
such, I get past their probes, as they only probe the well-known ports :-)).

BTW.. anyone interested in embedded linux should check out axis.com they 
have some AWESOME cards available.. **drool**

Hopefully I will be able to make a meeting one of these months, but my work 
schedule is whacked..working graveyard with Mon & Tues evenings off.. :-((

Will also be working on installing/setting up MySQL on a box to work on a 
database project at work, anyone with any tips/tricks/hints I would be MORE 
than happy to talk to ya..

Gotta love the versatility of Linux.

Chaz®

At 08:38 AM 8/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>   I was just wondering this morning if this mail list had stopped or if I
>had become removed or something because I havent had any mail from this in a
>while, especially about last Sunday, which I apparently missed and would
>have really enjoyed the Font topic, anyway, I have been majorly busy
>scrambling to reconfigure my networks here as my current SDSL provider of 4
>months is pulling out of the area. Luckily there is a provider taking over
>for them but with new IP allocations and my router that cost $700 will not
>work with there DSLAM. So as is becoming a practice, I have been turning to
>Linux for help. I have downloaded and made a boot disk with the Linux Router
>Project version 2.9.8 and have it up and running, completely running off ram
>from a floppy, NO HDD NEEDED! Anyway, after searching all over on the net, I
>have found nothing in respect to how to configure and use this. I am not
>that savvy in configuring a router in the first place but the one that I did
>have, was pretty simple. Does anyone have any experience in this? If so and
>you think you might be able to help, I could explain my IP config's,etc.
>What a great way to use that 486!(I currently have it on a p166). Any help
>as always would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks, peter at thecybersource.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
>JJ Neff
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:10 AM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Last meeting notes (FONTS)
>
>
>This past Sunday we took an exploratory look at Fonts in Linux.
>
>Here are some links to articles that will help any one interested in using
>TrueType or Type 1 fonts on a Linux box in X, Printing and StarOffice.
>
>FIRST:  Read the Font HOWTO.  It is a must to really understand the way
>fonts
>work in Linux and make the whole font server vs. print server thign much
>clearer:
>http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HowTO-4.html
>
>Then if you are interested in StarOffice the StarOffice documentation
>(appendix
>on installing Fonts)can be better understood (although having read the above
>may eliminate the need to read teh SO docs, but it's good info anyway.  The
>HOWTO goes into installing fonts in StarOffice actually less confusing than
>the
>SO doc.
>
>Then to Find FONTS go to :
>
>http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1193&mode=thread&order=0&thold=
>0
>
>EVEN IF you don't use MAndrake the article is still worthwhile.  Not only
>does
>it point out where fonts can be retrieved, but also has a short discussion
>on
>EULA's and the usability of "proprietery" fonts in an Open Source
>enviroment.
>
>MY SUGGESTION.  I read the Font How To and the thing that stuck out clearest
>was LINUX supports Type 1 Fonts wihtout any hassle and there is a tool to
>convert TT to Type 1 fonts GUES what I did, YUP converted my TT fonts to
>Type 1
>and they work!
>
>After doing all the steps manually you may feel that it is better done by a
>single tool.  Well that tool has been created and is made to work under KDE.
>IT is called kfontinst and can be found at:
>
>http://www.cpdrummond.uklinux.net/kfontinst
>
>I wasn't able to get it to compile but if you have success please report
>your
>findings.
>
>The test I finally did when finished was to create the same document in
>StarOffice and Word (with many different Font sizes, dimensions etc) and
>print
>each document in the other app.  I was able to see and print almost all the
>fonts (still can't print Courier New from MS on a SO box :-(  ).
>JJN
>
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