CAC with Firefox Tip – Selecting Certificates

A quick tip if using a smartcard reader (for things like CAC) with Firefox – some web sites may not work right if you cannot select the proper certificate.  Some sites want the signature certificate and others want the email certificate.  Internet Explorer offers you a choice – Firefox may not, unless you do THIS:

 Open [...]

Beryl Tip – Desktop Octagon

Everyone seems to associate beryl with a 3D rotating cube.  Well, try this in beryl-settings-manager:

General Options menu, General Options – change Horizontal Virtual Size to 8.
Desktop menu, Rotate Cube – increase the Zoom setting (mine is around 14).
Visual Effects menu, 3D Effects – check “Draw backsides of windows” under Advanced.
Visual Effects menu, 3D Effects – [...]

Beryl Performance Tip – Beryl/Compiz Consumes CPU

I thought I would put in a quick observation about CPU utilization under Beryl (which I assume would be similar for Compiz, maybe incorrectly). As I was wandering through my blog stats, I saw a search entry on “compiz consumes CPU”, so here is my experience in improving graphics performance under beryl:

Turn off mipmaps.

I [...]

Firefox Problem…

Had a weird issue with Firefox tonight – It would not open any bookmarks.  I could manually type in a URL, use the throbber, and use the Google search window, but clicking on a bookmark did not do anything – it just sat there with a single blank tab.
Google did not yield much, so I [...]

Great Linux System Rescue Article…

Very cool – helps me out since I use Reiserfs…
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9297647757.html
Hope you never need to go to these lengths, but if you do, it’s good to know someone else left some directions.

Japanese Input Support on Mandriva 2007 Linux…

I decided to try enabling Japanese input on my system this weekend. I did get it to work, and here is how:

I first Googled it. ^___________^
I then made sure the following language and font packages were installed:

fonts-ttf-japanese
fonts-ttf-japanese-extra
fonts-ttf-japanese-ipanoma
fonts-ttf-japanese-mplus_ipagothic
locales-ja

I then made sure to install the following input packages and their associated libraries:

canna
scim-canna
skim-scim-canna
anthy
uim
prime
kinput2

I [...]

New Japanese Word….

Well, not new, but new to me.
Mottainai. <mo tai nai  – long “o”, equal emphasis on each syllable>
My wife had to help me get the idea – there is no one word in English for it. The best we could come up with is “A philosophy of efficiency”. Basically, if there [...]