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View PostOS X Lion font anti-aliasing breaks after connecting new ASUS monitor
It appears OS X Lion still takes suggestions from connected monitors as to the correct level of anti-aliasing to use for rendering text.
If you’ve recently connected an ASUS monitor and suddenly your type looks wonky, run the following command via Terminal.app to restore goodness.
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
View PostSkype 5.3 and Growl 1.3 under OS X 10.7 Lion
After upgrading to Growl 1.3 Skype no longer communicated with Growl on my machine. The option for Growl was still in the notification settings, but was grayed out.
The fix was relatively simple in my case:
Download Growl Version Detective (scroll down)
Quit Skype
Run GVD
Scroll down in the list until you locate Skype
Click the “Upgrade FW” button located … Read full article »
Link: Undoing mistakes in git (via the Git Community Book)
The Git Community Book has a great page on undoing mistakes, both uncommitted and committed.
View PostHOW-TO: Determine what version of Ubuntu you’re running
Two simple commands, these are actually for far more than just Ubuntu:
lsb_release -a
uname -a
Sample output:
# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 Codename: oneiric # uname -a Linux Somehost 3.0.0-12-virtual #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 18:19:02 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux