Category Archives: Short tips

installing-fonts-in-ubuntu-9,4

Posted by tawfekov on 16/10/2009 No comments

There are a number of very common fonts, which you can install through APT/Synaptic, including the Microsoft TrueType core fonts (e.g. Arial Black, Times New Roman).

Before installing, make sure you enable the extra repositories, (If your not sure how to do this please see: Repositories/Ubuntu).

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How Set your Default Gateway using Route | terminal

Posted by tawfekov on 01/10/2009 No comments

You want to quickly set the route for your machine from the terminal.

Frankly this problem faced me yesterday with my laptop and its drives me crazy untill this helped me

Start by opening up a terminal window, and type the following, just make sure you have the ip address of your gateway to do so.

  route add default gw IP ADDRESS eth0

We can see our changes by typing:

route -n

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