Fonts in Ubuntu

I’ve really taken a liking to the Droid family of fonts I found a while ago. Like to the point that I’m currently using them for all my desktop fonts.
I have Droid Sans Bold for my titles, Droid Sans for everything else, and Droid Sans Mono for my monotype font (still standard monotype in the [...]

Ubuntu configuration

Yet again I am amazed by Ubuntu… Nothing new, of course.
As stated in a previous post, I reinstalled Ubuntu today. I just devoted about an hour to get my desktop back to normal. It didn’t even take half that.
Firstly, I just went to Add/Remove programs and checked the about 15 programs I could remember right [...]

Fresh Reinstall

Well, I got what was coming to me. I was messing around yesterday with stuff I probably should have left alone. I was mostly experimenting with installing from source, a skill I feel would be useful. Unfortunately, I must have messed with a bit too much, as I could not get my computer to start [...]