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To add the basic Microsoft fonts, use the package which simplifies things.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

This will install the most common TrueType fonts automatically. after that, run the following command to rebuild the font cache.

sudo fc-cache -fv

You can add other (private) TrueType fonts by adding them to the ~/.fonts folder. If you want them to be available system wide, add them to the /usr/share/fonts folder. (You'll need super-user/root privileges to install fonts system-wide.)

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There's a lot of zeros and ones abused on the web about how to make Firefox go faster.  After trying almost everyone's "gotta haves" these are the ones that seem to work for me.

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Hostmonster uses simple scripts to install various program.  Typically they deliver them unmolested, but it appears that they couldn't leave Roundcube alone.  After installing, there are some hyperlinks to "Install Roundcube" and "Hostmoster" - a shameless self promo.  These are ironic, since I just installed Roundcube on Hostmonster!  But I digress.  How to clean this up is the point of this article.

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If you're running Windows, you simply have to have "anti-badness" software.  Perhaps, I should use a more technical term "AntiBadware."  But where to start? Generally speaking this falls into four categories:  AntiVirus, Firewall, AntiScuzware, and AntiMalware.  (Yeah, I just made up another term there, too.)

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By default Microsoft Office System 2007 has ClearType enabled, even if you don't have it set at the system level. If you want to disable ClearType in Office 2007 feature, here's how! 

 

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Linux user?  How to tell what you are running?  Try these commands.

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A critical perfomance issue on all Windows-based machines is disk fragmentation. Here we briefly describe what is going on, recommend a way to deal with the problem.