mkm's questions

I wanted to use Monaco.ttf with IntelliJ. Unfortunately it doesn't show up.

I also noticed that the Monaco font doesn't appear in the list of fonts got from awt:

java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getAvailableFontFamilyNames()

I installed Monaco.ttf in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/osx

I also tried to copy it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts and even tried to manually update the /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/fonts/fonts.dir file

I restarted the jvm at each try, but the fonts is not visible from the sun jdk.

All other applications see that font (even eclipse, which is in java but uses the SWT library)

Does anybody know how to make jdk see additional fonts?

GUI update-manager is able to show the "changelog" of packages to-be installed (not downloaded yet).

I also found out how to provide the .changelog files in the right place for update-manager to show them, and now I'm happy since I'm able to tell my clients that they can see changelogs of my custom packages directly from their gui.

Unfortunately I'm not able to find any command line tool to do the same thing and that would be more useful on servers.

From what I saw it seems that this convention (putting .changelog files directly alongside the .deb files in the apt repo) is a ubuntu specific extension.

There are some debian resources (the reprepro man page for example) which point on a different way to store changelogs online, http://packages.debian.org/changelogs

Does anybody know if there already exists a tool like apt-cache to show the changelogs from packages which are not yet installed (nor downloaded) ?

Is it possible to build the deb packages in house and then upload the binaries to launchpad PPA, instead of uploading the source package and let it build by the build farm ?

I remember I saw a apt mirror somewhere containing older distributions but I cannot find it anymore. Does anybody know where to find it?

How can I disallow a user from moving/renaming a subdirectory of this home directory?

Even if a user doesn't have any rights on a directory, it can rename/move it as long as the source and destination parent directory are writable.

I had a similar problem on macosx. Users inadvertently drag&drop the "Library" folder somewhere else breaking everything as there are applications depending on that path.

I don't it would be better to depend on another path, outside the home dir, or use ".files" but I have a legacy situation.

I tried to fix the problem my putting the dir somewhere else and then making a "bind" mount

mount -o bind sourcepath /home/user/somedir

It prevents the renaming of the dir:

mv: cannot move `somedir' to `somethingelse': Device or resource busy

Does anybody know an easier way?

I run ubuntu on my macbook pro, with nvidia proprietary driver.

I've made a little hack script http://www.coldcode.net/2010/05/nvidia-auto-display.html which detects the presence/absence of an external monitor and switches the resolution accordingly.

Does anybody know of a better way to do that?

My script also works around specific issues of the nvidia partial xrandr implementation; assuming a xrandr compliant xorg driver, is there a way to do the same thing in a less hackish way?