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So far I have found that default font rendering on ubuntu was a bit lacking initially, so I found some ways to improve it, or so it seems.

first, run commands

sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

First question from this config util is the most important: hinting.

• Choose Native for very thin very sharp fonts, DejaVu work good in this case, but Lucida family fonts are really bad.
• Choose Autohinter for slightly blurry fonts, this setting works well with Lucida family.
• Do not choose the third option 'None', it results in REALLY blurry fonts.

Than install package with ms fonts, right now tahoma font in them is bold by default, you may want to get in in an archive from the web.

I find that DejaVu and Lucida family of fonts are best for me, Verdana is also quite good, especially for small fonts, because of its high aspect ratio.

Surprisingly I do not like how Georgia font looks, but that was with native hinting that made Lucida fonts look bad too.

Useful plugin for assigning rules action to keystrokes

http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html

To start just type "mate" and it will open last open project.

Plugin for Haml:

cd 'Library/Application Support/'
mkdir TextMate/Bundles
cd TextMate/Bundles/
svn co http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/Haml.tmbundle

Select file by abbreviation or simly go to recent file: Cmd-T Navigation → Go to Symbol… (⇧⌘T) ⌘↩ Move to the end of the line and insert a newline. ⇧⌘↩ Move to the end of the line, insert a ; and then insert a newline. ⌃⌥⌘V list of all previous clippings ⌃⌘V - paste text without indenting ⌘E and ⌘G, ⇧⌘E, ⌃⌘F, ⌃⇧⌘F Shift Left and Shift Right action bound to ⌘[ and ⌘] ⌃⌘ and arrows Move Text Up/Down/Left/Right Text → Edit Each Line in Selection (⌥⌘A)

Ctrl-Shift-V - validate current file syntax Ctrl-Escape - pops up bundes menu Delete Line (⌃⇧K) — delete the current line. Wrap Selection in Open/Close Tag (⌃⇧W) Insert Open/Close Tag (⌃<) Filter Through Command… (⌥⌘R)

Cmd-Up or Down - move to the top or bottom of the file

Use program 3, medium 1.5lb loaf, dark crust settings.

• Warm water - 10.5 oz
• Olive oil - 2 tblsp
• Maple syrop - 2 tblsp
• Whole wheet flour - 1.5 cups
• White flour - 1.5 cups
• Optional: raisins - handfull
  • additioanl 0.5oz water
• Optional: oatmeal - 1/3 cup
  • additioanl 1.5oz water - unsure
• Optional: wallnuts - handfull
• Optional: dried milk - 2 tblsp - unsure
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Yest - 1 tsp

UWIN seems to be a much better alternative to cygwin. It is less intrusive, does not pretend to be an OS in itself, smaller, and integrates with windows better. Also, it turnes out that I like korn shell a lot, maybe even more than bash, at least its ksh93 variety.

Binaries could be downloaded here

Strictly speaking, only one installer is necessary: uwin-base uwin-groff and uwin-terminfo can de added with no harm.

Change root dir for installation to something simpler like c:\uwin

After installation it defaults HOME to /C/Documents and Settings/olekp, and I could not find a way to change it (it is most probably somewhere inside the windows setup).

One gotcha so far: path from windows is not imported to ksh, so there is work to do in setting up paths to ruby, rubygems, java etc.

Ruby with rmagick talking to mssql seems to be working fine in that environment.