Jason Antman’s Blog

So in the first bit of good news lately, after four years as a part-timer, this Monday I start my full-time position at Rutgers as a Linux SysAdmin. Not really anything different – same office, same work, just another day a week and a pay bump (plus benefits and all that). My only real change on the first day will be a 3-hour HR orientation and moving my workstation to public address space. But, on the positive side, my new laptop just came in – a shiny new 13″ MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD. Every time I see Mac packaging, I remember why they cost so much – the box must be half the price!

If all goes well, I’ll have the machine setup to dual-boot OSX and Linux (specifically OpenSuSE 11.2. I’ll post notes when I have it done.

The list of things I have to figure out beyond just getting both OSes running:

• Do I want to use Mac for more than a select few apps that require it (i.e. possibly as another day-to-day OS)? If so, I need to figure out file sharing between the OSes, what I want unified from my profiles/homedirs, Firefox profile sharing, etc.
• How to do a simple shared partition?
• FUSE/SSHFS on the Mac side.
• Is there a way to select the boot OS (rEFIt) from Linux?

Stay tuned…

Tech HowTos apple, dual boot, laptop, linux, mac, macbook, opensuse

I know i haven’t posted in a while.

I’m working on a friend’s web site, and needed a specific font for the title graphic. I couldn’t find it *anywhere* as a free TTF download for my Linux machine. However, after asking a friend who’s a Mac user, I got a .dfont file as an email attachment.

After some quick Googling, I came by the fondu project on SourceForge. I didn’t look into it in depth, but I just grabbed the i386 RPM, installed it, and – magic! The in the directory with my .dfont I now also had .ttf fonts for all of the variants!

Tech HowTos font, mac