Japanese and Korean fonts in Ubuntu

Gnome terminal is known for being a resource hog. When it reached 130 megabytes for a recently-opened terminal I looked into it.

Thanks to Gnome Live memory reduction this was fairly easy.

Using cat /proc/nnn/smaps I could see Korean and Japanese fonts using lots of memory. I don't usually need these...

Try searching for "batang", "kochi" and "uming"- I've removed these from my Ubuntu.

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SSH web proxy through a firewall

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Rather a buzz-word heavy title, but if you need to sort out decent web access from behind a firewall/proxy, use:

ssh -ND 9999 user@server.net

The web browser should then be configured to use the proxy "localhost:9999".

Skype login problems

According the the Skype heartbeat blog there are ongoing problems with Skype login.  Appears to have been going on for 24hrs now.

Not good!

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Is Slashdot turning into a legal eagle eyrie?

There's an article on Slashdot about Intel's threading library which has recently been released under a different licence.  The licence allows more use in the outside world.

However, Slashdot, the bastion of technical gurus, seems to be descending into a haven for amateur lawyers- 90%+ of the articles are about the nuances of GPL v2 licencing which have been discussed myriad times before- very little is said about the technical qualities of the library.

The technical posts I read basically said keep with OpenMP or Fortran90...

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Profiling Ruby on Rails performance

This is brilliant- a simple way to profile an individual page in RoR- profiler.

While it won't replace full profiling, it's a good way to see the initial view.