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Recently, there was an announcement on www.ubuntuforums.org warning users against malicious shell commands that might be run accidently by unsuspecting or inexperienced users. I wanted to spread the warning by posting it here.

For the education of Linux users everywhere, here are some common examples of dangerous commands that should raise a bright red flag. Again, these are extremely dangerous and should not be attempted on a computer that has any physical connection to valuable data — many of them will even cause damage from a LiveCD environment.

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Even if you use primarily free software and free fonts, you might want to install the Microsoft TrueType fonts so that Microsoft Office documents will look the way they were intended to look. Also, most webpages are designed with Microsoft fonts in mind, so after installing these fonts, they will look the way they are intended to look. This “recipe” will tell you how to install the Microsoft TrueType fonts in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).

The Truetype Microsoft fonts provided by the package include:

• Andale Mono
• Arial Black
• Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Comic Sans MS (Bold)
• Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Impact
• Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
• Webdings

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