Friday, September 21, 2007

Playing DVD iso files (images)

Well, it took me about two hours to play a DVD iso file.

Steps to do so
1. Install libraries the support Decrypting DVDs (It's not bundles with Ubuntu due to some legal issues concerning Digital Rights Management).
2. Mount your iso image:
2.1. Create a mounting point anywhere in your filesystem, by creating a new directory.
I did so by
>sudo mkdir /mnt/isoimage
2.2 Mount your image:
>sudo mount -t iso9660 iso-file-name.iso /mnt/isoimage -o loop
3. Install VideoLAN as your DVD player, using Application->Add/Remove...
4. In the Open Disc option, replace the /dev/scd0 to /mnt/isoimage and you're set!

Monday, September 17, 2007

Changing hebrew fonts for firefox

Firefox installed with UBUNTU 7.04 has some really ugly Hebrew fonts.

Here's the web page explaining how to change it to something normal.

http://mozilla.org.il/wiki/index.php/Fonts

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Solved my missing hebrew writing

2 days ago something weird happened: I couldn't write in Hebrew.
I tried alt-shift, but nothing happened.

Lucky me I found a link it the linux forum of www.hwzone.co.il, which solved my problem:

Article for solving hebrew missing