Archive For November 11th, 2002
Slashdot | Larry Rosen on the Microsoft Penalty Ruling – good reading. How do consumers benefit? No, really! by Enry Both Bill Gates and John Ashcroft talked about how the decision benefits consumers. But there’s nothing really in the decision that changes the way MSFT does business. I can’t call IBM and get a discount [...]
Using the technique described below for joining two images. I went out and took 2 photos: To create the following larger photo. icable distortion where the two photos meet, I wasn’t very careful editing as this is more a proof of concept for myself than anything else. The original xcf format photo is also available [...]
Don’t Get Fired Day 1 You may be required to produce a pay stub from your last job. Would you rather not (maybe because you fudged your salary history)? That might be grounds for automatic termination. You may be required to sign a very restrictive non-compete agreement. Rather not? Empty your desk. Your employment may [...]
Plug-In: User Filter – use Photoshop filters in the GIMP. Here’s some filters that worked.If you try to compile the User Filter on Red Hat 8.0 (and maybe other modern distributions of Linux) you’ll probably get an error message in the file uf_file.cChange line 44 fromfpos_t ofs;tolong ofs;The program should compile now if you run [...]
Vertical Blends – good tutorial on how to merge two photos to create a new image with even lighting throughout.
Trinity may sue over Star Wars scene – I haven’t seen “Attack of the Clones”, ok, I don’t even like Star Wars much, but the thumbnail on the above page does bear a striking resemblance to the College Library.
