Archive For January 27th, 2005

Oops!

This is the “oops” list! A series of photographs of unfortunate aviation events. Here’s a dramatic example!

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Work it out – Office politics

In this article Jenni Russell “uncovers the hidden rules of the workplace”. How is your office environment? And if you want to annoy your collegues.. Follow some of these instructions!

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A9.com -Yellow Pages – Copyrighted Buildings?

Nice, the Yellow Pages on a9.com have photos of the places you’re looking for, as long as you live in the good ol’ US of A! I wonder if they got the permission of all building owners to take their photos. The images of all buildings built after 19xx are proteced by copyright. Ah, here’s [...]

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Can I run Windows viruses in Linux?

It’s almost possible, but the results in this article on running Windows viruses with Wine are disappointing. There are problems but things are improving so Linux users can enjoy all the benefits of Windows! It just isn’t fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn’t Linux users be in on the [...]

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Creating Panoramic Photos with the GIMP

Caoimhe asked me to elaborate on how I created the panoramic photo that currently appears at the top of this page. Here’s how. You can download all the images I used (although they’re much smaller than the originals!) but the techniques described will be useful for other photos too. Load dsc06627.jpg, dsc06628.jpg and dsc06629.jpg into [...]

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