Here’s a tutorial and PS action for removing noise from digital photos. Might try my hand at a GIMP version!
Author Archives: Donncha
The Joy of Usability
The comic going along with this article really caught my attention – how many times have you taken apart an old joystick to add the auto-fire switch from another joystick, or to repair the plastic struts that broke while you were playing Combat School! 🙂
Must read OK/Cancel: The Joy of Usability too of course!
Auto Generated Passwords
I picked this up via delicious earlier but Simon Willison has a lengthy post about it. Good stuff!
Gmail madness!
Yet another “Anyone-want-a-gmail-invite?” thread on ILUG prompted the following on #linux:
<DoC> I’m not that annoyed over it. It’s just there’s enough cruft to wade though on ilug as it is.
<DoC> And the sender gets added to my ~/.enemies 🙂
<DoC> If you don’t have ~/.enemies, you don’t have character.
<dredg> DoC: excellent. i’m quoting that
<bigbro> A UTF-8 character or some other type of character? 😉
* bigbro runs away now…
<DoC> Nerd.
b2 to WordPress rss feeds
One problem with changing blog software is the fact that URLs change. I’ve provided a redirection rule here so you don’t need to change the settings in your aggregator. Take a look at the feed now if you like!
RewriteRule ^b2rss2.php(.*)? /wordpress/wp-inst/wp-feed.php?feed=rss2 [QSA]
Shock! Look at those dogs!
Going to try debian
A Faster, Better Behaved Windows XP
Well, wouldn’t you know it? I don’t have a “Windows” category! Anyway, this guide and links should be very useful to anyone stuck in the dark-side of computing!
Queen album finally released in Iran
Wow! It took this long to get Queen music into Iran, legally! (via songz)
Laptop mp3 server woes
So, a friend has a laptop and wants to use it as an mp3 server in his living room.
Unfortunately he doesn’t know much about computers. After taking charge of said laptop, I’ve since found out that the HD is gone and it’s only a 233MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM. Along with a nice 80GB HD from Komplett or elsewhere it should be enough to play mp3 files shouldn’t it? Even if I have to stick with Windows 98 …. shudder
As a side note, I booted a Knoppix based distro, Local Area Security Linux, to see what hardware was in the machine. Nice bootup! Unfortunately I selected a resolution that the screen didn’t like, but the bootup is nice, picked up the sound card that I wasn’t sure was in there!