Slashdot | Larry Rosen on the …

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 on a system without Windows installed, if I load XP onto a machine, MSFT can take it over and install software without my permission, and the APIs can be buried in MSDN, forcing OSS software developers to not only subscribe to MSDN, but also follow whatever licensing MSDN forces on users.

For the most part, this is MSFT business as usual.

Using the technique described …

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 for download. (Warning, it’s over 900K!)

Don't Get Fired Day 1 …

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 be subject to a urinalysis. Rather not “give”? You must be hiding something. Bye.

The employee manual, which lots of companies won’t give you until your first day, may require you to turn over all sales accounts (that you brought with you) to another sales rep. No? See ya later.

Plug-In: User Filter – use Pho …

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.c
Change line 44 from
fpos_t ofs;
to
long ofs;
The program should compile now if you run make.

The Anglers Rest, River Lee. …

The Anglers Rest, River Lee. I spent a lot of time working on this. A power line stretched across the original photo which had to be cloned out. I also cloned out a pole in the field near the cows, and there were 2 houses on the tree line that didn’t fit in with the scene.
I had to adjust the blue of the sky seperately from the land and used a layer mask to do that.