HDR

HDR or High Dynamic Range Imaging is a relatively new thing in digital world, but it was developed in the '30s and '40s.

I discovered it this mourning, and i had to try it. All you have to do is to make 3 images with different exposures, and mess a little bit with settings and you'll get a masterpiece. Probably the best tool to do this is Photomatix. You can try it for free.
I'm amazed what you can do with photos, even if they're really poor quality like so:
Original

and HDR

Boot screen

I suffered last night to set a different boot screen on my windowz. I found a uber lame h4x program (with GUI!), BootSkin. It's easy to figure out and look what i made:
From this image->

To this->

And a video:

Neat.

Yesterday on IT class was really dramatic show :o
We had a homework to draw a fish tank in Corel Draw over winter holiday. And of course i didn't do it, as the other 3 male friends at my group. My excuse was:
- Professor, i couldn't install corel draw, i use linux and it can't be ran on it.
- That's no excuse!!!11
- :o
- If you really wanted to do something, you will do it! No matter what, you will finished it!
And i got the worst mark.
Well, let's see that from a different angle.
First of all, she didn't gave as Corel. Her excuse was:"Why didn't you asked me?"
Hm, let me see. If i asked her, she would gave me a illegal copy of corel. So what then?
Our school has nearly 40-50 computers. So that's nearly 40-50 illegal copy's of windows OS. All computers are full of piracy software as well. So, we all have to be criminals to receive education.
We can just call the government and say:"Yo bitchez, our sch00l is full of shitzord!! Come here and shut it down! Of course, leave us 10% of benefits from illegal software penalty." - and it will probably work, we will become famous and rich, and our school will be 'out of service', but best of all, our brain damaged IT professor will be unemployed ^^

Grrr

ArtRage...
I ran onto this program few days ago, and I have to say something about it.

ArtRage is a expensive tool for drawing, it costs $40, but it has something to offer.
It's an ultimate drawing/painting application, with all kinds of tools you can remember. It's easy to use, and you can make really artistic paintings with it.
You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.
It supports PSD document.

Check out some paintings i made for 5 minutes:

Freezing

I was planing to add some extras to Ubuntu recently, so I've installed Compiz Fusion. It's a mixture of Beryl and Compiz and it has pretty decent effects.
Here are some screenshots:




You can rotate and flip your desktop, draw lines with fire, change windows in a really pedantic way, some crappy water effects etc...
Now it's really obvious how far m$ software is behind GNU/Linux community.

Cheers

I've installed Wine today.
Impression : good.

$ wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

$ sudo apt-get install wine
$ wine

It automatically puts Wine in menu, so you have to choose Configure Wine:

Click 'Autodetect...' in drives section and that's about it.

C: is not your C: drive in windows, it's folder in linux where you put your windows applications.

/home/COMPUTERNAME/.wine/drive_c/

Now you can install all kind of windows-like applications.
example:

Choose your linux 'c_drive\Program Files' directory>

zomg:

And voila, it's working...


It emulates most of simpler programs like so:


but, for bigger applications (Photoshop, Sound Forge, games) you have to configure some crap, i tried to run PS but it blocked on splash screen, damn modules...

Anyway, if you want to get rid of windoze 4ever, install wine...

kthxbye

Highway to Hell

Another day finished.
I customized my Ubuntu a lil' bit, i deleted fu*king Evolution Mail and replace it with Mozilla Thunderbird. Also, i installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, shit capable for playing mp3, avi etc.
When i got home today, i turned my b0x on, and power-supply cooler went wild. Some screws were badly attached, also it was full of dust. I took my vacuum cleaner and blow the motherfucker away.

Grub refreshed

I removed Xubuntu and installed Ubuntu. Why? I don't like Xubuntu at all.
Ubuntu comes with compiz, so it has really nice effects, gnome 2.20 is there too.
Openoffice has ubuntu's logo on splash image, so Feky tought ubuntu bought openoffice :D. Thing i really don't like is Evolution Mail, why didn't they put a better mail client, like Thunderbird. Oh well, their problem.
The VPN setup is really easy, you just have to install pptp-linux and
network-manager-pptp, configure it in a gui and browse the net.
Also, bluetooth is working 'out of the box', and Duffman said :"Oh yeaaah!!"