Troseph

I’m compiling all my tutorials on my site. I will have tutorials for Gimp, Inkscape, Photoshop, and others when I get around to them. Click here to see the tutorials.

I’m here to tell you something everyone knows, but Metallica still doesn’t get, and that is new Metallica is horrible, and that the Internet is a big place where little people can say what they would like. Metallica’s “people” have been contacting blogging providers and having them remove negative reviews of their music. This is simply bogus. Metallica doesn’t get the internet as you might remember with the whole napster thing. Which in their minds was a huge win, but they apparently don’t know what BitTorrent is because you can do a search on scrapetorrent and download their entire discography. Yeah. I’m wasting my energy typing about a much of megalomaniac old bastards. Screw you, Metallica.

I’ve been using Hugin for a couple years now, and its saved me hundreds of hours of work. Creating a great panorama is hard without a tool like Hugin, or Photoshop. With Hugin, you have greater control, and some really inteligent code to get the job done a lot faster than Photoshop. Most the time its really as easy as 1, 2, 3. Load the images, let it chug away and align them, then export the picture.

Here is the UI, its pretty damn simple:

Here are a few panoramas I’ve made with just Hugin. It wouldn’t take more than 10 minutes post work to get them looking perfect. Click the photos below to see the full size images.

Tropic Reservoir (Originally 5 Individual Pictures):

My Room (Originally 27 Individual Pictures):

Astoria-Megler Bridge (Originally 12 Individual Pictures):

Zion’s National Park (Originally 4 Individual Pictures):

Linux is gaining more and more popularity everyday. Right now Windows in the grand scheme of software is well supported legacy software. Its simply out of date. Unix, Linux, and BSD have always been lighter, and more stable. Unless you’re a gamer, there is little reason to switch. BUT if you are a gamer that can switch, you might show the game developers Linux is a platform worthy of having games ported to.

The reason I say Windows is a “legacy” OS is simple: Its updated rarely, unstable, confusing, slow, insecure, large, poorly optimized, and closed ended. Linux on the other hand, has been re-worked, re-though, and re-optimized by hundreds if not thousands of developers over its life. Its been optimized to the point it will run on a cell phone, or even a watch! Windows Mobile requires a rather robust phone, when Linux can run on a 49Mhz ARM cpu found in most calculators.

Now for the show down — the reasons Linux is better.

File Compatibility:

No time after you load Linux you can load PDFs, RAW images from your camera, Illustrator files, Photoshop files, Word Documents, Exel Spreadsheets, the list really goes on forever.

Greater Flexibility:

Want to run World of Warcraft, Ventrillo and/or TeamSpeak, and your guild’s forum amd website? No problem! You could run it all off one machine! FREE!

Lower Cost:

Windows costs over $100. End of story. It really makes no sense to install Windows for a workstation PC. Most everything is compatable, and you’re just feeding a big, old, crotchity, money hungry, beast when you pay Microsoft for their dinosaur of an operating system.

All together you’re making a much better choice with Linux. You get all the great looks as Vista, with the the stability of MacOS, and the freedom to do whatever you’d like with your OS.

Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
ftp> EXIT
?Invalid command
ftp> QUIT
?Invalid command
ftp> fuck
?Invalid command
ftp> exit
221 Goodbye.
troy@employee-terminal:~$

Me: Thanks for calling BlueHost, this is troy
cu: Hows it going Joy?
Me: Pretty good, but my name is Troy.
cu: Yeah, Joy, thats what I said
me: No, its Troy, like Helen of Troy
cu: Helen of who? What? Is it Helen or Joy?
me: My name is Troy
cu: Thats what I said, JOY, J-O-Y.
Me: T-R-O-Y
Cu *click*

If you’re looking for a weekend project, check out the Kikker Hardknock. Available with 49, 110, and 140cc engines, this little beast sips gas (88MPG) and can still get up and go, up to 60-70 MPH. The base model, starting at 1,499 has a 110cc engine, Front Disk / Rear Drum Brakes, Jockey Shift & Forward Foot Controls, Springer Front Suspension, 15″ Rear Wheel 18″ Front Wheel, Kick & Electric Start, and best of all, no plastic parts. It takes about 3-6 hours to assemble depending upon your skill level, but isn’t a hard task for a novice. It has great style, and its very affordable. If you’re in the Salt Lake/Provo area, its worth taking a drive to Pirate Motorsports at 1983 W. State Street, in Pleasant Grove to check out these fun little bikes. More info…

If I have to say “Lets take a look over your Outlook Express settings” again, I will quit my job, sell all my shit, buy a gun, and live in the streets of Vancouver for the rest of my life. Tech support is horrible…

Ingredients:

• 1lb chicken breast
• 1 cup Soy Vay Veri Veri Teriyaki or Kikkoman Gourmet Teriyaki sauce (you can substitute your favorite, I prefer the Soy Vay)
• 1 cup plum wine
• 2 cups jasmin or sticky rice
• 3-5 cloves of garlic
• Red pepper flakes
• Olive oil

Directions:

Cover the bottom of a large pan with olive oil, season with red pepper flakes and garlic on medium heat until garlic is soft. Add chicken to the pan and brown the chicken. Remove chicken from the pan to a crock pot, include the seasoned oil, pepper flakes and garlic (if you’re like me, you might want to add another couple cloves of garlic to this now as well). Add teriyaki sauce and plum wine to the crock and cook on high for 3 hours. Serve over rice alone or with steamed vegetables (see rice packaging for cooking instructions).

When deciding on a new distro take what boycott Novell has to say about OpenSUSE 10.3 to heart. I didn’t look at it this way, but it makes a good bit of sense. This is what Boycott Novell had to say about OpenSUSE:

”

1. When you use OpenSUSE, you support SLED/SLES, which Microsoft gets a revenue percentage from
2. When you download OpenSUSE, you give the impression that Novell’s business is on track
3. As soon as you install OpenSUSE, you are most likely installing Mono (in GNOME)
4. If OpenSUSE succeeds in gaining market share, then truly open source Linux distributions suffer
5. When you choose OpenSUSE, you contribute to acknowledgment of patent infringements in Linux. “

I think Novell has done some good things in Linux interoperability, but at the same time, and being within the beast and knowing what I know about Novell and Linux, I am staying as far away from OpenSUSE as I can. interoperability wouldn’t be an issue if businesses hired intelligent admins and used OPEN STANDARDS. Anywho. I’m glad I work at a Linux shop that uses open standards on an open platform. The “openness” of Novell is simply blasphemy toward free and open source software everywhere. It’s great that you’re building on an open platform, but hiring gnome developers just so you can own gnome’s code is just plain wrong.