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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is out

Posted on October 13, 2011 | No Comments
Today is a great day for Ubuntu fans, as the new Oneiric Ocelot has been released by the development team. I’m upgrading one of my notebooks as I’m writing you this post. Hope nothing goes wrong 11.10 includes a new release of compiz and Unity. [...]
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Gimp tutorial: How to create an aluminum style background

Posted on July 19, 2011 | No Comments
Ever wonder how to create a background with an aluminum look? Well, in Gimp this effect can be achieved very easy with help of noise filter, wind filter and some layer effects. Let’s get started. Step 1 – Start with a new, 800x600px white background image. Select the [...]
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Gimp tutorial: How to create a grunged background/texture

Posted on July 5, 2011 | 6 Comments
This is a very simple tutorial on how to create a grunged texture in GIMP. For this we’ll be using the fog renderer, bump mapping and some layer effects. Let’s get started. Step 1 – Start with a new, 800x600px white background image. Step 2 – Let’s create [...]
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Gimp tutorial – How to create a nice dotted background

Posted on April 1, 2011 | 3 Comments
In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a nice dotted background with a metallic look in a few easy steps that imitates a metal plate with holes in it.
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boioiong.com goes ipv6

Posted on February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve managed to implement IPv6 on my rackspace cloud server and enabled ipv6 on web directory www.boioiong.com. Until now everything looks OK. I’m using a tunnel and a subnet from Sixxs.net. Later I’ll publish a tutorial on how to setup your Linux Ubuntu box (radvd, aiccu, bind, etc). Not [...]
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Setting up gogo6.net IPv6 client on Ubuntu Maverick

Posted on February 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
I just configured the gogo client on my Ubuntu Maverick and everything works like a charm. Here is a short guide on how to set up the client on Ubuntu: 1. first install the client with sudo apt-get install gogoc (the tspc is deprecated) 2. modify the config [...]
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New release Tiny Core Linux – version 3.3 – toolkit for linux

Posted on November 26, 2010 | No Comments
Tiny Core now supports data centric view by way of the new integrated GUI file manager with associations and a GUI editor. Also new is much finer control of launcher icons and launcher placement. Many other improvements throughout the system while still staying miniscule at 10.6MB. Read [...]
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iPhone browser simulator

Posted on August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
These days I needed an iPhone browser simulator to work on my Ubuntu Linux and searched the internet for a good one. After a couple of hours I finally found one at ibbdemo iPhone browser simulator. Here is a screenshot with my blog in the iPhone [...]
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Gimp tutorial: How to create a nice drapes effect

Posted on August 10, 2010 | 5 Comments
Hello again, In this tutorial we’ll try to create some cool drapes, hopefully. Start with a blank, 800 x 600 px, design. Select the Blend Tool (L key) and choose the FG to BG (HSV counter clockwise) gradient fill. I picked for foreground color a dark blue (#081d47) [...]
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Gimp tutorial: How to use paths and selections to create a nice pie chart

Posted on June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
A beginner level tutorial to show you how to use guide lines and how to use paths in conjunction with selection tools in order to create a nice pie chart.
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