Archive for November, 2007

Dutch Boten Anna

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

When I first heard the intriguing (at least to geeks I guess ;)) song Boten Anna, I couldn’t help hearing resemblence with some West-Flemish (my dialect) words. Soon I had a funny West-Fl version of (at least,) the beginning of the song. While I didn’t execute the implementation of it, I wasn’t surprised to see a Dutch guy has done it, it is so typical for them. ;)

Also, it seems the Flemish are good at ripping of the rip-off :)

Pillow fighting while announcing Friends

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Last week I was starting my dinner with tv on and as Veronique De Kock was announcing Friends I suddenly heard some girl giggling and Veronique reacting indignified. By the time I had a chance to look up, the only thing I saw left were some feathers as proof of some ‘cat fight’. :) It certainly did not seem like a planned event, a few planned seconds later, the series took off.

I was wondering what was going on and if anyone else noticed that. :)

So today I get zita news in my mailbox, claiming the presenter’s attack. Still don’t get it.. :)

P.S.: movies at link take very long time to load

liquid rescale open source implementation

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

In other gimp news.. You probably already saw the Content Aware Image Resizing movie on youtube. I read somewhere the guy was hired by adobe a few days after his initial presentation. I don’t know whether it’s true, he seems to work for Mitsubishi. :) But that didn’t stop some guy to make an open source implementation in the form of a gimp plugin. It’s a public paper after all! :)

ZFS

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Just another filesystem? I don’t think so.. It rather feels like the file system concept reinvented :) Future proof. But probably not ready yet for joe the desktop user. Here is an interesting interview with the devs. In the meantime, I also read that the upcoming new openSolaris project Indiana will be using ZFS..

gimp 2.4

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Yes, I’m late ;)

Be sure to check out the changelog walkthrough, otherwise you won’t understand what the fuss is all about ;)

Btw, on windows I had some trouble launching it with the modules. It seems my gimp was using its own supplied gtk runtime while the plugins just took the one in the env path. Long story short: just uninstall the freaking global one, long live data duplication! ;)