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Yet Another Random String Generator
2008-03-28 15:36:00
I was browsing through the excellent Shell-Fu site and I ran across this simple random password generator. Handy, but a good candidate for aliasing since it's relatively long. Then, I figured why not make it a multi-function script? So, here's what I call 'Randstring.sh': #!/bin/bash USAGESTRING="USAGE Randstring.sh l(letter),L(LETTER),n(number),a(all) N(length) example: 'Randstring.sh n 8' returns random 8-digit number" if [ "$1" ]; then ATRIB="$1" else echo -e $USAGESTRING exit 1 fi if [ "$2" ]; then LENGTH="$2" else echo -e $USAGESTRING exit 1 fi case $ATRIB in l) ATRIBSTRING="a-z" ;; L) ATRIBSTRING="A-Z" ;; n) ATRIBSTRING="0-9" ;; a) ATRIBSTRING="A-Za-z0-9" ;; *) echo -e $USAGESTRING exit 1 ;; esac case $LENGTH in [0-9]*) LENGTHARG=$LENGTH ;; *) echo -e $USAGESTRING exit 1 ;; esac echo $(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc $ATRIBSTRING | head -c$LENGTHARG) exit 0 I'm using a lot of argument-checking here. I might as ...
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Someday, it will be legal to strangle trolls...
2008-03-25 23:30:00
I guess part of the game when you're a FOSS blogger is that every great once in a while, you have to swat away some brat who comes running up to hurl spitballs at you. I don't usually stoop to doing it myself (a) because 90 other bloggers need something to rant about, too, and (b) as I mentioned in L.I.C. symptom #3, pigeons will always crap on the statues of heroes. But I haven't taken my turn lately, so it's my day to play whack-a-mole. After all, how much trouble is it to hose off some pigeon droppings? Today's pigeon crapping on the alternative-computer-platform-statue is Don Reisinger, who took a break from alphabetizing his dingleberry collection today to assure us, in the most strident tones, that we will some day hate Apple and Google as we now do Microsoft. Yeah, I know. Cheap shot, easily deflected, so why even bother? I dunno. It's slum day. 'Sides, if Slashdot can serve it, I can throw it away. Mr. Reisinger backs up his claim by writing an amazing science fict...
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 5
2008-03-25 07:17:00
So here we are all at the end of the Image Magick banner generation project. So I was twiddling about typing different little strings into "random_banner.sh" and displaying the results. And then I had the idea to write this script: "make_banners.sh" #!/bin/bash for NUM in $(seq 1 100); do WORD1=$(./random_line.sh /usr/share/dict/words) WORD2=$(./random_line.sh /usr/share/dict/words) NEWFILE=$WORD1"_"$WORD2".png" ./random_banner.sh "$WORD1 $WORD2" mv Banner .png ./banner_gallery/$NEWFILE done exit 0 What it does is pick two random words from /usr/share/dict/words and pop them through the banner generator, then save them in a subfolder. 100 at a time. Then I can browse through the folder later and cherry-pick anything interesting. The result is a toy that's half word-play and half image-play. Most of the results either have no meaning or aren't very pretty, but some of them are very interesting. Some are just crying out to have blogs written under...
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 4
2008-03-22 17:30:00
OK, the day we've been waiting for: the thing that's going to actually make text banners out of all these parts! Here it be, saved as "random_banner.sh": #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" ]; then TEXT="$1" else echo "USAGE random_banner.sh TEXT" exit 1 fi # A basic text banner echo "$TEXT" > temp_text ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/*.ttf > temp_font_list FONT=$(./random_line.sh temp_font_list) rm temp_font_list FGCOLOR=$(./random_line.sh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt | cut -f 3- | sed 's/[ ]*//g') CONVERTSTRING=" -background none" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -fill ""$FGCOLOR" if [ "$(($RANDOM % 2))" = 1 ]; then STROKECOLOR=$(./random_line.sh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt | cut -f 3- | sed 's/[ ]*//g') CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -strokewidth 1" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -stroke ""$STROKECOLOR" fi CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -font ""$FONT" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -pointsize ""$(($RANDOM % 40 + 30))" CONVERTSTRING="$C...
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 4
2008-03-22 17:30:00
OK, the day we've been waiting for: the thing that's going to actually make text banners out of all these parts! Here it be, saved as "random_banner.sh": #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" ]; then TEXT="$1" else echo "USAGE random_banner.sh TEXT" exit 1 fi # A basic text banner echo "$TEXT" > temp_text ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/*.ttf > temp_font_list FONT=$(./random_line.sh temp_font_list) rm temp_font_list FGCOLOR=$(./random_line.sh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt | cut -f 3- | sed 's/[ ]*//g') CONVERTSTRING=" -background none" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -fill ""$FGCOLOR" if [ "$(($RANDOM % 2))" = 1 ]; then STROKECOLOR=$(./random_line.sh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt | cut -f 3- | sed 's/[ ]*//g') CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -strokewidth 1" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -stroke ""$STROKECOLOR" fi CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -font ""$FONT" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -pointsize ""$(($RANDOM % 40 + 30))" CONVERTSTR...
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 3
2008-03-20 16:39:00
In part 2, we learned how to generate solid backgrounds and gradients. In this part, I'll show you how to generate patterned and random noise backgrounds. First, the patterns, which are more basic: Save it as "generate_background_pattern.sh" #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" ]; then SIZE="$1" else echo "USAGE generate_background_pattern.sh SIZE (XxY)" exit 1 fi PATTERNS=( bricks checkerboard circles crosshatch crosshatch30 crosshatch45 fishscales gray5 gray20 gray55 gray95 hexagons horizontal horizontalsaw hs_bdiagonal hs_cross hs_diagcross hs_fdiagonal hs_horizontal hs_vertical left30 left45 leftshingle octagons right30 right45 rightshingle smallfishscales vertical verticalbricks verticalleftshingle verticalrightshingle verticalsaw ) PATTERN=${PATTERNS[$(($RANDOM % 32))]} CONVERTSTRING=" -size ""$SIZE" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" pattern:""$PATTERN -normalize" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -shade "$(($RANDOM ...
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 3
2008-03-20 16:39:00
In part 2, we learned how to generate solid backgrounds and gradients. In this part, I'll show you how to generate patterned and random noise backgrounds. First, the patterns, which are more basic: Save it as "generate_background_pattern.sh" #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" ]; then SIZE="$1" else echo "USAGE generate_background_pattern.sh SIZE (XxY)" exit 1 fi PATTERNS=( bricks checkerboard circles crosshatch crosshatch30 crosshatch45 fishscales gray5 gray20 gray55 gray95 hexagons horizontal horizontalsaw hs_bdiagonal hs_cross hs_diagcross hs_fdiagonal hs_horizontal hs_vertical left30 left45 leftshingle octagons right30 right45 rightshingle smallfishscales vertical verticalbricks verticalleftshingle verticalrightshingle verticalsaw ) PATTERN=${PATTERNS[$(($RANDOM % 32))]} CONVERTSTRING=" -size ""$SIZE" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" pattern:""$PATTERN -normalize" CONVERTSTRING="$CONVERTSTRING"" -shade "$(($RANDOM %...
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 2
2008-03-18 19:18:00
Today's pieces of the banner generator puzzle are a couple of scripts to generate backgrounds. We'll start with the most basic one. I have this script saved as "generate_background_solid.sh": #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" ]; then SIZE="$1" else echo "USAGE generate_background_solid.sh SIZE (XxY)" exit 1 fi BGCOLOR=$(./random_line.sh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt | cut -f 3- | sed 's/[ ]*//g') convert -size $SIZE xc:"$BGCOLOR" background.png exit 0 ...almost self-explanatory. Given an XxY argument, it produces a random solid-color background. "./generate_background_solid.sh 400x100" gets you something like this: Later on in the project, we'll see how we use Image Magick 's 'identify' command to get the size of a banner made with text, so we know how to pass that size argument to the background scripts. Right now, let's deal with a thornier problem, generating a gradient and not having it just be straight up and down. I have this script saved as "generate_backgro...
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 1
2008-03-17 15:08:00
I'm going to try an experiment: blogging a whole project for a little graphics toy I've managed to hack out. You are welcome to copy and save scripts as we go along, just read them and learn how to do it yourself, modify them to your own purposes, or just nod your head and go "Uh-huh, gawrsh, lookit the purty code boxes!" as they fly by. This will be a multi-part posting of a project. It's just a group of scripts which, when assembled together, make an interesting toy, and also teaches some practical use of the fantastic, but mysterious (to many), Image Magick tool suite. If you don't want to collect the parts day by day, wait to the end when I'll wrap the whole project up in a tarball for downloading. The first piece is a script version of a command I shared a couple days ago in Obscure Linux Commands: Some of My Favorite Incantations: #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" ]; then WORDLINE=$((($RANDOM * $RANDOM) % $(wc -l $1 | awk '{print $1}') + 1))"p" sed -n $WORDLINE $1 els...
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My Second Blogiversary
2008-03-15 17:05:00
Today marks the second year since the founding of PenguinPetes.com and this blog. That makes it past the mark where approximately 50% of bloggers quit (at the 18-month mark), and puts me in closing distance of the average age of the top 100 blogs by ProBlogger's reckoning (33.8 months). In Internet years, it's old enough to buy smokes. So, a look back on the past 12 months at the territory I've covered, counting from here. This'll be either posts that got a lot of attention, were landmarks, or were amusing quirks. Be prepared to either enjoy the Narcissistic inventory of my belly button lint or become bored silly and go do something else. My second year got off to a bang with Ubuntu is not Linux - pass it on!, which the masses rejected mightily, and I tried to straighten it up with No, really! Ubuntu is not Linux! Try it on for size! and pissed everybody off even more. They've pulled 24 and 72 feedbacks at this time. Would you believe, after all that, that I am stubborn and ...
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Why I Think Games Aren't a Focus on Linux
2008-03-15 03:35:00
It is perhaps a sign of advancement of Linux as a platform that people are starting to seriously ask the question: "Where are the Linux gamers?" Just recently, I've seen Mad Penguin ask it, followed by this indie-game developer's blog. The question also got batted around on Slashdot. Of course, we enter into the discussion with the assumption already established that there are fewer Linux users, and that game companies mostly take no notice of Linux except to burn it in effigy. Duh, we know. Even if you adjust for that, there's a lower percentage of Linux gamers. Onward: First, my own experiences: For one thing, I have the experience of having run both Linux and Windows extensively. Back in the pre-Linux days, it was a monthly family expenditure to go to the mall and buy the latest hot game title. Now, that sentence contains the seed of an epiphany: Every month, we'd get sick and tired of the games we currently had and want something new. Every game that we brought home woul...
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Obscure Linux Commands: Some of My Favorite Incantations
2008-03-13 13:11:00
A little random grimoire of my spiciest magic spells, which don't fit well anywhere else: emacs -batch -l myLispProgram.el What it does: It runs Emacs in batch mode to run whatever Lisp code you might have in "myLispProgram.el". Just like Python or CLisp, it will process the code, write its output, and quit - without starting up the editor. The output that would normally print in the minibuffer in Emacs will just dump to screen instead. True Lisp programmers will scoff, "So just run CLisp programs", but I've never had much use for getting deep into Lisp - I find that it's mainly handy to use the eLisp dialect for those few jobs that are too clumsy for Bash scripting. The most common situation is when I'm coding in another language and have to make a whole bunch of lines with small differences, such as processing frame files (numbered frame_00.png, frame_10.png, etc.) into an animation. convert image.jpg -resize XX% image.jpg What it does: It's the fastest way to r...
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Comment CAPTCHA form no longer excludes text mode and screen readers.
2008-03-12 04:52:00
Just a quick note to let everybody know that I added a quirk/feature to the comment form of this blog. If you are unable to view the image, the alt text will tell you a word to type in instead. So now visitors using text-mode browsers and screen readers can offer feedback as well. Hopefully, the spambots don't get wind of it. But I've been watching sites like Coding Horror use the word "orange" every time and other sites using a math problem for a CAPTCHA for some time, and they haven't seemed to regret the decision. You would think that simply displaying the text '2 + 7 = ?' would be easily defeated by a script, but then you wouldn't be thinking like a spammer. Spammers are not hackers; they buy programs off the web sold to them by other spammers, all of them ripping each other off as much as they rip off the end target user. They learn one new trick every ten years or so. At least, that's my theory... Update: Note to anybody interested: Check out this method.
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Comment CAPTCHA form no longer excludes text mode and screen readers.
2008-03-12 04:52:00
Just a quick note to let everybody know that I added a quirk/feature to the comment form of this blog. If you are unable to view the image, the alt text will tell you a word to type in instead. So now visitors using text-mode browsers and screen readers can offer feedback as well. Hopefully, the spambots don't get wind of it. But I've been watching sites like Coding Horror use the word "orange" every time and other sites using a math problem for a CAPTCHA for some time, and they haven't seemed to regret the decision. You would think that simply displaying the text '2 + 7 = ?' would be easily defeated by a script, but then you wouldn't be thinking like a spammer. Spammers are not hackers; they buy programs off the web sold to them by other spammers, all of them ripping each other off as much as they rip off the end target user. They learn one new trick every ten years or so. At least, that's my theory...
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Corporate Buyout Rumors are the Celebrity Gossip of the Web
2008-03-10 01:28:00
Only a month ago, the entire blasted Internet lit up with the whole Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition attempt. After it went on for a solid week, I shut my RSS aggregator in disgust and turned to other media for my news for a while, only to see the same story hit the cover of half the paper news magazines at the newsstand and a good share of the daily newspapers as well. Even the TV news channels buzzed about it obsessively. The next time the president wants to start a preemptive war, he should just wait until the next tech-company merger rumor. He could then nuke a couple of oil-bearing countries from orbit during the ensuing media white-out without anybody noticing. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton would grow so attention-starved that she'd fade away like a shadow. Well, I repeat my prediction: Microsoft-Yahoo ain't happening. And this revelation has apparently dawned upon the Web 2.0 chicken coop, so they just have something new to cluck about: Buying Digg. I just love how TechCrunch justi...
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Things to do in Emacs when you're bored...
2008-03-08 21:03:00
Start a conversation between Eliza and Zippy. It's easy; just "Meta-X doctor", then for the reply line, hit "Ctrl-U Meta-X yow" and hit return twice. Repeat as necessary and see how long it takes for the conversation to head in some definite direction: I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. Hmmm... a PINHEAD, during an EARTHQUAKE, encounters an ALL-MIDGET FIDDLE ORCHESTRA... ha.. ha.. Can you elaborate on that? I know how to do SPECIAL EFFECTS!! Is it because to do special effects that you came to me? I'm losing my hair..did it go to ATLANTIC CITY?? Why do you say that? I used to be a FUNDAMENTALIST, but then I heard about the HIGH RADIATION LEVELS and bought an ENCYCLOPEDIA!! Do you get high often? I hope the ``Eurythmics'' practice birth control... Earlier you said to do special effects? Could I have a drug overdose? Maybe your plans have something to do with this. Is a tattoo real, l...
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Microsoft Singularity: What is the mess we've been handed?
2008-03-06 00:24:00
I'm totally tortured with agonizing over Microsoft 's Singularity. See, I have a standing moral obligation with myself as follows: If Microsoft ever released a purely Open-Source or Free Software system - as defined by the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, or common conventional wisdom - I have said (and will repeat here) that I would download it, try it out, review it, and possibly adopt it, to be treated no different from software from, for example, Red Hat Inc. or BSD. But I'm poring over the license, and this seems like it doesn't qualify. It seems to be proprietary with the extra feature of being able to see the source, and modify and redistribute it only in the interests of academic research, with the stipulation that: It allows no "activity which purpose is to procure a commercial gain to you or others." Does blogging about it on a website with ads count? Does publishing an ebook hacking guide count? "That Microsoft is granted back, a non-exclusive, ...
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Saluting the Obsolete Skills of Tech Some More
2008-03-05 10:24:00
Continuing from the first half of the list, here's some more ruminations on the obsolete tech hall of fame... PDP-11 assembler - The PDPs may, indeed, be long gone, but for those of you who still want to keep your hand in in case they ever come back, the SIMH project can emulate PDPs, and a mess of other iron dinosaurs. SIMH runs on Linux and every other computer in the galaxy - even Windows! I have a copy of it on my boxen, and I'm sure I'd be hacking away on it if I had clue one what I was doing. I've learned the PDP-11 'help' command, though! Playing BBS door games - Oh, yeah? Get DOSBox to run them on, and download some door games right here! DOSBox is ported to Linux and every other system in existence - even Windows! You might have to finagle some bogus BBS configuration files to get some of them working, however. I got this 8-way slot door game running, for instance. In all its ANSI glory. Waddaya thinka me nooooow? Playing arcade games - Yeah, so go get XMAME and...
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Saluting the Obsolete Skills of Tech
2008-03-04 16:10:00
http://obsoleteskills.com/Skills /Skills People said "It's about time." when the idea came up to collect one list in one place of all the skills that are now obsolete. But after a few months, the Obsolete Skills Wiki has obviously been hit by a few trolls. "fdisk" is obsolete? I use it every week! Lisp??? Not dead at all; in fact I believe that Lisp is still waiting for its day in the sun, which lies in the future. All it takes right now is for one Ruby fanboy to say, "Do they have anything like Ruby, only more elegant?" and bam! Lisp would be hotter than Obama. Other entries are too obvious. Yes, we know churning butter is obsolete; but isn't the purpose of this list to note things that have changed since the dawn of the Information Age? Nevertheless, the list affords plenty of opportunity for recalling days of technology gone by... Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV - That I don't miss so much, but I do miss having that one person around the house who couldn't stand too c...
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Top Reasons 10 I Did Not Bid on Your Job
2008-03-04 01:38:00
Today, let's pretend this is the Craiglist rants 'n' raves section. I'm offering this advice to anybody and everybody who would ever attempt to hire a freelancer over the Internet - to work some project in some capacity such as writer, graphics artists, programmer, designer, and so on. This article is to help you, the customer, get what you want or at least understand why you can't. So I will teach by negative example here. Motivated entirely by my radiant love for humanity, which leaps unbidden from my heart like a thousand wired crickets. Hiring a freelancer online? Try to avoid making any of the mistakes on this list: 1. You are asking the impossible. - Of course, when it comes to programming, if you knew what was possible and what wasn't, you wouldn't need to hire a freelancer, would you? So this is the one that's difficult to avoid. But you can recover faster if you take my word for it when I explain that no amount of money could get me to write you an algorithm tha...
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Is Microsoft All Bark and No Bite Anymore?
2008-02-23 00:08:00
A creeping realization just came over me today, upon seeing the tech media spewing their daily drenching of Micromedia: I've been hearing a lot of big talk come out of Redmond lately, but not much seems to come of it. Vista came, and I'm not going to get into a debate over whether it's a failure. I go into computer stores; I see the line of sales-floor laptops running Vista. They're still installing it by default. But suffice it to say that I just don't see the overwhelming demand for a new Windows version that I once did. When Win98 came out, you'd think people needed it even if they didn't own a computer. Could it be that Microsoft 's success was largely ridden on the back of the massive uptake of the home computer in the mainstream market? And where's that patent lawsuit? ZDNet points out that "Microsoft hasn't backed down from its insistence that its intellectual property isn't free for the taking, an assertion made most clearly in 2007 when Chief Executive Steve B...
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Please Deflate My Stupidest Theories
2008-02-19 00:13:00
Hi, lazyweb! I haven't poked my head out of the ground in a week or something, due to being busy with work, and now that I'm about to get a break, a late-winter flu hits - but a minor one. Since fevers and flu symptoms tend to bring me to the weirdest-possible state of mind anyway, this looks like a good time to share some of the more bizarre theories I've nurtured over the years. These are all half-baked theories which I'm not too serious about and know that they're trash, but haven't found the right sequence of scientific arguments necessary to shoot them down. I'm not just doing this to confess or be funny. I'm actually inviting readers to comment, sharing links and debating points, in the hopes that some of you will talk me out of them. Think of it as an early spring cleaning of my mental curio cabinet! Here we go. My crazy side, let me show you it! I'm convinced that humans will one day become extinct. I'm sorry, I just don't see a clear way forward. Correct me if...
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Son of the Rock-n-Roll DOSBox Freak Show
2008-02-08 23:38:00
Well, here it is, Friday afternoon with no upcoming StupidSuperbowl or StupidSuper Tuesday to distract us... an even better time to plug in DOSBox and wallow in DOSBox retro-gaming coolness! So here's some more random roadside attractions on the way to DOS gaming Valhala: Monty Python's Flying Circus Sure, you're like any geek; you hear about this and go, "There's a Monty Python game??? I must play it!" Yes, and I feel guilty about posting the screenshot. It really does look like a playable version of Terry Gilliam's animations. And it plays very nicely (well, for a Monty Python fan looking for a fix anyway) except for one. small. detail. You can't tell from the screenshot. It plays the TV show theme. In PC speaker-beeps. "DEE-doop doo-doo-doo-doo-DEEP DE-DOOP de-Doop de-Doop de DEEE..." Over and over and over. In a continuous loop you can't shut off. I tried playing as far as I could, getting to about the fourth screen before I was screaming "GAAAHHHH! I CAN'T TAKE IT A...
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The Rock-n-Roll DOSBox Freak Show
2008-02-05 03:08:00
I'm glad that somebody who can get away with saying these things has finally said it: Linux is becoming more Windows-compatible than... well... Windows! Of course, we can quantify that to mean "open source software, which hangs out with Linux a lot". Yes, I too, have been noticing how GNU and Linux are becoming the de-facto standard bases for virtualization and emulation. Over and over, I see people in forums complaining about some favorite game or application not working on Windows, and several people pop up with recommendations for DOSBox and Wine. Even on Windows, DOSBox is held up as a solution to many problems. What Windows-native programs have I gotten running on Wine this year? Incredible Machine, Starcraft, Roll er Coaster Tycoon, Quake, and the Windows-version of MakeHuman, to name a few. Not five feet from me sits a running Windows XP box, and yet when I get hold of a Windows program, the first thing I think is to see if it runs on Wine. It usually does. But DOSBox - ah...
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The MakeHuman Marathon!
2008-02-02 19:36:00
Since I discovered MakeHuman I've become The Blogger Who Cannot Stop Drawing. This is always a sign that I've found a valuable graphics tool, when I can't stop playing with it. Here's the latest surviving pieces, as always with MakeHuman models which are then edited in other programs: And take a close look at that last one - I covered her up enough to be decent. So it should squeak by with a PG rating and not violate my rule of not posting NSFW images. Am I right? Tell me I'm right, just this once? On a side note, I have a horror story about trying to get it from source. Begin horror story: I did have continued challenges with getting the rest of the software installed. Bottom line, I needed Aqsis so I could do real renders instead of screenshots. Now, the Windows executable installer for Aqsis comes in around a mere, tiny 6 MB. But I tried to install Aqsis natively for Linux, since I had MakeHuman compiled natively already. Boy, was I in for some trouble! Aqsis has a...
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