HackNBlog @ Salamanteri Server

Most of the image manipulation guides on internet are made for photoshop so I’m always thrilled to find a interesting guide for GIMP.

From blog of Locutus I found an entry 3D Chuck. The Gimp script way.. I have never even thought of this idea - the guide describes how to turn regular image into 3d-image for viewing with red and green or blue and yellow 3d-glasses.

Not only does it tell how to do it manually but also a script-fu code (script language to add effects, etc. to GIMP) that adds “3D Convert” function under filters menu to automatically do the conversion.

Note that you should read also the comments of the entry to get the script function correctly as there are some problems with entering code in blog of locutus and comments provide some minor corrections to code and how to get it show on GIMP.

I have no glasses to try and test this stuff but I thought it might interest people :)

Last sunday I was at Machinae Supremacy concert. The show was great, but hey, what else than pure awesomeness could result from combining good metal music with niiice SID sounds from good ole Commodore 64?

Anyway I just wanted you to hear that Machinae Supremacy made a statement concerning P2P filesharing. First they spoke about some new law in Sweden that is targetted at filesharers and then they made a clear statement: “We want you to download out songs!”. Also they have clearly stated on their website that they support The Pirate Bay.

So go now, you can find some of their songs available for download right from their website at www.machinaesupremacy.com - or you can go to thepiratebay.org and download them via bittorrent. The last option may or may not be legal in you country but what the heck, the guys who make the music not only approve it, they encourage people to do this!

Other than that I also bought a cool T-shirt (the one on the right, linked to Machinae Supremacy online shop catalog). I love it :)

One great milestone for Mozilla FireFox 3 browser and in the battle against the more pathetic dinosaur of the browser world, Internet Explorer, was achieved early this year when FireFox 3 beated Internet Explorer 6 on most used web browsers statistics (at least according to StatCounters statistics).

Currently the lead is however still kept by Internet Explorer with it’s 7th release which is used by approximately 40% of users while FireFox 3 has around 24% of users. Internet Explorer 6 was left behind FireFox 3 with userbase of around 22%.

So despite this milestone Internet Explorer still has strong grasp of users worldwide. However as an example in Finland FireFox 3 is doing even better, having taken a 47% share of all computers in our country and leaving Internet Explorer 7 with only 29% of users we here in Finland are clearly leading the change away from Microsoft controlled browser monopoly (for more detailed statistics of browser use in Finland click here).