Technical Rockabilly

I’ve never really been a huge fan of Sun or Solaris, but after running it for a couple hours, it seems that almost everything “just works”; its great! To an novice it would seem like any other Linux distro, but its not! Its about 20% more responsive, and very stable. Great job Sun!

Enough talk, here are the pretty pictures everyone is here to see:

Booting:

Grub:

GDM login:

Default Gnome Desktop:

About the OpenSolaris:

Firefox (joy) Flash works too!:

File Manager:

Package Manager (Installing GAIM):

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):