Walking in Light With Christ - hip0's personal blog on System Administration, Free Software, Computer Security and Religion

I've accidently found a nerd test. Here are the results of the test. Go on and follow the link if you'd like to test yourself as well.
I've also taken the NerdTest 2.0. Here are my results of it:

I wanted to change the background of a picture of a Russian Orthodox Cross I've downloaded from the net. After some time spend experimenting and reading a couple of articles online I did it :).
Here is how:
1. Open an Image in Gimp through the File -> Open as Layers menu. 2. Use Fuzzy Select tool to select regions based on color of the image you'd like to change the background. 3. Open a new File in Gimp via New -> File menus. 4. Select again the window containing the image you selected with the Fuzzy Tool and press Ctrl+X. 5. Now go again to the newly opened picture and use the: Bucket Fill Tool with some selected color to select the new background for the future image. 6. Now after having a background color already selected use Ctrl+V to paste your previous selection Well congrats, you should now be having the good old image on a shiny new background.

Today I spend my day partly playing with the GIMP. This days I have the enthusiasm, to start learning this nice linux design software.
I have to solve a task where I wanted to change the background of a picture with an existing color
in the header of a website.
Therefore I needed some kind of color picker which is able to pick up
colors directly from any running application on the screen. Luckily I found the solution quickly,
with the help by a guy in #debian in irc.freenode.net. I was suggested to look for color picker via
$ apt-cache search color picker . The first thing that popped up was exactly what I was looking for. It's called GCOLOR2. Hope this post will help to somebody out there looking for a color picker for Linux, FreeBSD.

I was googling for some cool features to enrich my Google desktop while I found an applicaiton which is said to be helpful.
It's called Prism and is a Mozilla Lab experiment project. Actually it's nothing special.
It creates a simple window in which it can visualize a website making it look exactly like your desktop applications.
It has a couple of possiblities like creating a desktop icon for your website, enable some kind of navigation keys, show status messages on what's happening on the desktop embeded application and show navigation bars.
The project is said to be a revolutionary next step towards integrating the web with your desktop
. You can check out Prism's website further on On mozilla's prism website . It might be interesting for you to check out Prism in action before you might go for a try on Youtube here .
Prism is both available via Firefox extension or a desktop application both of which provides you with the described above prism functionality. As a Debian user you might wonder if prism is available as a debian package, well there is one
, even though it's not a release part of the offician debian package distribution. If you'd like to test prism via it's debian package use the following prism deb package
, anyways the downside of using the 0.9 debian package is that you won't be running prism's latest release.
If you'd like to be running the latest prism version please download it from mozilla's website.
Well enough talk let me tell you my personal view on Prism. It's a COMPLETE BULLSHIT! I don't see how any geek would have benefit of the app neither, how does it bridge in the web with the desktop.
It's simply a crap that could take of your daily lifetime to install and review :)