Add the Gutsy Countdown Script to your site
Oct 3rd
Just copy this code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/display.js"></script>
<noscript><img id="countdownimage" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/710countdown_default.png" width="199" height="164" alt="Ubuntu 7.10 - Coming soon"></noscript>
And a handsome countdown timer will appear in your site:
I added it on my blog.
Liquid Rescale Plug-in: step-by-step
Oct 1st
On my last post I wrote about the “Liquid Rescale Plug-in” for Gimp and published an image that I resized. Now I’ll show how to make it step-by-step.
First I choose a picture. The original size was 2048×1536 pixels.
Then I choose Layer > Liquid Rescale…
I changed the width to 1500 and “OK”:
Well, this is no good. The image was resized, but the plug-in didn’t know what was important on the image.
So I backed up the original and created a new transparent layer to identify what was important on the image:
On this new layer I filled with black what I want to preserve (I think it would be any color).
The new layer after painting (the white part is transparent):
Following, I selected the photo layer, then I choose Layer > Liquid Rescale…, but now I set my new layer as the area to preserve.
Finally, I executed the script and voi là!
OBS: I did the same thing on my three years old computer running Ubuntu Feisty (Athlon XP 2000+, 512Mb RAM DDR), and on my new computer on my work, running win XP (Pentium 4, 3.0, 512Mb RAM DDR2). On my computer the process was really really really faster.
Cool resize plugin for GIMP
Sep 28th
Some time ago I saw this post about a super horizontal/vertical resize algorithm which preserves the proportions of what is important on an image. Yesterday I was reading unread posts on Planet Ubuntu when I saw this post of Jorge Bernal where he says that already exists a plugin for GIMP of this algorithm (this is why I love free software).
Well, I installed it on my computer and made a test with my picture. Look the “before” and “after”:
If you want to play (and I think you will), download it for your plataform. After install it will be available on “Layer” menu.
Don’t be jealous…
Aug 25th
Today is my birthday. So my wonderful wife gave me something that I would not expect:
She gave me this box with three t-shirts on ubuntu color (red, orange and yellow). So I thought: “Cool, three t-shirts on ubuntu colors! And they look like the ubuntu logo”. But when I open the t-shirts I saw that they weren’t simple t-shirts:
She ordered to embroider the ubuntu logo on the t-shirts and on the sleeve embroider the phrase that are on our wedding rings: “Semper Amemus”, that means that our love is forever.
Today I also updated my blog theme, where I’m using one of those t-shirts on the top… 
NO with comments!
Aug 23rd
Brasil says no to the OOXML format.
Congratulations to ABNT for this decision! We can’t accept a standard that doesn’t follow standards or a standard that only one company can implement…
You know you’re working too much when…
Jul 20th
… you say “I’ve already run the program” when you want to say “I’ve already woken up”.
Tonight I fell on my bed when I arrived in my house. When my wife came in to the bedroom she asked if I was awake and I said: “Yes! I’ve already run the program”… And I remember that I tried to say that I was awake when I said that. 
Meet the “open surface”
Jul 17th
![[MPX: Servidor X com suporte a multi-touch]](http://andrenoel.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/mpx.jpg)
![[MPX no Ubuntu]](http://andrenoel.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/mpx_ubuntu.jpg)
A special day
Jul 5th
Today is a special day, 1 year and 11 months ago I was marring. Today I have a pretty wife and a wonderful marriage!
But today is also special for another reason: today would be anniversary of my father, José Abdala Noel, deceased in 92.
![[Miss you]](http://lh6.google.com/drenoel/Ro5-Z72IjAI/AAAAAAAAABA/oDVwSzprV30/s800/abdala.jpg "[Miss you]")
It’s easy to find something about ourselves over the Internet, but as he died many years ago, there are no mention about him at Google, what is a big mistake. So I make here my homage and this special mention to the great mean he was.
I see a picture of a little child
standing alone
wondering where you are
I can’t believe how this child has grown
living this life
sometimes so alone
still I wish that I had one more chance
to have you hold me once again
but even though I know I can’t
you’ll hold me in heaven
(see you in heaven, Guardian)
Despite I miss him, I thank God for having always been a lovely and present Father, always on my side, and for having instructed me and lead me to where I am today.
Disney reuses its “code”
Jul 5th
3 years old!
Jul 4th
![[Birthday cake]](http://andrenoel.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/birthday.jpg "[Birthday cake]")
Today my computer completes 3 years of life! 3 years ago I assembled him… By the way, I just remembered that he has my DNA. I cut my finger when I was mounting him, and when I saw, there was a little drop of my blood on the motherboard. Maybe it makes my computer stronger…
Much thing happens in the life of a computer in 3 years… I remember the relief that he felt when I eliminated totally Windows from him. He used Debian for a while, till know Ubuntu and “they live togheter and forever”.
They say that a 3-year-old computer is an ancient one, but he runs very fast with Ubuntu 7.04 + Beryl… Maybe I would celebrate installing Compiz Fusion over him…
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