Tuesday, April 7, 2009

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program



What is GIMP?

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is open Software. It's a free image and graphics manipulation application, which has almost no disadvantages compared to the commercial image processing program Photoshop of Adobe for a wide range of applications. 

http://what-is-what.com/what_is/gimp.html

http://www.tech-faq.com/gimp.shtml

 

GIMP's Manual

 http://docs.gimp.org/en/

  

This site contains GIMP news, Video Tutorials and more.

http://www.gimpusers.com/gimp-about.php




A Tutorial for Perl Gimp Users

http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/gimp/perl-tut.html

  

GIMP FAQ’s

 http://www.rru.com/~meo/gimp/faq-user.html

 

The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 1

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2388

 

The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 2

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2530

 

The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 3

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2531

 

The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part Four

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2532

Fortran



USER NOTES ON FORTRAN PROGRAMMING (UNFP)

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/unfp.html

 

 

FORTRAN FAQ

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fortran-faq/

 

 

A collection of links provided by a vendor of FORTRAN compilers.

http://www.lahey.com/other.htm

 

FORTRAN FAQ

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fortran_FAQ

 

FORTRAN 90 Tutorials

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html

 

Site to find full information related to the FORTRAN programming language.

http://www.fortranlib.com/

 

Writing Simple FORTRAN Programs

http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~jwp/pse2/modelling/fortran/simple.html

 

 

FORTRAN

http://www.academictutorials.com/fortran/

 

FORTRAN Tutorial

http://gershwin.ens.fr/vdaniel/Doc-Locale/Langages-Program-Scientific/Fortran/Tutorial/

 

FORTRAN 90 for the FORTRAN 77 Programmer

http://www.nsc.liu.se/~boein/f77to90/f77to90.html

 

Modular Programming with FORTRAN 90

http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HTMLF90Course/HTMLF90CourseSlides.html

Expect

What is Expect?

Expect is a tool primarily for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. 

 The Expect Home Page

http://expect.nist.gov/

 


Expect FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

http://expect.nist.gov/FAQ.html

 

Automating Tasks with EXPECT

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3065

 

What Can you Expect? —A Data Collection Project Using Linux

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3357

Monday, April 6, 2009

So you think you are Smart !!




So, take the following test presented here and determine if you are losing it or are still "with it." 

OK, relax, clear your mind and... lets begin. Don't scroll down until you have the answer and dont cheat! 

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1. What do you put in a toaster? 



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Answer: "bread." If you said "toast," then give up now and go do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, "bread," go to Question 2. 


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2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink? 




























Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk," please do not attempt the next question. Your brain is obviously over stressed and may even overheat. 

If you said "water" then proceed to question 3. 



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3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from? 






























Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks," what the devil are you still doing here reading these questions? If you said "glass," then! go on to Question 4. 



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4. Its twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany(If you will recall, Germanyat the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany.) 


Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he has time and the plane fatally crashes smack in the middle of "no man's land" between East Germanyand West Germany. 

Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany or West Germanyor in "no man's land"? 



























Answer: You don't, of course, bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, 

you are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to rescue anyone from a plane crash. Your efforts would not be appreciated. If you said, "Don't bury the survivors", then proceed to the next question. 


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5. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from Londonto MilfordHaven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. 

In Sweden, two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. 

In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on In Carmarthen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at MilfordHaven. What was the name of the bus driver? 

























Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own name? It was YOU! Read the question carfeully 


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Now pass this along to all your "smart friends" and hope they do better than you did. 


(PS: 95% of people fail in most of the questions!)