Showing posts with label getting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label getting. Show all posts
Saturday, January 28, 2017
getting closer to the finish line!
getting closer to the finish line!
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Painting is fun! Especially when you stink at it like me and can make a bagillion mistakes on the computer while you do it! This design portfolio is getting closer to being done all the time! Have a great weekend everybody!
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Saturday, January 14, 2017
Getting Sound to work on your Ubuntu 7 10 installation on Lenovo Y410 Series laptop
Getting Sound to work on your Ubuntu 7 10 installation on Lenovo Y410 Series laptop
Getting Sound to work on your Ubuntu 7.10 installation on Lenovo Y410 Series laptop
Important : If you are using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron you dont need to download/compile alsa , in that case following this step only should work :
add the following line at the bottom of file (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base) maybe using gedit (sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base )
Recently i managed to replace my old IBM Thinkpad Laptop with Lenovo Y410 series laptop , now i never had any kind of hardware related problem on my old Thinkpad . But sadly after installing Ubuntu 7.10 , Fedora Core 8 on my Lenovo laptop i was terribbly disappointed to find my audio hardware not working . So well my search began searching all kind of forums for my problem and finally i found following the steps below made my audio hardware work : -
1. Enabling Repositories
Important : If you are using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron you dont need to download/compile alsa , in that case following this step only should work :
add the following line at the bottom of file (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base) maybe using gedit (sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base )
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=fujitsu
Recently i managed to replace my old IBM Thinkpad Laptop with Lenovo Y410 series laptop , now i never had any kind of hardware related problem on my old Thinkpad . But sadly after installing Ubuntu 7.10 , Fedora Core 8 on my Lenovo laptop i was terribbly disappointed to find my audio hardware not working . So well my search began searching all kind of forums for my problem and finally i found following the steps below made my audio hardware work : -
1. Enabling Repositories
Now many applications need additional repositories to be installed or some to be enabled in Synaptic package manager so before trying out steps given below ensure that repositories in order.
Launch Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager ) , then in Synaptic package manager go to (Settings -> Repositories ) you will find window like this . Ensure that all the check boxes are marked leaving source code(if you want to you can enable this also but you are not going to need this unless you are software developer) the dialog box should look like this .
Dialog Box showing the repositories that should be enabled
After completing above step type in the following command in the terminal window : -
After completing above steps we need to download the updated alsa-driver and compile and install it .
Type the following command in the terminal window chdir into your home directory and being the superuser( su ): -
and type the following command :
and the following command in the terminal window
and add the following line at the bottom of file (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base) maybe using gedit (sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base )
After completing above steps restart computer , and hopefully sound would be working though there are still some unresolved issue because of which sound works through laptop speakers only and not through line-out , but still its better than not being able to play sound .
Article Written by : Ambuj Varshney (blogambuj@gmail.com)
(C) 2007 , For Linux On Desktop Blog (http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com)
Launch Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager ) , then in Synaptic package manager go to (Settings -> Repositories ) you will find window like this . Ensure that all the check boxes are marked leaving source code(if you want to you can enable this also but you are not going to need this unless you are software developer) the dialog box should look like this .
Dialog Box showing the repositories that should be enabledAfter completing above step you will find a dialog box like this
After completing above step type in the following command in the terminal window : -
sudo apt-get install build-essential
and
sudo apt-get install po-debconf
and
sudo apt-get install debhelper
and
sudo apt-get install quilt
and
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
After completing above steps we need to download the updated alsa-driver and compile and install it .
Type the following command in the terminal window chdir into your home directory and being the superuser( su ): -
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2
and
tar -xvjf alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2
and
cd alsa-driver-1.0.15
and type the following command :
./configure
make
make install
and the following command in the terminal window
rm /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/snd-hda-intel.ko
and
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/snd-hda-intel.ko
and
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/snd-hda-intel.ko
and add the following line at the bottom of file (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base) maybe using gedit (sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base )
options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=fujitsualso add the following lines at end of /etc/modules (sudo gedit /etc/modules)
snd-hwdep
snd-hda-intel
After completing above steps restart computer , and hopefully sound would be working though there are still some unresolved issue because of which sound works through laptop speakers only and not through line-out , but still its better than not being able to play sound .
Article Written by : Ambuj Varshney (blogambuj@gmail.com)
(C) 2007 , For Linux On Desktop Blog (http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com)
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Getting Things Done Live Download Now
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Getting on with life
Getting on with life
So lets get on with the fun! Something about blogs that has always bothered (and that I have admittedly fallen into) is this sort of egocentrism of posting stuff for the entirely wrong reasons. Mainly, to get compliments and praise.
Praise is a natural desire, but I dont feel it should be the focal point of any artist. Now switch gears real quick with me... how many of you are afraid of your sketchbook like me? I often put such unnecessary pressure on myself to make every page "perfect". Well, the more I do this stuff the more I realize that art is not about perfection, but about honesty. Honesty can seem like such a vague word, but in short its about communicating your raw unadulterated feeling on whatever you are seeing, reading, absorbing from life around you and reinterpreting it in the way you feel/see it. Could I draw these better if I put another sheet on top and reworked them? Will there be folks who sees these and arent impressed? Of course, but thats not the point! The point is motive, and the motive is honesty and sincerity.
I certainly wont argue that basic drawing isnt important to the communication of your feelings, but sometimes we get too concerned with the mastery of the visual presentation. Sometimes there is a raw feeling communicated in the most crude of drawings that I hardly if ever see in extremely refined drawings. So dont be afraid to make mistakes and showem to people. Remember, they aint perfect either... what matters is you communicating your feelings, even if that left arm is a little too long.
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Friday, December 2, 2016
Getting started with LimeSurvey Opensource com
Getting started with LimeSurvey Opensource com
Intro to LimeSurvey: An open source, feature-rich polling platform If you need to take a survey or poll, for just about any reason, youve got a lot of choices. And if you only need to answer one or two questions, only one time, then offline polling or simple mechanisms such as Google Forms may work fine. If you want a robust polling platform, deeply customizable, with a solid set of features for complicated surveys and a useful statistical analysis and summary system, then take a gander at LimeSurvey. LimeSurvey is released under the GPL, and a number of companies provide commercial hosting and support, so you can use it without having to set it up on a system of your own. I have LimeSurvey installed on my own virtual private server and have been using it for a number of years now. It is quite quick to create a survey and has all the basic stats and reports that I need. See http://ift.tt/2a0iexD
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Getting Riel With Chester Brown Postscript
Getting Riel With Chester Brown Postscript
Getting Riel
Chester Brown discusses his graphic novel, Louis Riel, with Dave Sim
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
Postscript
by Chester Brown
(Drawn & Quarterly, 2016)
DAVE SIM:
(from comments posted on AMOC, 19 April 2016)
There was a full-page article/review of Chester [Brown]s new book [Mary Wept Over The Feet Of Jesus] in the NATIONAL POST that I was going to make reference to at some point, at the end of the first column of which David Berry announced that Chester is the ONLY person to do religious commentary in a comic book. But then, I just thought, Why bother? I already know how the discussion is going to go on AMOC. Chester Brown GOOD Dave Sim EVIL as opposed to the tenor of the article: Chester Brown GOOD Dave Sim NON-EXISTENT.
Yes I do think that demonic possession exists and that its the same as its been since Biblical times, "we"ve just decided to call it by other names. Its particularly noticeable for someone like myself who prays five times a day, reads Scripture aloud and fasts most days (and 24 hours on Sunday). For ME, thats just basic self-protection. Its pretty apparent what a complete LACK of self-protection looks like. I definitely dont look at people who dont protect themselves and go "Wow! Theyre so carefree and happy! I must be seriously deluded!"
There comes a point where you just accept that youre not getting a fair hearing and that you wont get a fair hearing in a world where a major cartooning presence like Chester Brown is, basically, saying that Jesus agrees with him that prostitution is a good thing. Canada has certainly opted for Chester Browns view of prostitution THAT isnt considered misogynistic or... anything pejorative.
Yes I do think that demonic possession exists and that its the same as its been since Biblical times, "we"ve just decided to call it by other names. Its particularly noticeable for someone like myself who prays five times a day, reads Scripture aloud and fasts most days (and 24 hours on Sunday). For ME, thats just basic self-protection. Its pretty apparent what a complete LACK of self-protection looks like. I definitely dont look at people who dont protect themselves and go "Wow! Theyre so carefree and happy! I must be seriously deluded!"
There comes a point where you just accept that youre not getting a fair hearing and that you wont get a fair hearing in a world where a major cartooning presence like Chester Brown is, basically, saying that Jesus agrees with him that prostitution is a good thing. Canada has certainly opted for Chester Browns view of prostitution THAT isnt considered misogynistic or... anything pejorative.
I think two things worth pointing out: 1) Chester, according to Joe Matt, mischaracterized Joes disapproval of Chesters whore-mongering as "Joe is too cheap to pay for a prostitute". That may be true, but in all of the conversations that Joe and Chester and I had, Joes objections were always on moral grounds. Chester did the same thing with me: mischaracterizing my disapproval as being "Dave doesnt believe that women should have jobs." [Interview: A Johns Gospel, TCJ.com, 9 May 2011] I definitely dont believe that 86% of women working outside the home is a sensible... or sustainable... percentage but -- like Joe Matt -- I just think that prostitution is morally wrong. And thats certainly what I always said to Chester. "You CANT believe that prostitution is harmless or, even worse, beneficial." He definitely did. I would clip and mail articles to him about prostitution when they appeared in the NATIONAL POST -- pro and con -- because I wanted to help with his research. What he did with it was up to him.
The 2) thing is that Chester is definitely one of the most -- if not THE most -- unique whore-mongers on the planet, as far as Im concerned. I infer from the reviews and commentaries on PAYING FOR IT that people sent to me that Chester is continuing in his relationship (or "relationship" or Relationship) with his favourite prostitute and that they have now become virtually an old, settled, married couple.
I know at the time that Chester and I were hanging out that she would bake him cookies for Christmas, so it isnt a COMPLETELY one-sided thing.
Personally, I wouldnt be wanting to defend that on Judgement Day, but Ill be very interested to see how that does "shake out" on Judgement Day.
And I can certainly admire Chester for his advocacy (as I understand it): that if more men treated prostitutes the way they do a girlfriend or a wife that they cherish -- as Chester definitely cherished and cherishes his favourite prostitute -- the world in general and the world of prostitution specifically would probably be improved. Or be made less unhappy (not necessarily the same thing).
I dont agree and, as far as I know, Joe Matt doesnt agree, but there you go.
I know at the time that Chester and I were hanging out that she would bake him cookies for Christmas, so it isnt a COMPLETELY one-sided thing.
Personally, I wouldnt be wanting to defend that on Judgement Day, but Ill be very interested to see how that does "shake out" on Judgement Day.
And I can certainly admire Chester for his advocacy (as I understand it): that if more men treated prostitutes the way they do a girlfriend or a wife that they cherish -- as Chester definitely cherished and cherishes his favourite prostitute -- the world in general and the world of prostitution specifically would probably be improved. Or be made less unhappy (not necessarily the same thing).
I dont agree and, as far as I know, Joe Matt doesnt agree, but there you go.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
Getting Started in Illustrator
Getting Started in Illustrator
Create New Document
Go File>New Document to create your first document. Type in a Name for the document and click Advanced to select RGB for Color Mode as we will be working for the screen. Click Ok after that.
Illustrator Workspace
Below is the workspace and some common terms for calling it. If you are using the latest Adobe Illustrator CS3, you will notice to new design for Floating Palette. The rest looks about the same.
Toolbox
This is the handy toolbox which we will use most often. By default, it comes in one single column as shown in the screenshot above. To switch it back to the old 2 columns toolbox, you can simply click the top left mini arrow to toggle it into 2 columns. Some of the tools like Rectangle have more tools hidden. To expand, just click and hold the icon to reveal all the similar tools under that group.
Floating Palette
This is the floating palette which contains properties for our shapes. It is commonly used for changing colors and stroke width.
Saving AI Files
Let’s select the type and click on the artboard and type some text. After that go to File>Save. Select Adobe Illustrator(*.AI) for file type and name it “First Drawing”. Click Ok after that. Leave the rest of the settings at default. You have successfully save your first file. To make any more changes you can simply open the Adobe Illustrator file.
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