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Using GIMP to remove dastardly lens flare

After purchasing a glorious new Nikon D40X Digital SLR Camera online today, I was inspired to fix up a couple images. So, I was trying to get rid of the obvious flaw in the following picture, and I found a pretty easy way to do it with GIMP.

DMIDecode to find used RAM slots

So, someone asked if there was a way to find out which memory slots were used in a running machine without opening it using Linux. Here’s the answer: $ sudo dmidecode | grep “Installed Size” Installed Size: 1024 MB (Double-bank Connection) Installed Size: Not Installed Installed Size: 1024 MB (Double-bank Connection) Installed Size: Not Installed Installed Size: 64 KB Installed Size: 2048 KB If you just run sudo dmidecode by itself, you can find out all kinds of awesome system [...]

Precaching Images with Javascript

Today, Will told me about some awesome image caching. I used it. //Do some image caching cached_image = Array(new Image(), new Image(), new Image(), new Image()); cached_image[0].src=”image1.jpg”; cached_image[1].src=”image2.jpg”; It’s amazing.