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Using GIMP to remove dastardly lens flare

March 14th, 2009

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.

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DMIDecode to find used RAM slots

September 27th, 2007

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 info.


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Precaching Images with Javascript

April 17th, 2007

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.


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