Yes, your HP Scanjet 2400 might work in Ubuntu and maybe even other flavors of GNU/Linux

A long time ago, I complained about the crappy Windows software for the HP 2400 scanner. My struggles back then with getting the thing to work properly in the supported platform of Windows led me to avoid even trying to set it up for the past two years in the redheaded bastard stepchild oh-my-GOD-unsupported platform [...]

Now Playing: Big Buck Bunny

It's here! Big Buck Bunny is a free short movie created by the Peach open movie project. The animated movie is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means, according to their "about" page: "you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper [...]

Displaying a Scaled Image with Java Swing

I'm working on a small application to help me with naming and sorting my pictures, so one of the basic things it needs to do is load and scale an image. Found lots of information here and there on this, and this post is to share what I came up with.
When searching around trying [...]

NautilusSvn and New Emblems

After writing last week about how I missed the Windows-only Tortoise(CVS|SVN) in GNU/Linux and sharing my simple scripts for running Subversion commands from Nautilus, I found Nautilus Svn by Jason Field, an Extension written in Python. (And available under the GPL v2.) It's very nice, and adds (among other things) a major feature that [...]

HOWTO: Rotate JPG images in GNOME's Nautilus File Manager

Originally published 6 October 2007 in Free Software Magazine. It was pointed out in the comments there that Nautilus Extensions is another way of customizing Nautilus, and that the extension nautilus-actions should be used instead for what I'm trying to do here. I had seen Extensions mentioned as a more powerful alternative at gnome.org, [...]

GNU/Linux Firefox image display problem caused by CSS padding

Do not adjust the picture on your television set. There is nothing wrong with the horizontal. That's what the accompanying image is supposed to look like. This image, with this post, but not most of the other images on this site.
Continuing on the theme from my last post of "moving to fewer [...]

GNU/Linux Graphics Programs in Ubuntu

My graphics/image manipulation needs are relatively simple. I've gotten by pretty well with MS Paint and IrfanView in Windows.

In the past several months I've started using the GNU Image Manipulation Program (the GIMP!) for Windows and have learned how to fix red eye and make downgraded transparent PNG files that display properly in Internet [...]

You're a Mean One, Mr. GIMP

In one of my "moving to freedom in stages" projects, I've started to use the GIMP on Windows XP. GIMP is the free software counterpart of Adobe Photoshop.
I've mentioned previously my bewilderment when faced with its amazing power and feature list. I have to confess that I often just fire up MS Paint [...]