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Journal Entry: Tue May 13, 2008, 7:08 PM
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"How can you trust anything, when everything is real?"


I've pretty much decided that I'm going to try and use as many GNU/Open Source programs as possible, yes free is good but please note I do like the Donation possibility that is afforded to them. I may not be able to pay them 3-400 bucks, but I will at least send what I can.

Anyway, yeah I still have Quark and Dreamweaver and Photoshop to fall back on in a tight spot, but I am trying to use Scribus, Nvu, and Gimp (With GimpShop hack) to replace them.

Nvu [link]
The Gimp [link] and GimpShop Hack [link]
Cinepaint [link] (Aimed more for Video)
Scribus [link]

I have also tried a bit of blender 3d but I don't have the patience to learn all that, when a photograph can take it's place. Maybe later.

Also playing with Make Human [link] ... rather base level at this point in dev, but fun to play with and it'll help me learn perspective.

I may buy a new harddrive for this laptop and see if I can get Ubuntu to work (It's an HP ... bleh) and if it does, my destiny is with GNU


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"We made Gods and jailers because we felt small and ashamed and alone. We let them try us and judge us and, like sheep to slaughter, we allowed ourselves to be…sentenced. See! Now! OUR SENTENCE IS UP."
-Dane, The Invisibles Vol. 3 No. 1 Glitterdammerung



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  • Mood: Horror
  • Listening to: The Everpesent Hum of the Universe
  • Reading: Fast Forward 1 (Anthology)
  • Watching: Greater Wrong of the Right DVD
  • Playing: with IT.
  • Eating: time
  • Drinking: the blood from his veins

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What? No reference to the one of the open-source dinosaurs "Open Office"? I am shocked.

Gimp is quite good actually, I was pleasantly surprized.

I try to use as much open source-programs as is possible but am still very hesitant to exchange my operating system for one. Sure my current one sucks, but I at least know my hardware works with it.

Short summarized: I salute thine efforts to overthrow the evil computerized empires!

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Damn you Aquascum!
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I actually use Open Office, I forget not everyone uses it...

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"Injustice governs the universe. All that is made and all that is unmade therein carries the imprint of a corrupt fragility, as if matter were the fruit of an outrage in the womb of nothingness." -E. Cioran

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