One of our favorite Xubuntu hackers poses for the camera. Can you guess who that is? You Ubuntu Chicago people don’t cheat! He really wears that hat every day too.
Sorry for the bad crop job there, I am sitting in a LUG meeting laughing so hard because the hacker in the pick hid the picture from me, but having friends in low places, I got it, and now you all can have it 
After reading Jorge’s blog post titled Amazing open source image resizing technology, I decided to download and install the new plugin into Gimp and give it a try. The outcome, not to shabby, but not even close to great at the same time. Take a look at the before and after images below:
Before
After
The things that stick out graphically after using the liquid plugin is the set of weights in the background, one is considerably smaller than the other. The other thing is look at the collar the dog is wearing, looks like he chewed it up. Yet, the dogs head looks fine visually. Another downside, a 1600×1200 jpg file before using the plugin, is 484k in size. After using the liquid plugin and knocking it down to 1024×768, the size almost doubled to 836k.
Still pretty cool, and I am sure after further tweaking and playing around it will get better. One thing to note, is that I haven’t played with all of the available settings when using the plugin either. The main reason for this plugin from the previous videos I had seen, was say you want to keep the width at 1600, but wanted to shrink the height to 768, this plugin would allow you to do it without skewing the image to bad. Which that impressed me, however the increase in size was a little bad. I want to see some cool panoramic images of the ocean, or mountains, or rolling hills and see what the outcome is.
This is definitely easier than emailing each list to inform everyone of my absence.
Anyways, I have been left with a very unstable Internet connection at home which hasn’t worked itself out all of the way yet. Hopefully today will be a little better but I am not counting on it. It hasn’t been all that bad, because I have been able to catch up on school work and venture out and experience this so called thing called life.
Projects I have on hold and will be working on once I am able to get a decent connection at home:
Hopefully I will be back to work here soon, only have about 15 minutes before I am done with school. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
My name is Richard A. Johnson. I am a professional developer, as well as an open source enthusiast, advocate, and author. I spend any free time I can get cycling.
Back in 1994 I was introduced to the world of open source software by installing Linux on a PC I had purchased from the Navy Exchange. At that time I had no idea what I was going up against, but never once did I let myself get frustrated, as Windows had already done that to me. Since then, I have completely immersed myself into the open source world and have been an active contributor.
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