So all these years I thought a GIF image is limited to a maximum of 256
colors. This nice
article (in czech :/) explains there is something called local palettes.

Instead of having a global image palette, you can define a palette per
frame. So it is possible to ‘assemble’ an image out of all these 256
color-using tiles.

Some software, such as firefox apparently doesn’t interp[ret the 0
milisicond delay properly so you get a nice ZX Spectrum like load effect
(perhaps a CPU safety feature).

• ‘Truecolor GIF’

Some devices are too dangerous to be operated by men. Now vacuum cleaning your room at 11:30PM doesn’t sound like a good idea in the first place, but I still don’t quite grasp how I could have knocked out a DSL modem so that it cannot sync anymore. The phone line goes through a UPS even!

Now if only Network manager didn’t disconnect me every 30 seconds off the Airport basestation that I blown dust off and connected to an analog line. It’s good it still retained the dialup ISP data that still works. I wonder how much a dsl modem is these days…

Update

Now this is like an episode of Outer Limits. How can this even be possible. Computers, gotta love them. So like I mentioned above, I probably nuked my modem in a very very weird way. At least that’s what I thought. I did disconnect the modem/phone cable while cleaning and after reconnecting the
modem would get no sync. But when I took it to another place, it synced and got an IP without changing the settings at all. So back home, no sync. So I put it in front of a splitter. No sync. And so I thought I’d leave the ISP try to figure it out. They did mention that they indeed see some issues and are ‘investigating it’. But not wanting to helplessly wait for them to finally come over, I took the modem while I visited my parents. Hooked it up again of course and it worked fine on this line too, got sync and IP assigned (PPPoA). My dad had some problems with his wifi routyer (with annex b dsl modem) so he bought a new one and I configured it for him, taking the old beast home. I hooked it up and to my surprise it got sync and IP! So I hooked my old modem thinking the ISP guys have fixed it and… bummer. No sync! How on earth is this possible??? How can a modem that worked here for over a year suddenly stop and only work elsewhere????

Now who has a voodoo doll of my modem?? It’s a very basic Alcatel/Thompson 510i onetouch btw. None of those ‘does it all’ monters. Doesn’t logic apply to DSL? I would so want to work as a support guy for these things

Thanks to the hackers led by Oyvind Kolas¹ GEGL now actually crunches graphs and produces output!

Feed it with a simple XML file and it spits out this PNG:

• Some basic documentation on existing nodes and oprations.
• My little test project mentioned above.

[1] – Sorry for screwing up your name, pippin. My rss template is teh suck and forces iso latin charset :/

I got pointed to an intesting article about using a
low-pass filter to test the uniqueness of an icon that appears to be much
more adequate than the simple blur
test I’ve been using.

Moving on to Tango stuff. Totem now has a new app
icon, so no more Iva on the app icon . More work happening in the gnome
icon theme.

Why learn languages when you have automatic translators? This is seriously
good
laugh.

This is a seriously awesome comic. Love
both the artwork and the humour. The second one is just beyond hilarious.

If only these
things were around 10 years ago when being a DJ was the next big thing
after being an astronaut . Looks like a genious piece of engineering.

Due to being a lame and exceptionaly lazy admin, I’ve ‘solved’ my
problem by throwing all HTML mail into the spam can. If you intend to reach
me by e-mail, use plaintext

I enjoed HTML mail quite a lot myself, but just like wikis, the amount of
maintanance with regard to spam is so huge these days that I simply don’t want
to bother.