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spottedcat
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Not strictly software, but a book about software that I thought forum members might like to know about. This:
arrived in the post this morning. Actually it arrived yesterday when I was in the bath and the postman left it under a bush in the front garden. Only discovered it today. You can get it from Amazon.
I ordered it when I discovered it by chance on the Amazon website. It seems to be the first new book on the GIMP for some years, and a quick look inside suggests it's very good - many good quality colour illustrations and clear text. I paid over £30 for it, but there's now a whopping discount and you can get it for less.  |
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Rhakios
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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| spottedcat wrote: | | postman left it under a bush in the front garden. Only discovered it today. You can get it from Amazon. |
I didn't know Amazon had started selling bushes, what sort is it? Variegated foliage or just one colour? 
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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pedantry, pedantry 
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Rhakios
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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Ambiguity, ambiguity actually. Now that's pedantry! 
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spottedcat
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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| Rhakios wrote: | | I didn't know Amazon had started selling bushes, what sort is it? |
It's Lonicera fragrantissima only it's not fragrant at all. Bloody swindle.  I want my money back. Trouble is, I've thrown the Amazon packaging away now..... |
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Rhakios
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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Wouldn't the -issima suffix be a diminutive, suggesting it is only a little fragrant 
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spottedcat
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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Right! (Rolls sleeves up.) I happen to have about the house (as one does) a book entitled 'LATIN, Better Read than Dead - Essential Latin for Beginners and Refreshers.'
| Quote: | The Superlative Form
An adjective ending -issimus, -errimus or -illimus is the superlative form: gratissimus (very/most pleasing); tristissimus (saddest)..... |
issima being, of course, the feminine form.
I can't find a reference to the diminutive ending in this book but dim and distant memory tells me the ending for 'least....' is -inimus/a. But this is from a man who has the rare distinction of having failed O-level (giving my age away there) Latin twice. 
So. Is there a classical scholar in the house? |
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Rhakios
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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Oh well, if you actually know Latin... you were only allowed to do Latin at my school if you were seriously intending to be a solicitor or a doctor. Suffixes involving lots of esses always look pissy and diminutive to me.
Edit: I'm probably thinking of Italian - piano and pianissimo, presto and prestissimo and so on. Which only goes to show, I've been misunderstanding music notations for years
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spottedcat
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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| spottedcat wrote: | | the rare distinction of having failed O-level Latin twice. |
| Rhakios wrote: | | Oh well, if you actually know Latin... |
Not really. |
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spottedcat
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professional |
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| Rhakios wrote: | | Edit: I'm probably thinking of Italian - piano and pianissimo, presto and prestissimo and so on. Which only goes to show, I've been misunderstanding music notations for years |
I see. When the music says pianissimo, do you play very softly or very loudly?
piano = 'soft/quiet'
pianissimo = 'most softly'
(We've rather strayed from image editing, haven't we? ) |
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Rhakios
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professi |
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Oh is that what it's all about. Is the book any good spottedcat, or have you not had enough time to read any of it yet?
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spottedcat
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Professi |
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| Rhakios wrote: | | Oh is that what it's all about. |
I'm near the end of the second chapter. Yes, it is very good - so far. It starts with a guided tour around GIMP, which you certainly need. I find the GIMP quite daunting at first. And then it's straight onto working with photos. It's very comprehensive. Clearly laid out and excellent colour illustrations.
What's a bit odd is that it's 'based on the latest GIMP 2.4 release' which hasn't been released yet.  But a lot of the screenshots are clearly from 2.4 which is very tantalising as it's obviously going to be quite a bit better. Nevertheless, she explains in the text what you will find in 2.2.
I'm glad I bought it - overnight sojourn under a bush notwithstanding. Er - that's the book I'm referring to, before you make some wisecrack about my sleeping habits. |
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Prof |
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| spottedcat wrote: |
I'm near the end of the second chapter. |
spottedcat
What are you doing sitting around reading books when you have a computer in bits to attend to?
(I've been messing around with Vector Linux this afternoon and although I had a few problems setting it up (Lilo wouldn't install, there was something wrong with my xorg.conf file, couldn't "startx" - all the usual little things that are sent to try us), I have now got it running quite nicely and am pretty impressed so far.) |
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spottedcat
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to Prof |
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| Marrea wrote: | | spottedcat wrote: |
I'm near the end of the second chapter. |
spottedcat
What are you doing sitting around reading books when you have a computer in bits to attend to? |
The new m'board doesn't arrive until Monday (courier service allowing), so all I can do until then is stare at the bits (or check under sundry bushes). Got a bit bored, you see. |
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 12:22 am Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Beginning GIMP - From Novice to |
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A true geek would be trying to fit the old MB into a toaster or for a real challenge a kettle mind you when waiting for parts i have a tendancy to use a soldering iron to remove all the parts from the old item, not that I ever use any of the chips I seem to have built up, but Hard drive motors can be quite useful
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