The Random Thoughts Review http://blog.omnux.com Useful exposition on topics of interest Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:27:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Making a transparent background of an image with anti-aliasing http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2013/10/17/making-a-transparent-background-of-an-image-with-anti-aliasing/ http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2013/10/17/making-a-transparent-background-of-an-image-with-anti-aliasing/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:11:12 +0000 http://blog.omnux.com/?p=453 So I had an image with a white background, but essentially no white in the image itself. And, I needed to make the background transparent. Without anti aliasing, this is quite easy. You can just go into gimp, do a ‘Select By Color’, choose the background color, delete the selection, and it’s gone. (make sure […]

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]]> http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2013/10/17/making-a-transparent-background-of-an-image-with-anti-aliasing/feed/ 0 Do you like water? Of course, we all do! http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2012/10/24/do-you-like-water-of-course-we-all-do/ http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2012/10/24/do-you-like-water-of-course-we-all-do/#respond Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:45:46 +0000 http://blog.omnux.com/?p=390 So last month my dear grandmother passed away. (God rest her soul. Granny, I’ll never forget the innumerable ways that you made me a better person.) When she had been brought home from the hospital and was on hospice care, she was unable to eat and drink normal food/water, so about all that we could […]

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]]> http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2012/10/24/do-you-like-water-of-course-we-all-do/feed/ 0 Minor hackage on my machine this morning http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2012/10/15/minor-hackage-on-my-machine-this-morning/ http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2012/10/15/minor-hackage-on-my-machine-this-morning/#respond Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:42:53 +0000 http://blog.omnux.com/?p=375 Hey.. Is this not the page you were expecting to see? Via a php programming language exploit, a rogue computer script managed to inject some code onto my machine this morning, and it seems to have included a login page for a random bank that I have been seeing email incoming links to. So, if […]

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]]> http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2012/10/15/minor-hackage-on-my-machine-this-morning/feed/ 0 Dick Van Dyke Appliance World Problems http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2011/04/19/dick-van-dyke-appliance-world-problems/ http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2011/04/19/dick-van-dyke-appliance-world-problems/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:17:37 +0000 http://blog.omnux.com/?p=338 Ever heard of Dick Van Dyke Appliance World? If you live in east central Illinois, you have. They have this catchy little jingle that they litter the airwaves with.. If you buy from us, you get the whole store! And, it’s the home of the $25 service call! Last Thursday evening, the refrigerator at one […]

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]]> http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2011/03/24/bad-texts-from-the-illini-alert-system/feed/ 0 Fire on Green Street in Campustown http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2011/03/23/fire-on-green-street-in-campustown/ http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2011/03/23/fire-on-green-street-in-campustown/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:56:08 +0000 http://blog.omnux.com/?p=314 We had a fire today here in little ole Champaign, Illinois. A 3-alarm fire. It is spring break right now, so that helped, but it was still right next to campus. – More pictures follow – This morning when Mariya (Champaign Realtor extraordinaire) and myself were at Hardees we saw a fire engine headed north […]

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]]> http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2010/06/30/license-plate-surround/feed/ 0 Did you know your taxes are about to go up? (redux) http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2009/12/01/did-you-know-your-taxes-are-about-to-go-up-redux/ http://blog.omnux.com/index.php/2009/12/01/did-you-know-your-taxes-are-about-to-go-up-redux/#respond Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:24:47 +0000 http://blog.omnux.com/?p=283 Hello, those who call Champaign County home. Did you know your taxes are about to go up? I got another “Informational Bulletin” from the Illinois Department of Revenue today, and it talks about the sales tax changes that are going to take place on January 1, 2010. For those of us in Champaign county, we […]

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