Utter Randomness

Basically, you have an image with text that is vertically aligned to the right of the image. I never found a solution on the internet, and this is what I came up with in my spare time poking around:

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<div>
<div style="float: left;"><img src="./apple.png" alt="" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left; line-height: 42px;">right text</div>
</div>

Short and sweet. It does not auto adjust to the image; so you’ll have to change line-height to your liking. This is similar to wordwrapping, but not quite.

Finished example:

Well there’s never really been a  great place on the web for me to find out how, and after a lot of searching and trial and error, I found a way that works. If you have the JDK correctly installed and working in the classpath, go to Start->Run->cmd and hit enter, or vista users Start->type in cmd in the searchbox->enter / click the only thing that shows up. Now type in “cd C:/path/to/your/directory” to get to the current directory of your jar file.

keytool -genkey -alias YOURALIAS -keystore YOURSTORE 
-keypass KEYPASS -dname "cn=YOUR NAME" -storepass STOREPASS

jarsigner -keystore YOURSTORE -storepass STOREPASS -keypass KEYPASS 
-signedjar SIGNEDJAR.jar ORIGJAR.jar YOURALIAS

keytool -export -keystore YOURSTORE -storepass STOREPASS 
-alias YOURALIAS -file YOURCERT.cer

Just replace what’s in capitals for your own values, and it should work happily.

** NOTICE: Wordpress is one big failure at wordwrapping. I had to split each of these into two lines. The second line should still be on the first line in the command prompt, and there should be a space between “YOURSTORE -keypass” like that.

We’ve all seen it (haven’t we?). Go check out wikipedia first if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

The internet. Yet another way for short or bullied kids to get on and attempt to gain power. Emotionally, physically, it doesn’t really  matter. Maybe they’re ignored by everyone else and strive for attention. Maybe their parents divorced, died, or ignore them. Whatever the cause, they are here, today, on the internet.

Their mission: Power and attention mostly. Often mini-modding or backseat-modding forums and messageboards, they want a sense of control. I find that these people will also often beg for moderator positions as well, and I dare not allow anyone like that to get the power on my own sites.

I personally believe that if you ignore these types of people for a long enough amount of time (which you should), they will turn into “griefers”. These are the types of people that go around games and websites puposely attempting to anger others and disrupt order. It’s all about them, after all. They strive for attention and power so much that they resort to such low methods of getting that attention, and in the end, just get banned from the website or game. Another common method is to steal others’ works. Many people are amazed at what that pathetic excuse of a human is capable of doing until someone else comes along and points out that it is not, in fact, their work.

Why the internet? It’s the easiest place to go. I don’t know any exact statistics (and would love one, if any readers happen to find one), for the number of kids who are growing up with 1 or more computers in their house and with some type of internet, DSL seems to be quite popular. Because they already have the tools they  need – internet, a computer with a keyboard, off they go searching for a place they first want to call home. How do they determine which site(s) they want to infest? I don’t know. How do we choose which sites to frequent?

They’re out there. Sensitive, and probably alone in the world. Ignore or comfort, your choice. I’ve never had any success with trying to confront, comfort, or befriend them. They’re unbearable and will spam IMs, e-mails, and PMs on forums/message boards when they finally begin the change to the aforementioned “griefer”. Then you will most likely be forced to leave them. Too unbearable, even for you! They’ll probably get worse, I suppose you and I may  never know. What I think they really need is a good school counselor and a loving home.

Well, this is a short and sweet text guide to create a new administrator account on Vista, if for some reason you have no more. This was created for a friend who for some reason deleted every single administrator account on his PC.

This guide has been UNTESTED, and will only work on Vista – not XP.

Following the steps below will create a *new* administrator account on your PC.
if you get stuck, are unsure, or think errors may be showing, I can’t help. I don’t have Vista. Remember: Follow the steps carefully.
It shouldn’t mess up your computer if you do any of the steps wrong, but you never know.

Download this file:
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=infrarecorder&filename=ir0462.exe&use_mirror=internap
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This is a 100% free and simple CD burning program, you need it to burn the .iso file listed below

Download this file:
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/backtrack/bt3-final.iso
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This is the CD image for something that can create a new Vista admin account. This is a BIIIGGGG file.
It can take 5 hours + to download.

Instructions:
1. Download the 2 files listed above
2. Install the .exe file. This is the program Infrarecorder, a CD burner.
3. Insert a blank CDR-RW disc into your CD drive, and click “Do nothing” or “Cancel” if a message pops up
4. Open Infra recorder
5. At the top menu, Go to Actions->Burn Image…
6. Select bt3-final.iso and click ‘Open’
7. A window will pop up. Find the “Write speed” drop down list and select something lower, like 28x.
8. Click the ok button
9. The easiest way to tell when it’s done is when it ejects the CD.
10. Once the CD is burned, put it into your CD drive and immediately reboot the computer.
11. If once it starts booting off of the CD, it stops for a while and an option is to press the spacebar, press the space bar
12. Now.. If all is done right so far, text should be flying across your screen like a rabid squirrel
13. After a few minutes or less of text flying around, eventually a background image will appear, along with a mouse saying “<<< Backtrack 3″.
- If no image appears, and you see red text reading “Welcome to BackTrack 3″, type the following w/out quotes and hitting enter after each.
“root”
“toor”
- Now skip to step 17.
14. Now, in the bottom left corner there will be an icon with a pencil and paper. Right click the icon, go to Panel menu -> Add Application to Panel -> System -> Konsole
15. A new icon will appear in the bottom left corner. It is black, and should be the second item. Click it.
16. A new window will pop up.
17. With the shell window open, type the following without quotes and pressing enter after each one
*** THE FOLLOWING ARE CaSe SeNsItIvE
“cd /mnt”
“ls”
“cd hda1″
- If it says that it can’t find it, you’ll have to figure out what it named your hdd.
“cd Windows”
- If it says it can’t find Windows, try “WINDOWS”
“cd System32″
- If it says it can’t find System32, try “system32″
“mv Utilman.exe Utilman.old”
“cp cmd.exe Utilman.exe”

18. Eject the CD and reboot the computer
19. At the login screen do the following:
20. Press and hold the Windows key (usually between CTRL and ALT) and press U
21. A black window should pop up.
22. Type the following into the window without quotes and pressing enter after each:
“net user backupadmin 3MERGENCY /add”
“net localgroup administrators backupadmin /add
23. Reboot your computer and login with the username “backupadmin” and password “3MERGENCY”

… Now. If you happen to wipe out all admin accounts on your computer again, restart your computer and go to step 20

In this little tutorial I’ll take you step by step through creating a sticky note.

Finished product:

Let’s begin.

First of all, create a new image (Preferably a little larger than the size of your sticky note, just so you have a little working room). I’m creating mine at 128×128.

Then, if you don’t have the layers and paths window open, you will need to. Go to Windows->Layers,Channels,Paths… A new window will pop up.

Now select the paths tool. Here’s the icon:

What we must do next is to create points so we can make a nice, smooth, outline for the stickynote. Dealing with the paths tool can be pretty confusing, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. Considering many of you readers may be new to GIMP, or just the paths tool, I will go into a bit of detail on how to handle it.

Placing points
Click in one of the corners of your image with the paths tool created. A circle will appear. Click the mouse again somewhere else, and other circle will appear and so on and so forth.

Deleting points
Made a mistake? Well, click the point and press the backspace button to delete it. Oddly enough, the delete key doesn’t work.

Moving points
Of course you’re going to mess up or at least want to tweak the position of the points you place. To move a point, first select the paths tool then move the mouse to a middle of a point (the circle). Then click and drag it. You’ll know it’s ready to move the point when you see the standard arrowed cross in the top right corner of your mouse. ** Don’t forget: If you move points before finishing the design, you may want to change which point is selected. After all, when you left click again it creates a point stemming from the currently selected point.

Curving
This is pretty hard to do unless you create a new point for the sole purpose of being curved. To create a point with an associated curve, click and drag the mouse instead of just clicking. It takes a bit of moving to get the desired curve. Look at the diagram below. The box labeled 1 is what controls the curve. Move that box or the point to alter the curve.

The box labeled 2 will not affect the curve.

Finishing (Connecting beginning and ending points)
Make sure you have the last point selected (the one you want to connect to the other end). Then hover your mouse over the other end point, hold control, and click. Tada!

Now we need to turn that into a selection, because we can’t do much with it as a path. In the Layers, Channels, and Paths window which we may or may not have opened at the beginning of this post, click on the 3rd tab.

Then click on the path that you want to make a selection (Unnamed, usually. May be Unnamed#1, etc, if you had trouble with the thing). Then right click it, and click “Path to selection”.

Alright now if you’ve used any image editing software before, you know how to deal with selections.  Now you can put a gradient/solid color etc inside the selection. I decided to go with a 2 color gradient. The colors are:  ffde6d and ffe58c.

With the selection still active, click the first tab in the Layers,Chan,Paths window to go back to the layers. Then create a new layer. This step is optional, to add some shading. Icon:

Now, change the foreground color to something a bit darker, like efc944. Next, scroll down on your tools window at the bottom to reveal more options. Change the pressure to something low, I used 4.0. Next select a the size 9 fuzzy brush.  Then, with the new layer selected, shade around the edges or wherever you feel like shading. If it’s too dark, simply change the opacity of the layer. Mine came out dark so I changed the opacity to 45 and it looked nice.

Yay! We’re done! Viner hand size 12 font is a good font to use.