The Finest Hours

Looking Really Really Good.

Removing Videos from Unity Dash in Ubuntu 14.04

For quite some time I have had videos that were in a hidden folder showing up in Unity Dash

   
that by my reckoning should not have been as I had turned off the history feature under privacy settings.

I searched through Ubuntu documentation on this issue and was finding nothing that was helpful. Until I happened to realize that I was not reading everything carefully.

The specific part that finally caught my eye was the statement (assuming that they are in the Videos folder) AH HA! that was what I had been looking for!
Now I had come to realize that any videos that are in the Videos folder will show up in the Dash regardless of your history settings! 
A quick and painless move of the hidden folder to a new directory other than the Videos folder solved the problem.

Take A Stroll To The Fur Side!

Finally launching my second blog.

for posting all sorts of Furry Fandom stuff. If you feel like venturing in to my Fur Side please do, but be warned (Enter The Fur Side) may contain Adult content.

Toothless

Never really looked to hard at any of the Quad-Suits other than Arcanine,


























but as I was poking around on Pintrest  the other day I happened onto some Quads that are rather unique.

And almost hard to believe that there is a person in there.

These would most definitely be some of the most expensive suits going... I can only imagine the cost. Some can reach up into the $10,000 price range and more!










Than I saw Toothless from "How To Train Your Dragon"  Although not actually a Quad... it is very well done! 


Two Thumbs up to its creator! 

New Fursonal ID On Its Way

IdentiFur sent the proof to me yesterday, the artwork was spot on (They used my Pictures of Steele as reference) but I had decided to make a name change. Hopefully it does not cause too much of a delay.

Finally A Day Cold Enough

To be able to have the new furnace run at temperatures hot enough to not build up massive amounts of creosote.  Saving money on the oil now!















Lovin' The Yukon Eagle-Husky I

Snow Leopards

A Perfect Loop

You can't even tell where the loop resets.

Of course this player only plays it one time, to get the real effect you need to download and play it in repeat mode in an external player.

I'm a Furry

Merry Christmas!

Music:  Gone - By: Fox Amoore

Minion Of The Day

Bus Fire

No, not my route & no one was hurt. 9 students, driver and monitor all evacuated in plenty of time.

Needless to say however,  Tuesday afternoon was rather exciting.

This has to make one wonder if the company's insistence on running an aged fleet in attempts to save money is really worth it to the school districts that contract with them.

I am actually rather relieved that my daughter doesn't HAVE to ride their buses.

Outline by Shrinking Background in The Gimp

On Ubuntu 14.04

An Alternate way of outlining a graphic.

As in the last two posts, if you require the HD .MP4 please let me know. This video is 15.3MB

Clean Up Artifacts After Outlining

Gimp on Ubuntu 14.04

As in the last post, If you would like the HD .MP4 video of this tutorial please let me know and I can forward it to you. This clip is 26MB.

Outline Simple Graphics Using The Gimp

On Ubuntu 14.04

GNU Image Manipulation Program  Is the Linux alternative to Photoshop and in some ways is even superior to it. Some say that there is a steeper learning curve to The Gimp, but since this is what I learned on, Photoshop seems totally alien to me.

Please keep in mind that although The Gimp is cross-platform I am running Ubuntu Linux so there will be some subtle differences in appearance if you are on Windows, however the end result would be the same.

The quality of the video is poor due to bloggers restraints, if you want to download the video in HD.MP4 drop me a note here or email me and I will zip it to you. This video 16.4MB

Screencast

This is a real-time screen capture... I did not speed it up.

The speed of this machine compared to any of the other ones I have is unbelievable.

Lovin' The New Cruiser!

HP Desktop Computer EliteDesk 8100 Intel Core i5 650 (3.2 GHz) 8 GB DDR3 2 TB HDD Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit   

Got it for $259     from Newegg a week ago.
Dumped Windows and Installed Ubuntu 14.04 64bit and KUbuntu 14.04 64bit and this thing rocks!
I have been lagging behind on my own tech chugging along with the old P-4's and Atoms... NO MORE!  This i5 doesn't even break 86 deg F when playing 4 movies across 4 desktops AND boots to my fully functional Unity desktop in only 16 seconds!   and into the fully functional KDE desktop in only 22 seconds!     It lacks USB3.0 , but I can live with that, could always add a PCI card if i need to.    

Too Cute!!!

I Love Huskies.

Analucifer post on Vine

Analucifer's post on Vine

What the fox says when he looses the mouse.

Starting A New Project

I have decided to create a separate Blog for the sake of separating what is real and what is not. Not that furries aren't real, but it just adds a layer of separation between my personal posts and those that are meant purely in jest with my furry friends. While my posts on the new line will be generally clean, I cannot speak for any links or artwork that may be present on other sites that I link to.  At any rate, I am launching my new blog called "The Fur Side" and as it is still being developed please 'bear' with me while I adjust the 'fur' for the right look. ;P

First Of My Decals Applied

To the Matrix

Difficult to believe

that it is actually

warm enough on

December 12th to

be able to get the

hose out and wash

the car and apply

decals. 

 Will wait 'til spring for the two larger ones though... need much more warmth 

for them to allow conformation of the vinyl to the curves of the car.