Tuesday, January 7, 2014

How to find out if the version of windows that is installed is 32 bit or 64 bit

For some reason, I can't get computer properties to come up on the remote machine, and I needed to install something. TIL that the following will get the windows architecture from the DOS command line:

wmic os get osarchitecture

source:

http://superuser.com/questions/321988/how-do-i-determine-if-my-windows-is-32-bit-or-64-bit-using-a-command

A lot of online answers to this question involved finding the windows version that is running. Not too helpful since I probably would have to google that number to find out if it's 64 or 32 bit. However I learned that there's a DOS command "winver" that reports this, but furthermore I learned that just opening a DOS window causes the windows version to be printed on the first line of the window.

source:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080804184454AAIWIuQ

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Using The Gimp for Windows

Notes from downloading and using The Gimp to make the FPI logo.

Downloaded it from here:


http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

This page is descoped:

http://www.gimp.org/windows/

Here's the full manual:

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/

First problem that The Gimp solves: Rotating things arbitrarily:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/gimp-rotate-image-arbitrarily-111695/

Can't wait to try curving the text around my circle with just a few mouse clicks. Funny tutorial:

http://www.redbubble.com/groups/all-gimps-together-the-gimp-software-user-group/forums/8605/topics/116987-tutorial-curved-text-in-gimp

A look at the results of this tutorial:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/robgoodfellow/works/4855851-3-budgie-style-kung-fu

Tried out this sharpen tool, which was easy to use, but it didn't help my image much. Also I didn't have as many sliders when I tried it:

http://www.photoforbeginners.com/news/tutorials/how-to-sharpen-your-shots-in-gimp

I can't wait to try this fancy object select and cut function:

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html