Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 28, 2006.
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for setup and shell-integration related functionality.
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 27, 2006.
Found an Article by James Hunt (Software Engineer @ IBM). Parallelize Linux system services to improve boot speed
This article shows you how to improve the boot speed of your Linux system without compromising usability. Essentially, the technique involves understanding system services and their dependencies, and having them start up in parallel, rather than sequentially, when possible.
Although undoubtedly an excellent system, a common criticism of Linux — voiced particularly by those from a Microsoft Windows background — is that it takes a long time between pressing the "on" button and actually being able to use a Linux system. In essence, their argument goes, Linux takes a long time to boot.
Although simple to understand, the technique I present here for speeding the boot process requires careful implementation; my hope is that Linux distributions will adopt this technique and users will be spared the configuration task. But if you’re feeling adventurous, read on.
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Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 26, 2006.
Free, open source software Qliner hotkeys is a keyboard shortcut application similar to previously-mentioned app WinKey.
Hotkeys builds on the concept of Windows shortcut keys but takes this concept to a whole new level. Do you think key combinations are hard to remember? Just hold the Windows key for three seconds and up pops a Onscreen Keyboard with icons on the keys that are configured. This you can you use , not only to remind you of hotkey combinations, but also for Drag and Drop Configuration.
As an added bonus for laptop users whose Windows key is non-existent or inaccesible, hotkeys allows you to map the Windows key to your Caps Lock key.
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