We picked up a bunch of fish supplies the other day while we were at the pet store. Some stuff to make the tap water safe for fishes, some other stuff, and a testing kit to test all sorts of chemical and ph levels in the water. So last night the water was looking good and we decided to head to the store and get a fish. We pretty much decided on getting one, big, “Real Pet” fish. At the store we really liked the Red Oscar, so decided that he would be our new pet. We also bought a castle for his tank and some ph lowering chemicals (our ph was a bit higher than the petstore, so they suggested we bring ours down a bit).
He’s about 6 inches long. Apparently they grow to 14 inches at most. He doesn’t have a name yet, but we’ll think of something soon enough.
I booted into Windows today to play with LiteStep a bit. I installed it about a year ago, and had it on my win2k partition. It worked good enough for what I needed it for since I wasn’t in windows much. This time I wanted to play around with it to see if I could possibly install it on my computer at work and use it there (less painful than normal windows perhaps). So I downloaded it and installed, no trouble, the default theme is much different than what litestep used to use (new default theme), it’s pretty cheesey. I tried about a dozen themes, all of which had special “modules” to download, most of the time the module downloads didn’t work, so the theme broke. It got pretty annoying, only one out of all the extra themes I tried worked, “Zerobox” which looked like one of the *nix *boxes (fluxbox, blackbox..). It loaded up fine, but then the fonts in the menu were too small, so I got annoyed and just uninstalled litestep. I’ll just use windows the way it is.
While I was in windows I was able to install the gimp. I am very pleased with how easy it is now, you really don’t need *any* knowledge to install it.
So for all my Windows friends who want to install or just try out gimp, a wonderful FREE image editor, first go to: http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/.
Click on “Stable Version”
Download GTK+ 2 for Windows
Unzip, Install.
Download The Gimp for Windows
Unzip, Install (using the defaults on all options is fine, I took a screenshot while installing: see here
And that’s it! I played around with it a little, and it’s definately different than the linux one, but the reasons for the differences are understandable. And I took a screenshot.
It’s hotter out today than yesterday, it’s in the lower 90s right now, I’m hiding out in our air conditioned computer room. Saved Caligula from the heat earlier, so he’s sleeping behind me on the chair.
*wanders off*