Penguin Pete's
Blog URL http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php
Located Des Moines, Iowa USA
Tags linux, gnu, software, computer, programming, graphics, design, tutorials, webcomic
Digital wizardry with free and open source software.
Latest Blog Posts
- Where To Find Real Geeks On The Web on Nov 8, 2009 in Geek Culture
Geek culture is currently going through the same identity crisis that hacker culture did in the 1980s. This pattern always repeats: first a word identifies a fringe culture, then more and more people start identifying with the fringe culture out of a...
- When Do I Get My Own Reboot Girl? on Nov 6, 2009 in Humor
I loved the two clips from Japanese television demonstrating the new Windows 7 release - or rather, demonstrating that it still crashes! But a new development has me a little jealous. In the second clip, from 'FailPost.com,' we see some news ancho...
- Son of the Return of the Rock-n-Roll DOSBox Freak Show on Nov 6, 2009 in Linux Gaming
From here on out, game reviews for abandonware DOSBox titles should be in the fall and winter. Who wants to play video games when it's 76 and sunny out? But after the time change, when the sun drops dead as soon as you get off work and the frost is f...
- Des Moines Iowa Searches For Brad Paullin on Nov 4, 2009 in Iowa
http://www.kcci.com/news/21500867/detail.html This post is about local Iowa news. A man named Brad Paullin disappeared Halloween night and hasn't been seen since. He was last seen heading into the woods along the Des Moines river in Des Moines, Iowa...
- Inkscape Tutorial - An Isometric Tileset - part 3 on Oct 27, 2009 in Graphics Tutorials
Continuing our experiment in Inkscape 0.46, we'll find out how to do the more sophisticated isometric tricks. Skew Any object can be skewed, simply by using the 'transform' dialog. For instance, here's an old ray-trace of mine imported into inkscap...
- Inkscape Tutorial - An Isometric Tileset - part 2 on Oct 26, 2009 in Graphics Tutorials
Continuing our experiment in Inkscape 0.46, we'll take our isometric tileset from the previous part and add some more objects to it. A brick wall Some objects you'll want to set to a permanent color. Here, I've taken the eighth-cube base and opened...
- Inkscape Tutorial - An Isometric Tileset - part 1 on Oct 25, 2009 in Graphics Tutorials
Oh, happy day! Now that I'm upgraded to Inkscape 0.46 on Ubuntu 9.04, I can start doing vector tutorials again. Today, let's see about making an isometric set of objects which can be quickly dragged around to build structures. The concept here is to...
