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'Bottom' posting on Gmail

I personally don't care if someone top posts or bottom posts when they reply to their email... but sometimes others do, so I have to bottom post to make sure everyone is happy. I found out today gmail does not have a native way to make bottom posts replies, and the way I am lazy, I'd never drag the vertical bar on my own :-)

Anyway, have no fear, Greasemonkey is here. Download it and install it on your Firefox, and then install Gmail Bottom Posting v3 by clicking on the install button on the upper right.

It just works.

Panoramic Photos with Fedora 11

Clemmons State Forest Pond Panorama
Originally uploaded by afsilva

I wanted to try to put together a panoromic photo on Fedora today, I tried out a couple of different plugins for Gimp, but I wasn't able to get the results I wanted.

Then I found out about hugin, which is already packaged for Fedora.

yum install hugin

The 'auto-stitch' feature comes disabled with Fedora due to some software patents issues, but setting up the control points manually for the stitching didn't take more than 5 minutes by hand.


Update: If you notice the panoramic photo has a dark spot at the left upper corner, I've fixed that problem at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/afsilva/3887846405/

Using Linux to Teach Kids How to Program, 10 Years Later (Part I)

I have a new article out.