Today I was trying to do a XDMCP connection to the other server ( which is solaris, not sure if that matters) so I used the Xnest server. and used the following command: Xnest :1 -ac -query <host> And I was getting the error: AUDIT: Tue Dec 2 20:40:03 2008: 1470 Xnest: client 2 rejected [...]
Photo Compositing with the GIMP
Basing from my previous GIMP article titled Creating Pseudo-3D Imagery with GIMP, you learned how to do some basic selection manipulation, gradient application, faking Depth of Field, etc. In line with that, I’m following it with a new article very much related to the concepts discussed therein but we’ll raise the bar a bit by [...]
Recursive Regular Expressions
The regular expressions we use in our daily lives are actually not that “regular.” Most of the languages support some kind of extended regular expressions that are computationally more powerful than the “regular” regular expressions as defined by the formal language theory. For instance, the so often used capture buffers add auxiliary storage to the [...]










