Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:49:34 GMT | no comments
well, I must admit, it rarely pass 150MB in normal circumstance... I just thought it would be fun to push it further up. I could have waited more but I was tired. As funny as it may sound, my 2GB ram WinXP system did not suffer too much from it. Eventually I should try to max up the ram entirely see what would happen.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:35:12 GMT | no comments
and a copy paste from a Facebook update from the Green Party of Canada.
Breaking News: Greens are Canada's new third party! 2:58am Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007
Dear Friends,
Today is a historic first for the Green Party of Canada.
Today, for the first time in our 24-year history, we are polling as one of Canada's top three parties in a national survey of voter intentions.
The Green Party is nationally in third place. We can win seats. You can help us do it.
The latest Strategic Counsel survey for the Globe and Mail/CTV News shows that the Green Party with 13% has overtaken both the NDP (12%) and the Bloc Quebecois (11%) for the first time ever. Also, Green support in the west now stands at a strong 18%, ahead of the fourth-place NDP (16%).
We must ask for Canadians' help to ensure that Elizabeth May is in the nationally televised leaders' debates. If Elizabeth is in the debates, there is no doubt in my mind that we will elect Green MPs.
[The Green Party has never won any seats in Canada (federally or provincially), nor has the Green Party been included in any televised debates... yet]
Visit the group for more info. :)
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:59:23 GMT | no comments
Hey everybody.
I was at my friends place tonight. and we had sort of a geek night. we both work in <insert computer related fields here> and ... well anyway... we've got some trouble making his inboard sata raid controller working and I ended up on that website relating to a similar problem.
"Via VT8237 Serial ATA BIOS Setting Utility V 2.10 Scan Devices Please Wait! Press <Tab> key into user window! (Tab doesn't work BTW) Hardware Initiate Failed Please Check the Device!!! The BIOS does not be installed. Press <g> to continue"
the original question of the thread was that pressing TAB when the raid controller was asking us to would simply do nothing. and tonight. my friend figured out that the bios simply had PS2 support disabled. Microsoft Windows (the OS I respect very much hahahaha) is later on adding his own PS2 support so the BIOS did not need to support the keyboard device ... Until you really need it. mouhahaha.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:28:00 GMT | no comments
I just found a great application on facebook which display pretty much everything there is to show about my ipod usage.
last played, last added, most played, artists, songs, etc. everything.
unfortunately, because it is a great application and well done, it will hardly become popular. why? because it is so good. There is no ads and it does not let you spread it like a facebook virus.
and its the one application I wish would spread over facebook like a virus.
by the way,... We are humans not numbers but I am Mr. #622940633.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:08:52 GMT | 1 comment
Still today, Microsoft Windows is showing us the most annoying freeze ever. Recently I have been forced to switch to Windows from Linux.
I usually put it on sleep by doing Start => Turn Off => Stand by. Which requires multiple clicks and seconds for the menu to popup. One of my friend which happen to be an expert in Microsoft technologies suggested me to do Win+L for Lock(AFAIK). It worked....
but when I came back later that night, the computer would not wake up as it normally would from a regular Stand by.
I tried everything and I had a lot of time to wait between trials since I was reconfiguring my living room for my new purchase I had just bought at Futureshop.
thank you Microsoft for crashing our computers for now more than 12 years. (3.1 was not crashing that much as far as I can remember).
For those looking for solution, you can try to install either Kubuntu, Ubuntu, OpenSuse or Mandriva on your PC for more stability. Or simply buying a Mac.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:25:01 GMT | no comments
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:42:54 GMT | no comments
It's so funny that such a Apple/Mac fan like me took so long. but I just bought my first iPod. And not that I think of it, my first Apple product. Well, I bought an Apple iMac G3 for my mother but it wasn't for me.
I paid 7600 JPY for it (shuffle). That's 9800 minus 2200 yen I had in credit at the shop ;) An extra reason for the compulsive buy. 7600 yen it's also US$65.08 or CDN$68.46 at this moment. which is much less than the $79+tax I would have paid in Canada.
Another guy factor that played in this compulsive and totally unplanned buy. Is the fact that I will spend 19 hours in a plane next thursday. As I am going back to Quebec on August 30th. 7600yen / 19 hours = 400yen/hour to have some music during this boring flight. which is priceless.
Now that I understood how to open the box, I will play with my new toys and put some songs in it. And wait for October to buy my Apple Computer with Leopard on it.
have a good one.
PS: please DO NOT comment below this post.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:15:32 GMT | no comments
To follow my last post. Here is the list of interesting articles I fall upon today. As I already said. Today has been a very rewarding day for finding interesting articles. So, here it comes. I will not place them in order of preference but instead I will try to place them in order of accessibility (less geek to the geekiest)
The police to start analyzing our urine through the sewers. That's the cherry on the sundae. If they bring their sample extraction device all the way to our houses. Not only they will be able to know who use what drugs but also what other consumer products we use. Then use the data for marketing purposes. That's the beginning of real privacy violation. And people worry about computers?
Get Rich Slowly. No comments, excellent reading. And this article really makes me believe again that justbudget is totally appropriate and does help in financial Independence.
Plasma VS LCD HTTV comparison
Computing article ... lots of good points. last page is Linux Kernel stuff only, kinda technical. But the first two pages are interesting to anyone curious about computer history. It brings a fresh point of view on the truth. Linux lovers be careful. I knew XOrg had great optimization needs but this article simply make me wish I had something better than Linux to run my favorite desktop environment.
Call me ignorant but I don't even understand how a project like a free browser might need a CEO. This article explains it all. How is Mozilla Firefox making $US55million a year? (and much more...)
More Linux related articles from apcmag. I think today was the first time I was visiting their site and one of the reason I am blogging about it today is to make sure I will visit them again.
And finally the article that brought me to their site. The Linus Torvalds Interview on Linux 3.0.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:40:52 GMT | no comments
Today has been a very rewarding day for finding interesting articles. Apart from the articles that I will mentioned in my next article here is one for my readers who runs the Gentoo operating system.
http://apcmag.com/6636/Gentoo tip for the love of tmpfs
Basically the idea is to mount a virtual file-system over the directory that stores temporary files used during compilation of new software (/var/tmp/portage). As most you you might know, Gentoo includes a system that automatically compile and install software for you. The great part is that it is very easy to use, the down part however is that it sometimes takes hours to install a certain software. The Hard Drive being the slowest part in the equation has just to be removed.
To try it out simply add this line to your /etc/fstab file and mount it as root or reboot.
none /var/tmp/portage tmpfs size=212M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0
You might also want to kill the content for the directory before, as it most probably contains lost of useless data which would then be hidden behind the mount.
rm -fr /var/tmp/portage ; mkdir /var/tmp/portage
Now the guy in the article use a 1412M sized tmpfs virtual partition on a 2G of RAM system. I really wonder how this would work on a 512MB RAM system. It might just swap all the time removing the whole idea. So I'm not sure this tricks helps people who really needs help. (the people with regular hardware)
What I really would like to understand is how the tmpfs kernel module know when to delete or not a file from the memory. I'd be afraid that it kills some .o out of the memory before the full compilation comes to an end. Or that it keeps all these temporary files in memory for hours after the compilation is done. I'd like to understand the magic.
For more Linux related article, checkout their Kernel Knowledge page
Update: Then later I found in the comment it is useless to add an extra tmpfs as Gentoo always have one enabled.
And I Quote .... "You can always do this by using the existing tmpfs, /dev/shm. /dev/shm will allocate up to 1/2 of your system RAM for tmpfs and it should already exist. To use it change/add the following three lines to your gentoo /etc/make.conf file:"
PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" BUILD_PREFIX="/dev/shm"
Good luck in your trials. And please post comments on your experimentations.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:37:29 GMT | no comments
J'ai poser une petite update sur un de mes vieux blog post. a propos des nouveau models.... laisse vous tanter en click ici
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:35:23 GMT | 1 comment
My wireless router(BLW-HPMM) and my wireless card(SMC2835W) are very good ;)
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:08:32 GMT | no comments
Google's expansions has reached new levels. For everyone who ever dream of working on the moon. Here is your chance. With Google Lunar team.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:12:55 GMT | 1 comment
Several years ago, it was unfortunately trendy among bad web-designers to prevent people from seeing your website if you were not using Internet Explorer. what a SHAME.
Apparently, the idea has evolved and they are not detecting I am not a United-Stater living in the United-States. So too bad, I cannot see their website. Maybe I don't want to see it either, uh.
*An idea brought to you by RealNetworks for their unknown rhapsody.com website.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:28:42 GMT | no comments
If you are like me, you like system that works and you care much more about the latest version of KDE than the latest version of XOrg. especially when updating KDE is pain-less and bug-free while XOrg means talking with God, backup-ing your Mother and what not.
So I wanted to be able to run
emerge -avUNt world
like everyone else, while staying on XOrg 6.9 Like you might know, the recent portage are not forcing us to do the update. you cannot run 'emerge world' without upgrading. and upgrading is far from being easy. While preventing portage from forcing is not as easy as it sound. It is not that hard. thanks to /etc/portage system.
here is how to do it.
### I dont want to update X >=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0 >=app-doc/doxygen-1.4.5 >=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.5.6 >=x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r1 >=media-gfx/graphviz-1.16-r2 >=app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.3 >=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r2 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver ### END
<x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0
after that you might get 1 or 2 more problem. I remember I also had to modify an ebuild and remove a useless dependency on a package. if it does not work for you. please comment below. I'm gonna help you to go through it and I'll update this post for a more accurate information.
have a nice day.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:35:31 GMT | no comments
So I am not gonna talk for 5 pages long about what is dangerous, good, bad or not about our new Big Brothers. But recently I have decided to be happy and to make people around me as happy as possible. And that means taking on services that makes my life easier for me and the people around me.
So that includes
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:58:41 GMT | no comments
Maybe you've seen this error before?
No rhtml, rxml, rjs or delegate template found for [view_name] (ActionView::ActionViewError)
I have a slightly special setup for my error mailer in one of my rubyonrails applications, as the mailer is not in app/models and the view not in app/views.
This used to work fine, until I changed god knows what and I realized it was broken for a little while. (by now, I, of course, know what broke it). And it was pretty hard to debug because I am using the system-wide installed rubyonrails on a shared hosting on which I don't have root access.
So at first I wanted to put some more logging in there to help me debug this beast. but for some reason, running the application with my own rails in vendor/rails was breaking everything. Can't edit the files, can't run my own, hmm.... what to do?
So today I took the few minutes it was requiring to find the right little place to put the proper logging. One thing I should add, I am an excessively lazy programmer and I like things to be short and sweet. So I did not want to copy paste a 10-15 lines function into my code. but there it is I found this one. template_exists? is only 3 lines of code, so no big deal to copy paste. there is not much chances it will change so much in the future versions of rubyonrails.
module ActionView
class Base
def template_exists?(template_path, extension)
file_path = full_template_path(template_path, extension)
logger.error(file_path)
@@method_names.has_key?(file_path) || FileTest.exists?(file_path)
end
end
end
Just place this little piece of code at the end of application.rb for example and every templates that are tried will be logged in your development.log or production.log file. It helps very much to track path problems as the regular error message isn't really descriptive.
that's it, enjoy.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:39:00 GMT | 1 comment
diff -r admin-languages/english/password_forgotten.php ../worldshop/admin/includes/languages/english/password_forgotten.php
20c20
< // $Id: password_forgotten.php 1105 2005-04-04 22:05:35Z birdbrain $
---
> // $Id: password_forgotten.php 4347 2006-09-02 19:02:26Z drbyte $
28,29c28,29
< define('ERROR_WRONG_EMAIL_NULL', 'Nice try mate :-P
');
< define('SUCCESS_PASSWORD_SENT', 'Success: A new password has been sent to your e-mail address.
');
---
> define('ERROR_WRONG_EMAIL_NULL', 'Go away gooberbrain :-P
');
> define('SUCCESS_PASSWORD_SENT', 'A new password has been sent to your e-mail address.
');
This is a diff between an english language file from zencart 1.3 to 1.3.5
Big question is, how many zencart user wants to call their customers "mate" or better "gooberbrain" when they enter a wrong password.
god damn
maybe even funnier, I was looking for a Japanese language pack on their forum. The files are available through a SVN repository. but the guy is too stupid to realize the files can be fetch using svn. and propose publicaly to everyone to download every single files by hand.. Next another very brave guy went and download them all and offer us a zip of his patient work. So kind of him.... Did I ever mention when do I think of patient program who does not care going the long way and not do thing properly. well its another subject I guess.
Later the first guy propose some windows software to downthemall
in five pages of forum thread nobody ever realize this was a SVN repository.
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zencart-jp/zen-cart-v1.3-l10n-jp/trunk/includes/languages/ front-store-languages svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zencart-jp/zen-cart-v1.3-l10n-jp/trunk/admin/includes/languages/ admin-languages
Conclusion? go ahead, get yourself a shopping cart from one of those expert. They definitely have the patience to get the job done.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:51:00 GMT | no comments
Je sais qu'une partie de mes lecteurs sont deja familier avec la notion de RSS. Mais je suis sur aussi sur qu'un grand nombre de mes lecteurs francophones n'ont toujours pas fait l'experience des RSS. Ce recent saut vers le changement, cette nouvelle methode pour rester a jour avec vos sites internet favoris.
L'idee de base est simple, l'Internet contient des milliars de sites et chacun d'entre-vous aime bien lire le contenu de plusieurs d'entre eux. Avec le temps, vous visitez et avez de l'interet pour de plus en plus de sites differents mais vous n'avez pas le temps de les visiter tous, tous les jours, pour voir si jamais du nouveau avait ete publie. Souvent vous visitez un site seulement pour vous rendre compte que rien de nouveau n'a apparu.
Vous voulez que l'on vous avertise des changements sur vos sites preferer. D'une facon non obstrusive qui vous permet de gagner du temps. La solution? RSS.
Un RSS pourrait etre compare a un Bookmark qui est utilise dans une applications special pour RSS. En plus de conserser une reference de votre site prefere, comme un bookmark. Il vous affiche egalement les dernieres X changements paru sur le site. Ce qui vous permet de savoir sur quel site il y a-t-il du nouveau, de lire plus et de pouvoir conserver sur votre disque les nouvelles qui vous plaisent et y retourner.
un exemple serait bien entendu ce site, mon blog. qui bien entendu offre un RSS. J'offre deux RSS. L'un qui comprends toutes mes ecritures et un autre qui comprends seulement mes ecritures francophones. Choisissez-vous un lecteur RSS (liste ci-bas) et inscrivez vous a mon site.
Pour plus de details about RSS en general visiter ce lien (en anglais seulement) et cet autre lien, aussi en anglais
Plus bas voici un liste de logiciel que vous pouvez utiliser sur votre ordinateur. La plus part des logiciel coute environ 30$. Et la plupart des service en ligne sont gratuit. Comme j'utilise beaucoup d'ordinateur, les applications sont pour moi hors de question. Personnellement J'utilise BlogLines, comme cest le seul que j'ai utiliser je pourrais pas dire que cest le meilleur mais il reponds tres bien a mes besoins. Mais honnetement je devrais probablement changer pour Google Reader.
Une autre solution gratuite, serait de simplement utilisez votre Navigateur Internet. Les nouveaux Navigateur Internet d'aujourd'hui ont une fonction RSS qui permet de tenir informer.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:26:00 GMT | 1 comment
So I finally created my Squidoo lens. Actually, My first squidoo lens is about justbudget, my little baby (web applicationaly speaking).
Squidoo is a free service that allow you to create a web page easily and earn money from it. I'm not totally sure how it works yet. but it seems like they share google advertising profits with the lensmaster. So, basically I am trying this out. see how much traffic this is gonna generate.
but one thing is sure, It was blazing fast to create my lens. thanks to RSS of course, most of the content is pulled from this blog. I might decide to create more lens later about other subject I care about. I am thinking, about KDE, Japan, Sports and who knows what.
Why don't you create your own lens to? You can earn cash and get famous. Go ahead.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:25:00 GMT | no comments
KDE, the world famous open source desktop environment is now 10 years old. WOW.
Matthias Ettrich's 14th October 1996 announcement original post
It's the great moment for KDE right now, KDE 3.5.5 just got released. The most powerful and stable release ever. and KDE 4 is just around the corner. KDE4 Beta Packages already available for Mac OS X and for Linux
I think its a great time to watch screenshots and try it out (Kubuntu, Sabayon) and get involved
KDE Happy 10 years and we wish you another good 10 years.
omedeto & gambatte
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:22:00 GMT | no comments
As many of you already know, Google recently released their Code search. After reading about Code search ideas and found Expression of which programming language sucks more. For instance, Python sucks. (thx, paolo). I thought, actually its not about which language suck the most. but what language are the programmer the less Happy with. So I checked a few of them. I'm sure the huge number next to C is related to the fact tons of C code is open sourced and C is also the oldest. but there is a huge difference there.
But finding "qt sucks" in kdelibs source is a bit of a shame. at least for me who literaly love Qt and KDE. Qt (total 11), KDE (total 2)
I am a bit disapointed to find almost none MFC Sucks. It's probably just because there is not much open MFC code. Well, I hope so.
But what I found very interesting and why I am actually posting this. Is because ..... (roulement de tambour)..... No one, programming in Ruby thinks that ruby sucks. For few very simple and straight reasons.... ruby rocks, i love ruby and ruby is fantastic
so go ahead and learn Ruby
and don't forget that people DO love their job and more
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:37:00 GMT | 1 comment
Like I heard many people saying, I really like gentoo very much but sometimes I just one this package real quick. For that, a Binary Packages Repository (BPR) would be quite appreciated.
There was the Chinstrap Project that unfortunately being abandoned. I think it is very sad such a project is abandoned. There is also klik which actually is VERY GOOD, but aimed for (cross-distrib) desktop use, not as a core system solution. I think gentoo needs something on its own to his image.
There has been discussion about it before, and apparently the problem with binary distribution is that it breaks and needs to be reinstalled. My personal problem with Binary package distribution just as Mandrake or SuSE is package availability. some and few packages that I want are not available. and/or you need to manage a list of download sources, which is a pain in the butt. Then it finally comes down to compiling it from source except that it won't be registered in your system database. which I don't like. I want everything and every-file to be registered, removable and manageable.
That is why I like gentoo. every single packages are there. even proprietary stuff like CrossOver. The Gentoo portage won't be able to download it, because its paid software. but if you download it, put the file in your distfiles directory. it will check the digest and record this package into your system package database. THAT is GOOOOD.
What I am thinking is having emerge being modified to upload packages after the compilation is done. so everyone in the world would be uploading package unless already found, in which case it would have got downloaded. So If found, download, if not, compile and upload.
In order to keep system stability, I'm not sure how many duplicates of the packages we should need to store. I would be thinking....
http://gentoo.packages.example.com/gentoo/[arch]/[CHOST]/[gcc version]/[glibc version]/[package group]/[package name]/[package version]/file
that might become crazy, but it might be what it needs. even USE flags might have to be thrown in there.
I'm not sure how would be best to organize the use flags. but one way which would not be human browsable but flexible would be to assign a unique bit-flag to every USE flags. just like filesystem permission, where r-x becomes 5 the total would become a huge number but it would not matter I think.
so it might become something like
http://gentoo.packages.example.com/gentoo/x86/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc4.1.1/glibc2.4/kde-base/kdebase/3.5.5/kdebase-3.5.5.gentoo-bin.tgz
that would required a lot of space and bandwidth I would guess, but I think its worth the try. problems can be fix in time.
opinion?
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:57:00 GMT | no comments
So Dreamhost recently celebrated their 9th anniversary. and for this event they upped our disk space and bandwidth limit BY TEN (10). Actually, it feels like 20x.
So I was using 30% of my 20GB of space (got lot of pictures). and suddenly I am now only using 3% for my new 200GB of space ;) I wonder what would happen if everyone would suddenly decide to fill it up ;)
The best part is, I got this account for so cheap, I'm even a bit shy to tell you all the details....
So go ahead and create yourself a Dreamhost account by clicking here and save even more money by using this coupon code. GODREAMHOST20 Simply enter the coupon when you sign up for your account, you will save 20$ dollars on your invoice. its as easy as that.
if you need more info about Dreamhost and what not, feel free to ask me. I used them for a bit more than a year now. And I am simply more satisfied with them every single month.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:20:00 GMT | no comments
ok, vous l'avez entendu, mais apparement on le repete jamais assez. J'ai recu un beau petit virus dans ma boite courriel ce matin. Heureusement, j'utilise Apple Macintosh donc tout ce que j'ai eu a faire c'est de le mettre a la poubelle sans me soucier des consequence. mais ca fesait quand meme un bout de temps que je n'avais pas recu un spam de ce style. Alors j'ai decider d'en faire un screenshot et de le montrer au monde.
Si vous portez legerement attention, you remarquerez que Microsoft ne raccourci jamais son nom pour s'appeller MS. Je crois que cest un peu epais de leur part d'avoir inscrit MS Internet Explorer, MS outlook, etc.
Microsoft ne support plus les system 95,98 et Me, Donc plus aucune patch de ce genre ne verra le jour. Sans mentionner que sachant qu'aucun logiciel legitime fonctionne sur tout les differents windows, je vois mal une mise a jour de security s'appliquer a toutes leurs system d'exploitations.
asjggglkiskl@support.net n'est pas Mr. Microsoft. Et le nom Patch39.exe ne resemble a rien de bon.
faites attention a vous et la prochaine fois que vous decider d'acheter un ordinateur, assurez-vous qu'il fonctionne avec quelque chose d'autre que Microsoft XYZ.
Posted by Mathieu Jobin Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT | 11 comments
As most of you might already know, I really like Apple products, especially their shiny new computers with Mac OS X. They keep saying its read out-of-the-box and you can do whatever you want from Day one. no other software necessary. its actually true. but there is one software missing that I can't beleive they did not include. Its a Paint program. There is no paint program shipped with Apple. I suppose its because most Apple user used to be designer and all needed Photoshop. but I don't need photoshop, I don't want to pay for it and I don't want to pirate it either.
So here comes, I have taken a screenshot for my desktop (for my next post) onto my clipboard and I need to paste it somewhere. Holding onto my paste I am hunting down Free Paint software for OSX.
I actually found quite a few.
First google result returns TuxPaint, some kind of kiddish paint program. Probably very good for 3-5 years old kid who wants to learn how to use the mouse and draw stuff. but ain't really what I was looking for.
Then I remembered the obvious The Gimp. Being a Linux user for many years, I know The Gimp as the de-facto imaging program under linux. But The Gimp still requires X11 to run, which is not as slick as I would expect and X11 also prevented me from pasting my image contect onto the gimp. BAD. Good news is that it got much faster than it was last year. anyway, lets move on.
ArtRage another totally different alternative. I could not do what I wanted but I discover what many people might like to play with. The paint tool is a pleasure to use. for all the artistic people within you, try this one out. its something to see going.
more seriously there is Seashore which is a port of the Gimp apparently. Mac-ized. Pretty sweet. I've done what I needed pretty quickly. It also got much stabler that last time I tried it, about a year ago. definitely a good pick.
and The one that is gonna stick into my applications folder. Pixen. just like Seashore I've been able to do what I needed. but it just look slicker. ain't a port of something else. worked perfectly. well actually now that I remember correctly, it crashed on the first paste. but I restarted the application and it worked fine.
so conclusion both Pixen and Seashore are good pics. ArtRage deserve a try for his artistic behaviour and if you got a kid you might want to install TuxPaint, just and only for him ;)
Happy painting ;)
Update: apparently PhotoShop Elements is also very good and inexpensive (ie. cheaper than Photoshop ... $150US) but I have not tried it as I was looking for something Free.
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