How to create a symmetrical heart with GIMP

Gimp

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.

GIMP is released under GPLv3+ licenses and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

In this guide I show you how to create a heart with GIMP, following simple steps.

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DeaDBeeF – the last music player

DeaDBeeF is a lightweight, stable, flexible and cross-platform music player: GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X. DeaDBeeF is able to play files in different formats: mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, … It has a clear, simple and elagant interface based on GTK2, GTK3. It has not GNOME or KDE dependencies then it’s good option for lightweight desktops like LXDE, LXQT, Lumina, XFCE.

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How to redirect from http to https in WordPress

wordpress

Thanks to Let’s Encrypt and WordPress projects today is very easy to migrate your site from http to https (secure version of the HTTP protocol).

The following procedure also works for those sites that are behind a reverse proxy like NGINX and the connection between the proxy and the site is done via http, even if you cannot modify the web server configuration, lets see some concepts and definitions:

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How to read/write NTFS partitions on GNU/Linux

GNU/Linux

NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for Linux, Android, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems.

  • It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 NTFS file systems.
  • It allows to create, delete, move and rename files, directories, hard links and streams
  • It allows to read and modify files and streams
  • It allows to handle special files such us: symlinks, devices and FIFOs

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