By Kelli B. Grant
Crude prices have been as volatile as the stock market in recent days, but their overall slide may give consumers some relief at the pump in the coming weeks, and could mean lower heating costs for some this fall.
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Oil prices have steadily dropped from an average $110 per barrel in April, down to an average $97 per barrel in July, according to the government’s Energy Information Administration, and they have fallen further during the recent market upheaval. Oil prices Monday were trading at roughly $84 per barrel within an hour of the market open, and are expected to slide further if the unrest in Libya continues.
“As a rule of thumb, every $1 per barrel drop in the price of crude lowers the retail price of gasoline by 2.4 cents per gallon,” says Tancred Lidderdale, a senior economist for the EIA. Consumers have already seen some results of recent volatility: the national average Monday is $3.57 for a gallon of regular unleaded, according to AAA. That’s down from $3.60 last week and $3.70 last month, although well above last year’s average $2.71. Drivers are likely to see prices follow that broader downward trend in coming weeks with drops of up to another 20 cents per gallon, says Matt Smith, a commodity analyst for Summit Energy.
The estimated 7.7 million American households that use home heating oil during the winter should also be paying attention to oil price volatility. “The two move very much in tandem,” Smith says. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s survey of dealer prices noted a drop from $3.88 per gallon on July 25 to $3.80 on August 15, although prices are still roughly 33% higher than this time last year. Prices could drop further in the next few weeks, but probably not by much — international demand for U.S. exports keeps prices stable, says Ben Brockwell, a director for the Oil Price Information Service. His suggestion for homeowners: wait until just after Labor Day, then shop around to lock in a price with a supplier before seasonal demand, if not higher crude, raises prices.
Consumers’ price relief is likely to be shorter-lived than the market volatility, experts agree. Substantial worldwide demand for fuel is unlikely to keep prices low for long, although prices consumers pay at the pump are unlikely to surpass the high of $3.95 in May of this year. “I definitely think we’ve seen our peak price for 2011 on retail gasoline,” says Brockwell.
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4.4.В Templates Dialog
4.4.В Templates Dialog
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4.В
Image Management Related Dialogs
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4.4.В Templates Dialog
FigureВ 14.67.В The Templates dialog
Templates are templates for an image format to be created. GIMP offers you
a lot of templates and you can create your owns. When you create a New
image, you can access to the list of existing templates but you can’t
manage them. The “Templates”
dialog allows you to manage all these templates.
4.4.1.В Activating the dialog
The “Templates” dialog is a dockable dialog; see the
section Section 2.3, “Dialogs and Docking” for help on manipulating
it.
You can access it:
from the image menu:
Windows в†’ Dockable Dialogs в†’ Templates.
from the Tab menu in any dockable dialog by clicking on
and selecting
Add Tab в†’ Templates.
4.4.2.В Using the Templates dialog
You select a template by clicking on its icon. Right clicking reveals a
local menu that offers the same functions as buttons.
4.4.2.1.В Grid/List modes
In the Tab menu for the “Templates” dialog, you can
choose between
View as Grid and View as
List. In Grid mode, templates are laid out in a
rectangular array of identical icons (unless you gave them a
particular icon, as we will see later). Only the name of the
selected template is displayed. In List mode, they are lined up
vertically; icons are identical too; all names are displayed.
In this Tab menu, the Preview Size option allows
you to change the size of thumbnails.
Tip
Ctrl+F
in a list view opens a search field.
See View as List; View as Grid
4.4.2.2.В Buttons at the bottom
The buttons at the bottom of the dialog allow you to operate on
templates in several ways:
Create a new image from the selected template
Clicking on this button opens the
Create a new image
on the model of the selected template.
Create a new template
Clicking on this button opens the
New template
dialog, identical to the Edit Template dialog, that we will see
below.
Duplicate the selected template
Clicking on this button opens the Edit Template dialog that we
are going to study now.
Edit the selected template
Clicking on this button opens the
Edit Template
dialog.
Delete the selected template
Guess what?
4.4.3.В Edit Template
FigureВ 14.68.В The Edit Template dialog
The dialog allows you to set the specifications of the selected template.
You can access to this editor by clicking on the
Edit Template button at the bottom of the dialog.
Options
Name
In this text box, you can modify the displayed template name.
Icon
By clicking on this icon, you open a list of icons. You can choose
one of them to illustrate the selected template name.
Image size
Here you set the width and height of the new image. The
default units are pixels, but you can switch to some other
unit if you prefer, using the adjoining menu. If you do,
note that the resulting pixel size will be determined by
the X and Y resolution (which you can change in the
Advanced Options), and by the setting of
“Dot for Dot”, which you can change in the
View menu.
Note
Please keep in mind, that every Pixel of an image is stored
in the memory. If you’re creating large files with a high
density of pixels, GIMP will need some
time for every function you’re applying to the image.
Portrait/Landscape buttons
These buttons toggle between Portrait and Landscape mode.
Concretely, their effect is to exchange the values for
Width and Height. If the X and Y resolutions are
different (in Advanced Options), then these values are
exchanged also. On the right, image size, image resolution and
color space are displayed.
Advanced Options
Figure 14.69. The “Advanced Options” dialog
These are options that will mainly be of interest to more advanced
users.
X and Y resolution
These values come into play mainly in relation to
printing: they do not affect the size of the image in
pixels, but they determine its size on paper when
printed. They can also affect the way the image is
displayed on the monitor: if “Dot for Dot” is
switched off
in the View menu, then at 100% zoom,
GIMP attempts to display the image on the monitor at the
correct physical size, as calculated from the pixel
dimensions and the resolution. The display may not be
accurate, however, unless the monitor has been calibrated.
This can be done either when GIMP is installed, or from
the Display tab of
the Preferences dialog.
Colorspace
You can create the new image as either an RGB image or a grayscale
image. You cannot create an indexed image directly in this way, but
of course nothing prevents you from converting the image to indexed
mode after it has been created.
Fill
You have four choices for the solid color that will fill
the new image’s background layer:
Foreground color, as shown in the Main
Toolbox.
Background color, as shown in the Main
Toolbox.
White, the more often used.
Transparent. If this option is chosen,
then the Background layer in the new image will be created
with an alpha channel; otherwise not.
Comment
You can write a descriptive comment here. The text will
be attached to the image as a “parasite”, and will be
saved along with the image by some file formats (but not
all of them).
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4.3.В Document History DialogВ
В 5.В
Misc. Dialogs
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No sound after internet loss
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User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s) Pages (2): 12Next » Thread Rating: 0 Votes – 0 Average 1 2 3 4 5 Threaded Mode | Linear Mode No sound after internet loss Share| Translate bettergenius ViewProfile SendPM ViewThreads SendEmail ViewPosts 20+ Posts Points: 18,037.36 exp. Joined: Aug 2011Location: Chardstock Likes Given: 1Likes Received: 8 in 8 postsReputation: 0 – (Rate) ▲ Post: #1 ▼ No sound after internet loss Hello there againI lost my internet yesterday and i thought all was well but then i went to play a film on my pin guy os 11.04 and i had no sound so i thought thats strange and restart the pc and sure enough i still don’t have any sound.the only thing i have done is to plug my ipad in and thats it. I didn’t install any software or do any updates and the sound went.P.s. I am using the onboard sound for my shuttle if that helpsP.p.s. I have also lost my sound icon at the top right and also in the menus so i have no sound icons at all but i did have sound before.hope you can help me 12-10-2011 01:29 AM LinuxRocks ViewProfile SendPM ViewThreads SendEmail ViewPosts Moderator Points: 39,446.05 exp. Joined: Nov 2010Location: Likes Given: 160Likes Received: 309 in 308 postsReputation: 22 – (Rate) ▲ Post: #2 ▼ RE: No sound after internet loss Hi bettergenius,To get the icon back,How to add to panel:-forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Pinguy-…90#pid7990Then select Indicator Applet, and move it to where is was before.You may need to untick “Lock To Panel” and “Move” things around. Simply Put, Pinguy Rocks!! 12-10-2011 01:53 AM bettergenius ViewProfile SendPM ViewThreads SendEmail ViewPosts 20+ Posts Points: 18,037.36 exp. Joined: Aug 2011Location: Chardstock Likes Given: 1Likes Received: 8 in 8 postsReputation: 0 – (Rate) ▲ Post: #3 ▼ RE: No sound after internet loss (12-10-2011 01:53 AM)LinuxRocks Wrote: Hi bettergenius,To get the icon back,How to add to panel:-forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Pinguy-…90#pid7990Then select Indicator Applet, and move it to where is was before.You may need to untick “Lock To Panel” and “Move” things around.Thank you LinuxRocks Ive now got the indicator back but when i click on the speaker icon and click on sound preferences it takes me to control centre and thee is no sound in there and sadly I still don’t have any sound 12-10-2011 02:09 AM LinuxRocks ViewProfile SendPM ViewThreads SendEmail ViewPosts Moderator Points: 39,446.05 exp. Joined: Nov 2010Location: Likes Given: 160Likes Received: 309 in 308 postsReputation: 22 – (Rate) ▲ Post: #4 ▼ RE: No sound after internet loss Hi bettergenius,Please post the output of these commands:-Go to the terminal type these in, one at a time.aplay -lcat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codeclspci | grep Audio Simply Put, Pinguy Rocks!! 12-10-2011 02:48 AM bettergenius ViewProfile SendPM ViewThreads SendEmail ViewPosts 20+ Posts Points: 18,037.36 exp. Joined: Aug 2011Location: Chardstock Likes Given: 1Likes Received: 8 in 8 postsReputation: 0 – (Rate) ▲ Post: #5 ▼ RE: No sound after internet loss Here is the things you wanted me to post.aplay-1Code: [Select All]**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237] Subdevices: 4/4 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep CodecCode: [Select All]cat: /proc/asound/card0/codec#*: No such file or directorylspci | grep AudioCode: [Select All]00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) (This post was last modified: 12-10-2011 06:40 PM by yugnip.) 12-10-2011 04:06 PM bettergenius ViewProfile SendPM ViewThreads SendEmail ViewPosts 20+ Posts Points: 18,037.36 exp. Joined: Aug 2011Location: Chardstock Likes Given: 1Likes Received: 8 in 8 postsReputation: 0 – (Rate) ▲ Post: #6 ▼ RE: No sound after internet loss Also just thought you better know that I loaded Pinguy OS 11.04 through a live cd and after after unmuteing the sound, the sound works perfectly ok so there’s no issue with the sound card (which I thought there might be).Thought i better tell you this just in case 14-10-2011 01:07 PM bettergenius ViewProfile SendPM ViewThreads SendEmail ViewPosts 20+ Posts Points: 18,037.36 exp. Joined: Aug 2011Location: Chardstock Likes Given: 1Likes Received: 8 in 8 postsReputation: 0 – (Rate) ▲ Post: #7 ▼ RE: No sound after internet loss Should I just wipe the system and put Pinguy OS 11.04 which is what it has got already but start from scratch as it were?Also just so you know that i have put this up on the multimedia forum on here just thought you might like to know (This post was last modified: 20-10-2011 12:43 AM by bettergenius.) 20-10-2011 12:29 AM « Next Oldest | Next Newest » Pages (2): 12Next » View a Printable Version Send this Thread to a Friend Subscribe to this thread
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