Long time no blog, so here it goes. This has nothing to do with games.

I was installing Open Suse 11.2 and as expected I needed to enter a password. So I enter a simple to remind password as it’s just a virtual machine image that I’m not planning to use for a long period of time. So the password is “1234″. Now the trouble starts. The first question:
- Your password is to short, really use this password? – YES
Second question:
- your password contains only didigts, this is not safe. you really want to use this password. – YES
Third question:
- Your password is shorter that 5 characters, you really want to use this shorter password- YES (GOD DAMNED)!

3 question if I’m really really really sure that I have entered a password that fits my needs. And I entered it twice! One question should be enough I would think.

I was trying to create a nice looking image with alpha and stuff. When I tried to save it as TGA Photoshop says it has no alpha channel. Well, I used Photoshop 7 before and that one simply saves the alpha channel the way it should be saved and doesn’t need any stupid operation to correct this issue. Why is it so hard to just save the alpha channel directly to an alpha channel? It could be done before, so why not now?

Anyway, saving an alpha channel in a Targa goes as follows:

Right click your layer thumb, click “select pixels”. Now with all pixels selected click in the “Select” menu on “Save Selection” and save it as alpha channel.  Then make sure “Alpha channels” is checked when saving your Targa. All done…