Strike that: now I’m a PC-BSD! – Nothing but blue skies from now on…

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A fortnight ago I wrote in I’m a BSD about my initial adventures installing FreeBSD and trying to get it configured as a desktop system. After a few days, I had come to a halt. As one reader put it:…

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A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations – Tom Cook at Velocity 2010

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A Super Simple Sample App for Supersampling on iOS – New in O’Reilly Answers, plus posts about iOS 4, Objective-C, MobileMe email on Android, and much more.

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Looking for a shortcut to get full-screen anti-aliasing for your iPhone game? It might not be the optimal solution for your needs, but if you’re rushing to get something out and need to cut some corners, then this excerpt on supersampling from Philip Rideout’s iPhone 3D Programming is for you. Read more.
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Objective-C: FIXME, TODO and ?
A Gentle Introduction to Processing
How to Render Anti-Aliased Lines with Textures in iOS 4
How to get push MobileMe email on an Android phone
Free Alternative to Apple TV, for your Mac Mini
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Gov 2.0 Down Under: Australia and open government – Federal Senator Kate Lundy and Nicholas Gruen on Australia’s open government plans.

June 26, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Australia is lapping much of the world with its rapid moves toward open government. Interviews with Federal Senator Kate Lundy and Australia Gov 2.0 task force head Nicholas Gruen reveal the country’s current progress and its future plans. By O”Reilly news

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Four short links: 25 June 2010 – More NoSQL, Data Medicine, Startups to Government, and Cake-and-eat-it Open Source

June 26, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Membase — an open-source (Apache 2.0 license) distributed, key-value database management system optimized for storing data behind interactive web applications. These applications must service many concurrent users; creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipulating and presenting data in real-time. Supporting these requirements, membase processes data operations with quasi-deterministic low [...]

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WoW – Buying & Selling Off The Grid at Ten Ton Hammer

June 24, 2010

Another recommended post on World of Warcraft A big part of WoW is knowing the best venue to hawk your wares It’s important to know how to hawk your wares without the assistance of the Auction House.By Cyrak

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@RIARadio: Flashbelt Day 2 Interviews

June 24, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.On the second day of Flashbelt we were able to snag a few terrifically talented people including: Seb Lee-Delisle, Jesse Freeman, Dave Schroeder, Bruno Fonzi, Stephen Braitsch, Mark Anders, Branden Hall, Wade Arnold, and John Lindquist. Seb Lee-Delisle and Jesse… By O”Reilly news

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Writing Apps as Enriched Documents

June 24, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.I’ve been surprising people more people than I expected lately with the revelation that it’s possible to write iPhone and Android applications as a pile of HTML and CSS documents with some accompanying JavaScript. I’m far from the first to… By O”Reilly news

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Urs Hlzle of Google interviewed at Velocity 2010

June 24, 2010

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Open source and health care already have a history – Fred Trotter on how open source and health IT are working together.

June 24, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Fred Trotter, a longtime developer in the open source healthcare world and a speaker at next month’s OSCON conference, discusses the history of open source and health IT in this podcast interview. By O”Reilly news

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iPhone economics and lower barriers to entry – The power of the App Store is defined by more than direct revenue.

June 24, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the economic incentives that lower barriers to entry create, as well as the fact [...]

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New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power, Makes Less Noise

June 24, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.Vigile writes “Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox 360 S console at E3 this month, and without delay the new machine has been dissected and tested. The most dramatic change is the move to a single-chip CPU/GPU hybrid processor that is apparently being built on the 45nm process [...]

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Nintendo 3DS GPU Revealed

June 24, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.An anonymous reader writes “The GPU for the Nintendo 3DS has just been revealed, and it’s not made by Nvidia, ATI, or even Imagination Technologies. Instead, Nintendo has signed up Japanese startup Digital Media Professionals (DMP) in a deal that sees the company’s PICA200 chip churning out [...]

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New Wii Menu Update Targets Homebrew Again

June 23, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.Nintendo has tried to block homebrew during firmware updates in the past, often unsuccessfully. Now, as it rolls out version 4.3 of the Wii System Menu, stopping homebrew modifications once again seems to be its primary goal. From Nintendo’s support site: “Because unauthorized channels or firmware may [...]

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UK Video Game Tax Relief Cancelled

June 23, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.Stoobalou writes “UK game developers have just been dealt a financial blow by Chancellor George Osborne in his first budget, which sees the coalition government scrapping the video game tax relief plans promised by Labour. In his speech today, Osborne simply said the ‘planned tax relief for [...]

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Is LGP Going the Way of Loki Software?

June 23, 2010

News about video games you can leave a comment.An anonymous reader writes “After the demise of Loki Software, Linux Game Publishing sprouted up in its place, and for the past nine years has ported a number of games to Linux. But LGP may now be sharing the same fate as Loki. Linux Game Publishing hasn’t [...]

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WoW Patch 3.3.5 – Patch Overview at Ten Ton Hammer

June 22, 2010

Another recommended post on World of Warcraft This little patch packs a big punch The Ruby Sanctum has been breached, a new way to chat has been introduced, and players may find they are able to uninstall at least one mod from their overstuffed addon folder.By Mem

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WoW – Recruit-a-Friend or Paid Alt Speed Leveling: Examining the Recruit-a-Friend System at Ten Ton Hammer

June 22, 2010

Another recommended post on World of Warcraft A look at the effect RAF has on WoW It seems like just the other day that the Recruit-a-Friend system launched, but in fact it has been almost two full years since it went live way back in August of 2008. By Messiah

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Does the world need another programming language? – Rob Pike on how and why Google’s new Go language was developed.

June 22, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.In this Q&A, Google principal engineer Rob Pike discusses development of Go, a new programming language. He also looks at the current state of programming languages and explains why we’re in the midst of a language “renaissance.” By O”Reilly news

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Flash Player 10.1 Mobile Announced

June 22, 2010

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Adobe has officially announced the production build of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for mobile. “Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and… By O”Reilly news

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