Despite the PC’s unassailable status as undying gaming platform with an uncountable number of titles in its history, the exciting/chilling march of operating system progress has seen successive versions of Windows cruelly dispense with support for the golden, vital past. Most recently, the otherwise fairly splendid Windows 7 threw out Direct Draw support, leaving a slew of Windows 95-era games left in the emulation cold. A man has fixed this, and thus you should worship him.
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It's autumn in Dublin (Ireland). It's wet and starting to get cold.

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It's autumn in Dublin (Ireland). It's wet and starting to get cold.

Eurogamer has found Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor in characteristically bullish mood arguing that thanks to the enormous explosion in Steam, he thinks the PC version of Dungeon Siege III will compete with the console ones, noting that “every major player in the world buying a PC gaming company” and leading to an exciting future. Example quote…

It’s a matter of time before you’re playing a game of the quality of a triple-A game that we know and love, like a Supreme Commander 2 or a StarCraft II, in a browser experience,” Taylor said. “There’s no reason that won’t happen within five to eight years. That’s one of the reasons PC gaming breaks out in that space. No installation. No grief. No reading the box and wondering if you have a 7000 or 8000 series video card and DirectX what? It just plays. It works. Wait till that happens full on.

Lots more excitement here. We’ve got our own Chris Taylor interview forthcoming soon. Soon-ish. Whenever Quinns transcribes it, anyway.

Changes: This release uses XML issue storage for cleaner diff/conflict management, and better search filtering.

Tags: Utilities, Issue Tracking, Console

Licenses: MPL1.1

Nothing escapes the omniscient eye of the internet, and so it wasn’t long before the hands-on Duke play at PAX was uploaded by winged technologists to our glowing rectangles. You can bear witness to some of the activities of the man in shades, below. It seems to be some kind of action game, focused on the use of firearms. The perspective, sensibly, is set from the view of the protagonist. There doesn’t seem to be any way to talk to the monsters, aside from perhaps making some caustic quips that are basically rhetorical.

So yes. Duke footage.
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Changes: This release adds TLSv1 support, new release checking, a --noreleasecheck option, and reconnect behavior. It removes the Date::Manip dependency. It is more efficient with large mailboxes. Duplicate messages on host2 are now deleted with --delete2. --skipsize is turned on by default. --debugimap1 and --debugimap2 have been added to permit IMAP output with only one host. Statistics have been added on average bandwidth rate and messages deleted. Flags are now exactly synced from host1 to host2 Filter flags sync with the list given by PERMANENTFLAGS on --host2.

Release Tags: Stable, Major feature enhancements

Tags: Communications, Email, Post-Office, IMAP, Archiving, Mirroring, Utilities

Licenses: WTFPL

This wedding cake is inspired by the webcomic xkcd. I had not heard of this comic before, but was able to find out more about it after talking to my husband. Apparently the comic mixes romance, sarcasm and some math all together in a single comic strip that appears every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on the website.

The top of the cake includes cutouts of the comic characters with a red heart on a wire between them. The entire cake is covered in white fondant with black thin bands at the base of each tier. Equations inspired by this comic decorate the remaining tiers. (You can buy the t-shirt of this comic here.)

We also included some unusual flavors including banana cake with coffee & chocolate mousse and vanilla with raspberry & strawberry mousse. The wedding cake was delivered to the Hyatt on the Hudson in Jersey City.

Changes: Using --shebang, GNU Parallel can be used as the parser for a script. Alt Linux package of GNU Parallel. Sunfreeware package of GNU Parallel. Untested CentOS, Fedora, Mandriva, RedHat, and SUSE packages available through the OpenSUSE build service. sql: a small script to access sql bases from the command line, which is a handy companion to parallel --colsep.

Tags: Text Processing, parallel, Parallel processing, Multicore, Clustering/Distributed Networks, Command Line Tools, Filters, System Administration

Licenses: GPLv3

Sugar heavy urine excreted by diabetic patients is now being utilized for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export. The Whisky market is growing faster then any other alcoholic beverage worldwide. With a prevalent genetic weakness being exposed in the northern hemisphere leading to a sharp rise in type two diabetes, economists have found a new exportable commodity to exploit and are keen to capitalize on this resource quickly.

Large amounts of sugar are excreted on a daily basis by type-two diabetic patients especially amongst the upper end of our aging population. As a result of this diabetic patients toilets often have unusual scale build up in the basin due and rapid mould growths as the sugar put into the system acts as nutrients for mould and bacteria growth. Is it plausible to suggest that we start utilizing our water purification systems in order to harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance?

"Whizky, world's first bio whisky aged with granny whiz" (The Independent, thanks Carlo Longino!)

Changes: The directory structure of the package was reorganized to a more sane hierarchy (with src and man as separate directories) for better future planning. Makefile.am and configure.in were updated to reflect this. Minor variable scope changes were made in sudoldap.c. authz_sasl_interact was renamed to uxds_sasl_interact, due to the need to have a uniform naming convention.

Tags: Networking, LDAP, kerberos

Licenses: GPLv2

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Shot with uniwb in a raw format of course, and I just let picasa auto tune the image, i can get a nice pop with this. I think I'm liking uniwb.

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cdef extern from "math.h":
    double sin(double)

cdef double f(double x):
    return sin(x)

print f(2.0)

demo: demo.pyx
        cython demo.pyx --embed
        gcc -g -pthread -m32 -march=i386 demo.c -L/usr/lib -lm -lpython2.6 -o ./demo -I/usr/include/python2.6