Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITcrush writes “The Linux Game Tome notes that the final team to produce a fully Open Source 3D game using the CrystalSpace engine and Blender has been chosen. The project (known as Apricot) aims to produce a cross-platform, 3D game with completely Free (CCA) graphics, music and code. An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source tools for the professional game development industry.” I look forward to more 3D games on my desktop, even if this one won’t be the first. (And where is the open-source bus-driving counterpart to the under-rated FlightGear?)
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Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks
The source of the problem is reported to be a corrupted file that wasn't checked until the last minute. After two reboots, the fireworks had to be detonated manually. And yes ... one blog commenter, claiming to have worked on prior shows, said that the shows run on Windows."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Why Should PHP Ever Be Taught In School?
If something is popular but hard to understand then we need an education process. To just shake our heads and give up is simply immature (or trolling). Otherwise we might as well say that English (or any other spoken language for that matter) should not be taught, because spoken languages are illogical, imprecise and therefore ...
Best Motherboards With Large RAM Capacity?
Can anyone relate their experiences with working with Vista or Linux machines running with large RAM (>8GB)? What is the best motherboard (Intel or AMD) and OS combination for workstation applications in terms of cost and reliability?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Gen Y Hits The Library The Most -- But Not For Books
Lucas123 writes "More than half of all Americans visited a library this past year and, of those, most were from Generation Y, the tech-loving young adults aged 18-30 years, according to a recent survey. The reason most cited for visiting their local public archive?
IPhone Wants To Hang On To The Old Year
pdclarry writes "Users of the iPhone have noticed that it is showing December 31, 2007, even where it is already the new year. There have been a number of reports confirming the problem: Bug in Clock, Problem with New Year: My Clock — shows wrong year, Worldclock went wrong for "tomorrow" items."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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27 Billion Gigabytes To Be Archived By 2010
Lucas123 writes "According to a Computerworld survey of IT managers, data storage projects are the No. 2 project priority for corporations in 2008, up from No. 4 in 2007. IT teams are looking into clustered architectures and centralized storage-area networks as one way to control capacity growth, shifting away from big-iron storage and custom applications.
Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats
And of course because these are, after all, old file formats ... many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible archives."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Pop3-stream
It can also list all the messages in the mailbox when the PHP readdir function is called. The class can retrieve details of a message using the PHP function stat or delete a message with the PHP unlink function.
UserAction
Package: UserAction Summary: Authenticate users with MySQL database records Groups: Databases, PHP 5, User Management Author: Gurdeep Singh Description: This class can be used to authenticate users with records stored in a MySQL database. It takes an user name and password and executes a MySQL database query to verify whether the specified password matches the user password.
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