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Submission + - Qimo - Linux For Kids Needs Developers Help (opensourcereleasefeed.com)

Submitted by

volume4

on Thursday March 26, 2009 @12:18PM

volume4 writes: "Linux has surely grown immensely in popularity in last year or so but, this has mainly been in the realm of developers and in the server room. There however is a new Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that is going to introduce Linux to a whole new, and extremely important audience, kids. To learn more about this distribution, what their needs are and how developers and users can get involved I talked to Michelle Hall co-founder of Qimo."

Submission + - Unladen swallow to attempt to speedup python 5x (google.com)

Submitted by jnowlan on Thursday March 26, 2009 @11:55AM

jnowlan writes: African or European?

Submission + - Gone but not forgotten:10 OS the world left behind (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Ant

on Thursday March 26, 2009 @10:27AM

Ant writes: "Computerworld (one print page) that "honors a handful of the most memorable operating systems (OS') and interfaces that have graced our desktops over the years. Some of them lasted for years. Some of them had remarkably short lives but inspired trends that we are benefiting from to this day. And a few of them ... well, they were just cool for school. The world may have left these operating systems behind, but some of us didn't. A few die-hards are hanging onto ancient hardware just to keep those beloved operating systems running. Others have reverse-engineered the OS code in open-source projects. And some of us still have those old Install disks, waiting for the right computer to come along so we can relive those days of yore..." Seen on Blue's News"

Comment What about special editions? (Score 1) 478

by Jawdy on Thursday March 05, 2009 @06:38AM (#27075389) Attached to: How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive?

For normal releases, or episodes etc, I prefer digital distribution...
But when there's a "life-changing" title that's just come out, I want the special all-singing-all-dancing metal box, bobble head edition on my shelf!
Would we see the end of these versions too? :-(

Comment Re:Code-Signing (Score 1) 216

by Jawdy on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @09:34AM (#26527857) Attached to: Beginning iPhone Development

I used the keychain in Mac OS X to create a code-signing certificate. That lets me finish and compile to the ASM version (rather than the x86 version for the simulator).
From the instructions that I followed (can't find the link right now, sorry :( ) you can get the certificate authorised on the device and then get the apps on the iPhone through XCode.
All that said though, I don't have an iPhone and simply mail the .app builds to my tester who has a device - jailbroken, I think.

All this because I've not been contacted yet about my actual development program application!

Comment Re:Favourite ScummVM game (Score 1) 93

by Jawdy on Monday December 22, 2008 @09:59AM (#26199533) Attached to: The Return of (Old) PC Graphic Adventures

How had I missed Brutal Legend!? Awesome :)
and getting Psychonauts now - good find, thanks man!

Comment Re:Favourite ScummVM game (Score 1) 93

by Jawdy on Monday December 22, 2008 @06:21AM (#26198381) Attached to: The Return of (Old) PC Graphic Adventures

I guess I must be the only one who likes the more "mainstream" of these kinds of games in:
Sam and Max: Hit the Road
Full Throttle
Day of the Tentacle (Maniac Mansion 2)
and I only mean "mainstream" as TellTale games has done the latest Sam and Max's, and Lucas _were_ doing a Full Throttle sequel but canned it years ago :(

Comment Re:DimDim.com (Score 1) 125

by Jawdy on Monday September 29, 2008 @11:18AM (#25194093) Attached to: FOSS Multicast Document Sharing?

You're absolutely right, it does have (almost) all that we need! I've got so many apps to choose from - you'd think that I could find these things from the right sort of Google search and use of keywords...

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