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Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup 44

Posted by Soulskill from the always-best-to-face-zombies-on-familiar-turf dept.
notthatwillsmith writes "If you're a fan of Left 4 Dead and you've ever wanted to build a zombie-filled map of your hometown, office or grocery store, Maximum PC just posted a how-to that shows you how to convert photos of real-world locations into ready-to-play L4D 1 or 2 maps. It's everything you need to know in order to kill zombies with your friends — in the comfort of your own backyard."

Comment wlan stopped working (Score 0) 1231

by paai (#29975018) Attached to: Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 on two desktop machines, a laptop and a netbook.

* On the laptop, the wlan (rt61-based) stopped working. After searching the bug database and Google, this appeared a known issue, but the laptop is unuseable for work untill I buy myself an USB dongle. I really was upset about this.

* On one dektop several graphic features of the KDE destop stopped working, such as the revolving cube.

* There are unresolved issues with the fonts of thunderbird. This seems to be related to the use of KDE over an NX connection.

There are some bugs that I hoped/expected to be solved after the upgrade, but still are not working satisfactorily:

* syncing Evolution with a Palm Treo is not yet without problems, like the duplication of entries and having to reconfigure bluetooth after every sync.

* kpilot still a mess, Actually I consider it a total loss that cannot be salvaged any more.

* scrolling of firefox still too slow. This is a problem over a NX connection.

Comment priority number one: pda support (Score 0) 757

by paai (#29537445) Attached to: Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing

I would expect one of the most important features for a good desktop, the ability to use all functions of the PDA from the desktop, before all, effortless syncing of calendar, contacts and memos.

As far as I know, there is only a single line of PDAs that more or less can sync with Linux: the PALM based ones. Even then, there are all kinds of problems. Kpilot did work after a fashion with KDE3, but it is hopelessly broken with KDE4 because of the Akonadi disaster. Evolution does sync, even with bluetooth, but there still are some bugs. Jpilot works fine, but only over a serial link, and it is a stand-alone application.

If you don't have a Palm (and they are really old fashioned nowadays), the situation is worse. I know of no modern PDA, that is guaranteed to sync with the Linux desktop. Sometimes, partial succes is reported, but even then we are not talking out-of-the-box solutions. There is always a fair amount fiddling with libraries, (re)compiling, much burning of incense and never 100% functionality.

Somebody tell that to marc shuttleworth...

Hans Paijmans
 

Comment Deutsches Museum at Munich (Score 0) 435

by paai (#29044831) Attached to: Science, Technology, Natural History Museums?

I don't know if your trip extends to Europe, but if it does, the Deutches Museum at Munich is probably the best museum in its kind that I have seen (and yes, I have seen the Smithsonian too).

Imagine a leading industrial nation that lost two wars, but still is one of the richest countries of the world. Imagine the urge that possesses such a nation to show the world that it still counts as a leading nation in this and other fields. Imagine (almost) unlimited funds. Now you have the Deutsches Museum.
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Submission + - Microsoft-only submissions to conferences.

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paai writes: "A few years ago, I had the opportunity to work with the scholarly community of Cultural Heritage, as opposed to the Artificial Intelligence crowd that I normally associate with. But whereas conferences on AI as a matter of fact accept papers in LaTeX or PDF, the conferences on cultural heritage seem to be Microsoft only, and I really get problems when I submit my papers in PDF, ODT or even in the DOC format that is generated by Openoffice.

As a matter of fact it seems that if I do not use Word, I often cannot publish my papers. I cannot even blame the organizers of the conferences, because they have to comply with the guidelines of the publishers, and they just do not accept papers that are not written in Word.
Walk away from such conferences really is no option, because in academia you live or die with the number of publications and I just cannot afford to ignore Microsoft-only conferences.
My question to the slashdot community is NOT whether I should publish or perish. What I should like to know is if there is a central forum or organization that is attended by the organizers of conferences in general and where I can draw attention to this problem.

Paai"

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