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PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Free Platformers, Open Source Gamers Guide 3 (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
MrCopilot
MrCopilot writes: "A Roundup of the best Platformers Open Source has to offer the latest in the Open Source Gamers Guide to Free Games (OSGGFG) series.

Part 3: Run and Jump For Joy.

Mario is well represented, plus Tux, a Ninja, a Blob or 2, and a couple cute widdle fuzzy bunnies ..... that explode, and more! As usual with the games in the OSGGFG, all Games are Free with a capital F, no cost and Open Source. All games have builds or installers for Windows, and Linux, sometimes theres even a Mac in there, once in a while.

Did I miss your favorite?"
Announcements

Submission + - Edge 2008: What did you change your mind about? (edge.org)

Submitted by
chrisd
chrisd writes: "The Edge 2008 question (with answers) is in, and it is "What did you change your mind about and why?". This year features answers from scientists as diverse as Richard Dawkins, Simon Baron-Cohen, George Church, David Brin, J. Craig Venter and the Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees, among others. Very interesting to read. For instance, Stewart Brand writes that he now realizes that "Good old stuff sucks" and Sam Harris has decided that "Mother Nature is Not Our Friend". I hate to pander, but what did /. readers change their minds about in '07?"
Space

Cassini's Best Images 28

Posted by timothy from the ready-for-their-close-ups dept.
CheshireCatCO writes "The winners of the best images from the Cassini spacecraft (taken since Cassini images of Saturn were first acquired in February 2004) have been announced. The winner of best color image is In Saturn's Shadow, the stunning, high-phase portrait of Saturn from opposite the Sun. Winners of best black-and-white and best movie (both categories resulted in ties) are also available."
Education

Submission + - OLPC CTO Quits to Commercialize OLPC Technology

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow Monday, with CTO Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC (the first of Jepsen's pending OLPC patents was published by the USPTO on Dec. 13). The OLPC project halted consumer sales of the cheap laptop at the end of November."
Google

Submission + - 1.7 Million Public Domain Books in Print

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Free service that can take any public domain book from Internet Archive or Google Book Search, and make it available in print via Lulu. Over 1.7 million books available. Take a look at PublicDomainReprints.org.
United States

Submission + - 57 mpg? That's so 20 years ago 6

Submitted by
maclizard
maclizard writes: "I wish my car got 57 miles to the gallon.

From the article:
'The CRX HF got an Environmental Protection Agency-estimated 57 mpg gallon in highway driving. Today, the most fuel-efficient non-hybrid Civic you can buy gets an EPA-estimated 34 mpg on the highway. Even today's Honda Civic Hybrid can't match it, achieving EPA-estimated highway mileage of just 45 mpg. The Toyota Prius, today's fuel mileage champ, gets 46 mpg on the highway.'"
Star Wars Prequels

Submission + - Make your own Star Wars mashup

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Time has a listing of top websites, one of interest is a Star Wars mashup page where you can make your own Star Wars movie. The site provides more than 300 video clips, audio tracks and photos from George Lucas' originals for you to recut, rearrange and remix as you wish. You can even throw in your own video footage or stills, then post the results for others to watch or even to incorporate in their own mashup. Registered viewers can leave comments and give ratings. The site aims to be suitable for children, so any offensive material will be taken down. There are clips featuring all your favorite characters (Luke, Han, Chewy) and there's Leia, the armed princess in white choir robe and ear buns, and Leia as Jabba The Hut's prisoner, sporting that golden two-piece. Billie Dee Williams (a.k.a. Lando) plays host and tour guide. The easy, drag-and-drop editing tools are provided by Eyespot, which runs its own video-mixing site.
Red Hat Software

CEO of Red Hat Steps Down 153

Posted by Soulskill from the big-hat-to-fill dept.
bearer_of_bad_news points us to a C|net article which states that Matthew Szulik is stepping down as the president and chief executive of Red Hat. Szulik is citing family health reasons, and he plans to remain chairman of the board. Red Hat has indicated that his replacement will be former Delta Airlines COO James Whitehurst. Quoting the article: "On a conference call, Szulik said Whitehurst stood 'head and shoulders' above other candidates interviewed in a recruiting process. He was a programmer earlier in his career and runs four versions of Linux at home." We discussed Szulik's ascension to CEO back in 1999.
Businesses

Submission + - Internet visitors to your website. (squidoo.com)

Submitted by mannypaul8
mannypaul8 writes: Internet visitors to your website.free course how to increase targeted traffic. Secrets That Drove Millions Of Visitors To A Single Website.The Best And Cheapest Places To Buy Quality Targeted Traffic.
Privacy

Submission + - NSA buys out secure mail services, anti-virus (cryptome.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A source to Cryptome alleges that, "Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities." Hushmail, Safe-mail, Guardster are each named.

With regard to anti-virus software it is alleged that, "Zone Alarm, Symantec, MacAfee: All facilitate Microsoft's NSA-controlled remote admin access via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030; ie will allow access without security flag. Unknown whether or not software port forward routing by these same programs will defeat NSA access."
Mars

Submission + - Asteroid to hit Mars ?

Submitted by
mbone
mbone writes: "Apparently the Near Earth Object (NEO) program has found an asteroid that may impact Mars on January 30th. The current probability is one in 75, which is pretty high a month out. Estimated energy release if it does impact Mars is in the multiple megaton range.

If it does hit Mars, then we should have quite a show, with all of the spacecraft orbiting and landed on the planet. Of course, it is possible that this is an old, failed, spacecraft from decades ago, which would also be interesting, if not as spectacular."
PC Games (Games)

Journal Journal: Open Source Gamer Guide to Free Games

Journal by MrCopilot
In writing a series of Open Source Gaming articles, it's easy to leave out a lot of peoples favorites. In order to combat this, I am taking all suggestions for the Next four installments. I play each game and give a short overview.

Upcoming articles up are:
Part 5. FPS (Preferably not already covered in Part 1)
Part 6. Turn Based Strategy, I especially need help here, as it is my least favorite genre.
Part 7. RPG including MMO types

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