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Submission + - Hacked DX10 for Windows appears

Submitted by Oddscurity on Monday April 23, 2007 @06:45AM

Oddscurity writes: According to The Inquirer someone managed to write a wrapper allowing DirectX 10 applications to run on platforms other than Vista. The Alky Project claims to have reverse-engineered Geometry Shader code, allowing Windows games to run on Windows XP, MacOSX and Linux. The Inquirer is understandably cautious about these claims, urging readers to investigate the releases themselves to assertain whether or not it's a hoax.

Submission + - Linux-Sponsored Indy 500 Car

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Jordon Kalilich

on Monday April 23, 2007 @06:20AM

Jordon Kalilich writes: "Remember Mozilla's successful community-driven campaign to place a Firefox ad in the New York Times? A new community-driven project takes open-source evangelism a step — or, rather, 500 miles — further. The Tux 500 project hopes to raise at least $25,000 (USD) to attain sponsorship of an Indianapolis 500 car. For primary sponsorship, with "Team Linux" in the racing team's name, they'll need at least $350,000. From the site: "If less than 1% of the Linux community donates $1, this will happen... will you do your part?""

Submission + - Geeks Make Better Lovers

Submitted by on Monday April 23, 2007 @02:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: Before going to bed, I decided to hit some more websites and then this Wired article hit me back. It seems I already have some more solutions from the infinite space of answers about why my partners start to undress when I start talking about technology. Quoting: "Geeks have seen all the porn you can imagine and then some, priming them to be open to your sexual peccadilloes. They are not only less likely to be shocked by your exotic requests — they might not even realize that other people think your turn-ons are exotic."

Submission + - Free Windows Vista upgrade to kill Open Source

Submitted by

on Sunday April 22, 2007 @09:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: Ruben Francia has an interesting story on Microsoft desperate move to kill open source. It says...Microsoft is so desperate to kill open source that its announcement of a US$3 software suite was immediately followed by another announcement that the company will offer surplus upgrade copies of its newest operating system, Windows Vista, "free to good homes".

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