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Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked 341

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 17, 2009 @12:13PM from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft was planning on giving out the Office 2010 Technical Preview to select testers in July on an invite-only basis. Office 2010 will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and both flavors have been leaked to torrent sites and the like. Multiple screenshots of each application are available. '... some applications have changed a lot more than others. The ribbon seems to be on every application now, which is great for consistency's sake. ... The biggest change, in my opinion, is that the no file/orb menu is no longer a menu. When you click the colored office button, you get a screen that is shown in the second screenshot for each application.'"

Comment Re:10 millions downloads? (Score 1) 271

by khold on Monday May 11, 2009 @02:38AM (#27903085) Attached to: DOSBox Sees Continued Success

Doesn't he mean, "What's millions download, precious?"

Comment april? (Score 1) 224

by khold on Thursday February 26, 2009 @03:02PM (#27001769) Attached to: New Medical Disorder Linked To Gaming

When I saw this article I had to check to see what day it was. I thought it somehow was April 1st already.

Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router 182

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 28, 2008 @08:10PM from the market-linksys-chose-to-mostly-ignore dept.

An anonymous reader submits news of Netgear's release of the "open source Wireless-G Router (model WGR614L), enabling Linux developers and enthusiasts to create firmware for specialized applications, and supported by a dedicated open source community. The router supports the most popular open source firmware; Tomato and DD-WRT are available on WGR614L, making it easier for users to develop a wide variety of applications. The router is targeted at people who want custom firmware on their router without worrying about issues, and enjoy the benefits of having an open source wireless router."

Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? 608

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @07:09PM from the whose-merest-operational-parameters-i-am-not-worthy-to-calculate dept.

Gori writes "I'm a researcher at a university. Our group mainly does Agent Based Modeling of interdisciplinary problems (think massive simulations where technology, policy, and economics meet). Recently, we managed to get a bunch of money for a High Performance Cluster to run our stuff on. The code is mostly written in Java. Our IT support people are very capable of setting up a stable cluster that will run Java perfectly. But where's the fun in that? What I'm trying to figure out are other, more far-out and interesting things to do with this machine — think 500+ Opteron cores, 2 GB RAM per core, a gigabit interconnect with some badass switches, a massive storage array, plus a bunch of UltraSPARC boxes. So at times when there's no stuff to crunch, I'd like to boot the thing up with a 'weird' system image and geek around in the name of science. Try fancy ways of building models, dynamically adding all sorts of hardware to it, etc. Have different schedulers compete for resources. Imagine a Matlab vs. Boinc vs. ProActive shootout. Maybe run plan9 on it? Most of us are not CE/CS people, but we are geeky enough. So, what would be the coolest and most far out thing you would do with this kind of hardware ?"

POV-Ray Short Code Animation Winners 80

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday February 16, 2008 @12:28PM from the 512-bytes-is-plenty dept.

Paul Bourke writes "Every year the POVRay rendering community run a short code competition. The challenge is create an image using a limited number of bytes, normally just 256. This year the competition required the artist to create an animation rather than just an image. The winning entries are now online where you can see what can be created for a meager 512 bytes."

3D Modelling Apps for a Former Modeller? 40

Posted by Cliff on Saturday May 28, 2005 @05:35PM from the back-into-the-saddle dept.

capsteve asks: "I've gotten back into 3D modelling after YEARS of absence in the 3D scene, and I'm having some difficulty sorting out the chaff from the wheat. I cut my teeth on 3D back in college, learning a dead end system called Z-Grass then moving into Super3D and StrataVision, shortly thereafter. Recently, I've gotten back into doing 3D modelling using Blender, Wings, and a tiny bit of POVray and YAFray for rendering. I'm looking for an all around 3D modeller that has the ability to perform subdivision modelling, particle effects, and HDRI rendering (to name a few options), yet still have an intuitive interface. Also, my platform of choice is a Mac. I'm pretty happy working between Blender and Wings, but I wonder if there are others out there who've had experience with some commercial apps that would be comparable with the ones already mentioned?"

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