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Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials? 117

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @08:31AM from the no-you-guide-me dept.

QuaveringGrape writes "After a few years of Python I've recently been trying to expand my programming knowledge into the realm of compiled languages. I started with C, then switched over to C++. A friend and longtime OpenGL programmer told me about NeHe's tutorials as a good step after the command-line programs started to get old, but there's a problem: all the tutorials are very Windows-based, and I've been using Linux as my single platform for a while now. I'm looking for suggestions for tutorials that are easy to learn, without being dumbed down or geared towards non-programmers."

Comment Re:A Christian's take (Score 1) 1252

by uchris on Friday February 12, 2010 @05:29PM (#31119582) Attached to: Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War

There are no competing (Scientific) theories to evolution.

Comment Re:Broken links in the summary (Score 1) 281

by uchris on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @04:46PM (#22654842) Attached to: Internet Explorer 8 Beta Features Revealed

Why not? I have been beta testing MS products for years...Let's see DOS, Windows 3.0, Windows 95, etc, etc. And, I have paid for the privledge!

Submission + - Print is dead, so which eBook reader is the best? (amazon.com)

Submitted by

Mistress.Erin

on Thursday December 20, 2007 @02:58PM

Mistress.Erin writes: "The wonderful, hectic gift-giving season is upon us and, though I told my husband that I'd like an eBook reader, I cannot decide between Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader. I've read some reviews, but their motives can be somewhat suspect . So, I come to the most tech savvy group around to ask: which eBook reader is the best? If not Kindle or Reader, then what?"

Submission + - Fedora 8 officially released (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Cat in the Hat on Thursday November 08, 2007 @11:44AM

Cat in the Hat writes: Fedora 8 has been officially released. Ars Technica has a run-down of what's new in Fedora 8, including the PulseAudio sound daemon, Nodoka visual style, and a new authentication system. 'Another major change in Fedora 8 is the new PolicyKit authentication system that makes authority escalation more secure. Instead of providing root access to an entire program when it needs higher privileges, PolicyKit makes it possible to isolate individual operations that require higher privileges and put them into system services that can be accessed through D-Bus. Another advantage of PolicyKit is that it will give administrators more control over which users and programs have access to individual operations that use escalated privileges.'

Submission + - The real Mother Of All Bombs - 46 years ago today (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by

vaporland

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @01:58PM

vaporland writes: "Tsar Bomba is the Western name for the RDS-220, the largest, most powerful weapon ever detonated.

The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout.

The detonation of Tsar Bomba qualifies as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."

Submission + - Investment firm bids to buy SCOs UNIX operations

Submitted by

WebCowboy

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @07:55PM

WebCowboy writes: "It appears that there are still enough people out there deluded enough to see value in SCOs UNIX operations. York Capital Management has put in a $36 million bid for SCOs UNIX operations. The offer includes coverage of up to $10 million for payment of legal fees and York Capital would assume ownership of the disputed UNIX IP as well as what is left of the lawsuits. Interestingly, SCO has offered this up for competitive bid (who would want to though?). Upon completion of the transaction, should bankruptcy court approve, SCOX would become solely a mobile applications provider (which is the only part of SCOs offerings that have undergone any meaningful development for quite some time)."

Submission + - Microsoft and Bust Buy are racketeers

Submitted by

mcgrew (sm62704)

on Monday October 15, 2007 @02:38PM

mcgrew (sm62704) writes: "The AP (via Yahoo! news) is reporting that "The Supreme Court Monday rejected an appeal by Microsoft Corp. and a unit of Best Buy Co. Inc. to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violation of racketeering laws through fraudulently signing up customers for Microsoft's online service."

They had asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that argued that RICO didn't apply to them. The article says "The lawsuit alleges the companies violated RICO by engaging in wire fraud when they electronically transmitted the plaintiffs' financial information".

Is the RIAA next?"

Submission + - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat (tgdaily.com)

Submitted by

not5150

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:51PM

not5150 writes: "Using Gmail or most other webmail programs over an unsecured access points just got a bit more dangerous. At Black Hat, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, showed how to capture and clone session cookies. He even hijacked a shocked attendee's Gmail account in the middle of his Black Hat speech."

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