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Last Chance to Sign Up for Lansomnia 3

By Elad Yarom on July 11, 2007

Just a reminder, today is the last day to pre-reg for Lansomnia 3, our 3rd Awesome lanparty thats happening this weekend in Saint John, NB.
After Midnight on Wednesday July 11th, everyone who has not pre-paid, either online or in person will be marked to Pay at the Door and Event Registration will be taken [...]

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2007 Game Developer Census – Canada is a hot-spot for game development

By Elad Yarom on June 30, 2007

Turns out that Canadians like to build computer games much more than their US neighbors, according to the 2007 Game Developer Census.
With more than double the ratio of game developers vs. the rest of the population (at 0.0001314 vs. 0.0002562), video game development is obviously very important to the Canadian economy. The Census was [...]

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Shotguns, Sushi, and Strippers – Duke Nukeum 3D High Resolution Pack

Shotguns, Sushi, and Strippers – Duke Nukeum 3D High Resolution Pack

By Elad Yarom on June 17, 2007

Seeing all the retro gaming and virtual console gaming going on lately made me nostalgic about my early PC gaming years. One of the games I remember as striking was Duke Nukem 3D.

I remember seeing the game for the first time at my cousin’s house; I was playing innocent childish games at the time [...]

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Dynamic desktop backround with Xplanet

Dynamic desktop backround with Xplanet

By Elad Yarom on June 3, 2007

Bored of your plain old windows desktop?

Here’s how to get a awesome dynamic background of the sun’s light over the earth. it can also be used to display other planets and moons.
 

You’ll need these two programs, both of which are free for non-commercial purposes: Xplanet for windows and Xplanet control.
Do not install [...]

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Is Linux finally ready for desktops?

By Elad Yarom on May 2, 2007

The question : “Is Linux Finally Ready For Desktops?” can be answered by two simpler questions:
1) Is Linux easy enough that my Grandmother use it?
2) Can I replace every single windows program with a Linux program or run it under wine or a similar, compatible program?
After many years of using multiple Linux distributions [...]

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