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A new major release of WordPress, now at version 2.7, has been released. The visitors of your site won’t see much difference (maybe the slight speed improvement while building the pages), but the people using the administrator interface will certainly notice that nothing has remained the same.
Not only has the admin interface changed from a horizontal list of links under the header to some sort of menu on the left-hand of the interface, you also have a better overview of what is going on. The developers (and especially the theme developers) really outdid themselves here in putting as much on the screen while still keeping it readable and reasonably clean.

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The temporary difdts.nebulagame.com file contains a new model file by Infinitum3d that we’re proud to host. This time, it’s Ambient.

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I’ve been trying for several days on and off now, to get the previously working Wifi under OpenSuSE to work, now that I installed the new-and-shiny 11.0. I’ve had some success in the past days, but none of those efforts were reproducable i.e. I couldn’t repeat the actions it seems were needed to get a connection.

On the OpenSuSE forums, it seems there is a bug in the firmware of the Broadcom Wifi Chipset 4306, which fortunately can be fixed. I’ll keep you updated on that. If this should work, that means one of the most difficult things remaining during an installation of a new linux finally will be fixed with native software (bc43 driver instead of a hand-configured ndiswrapper). I’m looking forward to the next installation

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It seems there is an exploit in the XML-RPC functionality of the WordPress we’re using at the moment. It has been patched. More information can be found at the WordPress site.

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Garagegames seems to be very active at the moment, as only a few months after the 1.6 release, we are spoiled with the 1.7 release.
Looking at the changelog below, I notice the Collision Polygon and the Linkpoint editors, which are the only reasons this is a new release. If it had been only bugfixes, I would have expected a 1.6.1 version.
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This makes it the fifth time in a row that we’ve attended the Blender conference. Due to the masive attendance last year, the choice had been made to change the location from De Waag towards another nice venue, although not in the centre, Pakhuis De Zwijger (this can be translated as “storehouse the Silent One”).

Even though I’m not one of the top Blender users, I’ve been going to the Blender conference every year, to catch up with what this marvellous piece of software is capable of. I’m constantly in the process of juggling with different ideas and projects, and one of those is art creation in Blender.

I attended the last two days of the conference, as I wanted to make the most of my stay, and get around in Amsterdam a bit on friday. Every year we’ve enjoyed coming back to Amsterdam at the beginning of the autumn. Against the odds, we had really fine weather every time (well, no rain at least which is a small miracle).

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Since just over 2 weeks, I’ve installed the Analytics plugin for WordPress, and am looking at the number of people coming to my pages, and how they end up here. It’s quite interesting to see using which search terms people land on your sites. Posts from quite some time ago still attract visitors, which also helps with the click-rate on the Google Ads on the pages.

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SIGGRAPH, the worldwide reference for graphics-related topics, proposes videos from most or even all of the topics on the conference on their website, in a section called SIGGRAPH Encore. Encore features videos with topics ranging from bare-metal programming courses like the Basics of DirectX 10 programming (6 hours non-stop straight, ouch!) to others that explain more artistic techniques like “From DNA to 3D Organic Art Forms”.
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I’m sure most people are aware of the existance of WebEx, one of the first web-based solutions for large-scale virtual meetings. As business is becoming more and more global, travel is risking to become a large cost and time waster. I’ve worked in a company that was present in 6 countries over 2 continents, and meetings with representatives from the different countries were very expensive.
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In questo momento, sto lavorando sul sito. A causa della migrazione verso la versione 2 di WordPress, il sito non funzionava più come volevo. C’era qualche problema con degli plugin, e non ero contento dell’aspetto. Spero poter finalizzare gli cambiamenti al più presto.

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