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Skype installeren op OpenSuSE 11.2 64-bit

Posted in Linux, Web on December 17th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Wanneer je de installatie van Skype doet via het pakket dat op de Linux pagina van Skype wordt aangeboden, weigert Skype na installatie te starten. Als je kijkt naar de command line, krijg je volgende foutmelding:

Dat blijkt een probleem te zijn met een slecht pakket van Skype. Alberto Passalacqua heeft in zijn blog de correcte installatieprocedure van Skype 2.1 op OpenSuSE 11.2 64-bit geplaatst.

Ik heb het op onze oudere laptop geplaatst, en dat werkt wonderwel. Dank je, Alberto!

InstantAction Shutdown sparks the community

Posted in Torque Game Engine on November 24th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment
Torque 3D logo

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Some might call it ironic, but the recent announcement of the imminent closure of InstantAction (formerly GarageGames) has brought an incredible surge of activity to the community.

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Webdesign for ImpressCMS with Moodboards

Posted in impresscms, Web on November 13th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

During the preparation of the redesign of the ImpressCMS sites, we are trying to involve the community with the site design. In order to give those participating an idea of what feeling we are striving for, MrTheme pointed out that we might use Moodboards.

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TorquePowered and InstantAction are shutting down

Posted in Game Development, Torque Game Engine on November 12th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Shocking news this evening : TorquePowered just announced that its partner company will be shutting down, and that they are seeking for a buyer.

InterActive Corp has been creating some very big waves recently in the technology landscape as they are reviewing their business. After a period when the company was buying as much companies as it could in an effort to differentiate its portfolio, that strategy has changed. It seems IAC now wants to focus on a limited number of assets, and the ones that aren’t in the core portfolio have to go. And going in this case means being sold or closed down. read more »

Slow Firefox on Ubuntu?

Posted in Linux on November 9th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

I read this on the blog of marcan:

The workaround in firefox is to go to “about:config”, just type it into the address bar and hit enter. Then change the value network.dns.disableIPv6 to TRUE.

The issue was still there in Ubuntu 10.04 according to Steve. As I’m planning to install a test instance of Ubuntu 10.10 in the near future, I’ll keep this one in mind.

Blender Durian project Sintel movie hit on Youtube

Posted in Blender on October 8th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Het Blender Durian project kreeg zijn uiteindelijke naam als ‘Sintel’, en werd eind september voorgesteld aan het publiek. Direct na de première in Amsterdam heeft het project team de film op Youtube geplaatst, om de rest van de wereld te laten meegenieten van het verhaal en de schitterende beelden.

Ik ben er zeker van dat we tijdens de Blender Conference eind deze maand in Amsterdam nog veel zullen horen over hoeveel shortcuts het team heeft moeten nemen, en hoe slecht ze zelf denken dat dit of dat uiteindelijk in beeld is gekomen. Het zou geen echte Blender Conference zijn zonder dat soort bedenkingen van de projectleden zelf :-) We zullen dat maar toewijzen aan artisten die perfectionist zijn zeker?

De rest van de wereld is nogal extatisch over de finale kortfilm, wat het project team ook moge zeggen in Amsterdam. Het publiek vind het zo goed dat de video op Youtube al meer dan 1,3 milioen keer bekeken is geweest in een tweetal weken; Dat is een on-ge-lo-fe-lijke verwezenlijking. Proficiat aan zowel het Blender als het Durian Team!

Hieronder kan je toevoegen aan het aantal views van Sintel. Geniet ervan.

Blendernation: Sintel: Over 1 Million Views on YouTube

ebook promo ‘high performance websites’

Posted in Web on September 1st, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

O’Reilly is running an e-book promotion today, where you can get ‘High-performance websites’  for under $10.

Use code DDHPW at checkout to get the special price.

It might be interesting to look at the different techniques to improve responsiveness, even if the book dates from 2007.

O’reilly deal on Google Analytics ebook

Posted in Geen categorie on August 20th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Voor sporadische Google Analytics gebruikers heeft O’Reilly een interessant aanbod vandaag op hun “Deal of the Day” site : Google Analytics (1ste editie) . Voor €7,80 krijg je de eerste editie van dit book in eBook formaat, waar wordt uitgelegd hoe Google Analytics werkt. Voor de Deal of the Day prijs, gewoon code DDGAE invullen bij de checkout. read more »

ImpressCMS Vision Published in Compass

Posted in impresscms on July 13th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Every organisation should have a clear vision on what it wants to accomplish. Many organisations (companies, open source projects) make a written statement of that vision, to be used as the ultimate test when discussions arise.

The benefit of such a document is clear : every decision can be tested against it, to verify compliance with the end goal. After some internal discussion and fine-tuning, the ImpressCMS is proud to present its Compass to the world. This should give you an idea of what the project stands for, in case it wasn’t clear enough until now.

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Truebones Motions 300+ Pak discount

Posted in Blender, Game Development, promo on May 29th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Truebones is very proud to present the brand new ” Truebones Motions 300+ Pak”

This brand new discount upgrade offer consists of the very latest BVH motion paks created by Truebones Motions including:

  • “The Sexybones Womens Motions Pak” (over 130 BVHmotions ) and
  • “The BoogieBones Dance Motions Xpansion Pak” (over 170 BVH motions)

Now you can own over 300+ brand new high quality Truebones BVH motion captures for the ultra low price of only $29.00!

Sexybones on YouTube

Also included is a FREE BVH file previewer and a .vns profile for converting BVH to Iclone format.

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This special discount offer expires tonight, so be sure to take advantage of this spectacular savings today!