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Eric Preisz had some positive news (although he wasn’t really giving away much) in his latest comment on the InstantAction Shutdown thread on the TorquePowered forums:
I’ve had dozens upon dozens of leads, phone calls, several on site visits, a drive to L.A., and a lot of coffee. Don’t give up hope, things are going well!
When you install Skype on a 64-bit OpenSuSE 11.2 system using the installation package on the Skype Linux page, Skype refuses to start after install. When looking at the command line,you get the following error message:
That seems to be an issue with a bad installation package from Skype.
Luckily, Alberto Passalacqua describes on his blog the correct installation procedure to get Skype 2.1 on OpenSuSE 11.2 64-bit. I did this on our older laptop which is still running OpenSuSE 11.2, and it works great.
Thanks, Alberto!
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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.
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.
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 »
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.
The Blender Durian project got its final name as ‘Sintel’, and was released at the end of September. After the screening, the project team uploaded their movie to Youtube, for the rest of the world to be amazed by the story and the image quality.
I’m sure we’ll be hearing how many shortcuts the team has made and how bad they think this and that turned out int he final movie during the Blender Conference in Amsterdam at the end of this month. It wouldn’t be a true Blender Conference without it 
Let’s put that down to artists being too hard on their own work, and being perfectionists.
The rest of the world is quite extatic about the final short movie, whatever the project team may say in Amsterdam. The audience likes it so much that the Youtube video has been viewed more than 1.3 milion times in 2 weeks. That’s an a-ma-zing feat. Congratulations to the entire Blender and Project Durian Teams!
Blendernation: Sintel: Over 1 Million Views on YouTube
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.
If you’re a casual Google Analytics user, O’Reilly has an interesting offer today on their Deal of the Day site : Google Analytics’ (1st edition). For $9.99, you get the first edition of this book, which describes working with Google Analytics.
In order to obtain the Deal of the Day price, just enter code DDGAE at the checkout page.
Today the OpenSuSE project unleashes its latest offspring to the world. OpenSuSE 11.3 is finally officially available.
During my last installation, 11.2 at the time, more than a month after the release, I bumped into some serious errors (older AMD graphics cards had issues in a vanilla 11.2 install, the so-called black screen error – here and here) I decided I wouldn’t be a beta tester this time and give it some time.
It all looks nice and shiny, and one can see immediately that the linux world is growing up. Many distributions are making deals with companies to bundle various services.
