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The current issue of Linux magazine (#111) has an article about how researchers are using Blender 3D to calculate and simulate the volume of sand displaced when walking on a beach. This demonstrates the extreme flexibility of Blender, and also shows that that flexibility is more and more appreciated by the academic community.

This academic use is also becoming more and more apparent in the different Blender conference schedules, as each year there are very innovative ideas presented there.

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A few days ago, there was a newly released version of the OpenSuSE kernel available in my update list. After download and installation, my bcm4306 wifi adapter was finding multiple broadcasted signals with associated networks. Sadly, it seems that encryption support isn’t yet working in this configuration, as I can’t seem to connect with my secured network at home.

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Penny Arcade

The first episode of Penny Arcade passed my attention without being noticed, which is a shame. I guess I had a period of less exposure to internet, and was preoccupied with work-related stuff. This time however, I noticed the availability of a Linux version for the second episode of Penny Arcade : the Rain-slick precipise of Darkness, and decided to check it out.

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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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I guess it’s their way of wishing us ‘Happy Easter’, as the guys and gals from Linspire are doing a special promotion tomorrow (not much time, I know). This is the mail I received to announce the promo:

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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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I like OpenSuSE. It, and its predecessors without the ‘Open’ part in their name have been my Linux environments of choice since my university days, back from SuSE 6.4. My use of Linux as an operating system has been steadily increasing, almost at the same pace of the quality and the possibilities of the applications the OS provided me with.

Belgium has invested quite some effort in what is called here the e-ID. It’s a smartcard used as identity card, with the added functionality of electronic signatures that are protected by a PIN code. One of the killer applications is considered Tax-On-Web, where one can do his tax declaration online.

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