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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Augmented Reality

5 Comments Posted by on April 29, 2006

An article appeared on Digg.com yesterday talking about a possible leak about the Nintendo Revolution/Wii. It referred to a video that was linked to in the comments. This video gave a demonstration of Augmented Reality, and while this technology is only rumored to be in the Revolution, it’s still fascinating to watch. Augmented Reality basically [...]

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Nintendo: Wii are not amused

14 Comments Posted by on April 27, 2006

So Nintendo today announced the Revolution’s new name: Wii. Yes, Wii. The reaction so far as been about as negative as you’d expect, with all kinds of bad puns made. A number of the bad puns were made by Nintendo, as demonstrated on the site I just linked to. I must wonder what they’re thinking. [...]

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New libnotify, notification-daemon and notify-python releases

2 Comments Posted by on April 26, 2006

I’m very tired, so I’ll keep this brief. I just put out libnotify 0.4.0, notification-daemon 0.3.5, and notify-python 0.1.0 releases. Most of the really annoying bugs people have reported have been fixed. More information is available on the news post. I made a decision that will be unpopular to some, and I expect some disagreement [...]

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Galago 0.5.0! Can I sleep now?

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 21, 2006

I finally, after a long 8 months of development, put out Galago 0.5.0. The list of changes are huge, but I feel it’s a pretty solid release. I’ve been wanting to get this release out for a while now, but I kept finding one more thing to fix. I finally bit the bullet and prepared [...]

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VMware Server beta 2

1 Comment Posted by on April 3, 2006

We just announced VMware Server beta 2 today, which is without a doubt a vast improvement over beta 1. Aside from over 60 critical bug fixes and over 150 non-critical fixes, we’ve also added support for using the Server remote console to connect to GSX 3 hosts. However, I should point out that those using [...]

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Mario followers are terrorists

5 Comments Posted by on April 1, 2006

Update: Second article link is fixed. Creating real-life Mario blocks is cool and fun. Getting arrested and facing criminal charges for it is not. Five teenage girls in a small nothing town were arrested for designing Mario Bros. blocks and putting them around town. In a town with nothing to do, they found some fun. [...]

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