What's up with Graphics on Linux?

Confused about what is going on with graphics on Linux? Read the history of the complete process and where it stands today. Especially check out the part about SUN Looking Glass 3D Desktop.

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ShrinkTo5 Nice Open Source DVDShrink replacement

ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source. Still in development and it's open.

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Starry Night 1.5 Gigapixel Image!

This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.

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Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide

Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide

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MIT "Hacks"

I find these *incredibly* amusing, and I think you will too. I spent about 2 and a half hours this afternoon going through these and laughing my ass off. Take a peek...

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How To Look Like A UNIX/LINUX Guru

This is your survival guide to UNIX/LINUX, once you go bash you wont go back.

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A GOOD First Person Shooter at only 100kb!

Finally a firs person shooter with pretty good graphics that is so small it can be installed on a floppy! -1.5GHz -512MB RAM -GFX card supporting pixel shaders 1.3, 128MB or more of VRAM. - Some kind of sound hardware - DirectX 9.0b Now if only Unreal Tournament 2004 took tips from these guys instead of making a 6 cd installer :P

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Super $500 MythTV Project

Speaking of MythTV (You were, weren't you?) here's a guy documenting the building of his MythTV box, running Gentoo and costing under $500. Cool stuff!

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Star Wars Combine - Massive Online Multiplayer RPG

The Combine is a free massively multiplayer online role-playing simulation game based on the Star Wars Universe, developed by amateurs in their spare time.

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MediaPortal - Windows alternative to MythTV

Want to try MythTV but don't have an extra PC sitting around to install Linux on? Try MediaPortal instead. It runs on Windows and is open source freeware.

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Open Office 2.0 Kicks MS Office Around the Block

If you tried the previous 1.1.4 version, the 2.0 beta version currently available will be a pleasant surprise. Unlike the slow, ugly, and underpowered earlier version, 2.0 is swift, smooth, and highly compatible with Office documents. Even better, it has plenty of features that you can't find in MS Office itself.

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Automated custom machine shop with online ordering

eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need - the first true online machine shop. Download our free software, draw your part, and click to order - it's easy! Your part will be machined and delivered - at low cost. This Rocks! read more | digg story

Hacking a McDonalds Sign

This was too funny not to share!

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Beastie Boys release their acapellas to the world

The Beastie Boys have released some of their acapellas to the worlds remixers and musicians free of charge on their website. They'll continue to release a new one every Friday.

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Why women live longer than men

The following photos show conclusively why it is that women tend to live longer than men.

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Army mechanic builds 18 ft. Mech

Carlos Owens, an Army mechanic has been building something strange in his backyard... a huge anime-looking, $20,000, exoskeleton!

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4999 Company Logos From All Over The World

A free site with a collection of nearly 5000 company logos.

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"The" Solution to high gas prices

$3.00 a Gallon is a bit much, this incredible device will save you thousands. $$$

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Fossil and Atari Animated Watches: Wearable Classic Gaming Design!

Hey all you gamers out there, check out these cool new Atari game inspired watches from innovative watchmaker Fossil. Classic Atari games like Asteroids, Breakout and Centipede will animate in the background of the watch face. Pretty cool idea and they look great, but unfortunately the games are not playable.

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Blizzard not developing Diablo or Starcraft sequels

Fans of Blizzard will be disappointed to hear that a company PR coordinator has ruled out any chance that the "unannounced product" that the company has been working on will be a sequel to either Diablo II or Starcraft, long term franchises for which the company is famous and which still attract a strong following today.

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Wikipedia entry on Flying Spaghetti Monster

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a parody religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. official website read more | digg story

Microsoft Renames Rss to Web Feeds

Microsoft has defended its decision to rebrand RSS feeds in the forthcoming release of Internet Explorer 7 after accusations that it is trying to 'reinvent the technology'.

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Ubuntu Breezy Badger Colony 3

You just can't get enough of Ubuntu? Curious what's coming next? Come get some Ubuntu Surprises with Breezy Badger Colony 3, a preview of what's to come later this fall in Ubuntu Linux 5.10. Why not download the LiveCD and try for yourself the Linux sensation that's sweeping the nation (and the world, but that doesn't rhyme)!

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Quake 3 Source Code Released

Yep, just as Mr Carmack said, the source code for Quake 3 is now available for download.

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Railguns, Gauss Guns, OH MY!

Excellent examples of a real world rail gun, gauss gun theory, working disc thrower, 40w lasers, microwave oven guns.. Makes unreal tournament look real!

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"Toy Story" Writer Dies

Pixar Animation Studios was in shock Wednesday after learning of the death of Joe Ranft, one of the founding members of its creative team. It's too bad, he was a brilliant guy who I was lucky enough to meet at Siggraph a few years back.

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Essential freeware for the PC user

Try out these must have free software. He lists a bunch of good stuff, like free photo editing, Anti-virus, web tools, etc.

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The first programming riddle on the net

Looking to learn that awesome programming language but lack the drive? Take the challange!

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Red Planet Turning Green?

There's a new mission to Mars. But we're not talking about cute little robot rovers anymore.... read more | digg story

Preserving a generation of Apple 2 disks

Play old Apple 2e games through your browser. The site has over 1100 disk images archived. Ahh, the memories... 'You died from dysentery!' Unfortunately you can only play it using Internet Explorer (ActiveX)... How ironic!

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Mac OS X 10.4.1 Tiger x86 on VMWare 5 and Native

This is the most simple guide to installing Mac OS x86, it looks longer because its very simple if you can browse the internet and check e-mail you can do this!

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Furniture made entirely of FedEx boxes

Shipping boxes make nifty desks, beds and tables, according to the creator of Fedexfurniture.com. But the delivery company is trying to shut him down. Reminds me of when I was a teenager and we built all our furniture out of cases of Coors beer. Wish I still had a photo.

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The coolest LINUX-based CarPC

This car mod shows off a LINUX-based CarPC that is just plain awesome. He can listen to music, watch videos, view slideshows, sniff wireless networks and plot them with GPS, browse the web with Firefox, connect to his cell phone via Bluetooth, stream DirecTV, remote-start the car, and connect to it via WI-FI. Lots of great pics.

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World's Smallest Linux Server

BlackDog is the world's smallest Linux server that is 100% USB-powered and fits in the palm of your hand. BlackDog represents a new breed in mobile computing devices that gives developers a whole new way to think about computing.

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World Facts in Real Time

A site that shows the population, births per day/year, and many other interesting facts with real time meters.

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Liquid that becomes solid when exposed to electricity

...what if there were a way to turn a liquid into a tough solid at ordinary temperatures with a mere zap of electricity -- and then have that solid become liquid again, instantaneously, simply by shutting off the current?

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Combining great graphics and CSS

To create mind boggling web design. Here is a well written tutorial outlining how you can combine CSS skills and Photoshop skills

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Gigapixel Resolution

Graham Flint and Catherine Aves are not your average photographers. The two are currently traveling across the country creating a photographic record of landscapes using a Gigapixel camera that Flint Invented. The Gigapixel project.

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Over 400 Complete, Legal, and Free DOS Games!

These are free liberated complete games and not the source codes. Each of the games runs in DOS or DosBox (download on website).Make sure you download the Essentials as they will allow you to run the games properly. Have fun!

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Streaming Video Game Walkthroughs!

Are you stuck on a game and don't know where to go and what to do? Have no fear, StuckGamer Is Here! It will show you exactly what you need to do in order to get to the next mission/level. And how to do it! Its also spoiler safe!

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300 gigabytes (GB) capacity on a single disk !!

InPhase has developed a holographic storage device that will store 300GB of data on a CD-sized disc and deliver access times of less than 200 milliseconds. InPhase is also looking to have a Holographic disc out by 2009 that can hold 1.6TB of information!!

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Some very impressive lighting design

James Clar makes some awesome lighting creations. His LED cubes are especially amazing. Very modern and highly technical, this guy can do some seriously sweet stuff with LEDs and they look good too. Check 'em out.

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Indoor, Man-made beach in Japan

This is very cool idea, but what's the point of building it so close to the actual beach?

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Speech For The Moon Mission If It Failed

These documents (4 pages) were written by Nixon's aides and were meant to be given if the astronauts became stranded on the moon.

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Discovery and Crew Safe on Earth

Discovery and the STS-114 crew have touched down safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California, successfully wrapping up NASA's historic Return to Flight mission.

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See 4,500 military planes in storage on GoogleMaps!

Above is a link to a GoogleMaps image of AMARC in Tucson, AZ. AMARC stores approximately 4,500 military aircraft in a large property belonging to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

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The Matrix in a Matrix

Check out this video of scenes from the Matrix done in letters. Its awesome watching the bullet time and the full 3D motions.

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Fuel Cell Motorbike to Hit U.S. Streets

The ENV, a "sleek, almost silent, nonpolluting fuel cell-powered motorcycle is set to begin gliding down U.S. streets by the end of 2006." Official Site read more | digg story

RIPSAW 2: The ultimate RC

Check out this entry into the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. This thing is a monster! The video labeled "New Look" shows how they mounted the computer system.. very cool.

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jDoom - Play classic Doom in full 3D

jDoom is a super customized version of the Doom engine that not only gives the player mouselook and jumping, but the ability to use higher res textures and 3D models for both the monsters and the player's weapons.

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A dead hard drive story.

This person uses a very unique way to save data off a dead hard drive.

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What Starcraft could have been

Here's a nice gallery showing Starcraft's early development. See the progression from when it was little more than Warcraft 2 with different graphics, to just before release. A must for any Starcraft fan.

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Damn Small Linux 1.4 Released!

DSL is a < 50MB debian based live distribution. The new version has a ton of minor updates, new install scripts for hard drive installs, and ui improvements.

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Useful Windows Software

Huge list of useful Windows applications. Even if you think you've got it all, there is going to be something here for everyone.

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xajax PHP Class Library

xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

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Apples guide to AJAX / XMLHttprequest

Apple has a sweet guide on using the XMLHttprequest in Javascript to make dynamic pages.

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Customize your Linksys WRT54G with OpenWrt

OpenWrt is a Linux distribution for the Linksys WRT54G that allows you to customize the packages that run on it and add-on other linux packages.

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Tim Burton's new animation with unique digital workflow

The movie "Corpse Bride" is edited in Final Cut Pro, which is not new, but was shot in digital with Canon EOS 1D _still_ cameras. Then the crew used AppleScript, JavaScript and QuickTime tools to fine-tune the project.

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Linux from Scratch

Instead of installing Ubuntu or Suse, try it from scratch and actually learn something!

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99 Rooms

Put on some headphones and immerse yourself into the interactive 99rooms. A must see website.

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ZORK

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. (written in PHP)

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Free Paper Craft Patterns

Yamaha has some pretty amazing downloadable PDF patterns for making paper models of creatures and machines.You can download patterns to make realistic motorcycles, rare animals like the giant panda and more. Fun stuff.

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Optical-camouflage or INVSIBILITY is real and in development

Article about how the Invisibility Cloaks Work. Looks like something that is appearing at Siggraph this year. Pretty cool.

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