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Yes, the hype got me! I don’t know if you noticed it, but lately everyone seems to be talking about Ruby on Rails. No matter what web stone you peek up, you find Ruby-on-Rails under it. Until now the only thing I knew about Ruby was that it is a language closely related to Python. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently there was a spike in the ELKS mailing list. For those that don’t know what ELKS is, let me tell you that is is basically Linux-86; the port of Linux for the 8086 and 80286 processors. An email with subject “HELP WANTED” caused a thread of responses. The mail came from Miguel Bolanos with the purpose of bringing the project back to life. Read the rest of this entry »

A friend asked me some time ago if the implementation of the heap data structure in the STL has update functions. He couldn’t find any documentation about an update_heap() function. He was as sure as I was (some time ago) that Read the rest of this entry »

id did it! The source to the famous Quake III engine is out. The ftp site at id software is full of downloaders… get it while its hot!

John Carmack noted at his QuakeCon speech that the source code of Quake III will be released next week!

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Even though Quake III is old technology (it is 5 years old) this is big news. A lot of hobby programmers will take it and push it to the limits, which is always fun to watch. Think of Tenebrae for example.