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I worked on this for the last two days and have it at least in a playable fashion. If you don't know what Khet is, here is a description.

It's the game that combines lasers with classic strategy. Players alternate turns moving Egyptian-themed pieces having two, one or no mirrored surfaces. All four types of pieces (pharaoh, obelisk, pyramid and djed column) can either move one square forward, back, left, right, or diagonal, or can stay in the same square and rotate by a quarter twist. Each turn ends by firing one of the lasers built into the board. The laser beam bounces from mirror to mirror; if the beam strikes a non-mirrored surface on any piece, it is immediately removed from play. The ultimate goal is to illuminate your opponent's pharaoh, while shielding yours from harm!

(The red laser shoots out the top left, from the circle there, the grey one from the bottom right. red pieces can't go on the grey squares and grey pieces can't go on the red squares)

This game is being released to get feedback, etc. I will be updating it with more features. As of now, it is only 2 player on the same DS. I hope to add Wifi and computer AI soon. I will also be adding different configurations to play with. There are 3 main ones in Khet but I am also going to make it that players can make their own. I am also looking at redoing the graphics, possibly 3D.

As for now, enjoy the game! This is my FIRST DS game and also my first C/C++ program so please let me know what you think!

v1.02 - 03 Dec 08
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Added in the 3 basic layouts. These are the ones that are in the rules. The way it works is:

* Classic: Use this setup if this is your first time to play Khet. Good for learning the game
* Imhotep: A variation on CLASSIC that opens up new defensive possibilities.
* Dynasty: A setup with an immediate balance of offense and defense that develops quickly.



v1.01 - 03 Dec 08
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* Added the ability to deselect an item, to do this just click any where off the game board
* Added a highlight so you can see which piece you have selected
* Added a version number on the Rules screen so you can see what version you have.
* (Updated link)


v1.00 - 03 Dec 08
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*Game added

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Attached Files Khet.rar (177.3 KB)

Requirements * activate jAuth * retrieve jOpenid files ici (still in development) Enabling OpenId Auth OpenID authentication is based on : * a coordinator plugin, named openid. * jAuth coord. plugin configuration (see below) * a module, jopenid, offering a controller and defaults templates.

En farfouillant dans un magasin d'invendus, j'ai découvert une tablette graphique SMOBY (Les technopotes). J'ai pas mal hésité avant de la prendre ne sachant pas si elle fonctionnerai sous Ubuntu. Mais dans ce type de magasin les bonnes affaires partent vite et vu le faible prix (20 euros) je me suis finalement décidé à l'acheter.

Installation

Une fois la tablette connectée, la commande "lsusb" me donne :

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 5543:0004 UC-Logic Technology Corp. Genius MousePen 5x4 Tablet

Elle semble reconnue mais ne fonctionne pas. Une petite recherche sur Google avec ces références me dirige vers le blog "The digital Blue Wave"

Attention : Cette installation ne s'applique qu'à Hardy Heron 8.04. De plus l'utilisation d'un pilote externe et la modification du fichier de configuration Xorg représentent un risque non négligeable d'endommager votre système.

Téléchargez le fichier http://specificcrap.arbitrarycrap.com/wizardpen_drv.so et copiez-le dans le dossier "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/" :

sudo cp wizardpen_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/

Trouvez le nom exact de la tablette avec la commande :

cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep Name

Avant toute modification sauvegardez votre fichier de configuration :

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

Éditez le avec :

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

pour y ajoutez les lignes suivantes en utilisant le nom obtenu précédemment :

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "WizardPen Tablet" Option "Name" "UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Driver "wizardpen" Option "TopX" "5619" Option "TopY" "6554" Option "BottomX" "29405" Option "BottomY" "29671" Option "MaxX" "29405" Option "MaxY" "29671" EndSection

Vous pouvez adapter les valeurs Top et Bottom pour agrandir la surface utilisable de la tablette.

Dans la section "ServerLayout" ajoutez les deux lignes :

InputDevice "WizardPen Tablet" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"

Sauvez le fichier, déconnectez-vous puis ouvrez une console avec CTRL SHIFT F1 pour y redémarrez X server :

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

Si vous rencontrez des problèmes au redémarrage vous pouvez restaurer vos paramètres initiaux (si vous n'êtes pas sur de vous pensez à imprimer la procédure) :

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Utilisation

Pour activer la gestion de la pression dans GIMP il vous faudra configurer votre tablette dans "Préférences - Périphériques d'entrée" :

J'en ai profité pour installer Tuxpaint :

sudo apt-get install tuxpaint tuxpaint-data tuxpaint-stamps-default

La distinction des boutons sur le stylo n'étant pas évidente pour un enfant, il est préférable de lancer Tuxpaint avec l'option "--nobuttondistinction".

Il a réussi à écrire son nom mais il a encore besoin de s'entraîner :

Cerise sur le gâteau, le logiciel fournit avec la tablette "Atelier Créaclique Mia" fonctionne en utilisant Wine :

Finalement tout fonctionne parfaitement et je ne regrette absolument pas de l'avoir acheté en ayant fait confiance à la communauté Linux pour son installation.

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Créé par AamirM (Regen, Nugen...), il s'agit d'un émulateur de PC-Engine/TurboGraFX-16/SuperGrafx. Tout comme Regen, son but est de se focaliser un maximum sur la précision de l'émulation (c'est à dire être le plus proche possible de la réalité). Il s'agit d'une refonte total de l'émulateur, peut-être légèrement plus lente que la précédente mais beaucoup plus complète, en voici les améliorations: - CPU emulator rewritten. - Completely new PSG with more accurate noise emulation. - Completely new VDC/VCE core. More accurate. Everything is implemented now. - Cycle accurate sample generation support. - New High Quality sound mode. Will result in more accurate sound. This can slow down the emulation speed quite considerably so only turn it on if you have a fast enough PC. - SuperGrafx support. All SGX games run perfectly. - Street Fighter 2 banking support. - Almost all glitches should now be gone. - Configuration file containg emulator related settings is now created. Some setting, righ now, can only be changed by modifiying it. - Save state support. By default, the quick save states will be saved in the Saves subfolder. It can be changed by changing StatePath in TurboEngine.ini. - Turbo Engine now remembers recently loaded ROMs. File History will contain recently loaded ROMs along with its full path. - Setting ShortHistoryNames in TurboEngine.ini to 1 will only display ROM names instead of its full path in File History. - Support for changing Window sizes. - Fullscreen support. It is a bit buggy at the moment. But will work out most of the time. - VSync support. This will remove tearing in the video. Depending on your monitor or video card, it can also cause stuttering in video or sound. - Kega Fusion plugin system support. Only 2x scalers supported at the moment. - Turbo Mode support. - Brighten option added. This will take out the differences between the TV and monitor brightness. It is recommended to turn it on. - Various overscan options added. - Many aspect ratio correction options added. Note that Correct aspect ration will only work in fullscreen mode. For correcting aspect in windowed mode, use Window Ratio option. - Window aspect ratio correction option added. - Option to disable sound. - Lowpass filter option added. - Loud option added to make PSG a bit more heavy and effective :) . Though it can result in sound getting clipped. - Option to Save/Load BRAM. If turned on, BRAM will be saved or loaded otherwise it will be discarded. - Cheat file support added. - DirectInput support added. This means joypads, gamepads, joysticks etc.. are now supported. - Option to redefine input settings. Note that 6-button option, though listed, will not work. - Option to revert key settings back to default. - Option to make window top most. - Autopasue option added which will pause the emulator whenever it loses focus. - High priority option added. - Option to disable screen savers while emulator is running. - Option to show FPS. - About box added ;)

Voici la démo PC du jeu de courses MiniOne Racing. Elle contient deux circuits en mode "course libre", une carte Equilibrium et une carte Jump (mini-jeux). Configuration requise : Windows XP/Vista, processeur 1 GHz, 512 Mo de RAM, carte vidéo 32 Mo.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/conceptcars/" rel="tag"Concept Cars/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/trucks/" rel="tag"Trucks/Pickups/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nissan-nv2500-concept-3/1202667/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/nv2500-1280-01_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr / div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"smallClick above for a high-res image gallery of the Nissan NV2500/small/span/div br /Today at the Nissan Technical Center in Farmington Hills, MI, Nissan revealed its new NV2500 concept commercial van. The NV2500 is a preview of its upcoming light commercial vehicle that will debut in 2010. The NV2500 will be taking the place of the Titan pickup at the company's Canton, MS assembly plant and take Nissan into a new market segment in North America. Nissan's Communications VP Alan Buddendeck explained that the automaker competes in the commercial vehicle market around the world and wants to round that out with North America.br /br /The NV2500 concept shows just one of many possible configurations of the vehicle. The concept and the production vehicle are based on a modified version of the current Titan F-Alpha chassis. Nissan will be partnering with Cummins to provide diesel engines for the new vehicles and ZF for the automatic transmissions. In the first three years of production, Nissan plans to introduce thee different vehicles off this platform. br /br /In addition to the big NV2500, Nissan also showed the NV200 concept that appeared at last year's Tokyo show. The NV200 is similar in concept to Ford's upcoming Transit Connect and is built on Nissan's compact B-platform. 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Societe : ESR - Lieu de travail : IDF - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : selon expérience - Detail : Lynx Technologies - Groupe ESR recherche un Ingénieur en Sécurité confirmé pour l'un de ses Clients du secteur bancaire. Intégré au pôle « Veille Technologique ? Audits de vulnérabilité », vous avez pour missions : - Audits de configuration de serveurs Windows, HP-UX, Domino, Web IIS, SQL Server, et de firewall Netscreen - Identification des vulnérabilités et analyse des risques - Préconisation des actions correctives permettant le maintien en condition opérationnelle de la politique sécurité - Modélisation d'architectures sécurisées - Rédaction de standards de sécurité - Tests d'intrusions De profil Bac +5 / Ecole d'Ingénieurs, vous avez une expérience de 2 à 3 ans minimum sur ce type de projet. De très bonnes qualités de communication orale et écrite sont attendues pour ce poste. Mobilité ponctuelle en province.

Il y a quelques mois j'avais écrit un article sur les touchpads synaptics et leur configuration sous GNU/Linux. Aujourd'hui je vais vous parler de la configuration de ce touchpad avec HAL.

Une partie du précédent article montrait comment modifier la configuration du serveur X11 (serveur graphique) pour activer/désactiver certaines options. Mais maintenant beaucoup de distributions utilisent HAL pour la gestion des périphériques. Il n'est plus nécessaire de modifier le fichier de configuration de X11, mais ces options peuvent être changées avec les fichiers de configuration de HAL.

Pour le touchpad synaptics le fichier de configuration est  /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi .

Voici ma version de ce fichier de configuration :



 
   
     
        synaptics
   
   
        true
        auto-dev
        true
        false
        1700
        5300
        1700
        4200
        25
        30
        180
        true
        true
        true
        0.30
        100
        100
        0.10
        0.60
        0.0020
        false
        false
        1
        2
        3
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   
 


On voit clairement toutes les options dans les balises "merge", comme le scrolling vertical "true" ici à "true" (vrai), ou le scrolling à 2 doigts "VertTwoFingerScroll".

Une partie des options est decrite dans le precedent article sur synaptics. Pour le detail de toutes les options vous pouvez voir la page de man sur synaptics (version en ligne).


Pour que les modifications prennent effet il faut redemarer le serveur X11 et HAL.

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Cela fait maintenant longtemps que je souhaite utiliser le couple MPD-Sonata.
Jusqu'ici, toutes mes tentatives ont été vaines.

Alors OK, ce billet fait suite à l'annonce de la disponibilité de Songbird 1.0. [1]
Mais la solution MPD (Music Player Daemon) est forcément plus légère, en plus Sonata est plutôt pas mal.

Bon, j'ai quand même mis une heure à faire fonctionner tout ça, mais le résultat est là.
Dans les ressources utiles, je peux citer celles là :

• La documation d'Ubuntu sur MPD
• Un premier blog, puis un second que j'avais soigneusement mis de côté dans mon Google Reader.

La solution pour utiliser MPD, bien écrire le fichier de configuration.

Note temporaire : Je posterai le mien un peu plus tard pour info, ainsi que les programmes que j'ai du installer (par exemple, j'avais enlevé Pulse audio sous Fedora 9, j'ai donc dû le réinstaller).

La capture écran d'usage :

Notes

[1] et j'avoue constaté quelques freeze plutôt gênant

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"IBM and Canonical Thursday announced a virtualized software bundle combining Lotus desktop applications running on top of a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Ubuntu"Ubuntu Linux/a that they say is far cheaper than running Microsoft#39;s Office suite on conventional Windows PCs./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"It#39;s the latest salvo in IBM#39;s ongoing battle to break Microsoft#39;s stranglehold on the desktop./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Stay up to date on the latest virtualization developments with InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/?source=fssr"Virtualization Report blog/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"According to IBM, the a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyId=18amp;articleId=9058900"virtual Linux desktop suite/a could cost, for large companies, as little as $59 per worker. That would include a minimal configuration of $49 for the VERDE desktop virtualization software from a third vendor, Virtual Bridges, $10 for Ubuntu Linux support, and no cost for the Lotus Symphony productivity software./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"A a target="_blank" href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/occs-pt5/"full-fledged Linux desktop solution/a that includes Lotus Notes e-mail, Sametime instant messaging, and other collaboration tools would cost $258 per user, according to IBM./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Customers would also save on labor costs due to reduced maintenance from moving to a server-side solution, said Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux strategy for IBM, as well as lower hardware costs by extending the lifespan of desktop PCs./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;This is hopefully the first step in multiple announcements to come from us,quot; she said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In August, IBM said it had a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;taxonomyName=Small_Enterpriseamp;articleId=9111804"reconfigured its Lotus productivity and collaboration software/a to make it easier to bundle with Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Ubuntu and Novell Inc.#39;s SUSE Linux./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"IBM and its partners plan to sell the bundle directly as well as through reseller partners. Asked if IBM planned to host and deliver the software itself as a service, a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9118258"as Microsoft plans to do with Office Web,/a Kuznetsova said, quot;we have no announcements at this time, though we will certainly look at this.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Kuznetsova admitted that IBM#39;s calculations do not factor in the potentially expensive cost of migrating users from a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Microsoft+Office"Microsoft Office/a and Windows over to the Linux virtual desktop environment, nor the cost of extra server and networking hardware to host the software./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Nor has IBM calculated how the Linux virtual desktop stacks up cost-wise versus the virtual Windows desktop route, using a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicamp;articleId=9092798"desktop virtualization from VMware,/a Citrix Systems, or Microsoft, Kuznetsova said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;We are certainly cheaper than migrating to Office 2007 on a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searchamp;searchTerms=Microsoft+Windows+Vista"Vista/a ,quot; she said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/index.jsp"emComputerworld/em/a emis an InfoWorld affiliate./em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=365c41ebd0591dbe9baab5b6add78694p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=365c41ebd0591dbe9baab5b6add78694p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=365c41ebd0591dbe9baab5b6add78694 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

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Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS, and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats (including high-precision timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of the syslog message, on-the-wire message compression, and the ability to convert text files to syslog. It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to work with the same configuration file syntax. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License v3 hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / Most importantly, this version addresses a security vulnerability that renders the $AllowedSender directive useless. See the project homepage for the security advisory. This release also contains some bugfixes, including a memory leak that could cause real trouble in environments that use TLS, as well as some very small enhancements. All users are advised to update to this release. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/HDqzF9L4kmDxDuQuLLVh-1bhZA4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/HDqzF9L4kmDxDuQuLLVh-1bhZA4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix/~4/3lhuIgs1Q4g" height="1" width="1"/

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DynaStop is a utility to examine IPv4 based addresses for Exim and procmail for the purpose of filtering based upon patterns defined by the administrator. This can be a pivotal factor in email filtering and server load management, since dynamic IP addresses are typically used for dial-up, DHCP, and DSL accounts. All of which have a designated mail exchange server through which all outbound mail flows as defined with many, if not most, large Internet service providers. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License v2 hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / The following example configuration files were updated: BleedingThreats, WhiteList, VirusList, and UnsubList. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Wf9KkPnDfq92e-cgWY_uvlySW0Q/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Wf9KkPnDfq92e-cgWY_uvlySW0Q/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix/~4/a_9spghB4Ok" height="1" width="1"/