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Nice music Video from the Eighties here; Duel by Propaganda.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

It looks like a good game.

Free Microsoft Downloads

A lot of free downloads from Microsoft can be found here.

Media Conversion

Nice site here which can convert different types of media.

Vista Network Places

Need to create a new network place in Vista like you could in XP?

Just click Start then Computer, under the Hard Disk Drives panel, right click; from the menu which then appears click Add a Network Location.

EditPad Lite Freeware

It's a notepad replacement & can be downloaded from here.

Microsoft Photo Tools

The new version of Microsoft Pro Photo Tools can be downloaded here.

Watching TV on the Internet

If you want to, then you should Download this.

Checkershadow Illusion

Nice Optical Illusion can be seen here.

New Xbox 360 Avatars

You must watch this video if you own an Xbox 360.

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:af0e0dcd-5cff-43a2-bd32-4841fe6a89d1&showPlaylist=true&from=msnvideo" target="_new" title="Avatars in the new Xbox experience">Video: Avatars in the new Xbox experience</a>

Ubuntu Forum Links

A set of links I found in this thread & others on the Ubuntu forum.

• Magnetic core memory
• Russian reversal (joke)
• Python Floating Points
• Sunk costs
• Post purchase rationalization
• Zeller's congruence

QBASIC Express: Issue 29

Issue 29 of the QBASIC Express magazine is available to read here.

Common Python Errors

A list of the Ten most common Python programming errors can be found here.

Dynamic Languages Strike Back

Interesting blog post here about dynamic programming languages.

The Story of Mel

A true programming story can be found here & it makes for a very interesting read.

Free Web space

Nice site here offering free web space & an online web site creator.

Managing Garbage Collection

Interesting interview with Patrick Dussud here on Channel9.


Patrick Dussud: Managing Garbage Collection

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For the Common Man

You can find the video here on YouTube.

Tomb Raider: Anniversary Extras

Nice video you can see here on YouTube.

Links from a Thread

A series of links I found in this thread on the Ubuntu Forum.

• Sturgeon's Law
• Normal Distribution
• Computer Language Benchmark
• C++ vs Ocaml: Ray Tracer Comparison
• Succinctness is Power
  

Tomb Raider Soundtrack Torrent

You can download a torrent containing all the Soundtracks from the Tomb Raider games here.

Tomb Raider Croft Manor Theme

An extended version of the Croft Manor theme from Tomb Raider: Anniversary, can be downloaded from this web page.

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Tomb Raider Chronicles

All the soundtracks for the Tomb Raider Games can be downloaded from this web page.

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FlickrDown

Need to download lots of photos from Flickr? Then just download & install FlickrDown.

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Oosah

A very nice media sharing site can be found here. It also lets you view, share & copy files from your YouTube, Flickr & Picasa accounts. The chances of you running out of space is quite slim as you've got 1TB.

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Compiler Error

Recenly I compiled & ran a program in Linux. After I successfully compiled the program in Windows, I tried to run it. However it wouldn't work.

I kept receiving the following error number, -1073741571.

After typing "-1073741571" into Google, I found this post on a French programming forum.

Apparently the problem may be caused by some kind of 'overflow' error. The fact that the program uses recursion makes me feel that this may be right.

Equations of Motion

Interesting discussion here on the Science Forum.

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SDL FAQ Page

Useful SDL FAQ page here.

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Lazy Foo SDL Site

If you're interested in learning SDL for games programming then you should definitely visit the lazyfoo site.

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SDL Downloads

All the SDL libraries can be downloaded from this page.

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SDL in Ubuntu

If you need to use SDL in Ubuntu, just type the following in a terminal...

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

This will install SDL & the TTF font package.

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Pidgin in Ubuntu

Pidgin is an Instant Messenger program for Windows & Linux. If you're running the Ubuntu version you may have run into a problem where Pidgin doesn't automatically run at start-up.

There is a simple solution here at the Ubuntu forum for solving this problem.

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BBC Fractal Slideshow

A nice Fractal slideshow can be seen here on the BBC website. It has an audio commentary by the mathematician Lasse Rempe.

MilkyTracker

MilkyTracker is a program for making music. It is designed to recreate the old Sound-Trackers, like OctaMED & ProTracker on the Amiga. It can be downloaded from here.

F# Download

I've just started using the F# programming language & I'm very impressed by it.

You can find out more here; F# can be downloaded from here; F# Manual can be seen here. The Wikipedia article can be seen here.

Once you've added the F# compiler (fsc.exe) to your PATH environment variable, you can compile like this.

fsc file.ml

If you want to compile a Windows Application just use the following...

fsc file.ml --target winexe

SMPlayer Download

The SMPlayer is a media player that can also play files in the .nsv format. It does have a few problems like how if you use the DirectX video driver in Vista, the Aero interface is disabled. You can use the OpenGL video driver but it isn't accelerated.

You can download the SMPlayer from here.

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Coding Competition

Over on the Coding Monkeys forum they're organising a coding competition. You can read more here.

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Babylonian Twins

A short video here on YouTube showing a completed Amiga game which was developed in Iraq in 1994 but never released.

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Pygments

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter module for Python. It's very useful.

Here is a site which uses Pygments to add bbcode syntax highlighting to your program code.

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GoStats Site

Nice site here which will compile visitor stats for your website.

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3D Function Graphing

Nice little routine here on the Basic4GL forum which shows you how to create a 3D Function Graphing Calculator.

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Delphi OpenGL

Some nice OpenGL programs which have been written in Delphi can be found on this site.

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Basic4GL Interpreter

Nice post here on the Basic4GL forum from back in 2005, which shows you how to write a simple programming language interpreter.

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Monoslideshow

Nice way to embed a slide-show on your website; is shown here.

New version of Basic4GL

A new version of Basic4GL became available to download on Saturday. You can get it from here.

OpenOffice & Clipart in Ubuntu

Type the following in a terminal.

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org openclipart-openoffice.org

Btw, it'll take up about 400MB of disk-space, lol.

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A set of links to things which I've found interesting over the past few days.

• Post on B4GL forum about Global variables, here.
• Mathematical definition of atan2 command, here.
• FreeBASIC forum, here.
• VBDOS download, here.
• DOSBox setup wiki, here.
• Video of Contortionist Dasha on YouTube, here.
• Post about Sprite Rotation on B4GL forum, here.

Google Pack for Windows

You can download the free Google Pack from here. It contains a lot of free software but it's worth downloading just for StarOffice.

RadASM, FbEdit & ResEd

RadASM is an IDE for Assembly programming, FbEdit is an IDE for FreeBASIC & ResEd is a visual resource editor for FreeBasic & C programmers. They can all be downloaded from here.

Google Earth for Windows

If you want Google Earth for Windows you can get it here.

Posting Special Symbols

Ever needed to post a Symbol such as ‹ or › in your blog?

If you have I suggest you read the following pages here, here, here & here.

LHA Compression in Windows

If you need to use LHA compression in Windows you can download a Command Line version from here. Once you've placed it somewhere on your system you'll need to add it to your PATH environment variable.

Extracting a file is pretty simple: lha x ‹file.lha›

Java in Google Chrome

You need to be using Version 6 Update 10, which you can download from here.

Chrome on Ubuntu Linux

Currently there is no way of building the Chrome browser on Linux but you can build a test version which will output some text to the terminal.

Full instructions can be found on this page.

Google's new browser UPDATE

You must download this browser!!!

I downloaded it from the official Google site here & I have to say it's One of the best browsers that I've ever used. It's also probably One of the fastest browsers that I've ever used too.

Google's new browser

Apparently Google are working on a new browser. There's a 38 page comic which describes what it's all about here.