Open desktop mechaniccat /dev/random | strings | grep "For being ignorant to whom it goes I writ at random, very doubtfully"xlincity, another opensource SmCty fork, now runs on OpenSolaris- January 28, 2008 Now there are two OpenSolaris options for those who spent many long hours playing SimCity in the 1980s and 90s, or those who would like to experiment with city simulations and contribute to the project. The first was micropolis, a port designed with the XO One Laptop Per Child project in mind and promising extensibility via Python modules. And now I've checked in a spec file and patch which builds xlincity (a.k.a. lincity.) which looks to be a rather old, but ready to play X11 port of the...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/xlincity_another_opensource_s_mc Micropolis (a.k.a. SmCty) runs on OpenSolaris!- January 24, 2008 A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Don Hopkins ported Maxis's C64 game "SimCity" to Unix, using the NeWS desktop user interface. Unfortunately Sun canceled NeWS (even though it was decades ahead of other nix desktop GUIs.) Many years later Don Hopkins revisited this code, now open sourced and contributed to the OLPC project. With a few tweaks and kludges, I built this codebase on OpenSolaris. This is what it looks like: I checked a new spec file, SFEmicropolis.spec and a.http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/micropolis_a_k_a_s Racine High School Sophomores discover Asteroid!- January 16, 2008 Congratulations to the students at Prairie High School in my home town of Racine Wisconsin for discovering an asteroid and having the opportunity giving their newly discovered asteroid "2008 AZ28" a nicer name. As far as I know, this is the first time an asteroid was discovered as part of a high school science project. Yeah I know, the photo above is of a comet. I took that photo of comet Hale-Bopp over a Racine county farm a few years back. Asteroids aren't quite as photogenic amidst the.http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/racine_high_school_sophomores_discover OpenProj 1.0 project manager runs on OpenSolaris Nevada!- January 14, 2008 I must confess that I've used Microsoft Windows at work a few times in the past 6.5 years. Three MS Windows only applications have occasionally been part of my job. The first was a proprietary browser test suite which is now very outdated, the second is a CDDVD burning server which would definitely be more usable on a stable OS such as Solaris or NetBSD, and the third was Microsoft Project, an application favored by project managers. Now thanks to the people at OpenProj, I hope the Sun...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/openproj_1_0_project_manager |