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To say that I coexist with Chrome is more accurate. Two months ago, I absolutely despised Chrome. It was a white-hot hatred that transcended the Mortal Plane. I'm sure such powerful emotions were the trigger for some short bursts of telekinesis around me.

Diana Kimball believes in "coding as a liberal art" - a new approach to university programming classes, one that teaches coding as a creative pursuit, rather than simply as a vocation. Seb Lee-Delisle hosts the Creative Coding podcast, and teaches creative coding workshops aimed at people who don't think of themselves as programmers.

Programming, animation, CAD and 'digital technology' also in the works The Boy Scouts of America have created a merit badge in Game Design.…

The second release candidate to the Linux 3.9 kernel is now available. Standing out in this week's kernel development update is work on WiFi drivers and other updates throughout kernel-land...

LXer Feature: 10-Mar-2013

The big news this week was Mark Shuttleworth and his feelings on the Ubuntu community and reaction to it. Miguel de Icaza decides to use a Mac full time instead of Linux at home. The Chrome OS resists being cracked into and more. Enjoy!

Crunchbang is built for do-ers. The people that use Crunchbang are not bothered about gestures or flashy graphics.

Crunchbang is for people that have a purpose for their computer and the operating system is a tool to help them achieve that purpose. I would imagine that Crunchbang would be great for software development.

If you prefer substance over style then read on.

While the MG probably isn't what the hardcore gamer in your life had in mind, you'd be hard pressed to find a better value for casual Android gaming.

When Mike Mika’s daughter was sad to learn she couldn’t play as a girl character in classic Donkey Kong, her father decided a little hacking was in order. Mika modified the ROM of the game so that the damsel/white-knight roles in the game were switched. Now Pauline ((Nintendo's precusor to the better known Princess Peach) runs, jumps, and dodges rolling barrels to save the dulcet Mario at the top of the screen, according to a Saturday post on reddit.

While there are many interesting features to the Linux 3.9 kernel, there is some functionality you will not find yet within the mainline Linux kernel.

When asked if he believes that Valve's Steam Box would compete with Microsoft's Xbox business, Microsoft's president of Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick's answer was a simple and decisive "No."

In a way this sounds a little bit like Google’s Chrome OS, where most work is actually performed in cyberspace, doesn’t it? In a way, it’s very Zen. We have all these robots running around doing our bidding, each with its own separate identity, but all ultimately relying on a single brain.

Shadowrun Returns brings back one of our most original & cherished game settings as a 2D turn-based RPG with an emphasis on storytelling and tactical combat. Pre-Order today and join us in the dark underworld of Shadowrun’s dystopian cyberpunk reality where Man meets Magic meets Machine.

Ever since the advent of Steam for Linux, performance issues have miffed gamers; especially those who are using Ubuntu’s Unity and are forced to use Compiz as their display compositor. Those issues have been combated in several ways. Nvidia and AMD have been ‘stepping up to the plate’ so to speak with increased performance from their drivers, and developers have been working towards more granular performance enhancements geared towards playing well with Xorg.

Dungeon Fray is a fast paced roguelike game for Linux. The game features three playable classes, randomly generated levels, turn based combat and unlockable achievements and perks.

Dungeon Fray is a fast paced roguelike game for Windows and Linux. The game features three playable classes, randomly generated levels, turn based combat and unlockable achievements and perks.

Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. This feature works with PHP-FPM (starting with PHP 5.3) and FastCGI (all PHP 5.x versions). This tutorial shows how to build PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 as a PHP-FPM and a FastCGI version on an Ubuntu 12.04 server. These PHP versions can be used together with the default PHP (installed through apt) in ISPConfig.

Why 12.04 and or only LTS releases? With each release hardware gets dropped. Not a good thing if your trying to keep an aging computer fully supported, working as intended and simply nice, fast and capable. Although not an official LTS release for Lubuntu. It is the only defacto one.

Bloom: Memories is a beautiful artistic take on theaction-adventure / RPG genre that carries players through an epic journey following the theme of the “purest love”; that between a mother and her child.

DNS, Domain Name System, translates hostnames or URLs into IP addresses. For example if we type http://www.unixmen.com in browser, the DNS server translates the domain name into its associated ip address. Since the IP addresses are hard to remember, DNS servers are used to translate the hostnames like http://www.unixmen.com to 173.xxx.xx.xxx. So it makes easy to remember the domain names instead of its ip address.

Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.17, is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Notable user-visible changes include: Install the KeePassX password manager with a configuration and documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database; upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr; do not allow listing all available fonts; improve default spellchecker dictionary selection; disable the add-ons automatic update feature; remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation; synchronise some preferences set by Torbutton to be ready when it stops setting these; disable navigation timing; disable SPDY.