Friday, April 04, 2003

Hydra: Rendezvous-Enabled Text Editing Hydra: Rendezvous-Enabled Text Editing Posted by michael on Friday April 04, @12:04PM from the collaborate-or-die dept. Tokerat writes "It's incredible what some people dream up. A recent post on MacSlash brought this little gem to my attention, and I have a feeling some of you fellow /.ers will be screaming to get your hands on this: Hydra is a Rendezvous-enabled text editor, which allows several people to edit a text document at the same time. Imagine doing some extreme programming with this, with one person writing code and another following the first and correcting their mistakes & making optimizations simultaneously? It already works with Apple's Project Builder, supports syntax coloring, and the ability to manage access on a per-document basis. Future improvements will include support for RTF and much tighter integration with Project Builder. It looks to me like these guys are really on to something here." [Slashdot] 2:06:04 PM

Duke3d in Linux Duke3d in Linux Posted by michael on Friday April 04, @01:02PM from the come-get-some dept. Obiwan Kenobi writes "So it took four days, but Duke3d now runs in Linux, courtesy of Icculus.org. Ironically, a win32 port has yet to be released. Features include full sound support, hi-res video modes (aka VESA modes for those familiar with DOS), saved games, full screen or windowed viewing, and even the BUILD editor works (to a degree). No mouse, demos, or networking just yet, but the basic gameplay is there and now that the BUILD engine has been ported a win32 version is soon on the horizon."  [Slashdot] 2:02:36 PM

Open Source DRM Open Source DRM Posted by timothy on Thursday April 03, @04:39PM from the not-necessarily-an-afj dept. Clyde writes "The different worlds of DRM and Open Source have come together under OGG-S, a project that just recently went to beta with their Open Source DRM toolkit. The project license in GPL and uses OpenSSL for its encryption engine. It will be interesting to see if this project helps to spread the acceptance of Ogg Vorbis." [Slashdot] 9:11:41 AM

Fix what the wizards miss when you upsize Access apps to SQL Server - You're a seasoned Microsoft Access developer who can write VBA code in your sleep. For years, you've been developing complex applications in the classic MDB file type, but your very success now threatens you: Your tables have upwards of 50,000 rows, and the number of users is going up. The classic front-end/back-end style you've been using for years is beginning to show marks of strain. So what do you do? - TechRepublic 8:45:11 AM