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We’re wrapping up work on v0.7 [build .708] and we now have what you’ve all been waiting for - a release date. Project Reality 0.7 will be released to the public tomorrow December 31st 2007. The PR Developers and Black Sand Studios have spent countless hours and have overcome many obstacles to bring you this completely new version, and we hope you will enjoy it as much as we do!

The server files have already been released on the Project Reality site.

and here’s the version .7 teaser trailer:

A model that became one of my favorites the instant I saw it. This is a custom model entered into a contest on starshipmodeler.com called “Wrecks”. And, while there are many great entries, there is no doubt why it won.

It even won my heart :snif:

Portal may be old and tired in game-life terms…

wait… if you agreed to that, get out.

Here’s Portal done lovingly with some Legos.

The FRONT software system allows people to trace out furniture, or any object, in 3D and completely realtime. The system then relays it to an fabrication device to mold the drawn model into an actual piece of plastic furniture.

The first part of this video is the drawing/modelling, and the second half shows a bit of the fabrication and the final pieces. Although it is a bit odd that they don’t show the pieces in use. No one sits on the little lumpy chair or drinks a gin n’ tonic off the swirly holey table.

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The king of all teasers is doing another one tomorrow at noon CST. George Broussard, the 3DRealms head, even released a teaser to the teaser, this rendered image:

(click for bigger)

edit: it’s out, they gave it to shacknews “exclusively”.

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This is so wrong, but oh so right.

Ever since my robotics class ended a year ago, I thought I would never have my hands on a AIBO again. The professor made sure to express his disappointment while telling us that Sony discontinued the AIBOs and, in fact, the entire Sony robotics program.

This is despite the fact that AIBOs are so good, and relatively cheap compared to other completely programmable walking robots. The AIBO was left to scavengers in the various Robosoccer leagues. And as servos failed and plastic cracks.. so would the poor little dog fade out of existence.

And then today, I see this photo:

I don’t even know what magazine this is, and I couldn’t find a bigger image. The print is illegible except for a few words. I’m sure we’ll hear more about it in the future. I will update this post with a bigger pic, if I find one.

So, all we really know is, it’s going to be a Playstation 3 accessory. That’s very hopeful since it could hardly cost mor ethan the playsation itself, so it will likely be much cheaper than the original AIBO. But that could also be bad, in that it could be a dumbed down version of the original.

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The story of an adventurer, weary fromt he years, speaking to the barkeep. Not bad at all, this game is going to be big.

Disable Bad Behavior in the plugins section of your site’s control panel. Apparently the blacklisting service used for Bad Behavior was giving a false positive to anyone actually using Bad Behavior, so you would be blocked from your own site.

To correct the issue after disabling, update to the newest Bad Behavior.

So, like all current Eve Online subscribers, I updated and installed the new Trinity patch that was released today. it installed without a hitch and the liquid smooth new client worked swimmingly. Eve looks bette rthan ever , and plays better to boot.

Unbeknownst to me, CCP let a huge bug in their installer go through int heir rush to get out the patch. It didn’t affect me (and honestly if it did, I would have just booted into Linux and fixed it) but it affected quite a few subscribers as evidenced by a lot of shocked threads by people who could no longer boot into windows. Apparently, the patcher changes to you root directory and deletes the boot.ini file. In their wisdom, CCP also has a boot.ini in the Eve folder, which is the one they were intending to delete/replace. See, if they had named it something else, anything else, this wouldn’t have even caused a problem.

Anyways, if you have already run the patcher but have not rebooted, yet, try to right-click on My Computer and go to Properties. Click the Advanced tab and click Settings under the Startup and Recovery section. Click the button saying “Edit”. This will bring up your boot.ini and you can save a backup of it, just in case. But if you already ran the updater, and you didn’t get an error, you’re probably in the clear (as I was).

If you got an error or need to fix your boot.ini:

Open notepad.

copy in:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect

with whatever os you have.

go to “save as” and make sure you change it to all files (otherwise you end up with boot.ini.txt) and save as c:\boot.ini.

go to start->run->cmd

enter “attrib +s +h +a boot.ini” when at the c:\ prompt

to verify, go to start->run->msconfig and there should be a tab for boot.ini

If you can’t boot at all after the patch:

Boot from your OS cd. and follow the directions to start Recovery Console. Choose the corresponding number asked of you for your OS is on, normally its #1 Then type:

Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
DEL C:\Boot.ini
BootCfg /Rebuild
Fixboot

Godspeed!