Web Journal of Alex Combas

The trouble with Linux Games

Alex Combas — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:22:52 +0000

In my web wandering I recently came across the Ubuntu Gaming team which is a marketing effort which was started from a post over on pinstack. Here is the problem: the Linux gaming landscape is a wasteland, and more marketing couldn’t hurt but it sure wont fix the problem. So what does Linux Gaming really need? Well [...]

Cougar tossing Momma

Alex Combas — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:30:46 +0000

CBC News has a pretty amazing article about some conservation officers who tracked and shot a cougar in Squamish this week. The only reason I read it was because I thought that “tracking a cougar” sounded pretty cool and images of awesome bushmen with tracking skills popped into my head, but I was disappointed to find [...]

Why doesn’t Google use Qt or Swing or SWT for Chromium?

Alex Combas — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:33:11 +0000

I’ve been pouring through the video’s as they’ve been released of the Google-IO conference which happened a few days ago, its really hard to imagine that so much awesome took place over just two days. I think Google’s next step should be to open Google University to teach people how to use all this awesome [...]

Unemployment rate in B.C. expecting 9%

Alex Combas — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:08:27 +0000

Unemployment rate in B.C. inches up to 7.6% and they are expecting it to go to 9% by the year end. Also The Big Money reporting that nearly 12% of the Video Game industry has been laid off since last year (8,450 jobs bye-bye) Well… one thing I will say though is that it seems like this [...]

Setup Guide: Maya 2009 Sp1 Linux x64

Alex Combas — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:02:26 +0000

Since writing the lamentation about my absence from the Linux scene I discovered that I had actually installed an older version of Mays since SP1 is now out for 2009 So this seemed like a good time to hammer out a more in depth guide to setting up Maya 2009 x64 on Ubuntu Jaunty. Pre-install setup: First you [...]