http://www.tsumea.com/australasia/australia/news/040210/app-my-state-100...

100K Up for grabs in some application development competition being run by your state’s government. Apparently the comp is only open to local’s.

Presenting:

It’s called Google’s Public DNS. Read more here:
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

So my commissary to all fellow IPX’ers is here. I’m sorry that I have to say this and I deeply regret that it has come to this but…

Last night I got to play Borderlands at Atomic HQ – so suck that!

As per the line above the rest of this post will also contain releases of gloating (which I have pre-apologised for) and useless observations. I ended up there because I ‘won’ a spot in that competition I posted up. It meant we got an invite to the Atomic HQ to play borderlands and get some Beer (TED, Hahn Super Dry and James Boag’s Premium Light mmm) and Pizza in us.

There is a competition for Borderlands over on AtomicMPC: http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Borderlands/Default.aspx

It’s a puzzle comp thing where you have to find a set of numbers spread out over the site first before you can enter the comp; alternatively you can thank me?

1 – #588516
2 – #948349
3- #348370
4- #587851

The time has come, the pre-order’s begun and JB Hi-Fi Online has welcomed the run with a competition as big as this pun; prizes not totaling the sun and instead just a PC customised – to look like a big green box.

Pre Order Price $79.00

http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/Product/422508/WOLFENSTEIN-(Online-Competition)

Due to our challenge with TW being accepted for Tuesday night, being our normal prac night and all, we need to reschedule to Monday night instead. Even if your not planing to play on Tuesday, please come and provide us with some cannon fodder for Commlink.

When: Monday 23rd
Time: 8pm
Location: Will most likely be on the IPX server; check IRC before for confirmation.

Also a reminder for those who haven’t marked down availability – please do so as we haven’t filled the team yet.

So I assume there are already a proportion of Slashdot readers here but for those of you who aren’t a new cross platform, Open Source FPS has shown up on Slashdot in the past few days called bloodfrontier.

Linky link link: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/bloodfrontier/index.php?title=Home

And on passing I also reminisced about this game, http://www.freecol.org/ – well it was one of the top 20 Sourceforge apps this month, any one interested in a night of colonisation, well freecol?

What it is:
An GPL Open Source, free as in speech and free as in beer, application which supports high quality VOIP for gaming. It works cross plat form (Linux and Windows being the platforms of interest here) and allows us to utilise our own server to host the channel. After it is configured correctly, it will be able to automatically detect when you are speaking and transmit this across the channel, no holding down of buttons required. This provides us with a great alternative to Skype for games like Padman.

Grab the installation files here:
Windows: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mumble/Mumble-1.1.6.exe
Linux: Install via your favourite repository or grab the source and compile http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

To connect to the IPX Murmur server use the address: server.ipx.evolvingsoftware.com

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