mmm, what have i been playing? 

• Project Gotham Racing III (aka PGR III)
• Dead or Alive 4
• Crackdown
• GRAW 2
• Burnout Revenge
• Kameo
• Gears of War (My Favourite) :b
• Ninety-Nine Nights

and now my very own gamecard, though iam still a n00b

Well then here comes XGL, according to the offical statement

Xgl is a new Xserver architecture layered on top of OpenGL.

As XGL improves, i guess it would put Windows Vista far behind. The best way to install XGL if u are using Open SUSE 10.2 is open up Yast Package Manager and search for XGL and Compiz (Window Manager, that works great with XGL)

some of the  features of XGL include:

• Decouple window resolution from display resolution. Applications may render windows at a particular resolution, but may be seen on-screen at a different resolution. Consider a background/root gradient. Such a window (texture) may only be a few pixels in size but appear at 1600×1200 or larger.

• Fast, simple screen rotation/flipping/panning/magnification.

• Advanced font rendering, including on-the-fly outline font rendering using textures and fragment programs (see http://www.loria.fr/~levy/publications/papers/2005/VTM/vtm.pdf).

• Simulated hardware overlay planes. This long-time workstation graphics feature could be implemented with texture compositing.

• Full-screen color manipulation, including gamma correction, contrast enhancement, dimming/brightening, etc.

• Mixed pixel depths on one screen. Redirected, top-level windows could all have different color depths (8, 16, 24, 32bpp). For example: XTerms may be created with 8bpp (requiring 1/4 the texmem of a 32bpp visual) and displayed with a color-lookup table (fragment program texel lookup).

• Arbitrary per window colormaps (fragment program texel lookup)

• Alternate window color spaces. "video" windows may be stored as YCbCr (smaller than RGB) and converted to RGB on the fly when displayed using texture hardware.

• Window image compression: Use S3TC texture compression to compress windows whose contents seldom change. Best use would be the desktop background stored in the root window. Potentially big memory savings.

• New opportunities for antialiased X rendering with OpenGL multisampled surfaces.

You want to try out XGL and dont have Open SUSE installed? try out DreamLinux  (http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/8358)
run the Live CD version of DreamLinux 2.0 XGL Edition to check out all the EyeCandy of XGL.

There goes Vista..and here comes XGL!…hail Open Source! 

Some Links:

http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17174.html
http://www.dreamlinux.com.br

hmm…too much talkin and a long way to go

Well here comes JBoss Seam it has everything u need to get started with EJB3 and also to find out how cool JSF can be when integrated with EJB3. I came across some nice features about Seam when i visited the Linux Asia 2006 conference held in New Delhi, India. I met Subramaniam Satyamoorthy (Director of Operations and Services (Asia Pacific)) , quite a funny guy . He showed us some of the workings of Seam, that got me hooked into it. And i am still experimenting with a lot of interesting stuff in it, not to mention JBoss jBPM which i had no idea about untill i knew about JBoss Seam. EJB3 uses Hibernate for persistance so you got best of both worlds :p. Maybe after a while i might  just post some code for download regrading Seam. Eventhough Seam is still in beta its still a handfull.  So check it out at http://www.jboss.com/products/seam 

and oh btw, you need to either select "ejb3 cluster" or "ejb3" profile while installing Jboss Application Server .

oh yeah, BLOGS!!

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