The third and last announce has been made: Steam Controller.
As for the Steam Machine, a beta is opened to Steam users who want to participate to the final phase of designing the controller.
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Yes, happy birthday to GNU!
And thank you for the fish 😉
And the second planified announce by Valve has been made: SteamMachines.
A beta program has been opened to Steam users to help designing and building the Steam Machine.
Now let’s see what O+O will be…
Here is the first of the three announces: SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system built around Steam and “designed for the TV and the living room”.
Symbolised by O, check the livingroom for the next announces: [O ] and O+O…
Nothing available yet but SteamOS should be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers.
Thanks to the following joke Shraght told me:
After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.
The guy from Corona sits down and says, “Hey Senor, I would like the world’s best beer, a Corona.” The bartender dusts off a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him.
The guy from Budweiser says, “I’d like the best beer in the world, give me ‘The King Of Beers’, a Budweiser.” The bartender gives him one.
The guy from Coors says, “I’d like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water, give me a Coors.” He gets it.
The guy from Guinness sits down and says, “Give me a Coke.” The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered.
The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask “Why aren’t you drinking a Guinness?” and the Guinness president replies, “Well, I figured if you guys aren’t drinking beer, neither would I.”
^^
I successfully managed to stream to Twitch using avconv from a Debian Wheezy system.
Here is the command used to display (part of) the desktop:
avconv -f x11grab -s 1680x1050 -r 15 -i :0.0 -c:v libx264 -pre fast -pix_fmt yuv420p -s 640x480 -threads 0 -f flv "rtmp://live.twitch.tv/app/live..."
Which means: grab the top left 1680×1050 pixels of the desktop at 15 fps and encode it using libx264 with the “fast” preset and the yuv240p picture format, resize this to 640×480 pixels using 1 CPU core and format all of this as a FLV stream to be sent using RTMP to the Twitch server (using the secret live streaming key).
Adapted from the FFmpeg streaming guide.
The X2Go project is a fairly efficient way to provide a graphical remote access to a Linux box. It is based on the excellent NoMachine free libraries, which is the technology behind the NX server and the FreeNX project, which seems not developped anymore.
A client will then only need a SSH access to the server to get a full featured graphical remote desktop.
Available for many Linux flavours, MS Windows and Mac OS X, the installation on a Debian client or server is really easy and straightforward, thanks to the packaging effort done by X2Go, and all the relevant information can be found on the wiki of the X2Go project.
I’m not fond at promoting FB but besides being a nice guy, ElcO, a french Quake 3 Defrag player and mapper, has started a page on FB for his work using GtkRadiant : Elco Mapping.
All of his maps are available at Wolrdspawn.org, here is the direct access to the full list. If you’re interrested, you may also check the thread on the defrag.fr forum dedicated to the runs on his maps ^^
You may also watch Defraging is not a crime, a brilliant video made by breacH, to see some great runs and tricks performed by ElcO.
Keep it up dude ^^