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I finished a couple of single player games recently… the first of which was Prey. I actually enjoyed it, I thought some of the gameplay ideas were interesting, and I’m sure you’ll see some of these gimmicks showing up in other games. I particular, the idea of a portal has a lot of potential. You can see them in an enhanced form in the upcoming “Portal” game from Valve, to be released with Half-Life 2 Episode 2 I believe.

I finally went looking for a better theme.

This is so much better.

Just got back from Linux World in San Francisco (actually, show ended on Thursday but I hung out until the 19th to visit friends.) Good show, but 6 days is a recent record for me being away from home, and it’s good to be back.

I focused on the HPC and kernel development tracks while I was there. In particular, I have several new things to experiment on that I saw there.

For starters, it became clear that I should probably get an AMD-based system for my OpenSolaris experiments. The demo machine I saw there with OpenSolaris with a Brandz CentOS lx zone on it seemed like a really decent machine, and while I’ve always liked SPARC, maybe it would be good to have both.

For the meantime, I will actually be playing with opensolaris on VMWare. Virtualization has been a pretty big topic lately, and at the conference I talked to SuSE (who’s distributing Xen), XenSource, VMWare (which I’ve been using since it was first available, and am currently using at work and at home), SWSoft (makers of OpenVZ/Virtuozzo) (which I’d managed to never hear about before somehow.)

I’ll have more to say about what I saw there. Next time I may even take pictures.