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I decided to start doing more stuff with XNA. However I want to use Visual Studio Pro rather than the Visual Studio Express. Unfortunately Pro doesn’t support the XNA content pipeline or deploying to the XBOX 360. For the moment I can live without the deployment feature (my 360 is busted anyway) but I need the content pipeline. So what I’ve done is started developing an NAnt task for processing XNA Content with the XNA Content pipeline.

I’ve put the source code up on my Projects page here. So far for what I need it to do the task is sufficient, but I’m sure as my needs increase I’ll be extending it a bit.

What makes Laptop vendors like HP choose to be so sucky at supporting graphics drivers.  I have an HP Compaq nx7010.  It is my main PC.  The one I’d like to play games on.  The only problem is that the graphics drivers are ancient.  So I’m stuck playing ancient games.  I don’t expect this Laptop to play Crysis but at least HL2: Episode One would be nice.  Sure it’ll crawl along at 800×600 but I’m ok with that.

This article talks about Second Life VR “game” client going open source. Which is cool. However the author doesn’t know much about Open Source.

Netscape the company failed because it couldn’t compete commercially with a free browser bundled with the dominate desktop OS of the time. But their gift of the Mozilla (aka Netscape Navigator & Mail) source code to the Internet community and founding of the Mozilla Foundation has produced Firefox which now enjoys a 30% “market share” by some metrics.
Linux has not failed in the market. According to ZDNet Research Windows commands 65-70% of the corporate server operating system market, while the Linux share stands at 15-20%. Currently, Linux server shipments represent the fastest-growing segment of the market. Fastest growing doesn’t sound like a failure.

US game development industry lifestyle drives Insomniac developers east, far east. Kotaku us reporting that some US developers are so feed up with the constant crunch that they are fleeing to the east for better working conditions. Just don’t tell the Chinese coal miners and slave labourers.