End of vacation - begin of the 4th semester

Three weeks of relaxing... Over!

During this time, I read some news and found some interesting website which I like to share with you.

Descent 1 & 2 under Linux
For those of you, who played the computer in the middle of the 1990th's, you may know the games Descent and Descent 2. In these games, you fly completly 3-dimensional in outer space mines and shoot at some nasty robots :) I like this game, because the steering is very good (after changing to WASD + Mouse...) and it is quite challenging.
So, some guys made a port for Linux, which runs great!
http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/
Installation guide (german): http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Spiele/Descent

Against Intellectual Monopoly
One quite revolutionary book, I have found recently. In this book, the authors state that a removal of Copyright and patent law would result in a new boom. In accord with the title, you can download this book for free, of course. :)
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm

Running several Microsoft Windows operation systems on very poor computers
There are two guys out there competing, who can make a MSWindows (XP,Vista) run on the weakest computer.... like a Pentium 60 for Windows XP :D awesome (but useless of course^^)
http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini.htm

Online comics
In our English classes, sometime read some comics from "Dilbert", a webcomic about the allday life in a company (in a funny way).
http://www.dilbert.com/most_popular/

Btw: another comic, I read regulary, is the "Order of the Stick"... A very funny fantasy-based comic, which teases the "(Advanced) Dungeon & Dragons" role-playing game system; If you like RPGs (whether pen&paper or pc games [Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate...]) then you will love this ;)
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/ootslatest.html

MS-Word is Not a document exchange format
Without words...
http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html

LaTeX
During the vacation, I "played" a lot with this awesome typsetting system... With my next blog I will spread out some of the tweaks, hints I learned the last weeks ;)