Fedora 14 - Ember the new game client

Today I saw that Fedora 14 comes with a client for online games.
Named Ember is a modular client framework using Ogre for graphics.
Who wants to have fun, here is the web address.
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New 3DMark 11

Starting November 30, 2010 will launch the new benchmark from Futuremark video. It is called http://store.futuremark.com/shop/cart.jsp?addedproduct=true
3DMark 11 is the latest version of most popular benchmark.
Prices for this software are based on its functions and are
* Free!
* $19.95
* $995.00
We can pre-order this software from here.

PCI 3.0 - refresh of graphics.

The PCI-SIG finalized the specifications of PCI-Express 3.0 bus.
Is designed to be backwards-compatible with devices that use older versions of the bus.
The new PCI-Express 3.0 has, resulting in a data-rate of 1 GB/s per lane, per direction.
The first PCI-Express 3.0 compliant devices will come to be in 2011.
You can read the specifications from official source.

GLEW 1.5.7 Released

The new update of GLEW adds the GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info extension and fixes some compiler bugs.
You can download it from HERE.
GLEW named "OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library" is the most popular OpenGL extensions management lib.

Ogre 3D - First steps

I just tried to use 3d engine - Ogre 3D. Although I have not programmed in C + + for a very long time, the tutorials found on the net helped me a lot. Installing this engine linux distribution - Fedora is simple, it seemed more complicated in Windows XP. I used IDE Code:: Blocks and here's what resulted:

First Ogre 3D tutorial from Catalin Festila on Vimeo.

Blendern 3D - Shape Modeling Exercise #5 by Kernon Dillon

I saw this video tutorial by Kernon Dillon. Is a simple one , but just let us to know some modeling techniques. With a duration of 27 minutes, the tutorial must be seen by those who use this software.

Shape Modeling Exercise #5 - Wrapping an Object with a Lattice-style Mesh from Kernon Dillon on Vimeo.