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According to the project page he did it in this way:

When the crickets should chase Pac-Man, I switch on the motors furthest away from his location in the maze, so the crickets will flee in his direction.

A better link to this project can be found at http://mediatechnology.liacs.nl/htmlIndex.html. Go to 'projects', then 'all projects by year', then 'Animal Controlled Computer Games'. Looks like this project was done back in 2004 - not exactly recent news.

Digg: The RSS feed doesn't contain the link to the story, forcing you to go to their useless comments page.

A more graphic description of the voting patterns can be found here It clearly show that us Brits (and Irish) vote for the better songs while those Southern (and Eastern) Europeans can't be trusted.

http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/strace/http://www.lia cs.nl/~wichert/strace/

I still have no idea where to place my updated textures, music files and models to get them into my game under Linux. :-(

Heehee, I was wrestling with this yesterday evening.

I resorted to using strace, redirecting stdout and stderr to a file, then searching through the trace for the string "No such file" to see where it was expecting the files to be. I installed Doomsday into /usr/local, so the data files were in a directory tree under /usr/local/share/deng; if you're still having problems when you read this comment, post a reply and I'll give you more details. (Can't do it at the moment as I'm at work. And The Boss's desk is right behind mine. Talk about living dangerously ;-)

To add to the problems, Doomsday seemed to be expecting a case-insensitive filesystem (a legacy of its Windows origins, no doubt), as it seemed quite inconsistent in its use of (for example) "jdoom" vs. "jDoom", "md2" vs. "MD2" etc, so I ended up mounting a FAT32 partition under /vfat and symlinking the data directory into it. What fun. There's probably a "proper" way of solving that one, mind.

-Stephen

At my university we have some 30-40 X terminals running on one Solaris server (a quad processor server with 4G RAM, aptly named "beast"). The thin clients are Sun Rays. I don't know how much they cost, but I know the X terminal principle is very flexible compared to the 4-terminals-on-one-PC option: you can use a single server to serve terminals that can be spread out over a wide area, instead of next to the PC in question. If there would just be a cheap X terminal solution available, I think it would be a perfect solution for public libraries and internet cafes.

the teacher of some boring statistics course made the mistake of saying ".. in a programming language of your choice"

here is the postscript file, in case anyone cares

Well, I've learned my lesson. Next time I'll just submit this as a story. I didn't do it the previous time because I didn't know if the project was ready for that kind of public attention yet, and as there are guys working on this project down the hall from where I work (the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science LIACS) I didn't want to get involved in drawing too much attention when the project wasn't really up to speed yet.