Impending Windows 8 'catastrophe' behind $3bn game maker’s shift

Computer game platform maker Valve is to port its Steam gaming and distribution platform to Ubuntu Linux in a move intended to protect the company from the impending "catastrophe" of Windows 8. The availability...

Steam for Mac Available May 12: System Requirements

Steam for Mac Released May 12 Steam for Mac has finally arrived, seven years after first launching on the Windows platform. Steam is an online gaming platform, allowing users to buy and preview video games over...

Undersea volcano erupts in Tonga, South Pacific

An undersea volcano has erupted near Tonga in the South Pacific, shooting smoke, steam and ash straight up into the sky. Scientists are on their way to inspect the volcano, and no islanders have been affected at this...

The Reports of Google's Acquisition of Valve are Greatly Exaggerated

Valve Software, the game maker responsible for Half Life and the stream of spiritual successors such as Half Life 2 and Portal, and the Steam distribution system seems to be in the sights of Google's acquisition...

Full steam again (comment)

Could the steam engine be on its way back? The romance of the steam train has never gone but is the old technology with a few tweaks possibly the new technology?"In 1946 Paul Kiefer, chief mechanical engineer of...

Nine Dead After Midwest US Flooding

At least nine people are dead after heavy weekend rainfall caused flooding in Indiana, Wisonsin and Iowa. Streams and rivers were overrun with torrential waters and President Bush declared 29 Indiana counties...

Exploding toilets spur evacuation

Holy crap!" AUBURN, Wash. - An employee of an Auburn nursing home called firefighters for help on Tuesday because the toilets were exploding with steam. The fire department said there was a...

Dreams of Steam

The birth of steam is the birth of our technological society culminating in our present "Information Revolution". The future was wide open and full of possibilities then. One hundred and ninety-three years...

According To Mayor Michael Bloomberg one person died and twenty were injured ...

UPDATE: Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters that one person died from a heart attack following the incident and 20 others were injured. Four firefighters were treated for minor injuries at the...

ALL STEAMED UP ..... AGAIN !!!

Yes` Those good Folks of North Yorkshire are getting all steamed up again` as the A4 Pacific Streamlined Steam Locomotive " UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA " came steaming in to York Railway Station on Saturday 19th May...

All the way from America

A historic Great Western Railway coach currently in store in the USA is lined up for a return to Britain. GWR Brake Coach no was sold in 1967 and shipped across the water to the "Steamtown" Museum in Scranton,...

Beatles, BBCTV and a Steam Railway

A bit of an update on an earlier item. At the back end of 2006, film director Richard (Dick) Lester revisited the Minehead Branch with a BBCTV film crew. The West Somerset Railway laid on a special steam train -...

Education, education, education

Pupils from Chilton Trinity Technical College recenrtly paid a very successful visit to Bishops Lydeard Station in Somerset. Around fifty 16 to 17 year olds visited with class tutors to study railways and...

Stones start rolling in Somerset

Good to see the delivery of spent ballast start yesterday. A huge train from Network Rail arrived, with a large Class 66 loco at each end, and dumped a few hundred tons of stones at the Norton site. The stones...

The Big Blue One goes walkabout

Ex-SDJR 2-8-0 no 88 - currently finished in the famous Prussian Blue - is to visit two heritage railways in 2007. So report the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust. The prussian blue liveried engine will be...

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