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Jan 30 2009

Gears of Wars Expires on the PC

category: Gaming author: Ashwin

Owners of Epic’s Gears of War were in for quite a interesting predicament when they tried to play the game on January 28th. Turns out that the DRM that came bundled with the program had a digital certificate that deactivated on that date and thus rendered the game useless.
If we’ve learned anything from the debacle [...]

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Jan 17 2009

Windows 7 Beta

category: Technology author: Ashwin

Microsoft decided to unleash their Beta of Windows 7, the successor to the abysmal Windows Vista last week. After the initial hoopla caused by the arbitrary download limit of 2.5 million which cause the servers to crash, Microsoft wisely decided to remove the limit and allow one and all to download the Beta.
I grabbed the [...]

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Jul 31 2008

UP

category: Humor, Technology author: Ashwin

Pixar has always made excellent movies. From the first Toy Story to Ratatouille (I haven’t had a chance to see Wall-E yet) the stories and characters have been very memorable.

This teaser for their next movie UP continues that fine tradition in an approx. 45 second video. Enjoy
Cheers

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Jul 28 2008

Not So Cuil

category: Technology author: Ashwin

I read about Cuil (pronounced as Cool) this morning and decided to see what it can do. It was created by former Google employees with the hopes of upstaging Google with it’s search prowess. However, a few simple search in Cuil yielded no useful results at all.
I searched for the string “linux usb hardy” in [...]

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