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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘windows’
Jan 30 2009
Gears of Wars Expires on the PC
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Jan 17 2009
Windows 7 Beta
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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Mar 26 2007
Ubuntu Edgy Eft
I recently decided to upgrade my computer to be somewhat relevant to todays CPU speeds and, more importantly, storage space. So, this past weekend I sat down to put the new PC together and having done so decided to install both Linux and Windows XP on there. I chose the Ubuntu distribution, as I had [...]
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Jan 16 2007
100 Million IE7 Installs
Microsoft announced Friday it has hit the 100 million installation milestone for Internet Explorer 7, a figure that makes the new browser the second most used behind IE6. #
IE7 has been pushed out to many unsuspecting Windows users as part of the regular Windows Update cycle for quite some time now. Many Windows XP users [...]
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Dec 04 2006
The Linux Equivalent Project
A lot of people would consider switching over to Linux as their desktop OS of choice if they could get access to the kinds of applications they currently use in Windows. There are a lot of applications that provides functionality similar to their Windows brethren on Linux, but finding them is key.
The Linux Equivalent Project [...]
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