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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Origami: O-blimey!

Saturday, March 11, 2006

When I first heard all the hype and excitement around Microsoft’s Origami project, I have to admit – I thought it would be a slightly innovative, sort of good looking, but only marginally useful device. I have to admit, I was wrong. It turns out that it lacks any innovation, is ugly beyond belief, and [...]

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How insecure can an OS be?

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Avyakt recently compared Microsoft Windows and women. In the same vein, I recently found out what an insecure OS Windows can be. I recently gave in to temptation and bought a 250 GB hard drive (only S$150!) and decided I might as well give in to my gamer urges as well, and proceeded to install [...]

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Sing it for me, Abba…

Friday, March 3, 2006

You can code, on your drive, having the time of your life Write that script, watch that feed, put in the random seed… Friday night and the work is slow… Stuck at the comp no place to go… Typing in a frenzy, breaking in the spring You gotta get that ping Nothing else will get [...]

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What’s your poison?

Thursday, March 2, 2006

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Game on!

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, on Linux, using WINE. Bliss :) No better way to get high just after a deadline! OK, here’s what I did. I’m using Fedora Core 4, by the way. Install wine. All you need to do is yum install wine Run winecfg Go to the “Graphics” tab. Check “Emulate a [...]

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