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Diablo III! Diablo III! It’s Going to Be Diablo III!!!
on 28/06/2008 - like it?

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If you’ve been following Blizzard’s mysterious splash screens for the past several days, then you must have known that Blizzard is upto their sneaky best, updating a splash-screen on a daily basis, teasing the fans. There were several speculations as to what the splash screen could be: a new series, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Starcraft 2 or even Diablo III. After 5 days of torture and tease here’s the final splash:

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YEAH BABY!!! I’m SUUUUUPER excited, I’ve been a huge fan of Diablo, Diablo II in particular since I’ve only played the demo of Diablo. Diablo II had me addicted to it for like 3 years – my friend picked up the original, he didn’t like it.I gave it a try and was INSTANTLY addicted to it.

So what will Diablo 3 be like? What will be the camera? Same isometric perspective as that of Diablo II or something different? Multiplayer: Will it be based on Battle.Net, Free or like WoW? When will it be out? What will the system requirements? Oooh so many questions!

Check out Blizzard’s Diablo 3 page for some gameplay videos and here’s a Cinematic Trailer of it.

Update: Kotaku has a 19-minute gameplay video, the trailer and artwork clip.
Check it out here

Tags: Blizzard, D3, diablo, Diablo 3, gaming, RPG

Ubisoft Demonstrates over 20 Minutes of Far Cry 2 Gameplay
on 27/06/2008 - like it?

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Yeah that’s right, twenty freakin’ minutes, and this is just a “teaser”. The devs claim that FarCry 2 has over 50 square kilometers of open area, over 100 missions, and over 50 hours of gameplay(what’s with everything being a multiple of 50, I wonder).

The game looks awesome though, and devs claim that still lot of work needs to be done – which was apparent from the demo, as it crashed mid-way during the demo, and there was lot of tearing and. lagging.

Based on the Dunia engine,  the gameplay demo was pretty awesome – specially the physics.

So, will this be the new Crysis – in terms of hogging system resources that is? Will the question shift from “Will this run Crysis” to “Will this run FarCry2″ now ?

Your guess is good as mine.

Till then, enjoy the video

Tags: dunia, farcry2, gameplay, gaming, Ubisoft, video

Some of The Most Embarrassing Moments
on 25/06/2008 - like it?

Another email forward that I’d got today. Absolutely awesome stuff. Direct copy paste from the mail.

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There was a World wide survey of “Most Embarrassing Moment in human life” and the final three incidents are ….

Third Place
It was the day before my eighteenth birthday. I was living at home, but my parents had gone out for the evening, so I invited my girlfriend over for a romantic night alone. As we lay in bed after making love, we heard the
Telephone ringing downstairs. I suggested to my girlfriend that I give her piggy-back ride to the phone. Since we didn’t want to miss the call, we didn’t have time to get dressed. When we got to the bottom of the stairs, the lights
Suddenly came on and a whole crowd of people yelled “SURPRISE!? My entire family, uncles, grandparents, cousins and all of my friends were standing there! My girlfriend and I were frozen to the spot in a state of shock and embarrassment!
For what seemed like an eternity. Since then, no-one in my family has planned a surprise party again.
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Tags: email, forwards, jokes, timepass

Query For Displaying The Calender of The Current Year using SQL
on 24/06/2008 - like it?

Another of things I got via IpMessenger, this query(yes, its a QUERY, not even a full-blown code) returns the calender of the current year. Do note this query will work only in Oracle.

Here’s the query.
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Tags: calender, oracle, query, SQL

And The Lamest Mouse Award Goes To….
on 23/06/2008 - like it?

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Preshit’s tweet about him having the lamest mouse triggered a series of “my-mouse-is-lamer-than-yours” tweets, and in midst of that we decided to have a contest – Who’s mouse is the Lamest? So who gets the award? Lets have a look at the contenders
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Tags: gadgets, lame, mouse, timepass

Digia @Web Beta Now Available For Download
on 22/06/2008 - like it?

Previously I’d posted about Digia @web – a fully, finger touch operated WebKit-based browser for UIQ3 phones like the Sony Ericsson P1i would be available for download soon in this month. All About Symbian has confirmed that the beta version is now available for download.

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Tags: browser, digia, mobile, smart phone, touch, UIQ, Web

Shriya
on 19/06/2008 - like it?

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Originally uploaded by soops_b

Yup, that’s my neice, Shriya and her mum, my sis Supriya. Shriya now pretty much looks like my brother-in-law. I’ve been saying this since day 1 but then there was a slight bit of my sis’s look in her. but now she’s got nary a look of my sis in her. Hope to get to meet her soon.

Been a while since, I’ve been to Mangalore, ast time I’d gone here was in March. With Shriya’s first birthday coming up in August, I hope I can get a week long leave to be with her during  her b’day.

Tags: Life, mangalore, Shriya, Supriya

The Confirmation Process Starts!
on 15/06/2008 - like it?

Most of you must be knowing that I’ve been working at 3i Infotech for about 11 months now. Yup 11 months – that’s how long I’ve been in Chennai – can’t believe, but I’ll save that post for later. As per the 3i’s joining conditions, I would be a trainee for a minimum of a year, though the trainee period maybe extended. The good news is that few days ago I got a mail asking me to fill in details about my reporting authority – i.e., whom I report to, the project name, former projects etc.

So I guess this is one-step towards my confirmation. So far I’ve been a trainee, earning stipend. Once I’m confirmed as an employee, I’ll be getting PF, HRA, medical allowance, and yes a salary hike too. So I’m hoping that the confirmation thingy goes well. I’ll keep you guys updated on this.

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Tags: 3i, appraisal, Chennai, Life, trainee

[How To] Removing Worm/Womble.D – Virus/Worm
on 15/06/2008 - like it?

Well as mentioned here my system was infected by this worm, so I thought I’d do a short post on how to fix this, as most Anti Virus Programs don’t get rid of this cleanly.

First thing, if you’re on the internet, GO OFFLINE! Disconnect, switch off the modem/router, pull the LAN/USB cable, just go offline. This is critical. Why you may ask?

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Tags: antivirus, AV, AVG, cleanup, Kaspersky, NOD32, tips, Tutorials, virus, womble, Womble.d, worm

My Laptop Gets An Attack!
on 15/06/2008 - like it?

A virus attack that is. After more than 8 months of virus-free computing(without using a Anti-Virus too, I might add) my laptop finally bit the bug(so to speak). It happened day-before yesterday, oddly seems to have triggered off after installation of Windows Media Player 11(Santosh was praising it, so I thought I’ll check it out). Downloaded it, got it WGA’d(yes my Windows XP SP2 is Genuine, OEM) and installed. First signs of trouble was when Windows Explorer kept throwing Data Execution Prevention Errors(DEP) while browsing through my Music partition. Then WMP11 kept crashing when trying to add my Audio collection(roughly about 7.65 GB).

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Tags: antivirus, AV, exploit, Kaspersky, trojan, virus, vulnerability, worm