Wednesday, July 27, 2005
  Tech Nuggets
Accoona.com AI-based search engine

Microsoft Shell - MSH - code-named Monad. With .net beta 2

IDS - snort. www.snort.org

Sender ID spec to fight spam - Backed by Microsoft and www.pobox.com
Yahoo DomainKeys, Cisco's Identified Internet Mail - Encryption based.
DomainKeys - signed MD from sender's domain and public key available by DNS lookup.

HTML Applications - HTA
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Monday, July 25, 2005
  Movie Review: Herbie Fully Loaded



*ing: Lindsay Lohan
My Rating: Total Kiddie movie. Avoid, unless you like Lindsay.

Sequel to Love Bug, this movie is about a girl who gets Herbie - the car who's alive. Then it’s a rollercoaster joyride.

Makes a nice watch for little girls.
posted by Div @ 2:52 AM   0 comments
  Movie Review: Dungeons & Dragons



*ing: Justin Whalin, Zoe McLellan
My Rating: Ok Ok. If you've not seen it, you've not missed anything.

In a land of fantasy, one brave thief helps save the kingdom by enduring various hurdles to get the scepter that has powers of controlling Red Dragons.

Nice GC.
posted by Div @ 2:41 AM   0 comments
  Movie Review: Dus



*ing: Sunjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Zayed Khan, et al
My Rating: Can watch once

The Anti Terrorist Cell, headed by Sunjay Dutt, has found out about a terrorist activity planned on 10th (thus Dus!), which is slated to kill some 25,000 people. Their mission is to crack the Dus code and foil the terrorist plans.

Good acting, good action sequences, nice songs…make the movie watchable.
posted by Div @ 2:36 AM   0 comments
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
  Movie Review: Bewitched














Cast: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell
Rating: Avoidable

Will casts Nicole as a witch for a television show in a Bewitched remake. Only later he realizes that Nicole is a real witch.

The movie goes on very predictable lines. One might laugh once or twice…not a great comedy. And, where is the ravishing Nicole of Moulin Rouge, who stole our hearts with her divine appearance and scintillating performance?
posted by Div @ 11:12 PM   0 comments
  Movie Review: Gattaca

Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman in Gattaca


*ing: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
Director: Andrew Niccol (of The Terminal, Truman Show)

The movie describes a period in the future where Genetics rules. In that time frame, there are god's children (born the age old way) and natural born (genetically engineered to have the best traits of both the parents). The movie describes an era where genetics determines everything - schooling to job selection; and a tale of a god's child raising above the expectations set by his genes to be one among equals.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
  Sony, Microsoft present next-gen games consoles
Games-designers experienced a double whammy at the E3 show in the US in May, with both Sony and Microsoft spilling the beans on their next-gen offerings. Microsoft revealed the Xbox 360, which is slated to launch in November 2005, while Sony took the wraps off the PlayStation 3, scheduled for a Spring 2006 launch. Analysts reckoned that Sony stole the show, with the PS3 tipped to be 35-times more powerful than the PlayStation 2.

At the heart of the PlayStation 3 is the Cell chip, developed for use by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. The chip is based on IBM’s Power PC architecture and will have seven cores, each running at 3.2GHz, to give the chip a total performance of 218GFlops. Running alongside the Cell will be a graphics processor developed by NVidia that is capable of handling full high-definition 1080p images and boasts performance of 1.8TFlops. Together, the two chips are about double the performance than that claimed by Microsoft for the Xbox 360. The processors will be backed up by 256MB of XDR memory running at 3.2GHz and 256MB of GDDR3 graphics memory.

PlayStation 3 will include three ethernet ports, 802.11b/g wireless LAN and Bluetooth. In addition, there are six USB 2.0 interfaces and card slots for Memory Stick, Secure Digital, and Compact Flash (CF) memory cards. The console also includes a slot for a removable 2.5-inch hard-disk drive. For game-designers, the PlayStation 3 will likely be a massive improvement. In addition to the extra performance offered by the new chips, the PlayStation 3 will also be capable of high definition output up to 1,080 lines in progressive scan, which is the highest image quality of several signal types generally grouped as high-definition signals. Sony has said that developing for the PS3 will be more cost-effective at launch than it was to develop for the PS2 when it launched. The console will also double as a player for high-definition movies on Blu-ray Disc.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has intimated that the Xbox 360 could form the centerpiece of a digital, connected home. System specs bear out that contention. Powered by a custom-made IBM PowerPC-based three-core chip running at 3.2GHz, and supported by 512MB of GDDR3 RAM,
the new Xbox offers 1TFlop of power. Graphics are powered by an ATI GPU running at 500 MHz, with 10MB of embedded DRAM.

The unit will ship with a 12x dual-layer DVDROM drive, three USB 2.0 ports, two memory unit slots, and support for four wireless game controllers. It supports progressive-scan DVD movies and a slew of DVD and CD formats, with output at 1080i. For networking, the Xbox 360
includes a built-in ethernet port and support for 802.11a, b, and g flavours of Wi-Fi. Microsoft also sought to woo games studios, with it pledging the Xbox 360 will be easier to develop for.
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