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[17 Jun 2007 | No Comment | 119 views]

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html
I’ll post my comments later.

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[14 Jun 2007 | No Comment | 98 views]

First the iPod Shuffle, and now a Macbook! Granted, that the shuffle was a raffle prize at work, it still was my first official Apple possession. For the longest time, I imagined myself never ever buying a Mac simply because to me it never appeared as a serious development platform. Having grown up with DOS and then the ever evolving Windows platform, adopting an OS that still used Objective C for most app development just didn’t seem interesting to me.

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[22 May 2007 | No Comment | 531 views]
I am now a licensed Amateur Radio operator !

I will now be known as Saurabh Garg, KI4WAH !

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[30 Apr 2007 | No Comment | 147 views]

Not everyone remembers using dial-up networking to get on the Internet. This is more true for people who started using the Internet, in general, around the last 6-7 years. I used a dial-up connection to get online up until Fall 2002, which was when I finally got a 3Mbps cable connection.
Hence, after reading the announcement by the NCSU IT Department that they were retiring all their RAS modems, I was compelled to reminisce my first few days as a grad student. I ran Linux on my cheap hand-me-down desktop PC, …

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[12 Mar 2007 | No Comment | 125 views]

I was finally able to grab a Wii console from Best Buy last week! This is an amazing console. It’s very different from all the current generation consoles out there in terms of both playability and enjoyability. The motion sensing controls are great for sports games like Tennis, Bowling, and boxing. Needless to say, a lot of time on the weekends has been spent playing these games with my housemates.
Just when I thought that my last ever Nintendo purchase would be the DS Lite, I was proved wrong by …