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Archive for December, 2008

Catastrophic Failure

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Reports coming in from communities of Zune users today say that every 1st-Generation Zune (the 30GB variety) experienced a software glitch at 12:00AM December 31st which caused the device to freeze during boot-up and become unusable.
There is some speculation that it may be related to the fact that today is the 366th day of the [...]

Culture Shock

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

In one of my classes, we are writing a computer forensics program which can recover deleted JPEGs from a file system. As part of this project, the TAs created several disk images which contained deleted pictures for us to recover.
I suspect that one of the TAs, by name and choice of image, is Hindu. I [...]

Aggregate Wisdom

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

You may not be aware, but among game releases with at least 10 reviews from major publications, Persona 4 is currently the 2nd-highest reviewed game of 2008 on Gamerankings and Metacritic, behind only GTA4 (ugh, seriously?). While that score may dip as more reviews come in, it’s pretty amazing that a JRPG is currently above [...]