Play Foreign Region DVDs with VLC!!

POSTED BY Abhinav on 31 May 2006
in Dumb Machine

I’m sure that you have been told about the benefits of VLC Media Player, a very versatile player that plays almost all codecs (except RM), but I bet that you didn’t know it could play DVDs from foreign regions.
Yes, in fact it all happens so smoothly that I have been overlooking it for months. I [...]

Shell Script for a Periodic MySQL Backup

POSTED BY Abhinav on 26 May 2006
in Code-n-Stuff

I’ve been playing around with the UNIX shell off late, and its helped me greatly in reducing backup times for backing up my MySQL databases from at least 10 minutes to around 10 seconds. Also, since it’s a little tricky to manage periodic backups, I made a little shell script that you can use to [...]

Apple Strikes it Right with the MacBook

POSTED BY Abhinav on 17 May 2006
in Cool Gadgets

The long awaited MacBooks are finally out and although there is is not much revolutionary about them, Apple has managed to pack quite a punch. I has earlier mentioned that Apple has brought itself into direct contention with PC manufacturers, and with the MacBook, the response has been excellent.
The new MacBooks are very well priced [...]

Free Calls to US, Canada!!

POSTED BY Amit on 16 May 2006
in Internet Lurker

So you’ve heard of VoIP and Skype, the company that eBay bought for $2.6 billion, which lets you make free PC-to-PC calls worldwide via VoIP for free? Big deal?? :eyebrow: That still requires you and the person you are talking to, to have a PC and internet connection. But what if one wants to call [...]

Genuine Movies for Free via BitTorrent?

POSTED BY Abhinav on 12 May 2006
in Internet Lurker

Warner Brothers has announced that they will soon introduce downloading of their movies for a fees via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network. You can read more about that from the following.
Warner Bros.’s video unit on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell movies and television shows to BitTorrent Inc. for legal downloads from the Web site that was [...]

Mac, hollow inside!!

POSTED BY Amit on 10 May 2006
in Dumb Machine

For any of us who’s been around, its hardly possible to have not come across at least one debate where a Mac enthusiast haven’t ranted off furiously in favour of the power horse that a Mac is and the weakling that PC(read Windows) is!! Talk a bit more into it & the conversation tends [...]

Back and Better!!

POSTED BY Amit on 3 May 2006
in Barking Mads

diGit Blog is now back online after being down for some part of the morning today as it was being upgraded. :shh: Its now running the latest stable release of WordPress along with WP-Cache2 as earlier. GZip has also been turned on, so the load times will be quite better than earlier, and some other [...]

Lets all kill Microsoft!!

POSTED BY Amit on 2 May 2006
in Internet Lurker

When it comes to playing down and dirty, one can’t be sure that the other won’t be having dirtier tricks in their bags!! But perhaps Google thought otherwise!! It seems that everything around the web is poisoned with a dash or more of hypocrisy, the “do no evil” company is also not immune to it!!
It [...]

Hindustan Times Promotes “Piracy”!

POSTED BY Abhinav on 1 May 2006
in Internet Lurker

I was shocked to come across this article in the Hindustan Times (Delhi Edition), one of India’s leading daily newspapers. It explains how to can watch movies and listen to songs for “free.” What it does not mention is that it is providing links to illegal BitTorrent trackers.
The following text is quoted from the published [...]

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