World of WarCraft Patch Repo!
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Posted by on March 15th, 2009Lately I fired up and installed my untouched copy of World of Warcraft bought from USA. It had been sitting in the closet due to some initial failures I incurred 
But finally it installed, I created an account and logged on.
Lo and Behold, I had to download some 3 to 5 gibs of updates just to play the game. I knew that would happen… without regrets I started downloading via the patch downloaded bundled with the game.
It uses a dynamic hash table (DHT) mechanism to keep a track of IPs sharing the same content. Much akin to the bittorrent protocol. Anyways, given to the fact that I am in Pakistan and I couldn’t really find people downloading the same patch to leech from, I was getting no where near completion of the 500+ meg download.
I knew Blizzard wouldn’t leave their fans in a lurch and searched up where I could download patches via HTTP. Thankfully there was a huge repository of reliable hosts that was serving them. It was Blizzard support themselves that listed various mirrors to these patches. Without wasting a second, I started downloading them one by one.
If you are having trouble download patches, or sit behind a firewall, I suggest you try the following link: World of Warcraft Patch Mirrors.
Good luck, have fun!
Personal Privacy, Mobile Computing and Censorship
Posted by on May 3rd, 2008
With more and more of out lives being organized into smaller and smaller chips these days, it is inevitable if you are a professional that you’d be using a laptop by now, or will use one in the near future for personal use.
From personal identification to contacts, to bank details and company designs. Mobile devices of today can be one hell of a baggage to carry. That is the very reason both the individual consumers and the governments around the world are talking cautions to safe guard their interests.
Pixelated NYC through years of Video Games
Posted by on April 27th, 2008
Probably the most virtually depicted city ever, New York City represents the quintessential capital of the world. From shady drug peddlers, to corrupt politicians, to loose women and underground mafiosi… Nothing beats the hardcore image of New York City. Tokyo, L.A., Chicago, London, Boston don’t even come with-in a mile’s distance. Let me just point you to the link of this awesomely detailed article via kottke. Enjoy the read.
When ‘home alone’ ask Macaulay and Mila!
Posted by on April 27th, 2008
Movies are going down. The film industry is facing a slow down thanks to a surging gaming market and industry, plus the recent writer’s strike, etc. Apart from gadgets, web 2.0 web apps, and new media, the next hip thing is gaming. Ask these celebrities who have been interviewed by online e-Zine ‘Complex‘ who quized the two stars about World of WarCraft.
World of WarCraft is Blizzard’s massively popular massively multiplayer online role playing game. Which literally defines it’s genre, MMORPG. It is a paid subscription game that is extremely popular all over the world, especially North America.
Macaulay Culkin is famous for his Home Alone movies series, a cute face, and drug abuse. Mila Kunis is a more stable yet equally intelligent That 70’s Show (Wikipedia) super babe.
Surprisingly Mila and Macaulay were amazingly well informed about the game and was able to name famous sub-culture phenomenon that people on the fringe of the WoW world barely know. They both scored an awesome 5.8 on the quiz.
According to Mila, the nerdiest thing people can do on World of WarCraft, is “playing it”. She was also name the infamous name that was popularized by YouTube raid video.
CPL calls it a day!
Posted by on March 15th, 2008
Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) was a start up in Dallas, Texas in 1997 that put Counter-Strike 1.6 on the map and created a whole culture and community behind it. CPL was founded with the thought that one day it would be able to make e-sports a viable spectator sport.
