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Pro Level Web-D, at DCE

Apoorv posted recently on his blog about the code-breaking event conducted by the IEEE club of DCE. He won the event, congratulations to him (his blog seems to be down right now). What caught my attention was the link to the online version of their event, so I decided to have a look at it. After all, Panache Online is a very refined thing which the folk at DCE have made.

However, one look at the IEEE event online version Encryptopedia is sure to any gargoyle worth its grotesqueness turn around in its grave. Straight out of CBSE class 10 IT curriculum web designing. Either way, they messed up. If they gave the website making duty to some guy who’s got no friggin’ clue, it’s their fault; and if it’s true that NOBODY in DCE’s IEEE club knows web-d, then it’s even more sad. And THEN they cry about more people being hired by tech companies from NSIT.

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An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops – Yahoo! News

An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops – Yahoo! News.

Systems for tracking laptops have been around for some time, plus that case where SETI@Home helped track a stolen laptop. Now, University of Washington is working on an open-source software to solve the same problem. The software is in beta testing stage right now, so might not be very stable – but it’s a step in the right direction – not having to pay a fistful of money in annual membership fees to track your laptop.