Thursday, May 18, 2000

Slashdot's Lawyers Respond to Microsoft -- 4:38 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The lawyers representing Andover.Net, the parent company of Slashdot, have submitted a formal response to Microsoft's demands for Slashdot to remove posts dealing with their proprietary extensions to the Kerberos open-source authentication protocol (story). The response is more of a series of questions intending to prove whether or not Microsoft has any right to make such demands. The questions are logical and get to the heart of the matter, but I question if they actually have any legal bearing. It will be interesting to see how far M$ is willing to push this, given their current legal problems. More to come, I'm sure.

C Tutorials -- 4:05 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Raven's Jake Simpson has whipped up some quick and dirty C tutorials over at Voodoo Extreme. If you are an aspiring mod maker and want to learn the basics of C/C++ programming, check these out. Just ignore all the smileys.

New Q3A Requiem Released -- 11:04 am CST, Update by The Master

There's a version 0.6 release of the Q3A Requiem Mod available on the Requiem Homepage. Included in the release are runes (like QW), a skinnable grapple, slide jumping, and a slew of new weapons and ammo, including a flamethrower.

#9 isn't alive -- 11:02 am CST, Update by The Master

According to Number Nine's website, Number Nine Visual Technology has ceased operation. This is kinda depressing for me, since #9 was the supplier of the video card in my first Dell PC.

More Microsoft Security issues -- 10:56 am CST, Update by The Master

I believe we already reported on this one, but ZDNet has a report up entitled "Microsoft's 'Clippy' a Security Nightmare", indicating the issues with the "safe for scripting" labelling on Microsoft's Office Assistant tool.

Rant Warning: Why in the heck hasn't Microsoft learned from their past security mistakes? Microsoft has made this particular mistake at least 3 times in the last 2 years. They have more unchecked buffers than I have brain cells. How hard is it to program in a "secure" manner? As soon as Microsoft pays themselves for their security blunders this crap is going to go away. Otherwise prepare to suffer a lot more of this stuff in the future. Hey, monopolies don't have to care about the customers, and Gross Profit is King.

History today -- 10:49 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1804: French Senate proclaims Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
• 1896: Supreme Court endorses the "seperate but equal" Plessy vs. Ferguson decision, which is overturned 58 years later.
• 1933: The Tennessee Valley Authority is created.
• 1944: The expulsion of the Tatars from the Crimea begins after the Soviet Union accuses them of collaboration with the Germans.
• 1951: The United Nations moves to it's perminant home in Manhattan.
• 1953: Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to fly supersonic in a specially modified North American F-86 Canadair over Rogers Dry Lake, CA.
• 1969: Apollo 10 blasts off.
• 1974: India joins the nuclear powers with the detonation of their first atomic bomb.
• 1980: Mount St. Helens explodes in Washington state, leaving 57 people dead or missing.
• 1990: The two Germanys sign a monetary union treaty, the first step towards Unification.

Wednesday, May 17, 2000

Carmack on Video Cards -- 5:11 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

id's John Carmack updated his .plan with his thoughts, high points, and caveats for the latest video cards from NVIDIA, ATi, and 3dfx. Marriage must be doing wonders for him because for the first time that I can remember, he uses sarcasm in his .plan. He is talking about 3dfx' Voodoo4/5 when he says:

Rasterization feature wise, voodoo4 is just catching up to the original TNT. We finally have 32 bit color and stencil. Yeah.

Now all I need is a cheap GeForce . . .

SiN in the Bargain Bin -- 10:58 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Women Gamers has a column called The Bargain Bin which reviews games that, rightly or wrongly, are now living in the cheap seats at your local software purveyor. This time they take a look at SiN. I've always heard that behind all the bugs there was a great game waiting to get out. I never could get the demo to run on my old system. This review has me thinking about trying it again. Thanks Stomped.

J.t.Qbe comments: . . .must. . .stay away. . .from CompUSA. . .

History today -- 9:13 am CST, Update by The Master

• 1792: The New York Stock Exchange is founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street.
• 1875: The first Kentucky Derby is run.
• 1938: The Vinson Naval Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, which provided for a two-ocean Navy.
• 1940: Nazi Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
• 1946: President Truman seizes control of railroads, delaying a strike threatened by engineers and trainmen.
• 1954: U.S. Supreme Court descision on Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, overturning an 1896 ruling on education being "seperate but equal," thus outlawing racially segregated schooling.
• 1973: Senate opens hearings on the Watergate scandal.
• 1987: An Iraqi warplane attacks the U.S.S. Stark with two Exocet missiles, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62 others.

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