Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released -- 11:50 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Linus and the gang have released the 2.6.7 Linux kernel. The big reason to upgrade (if you are running 2.6.x right now) is that this kernel includes a fix for the recently discovered bug where a local user could lock the box up. Naturally, you should hit one of the mirrors to download this one. I know that I am!

Update! I am now fully upgraded to 2.6.7. Faster and, dare I say, sexier than ever!

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Detroit Pistons: 2004 NBA Champs! -- 11:13 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

They said that the Detroit Pistons didn't have a prayer. "They" were wrong. Tonight, the Pistons beat the L.A. Lakers 100-87 (and it wasn't that close) to win the NBA championship four games to one! I'm amazed at how many people came up to me during the series and said, "I'm not a big Detroit guy, but I really want to see them beat the Lakers." Congrats especially go out to coach Larry Brown who became the first man to lead a team to an NCAA and an NBA championship, and to Joe Dumars who led Detroit to championships in '89 and '90 as a player and in '04 as an executive. Whew!

UT2004 Patch 3236 Released -- 3:01 pm CST, Update by The Master

See, I flap my mouth and bingo! a patch release. Epic has released patch version 3236 for Unreal Tournament 2004. Here's the highlights (full readme is available on Shacknews):

• Fixed bug in UT2K4NetworkStatusMsg causing incorrect status message to be displayed
• Don't display join/leave messages for standard voice channels
• Security updates
• Fixed projectiles don't have dynamic light on clients connected to dedicated servers
• give client correct kick message when kicked for idling
• improved and enabled speedhack detection
• send message to client warning about speed hack detection
• servers won't send more than 8 packets out to client before getting a response (DOS attack blunting)
• improved character skin precaching speed (less unnecessary skin precaching)
• fixed memory leak in caching system
• fixed crash in GUIToolTip::Draw()
• fixed bug in cache loading for crosshairs (custom crosshairs now appear correctly in menus)
• removed temporary sanity checks in projector code and pathfinding code (small performance improvement)
• fixed resource induced memory leak in PixoResource FALVoiceModule::Decode crash
• bForceSkelUpdate no longer true by default for pawns (still true by default for vehicles). Performance improvement (especially for servers), but mod authors relying on this feature may need to change the value for their pawns.
• fixed memory leak in swiming physics code
• don't crash if non-Emitter has DT_Particle
• removed some VOIP log spam
• CD/DVD not required to play

Here's the downloads:

• 3D Gamers: Windows Linux
• ActionTrip: Windows
• Computer Games Online: Windows Linux
• Fileshack (Must register): Windows Linux
• Worthplaying: Windows Linux

Bleh -- 2:27 pm CST, Update by The Master

Well, it's been pretty quiet on the gaming front lately, but the spam front is getting outright insane. I wish some of these ISPs would just crank down the thumbscrews on their egress filters so port 25 wouldn't work anymore. Something like 80% of my spam is coming from either Telus, Deutsche Telekom, Tiscali UK, a slew of Chinese, Brazilian and South Korean networks, or AT&T. Come on, people. Do you ENJOY being the backside of the internet?

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