Sunday, January 26, 2003

Super Bowl -- 11:02 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, the Bucs have won the Super Bowl. I predicted they would, and pulled for them. Maybe since they finally won, there's actually hope for the Lions! Nah . . .

icculus on the New Ports -- 4:02 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Ryan "icculus" Gordon made a news post about the various new clients he showed off at the Linux World Expo. Here's a snip:

• Medal of Honor is not yet available as a Linux client. There's no audio output, since I don't have a license to use Miles Sound System, so I have to rip that out and write some OpenAL code. That will take time. The Spearhead expansion has a crashbug in the renderer on some maps, but otherwise seems to be as functional as the original Allied Assault at this point. When it's done, I'll make the binaries for Allied Assault and Spearhead available. You'll need some way to extract the data files from the original retail discs (which might mean using Wine or Windows). Hopefully TuxGames will come up with a good solution, so hold off on buying the game until we all figure out what's what.
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter seems relatively solid (er...as solid as The First Encounter, at least), so after I clean up a few things, I'll put this out for beta. You'll need the retail Second Encounter disc, which was 20 bucks brand new, and should be 5 to 10 bucks in the discount bin by now.

As soon as the SS:SE beta is posted, I'll install it and let you know how it works.

Saturday, January 25, 2003

MS SQL Worm Hammering the Net -- 12:54 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

A new worm is exploiting a flaw in Microsoft SQL to basically create a massive DDOS on the Internet. You can get the details on Slashdot. UUNet is being slammed particularly hard. The dumb thing is that Microsoft issued a patch for this last summer. Here's the original writeup on the exploit.

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