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You're right, I dont know why this is in the news.

Gamecube production has been halted since January. Console making routinely stop and start production in order to not have too much overstocked in inventory at any one time. They were just making them so fast, that they halted to let the sales numbers catch up.

see this link

I agree with Augustz's post 100%. Use a public library (not the school's library, but the public library) to send an email from a free email service, and make sure the service is not in the US.

Read about how Blackboard treated two students here and see if you think reporting the problem is safe or not. In view of BlackBoard's past actions, if I were the one with the information, I'd post it to a Usenet group for security. I wouldn't inform them and give them so many days to fix it. I'd release it immeditately.

You choose what you think is right.

Speaking of Apple

Actually Ellison (like McNealy) is a well know Microsoft hater. Althought Linux is one of the best developement environments available I wouldn't be suprised if the decision to swith to Linux was partially out of spite for Microsoft.

Nice job on repeating me there. Too bad you need to learn more history.

It's pretty cool that Motorola provides free bound manuals. Sun also provides full information on their SPARC design. Sadly, I think they charge for bound manuals. :-(

Don't drag Sun into this.

Sun dragged themselves into it.

Sun expands Unix deal with SCO

Sun and Microsoft paid SCO $8.3 million last quarter, with contracts to pay them $5 million more in the next three quarters.

Sun also received warrants to purchase 210,000 shares of SCOX at $1.83 per share.

In SCO's regulatory filings in July, they list the total value of the Sun and Microsoft deals at $13.2 million. If Sun purchases up to 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share (the price at the time of the signing of the deal), the value of the deals would rise further.

Although they have flung some FUD in the SCO soap opera, they probably are not financing SCO in any way.

Sun purchased an SCO Source license in 2003.

Sun expands Unix deal with SCO

I wonder why Sun's spokesman didn't mention that?

Sun's spokesman also didn't mention that Sun's deal with SCO includes a warrant to purchase 210,000 shares of SCOX at $1.83 per share. Which is quite a bargain given the current price of SCOX.

Naturally, Sun does whatever is good for Sun. Sometimes that hurts Linux (they finance SCO and get ownership of 2% of the comany) and sometimes that helps Linux (Open Office).

Check the correct option. :) It is often argued by file-sharing advocates that P2P apps, such as KaZaA have a lot of non-infringing uses. Their opponents respond by claiming that despite that 90%+ of the traffic on KaZaA is illegal. But that certainly depends on the point of view.

Most people here on Slashdot subconsciously assume that US laws define the picture, but that is not true. Copyright laws in different countries are different (that is probably one of the reasons for KaZaA's complex legal structure). You've heard about DeCSS case in Norway, you've heard about Denmark P2P users getting bills for downloaded files, but have you heard about the place where half of the Hollywood movies in in the public domain? :)

Here is the breaking news. The Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation has published a long list of movies that are now in the public domain (automated translation of the list> by Translate.Ru). Titles include Bambi, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, Monty Python and hundreds of other brilliant films.

This is not the first time when opposition to copyright comes from Russia and probably not the last. Now that these movies officially belong to the public (in Russia), what implications, do you think, this has for the rest of the world and for file-sharing?

And hosting in Russia would probably cost just a few cents per movie uploaded abroad... And the best thing is that would really be 100% legal.

P.S. You may think this is too good to be true, but believe me, it is true. It seems that most movies more than 30 years old really are in public domain now (called obschestvennoe dostoyanie in Russian.

...I'm sure he's getting paid and doesn't have to do a damn thing except let his name be associated with the suit. SCO gets PR pump from his name, Boies gets a little cash (and the appreciation of Canopy, MS and SUN) for doing nothing. Win-win.

The interview starts off displaying this image, claiming him to be "Mad as hell and not going to take it". He looks about as mad as I would be if I won a billion dollars in the lottery while getting a blowjob from Carmen Electra. Oh yes, very mad indeed.

Anyway, the interviewer then goes on to imply that all linux developers are really just heartless pirates, like the music downloaders on Kazaa.

Later on, we are graced with this gem:

"One view of Linux that's persisted over the years is that it's free. Even though that's not fully accurate, ... "

Yes, those pesky pirates keep insisting that Linux is free! Clearly it's not, however, as RedHat is charging lots of money for it! Moron.

"Microsoft would say the same thing.
I have customers.

They have customers too.
Great."

Wow, RedHat has customers? Microsoft too? Truly, these are men of vision. Men of unparalleled insight!

OTOH, if McBride keeps running off at the mouth like he has been, I wouldn't be surprised to see a countersuit by IBM similar to RedHat's just to speed things up a bit.

Ha. Tol'ja. Big Blue files counterclaims against SCO

lets say that Microsoft packaged $10 of micropayment into their next OS...

Yes, SUN is the other licensee.

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0711scodocum.h tm l (or link)

or

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1024633.html?tag =f d_top (link)

From what I've seen and heard, David Boies does not work on contingency.

You've heard wrong.

I too was suprised to see that Boies was on contingency. I'd assumed he was a marquee name brought in on a high hourly retainer to lend credibility to a weak claim.

Should Slashdot editors post an article by someone who works for RealNetworks? He only gave links to sites run by Real. Shouldn't it at least contain a few links from actual news sources like C-Net, who might put things in a less partial perspective?

One could argue that it's better to get an article straight from the source, then read the comments for impartial opinion and review. However, I disagree. Slashdot should be a collection of articles that the community found interesting and submitted on their own. It shouldn't become a press release distribution ground for promoting corporate agendas to Linux geeks.

In that article National mentions the sub-$1000 PC business as one of their main areas of further interest. With this sale of the Geode, etc... I wonder how many more could be laid off and where National is looking for the future?

Comcast to extend 3mbps trials

By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 5, 2003, 3:51 PM PT

Comcast plans to expand consumer trials for a 3mbps high-speed Internet service, the latest step in the cable giant's effort to double the speed of its standard cable modem product.

The new 30-day trial will begin Thursday in Pittsburgh for subscribers who pay $42.95 a month on top of basic cable TV service. A separate 3mbps test is already under way in Knoxville, Tenn. A company representative would not comment on whether Comcast plans to eventually offer 3mbps service to all of its subscribers.

"The reason (for the trial) is to determine how the change affects the network, how users value increased speeds and to help us develop the broadband experience for the future," Comcast spokeswoman Sarah Eder said.

Eder declined to comment on whether 3mbps plans might be offered as a more expensive option to Comcast's standard service.

The trials highlight the ongoing features war between broadband competitors--in this case, Comcast's cable modems and Verizon Communications' DSL (digital subscriber line) service. Because of their overlapping markets, both companies have toyed with boosting service perks in an attempt to lure more customers.

DSL providers, namely Verizon and SBC Communications, have been slashing prices in hopes of attracting new customers and stealing cable subscribers from rivals.

In May, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in a speech that speed hikes would be one critical factor in differentiating service from that of competitors.

"We should not be satisfied with 1.5mbps of speed," Roberts said, referring to the standard download speed that Comcast offers.

Indeed, some cable providers are already offering faster broadband speeds. Cablevision Systems, which serves areas outside New York, averages 3.5mbps and has been clocked as fast as 6.3mbps for its download speed, according to Broadbandreports.com, a Web site that tracks industry trends. Comcast was clocked at speeds of 1.7mbps.

DSL companies typically offer lower speeds or charge higher prices for comparable service. Verizon, for example, charges download speeds of up to 768kbps for $34.99 a month. The company also offers a premium service that promises downloand speeds of up to 1.5mbps for $59.99.

Then Britain should be ashamed of itself for treating Micro$oft like crap, after Micro$oft was kind enough to create the iLoo for them. Ingrates!

Congress, the new copyright bully
By Eric Goldman
August 6, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

Congress has become exasperated with its inability to get Americans to stop engaging in copyright infringement.

So Rep. Howard Berman jokes that he "probably" does not favor the death penalty for infringers, Sen. Orrin Hatch half-jokes that he would like to blow up the computers of infringers and Rep. John Carter wants to see infringing college kids thrown in jail for 33 months.

However, in more candid moments, members of Congress admit that they don't know what to do next, from a policy standpoint, to combat infringement. A prime example of this policy vacuum is Congress' proposal du jour, the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACOOPS) Act.

Having criminalized willful nonprofit copyright infringement in 1997 through the No Electronic Theft Act without much success, some in Congress believe the law is too weak and needs more teeth. Thus, the new bill proposes a clear and simple standard for criminal copyright infringement: You commit a felony if you upload one infringing copyrighted work to the Internet.

Have an infringing MP3 in your shared peer-to-peer software directory? Go to jail. Post a newspaper article to your blog? Go to jail. Upload a photo taken by your wedding photographer to a family album Web site? Go to jail.

The bill does not reflect a well-thought-out policy toward criminal copyright infringement. It cannot even be blamed on pandering to the copyright owner lobby. Instead, the bill simply reflects Congress' stubborn determination to bully the American people into doing what it wants.

In the past decade, through dozens of congressional oversight hearings where usually only industry representatives testify, Congress has been completely convinced that rampant copyright infringement threatens to destroy the American economy. Having internalized this threat, Congress is now determined to fix that problem the only way it knows how--threaten ordinary citizens with jail, despite collateral consequences.

And yet, just about everyone outside the Beltway knows that criminal copyright law has already gone too far. We necessarily commit copyright infringement as an unavoidable consequence of living in a digital society. But the criminal law already treats much of that conduct the same as it treats the blatant piracy that poses more serious jeopardy to copyright owner interests. With the rules so bluntly delineated, we cannot respect them or comply.

Rather than making a seemingly endless number of ad hoc proposals, Congress needs to develop an integrated policy about criminal copyright infringement. To do so, Congress needs to realize two things. Have an infringing MP3 in your shared peer-to-peer software directory? Go to jail. Post a newspaper article to your blog? Go to jail.
First, it is not acceptable to put average Americans at the peril of going to jail for doing everyday activities. Second, if the existing laws are not yielding the desired results, perhaps they were bad policy, in which case making them tougher only compounds the initial policy failure.

There is a solution to Congress' copyright conundrum, and it does not require more legislation. If copyright owners want to curb infringement, they need to bear more responsibility. Ideally, copyright owners would develop better business models that work even in the face of widespread micro-infringements. But if such business models are not possible, copyright owners can control infringements by bringing lawsuits themselves.

The record industry has already vowed to do so, and such lawsuits should be respected, not criticized.

If the record industry thinks that its problems warrant litigation, they should use the laws that are already on the books. Of course, those lawsuits come at some risk, as they require the industry to sue its customers. But the rec

Fight Microsoft where it hurts: ignore them.

But in the mean time,

• KDE 3.1.3 was released
• Gnome 2.2 was released
• Novell bough Ximian
• SuSe was granted Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL2) of the Common Criteria
• Opera is gaining users

Fight Microsoft where it hurts: ignore them.

But in the mean time,

• KDE 3.1.3 was released
• Gnome 2.2 was released
• Novell bough Ximian
• SuSe was granted Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL2) of the Common Criteria
• Opera is gaining users

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Google community when IDC confirmed that Google market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web searches. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Google has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Google is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by Yahoo's failure to renew its exclusive deal with Google.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Google's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Google faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Google because Google is dying. Things are looking very bad for Google. As many of us are already aware, Google continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Google search is the most endangered of them all, having lost most of its core affiliates. The sudden and unpleasant departures of Yahoo and AOL only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Google is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Google.com founder Sergey Brin states that there are 7000 users of Google. How many users of Verity are there? Let's see. The number of Google versus Verity posts on USENET is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Verity users. AskJeeves posts on USENET are about half of the volume of Verity posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Inktomi. A recent article put Teoma at about 80 percent of the search engine market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Google users. This is consistent with the number of Google USENET posts.

Due to the troubles of Google News, abysmal sales and so on, Google is going out of business and will probably be taken over by idealab! who operate another troubled search engine. Now Inktomi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that Google has steadily declined in market share. Google is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Google is to survive at all it will be among search engine dilettante dabblers. Google continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical p

Quote from Steve Ballmer: Responding to questions about the opening-up of the .NET framework, Ballmer announced that there would certainly be a "Common Language Runtime Implementation" for Unix, but then explained that this development would be limited to a subset, which was "intended only for academic use". Ballmer rejected speculations about support for free .NET implementationens such as Mono: "We have invested so many millions in .NET, we have so many patents on .NET, which we want to cultivate."

You can find it here

And what about this: .Net patent could stifle standards effort

Patents will never be a problem for Mono? Not sure I believe that...

First of all in case you missed it: SuSE Linux running on specific IBM hardware is certified at EAL2. Win2000 was certified at the much higher EAL4, but only under some fairly restrictive circumstances.

Now realistically, EAL4 IS a restrictive certification! Trusted Solaris8 is EAL4 certified. Most default Unix installs might barely pass EAL2. What good is it then?

Read the C|Net article and you'll find that IBM is pursuing EAL3 and EAL4 for SuSE Linux next. That's a Good Thing, for any number of reasons, not the least of which is being able to sell to defense contractors for secure (but not secret or top-secret) level requirements.

Practically speaking though, the different levels, while increasingly restrictive, aren't a scale of security goodness. They serve different effective purposes. Do you WANT an EAL4 system on your desktop? Probably not. Do you want it in your server room? There's a good chance, yeah. Do you want an EAL7 system for anything at all? Unless you're the NSA, probably not. This is an OS designed from the ground up with peer review at every stage (architecture, design, implementation) and independent verification on top of that. It is utterly restrictive--you wouldn't be able to put a web browser on an EAL7 system (or more to the point, you wouldn't be allowed to write and install one for the system without breaking the certification). This is the software that runs the shuttle and nuclear bases.

So basically, let's quit this damned pissing match. EAL2 is good for some things, EAL4 for others, and so forth.

You can read lots more about this by choosing from the links in the rejected post below. Also, it's important to note that EAL2 is NOT the highest Common Criteria certification level. The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation v2.1 describes the security assurance requirements and EALs in detail. For a look at the details read about the Evaluation Assurance Levels at NIST.

IBM, SuSE Linux Get Common Criteria Security Certification

Linux has reached a new milestone: IBM and SuSE Linux have received the Common Criteria Security Certification from the U.S. government (mirror), specifically from the Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) arm of the Pentagon. 'Right now it is the only Linux distribution available that has this. This certification is used as a standard by 14 countries including the U.S. and Canada,' says the SuSE U.S. general manager. Linux Enterprise Server 8 is certified at Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ EAL2 with the companies jointly pursuing a Controlled Access Protection Profile EAL3 certification by year-end, then on to EAL4. More details at CNet, AP via Detnews/CNN and Reuters/Forbes. It looks like they beat Red Hat to the punch.

I found this link which has more details, looks like it is EAL2 after all. I also found that Red Hat and Oracle are planning on going after EAL4 for the latest RHAS so the W2K advantage might be short lived.

According to this article, Red Hat and Oracle are working on gaining the same level of certification by the end of the year.

"To obtain high-resolution photos of HoloTouch in action, visit http://www.holotouch.biz/pressroom.htm."

This story is here as well:
Red Hat files suit against SCO

According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs.

Of course, the fact that thousands of tech people are out of jobs still and the market is in the dump has nothing to do with it. Right. Look at the most of the tech industry and it is a dire picture. Why wouldn't this hit the recording industry? A a lot of us who are directly affected by the slump in the market buy music. I have a lot less money to spend on music today compared to a couple of years ago.

Low consumer demand hits Sony profit
Tougher time for techies

These days RIAA is all about miss-information to serve their own purpose. Nothing else.

According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs.

Of course, the fact that thousands of tech people are out of jobs still and the market is in the dump has nothing to do with it. Right. Look at the most of the tech industry and it is a dire picture. Why wouldn't this hit the recording industry? A a lot of us who are directly affected by the slump in the market buy music. I have a lot less money to spend on music today compared to a couple of years ago.

Low consumer demand hits Sony profit
Tougher time for techies

These days RIAA is all about miss-information to serve their own purpose. Nothing else.

I remember when I was in Japan I was impressed by their vastly superior cell phone technology. 3g phones which double as pdas and have video capability.

Like this or the older now $199 model from Sprint? Ironic they should fair poorly in the poll in the article, but understandable, since I can't get a signal at times in uptown New Orleans (note there are no tall buildings in uptown New Orleans, due to the difficulty and expense of building a structure in the swamp. And in general, we're quite poor). Also, the market is a bit different between Japan and the United States.

While our students are lazy and self centered individuals, the Japanese youth know the value of conformity and hard work. Ever hear of crime or poverty in Japan ? There isn't much. Gun control along with a generally more polite attitude keeps crime there very low.

I'm going to skip my flaimbait rant here, because your next sentence

We Americans could learn a lot from the Japanese, although we are still the best damn country in the world our technology is slightly lacking!

astounds me. Tell me, is it our lazy and self centered students, or our high crime and poverty that make America "the best damn country in the world"? I'm a bit confused here.

Linux brings no value to Sun and actually destroys Sun's profits. Why? For years, Sun has hidden its performance-poor servers behind its Solaris operating system. Sun focused its marketing message on "the whole system" and said that performance is only one part of the system value. Most of that system value outside of simple performance came from Solaris.

Now, with Linux, the Sun salesperson can no longer argue that the operating system has some intrinsic value over the operation system of, say, an IBM machine. The IBM machine and the Sun machine are running the same operating system, Linux. Then, the comparison of the two machines comes down to performance. In other words, the customers will be forced to look at the quality of the basic hardware. In this area, Sun falls woefully short. Look at the results for the ""SPEC benchmark" or the "TPC-C benchmark".

According to ZDNet, Gateway will start offering Linux on Monday on some of its servers as well (though they've picked Red Hat).

"You, sir, are talking out of your ass."

Considering high visibility articles like this and this, it is conceivable that many readers share a similar understanding of how RCU got into Linux.

"The person who developed the RCU code for Dynix is not the same who did the work on Linux."

The comment does not make this claim. It states, accurately or otherwise, that the person who wrote the RCU code for "Sequent's *nix" also wrote IBM's RCU code, and that is the code that is in Linux.

"The RCU implementation you see on Linux was done by 3 engineers, none of them having anything to do with the original Sequent employee."

Why not name names? If there is a general misunderstanding it might help clarify the issue.

"I know, I was at Sequent at that time."

Congratulations.

Since IBM doesn't have a distro then they're not going to disagree. The issue was the fact that the label "Linux" is being applied to multiple things and maybe the one that the press and the general public apply/associate it with is not really the "correct" one. (At least not in the opinon of the commentator.) Your example shows the error that most people have with the thinking: If me and a bunch of friends get together and bake cakes for a charity, the cake is the product of our efforts and is being offered as such to the consuming public. It is no different than the cake made by Sara Lee... In your case, you're emphasizing the end product, the cake, rather than the process of friends gathering to do something (bake) for charity. The fact is that you could gather together and bake a million different things for charity it doesn't always have to be a cake. Or, you could take that friends gather together part and the charity aspect and wind up with a home built instead of a cake baked. What really is the more important part to be emphasized in your example? The cake or the charitable act of friends? BTW, the author never claimed that other OS's don't have processes involved in their creation it's more that the process is internal and hidden (like Sara Lee's cake baking) as opposed to an open and community process. The other "fact" is that this Linux "process" can be used by the community to come up with a multitude of things besides the simple "cake". (Yeah, I'm blending your analogy in here all over the place. :-D )

http://zdnet.com.com/1601-2-1027557.html

Warning: Windows Media or RealOne needed.

This is the title of a Knowledge@Wharton article from April 2002, still available from CNET News.com. I commented this article here. Basically, a professor of management argued that depending of your starting location on the Web, a *cheap* one or Forbes, you would obtain different prices from online travel companies. I tried it, sending identical queries *simultaneously* from different computers and browsers, but I didn't find any differences. Maybe things have changed.

Why, the iLoo, of course!

Oh, wait...you said Lab. I thought you said Lav.

All the RIAA has to do is see your username on a P2P network and trace the IP address behind it. They don't need to search your hard disk drive - all they need is evidence of a particular kind of modem activity and they can bust you anyway, hard disk or no!

How about that little thing called "the burden of proof"?

Just having your IP address and username means squat - those files named "Usher-1.mp3" might be (oh, I don't know) legitimate transcripts from a unversity professor?

If they take you to court, they have to prove that the files which they saw on your computer were, in fact copyrighted by someone who had not given you permission to distribute them, instead of files you legitimately have the rights to distribute, that may have a co-incidental name to something they are authorized to prosecute.

By following these easy instructions, you too can encrypt your data and swap partitions with Loop-AES. (The instructions are for Linux From Scratch, but they worked fine on my Debian box.) This way, no unencrypted data ever touches the disk; even if your computer is stolen, the thief can't read your data.

http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5057691.html?tag=f d_top

I'd be interested to hear which people like the best. The Macintosh one is an obvious candidate...

By going with a standards-based service, not only would the service be easier to maintain, but they increase their market share by serving Mac users and every one else. A sale is a sale, the customer's choice of platform should be irrelevant.

Furthermore, there are still numbers of WinNT and Win98 users out there. Developing for MSIE ony is going to leave them out in the cold when MS drops the standalone version of MSIE.

So it'd be interesting to know if the service is letting the bottom line or their ideology decide? It can't be good for sales to turn away an arbitrary percentage of potential customers.

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pump and dump

Some details on new Napster (2.0) here.

By the time BuyM$sic.com manages to weed out all glitches, Napster comes back to the market and probably kick BuyMu$.lock-in.com's ass hard enough to make the new comer rethink about its business plans.

I will probably never use this site regardless since I need to
1) install proprietary operating system that is known to be insecure;
and
2) surf the web with a browser that is not standard compliant;
to
3) download sound files in a proprietary, non-standard format;
which requires buyers (me) to only use
4) a bloated proprietary multimedia player that is/will be tightly integrated with the 1) OS;
to playback.

Why should I bother? I rather buy and own CDs, even if .wma offers better sound quality than CD.

CEO of Roxio in this news.com article says "[Napster]will be very reflective of the key characteristics of the original Napster...independence, innovation and freedom of choice." (emphasis mine)

- I sure hope it will be.

I expected that if the ass's of America didn't win we would see laws to ban filesharing in a couple of years.

The P4 could have a similar effect. Since it is impossible to know directly if the person at the keyboard of a computer is an adult or not,it would mean a system similar to the adult-check on porn sites. A p2p program would require you to select a username and password and have $1 charged to your credit card, possession of a cc is taken is proof of being an adult.

At that point, the p2p's without adult authentication dissapear from sourceforge and US hosted websites. It becomes easier for the enforcement agencys to have people kicked off the p2p networks that use adult authentication. The open-to-anyone p2p software become like decss, copys appear on a million websites outside the USA. The RIAA then starts sending out letters to ISP's demanding they disconnect users of non-adult-check p2p's.

Depending on the details of the P4 bill, operators of p2p networks might be able to get around it by operating a network that only allows mp3 to be swapped, no images,zip's or exe's that might contain pron.

M$ lays off game developers.

And so it begins...

Host the game internally... port forward the starcraft port to allow externals, and have other internals join on the forwarded port - would that work?

Otherwise, I haven't had time yet but I'd imagine you could use a "Bridged IPX network" through GIT, with a little iptables magic and some work. This would let you play without serial keys on certain games too...

255 million downloads of Kazaa, 232 million of ICQ pro through Download.com that shows a real fear of Windows

1 googol is 1E100, while 128 bits is 2^128=3.4E38?

Seems there is a common misconception that was debunked as early as 1997 .