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Stories · 6
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CSU Chico Identities Compromised
MisterFuRR writes "California State University Chico is the latest victim of Identity theft. Aparently one of their "Food Service" machines was cracked and used to distribute "games, files, and other media". An official response is available." From the article: "The names of 15,500 current students, 1,000 faculty, 1,500 staff and former students going back about five years were in a database that was potentially compromised. The files also included information on prospective students." -
Netrek
R Jason Valentine writes "Before Ogg was an encoding standard it was a verb. Before the internet enabled the masses to play against each other in Quake and Ultima Online, there was a cross-platform multiple player interactive online game called Netrek. Netrek can trace its history back to 1972. It's an interesting, though incomplete, read, that includes travels through places like Berkeley's XCF. Netrek generally peaked in play in the early 90's, from about 1992 to 1995 or so, and was popular enough to even get an article in Wired. With this explosion of players, several variations on the original style, called Bronco, emerged. These were Chaos (similar to bronco), Paradise, and Hockey. The Chaos and Paradise variants are all but dead, mostly due to lack of players and an expired Paradise-capable client for Windows. A Bronco pick-up game still occurs daily, and usually once or twice a week, there is a hockey game. League games still exist, and this is the 10th year of league play, with around 200 players registered for the 2002 draft league."Valentine continues: "Though the graphics are subspectacular, gameplay is enveloping. Like chess, the rules are simple and comprehendable within the first hour of play, yet the game is difficult to master. After a 5 year hiatus, I returned to the game and found play still engaging with a healthy, though small, active community. The clients haven't had a major upgrade in years, and recent rebuild attempts remain unfinished. The development slowdown can be attributed to a decrease in interest and the aging of the original programmers, who now hold steady jobs and don't have an itch to update stable clients. If you've played before, but not in a long time, the game is worth revisiting. If you've never played, and don't have the latest greatest hardware to play the latest installment of the tired FPS genre, check out Netrek. Minimum system requirements are a graphics card that can do 256 colors at 1024x768 and an internet connection."
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Cheap New monitor
Jeff Evarts writes "How not to phrase this as a commercial pitch? Well, I'm in no way affiliated with Samsung, but WOW the price/performance here seems truely newsworthy. (CNN thought so... it's on the front page)" Yeah this does look like a commercial, but this is a pretty good price. When we can get LCD 21" screens for that price, we finally will have arrived. -
Slow Death of DCE
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Rob Clears Out His Mailbox
So it's thursday night, my last exam is neatly folded up and sitting next to my back pack. I've got my pipe, a beer and my laptop, and my email box is flooded. So now I play catchup on a week of sluffing off. Hit the link below to read a list of cool stuff that I really want to mention... First, James Morris sent me Top 0x10 Signs You're an Internet Nerd. It's pretty funny.Alexei V. Novikov wrote in to tell us about a Linux index ala Yahoo that he's been working on. You can see it here. He's looking for people to help make it grow.
Patrick Berry sent us a link to a Cartoon about a geek. I kinda dig it.
Todd Martin wrote in to tell us that LCDProc has been updated Here. It looks like I will be getting at least one of these, so look forward to a Slashdot Headline client for it *grin*.
Lastly we have a Stupid JavaScript Trick that you can check out Here. It's actually a nearly playable side scroller Mario-esque game, written entirely in JavaScript. Thanks to Garrett LeSage for hooking us up with it.
Now I bid you farewell. One of my roommates has ordered a shot of whiskey to all of the living room inhabitants. The laptops are all shoved aside as Rob grab's his Cartman Shot Glass and a bottle of Jim Beam.
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Rob Clears Out His Mailbox
So it's thursday night, my last exam is neatly folded up and sitting next to my back pack. I've got my pipe, a beer and my laptop, and my email box is flooded. So now I play catchup on a week of sluffing off. Hit the link below to read a list of cool stuff that I really want to mention... First, James Morris sent me Top 0x10 Signs You're an Internet Nerd. It's pretty funny.Alexei V. Novikov wrote in to tell us about a Linux index ala Yahoo that he's been working on. You can see it here. He's looking for people to help make it grow.
Patrick Berry sent us a link to a Cartoon about a geek. I kinda dig it.
Todd Martin wrote in to tell us that LCDProc has been updated Here. It looks like I will be getting at least one of these, so look forward to a Slashdot Headline client for it *grin*.
Lastly we have a Stupid JavaScript Trick that you can check out Here. It's actually a nearly playable side scroller Mario-esque game, written entirely in JavaScript. Thanks to Garrett LeSage for hooking us up with it.
Now I bid you farewell. One of my roommates has ordered a shot of whiskey to all of the living room inhabitants. The laptops are all shoved aside as Rob grab's his Cartman Shot Glass and a bottle of Jim Beam.