I'm not sure if it's been resolved.  I didn't see anything on their site that says it does work with NFS, nor did I see anything that says it doesn't.
So can somebody who's been following the issue a bit more closely please confirm?
I've always found their tech support to be excellent.
I agree 100%!  I've purchased four of their games now and I haven't been disappointed by the support in the least.  I've never tried their phone support, since their NNTP servers or Fenris were sufficient for me.
And when I called them asking about an OpenGL driver for Myth 2 (I have a TNT2), the guy said that he knew of a Glide wrapper for TNT2 cards and said he'd let me know. I gave him my email address, not really expecting a reply, and 2 days later he emailed me the URL for the Glide wrapper.
What is that URL?  I'd love to have that!
Reminds me of this UNIX "virus" I recieved once...
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< snip > This is a UNIX email virus. It works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of unix , please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.
Thank you for your cooperation. < snip >
The only thing this Gnutella trojan can prey upon is an idiot user and there really isn't much one can do to protect against that.
SunOS in the pre-solaris days (before 5.0) was BSD flavoured. It was derived from BSD. BSD predates it. When sun started calling it solaris (SunOS 5.x + Xsun +Openwin) SunOS was sysv.
No, that's not correct.  SunOS 4.1.3 was dubbed Solaris 1 (or maybe it was even 1.1.)  Solaris 2.0 was SunOS 5 and the rest of the operating environment bundled together.
I don't see too much value in splitting IE off as it's own division.  IE is just an application so it should really go off into the applications group (disregard the fact that Microsoft welded the IE application into the Windows operating environment.)  The ideal break-up to me should be:
1. OS (DOS, Windows operating environment, NT) 2. Applications (Office, Games, Wordpad, Solitaire and other apps that are now included in the Windows operating environment) 3. Media (MSNBC, MSN (including Hotmail), MicrosoftPress)
The idea of splitting the company into two pieces always seemed a bit dumb to me.  Under that scheme, the media (specifically MSN) could operate at a loss under the profits from Office and other software.  This way MSN and other media outlets need to compete fairly in the marketplace and not ride of the coattails of other established monopilies (eg. the Office suite.)
Whoops!  Sorry 'bout that.  My father has been spouting off that quote and attributing it to Jefferson the last few times I've seen him.  I should know better than to listen to him.
He didn't.  If you had looked a bit more carefully, you would have noticed that Rob did not offer any commentary.  It was the person who submitted the article that said, "the US is pissed."
The US (in particular the FBI and probably the CIA/NSA) wants to keep encryption out of the hands of USians.
The reason that the FBI wants to keep crypto out of the hands of the citizens is indirectly our own fault.  We clamor that we want security and safety and we bitch and moan when our law enforcement (part of our government) doesn't provide it for us.  The war on drugs, the crackdown on guns are simply responses to people's fear and insecurity.  Crypto does make law enforcement's job tougher and that is a fact that everybody should just accept. 
Personally, I'll take the freedom to use crypto in any way that I see fit and I'll argue that even those that wish to use crypto in a way that is counter to my beliefs should be allowed to do so.  The benefits far outweigh the problems that it brings.
"When you trade freedom for security you get neither" - Thomas Jefferson
And that really is the heart of the matter.  The piracy argument from the RIAA is really about maintaining control of their distribution channels.  These days I buy all of my CDs used so neither the artist nor the RIAA gets directly compensated.  I would gladly buy direct from the artist (CD or MP3) and pay $10 for a disc.  Until that day comes, I'll just be patient and get my music 6 months after it comes out...
the music on a cd is still the intellectual property or copyrighted material of the artist and the recording company. it is illegal, in all senses of the word, to reproduce this material in a way and method intended for users who did not pay for the material.
Serious question...  What is the actual IP?  The music, or the disc that it is stored upon?  If I go to a used CD store and buy a used CD, then I consider myself to have a right to do with that material as I see fit (rip it, mp3 it and play it on my jukebox.)  Yet the RIAA and the artist never see a dime from my purchase. 
So does an owner of a CD have a right to sell that CD?  Does a used CD store have the right to exist?  In these secondary purchases and sales, the copyright holder never gets any compensation for this transaction.  The same would apply to used bookstores and used video stores.
I happen to believe that stores that deal in the purchase and sale of used copyrighted information do have the right to exist.  It just demonstrates that copyright is a very vague notion and that what the copyright holder is really selling in today's market is the media and not the content.  We'll see what happens tomorrow. :-)
Sooo..if Connectix can reverse engineer Sony software and hardware, what's the difference between that and reverse engineering CSS?
The difference is that CSS is an access control and the DMCA prevents circumvention of access controls. UCITA is what will look to prevent reverse engineering...
Amazon's 1-click patent wasn't a software patent. It was a patent on a business process (which is just as stupid IMHO.) Anyhow, the fact that Amazon is getting sued doesn't make me feel any better. Neither patent has merit...
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Well, I wouldn't call the KDC a single point of failure as you can have multiple KDCs for your cell. But your statement is correct in that the system falls apart if the KDC is compromised. The KDC holds user's key for encrypting a TGT to be sent back to the user. If that key can be substituted, the user's account can be hijacked.
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Battlefield Earth was the first L Ron Hubbard book that I've read, and I suspect it will be the only one in the forseeable future.
It didn't have enough of a spark to make me want to read more of his work.  Give me anything from Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlen or Clarke any day...
One good thing about this movie is the fact that I haven't seen it yet. :-)
No, that's not the case...  See http://devlinux.com/projects/rei serfs/archive/9/34 for the issue that I'm talking about.
I'm not sure if it's been resolved.  I didn't see anything on their site that says it does work with NFS, nor did I see anything that says it doesn't.
So can somebody who's been following the issue a bit more closely please confirm?
I agree 100%!  I've purchased four of their games now and I haven't been disappointed by the support in the least.  I've never tried their phone support, since their NNTP servers or Fenris were sufficient for me.
And when I called them asking about an OpenGL driver for Myth 2 (I have a TNT2), the guy said that he knew of a Glide wrapper for TNT2 cards and said he'd let me know. I gave him my email address, not really expecting a reply, and 2 days later he emailed me the URL for the Glide wrapper.
What is that URL?  I'd love to have that!
This is a UNIX email virus. It works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of unix , please forward this message to
everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.
Thank you for your cooperation.
< snip >
The only thing this Gnutella trojan can prey upon is an idiot user and there really isn't much one can do to protect against that.
No, that's not correct.  SunOS 4.1.3 was dubbed Solaris 1 (or maybe it was even 1.1.)  Solaris 2.0 was SunOS 5 and the rest of the operating environment bundled together.
FYI...
Whoops, I forgot about the hardware.  Yeah, I agree, the media group would be the best fit for them.
1. OS (DOS, Windows operating environment, NT)
2. Applications (Office, Games, Wordpad, Solitaire and other apps that are now included in the Windows operating environment)
3. Media (MSNBC, MSN (including Hotmail), MicrosoftPress)
The idea of splitting the company into two pieces always seemed a bit dumb to me.  Under that scheme, the media (specifically MSN) could operate at a loss under the profits from Office and other software.  This way MSN and other media outlets need to compete fairly in the marketplace and not ride of the coattails of other established monopilies (eg. the Office suite.)
Chill out. :-)
He didn't.  If you had looked a bit more carefully, you would have noticed that Rob did not offer any commentary.  It was the person who submitted the article that said, "the US is pissed."
FYI...
The reason that the FBI wants to keep crypto out of the hands of the citizens is indirectly our own fault.  We clamor that we want security and safety and we bitch and moan when our law enforcement (part of our government) doesn't provide it for us.  The war on drugs, the crackdown on guns are simply responses to people's fear and insecurity.  Crypto does make law enforcement's job tougher and that is a fact that everybody should just accept. 
Personally, I'll take the freedom to use crypto in any way that I see fit and I'll argue that even those that wish to use crypto in a way that is counter to my beliefs should be allowed to do so.  The benefits far outweigh the problems that it brings.
"When you trade freedom for security you get neither" - Thomas Jefferson
And that really is the heart of the matter.  The piracy argument from the RIAA is really about maintaining control of their distribution channels.  These days I buy all of my CDs used so neither the artist nor the RIAA gets directly compensated.  I would gladly buy direct from the artist (CD or MP3) and pay $10 for a disc.  Until that day comes, I'll just be patient and get my music 6 months after it comes out...
Gosh.  Good one...  Your insight is truly stunning. < sigh >
Serious question...  What is the actual IP?  The music, or the disc that it is stored upon?  If I go to a used CD store and buy a used CD, then I consider myself to have a right to do with that material as I see fit (rip it, mp3 it and play it on my jukebox.)  Yet the RIAA and the artist never see a dime from my purchase. 
So does an owner of a CD have a right to sell that CD?  Does a used CD store have the right to exist?  In these secondary purchases and sales, the copyright holder never gets any compensation for this transaction.  The same would apply to used bookstores and used video stores.
I happen to believe that stores that deal in the purchase and sale of used copyrighted information do have the right to exist.  It just demonstrates that copyright is a very vague notion and that what the copyright holder is really selling in today's market is the media and not the content.  We'll see what happens tomorrow.  :-)
The difference is that CSS is an access control and the DMCA prevents circumvention of access controls. UCITA is what will look to prevent reverse engineering...
Amazon's 1-click patent wasn't a software patent. It was a patent on a business process (which is just as stupid IMHO.) Anyhow, the fact that Amazon is getting sued doesn't make me feel any better. Neither patent has merit...
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