For those looking into the future of mobile gaming, Gizmodo has a number of hi-resolution photos showing off the two upcoming entries in the field.
Complete Ghostbuster’s outfit auction …
This is an auction for a complete Ghostbusters uniform and equipment that does a remarkable job of reproducing the look, lights and sounds of the movie. Make sure to check out the movies of the equipment in action linked in the auction site.
Results of the Comcast merger of G4 and TechTV
For those wondering which shows from each channel will make the move, heres the official list given this morning:
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Since half of the TechTV shows arent actually produced by the channel and merely repackaged from other countries, there wasnt too much of a problem moving them to the new channel, rather unfortunately named G4techTV.
The one thing Ill miss will be the Screensavers, as Leo Laporte has already left the show except for some pre-recorded segments, and the current rumor is that Patrick Norton wont bother with the move to a new city required by the merger, leaving a cast of twenty-somethings to host the show that, frankly, do little for me.
Thought for the day …
The opposite of love isnt hate, its apathy. If you had no interest in the person, you wouldnt hate him — Planetes
Richard Stallman, su and the wheel group …
I’m sure this is old news to those familiar with the unix-like operating systems and Stallman’s Free Software Foundation, but I just recently stumbled across the reason why the GNU version of su does not support the common wheel group.
Taken from this website:
Why GNU su does not support the `wheel‘ group
(This section is by Richard Stallman.)
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn’t know how to do that in Unix.)
However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual su mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The “wheel group” feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.
I’m on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first.
Stallman is definitely not someone I’d want in charge of the security of my system.