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For the second month in a row, David has downloaded stupid shit and got himself hacked on Steam.

Yes yes, i hear “don’t download then” but its harder than you think to quit downloading permanently, in fact its nigh impossible due to fast internet and Usenet, so it wont happen. But Steam having a lovely support system have dealt with my Second request this year to have my account returned to me, and have returned it quite quickly this time.

The only thing that strikes me as stupid, is the fact that whilst you are updated via email on a details change (Password/Secret question etc) that there is no actual option to allow or deny the change. so they just inform you that its changed, and give no way to prevent the change if its been done by someone else without your permission. If they implemented a system to prevent the password changes then it’d be a lot harder to hack accounts.

thats it for news updates, hopefully this wont happen to me again (atleast not next month)

My Exams are now over until later on in the year. and my fears about physics were found to be true as the exam was AWFUL! I dont even think ive passed this exam because it was so horrible! Basically they gave you an hour to do what i could barely do in 1Hr 30Mins, However I’ve been told a resit is easy, and you dont have to resit the module, just the exam, and its only £15. so ill possibly be doing that if the worst comes to the worst.

Ive also bought a Counter Strike Source Gameserver along with Josh (50-50 Each) and its up and running pretty much anything at the moment. ive got Deathmatch, Gungame and Surf Configs enabled on it so its easy to change game modes on the fly, one thing ive gotta sort out is the GunGame config, as its as if it didn’t existed, and Admins for Josh and the other Deputies. With the Purchase of the server, seems eLite – our old CSS gaming clan – has been reborn and people want to play matches again, which will be good if it kicks off, but we will get slaughtered anyway. Still the Gameserver is there to play Surf on or GunGame whever we want, instead of searching for a server that is decent.

Onto other, more awesome news! its been confirmed that the Iphone Dev Team (the team that cracked the Iphone 3G so it could work on any network) have found a way of exploiting it and therefore have discovered a way to jailbreak the iPod Touch 2G! The jailbreak (or exploit) is codenamed redsn0w and this means that custom – non Hiter’Apple code can be ran on the device. This allows us to run unsigned code, therefore install apps that offer a greater functionality, and we may possibly be able to get into the bluetooth/FM chips that are in the iPod Touch 2G. Hopefully the release will be out soon so I’m not bound to shitty Apple apps and i can download some decent apps (and maybe possibly warez).

Shall update in a few days, or when something equally exciting happens (redsn0w Release?)

EDIT: Server Details:

eLite Gaming UK – 193.33.186.48:27015
[100Tick, Surf/GunGame/Deathmatch]

this is a completely unrelated (to anything involving me) post however i thought i’d share it

as most of you know, GTA 4 was brought out for consoles earlier this year, and it was a huge smash hit due to its pretty new engine, which boasted beautiful Graphics and a new dynamic physics engine. so whilst the console gamers got to drool at the graphics and how many different ways you can get run over, the PC gamers were left to twiddle their thumbs hoping for Rockstar to scream the release date of a PC version from the rooftops.

that day came on tuesday or wednesday (US/UK) so PC gamers rejoiced everywhere and were gleeful that the game didn’t seem to be a direct-port of a PS3/Xbox game, which is nniiccee.

However, the Cracker Scene and general faggoty I’m-not-paying-for-this-shit people were busy slaving away on finding out how to steal, crack and run this game.

The image of the game came out on monday (thats right! a full 2 days before UK release) and was immediately spread about on the P2P networks, then eventually sent up to the torrent and Usenet networks above P2P. But pirates were then again left to sit on their arses and wait whilst a crack for the new GTA was found.

it was later unearthed that the people at Rockstar had decided to use the new and hard to crack “Securom 7.xx” generation of protection. it was also later discovered that Rockstar had apparently spent “$200,000 on copy protection” to make the game “uncrackable”. this just devoted more of the crackers time to getting it cracked so they could laugh in Rockstars faces.

Finally 3 days later a crack was found that was able to run the game without much modification of game files. HOWEVER, when the gamer was enjoying the new prettyness of the game, Rockstar shat a bombshell and revealed that if the game had been detected as cracked, the game turned into an unplayable mess which consisted of constant camera shaking and accelerator problems during driving. This made the crackers angry and Rockstar laughed in their faces once again.

after that a huge number of cracks were spammed on the scene’s torrent and Usenet sites stating that it completely removed the issues but as ever, they were all fake. This was annoying as all of the Pirate Bay faggots screamed every time another one had been released, then screamed a little while later when it had been found it was another lovely fake crack

Until Friday, when a cracked was released that completely removed all the problems and made the game completely playable. at this point the person who designed the anti-piracy systems of GTA 4 was hung and the whole of the company cried as they’d lost $200,000 to stop the crackers cracking it for a grand total of about 5 days.

game works, pirates rejoice, Rockstar cries etc.

The End