Into.the.Void.

This morning after about 25 hours of gaming (since monday night) I finished Doom3. As one get’s further and further into the game I’m sure he will like it more and more, like I did. The beggining of the game is quite dissapointing but you “get your money back” later on. The Hell level is one of the best levels I have ever played in a game. The graphics are awesome. There were times I just looked at the screen doing nothing more than enjoying the gfx.

some pics from Hell level:

Just play this game…Nothing more nothing less.
There are now various mods on the net for just about everything. My favorites are :

I guess that in 1-2 months time there will be even different (and good) playable scenarios based on doom3 engine/game.

Does anyone else noticed the connection between the movie “Event Horizon” ( Review ) and this game, or is it just me who thinks there is such a connection ? Teleporting allows Hell enter the world of humans and so on and so on…

Airpwn is a nice tool that was presented at defcon 12 this august.

Airpwn is a platform for injection of application layer data on an 802.11b network

And it works!
Check this site for more: airpwn. Don’t forget to take a look at the images…These guys were pwned. heh.

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As a true fan of mod_ssl I wanted to “convert” my webmail instances from http to https. The easiest way was to set it like this:


<Location "/webmail">
SSLRequireSSL
</Location>


But that was a bit problematic because when someone went to the old http://koko.foo/webmail he was presented with an error. It was time for my other favorite apache module…mod_rewrite
So I deleted the previous code and added the next piece of code inside the virtual host directive:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/webmail(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/webmail$1 [R,L]


I also splitted the webdav configuration part (like I have done with ssl) because the httpd.conf was getting larger and larger, and it was already difficult to browse it and edit it.

That’s it for now…I am going to play a bit of Doom3 and then read a couple of pages from Da Vinci Code book I’ve bought.

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Firefox (0.9.3) and phpMyAdmin (2.5.7-pl1) were the next packages to be updated on my machines.
I also tweaked some apache settings for this domain (void.gr). I played a bit with ssl support and created some directory directives to protect sensitive data…like the phpmyadmin dir.
example:


<Directory "/foo/bar/lol/phpmyadmin/">
SSLRequireSSL
</Directory>


While playing with apache and SSL I’ve found out that you can’t use different certs for virtual hosts hosted on the same ip/port (link1, link2. I guess that’s why we are asked so many times on the web to validate a cert that looks like it’s coming from another host. They are probably sites hosted on the same machine and wanted both to use ssl, so they chose one of the FQDNs and stuck with it.

I also changed all the urls of this blog to follow the https scheme. Security … Privacy … Unknown words to most people surfing the “Net”.

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This morning while I checked the news I saw that libpng and putty clients needed updating due to security issues. Libpng is of course the most important and needs the classic make;make install in all machines that I have that use libpng…I hope it won’t break anything else, pffffff.

Advisories:
Putty: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/370869
Libpng: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-217A.html

Have “fun”…

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I’ve been playing Doom 3 since monday night I got back from vacations.
I was thirteen when I first played Doom I, and I was so excited to play the sequel of the game that I “grew up with”. I installed it…tweaked the options and fired it up. First impression ? AWESOME gfx,sound and very very very very scary atmosphere. But that was not the Doom I used to play or was it ? I still can’t decide. The monsters are now (that I’ve moved a bit further in the game) begining to look like the old ones, the guns too. So from that point of view I should be very happy, and I am. What looks strange is the tunnel-like pathways. There are no open-air places. As far as I can remember there were places in doom where you were in a large open place shooting monsters coming from all over the place. I haven’t seen anything like this so far. (There is an exaplanation though for this…everything is taking place on Mars in a big complex that provides oxygen and outside of it there is no breathable air…but what the hell..aren’t there big places in this complex ? 🙂 ) Furthermore…weren’t there secret places in Doom ? I’ve only found one or two places pretty “hidden”, that “weren’t so easy to go”…but it’s not like old Doom games. Something else now…What the hell are these PDAs ? Whose idea was that ? They are really annoying as far as gameplay is concerned. I admit that they make the game-scenario much better…but hey…this is not a movie..it’s a game…it’s supposed to be fun. Someone in a forum said that Doom3 looks like Halo with the atmosphere of original Doom. He might be right, but still I can’t make up my mind about this game…I’ll keep playing.
(If you are interested in reading more stuff about Doom3 read this blog: DOOM 3 – Sluggo’s Blog From Hell)

My friend Angelos has tweaked wordpress a bit to help me with privacy issues. I wanted the entries that have a password to protect them not to show up their title to users that view the blog and don’t have the password. Now if they don’t have the password all they see is “Protected”. I may post the diffs (if I get his permission) in the next days.

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I am back from Zante. I had a great time. The beaches were superb. I will post pics when I print the film and scan the pics. We were lucky to meet some friends who had a car and knew the island pretty well. The drove us to some outstanding places that we would have never been able to go with public transport. The whole trip was also VERY cheap. I spent less than 300 euros (along with travel expenses) for 8 whole days! Of course we were staying at a camping, else we wouldn’t have managed to stay that long. More info soon cause I really need a rest now after so many hours of travelling with buses and ships.

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