Wed, 15 Dec 2004
MS Network Access Protection (NAP) -- Paranoid Visions
TheRegister has an informative, and pretty short, article on MS NAP, a technology that should help keep
networks clear of worm activity by requiring all machines to have
up-to-date patching and anti-virus before the network equipment will let
them play with others.
Now lets gloss over the more obvious question, how do you get a machine on the network for the first time, as it's simple, the kind of company that actually needs this will have a patch management system in place for new builds (maybe just something like MS SUS) to bootstrap the process. The real questions to ask are, will any anti-virus software except MS Anti-virus (or what ever they call it by then) actually work with this? And more importantly will it be easy to turn this feature off so we can add *Nix boxes to the network?
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Not The Doom Movie.
I've done my time in the first person trenches, from Single player
Wolfenstein, all the way to Halflife and its expansion packs along with a
diversion into multi-player Jedi Knight 2 (If you played online I probably
kicked your arse :)) and the early Doom games hold a warm place in my
nostalgia but lets face it, a Doom movie was always going to be bad.
The script writer, David Callahan, has made a couple of comments online, the full Doom Screenwriters open letter is available but I quite like the Penny Arcade Doom Movie Strip which summarises the article quite nicely.
Now lets take my favourite two comments out of context:
1: Because let's be honest here: as far as a completely immersive and
cinematic experience, we were never going to top Doom 3 anyway, and we all
knew that.
2: I don't enjoy watching a bunch of strangers bastardize my baby any more than you do, but really none of us can do anything about it at this point,
It might just be my interpretation but that makes two things spring to mind, firstly the games a better investment and secondly that it'll be shite and he knows it. Oh well, considering all the changes they've made it's not like it's actually Doom the movie after all. Final thoughts? Please don't watch it, let the thing flop.
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