System administrator cheat sheet and Starcraft 2
Got a link last night to a pretty nice cheat for anyone needing to remember some system administration related stuff.
http://www.mj12net.org/index.php/system-administrator-interview-cheat-sheet.html
Starcraft 2 closed beta has started. I opted in for beta from battle.net account page, but no luck so far. Even some Blizzcon’08 attendees haven’t gotten their keys yet, so it’s no big deal for me, I can wait. Starcraft was the first game that I truly played, I used to hang around in a net café with like-minded friends and spend hours watching others play and playing ourselves. To this day the atmosphere of single player campaigns is something of true science fiction spirit.
As expected, the cracking groups are already hard at work breaking the protection and trying to get at least single player working without a beta key and of course further in the future private battle.net servers. The progress so far is unlocking the main menu without having to log on and watching replays. From what I understand, they now need to unlock maps and then single player would be possible.
It is kind of amusing, though. Considering the hype and how many people were waiting for Starcraft 2, I bet lots of cracker groups will be putting all of their resources into being the first ones to break any kind of protection mechanism Blizzard could have thought up. And it’s always easier to break stuff than to build stuff.
Regarding the previous, I’m willing to guess that beta’s single player should be cracked in 2 weeks and we’ll see first battle.net implementations in 6 weeks (counting from beta launch). Now it’s time to wait and see the results of one of the most interesting battles now between developers and crackers.
