Archiver wrote an interesting post regarding the potential use of old video games and the like as digital artifacts, to be saved for future generations.

I always kind of viewed this sort of thing as e-junk, having seen hundreds of Atari 2600′s at the flea market and reading this [video] story about all those games being thrown away a while back.

As Archiver says:

So, next time when you see a floppy disk or tape archive lying around, think twice before disposing it and check if it can be of value to the above institutions.

Ultrastats, the popular stats parsing utility for CoD games, has been found to have a serious vulnerability that would allow an intruder to gather hashes for admins. It is highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest version immediately. If your admins are slacking off, be sure to let them know so you don’t get hacked!

This version also includes several updates to the Ultrastats engine, and should provide a better experience overall:

UltraStats 0.3.12 Final – All Call of Duty Versions

Description:
This is a maintenance release, again I highly recommend all UltraStats users to update to this Version, as it contains a bugfix for a serious security issue. For details, see the list below.

Version 0.3.12 (beta), 2008-11-18
New features:
- Added new general frotnend options, to inject html code at certain places, prepend a string in the title tag and customize the UltraStats Logo url.
- Added help text for FTP Create button.
- Added display of the current configured game.
- Added check if gamelogfile is actually writeable.
- Added quick and dirty support for download gamelogfiles over http. Just a fully qualified http url instead of ftp, the stats parser automatically detect.
Changes and bugfixes:
- Fixed Sniper Medal for Codww
- Removed some minor issues with missing templates variables.
- Fixed serious security issue of reading the serverid parameter.
- Fixed problem with session initialization on Microsoft IIS Webservers.
- Fixed a problem in the default db templates, causing some mysql 4 version to fail durign installation.
- Added support to display new weapon ids proberly and correct.
- Fixed minor notice bug when reading script timeout from db settings.
- Fixed PB Guid detection string
- Fixed Knife medal for CodWW and fixed minor bug in the medals page template.
- Fix detection of command line mode, which also fixes php session management.
- Added fix for “SQL_BIG_SELECT” errors in logparser.