Running with scissors

Valve has just released the latest in a long line of server-side patches for its popular Half Life game. This patch does not fix any bugs as such, but it does put the kibosh on anyone exploiting the infamous speed cheat. But why listen to me, when

Valve has just released the latest in a long line of server-side patches for its popular Half Life game. This patch does not fix any bugs as such, but it does put the kibosh on anyone exploiting the infamous speed cheat. But why listen to me, when you can get the good oil from Erik Johnson at Valve:

We've posted a beta version of the Half-Life server that addresses the
current Windows 95/98/ME clock speed cheat. If a person is using the
speed cheat you will see a message in the server console like this:

Dropped from server
Reason: User has corrupt system clock

We want to make sure this doesn't affect any legitimate players, so
please report any issues to Eric Smith (erics@valvesoftware.com).

The only changed file for this release is the sw.dll (for Win32) and
engine_i386.so (for Linux). Make sure to make backup copies of the
current file on your server before installing the new beta.

The md5sum for the Linux server is 24e82c7d958f7af11c213718fb92a02d

FTP Site Information:
ftp : ftp.valvesoftware.com
login : hlserver
password : testserver

So there you go.