People still play Warcraft II. I don't think that open-source has had a significant impact on the longevity of Id's earlier games. The fact that they were solid games that many see as still worth playing is far more important. The original half-life, released a year after quake II, has orders of magnitude greater online presence, despite being closed source.

It would be pretty interesting if it's true, however -- my guess would be that a large animal capable of avoiding detection for so long in well-explored areas would be interestingly intelligent.../i

I'm not surprised given the region. It's not so much that they area is impossibly dense or remote but that there's been so much turmoil in this region over the past century that it's quite inhospital to exploration.

Dude, you're full of crap. Kerberos is the easiest part. LDAP is actually the hardest part so far. We just got support for GSS-SPNEGO (Window's preferred SASL authentication mechanism) this week (thanks to some awesome work by Volker). Then there's a bunch of AD-only controls and syntaxes that we're just begining to understand. True is, we can currently support an AD domain controller but it's buggy as all hell (mostly due to LDAP problems). That's not even getting into connectionless LDAP (see my latest presentation at last week's CIFS conference). - Anthony Liguori