[Hollow Man]

I've sent away for quite a few gift checks in my time. Sometimes they come in a month, sometimes much longer. Thankfully, they seem to always get here eventually.

I have a home LAN (3 client PCs plus a Linux firewall/router) hooked up to the net. HL used to allow me to use the same CD key on multiple machines to play over the net as long as it came from the same IP (which is what happens on my LAN using IP Masquerade). But they foiled that with a patch that came out in the last two years, so I have to use different CD keys when I have friends over to play CS.

Incidentally, the Blue Shift CD key also works in HL/CS (it also has all numbers), but the stand-alone Opposing Force (mix of numbers and letters) does not.

I think I strayed from the topic...

-HM