Movie Review: The Devils Game

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Korean Movie Review: The Devil’s Game

The_Devil's_Game_film_poster  The Devil’s game is a South Korean thriller released in 2008, starring Shin Ha-Kyun (Joint Security Area, and The Happenings) as Min Hee-do, a struggling portrait artist who is offered 1 billion South Korea Won ( 1 Million US Dollars) to play a simple game with a dying eccentric man named Kang No Sik (played by Byun, Hee-Bong ( The Spy ).   Min He-Do first turns the offer down, but after his girlfriend Eun Seong runs into trouble with the debt her father left the family he returns to play the game. Which turns out to be more than he bargained for.

While the film certainly seemed to have promise, the storyline and script just seems to die in places. The cast is top notch, and Shin Ha-Kyun and Byn, Hee-bong definitely play well off each other. The story just seems to have way too many implausible moments. Which all seem to lead up to a typical tragic Asian Shakespearian ending where nobody wins. Though usually (At least in Chinese cinema) you can see how the characters actions contribute to the unsatisfactory resolution at the end of the film. With The Devil’s game it just seemed like 2 very innocent peoples lives are irreparably harmed for no reason. Which left me feeling like I had just lost all faith in humanity.

The moral of the story is, Don’t leave your family in debt, and don’t bet what you can’t afford to lose.

Over all I give the movie 3 stars, I was definitely entertained, the acting and cinematography was top notch! I just wish the plot did not slow down so much in places, and I really wished for a more satisfactory ending. Though that might just be because I am so used to American films where the “Good Guy” always has to win, and all conflicts are resolved by the end of the film.

When you see the film, please come back and post your thoughts.

 

 

Repost Changing hostname in OS X

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OS X Logo   OS X: Changing Incorrect Hostname
                         Using The Terminal.

 

 

I have seen this issue many times.  My OS X workstations receive the wrong hostname after being joining a Windows Active Directory Domain, and I have also read this can also happen on a standalone network, though am not quite sure what the circumstances might be as I have never operated outside a domain environment. You would not normally notice this, unless you frequent the Terminal.

You will notice, if you go to System Preferences > Sharing, it appears the hostname is set correctly. For example, the Computer Name shown here is the correct name, correct-hostname.

Hostname - Sharing

Now let’s open the terminal.app

You will see from the prompt, that your workstation has picked up the hostname of another computer on the network. It might look something like this, “Incorrect~ user$”

  As you can see, the hostname is different than what displayed in the Sharing Preference Pane.

We Can verify this by entering the hostname command in the shell window.

           prompt$ hostname

The shell returns the system hostname as:

   incorrect-hostname.catracing.org

We know that’s incorrect, don’t we?

We could TRY and change the hostname by entering the terminal command hostname <correct-hostname.catracing.org>. However this will be lost upon reboot. Which would be quite pointless. We could also place it as a launchd item, or put it in a ~/.profile script. However there is a much cleaner and more appropriate method of doing this.

If you have SUDO configured (Which is the best practice)

At the terminal window, type the following.

Prompt$ sudo scutil --set HostName <newhostname>

Do not type the <>’s

If you do not have sudo configured, but have root enabled, su to root (Since I am in a domain environment, and my standard user account does not have administrator privileges I must first su to an account that does have administrator privileges either on the domain or a local administrator account.

Prompt# scutil --set HostName correct-hostname.catracing.org

Now type hostname at the terminal prompt

You should see

correct-hostname.catracing.org
Prompt$

Your actual terminal prompt may not change until you exit and relaunch the terminal.app