Monthly Archives: September 2008

SPORE DRM part 3

By docwhat | Published: 2008-09-21
It looks like EA decided to listen to their customers (and would-be customers): Answering your feedback about Spore Online Accounts. Short summary: They will add screen names, allowing 5 people to share the same account.
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SPORE DRM part 2

By docwhat | Published: 2008-09-12
Following up on my previous article, I did a little experiment as I installed SPORE on my Macbook Pro. I created a script to md5 sum all the files that I thought might be used to install a kernel module or a startup item. I then did the following: Ran the checksum script Installed SPORE. [...]
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SPORE DRM

By docwhat | Published: 2008-09-08
I’m waiting for my copy of SPORE to arrive from Amazon and I noticed that the rating for Spore on Amazon dropped to 1 star, out of 824 reviews (as of 2008-09-08 at 5:59pm EDT).  I hadn’t realized that the DRM on this was the infamous SecuROM. This made me nervous.  I switched to a [...]
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IAT made Network World

By docwhat | Published: 2008-09-05
Cool!  It’s All Text! made it into Network World in 10 Firefox add-ons for better browsing. I’ve had software in magazines before (actually shipped on CDs) but this is the first time in an english magazine.
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Google Chrome

By docwhat | Published: 2008-09-02
Great jumping jesus in a sidecar with chocolate jimmies! Google has released their own browser, Google Chrome.  They even created a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud (author of Zot!).
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