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.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
SPORE DRM part 2
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.
- Ran the checksum script again.
- Ran SPORE and authorized my account.
- Ran the checksum script again.
- Compared the results of the different checksum scripts.
SPORE DRM
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 Macbook Pro because I didn’t want to have to muck about with the kernel on the system that I use for everything; I just want it to work. Having some sort of kernel module doing DRM breaking my system would be a reason to be very upset.
IAT made Network World
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.
Google Chrome
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!).