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Classic Games (Games)

Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit 51

The Associated Press reports that Hasbro Inc. has now dropped the lawsuit it launched earlier this year against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the creators of Scrabulous, a Scrabble clone that found a sizable following on Facebook. We previously discussed Scrabulous' return to Facebook under a different name, as well as the "official" Scrabble client, which was not exactly well received. Hasbro's IP rights to the game are limited to North America, and the AP story adds: "Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, filed a lawsuit against the brothers in India claiming violations of intellectual property. It was not immediately clear what the status of that lawsuit is."
Spam

Journal Journal: More 419 scams

I am an optimist and I keep hoping that if everyone was doing like me, spammers would just stop. But they don't. Anyway.. Here's my standard answer to 419 emails:

Not interested, but thank you.

On the other hand, you may be interested to hear that I have quite a subsequent backup to perform on our system (/dev/random seems to be the largest file or all) and I am asking volunteers all over the internet to help me keep a small portion of my backup for me.

Technology

Journal Journal: Cisco to Acquires Linksys 8

The Boston Globe is reporting that networking giant Cisco Systems will acquire Linksys later this year for $500M, thus entering the consumers market. Linksys press release is here. The good news is that those who bought a Linksys access point now have a Cisco access point fo
Science

Journal Journal: Certifications ? 12

So, which certification(s) do you have ? Are you damn proud of it ?
  • A. Adobe
  • B. Cisco
  • C. Compaq
  • D. IBM
  • E. Juniper
  • F. Microsoft
  • G. Novell
  • H. Oracle
  • I. Red Hat
  • J. SANS Institute
  • K. Sun Microsystems
  • Other (details ?)
  • None (Too good to bother / I don't work in the Tech Industry)
The Internet

Journal Journal: Turning 419 schemes around to waste scammers' time and money 8

This person Brad Christensen has the best 419 page I have ever read till now.

I get a few pieces of 419 fraud myself every week, and I normally respond to them trying to be funny and informative (turning one against another for example, or asking the fraudster to ask my trusted CFO (whom I randomly pick from my list so far) for the bank details)... I thought I was clever, but this one has to be the best of all.

Technology

Journal Journal: New Nokia 2

I was kindly given a new Nokia 6310i at work to replace my ageing 6150.

The Gimp

Journal Journal: I praise you, my loyal fans 17

189 friends and 133 fans to this day. That's 41% of my 'users base' who like me as much as I like you, and other people. Not too bad at all !! :)

Are there people out there who also keep an eye on your fans list once in a while ? I am, for two reasons that I can think of:
- ego :)
- I like to list as friends all the people who took the time to list me as such to start with.

Security

Journal Journal: How many characters in your password ? 7

From Microsoft KB article 276304:
  • Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes." (emphasis mine)

With an infinite number of monkeys, we should manage to type both passwords identical eventually :)

Spam

Journal Journal: Webwasher 4

What a splendid piece of software Webwasher is. In case you have never tried it, I urge you to download and try for yourself. It's totally free for personal, non-commercial use and what you get is a full, non-crippled version.

There is a Mac, a Linux and a win32 version of the software. The latest win32 version (classic v3.3) now even works with XP....

The Courts

Journal Journal: How lame: posting at +1 14

Whatever happened to me, I'm posting at +1 instead of my regular +2.

This kind of happened overnight, for whatever reason only known to the admins (and even that point remains to be proved :) Of course I checked my preferences, and I did post with +1 Karma bonus. I wasn't meta-moderated, nor did I moderate anyway: that was disabled by the admins a long time ago. So I really don't have the slightest idea...

Anyone else shares the same experience ?

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