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Submission + - DRM causes Dragon Age: Origins to stop working (arstechnica.com) 1

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Martey

on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:48PM

Martey writes: "Ars Technica reports that a server problem with the DRM authentication servers has caused Dragon Age: Origins players to be locked out of any saved games that include downloadable content."

Submission + - History of MECC and Oregon Trail

Submitted by Gammu on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @12:46AM

Gammu writes: For the past thirty years, many children have been raised with a heavy diet MECC games like Oregon Trail, Odell Lake and Lemonade Stand. These products weren't developed by a major game developer. Rather, they were developed by the state of Minnesota for use in their schools. What began as an initiative to get Minnesota students ready for the micro-computer age turned into a multi-million dollar a year business whose products are still used in US schools even a decade after MECC was sold off to another developer. Read about the history of MECC (and especially Oregon Trail) at Silicon User.

Comment Re:ask them to hold, forever... (Score 1) 612

by Martey on Thursday May 31, 2007 @07:40PM (#19345699) Attached to: Shutting Down Annoying Recruiters?

The current time.

Windows Live OneCare Can Eat Your Email 204

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, 2007 @03:24PM from the have-a-care dept.

FutureDomain writes in to point us to a blog sponsored by PC Magazine, reporting about another problem with Windows Live OneCare. Apparently, it sometimes deletes the entire Outlook or Outlook Express .PST mailbox when it finds a virus in one of the messages. The only solution is to tell OneCare to exclude the entire Outlook mailbox. This is the software that came in last in antivirus tests. The trail of tears is ongoing over on the Microsoft forums.

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