No, this time it isn’t farcical. Although this news item sounds like it certainly well could be.
Over the weekend A!!CT world owner MrBruce asked for financial help on the AW Newsgroups and other nonsense and in return was rewarded with flames from several of his vocal and ignorant detractors.
Well, turns out it was back online again before Monday evening, but this time under the leadership of Whitestar. This is only the most recent in a long line of shut downs and restartings of the A!!CT world…
In other news Enzo makes a reappearance as the newsgroup moderator. But only because an indignant MrBruce called up the AWI offices and complained about its users. No word yet on if Enzo will decide to stay again.
Have you ever dreamed of powering your electronics with your shirt? No? Well you may be able to sooner or later.
Ok but have you ever dreamed of teleporting just like in AW? Well we’re one step closer…
Someone spotted this website where you can buy wooden computer parts. Pretty nice looking IMO.
Electronics continue to get smaller and smaller. How does 1 molecule components sound?
There wasn’t too much news this week, with the exception of the war and shuttle crisis. Next Friday I’ll open a poll to vote whether or not you want us to continue covering real world news.
Hmm…my dad got this email pertaining to a virus. Apparently it resides in an executable file in the C:WindowsCommand folder named “sulfnbk.exe” It waits 2 weeks and then supposedly damages your hard drive quite bad (rendering it almost useless I guess). I found the file on my comp, and its spread via email (fortunately I don’t have many people on it). I looked at the icon and it looked like it was made in 3 minutes in paintbrush…not one of microsoft’s common icons I guess. I haven’t seen any warning on Symantec YET…so don’t blame me if you delete the file and find out its some ciritcal file that will break your install of windows 😛
EDIT by Comit: I did some research and confirmed it’s a hoax warning. Go to Symantec website for details if you want. The file is used by Windows.
If you get a email with an attachment and no message, don’t touch it. It has been passing through the staff here, so you might get it ;_;. (Correction: Nutinmuch has properly identified the virus. Apparently it’s just a blank virus that sends itself.)
And on a lighter note, AW just raised their yearly prices for citizenships by $100.00 smackers and eliminated tourist mode! Poor Flyguy, we may never see him again unless his sticks with his promise to register next week. I’m hopeful he will! ^_^
