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Star Wars Galaxies Forums Turn Player-Only

Posted by simoniker on from the can't-peek-over-fence dept.

mwbay writes "A note from the Star Wars Galaxies Forums indicates that starting today, SOE will be hiding the PC MMORPG's forums from the non-paying public. Raph Koster submitted this response [on the now-inaccessible forums]: 'It isn't really that we have anything to hide. We spend a lot of time on the boards here talking to you, and I don't think we have been shy about confronting controversial issues... But yeah, publicity is at the heart of it. The heart of the matter is will a game's Internet forums ever be a source of positive publicity post-launch? And I'd suggest to you that the answer is no... Someone who isn't a player has no idea exactly how widespread a given issue is.' It is certainly well within SOE's rights to do what they want with their boards, but isn't this a bit extreme?"

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  1. Re:Why I hate linux score -1 offtopic by Oriumpor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    AHEM TROLL.... AHEM WWW.LINUXDOC.ORG AHEM WWW.JUSTLINUX.COM. SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVEN'T READ ANY HOWTOS. AHEM TROLL. Redhat is easy... SUSE is easy... Mandrake is easy.... If your hardware is old, try older software distros... it's possible legacy hardware drivers weren't tested properly in newer distros. The argument that Linux is "better" that windows has NEVER been a hardware driverset issue. IT IS A STABILITY/PERFORMANCE/AVAILABILITY/TRANSPARENCY OF CODE/AVAILABILITY OF CODE PREFERENCE.

    Linux outperforms windows in Cost and in Ease of administration. You cannot base all of the nicities of linux based upon your inability to get it to run properly. It also seems you aren't very forward thinking... Knoppix (slackwarelive etc) would have been a good choice for a START, and then if you could even get that to run (Burn CD-Boot to CD... viola) then maybe you could try running "full" blown linux.

    And even the Knoppix driver-set is limited. Oh screw it... if you can't learn how to download some drivers, patch your kernel/run some kernel mods, or edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config then you didn't look too hard for help on the web. Hell Nvidia has their own walktrhough on how to do it to get their Geforce systems running with their (unsupported?) linux drivers.

    The process is similar in windows 2k, 1 Right Click (manage) on my computer, 2 Select Device Manager, 3 Right Click Device (properties) 4 Select Drivers Tab Click "Update Driver..." 5 Follow the 4 steps through the wizard (point data location it searches for to the location of the "proper" driver hope windows finds it cross fingers hit next. 6 Reboot.

    Fixing your audigy: 1. Download OSS 2. run installer, click next a few times... 3. point your sound enabled app to the right sound device .... play sound.

    Fixing your Video: Go to Nvidia's website click drivers, download linux driver for Geforce (whatever if it's not your card doesn't matter... they have a good walktrhough on editing your XF86Config...)

    Fixing your Ethernet Card: 1. Find Kernel module for Nic. 2. Download/tar -zxvf module. 3. Compile module 4. insmod 5. netcfg

    Also... noticing the priority of your devices... The network card should be first... Linux is 100x better with a network card.

    YOU SURE ARE ONE UPPITY NOOB. SOMEONE MOD PARENT AND THIS POST DOWN... WAAAAY DOWN.