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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
And no, I didn't pay for Vista, my old PC blew the mainboard (STILL on backorder) and the crummy laptop I was on started to die and so we went to the store only to find out it was the day of the Vista rollout, and they *REFUSED* to sell me an XP machine (they were putting them in the compactor to destroy them! MS pays them to do this ??!) even when I offered a $250.00 USD bribe over the cost if they would.

We went everywhere and were met with flat refusal cause MS would shit a brick and apparently do something unpleasant if they bowed to the customer peon instead of the corporate lord...
Grrr

And yes, of course I immediately violated the EULA and started hacking the OS so that it does what I TELL IT TO DO (mostly) instead of telling me WHAT IT WILL DO and that's just too bad if I don't like it.

It's MY computer, in MY house, running on MY power, under MY control, I will do what I please with it, and if the operating system has a *problem* with the user not being it's slave, it DESERVES to be hacked... damn skynet wannabe.

*I* am the USER, the boss, the master, as far as this thing is concerned I am GOD (ever seen Tron?) and it WILL obey me, or else.

They day some piece of software I purchase to do something, refuses to do what I bought it for, and starts giving ME orders... and expecting me to TAKE them... is the day some OpSys gets it's butt kicked by some old-skool command line restructuring or source-code chop.

It's my program, I bought it, and IT WILL DO WHAT I TELL IT TO DO, not vice versa, or vice vista, to turn a pun, and I am NOT this machines bitch, as much as mister gates would like it that way.

Whew, sorry for the rant... but having fought a virtual brawl with this stupid operating system for months now over the right and ability to use my own hardware for my own intents and purposes without it's interference and thinking it knows better or it's own wants are more important has enraged me to the point of actual hatred.

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citizen wrote:
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 13:51

I've also just built a new machine with 8 cores and more memory than you can shake a 32bit OS at, and it's the only Windows system that will take full advantage of it. That and most of my software requires Windows.

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1. Have you upgraded to Discovery 4.85, and if you have, does it include everything from the previous versions?

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2. Can Discovery combine with any Star Wars mods? (Ooo, Y-wing!)

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3. Do you know of any mods that pretty up the game? I know it's space and metal is grey and everything, but the textures just look so...bland.

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4. And the long shot: Do know of any mods that let me build my own ship? The ship designs in the game are kinda hit and miss. Take for example - those Rhineland fighters that blockaded and attacked *gasp!* not far into the game. They looked fairly decent, like F4 Phantoms with the wings angled down a bit, except they had a big circle thing behind the tail! What the EWW??!

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Oh, by the Celtic Gods, that race sucked ass!!!

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So far so... ok, I have a problem. How do you keep your tractor beam when you swap ships? I buy a new ship, and it's gone. Someone, somewhere, said make sure there's room in the hold for beaming stuff. I did an experiment: I went in space, parked it, threw a weapon (there's always room for weapons) out the airlock. Nothing.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
So the ID actually *is* your tractor beam, the item-type has just been modified to also serve as an identifier, I think what you mean is when you sold your first ship, you were like "where's my tractor beam, WTF?".

Hint: Buy a civilian ID and then try it, you'll notice suddenly your tractor beam works - although, I have had some issues with trying to transfer the ID to a new ship as well, but I don't recall off the top of my head whether that was my fault or a software issue, still, civvie IDs are cheap, and if you're not logged onto someones actual game server, can be used in any circumstance.
(Various servers have different rules about that sorta thing, but since I play such things to get *AWAY* from other humans, I wouldn't know much of that end)

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Originally posted by meatpuppet42:
To hell with the PC the last time my PC crashed it was from being thrown from a 7th story building.
Take me out to the black with a MAC tell them im not comin back.

I love it. It's like wiping your ass with silk.

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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
Altogether now: "Damn Nomads!"

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To resolve this problem, copy the following fonts from the Freelancer CD to the Fonts folder in Microsoft Windows:

* AGENCYB.TTF
* AGENCYR.TTF
* ARIALUNI.TTF

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Insert the Freelancer CD into the CD drive.
2. Right-click My Computer, and then click Explore.
3. In the Folders pane on the left, locate and then click the CD drive\Fonts folder.
4. While you press and hold down the CTRL key, click the following three files that are listed in the pane on the right:
* AGENCYB.TTF
* AGENCYR.TTF
* ARIALUNI.TTF
5. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
6. Locate and then double-click the C:\Windows\Fonts folder to open it.
7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.
8. Restart the computer.

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