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From: Ed Federmeyer <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Chat
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:01:38 -0600
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Mario Perdue wrote:
> 
> Just a reminder that I will be in the Auditorium lobby at 10:00pm EST
> on Wednesday, Feb 11, 1998. Hopefully some of you will be able to get
> in this time and we can 'talk' for awhile.
> 
> Mario

I dunno if this came up before, I don't remember seeing this,
but I needed to un-install the placeware audio client from my
PC before I could use the auditorium.  (I kept getting that
pesky "Youre placeware client has expired" message box.)

I (wrongly) assumed that it was telling me that the downloaded
Java applet was expired, and that there was nothing I could do
about it, since SCEA is the one who would have to change the
Applet on thier server...  Wrong.

I looked for "place*.*" on my hard drive (it was under my
Netscape "PLUGINS" directory, and just deleted everything
under that "placeware" directory, and one .DLL file named
(n3_placeware.dll, I think).

Next time I started Netscape and went into the auditorium I got
the message box asking me to sign in!  Yay!

I didn't realize until now what it meant by "You may uninstall
your placeware client, but then you won't get audio support".
It would have been nice it it told me "how" to uninstall it.
Or better, let me continue the text-chat part without needing
to uninstall the audio support.  Maybe I just missed a readme
somewhere.

I hope this helps some of you others who still get that 
"Placeware client expired" message.

EdF