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We all of us do that at some time or other. Sometimes reading a rant you think you see a way out and post a reply, rather than just ignore somebody venting. Sometimes a rant from one person triggers a rant from another... This is one of the most irritating SL-eras I've known, and it's starting to show in forum posts. For what it's worth, I'd advise people to sleep on their replies to posts or at least sit on their hands for a few minutes until the itch has subsided and the red mist faded. Ooops, sorry, red mist is what the trouble was all about wasn't it? At least, for Firestorm users with baking issues. (ducks and runs for cover)

Took some digging, sadly few threads get tagged with "sit", "unsit" so the search failed to find "no suitable spot to sit" and no tagged items popped up. This is the first time in ages I've actually tried searching the forums and I suddenly appreciate how very unfriendly it is Try this thread - and look for Wulfie's posts ETA try "multi-sit" in your search and a a veritable Alexandrian library of articles pops up.

No, it was mentioned here a few weeks ago as to why there was no way to set it other than the build floater.

Short answer: a physics shape from the prim in question or a nearby prim is enclosing your prim and preventing anything other than a single scripted sit on the sitPos. Look back through some of the older threads in this forum, it's a physics issue that ha been explained by quite a few people, Wulfie in particular gave an exposition of the physics shapes and how they tend to stop a second sit. I also recall this topic in the building thread, it crops up from time to time.

If it happens once in a while it's fine, but supposing you start adding an extension wing to house an ex-president who won't move out or digging a cellar to bury the bodies? You either have to go through the existing linkset to find and disable all door scripts, or put up with scripts thrashing away each time you add or remove a prim. If you disable them, which is the easiest, you then have to painstakingly go through all the child prims resetting them. With my approach, the worst that can happen is that you inadvertently name a new child door prim with an already existing name and end up with ghostly doors.

In such a situation I'd set certain parcels to group-access only, it saves all the tedium of ban-lists. It would of course mean house-owners would have to get visitors into the group but that seems preferable to the situation you've described. ETA, suddenly thought I'm not sure you can control access to parcels by group, only rezzing, scripts and object-entry? Not in-world to check right now.

I've had this issue and tried putting a changed_link section in the changed event in but it's tedious. The simplest solution is to name the doors such that they are unique but when double, paired, ie name a pair of doors "library door L" and "library door R". When touched, the door sends a message to the linkset of the form myName + " open" or " close" . Other doors listening to link messages are given names to action, so when "Library Door R" hears "Library door L" announce a position it goes to the same position. The door being told what to do must not in turn announce it's position but simply wait for a further message if there is to be an auto-close on a timer. The door which was touched and sent the message can set a timer if it was commanded to open and there is to be an auto-close, this timer event changes the door position and sends the message to the other listeners. Two advantages to this system: 1) it survives changes to the link set, even the removal of one of the pair of doors won't harm it 2) you can do things like have all the doors on a long corridor open or close according to one door, useful in haunted hotels, for example.

This is nothing new nor unique to SL. I have a friend in RL who is shorter than usual but worked for years with others similar as models for yachts. Because they are small, the photos of people clustered on the yacht show more headroom and more space than would be the case if you got normal (oops, did I just call my friend abnormal) models for the photo-shoots.

Nope, it's all done with textures.

Can't seem to find it on YooTooBe but I'd follow on with the Young Farmers quartet doing "Hay Hay - Ewe Ewe - Git orf of moi grownd"

So my bad day began yesterday when I went to Paypal to add the funds for my premium renewal and got told that because of some government legislation I had to prove who I was all over again. That is nothing to do with the cloud. In entering the details I missed seeing a small grey button on an off-white background and inadvertently added myself a second time but with my first and second names instead of my first and last name because the web form wants two names and two names only. That wasn't the cloud. Paypal were not in attendance for live support on a Saturday and simply pointed me to the web page that told me I had to re-enter my details before I could use my account. That wasn't the cloud. So I opened a Skrill account and transferred the money ready for the premium payment call. It was all so easy I went to bed thinking nothing could go wrong. First thing in the morning is my waking up to a black house, the lights had fused. Nothing to do with the cloud. After climbing a step ladder wearing rubber gloves to pull the fuse holder and replace the time-expired fuse wire, I settled down to my morning emails, to find one from SecondLife saying there had been a problem with the payment for my membership. Ah ha! This was a perfect candidate for the cloud , surely? Nope. Or maybe. As you'll have spotted in my other post, Skrill seemed initially to want me to verify my account but I don't have Farcebook or a smartphone and their web-page refused to activate my web-cam to take the mandatory selfie. That wasn't the cloud. (It might have been that their web-page requires you to activate an old version of flash?). Being a Sunday, Skrill were all off doing who knows what and all I got by way of help was a pointer to a web page that showed an out of date image for how to grant your web browser permission to use the camera. That wasn't the cloud. The payment finally went through, by dint of repeatedly mashing the "Buy Now" button against the request to pay my premium subscription, leaving me feeling like one of the rats in B F Skinnner's experiments. That wasn't the cloud (well, I grant you, maybe the payment details kept getting lost in some cumulo-nimbus) By way of celebrating I went to a premium sandbox and got bowled over by some bozo hurling his car around. I was tempted to AR him but thought, his account is even older than mine and why should I make somebody else's day equally bad? Anyway, again, that wasn't the cloud. Of all the frustrations and anxiety I have been through during the last 24 hours, nothing can be attributed to the cloud. Instead, it can be parcelled out to staffing levels over weekends for supposedly 24/7 operations, outdated web design, lack of a modern smartphone, my desire for reclusivity meaning I didn't have a certain bit of social media, a policy amongst many web-based operations of making life hard for criminals to dissuade them from trying to commit fraud via their operations, and a fuse-box that is perhaps 60 years old, almost as old as I am. So get off the cloud's back.

For Madeleine, I'll see your Hartford and raise you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbFydtLF-Y

I loved his long-time double act with Margaret Dumont. She was superb in the way in which she always played the straight lady to his outrageous quips without ever giving herself away. "Madam, I'm fighting for your virtue, which is more than you've ever done" (Suitably puzzled look on Mme Dumont's face by way of reply)

So, Windows 10 on an old HP laptop with an excellent working camera built-in, all permissions for camera use checked, and still no pictures taken, trying with 3 different browsers. I will have to remain in the ranks of the great un-verified. But, the bad news for you lot is, I'm still here - back to Linux, and after repeated attempts using the "Buy Now" button on the Skrill payment option, it suddenly relented and paid. You've got to suffer my presence for another 12 months.

Isn't it just that they're all in lockdown?

Thanks, that is my suspicion. I've just woken up the very old Windows laptop to see if I can verify on that, but once again their web page can't access the camera. If I'm not going to be able to renew my premium subscription, I'll arrange a garage sale for those who wants to "hace my stuff"

Things always go bad on weekends... I set up a Skrill account yesterday for my premium renewal. The transaction exchange worked, so I then put in enough funds for the premium renewal, converted them to US$. This morning I got the email "There is a problem with your account" and found that the request for the amount had failed. I tried again, same result. I then thought that perhaps the new Skrill account needed verification in order to transfer more than the tiny amount used to handshake the setup, and here is where it's all going wrong. I have a linux machine and a non-Android phone, and the Skrill verification process can't access the camera for the mandatory selfie. I have sent them a help request advising them of this, but it's a weekend and all I got back was an automated reply giving me the same information on the verification process that the Skrill help page gives. So two questions from anybody who has gone through these hoops before: 1) Does a Skrill account need to be verified to transfer US$99 ? 2) If I try to manually push the payment from my end, how do I get the recipient details? If I just throw it at Linden Lab will it be recognised as the outstanding payment?

There are times when you want a complex shape that: doesn't need detailed texturing, doesn't decompose into triangles at 5 metres, is 1 LI, doesn't flip the linkset it's attached to from prim-accounting into greater figures Sculpts do this without any need to fiddle with upload parameters, and they cost just L$10. It's the simplest solution for a certain class of problem.

Madam, your bum is not the smallest known to humanity.

Ah, so that's why it's laggy. I spend most of my time listening to Buxtehude, my frame rates have never been so good lately.

My intention says "Yes" but my bladder says "Hello, I must be going"

I used to know which land-mass I was logging into, but now the cloud has made me incontinent

I never read the move to AWS as the way to solve all SL problems in one go. I understood it was a necessary move to improve the hardware in preparation for a going-forwards move that would (by virtue of better metrics) give LL more of an insight into a collection of issues that have been growing over the past year or so. What I think we should expect is some time required to stabilise SL on the new hosts before LL get to grips with these issues. AWS is neither the problem nor the solution.

This backs up what another poster in a different thread found, the workaround was to look at the properties of the inventory landmark and not double-click it or attempt to TP until the landmark picture was visible. I experimented with this myself and certainly found instances where even after a minute no picture was showing. However, there were still odd instances when a TP to a landmark that had loaded the picture just hung and either popped back with the unable to complete in a timely manner, or crashed me out. As others have said, though, until Linden Lab have completed the uplift and whatever server tuning they need to make, I would expect sporadic issues.

Similarly, some destinations have a small landing arrival area, moving out of this often triggers a text message welcoming you, if trying to TP before the welcome message pops up, fail is far more likely. There seems to be some trigger at which point an avatar is satisfactorily registered as being in a region, until this has activated, handing over to another destination fails. I had for a while believed it was altitude that caused the TP-fail issue but when I looked at the places from which I believed TP fails occurred because of being high above the ground, I found they all had these arrival spots.