MartinaVaslovik

Well I think we have said as much about this as needs said, and I"m going back to my pistachios...

They can indeed see your avi there in the sim, but an "offline" marking in your profile might be interpreted the same as "away" marking, or an indication that IM's are not welcome.

Well my concern is that if they see "offline" in my profile they will not talk to me, and I've no idea how many that might have been so far.

Yes, that I have realized. Well if you can see my profile as online maybe everyone else can now too, at least I hope so. This might have been impacting my social life in SL, and I don't want that.

Ah! Thanks Rowan! Maybe it's because I unchecked that box for only letting my friends and groups see me online. I'll ask around.

I have thank you.

Thanks Solar, I thought that might be the case, because I can see the profiles of others marked "online" in green, but that doesn't show when I look at my own, nothing shows in that field when I look at my own profile, so now I wonder how to fix it so I don't appear "offline" to others. I don't have any alts, so I can't check it that way, so I'll see if I can find someone to chat about with it and work on it.

You know, I just checked that, and I had it set to that too. I unchecked it thinking that might be the reason. So far two others have told me my profile is marked offline and I certainly don't want it to be. Need to figure this out so I can get back to my pistachios...

Well now someone else has told me that my profile is marked "offline" and it's not when I look at it, and indeed I have no idea how to do that, nor have I ever tried to. I just talked to someone at Calas who's profile is showing "offline" and she says it's not, so now I have to wonder if this is some kind of SL bug, and perhaps the large numbers of offline profiles I've seen are not offline at all. Anyone have any idea what might cause this?

Thank you Mercedes, that is very helpful. I shall look into it.

I shall readily grant you that.

You seem really quite unfriendly and hostile to me. I have to ask what I've done to make you so.

Firestorm finally started after the second clean install, as I was downloading the SL viewer. Well, I hope that's finished! Thanks everyone for your help.

I've done a second clean install, and still no luck. At this point I've done everything I can think of, and nothing works. I guess I'm just out of luck unless someone has another idea.

Oh I did that already, said so further down in the thread, clean install didn't work, so I ran Onyx full suite, still no luck. At this point I'm lost for what to do. Onyx verifies my system is running right, boot device is good, nothing wrong except Firestorm will not start.

I see you decided to skip where I said Mac, go back and read it again, another did and found it.

Um... yes I did if you read the post: Posted 46 minutes ago (edited) So the power went out while I was in-world, and when it came back up and my machines restarted I could not get Firestorm to start again. I restarted the machine, but still it just beachballs and never starts up. Now I'm worried that my SL files have gotten corrupted and it can't restart again. I'm thinking to reinstall Firestorm. Anyone have any suggestions? I've already restarted my Mac and it doesn't help.

Onyx does all that and I've already run it. It shows the boot device is good, and all permissions were repaired and all caches and databases were rebuilt, and still no luck. I called my local computer genius place but it's Saturday and they are closed, so I guess I'm out of luck until Monday.

Dude, I'm on a Mac, not Windows.

I did all that. It still will not start and just hangs "not responding." I"m going to run Onyx and restart again and see if that helps. Later: Well I ran Onyx and restarted after running the full suite of repairs and cleaning and still no luck, Firestorm still will not restart.

So the power went out while I was in-world, and when it came back up and my machines restarted I could not get Firestorm to start again. I restarted the machine, but still it just beachballs and never starts up. Now I'm worried that my SL files have gotten corrupted and it can't restart again. I'm thinking to reinstall Firestorm. Anyone have any suggestions? I've already restarted my Mac and it doesn't help. later: I've reinstalled Firestorm, clean install, and it still will not open. I'm starting to panic here! It just hangs up "not responding" and I don't know what to do. Help!

I believe they are coming here and have been for a very long time. You are entitled to your own opinion of course.

Meh. It's a nothingburger. They have not said anything we did not already know. Moving right along....

Short answer, no.

Well I'm pretty sure aliens are real, if we are alone in the universe it's a really huge waste of space, but I don't see the Pentagon admitting this at all, and in fact they have come out with yet another whopping nothingburger in their report. They have been jerking us around on this for over 70 years, and why would they stop now? I've seen UFO's myself more than once, and they were quite obviously not ours. That said, I am not at all worried about the aliens, they are not making any trouble. I worry about the politicians who obviously are making trouble. It was said very long ago by a military insider "If they had conquest in mind it would not be difficult for them." Well we have seen nothing of the kind from them. We just see them flying around. I think we should just leave them alone and see to our more immediate problems among ourselves until they are disposed to make contact.