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MoiraKathleen

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  1. My ideas about security and privacy have changed over time.  When I first started, I had ban lines up.  After awhile I took those down, but always had a house with door locks - until I realized that door locks don't keep anyone out, if someone really wants to come inside the house.  However, I don't appreciate people who just walk into my house while I am home, especially without conversing first.   

    Recently, when I still had mainland parcels along a road, I put in my 'about land' description that this was my house, but people were free to take a look around the gardens and the little farm, but to say 'hello' and to respect my privacy if I was home.   When I'm out exploring, I always read the 'about land' description before wandering into someone's parcel, so that I can see whether they are open to someone getting a better look at something they have out on their parcel (and I would not go in someone's house uninvited whether they were there or not).   If I can't tell, I just admire from the road or waterway, but not everyone has the same view points about that.   If I came home and people were in my house and didn't acknowledge me or stop whatever they were doing and talk with me,  I would probably eject them. 

    In the end, you need to do what is most comfortable for you - you are the one paying tier or rent for the parcel.     There is no obligation for you to have your land open to anyone and everyone, no matter what some others may think.

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  2. 14 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    Wow, pretty bold for a first conversation.  I'd bet everything that they are in their very early 20s.  Those are pretty much the only folks I know that think it is okay to ask those sort of questions right off the bat on the internet.

    The 20's also seem to be the range which most often volunteer their age, and also seem to want to find others in the same age range. 

    I figure if you develop a friendship with someone and enjoy talking with them, then age doesn't really matter. Over time there will be references that may give you hints of their general age.  I suppose if one is looking for an intimate relationship that would move to RL, more concern about age might be warranted ...

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  3. 34 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

    Interesting. Weird if it hides the actual owner.

    It may only on the "About Land', but not on the Region/Estate menu option.  I wasn't sure if a tenant could see that, but I'm in-world now and am able to open Region / Estate from the menu, and see the Estate name and Estate owner (of course I'm just renting a parcel on an estate - don't know if that's different if you rent an entire region),

  4. 1 minute ago, Love Zhaoying said:

    Can’t you only tell/prevent this by only renting from land owners that you pay directly, after verifying they are the owner of the land?

    I was wondering the same thing.  I think though, that if you lease an entire sim, it appears as being in your name (or your group's name) on the 'About Land'.  I could be wrong, because I haven't double checked this in-world.  Perhaps there's region level info that can be seen by a tenant/sub-tenant?  I'm not sure. 

  5. Personally, I would just ignore the request initially.  If the other person became persistent and continued to ask for my password, I would report them at that point.  I can't think of any valid reason, that is not malicious or ill will, for someone to ask for someone else's password. 

  6. 8 minutes ago, starflitz said:

     

    Well I am just scared because I spoke to the lady at the bank and she was telling me people can send fraud checks and if something happens they will come after me and it can be a long process and I do not want to have to go through all that and I'm pretty new to stuff so I'm not sure what could happen. It's enough to make anyone sketched out. I do not just come on Second Life just for money but I'd like to know it could cause something big to start rising. But the background material can you send to me.

    My understanding is that it is a multi-step process - first you sell your lindens on the Lindex and the result of that goes into your SL USD balance.  If you then choose to cash out, the funds are sent to your paypal account. 

    If you then decide to transfer the funds to your bank, that is done from within Paypal - just like any other transfer of Paypal balance to your bank, and at that point, it has nothing to do with LL. 

    There are fees involved with each of the steps, and it is not instantaneous. 

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  7. Just wanted to add that for home and garden items, vehicles, landscaping, other non-wearables...  often the "demo" isn't a demo item bought from MP, but following the "see item in second life" link and viewing the item at the merchant's store. 

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  8. Some things you just need to chalk up as a 'lesson learned'.  Whenever buying something that doesn't have a demo, you need to decide for yourself whether it's worth taking a chance on, knowing that it may not be as it seems or meet your expectations.  

    Leaving a review, contacting the merchant and (when warranted) flagging the item are about all you can do for this type of situation. 

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  9. 5 minutes ago, ThorinII said:

    Heh. My coffee machine usually wakes me up with freshly made coffee. :P

    (I only have to prepare the machine in the evening before - though when I forget that, I run on autopilot until after the 2nd mug... :ph34r:)

    Before coffee machines came with built-in timers, we used to plug our coffee machine into one of those plug-in timers that were intended to be used to turn a lamp on and off automatically.  It's so nice to wake up to fresh brewed coffee.

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  10. As a first step, you might want to try the suggestions at FS Troubleshooting Missing Inventory   (Even though it's on the FS web site, the general troubleshooting applies across viewers, for the most part).  

    If that doesn't fix inventory, you may have a 'flat inventory' issue - this mainly afflicts very, very large inventories where all the folders are on the main level.  LL Support can fix a flat inventory issue.

    Also, before starting the troubleshooting, make sure that you are using the latest versions of the viewers, though if you've recently gotten your new computer, presumably you have  very recently downloaded the viewers for the new computer.  Still, it wouldn't hurt to double check.   

    Hopefully something in the FS troubleshooting will get you back in shape. 

  11. I don't do combat, so there were things that you covered that I was not aware of.  I thought you were very clear and concise with your explanations of getting the weapons and getting them set up to use with the gestures. 

    The intro, however, was a shock (way too loud) and as you don't really get into the Gor specifics in this segment, a different cover photo might be better. 

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  12. 18 minutes ago, StilettoSara said:

    I use Firestorm and after latest up date I crash hysterically much.

    Especially after changing outfits to another saved outfit, but even when removing things

    and less often but it happens as I teleport or scroll back and forward to rez a little faster.

     

    This is the message I receive each time I crash:
    https://gyazo.com/43c9124c6ac6443a84044ab883e60321

     

    I have no clue if this has to do with 2nd Life or Firestorm or both?

    Thank you in advance for helping me out here.

    Best Regards Sara

    That message that you posted is a message from the FS viewer which contains some information that the FS developers will find useful in identifying what may be causing the crashing you are experiencing.   The message does ask that you submit the contents of that message to Firestorm support. Their support options page is here , though I do not have any experience with using their JIRA ticket system, so I cannot offer any tips on submitting a support item there.   You might also want to contact the Firestorm support group inworld, and see what they advise.   Hopefully someone with more experience in that area will offer some additional information for you.  

    nikita, are you getting the same message when you crash?

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