Chaser Zaks

Considering that you stated that she has changed her password, I would suspect the person whom is hijacking her account also has the password to her email address. My suggestion is to do the following: First and foremost, Report the person who is hijacking the account to Linden Lab. They take situations like these very seriously, and if they have enough evidence(server logs), the user will very likely be banned. Secondly, change the email password. Make it something good like "*P)0Ux{8V02SH<0L". If possible, use 2 factor authentication with the email service if it offers it. Gmail provides both SMS and TOTP based 2 factor authentication. Change the account's Second Life password. A good rule of the thumb is to not use the same password in multiple places. Change the security questions to something not easily guessable. For example, "What is your mother's maiden name" is a lot difficult to guess than "What is your favourite colour". Additionally, when you are logging into ANY second life webpage, make sure the URL specifically says https://id.secondlife.com. Not id.secondlife.com.fancywebhosting.ext, or id.secondllfe.com(notice the l where a i should be).

If you haven't received your stipend yet, you may be interested in the very recently posted status update here: https://status.secondlifegrid.net/incidents/fnmfnyg6kpqp Needless to say, there is no need to worry. LL will be sure to get all the stipends out eventually!

I've been on the internet since I was like 6-8 or something. The EARLIEST I remember of life before discovering the internet was still computers, stuff like DOOM, Cap'n Crunch's Cruchling Adventure, Myst, MGS, etc. I also had a PS1 which had quite a few games I cannot remember the names of.

Hello! If you have forgotten your username, you can use the request username form at the bottom of the password recovery page at https://secondlife.com/my/account/request.php After filling out the form, you will should a email like this in about 1 to 5 minutes: Hope this helps! (Yes, it does say "Your IP Address: Your IP Address: ", I just filed a Jira to get that corrected.)

Hello! Please do not name names on the forums, please edit the names out or a moderator will have to do so. To protect yourself, I have made a simple move lock for situations like this. You can get a copy of it on the MP at https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simple-movelock/12181735 OR create your own using the source code I put on gist: https://gist.github.com/FelixWolf/add52e6e66449b8d7fb06d95cd8206d5 It is open source and public domain, so you may do what you want with it. For the object sending, you should just decline objects he is sending and block him to prevent further object offers. I assume you posted in LSL Scripting by mistake, but just in case, I posted the source code as well should you want to take it apart. As for reporting people and why it takes so long, please keep in mind that Abuse Reports are not handled immediately, and work more like a ticket system. Additionally, during the weekends, they are slower than usual as Linden Lab is off duty those days. Additionally, Linden Lab doesn't just ban based off reports, they do research and try to get evidence off the servers if possible. Such actions take time, as well as to evaluate how to go about it, how long to suspend the user for, or ban them. The Linden likely was keeping an eye on the user or has gave them a warning. Hope this helps!

Honestly, I'm not a fan of C#. I would have liked to have seen something like Python, Javascript, maybe even Fortran? Mostly dislike C# because of Micro$oft and their unpredictable behavior. Since Microsoft has patents on the .NET framework and Mono implements it, I see it as a very risky piece of software. Although Microsoft claims to "not assert patents" on the developers of Mono as well as the users, I don't really trust them. Remember the Windows 10 "free upgrade" fiasco? They wanted to make windows 10 a subscription service, but the backlash would be too big, as well as potential lawsuits. If it were not for the backlash and class action lawsuit potential, it would have became a subscription service. The proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the Enterprise version of windows. My point is, I avoid microsoft "free things!" stuff like the plague. They don't like the open source/linux community no matter how much they "claim" to do so. They were good at first but then they went in the direction Apple is going. I would love to see Mono replaced with something less patenty, like the V8 Javascript Engine, or Go, or even Python. All are as fast as Mono with zero patent lawsuit potential, because they are developed by people who use open source and develop for open source. tl;dr: open source fanboy who hates software patents and sees microsoft as a big angry giant who wants to crush everyone

I closed the viewer, although it makes no difference if you keep it open and wait for it to say login failed, or close it and open it again. The only reason I did so was to speed up reconnection, because after 10 seconds of not connecting, I'd figure it would just error on me and I can save 20 seconds by manually restarting the reconnection process.

Many people are attempting to log in at once, so the login process will be slow or lock up. It will take a couple of attempts. It took me 7 until the login server finally let me in. Nope, only relaunched the viewer a couple of times to avoid waiting for the 500 error on the login server.

Neat, the forum has a Scunthorpe problem.

Это известная проблема, LL работает над ее исправлением. Это не должно быть намного больше, хотя, как кажется, часть серверов вернулась в Интернете. -- It is a known issue, LL is working on fixing it. It shouldn't be much longer though as it appears part of the servers have came back online.

UPDATE! id.secondlife.com(Web logins) appears to be operating again. login.agni.lindenlab.com(Grid logins) should be back online very soon. (Don't hold me to it though, I'm making an educated guess, I have no actual info on what is going behind the scenes).

The reason it is stuck is because it cannot contact the database to refresh that value. Technical info: It asks the database only once every 10 or 20 minutes, and remembers it until then. The 23,932 people it says were there are only a memory of the past. http://secondlife.com/xmlhttp/homepage.php <-- the source of the data should you be interested It may only say 30 agents online if LL turned off logins and forced all users to log out, only allowing LL on the grid.

On a scale of 0 to 10, I'd say 11. Not even LL can log in unless they hack around with the agent transfer protocol to make a sim think they were actually on the grid in the first place. It should be fixed in a few hours(maybe less) though. Knowing how this has happened in the past, I'd say the database isn't damaged, but software updates got screwed up or a configuration got overwritten. If the database is damaged, LL keeps lotsa backups, so nothing should be lost. If anyone is in world right now, can they confirm if rezzing(DO NOT USE NO COPY ITEMS) or asset loading/saving is working?

Linden Lab does rolling restarts, so it usually takes 24 hours for the entire grid to update, so all timezones get affected, it is just a matter of which sim you are on. As for LL hurrying up, LL is going as fast as they can, but not too fast as to make the situation worse. Figuring out what causes the issue and making sure it doesn't happen again takes a bit of time. Just remember, SL is made of many moving parts in many different languages(C++, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Javascript, Shell, etc) with many people who wrote different pieces of it. As a developer, I can say figuring out what causes a major outage and fixing it quickly would be a nightmare. As for what broke, I would imagine the master database has broke(Don't worry, all the hippos as well as your assets are safe!), because users cannot even log in using id.secondlife.com. The only reason we can use the forums is because IPB actually does the hosting for the forums, and because we have old session keys. I'd imagine people cannot log into the forums using the new system either. For those wondering "What does the master database do?", it works as sort of a router for the slaves and keeps the slave databases up to date and synchronized. It helps keep the system working quickly as all the queries SL does can slow down a single server, but balancing the load on a bunch of them makes it go really fast.

SL forums have reached meme status

My forum crush is me because I mostly lurked until recently, and i held my hand through some of the weird things. I am so nice to me, I love me.

Careful, hentai and anime are two different things. Anime is Japanese animation, while hentai is.. well.. let's just say not a suitable topic for the general forum. As for why stuff may look "ugly" or different, some creator's cheat and post process their images in Photoshop before putting it on the marketplace. While adding text and cutting out the background is perfectly fine, I've seen people blend seams, and do magazine level modifications to their products when putting images on the MP. It could also be something to do with the lighting, some items work best with specific windlight settings. While I feel the best products should work universally with all windlight settings, some craft theirs for the full bright settings or face light settings. LOD could also play a factor. LOD makes stuff render faster when it is farther away of the graphics quality settings are lower. Some people set the lower LOD settings to auto-generate at the lowest possible so they can upload at a cheaper price, when they can put a bit more work into it and make it look nice on all LODs while still paying a low upload fee. There are also viewers with enhanced shaders such as black dragon(I think that's the name???). While the viewers themselves are perfectly fine and make SL look amazing, and I do recommend trying one one day as it is quite the stunning experience, think creator's should use a viewer that uses stock shader code when taking pictures to sell their products. There can also be a combination of the above, but getting demos and in-world previews are the best move, so good on you for making sure it looks good, you are doing the good shopper thing by seeing it yourself, rather than trusting images.

Honestly, I feel the 30 day limit restriction goes against the idea for users to explore second life. It is more harmful than it is good, and is just an excuse for land managers to be lazy. While it does make sense in some situations, such as where automated movement of money is involved(eg, visit to get money things), telling new users that they need to wait to explore is almost the same as saying they are not welcome. I don't own any in-world places that are public, but if I ever do, I would more than welcome users whom are new, and go out of my way to help teach them how to do stuff to better enjoy their second life experience. I just wish others had the same ideology. Sorry that this is the way things are, maybe one day they will change. Either way, welcome to Second Life, I wish for you great times here and many hippos in your future!

No. Unless they violate the Terms of Service, users cannot and will not be banned because of a user dispute. Your best course of action is to block them. People do this, rule of the thumb is if they start asking for money at the start of a relationship, it's probably just for the money. Relationships and friendships are constructed on trust and care for each other, not money. Also tips to DJs are optional, most "DJs" in SL just put on auto-dj and call it a day, they also very likely don't have legal rights to broadcast the music they are playing. :v Not fraud, you fully chose to give them money and buy stuff for them. You had the power to say no. More of them being a specific word I will not mention on the forums. You don't, see

I have breedable rocks. When one rock turns pink and the other turns blue, physically slam them together and it rezzes a new rock, sometimes more. Pretty easy to go get too many but as long as they have a nice low LI and low script time, 20-30 shouldn't hurt.

Not sure if this is a bug or not with the forums, but it seems like it to me. Currently, posts in Answers look like this Shouldn't the tags look like this tho? If so, heres a fix for it, just plop it into the CSS or append it to .ipsTags_prefix .ipsTag_prefix { display: inline-block; }

Eyy! I never used skill gaming stuff, and as such am not fully knowledgeable about what counts as a skill gaming thing. I don't want to bug LL with pointless Abuse Reports, or risk getting someone in trouble for a false positive. Maybe someone who knows more about skill gaming can shed some light on this for me. My question is, are these skill gaming things? First one requires payment of L$1, and the other takes variable payment. There is also a "sploder" which requires L$20 to enter which to me seems like gambling/lottery, which probably isn't allowed in SL even though it claims to be a "LEGAL SPLODER" I took as many precautions as possible as to not disclose the owner and the object locations, if you notice anything that may reveal these details Please let me know via IM so I can censor/remove it! IM link thing

Yes, unless you got a very nice google fiber connection, it'll be a slow download. 1.3+ GiB of mostly exes.

It will, eventually. It makes HTTP requests, but not sure where to, but point is, it does. I imagine the moles don't have the thing ready yet, but they will eventually. Keep in mind it says "Later this year", so expect it to be maybe down the road in October or November.

Why not both?