Theresa Tennyson

There's a problem with some setups and the video-card detection/test system the current viewer uses. This is the test version of the viewer that's hoped to be the fix - if you want to try it click on the links next to the word "install". CYGWIN is for Windows. http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/oz_maint-4678/rev/296857/index.html

Ayesha Askham wrote: Theresa That it is bloody obvious to them and they don't think to spell it out to those of us who are a bit "hard of thinking" is yet another instance of how little they know their userbase. Your point about the extra Maintenance is probably spot-on but what a shame they do not see fit to make that clearer. Is it SO wrong to expect a bit of clarification? Well, OK...Yes, it probably is.:smileyfrustrated: I was referring to Wolf's statement that Lindens don't tell us things "to create an illusion of superiority." I once was in a production meeting of a play and the lighting designer told the director, et al. - "I'm using a McCandless setup with pink and brown gels." Fine. He knew what he was doing, and as it happened I did too but there was no guarantee anyone else did, and, most importantly, what he said didn't really tell anyone what the lighting would look like. There's a fine line between giving not enough information and giving too much information and a lot depends on the audience. Exactly how much more useful would "We're checking our backplanes - we may have to do repairs on some of them - we're not sure how many" have been at the beginning of the week than the statement of "We're going to be working on stuff - your region might have to restart" that was given?

WolfBaginski Bearsfoot wrote: That does seem to be a basic process: the usual weekly restarts with server code updates show signs of this shift to different hardware with the server address reported by the Viewer's Help/About I have seen a few other instances of people reporting that stuff the Lindens never mention being bloody obvious if you use standard software tools, such as this. Or the standard internet traceroute to reveal which city the servers are in. You don't have to be any sort of quasi-hacker to use Second Life, nor to discover things like this, and it's as if some people at Linden Labs are trying to preserve an illison of superiority. Maybe the reason they don't see fit to mention it is to the people who are doing the work at the Lab, it IS bloody obvious.

Ayesha Askham wrote: Oh Dari So my asking what was a perfectly reasonable question about a GSP post is over the top? Look, as it is apparently panning out it is no big deal, but at the time I posted it that was BY NO MEANS clear. Just look at the other posts and, for once, THINK. You used to do it, so just try a little harder. I know it is necessary and I made that clear. I know Linden Lab have a lot on their plate and I made THAT clear too. I just bayed at the moon a bit in expecting a measured response. :smileyfrustrated: Darien replied to Wolf, who was using Kremlinesque metaphors. Granted, this was your thread. Just like all those others... Incidentally, baying at the moon usually means all the wolves within earshot will also start baying. (I visited a wolf shelter once.)

Ayesha Askham wrote: Scheduled Maintenance Posted by Status Desk on November 19th, 2014 at 04:39 pm PST [Posted 4:39 PM PDT, 19 November 2014] We will be performing scheduled maintenance on Thursday, November 20th, 2014 beginning at approximately 8:00am PST. During this time, some residents may experience login issues and residents in-world may be logged off or experience degraded performance. Please refrain from rezzing no-copy objects and making L$ transactions during this maintenance. Please check back here for updates. I'm tempted to say....what Yet more??? I would have to assume that this is a different sort of maintenance from that already announced. I would assume...yes. However, Linden Lab left-hand, I'd like you to meet someone you may not know...Linden Lab right-hand. I think you two should get acquainted. :smileytongue: Shocked! Shocked, I am, that after a maintenance routine that described doing things "as its host takes its turn for inspection", that there would be further maintenance. It's almost as if they had checked the hardware and determined that something needed to be done. Baffling....

Vaase wrote: I've noticed that sometimes on my property, for varied types of furniture- The poseballs will sometimes be invisible as in there is an animation selected, the poseballs just aren't visible I was wondering why this is, and how you can fix it. The only way I've been able to fix it, is to re-log. After re-logging they are visible Some poseballs use a building trick to give them a semi-transparent look which doesn't always show up when they're first rezzed. I find that with those balls zooming out and then back in or changing the pose to a different one will make them appear.

This is the current test version of the viewer that's hoped to be the fix - if you want to try it click on the links next to the word "install". CYGWIN is for Windows; Darwin is for Macs. http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/oz_maint-4678/rev/296857/index.html

Shep Overland wrote: Please reply regarding projected performance of this computer on SL: Mac Mini 2.8GHz dual-core Intel core i5 8GB memory 1TB fusion drive Intel Iris Graphics OS X Yosemite Operating Some people have been reporting issues after updating to Yosemite but it may not be a problem with a new machine built to use it.

DarkUnicorN wrote: i just change my password....and veryfide by email.....i enter the game with new password...but i have another problem i cant figure out why is happening....and i need help or advice please.. when i go at contact information...i have my previous email...i put my present password and click to recieve off line Ims via mail.....but i continuisly have this message we are unable to complete your request -password incorect.... Are you putting in your Second Life password or your Email account password? It's your Second Life password you should be using.

Qie Niangao wrote: Yeah, I don't think they can be bothered anymore. That said, Arbor's very success is now proving its downfall: There was a time when the group could raise enough of a fuss that it was hard for Linden enforcers to ignore. Now the few of us who still get in-world apparently aren't enough to get any Linden's attention. In any case, repeated ARs for these offenses seem to get no attention. I did learn of another site of this abuser's handiwork: in Monty. This one is a particularly good reminder of how much damage the adfarms did to the Lab's bottom line: There's quite a nice store next door -- now rare on the Mainland -- but try as they might, they can't overcome the intentional, aggressive ugliness next door. I'm guessing there are dozens more, but being individually owned, I can't see the total area -- which wouldn't say much anyway: like the old adfarms, somebody paying a ridiculously small amount of tier can scar whole continents. It doesn't help that, rather than just derender the objects, people are "covering" them with crap that ends up looking worse than the original problem. (I know that derender isn't working as well as it used to but it still would be better than a kajillion horizontal Linden trees.)

Rhys Goode wrote: I am genuinely surprised that you were successful with the DCMA, given that the copy cat had built it from scratch, using your work as a model, and not just copyinging the prims somehow, and retexturing. And especially if they took design that was originally executed in prims, and re did it in mesh. My understanding of copyright law is that unless I steal the actual prims or textures, and as long as I do not call it the same name and represent it as the same build, re doing an existing design is perfectly legal. It's quite likely that the other builder chose not to answer the DCMA because it requires sending real-life information in the response.

Scooter Hollow wrote: Copying is copying, regardless of whether you do it quickly or slowly. If you rewrote The Hobbit line by line, it would still be just as illegal as if you had copied and pasted it from a word document. Writing, yes, but not the appearance of a built object. In the United States, designs are only protected by copyright if there's a "design patent" taken out on it, and the design patent can be considered invalid if someone can show "prior art" that indicates that there were similar designs before. Very few designs are so unique that it can't be shown that others did similar things, and many industrial/architectural designs will be similar due to their being built to suit the same conditions. Architectural drawings can't be copied though, and the laws in Europe are much more strict.

1) Most mesh clothing and body attachments don't respond to physics - you won't see them move even if the physics are working. 2) The physics slider you need to push to the right isn't part of the physics wearable. Go to "Preferences" - "Graphics" and hit the "Advanced" button. The slider will be to the bottom left of the menu.

Marrionetta wrote: I've had this issue both in the SL viewer and the Firestorm viewer across two accounts and many pairs of (adorable) shoes. MOST of the time when I slap on a pair of shoes, they attach correctly to the bottom of my feet. But after I've been playing for a while, sometimes they start riding up around my ankles. They're still -attached- to my feet, and other players seem to see my shoes normally, but I see them floating around all weird. Like so. None of the controls in the avatar health menu seem to do me much good, and changing the positions on my shoes makes them appear way low in the ground for others. (Client side issue) Once I restart my viewer, the issue is usually fixed, and if I've changed the position of the shoes then I have to reset the shoes to where they were, which is a pain. Is my only hope to restart? Does anyone else have this issue? Should I just amputate my avatar's feet and accept that this is my life now? To wear cute shoes on ankle stumps? URGH. SEND HELP. It may be a problem with another piece of mesh you've put on in the meantime that has modified the joint positions of your avatar. The LL viewer had changes to the appearance code some time ago that can aggravate this and Firestorm doesn't use this code so how you look can be mismatched. This viewer was put together to patch the changes in the LL viewer: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/3.7.21.296729

Dresden Ceriano wrote: Nevertheless, as we seem to agree, it matters not. LL have the forum they want and no wishing on any mere, forum participant's part is going to change that. ...Dres I don't see how you could expect anything different. Think of it this way - if you go into a small owner-operated store it's not uncommon for you to see a cat or dog hanging out there. If you go to a store that's part of a chain, you'll almost never see that. The reason is that the owner of a small store is in a position to judge whether or not the benefit of having their pet there outweighs any possible mayhem that may be caused - I used to shop at a vintage clothing store run by a woman who had both a white and a black cat living there, basically guaranteeing that anything you bought would have some sort of visible cat hair on it. If you couldn't deal with that you probably wouldn't shop there. However, in a chain store any mayhem would quickly become the problem of someone miles away who Does. Not. Want. To. Deal. With. It. And honestly, shouldn't have to deal with it because Fluffy being there doesn't improve their life in the slightest. So Fluffy stays home because the hand holding the money says so. In a forum, any moderation that isn't strictly mechanical will require some sort of judgement and at least be percieved as "taking sides", and the moderator will become the de facto voice of the company. If the conversation is about the company's product itself then the company has a reason to work something out. However, if it's just people talking about unrelated subjects it does the company absolutely no good to get involved and be seen as taking positions on these issues. It's different for a company than for a voluntary group - for instance, take a look at the Firestorm JIRA. You'll probably quickly notice that one of the major voices of Firestorm on the JIRA... well... let's just say "has a way about her." Now imagine how it would look if that same voice was coming from someone with the last name of Linden. SLU will always be better able to tolerate "lively" discussion because the moderation only represents the forum itself and in the end the forum's business is discussion anyway.

Nak Benelli wrote: On three sides of my small plot of land is abandoned Linden land. Still the sky above is full of skyboxes all the way up to +4000 meters. What are these? Junk left by former land owners? "Habited" boxes on "squatted" land or what? Go to that abandoned land then check "About Land - Objects." If it shows objects on that land you should take out a ticket to have them removed; otherwise those builds are actually on other people's land and there's nothing you can do about them.

maggiessunrise wrote: I have waited way over the 45 day mark will i ever get the 300 L's a wk. they said i would get? You should have gotten the weekly L$300 as soon as you became Premium. You should contact support (we can't do anything about it in the Answers forum.)

Drake1 Nightfire wrote: Lets see, Onlive is endorsed by LL.. How much of a cut do they get? If i am premium already, why would i want to pay $9.95 a month more to use this? Why don't premium members get a discount since this is endorsed by LL? Is it really that much of an issue to use a laptop instead? Why would I want to use this on my PC? I can use any other viewer for free. Now to address a few points.. You say to use a Mystitool, which i have, but how well could you realistically see that on a tablet? When was the last time you actually saw 70+ avs in a club? I haven't seen that in years. Most Tablets today are $500+ USD, for that kind of money you can get a very good used PC from a reputable local computer place. I paid 300 for mine, it came with a 650Ti card. Apparently SLGo is useful for Mondy and not for you. Therefore, Mondy should continue to use it and you shouldn't. Pretty simple if you ask me.

Medhue Simoni wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: Medhue Simoni wrote: That said, many people are a bit too liberal with lible. And, as many libertarian philosophers have pointed out, you can't own your reputation. Reputation is something that exists in other people's heads, and you can't own other people's perceptions. I think Walter does a nice job in this video explaining the libertarian view. I'm glad to see that at least you did not say that Lible didn't exist. I think the real point of this comes down to 2 things. 1- should jealous people be put in cages for their lies? If not, then why would we write laws to do this? Maybe counselling would be better. 2- In a free market environment, if you are going to spend your precious time making up or entertaining gossip, you'll be spending less time actually doing something productive. Hence, as a long term plan, it's not logically something people should not want to spend their time doing. I also think it is much less of an issue today, because the internet allows all of us to much more transparent and express ourselves on a more even plane. 1) In the United States and most Western countries, libel is a civil offense, not a criminal one. In these countries nobody is "put in cages" for it and in fact laws concerning libel are largely to carve out exceptions so that certain people can't be sued for it. 2) In a free-market environment anything that people will pay for is productive. Gossip is and has been big business for as long as people have paid for information. It's not very useful, but then neither is an animation overrider in the grand scheme of things.

Benson Gravois wrote: Anyone know where i can buy an eyebrow shaper or something? I like my shape and skin but my eyebrows look to cross and stern? You can probably just edit one you already have - the "hair" wearable object is really only used to edit the shape under the eyebrows and odds are you have an editable hair object in your inventory - they come with library avatars, for instance.The object you need to edit looks like a head in profile and is one of the "must-wear" parts of the avatar. Go to the "Eyebrows" section - usually it's only the last three options in that section that will do anything. You can also create a new one but that would involve shrinking the helmet-hair part of the hair object into your head. To do that go to the "Appearance" panel, click on the button with a picture of a gear, select "New Body Parts" and then "New Shape."

Sy Beck wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: I ought to have commented on this when you mentioned it earlier. If this GD forum appears to be a help forum, then it's entirely to do with its users, and nothing at all to do with the moderators. People can discuss pretty much anything here. You are doing it yourself with this thread. So there is no need to rename or remove it. It is exactly what the users of it make it. Evidently wrong. I could name a whole host of people who used to contribute significantly to this forum who have either moved on because of the moderation and them not being able to express themselves freely or have left SL for something else. What's left is the remainder who predominantly use it as a help forum rather than as a General Discussion forum, which I am ambivalent to, but if it walks like a duck ect..... Anyway, my son is tugging me away to go assist him in the rescue of that iconic female trope Princess Daisy, which is probably I fear going to turn him into a gorilla hater more than a misogynist. I wasn't here during the "good old days", but from what I've seen of the aging "rock stars" of that era the "discussion" was the equivalent of holding a treat over the head of a little dog, thereby making it jump, snap and yap so intently that you can lead it all around the room until you eventually cause it to fall down a flight of stairs. I'm sure it was entertaining for the one holding the treat and the dog participated because that's the way dogs roll, but for everyone else it was probably, "Yeah, yeah, same old Youtube video from three years ago."

ReenaWinters wrote: Hi there I need some help on how to edit my SL Profile - i tried to press the button to edit my profile but it won't let me. And another thing - it shows that i'm a guy which I'm NOT. Which leads to my Avatar's behaviour, it "acts" like a guy too. Ugh! (faceplam) Is this the "new normal" for all SL avatars - even for female ones? and another thing - I can't use my Arrows on my keyboard to move my avatar. Need some help there too. Thanks ReenaWinters You might not be able to edit your profile yet because your account's so new it doesn't show up in search yet. How exactly is it "showing that you're a guy"? There's nothing in either the Web profiles or the Legacy profiles that says anything about the gender of an avatar - in fact, the only thing gendered about ANY avatar is the shape, and the same avatar can use either the "male" or the "female" shape freely. In fact, many slender male avatars use the female avatar mesh. If you're referring to the blank default gray "face" icon that appears in a profile without a picture that's the same for all avatars. As far as the arrow keys, you may be trying to use them when you have a viewer menu opened. If you want them to move you while you have a menu opened you can go to "Preferences" - "Move and View" and select "Arrow keys always move me."

Quinn Lysette wrote: hey if ur using an AMD graphics card why does havin hardware skinning on makes the avatars have missing bodys parts not all of them just some and with hardware skinning off the body parts are visible and everything looks better why? btw what is hardware skinning Because AMD writes their OpenGL drivers by taping a paper lunch bag around a cat's head and having it walk around on a keyboard for a while. That's pretty well established by now. AMD has somehow broken rendering of rigged meshes in OpenGL in their last two betas. Considering that the cards worked before the new drivers and Nvidia cards have no problems, the location of the fault is pretty clear.

WolfBaginski Bearsfoot wrote: I upgarded to the latest SL Viewer, hoping to see some benefit from the latest improvements to HTTP Pipelining as well as CDN (It doesn't seem to cope well with large numbers of avatars in a region) With that viewer I am no longer able to select my home location at log-in. Luckily, it was my "Last Location", but it's awkward when the program suffered what appears to be a dropped connection during a TP. I cannot reliably predict what my Last Location will be in that situation, and there may be clashes between avatar attire and parcel age rating. I am looking at the "clean install" process recommended by the Firestorm team, but I don't want to mess around with reloading caches at a weekend. Has anyone else seen this "Home"problem with the latest version? If you switch accounts between logins, especially if one of your accounts has "favorite places", occasionally the word "home" won't end up at the top of the location list next to the "Log in at home" button. Clicking on the "down" arrow on that list will allow you to bring up "home" as an option.

Joerg Garmes wrote: I wrote it in the german question section alright, but i think here i can get faster response. Hi there, I get extreme graphics Error after closing Second Life (Firestorm, Singularity and CoolVL Viewer) and then is only possible to the desktop to see normally again to reboot the system. This is really scary annoying. : smileymad: System: Windows 8.1 (all updates current) Viewer: all viewer (Firestorm, Singularity and CoolVL Viewer) to date Graphics driver up-to-date (NVIDIA GeForce GTX760) I'm an old SL users still of former days and never had such a problem. On Windows XP and with Windows 8 not. Only in the last few weeks I have it, so it is not necessarily to 8.1, because it ran so ever without this phenomenon: matte-motes-bored: Maybe someone else has this problem or know a remedy. Lots of love Joerg Garmes Does the display turn into a mess of colored dots, and do you use a screen color adjustment program like "f.lux"? Custom color profiles in f.lux can cause problems with SL.