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Another suggestion is to go to your Billing History, which you can find on your Dashboard. Click on Account to find Billing History. At the top of the Billing History page is a box that shows both your Linden Dollar Balance and your US (or whatever currency your country uses if you are not in the US) Dollar Balance. If the US Dollar Balance shows the amount you paid for the L$ you purchased, then there was a problem with the Lindex, if you used the Lindex site. If you used a third party site, then all I can suggest is to contact the Support for that third party site.

I use the Phoenix Firestorm-Release V4.0.1.27000. At the Log In screen, there is a small dropdown menu called Default Settings. The settings you can choose are Phoenix, Firestorm, V3 and Hybrid. I use the Hybrid setting all the time. With that, I only have problems with textures loading when I'm on a laggy sim, but I findjust right-clicking, like you are going to Edit them, the unloaded textures will force them to rez for Me.

You are very welcome :-)

If the shortcut still works, use Ctrl U and you will be able to upload a pic from your PC to SL. I'm not sure of the layout of the Ascent viewer, but if it has a Menu bar at top, Click on File, then Upload, then Image. It'll cost you L$10.

Thanks Irene! That did the trick... I keep forgetting about the SL wiki!

  Earlier today, I changed my email address in my Account's Contact Information. I thought that would also change my email address here in the forums that I get my email notifications from various threads I follow at, but it didn't. Can anyone tell me how to change my email address here in the forums so that I get my email notifications at the new email address I listed for my account? Thanks!

Moon Firegrave wrote: I have been turned into a vampire and this is not for me. I have spent a lot of lindens on my avatar and dont want to lose my avatar and inventory but if i dont drink blood I have been told I will be destroyed. Please can someone help me so that i dont have to do the blood thing every 2 days etc. i just want to go back to being me. Anyone please? First) You have nothing to worry about. Your avatar will not be destroyed nor will your inventory disappear. Second) I am assuming you are talking about the game The Thirst:Bloodlines, which I am in. If you have only been bitten, you are not a vampire. To be turned to a vampire, you first have to be drained of all your Humanity, which is converted into Vital Blood for vampires. When you are at 0% Humanity, you become a Revenant. You then have to drink 5 liters of Vital Blood to become a vampire. Third) If you were only bitten once and not drained as explained above, you don't have to join in on the game if you do not wish to. You do not have to buy the The Thirst:Bloodlines fangs, HUD and Stat Viewer. Just go on with your normal SL life. Nothing will happen to you. Whoever told you that you would be destroyed should have told you that it was your non-existent "soul" that would be destroyed when the Curse (which only affects Bloodlines vampires) takes effect. I will contact you inworld in case you have any other questions.

Thanks for the advice, Cinn. It worked. ;-)

Ok, my problem is that I cannot get my cam set right. By that I mean I cannot get my cam to stay in a position that allows me to see things very well when I am walking or other-wise moving around. I know where my problem is at, I just can't figure out how to fix it. In Preferences, under the Input & Camera tab, the Camera View Angle is doing the job of the Camera Follow Distance, while it does nothing when I adjust the slider for it. Does anyone else have this problem or know how to solve it? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the SL main viewer, the SL Release Candidate, Snowglobe, and even Emerald. I have the same problem in all of them. I am currently using Snowglobe as it's the only viewer that I've tried that doesn't render sculpties as spheres (I know what the problem causing this is and I'm working on getting it fixed). Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Nyll, I remember the thread you mentioned. It was in this forum that you saw it as I've never used the old forums.

Nope. The show who's episode you mentioned is on my "so stupid the writer needs shot" list. lol!! What I said in my comment is how I feel about SL.

*laughs* You beat me to it, Eternus! I was getting ready to make my own comment about reac.Feden's last post when your's popped up. I've noticed that about 95% of the time a question is asked several times in different threads, it's worded almost word for word to the other threads. reac.Feden, that's why some people seem to be elitist/dismissive/vitriolic/self important/self promoting/unsupportive/etc to you. They're tired of seeing the same question time after time after time after time...Get the idea? Not meaning to be sarcastic (much) but I'm going on 48 hours no sleep! It never hurts to search the blogs, Google and other various search engines to see if the question has been asked before.

I have to admit, I more or less laughed out loud (good thing I live alone!) at the tone of the blog's writer and her "reason" for being in the sex sim in the first place...How can it be a TOS by someone if they approached, especially with how polite the guy was, the blog's writer in a sex sim such as that one when you know you will get approached sooner or later? I do hope the sim's owner/manager banned her. The commentor "Evenios" fortunately does not speak for most of us guys. I personally have never seen a woman lead any guy on, unless she was acting out a scene for a movie or show. Most of the time, it's the guy that doesn't bother listening to the woman because he has only one thing on his mind and when he doesn't get it, he blames the woman for "leading him on". As for Second Life not needing whiners, I agree. So when is the whiner "Evenios" planning on leaving SL? I say this in case he happens to read this thread as women are not the only whiners in SL. There are quite a few men that whine a lot too, and "Evenios" sure sounded like a whiner in that comment on that blog to me!

*laughing* Don't you wish more people would be like me and take your replies/comments in a humorous tone? Some people are just too bloody sensitive nowadays.

That's what I plan to do if he starts his sh*t this time..Just stay cool, file ARs and enjoy being with my lovely lady and our SL family and our friends.

Well, the first/last time around he sure never got bored...Even when my partner and I just muted him without bothering with a reply. He'd just switch to another ALT he already had or he'd create new ALT and start in all over again. Due to other problems (which I'm not gonna go into) my partner was havin IRL, she finally gave in and broke up with me in RL and dissolved our partnership in SL to get him to leave her and I alone. I did plead with her not to give in to his harassment, but she had been wore down by both his harassment and her other RL problems. She and I did stay friends after she broke up with me in both RL and SL, though we did lose touch for a while when personal reasons caused me to have to leave SL. I finally was able to return to SL this past December. We reconnected and would chat now and then throughout December and thru most of January. A week or so ago, she told me that she had been a fool in leaving me twice before (the first time she broke up with me in SL had nothing to do with that idiot) and losing my trust (so she assumed). She asked if she could have a chance to regain that trust. She cried with joy when I told her she had never lost that trust. She admitted she had not committed herself to our past relationships before, but that she had decided that this time, she would give 100% and not let anyone or anything come between us. I told her that I felt the same when it came to no one and nothing coming between us this time. She already knew I had given our past relationships 100% and that I would do the same for this one. To get back to the idiot (I sidetracked myself...Again....), he has yet to say or do anything as yet. As I've stated elsewhere in this discussion, I personally hope he doesn't do anything. I am hoping that he's decided to just leave things alone this time around. Time will tell.

Hiya Cinn! You might have been, as you said, a bit overly dramatic with the title, but, you also have a very good and revelant question there. I don't know if that question, or a similar one, has ever been asked, but I do know a way to make sure that a person's inworld objects are transfered to another avie or are removed after someone dies. It's a variation on an article I read a few months ago online. The article dealt with a question posed by someone. That person had asked how would a person know if an online friend, who's personal information (real name, address or phone number) was not known, had died or simply had not been online for a while for some other reason. The advice given was, if you used a alias online and didn't give anyone your real information, that you should make a list of your online accounts (emails, social networking sites, etc) login info, including the passwords. This list could be on paper or a memory stick and placed in a safe, secure location and that information of said list was included in your will and that your will would specify who was to have access to the list after your death. The article also mentioned secure websites that you could upload email addresses of your contacts and friends whom you wished to be notified of your death. A couple of the ways, among other ways of triggering the delivery of the death notification (for lack of a better name) emails, that was suggested was that the sites would require you to email them on a set timetable, such as weekly or monthly, or calling a special number on a similar time schedule. I happen to think that the list idea is a good one. A similar idea could work for SL also, if LL will allow it. For SL, I suggest that members (premium and basic alike) select someone that they trust and knows how to do things in SL (in other words, another SLer. I would suggest your account/s partner/s.) as the one to handle things for their account/s after the member's death. As with the list of email contacts mentioned above, the member should make a note of their account/s name/s and password/s. Have this note give specific instructions as to the depostion of inworld objects. Such as, to use your example of buildings you've created, that are on another's land and is used to support that person's business, instructing the person that you grant after-death access to your account/s to give the land/business owner full permissions to the building/s and to transfer ownership to the land/business owner. If you have other objects, unique objects, in your inventory that you created for your personal use, but wish them to be gifted to another after your death, make a list of said objects and list who they are to be given to. Have the person reclaim any other objects that you either cannot transfer or are simply common but not transferable, then instruct them to send notice of your death to everyone on your friends list. Also instruct them to send group notices to groups your account/s have the ability to post group notices. For groups that your account/s cannot send group notices to, instruct the person to notify the owners of the groups of your death and ask that a group notice be sent notifying the groups of your death. After all that is taken care of, the final instruction should be to deactivate your account/s. I'm sorry for this comment being so long, but this is something I have been giving a lot of thought to lately.

You do have a point, Cinn. Thanks for mentioning it. I'll have to remember to tell my partner that we both need to keep calm and not respond to any bs that he might say about one of us in order to make the other respond to him.

We tried that the first time we were partners, but the a**hole was, and still is, a control freak. Not responding to any of his ALTs didn't work, and of course his invading groups just to past crap in group chat about either/both of us always got responses from other group members, which just encouraged him. TBH, I got so pissed at him once, I seriously thought about going to his hometown (my partner knew the town he lived in) and telling him off in person. Fortunately, I was talking to my partner and told her what I was wanting to do. She managed to calm me down and reminded me that confronting him IRL would only make things worse and possibly get myself into some sort of legal trouble..See, I usually don't mind what most people thank or say about me, but doing something that upsets or hurts someone I love or care about...Well....I tend to get a tad upset...To put it mildly...

That is one option neither me or my partner have decided we won't do. We each have invested too much time into making our avies what they are today and we also have many SL family members and friends. We'll just deal with him somehow if he starts in again.

Thanks for reminding me about hiding the groups, I'd forgotten about doing that. But the problem is, if he plans on starting trouble again, he probably has already made a note of all the groups we are both in.

I figured that ARs would probably be the best thing to go, but I so rarely have any troubles with anyone, I thought I'd see if there was another way to deal with him, if he does start in on us again. So far he hasn't.

You are wrong about SL being a "game". As has been said numerous times before in other posts, SL is not classed as a game because there is no clearly defined goal for everyone to work towards. There are no points awarded. There are no levels to be completed. In short, there are no elements of a game in SL. Now I will admit that there are games within SL, but SL itself is not a game. SL is a virtual world/metaverse. AS for getting rid of the morons, I wish I had an answer for the OPer...I have a moron I have had trouble with in the past and I couldn't get rid of him...

I was wondering if anyone, possibly a Linden, could tell me what options a person has if someone uses ALTs to harass you? I have been with my current partner before, but she broke up with me that time because we were being harassed in IMs and group chat by a guy that would not accept that she did not want to be with him. The guy would IM me and her saying all sorts of crap. He would join any free-to-join group we were in and tell all sorts of lies to everyone in group chat about her and I until finally we either quit the group so that the others in the groups would not have to put up with him, or he got kicked out by the owner or officers of the group. Now, the major problem we were having is that, when we would mute him or he got kicked out of a group, he would just create a new ALT and start in again. Now, we are partners again and I would like to know what options we have if he starts his bullcrap again? I don't want to have to file an AR for each ALT he might use, but I honestly don't know what else we can do, besides muting each and every ALT. But muting each ALT won't discourage him, as doing so the previous time sure didn't bother him, he would just create another basic ALT. I'm not sure after all this time, but I think at least 1/3 to 1/2 of my mute list is his ALTs! IF this guy does start harassing us again, should we each file an AR for each ALT (if we're fairly certain that it is him bothering us) and note that he has used other ALTs to harass us and also list the names of the ALTs we suspect is him, so that LL can check the IP and see if it is the same IP each time? Or should we just continue to mute him each time and, if he starts up in group chat of any groups we are in, let the owner and any officers of the group know that it is most likely this  guy each time? Personally, I am hoping he won't bother us this time, but I would like to know our options, if any, in case he does. Thanks

Actually, I did go to both the Compaq site and the Intel site and the driver that I have is the most recent one..Now, I did go ahead and clicked on Install as I decided that it was worth a shot at doing so and also figured the worst that could happen would be I got told that the driver was already installed. Funny enough, it went through the complete installation procedure. As I said earlier, I'm not very computer savvy, but to me, the driver installing fully from the website means there was a chance that the already installed driver might have had a slight glitch, but I could be wrong. Daria's response didn't bother me at all. LOL! As I mentioned earlier, I've been reading the blogs and adding my two cents worth to questions/comments every now and then, so I've had time to get used to Daria's way of making comments. Actually, compared to some of the trolls', I believe they are called, comments that I've seen in these blogs, Daria's actually pretty funny in her own unique way. Actually, I've met people IRL as a trucker, back before I became disabled, who make Daria seem like the Queen of Etiquette!! Also, I believe that you all gave me a lot of help and I'm satisified with what all of you have advised me to do. Now I only have one other question..how do I close this post as having been answered to my satisfaction?