Madelaine McMasters

Hi wizogirl, Syn covered the most likely explanations for the apparent loss of your contest board. If it turns out the sim owner did return more than one object to you in a single action, you will see something in your Lost and Found folder with that "broken Rubic's cube" (or "li'l pile of boxes") icon. That is a "coalesced object" and contains all the objects that were returned en masse. To recover them, you'll have to go to an uncluttered spot with rez permissions, so you can rez the coalesced object and take back all the indivdual bits, which will include your contest board. The Fermi sim's public sandbox is one place you could do this. If your objects were spread widely across the owner's sim, they'll rez widely across the sandbox. If you don't find and "Take" all the objects in the collection, those you leave behind in the sandbox will again be returned as another coalesced object. You'll find that in your Lost and Found once again and can repeat the process until you've separated everything in the collection. Good luck!

Good morning, Hippie. I'm just about to hit the road. Share my bacon with everybody else. I'll ask if you hogged it next Sunday... so behave! Hi, Kids!!! ;-).

Hi Sarah, Since it's been over a year since your last visit, make sure you've updated to the latest version of the viewer by doing a clean install. If your inventory is still missing, try the first of the Common Solutions on this page, paying particular attention to Step 6, which wants you wait in place (a quiet place like Smith or Pooley is best). That means don't TP while your local copy of the inventory list is rebuilding. Welcome back and good luck!

I don't mean to hijack Mike's first two weeks in SL, but my introduction to live Chicago Blues was via Corky Siegel at a cafe in Milwaukee. I must have been about 8-9 at the time. I was mesmerized. Here's why... I suppose it didn't hurt that Corky tousled my hair during the show. ;-).

KarenMichelle Lane wrote: Hoppimike, You look like you are having a grand time...... I shall be sure to look for you in-world and invite you to one of my Blues gigs Mike, Looking through your photos brought a big smile to my face. KM, invite me too, especially if you're anything by Lead Belly, Robert Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Mississippi John Hurt, Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cotten, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Pinetop Perkins, Big Mama Thornton, Howlin' Wolf, etc. ;-).

Hi leGustav, The CPU is more than fast enough, the GPU less than fast enough. Here's a benchmark page showing the relative performance of various graphics processors. There's a search box on that page with autocomplete, making it fairly easy to find a particular card... http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php The 8330 under consideration scores 345. An entry level Intel processor with HD 4000 graphics scores 456. Integrated graphics units, which must fight the CPU for access to memory, generally perform poorly on graphics intensive games like SL. A modest dedicated graphics adapter like an nVIDIA GTX 650 scores 1840. If you can stretch your budget to cover a dedicated graphics adapter, you'll have a much better SL experience. Good luck in your hunt.

Hi Xerick, For something so simply, why not make it yourself. The easy way requires six prims (four walls, floor, ceiling). The low prim way requires two prims (hollow cube for four walls, another for the floor and ceiling).

Hi Shimaka, Others have had this problem. Here's a brief thread with a suggestion from KarenMichelle Lane... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/Partnership-Accept-button-not-working/qaq-p/1895477 ETA: I forgot about the "unicode in profile" problem, which could also be the culprit... Open both affected accounts' profiles. Somewhere in the Biography and/or Real Life Biography sections of your profiles may lurk a Unicode character (those funny looking characters you often see in display names) that is messing up the partnership process. You may not be able to see them, some are invisible. To rid yourselves of that potentially troublesome character, remove all text from the Biography and Real Life Biography sections (copy/paste it elsewhere fo you can recover it later, then click in the text box, Ctrl-A, backspace). Don't forget to save the changes. After you have cleaned and saved your profiles, retry the partnership offer. If your partner is able to accept, ensure that you are now listed as each others partners. If so, repopulate the biography fields of your profiles. Good luck... and congratulations!

Tari Landar wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Tari Landar wrote: Especially since I homeschool...and everyone knows what people say about homeschool kids and their lack of socialization (it's a myth, but.. whatever, lol) According to some, I am living proof that home schooled kids can't socialize! ;-) Tari, I hope you (it sounds like it) are having as much fun as a home school parent as I had as a home school kid. ... runs outside to play. Hahahaha. Yes I know, my kids are the most anti-social beings in the world. Hence why I rarely see them from sun up to sun down-even in crappy weather. It's a bit funny to hear from other parents around here, as most have that same stereotypical opinion of homeschoolers. Though to most of them, my kids seem to be the exception, as my kids are the ones who get all the others around here outside and away from the tv, pc, video games, etc... The kids around here hate it when we go on vacation(which we are for the next two weeks, and leaving Sunday) because they have no one to play with. As much as my kids love technology, they really shy away from it during most hours of the day. I love that even my teens still play outside and enjoy being kids. We absolutely love homeschooling, every aspect of it. The world is our classroom, and it is absolutely awesome! This year has been a very interesting year though, as I'm going back to school myself to finish getting my degree. Totally went off topic there.. YAY for derailment I loved family vacations (I'm an only). I think our first big camping trip was in 1976, when I got to eat strawberry snow (tastes like watermelon rind) in the Rockies above Estes Park Colorado. We were there during the Big Thompson Flood, which killed 143 people. Four years later, we were about 100 miles from Mount St. Helens when she blew. We camped at Yellowstone and watched a park ranger set a bear cage trailer in the slot next to ours. I once used Dad as a matress because our tent flooded and we had only two cots. I've been inside the Stanford Linear Accelerator and leaned out of a helicopter (in the rain, owwie!) to drop virgin paper dolls into Mauna Loa. I enjoyed Bunraku in Kyoto and watched people eat live baby octupus (I won't link to that, but kids seem to love . One bite was enough for me, I had to share with Mom and Dad ;-). I saw dapper businessmen in three piece suits reading porn comics on the Shinkansen, or passed out next to beer vending machines. I met the founders of Pixar long before it was a household name.I've been hit by golf ball sized hail (big owwie!), seen tornadoes and witnessed lightning strike trees and houses. I've fed a cat by milking a cow. I've made simple crop circles in the moonlight. And all of this because my parents shared your understanding that the world is our classroom. I'm happy for you and your kids! ETA: Mom and Dad worked from home, so every day was "Take Your Daughter to Work" day! :-).

Hippie, I can hear Monday coming down the tracks. Choo choo! Happy Saturday, Kids!!!

Tari Landar wrote: Especially since I homeschool...and everyone knows what people say about homeschool kids and their lack of socialization (it's a myth, but.. whatever, lol) According to some, I am living proof that home schooled kids can't socialize! ;-) Tari, I hope you (it sounds like it) are having as much fun as a home school parent as I had as a home school kid. ... runs outside to play.

I had a li'l time on my hands, and whipped together a little demonstration of some "math" that is not really computery (no bitwise stuff), but is magical. It's a simple bit of arithmetic that demonstrates the inextricable relationship between trigonometry (sinusoids, as in water waves and pendulums) and logarithms/exponentials (as with populations of bacteria and bank account balances). I don't offer this as a suggestion for math skill pursuit, but I hope any of you who try this feel at least some small sense of wonder that such a simple equation as... targetPosition = currentPosition * 1.99 - pastPosition; ...yields a sine wave oscillation, so long as you keep track of where you are (currentPosition) and where you were (pastPosition), and that simply changing from 1.99 to 2.01 switches from an oscillation to exponential growth. My Dad taught me this when I was perhaps 12, and I made shapes on the screen of his Apple II using this very equation. It's also easy to do in Excel, where you can chart the values. Unfortunately, SL is too slow to really do a good demonstration of this. Run on the bare metal of a modern PC, this equation computes so fast that you can generate sine waves at radio frequencies. Magical math like this is the foundation of "digital signal processing", where simple math yields astonishing variety and complexity. Nature is far, far ahead of us in her use of magical math. What fun it is trying to catch up. Here's the script... float pastPosition = 0;float currentPosition = 1;//float magic = 2.00; // linear growth//float magic = 2.01; // exponential growth//float magic = 1.99; // sinusoidal oscillationfloat magic = -1.99; // binary oscillation with sinusoidal envelope//float magic = -2.01; // binary oscillation with exponential growth//float magic = -2; // binary oscillation with linear growthfloat time = 0.3;default{ state_entry() { llSetTimerEvent(time); } touch_start(integer num_detected){ pastPosition=0; currentPosition=1; } timer(){ float targetPosition = currentPosition * magic - pastPosition; llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(2, [PRIM_POS_LOCAL,<0,0,targetPosition/10>] ); pastPosition = currentPosition; currentPosition = targetPosition; }} Rez two prims (I used a 0.5,0.5.0.01 green cylinder for the root and a <0.1,0.1,0.1> red sphere for the child) and link them together, then drop this script into the root prim. There are six magic constants at the top of the script. Uncomment one of them at a time to see what happens when you change them. Touch the root prom to re-zero the simulation.

Rolig, didn't you know Lindal is in a 12-step program for recovering Zyngo addicts? And there's no shame in that.

Hi Candi, Since Firestorm works and the SL Viewer doesn't, I'm going to guess that the SL Viewer's settings are different, or something has been corrupted. Carefully check the settings, particularly the graphics settings. Advanced lighthing can drop your frame rate into the 1fps range if you have an older graphics adapter. Having a huge draw distance can really slow things down as well. If the settings appear fine, then I'd recommend doing a clean install of the viewer. Good luck!

Hi Talisien, Notecards cannot contain clickable links. People must copy the link from the notecard and paste it into their browser. :-(

The last snow melted off my patio just over two weeks ago. Now I'm mowing my lawn for the second time. What a curious spring. Hi, Kids!!!

Dresden Ceriano wrote: So, you admit that the 34HP diesel tractor was your downfall... I knew it!!! ...Dres Shhhh! Fortunately it's got a front bucket, so I can bury my mistakes.

Dresden Ceriano wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: I've seen this happen in RL as well. Self awareness isn't everyone's cup of tea. Self-awareness tea is often quite bitter... sometimes to the point of being undrinkable. ...Dres But, like broccoli, it's good for you. Try the tea with ranch dressing.

Hi mavsstorm, Unfortunately, the Second Life Viewer only runs on Windows, Mac or Linux PCs. There is a cloud hosted way to enter the virtual world, where the viewer is actually run on a server elsewhere and you access the video stream remotely, but SL GO only works on Android tablets. :-(

KarenMichelle Lane wrote: Yes indeed, The great Male Chest Expansion Bug has a patch in this release http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/3.7.7.289405 MAINT-3896 Male Avatar chest rendering broken - chest shows bigger for onlookers, than to oneself - effects attachments and all worn mesh types and my fave because I try to keep my inventory organized and this has been making me crazy!!!!!!!... MAINT-3520 Renaming an inventory folder can result in a different folder being moved inside another folder Is your fave bug fixed????? I've seen this happen in RL as well. Self awareness isn't everyone's cup of tea.

KarenMichelle Lane wrote: Amethyst Jetaime wrote: Create an alt or use one he doesn't know and give the alt your mod rights, Go to the sims in the alt when you know bf is not on line and 'return' all your things to yourself. :matte-motes-evil: That's our sneaky Amethyst - Woot Woot Go for it STAT! Viva la Nefarianism!

LaskyaClaren wrote: Dresden Ceriano wrote: I understand what you're saying. But, in all honestly, I couldn't bring myself to support the promotion of virtual worlds to under-aged individuals. I believe, in a child's formative years, they should be encouraged to learn to socialize in the real world, before immersing themselves in a fantasy one. Maybe that's just me. ...Dres Ah, well. That's a different issue, of course. I don't know precisely how I feel about this myself, but I'll try to articulate some kind of response. Kids do immerse themselves in fantasy worlds, through imaginative games and such. And although they are mostly over playing "house" and such by their teens, they are still engaged in other kinds of fantasy, including, most obviously, video games. I think that's fine, myself, I guess: the problems arise not from immersing themselves in fantasy, but from getting completely lost in it. And I think that same could be said, in that regard, about many of the adults here. As for online socialization generally . . . well, they already do that, via FB, or Twitter, or Snapchat, or whatever. SL is at least a more potentially creative platform than one that limits them to posting lolcats and YouTube videos, no? I feel like ramblin'... I'm in agreement with Dres on the value of kicking kid's away from the computer and out into the wild. Socialization is about more than just texting and pose balling, and virtual worlds fall flat on their nuances. I was excused from my college physics lab because I demonstrated a facility with the physical world beyond what was expected of me. How did that happen? Well, I was home schooled in a house with no video games, no television, no fancy toys (except for a 34HP diesel tractor), a puppet theater, telescopes, microscopes, oscilloscopes, stethoscopes and lots of scrap lumber and yard goods and two big playmates. I'm not sure SL would have been helpful to the childhood me. Interesting? I'm not even sure about that. The learning curve for hammer and nails, needle and thread, is hard to beat. I can get completely lost in any world, not so much when playing house as when playing doctor. Yesterday, I think on CBC's "As It Happens", I heard of a study of high school students language skills. They divided the students into those used their phones primarily for texting and those who actually spoke to each other. Those who texted had better comprehension than those who voiced. The researchers theorize that texters have harder puzzles to solve when reading 1337, relying more on context to discern which of many potential interpretations to apply to what we see as 91883r15H. Val, Hippie and I sometimes communicate via lolpuppies in Hippie's friends thread, and the neighbor kid off at college communicates his mood by sending me pictures of animals. Surely you've heard artists claim that "limitations stimulate creativity". Google that phrase. If there's an engaging mind (many teens have em!) on the other end of a conversation, the mechanism don't matter much. ;-)

paula31atnight wrote: I'm not entirely sure how to implement the script, though I have a frind who might be able to show me how. I'm new to a lot of this. Okay, Paula, try this... Rez two cubes. Edit one of them, selecting the "Contents" tab of the edit window. Click "New Script". Double click the "New Script" and delete all the code in it. Go to my original post in this thread and copy all the text in the code window. Paste it into the "New Script" window. Close the window. Drag your pictures into the "Contents" folder as well. Select the other cube. Hold down the shift key and select the cube you just put the script into. Select "Link" from the edit window. You've now linked the two prims together, and the last one you selected (which has the script and pictures in it) becomes the root-prim. Touch the root prim (if it hasn't gone invisible on ya). Select "5 seconds" from the dialog menu. You should now see that the root prim has vanished, but will fade back into view shortly. It'll appear for five seconds, then vanish for five. Your pictures should appear on the top faces of the cubes, and if you watch the fading one, you should see that while it's visible, the picture on the other cube changes. Now, if you squish the cubes flat, and place the vanishing one on top of the always visible one, you should see the effect you desire. I don't recall how items in the contents folder are ordered. I'll presume that the first picture you drop will be the first one displayed, so if you want your pictures to go in a certain order, drag them to "Contents" in that order. If it turns out they get pulled in alphabetical order, rename them. If you can't get that to work, send me an IM and I'll send you a working demo. Yes, I'm making you do some work. You won't have that sense of pride when you're finished if you didn't sweat and bleed a li'l along the way. ;-)

Marigold Devin wrote: TaylorMcKenna wrote: I just wish to update things. The two names that were impersonating me are no more. LL has deleted those accounts. The display name account and the one with the extra "a". Yesterday, out of pure frustration, I messaged Ebbe Linden. Today, he was kind enough to reply to my message saying that things were taken care of and that the abuse team does act on abuse reports. Ebbe did restore my faith in that system. It does work. Not very often that you hear residents say this...Thank you Linden Lab. Its very good to hear you've had a positive outcome. Here's hoping Ebbe waves his magic wand over a few more things. Glad to hear it Taylor! Now, lay low! Ebbe's magic wand has a lot of work to do elsewhere. ;-)

Good afternoon, Hippie! Hi, Kids!!!