Madelaine McMasters

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Hi Selitha, This kind of trouble, unconnected to viewer type, and affected by resetting the modem helps, leads me to think your internet connection is the culprit here. Nalate's Urriah has suggestions for improving the quality and latency (SL doesn' care as much about speed) of your SL connection... http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ At a bare minimum, I'd suggest switching one of your DNS server addresses over to Google, OpenDNS, etc.. Although I've not had issues with SL, my overall web browsing experience improved when I switched to Google DNS years ago. Here's a page with additional information on switching DNS servers... http://lifehacker.com/5420931/namebench-helps-you-find-the-fastest-dns-server-for-your-computer I hope this helps!

Hi grimnztborith, I second Lindal's recommendation of Nalate's article about improving your SL connection. SL is remarkably finicky about the quality (not so much the speed) of the connection from server to viewer. Being stuck in a red cloud tells me you're probably using Firestorm (SL Viewer users get stuck in white clouds). If your attachments are loading, but your avatar isn't, you may be suffering "bake fail". Here's a page about that... http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_bake_fail Good luck!

I'll guess that a Linden programmer made a change in some part of the marketplace that had the unintended effect of marking every marketplace posting as "adult'. They're now frantically searching the code for the cause, but it'll be difficult because all the people who wrote the stuff were let lose during the big downsizing a couple years ago. I don't envy the Lindens and I don't envy marketplace merchants. Hang in there Larai, LL has a new CEO and I like the little trickles of change I've seen so far.

Czari Zenovka wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: As for your favorites bar, right click in the blank space to the right of the menu items in your viewer's menu bar and select "Show Navigation and Favorites Bar" from the drop-down. Until your reply, I read Ricky's OP as having lost his "favorite bar" - as in one of his favorite place to visit. I was thinking that sucked to lose one's inventory and favorite hangout overnight. *Rubs eyes and cleans glasses* :matte-motes-bashful-cute: As I recall from watching my friends in college, people are more likely to get lost in their favorite bar than to lose their favorite bar. ;-)

Ricky40 wrote: Just thought I would add that it is onyl in the Fore Storm Viewer, when I open up the second life viewer, everything is still there. Right. That's because only Firestorm's inventory list and settings have been corrupted. It's helpful to have a second viewer armed and ready when problems arise. It helps you determine if the problem is with the viewer, your connection, or SL itself.

Olá Lucy, Prepare-se para traduzir esta ... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Account/How-do-i-renew-my-premium-accoung/qaq-p/771301

Hi MaryRosella, You're not the only one experiencing this issue... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/In-events-page-our-event-appears-to-contain-adult-material-this/qaq-p/2521895

I love it!

Hi Ricky, Your inventory is stored in the SL servers, so it's not gone. The local copy of your inventory list has probably been corrupted. Here's a thread in which Lindal Kidd discusses potential solutions... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inventory/How-do-I-I-save-the-contents-of-my-inventory-in-SL-viewer-I-seem/qaq-p/2522273 As for your favorites bar, right click in the blank space to the right of the menu items in your viewer's menu bar and select "Show Navigation and Favorites Bar" from the drop-down. Good luck!

Hi Monday, In addition to Rolig's advice, if you ever have problems with automatically downloaded updates (they have never, ever worked for me), disable them in Preferences->Setup. Your mention of downloading "by force" reminds me of the feeling I have when the viewer stops me from logging-in, downloads an update, then throws error messages at me. This has happened across multiple Macs and multiple OS versions, so I think it's an error on LL's part. I force quit in a huff and then manually download the update myself.

"As far as I'm concerned, the feature works best when it's broken." Well then, you must be thrilled with SL overall! ;-)

"the Lindens know" Pfft!

Hi Dinali, Welcome to the Second Life Answers and... "bake fail". Here's a page that may help, regardless of the viewer you use. http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_bake_fail I hope that helps. If it doesn't, come back and edit your question via "Options" over there on the right and tell us what you tried. I'm surprised someone as ancient as you (2006!) hasn't run into this before. You were lucky! Good luck!

I've never head of such a thing, iCade! Lindal, how does a rezzer take something back from in-world? llRezObject can rez something from a rezzer's "Contents" folder, and llDie can send a thing into the abyss, but I'm not aware of something that can pull an object back into "Contents" or send it back to inventory. So I'm stumped about how a rezzer could contain no-copy builds.

I have no idea what's causing your problem, but I wonder if setting the process affinity for SL and your video capture software to different cores might avoid some scheduling contention. That's my shot in the dark! ETA: Don't ask me how you do that, I'm a Mac girl. But I do recall Windows allowing for that control. ETA2: If the scheduling conflict is occuring in the GPU, I doubt setting process affinity will make a difference.

Hi Joe, I just tried adding an interest, both in-world (using two different viewers) and out (using two different browsers) using two different accounts, and the mechanism appears broken. This is not surprising, the Feed software was written by Linden Lab and has been a hot mess since its inception. Now that LL is opening up the JIRA to public inspection again, it might be worth filing a bug report... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-report-a-bug/ta-p/733545

Czari Zenovka wrote: And you're right...something about our brain, emotions, or some element therein connects us to pixels, or at least some of them. Hmmm, wonder if any of the researchers have studied that angle of virtual worlds. edit: clarification This has been studied since long before virtual worlds. Disney's "Nine Old Men" were masters at manipulating our emotions through animation. The careful scripting of a virtual animal's movements can evoke an emotional response. Since first arriving in SL, I've been fascinated by this. I have a couple very simple pieces of reactive art based on ideas I stole from Aparna Rao. Here's an example of her work, in which she explains the emotional response she's trying to evoke... I love that her examples can be as simple as rectangles, but their motion triggers our mirror neurons (I'm sure there's more going on than that) and we imbue them with personality. We've risen to the top of the evolutionary heap at least in part because of our ability (compulsion?) to postulate conscious causes for the effects we see. I do love to anthropomorphize. I'm not the only one.

Hi brja, I'm guessing you're attempting to download the Second Life viewer on a computer which has an administrator account, and that your account on that computer does not have administrator privileges. If this is your own computer, log in using the administrator name and password you set up when you got it. If the computer belongs to another, have them enter the username and password to allow the viewer to install. You might also ask them to elevate your account to "administrator" so that you can wreak havoc on it like I do on mine.

Doctor: "Push!" A moment passes. Doctor: "It's a boy!" Mother: ”No, put it back!" Doctor: "Okay!" A moment passes. Doctor: "Push!" A moment passes. Doctor: "It's a girl!" Mother: "No, put it back!" Doctor: "Okay!" A moment passes. Doctor: “Push!” A moment passes. Doctor: “It’s a chihuahua!” Mother: “Noooooo, put it back!” Doctor: “Okay!” A moment passes. Doctor: “Push!” A moment passes. Doctor: “It’s a Wheaton Terrier!” Mother: “I love Wheaton Terriers!” Doctor: “Okay!” Don't you love a happy ending?!

Good morning, Hippie! I found a Dorito chip, but the mouse won't let go!... Happy Saturday, Kids!!!

Hi Snowfallsman, If this were happening for only one avatar, I'd wonder if you may have activated move-lock, which is toggled by Ctrl-Alt-P. But if this is affecting all avatars, it may be you've got a poor connection to SL. Here's a page that deals with improving that... http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ If these suggestions don't help, post an answer to your own question here and continue telling us what you've tried. This will allow anyone who subscribes to this thread to receive notification when you post that additional information. Good luck!

Hi Lioness, This page... http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Education/FAQs#What_languages_does_Second_Life_support.3F Indicates that SL supports... English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian The viewer does allow you to connect to Bing's free translation services, or to Google's, which is fee based. You'll find that choice in Preferences->Chat->Translation

Hi Jasper, Here's the best explanation for how permissions work in SL. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Permission You've got to read it carefully, as there are not only the four permissions move/modify/copy/transfer to think about, but also four targets... owner/group/anyone/next-owner. And then there is also the interaction between the top level of an object and the things within it (textures, scripts, etc.). In general, if you purchase a copy/mod item, you cannot transfer it to anyone else, preventing them from copying for profit. But I can't really give you a standard answer here, as the final degree of protection on a thing depends on the subtleties of the overall permissions on/in it. To be honest, I routinely make permissions mistakes when packaging things up. For example, forgetting that placing a no transfer texture on a full perm prim I give away makes the resulting prim no transfer. It's a tricky business, at least for me. ETA: Lindal's recommendation to test the permissions of a thing using an alt is terrific. Every damned time I skip that step, I embarass myself!

Carbon Philter wrote: Can you not use a simple llSetTexture script with the UUID if you know it, to apply the texture with the forgotten name to a prim, then in the Texture tab of Edit click on the texture window, which should open the Pick wiindow and highlight the name of the used texture? You can then get it from your inventory, Ooooh, I love this idea!