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Go with the Acer machine. The Sony only has 4Gb of memory, compared with 6 for the Acer, and it has less oomph in its graphics card. More memory means that you'll have more room for cache and thus less rez lag, among other things, and it always makes sense to opt for the highest quality graphics card you can afford. Unless you are really stuck on a laptop, though, you'll have a better SL experience with a desktop. A laptop naturally has a wimpy little screen, so it will be like peeking at SL through a window and you'll have a hard time seeing tiny objects unless you zoom in on them. You'll also be able to get more performance overall for the price with a desktop machine than from a laptop. I know that may not be hoice for you, because you will need the mobility of a laptop for other reasons --- like studying! --- but it's something to keep in mind. Also remember that whether you use a laptop or a desktop, you will have fewer connectivity issues if you use a direct cable connection and stay away from wireless while you are in SL.

Ummm.... nooo. That doesn't sound too smart to me. The only tools I'll let near my keyboard are my soft bristle brush and my trusty can of air. She sounds like the old college roommate who was convinced that she could take burned-out light bulbs back to some repair shop and have new filaments put in them. Faintly logical but not thinking things all the way through.

Actually, they do make vacuums just for computers. You may not be able to buy one at Best Buy, but you ought to be able to find one on line. BTW, if your canned air is icing up, use short bursts instead of a long continuous blast.

Yay! Nice work, Val.

Just store the original position (probably in state_entry) and then reset to that position whenever you stop the pendulum in either touch_start or the timer event. I'd probably use llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast, which has no delay.

A cloud? That happens all the time. That's a communication problem between your computer and SL's servers. Information about your appearance has to be "baked" onto your avatar on your own computer, saved there, and then uploaded to SL before it's fully visible there. If the necessary information is messed up in transmission, you may end up with a borked file on your computer, or SL's servers may end up with a borked image. Either way, your av's appearance defaults to a fluffy cloud. What works to repair the damage for one person won't necessarily work for the next person, and it may not be the same thing that works for you tomorrow. See the full list of possibilities here >>> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=fs_bake_fail . Start with the simple things at the top of the list and work down until you find what works for you today. You may find that the bake fail problem comes back repeatedly, even after you fix it with one of the suggestions on that wiki page. If so, you have a chronically weak Internet connection. There are many steps to take for repairing it. Perhaps the simplest ones -- ones that work best for most people -- are: (1) Don't Use WIRELESS. Wireless connections are inherently less stable than direct cable connections and are more vulnerable to interference. Then, (2) Reboot your router. Unplug it from the power for a few minutes to let it clear its RAM. The plug it back in and let it get a fresh hold on an IP address.

If it is showing up wherever you happen to land or fly in the sim --- not just at one particular spot -- then it's not loose in the sky. You are wearing it and carrying it around with you. In fact, there's a decent possibility that it's a HUD that is on your viewer screen, not actually rezzed in world. So, open your inventory, select the Worn tab to find the object, and detach it. BTW, for future reference ..... CTRL + Alt + T highlights transparent objects. It doesn't matter whether they are scripted or not. A transparent object may also be very small, or at least very thin, so it could be difficult to see even when it's highlighted. If you know that you're looking for a scripted object, it's sometimes wiser to use a beacon to locate it. Turn on beacons with CTRL + Shift + Alt + N or with World >> Show More >> Beacons.

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I haven't. I'm a little afraid of doing that, because my vacuum cleaner has pretty strong suction. I'm pretty confident that things are well glued down, but I'd rather not test that. A can of air does blow stuff around, but I have never had trouble blowing it all out of the tower. I suppose I might worry more if there weren't a lot of open space between components in my tower. There aren't any places where I can't see an errant dust bunny.

Using the command line parameter --noprobe should tell your viewer to disregard the video card message. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can run Second Life with that card, however. The ATI Mobility Radeon 4550 HD is now a two-year old chip (not a video card), designed for use in notebook computers. Aside from being somewhat old, it has two strikes against it. First, it is an ATI chip, and Second Life has had problems with ATI/AMD graphics for a long time. They are optimized for Direct-X programs, and SL is based on OpenGL. Second, it is a lightweight chip. Reviews that I can find on the Internet say that "DirecX 9 games should run fluent in low-medium detail settings. Demanding games like Crysis can only be played in low detail settings." Second Life falls in the category of "demanding games". If you could get it to run your Second Life viewer, you would probably have to run it on the lowest quality setting. The Dell Studio 15 notebook is a nice machine but from what I can see on the Internet, it probably will not run SL well, if at all.

You just want the pendulum to stop swinging after 5.0 seconds? Start a stopwatch when you touch the object to start it and monitor the stopwatch every time your timer event triggers. Kill the timer when it hits 5.0 seconds .... integer swing=FALSE;float time=0.3;integer steps=12;integer swingDegrees = 30;integer i=1;float swingRad;vector normal;rotation Inverse(rotation r){ r.x = -r.x; r.y = -r.y; r.z = -r.z; return r;}rotation GetParentRot(){ return Inverse(llGetLocalRot())*llGetRot();}SetLocalRot(rotation z){ llSetRot(z*Inverse(GetParentRot()));}default{ state_entry() { normal = llRot2Euler(llGetRot()); swingRad=DEG_TO_RAD*swingDegrees; llSetTouchText("Swing"); } touch_start(integer num) { if(swing) { swing=FALSE; llSetTouchText("Swing"); } else { llResetTime(); //Here's the time when the pendulum starts swinging swing=TRUE; llSetTouchText("Stop swing"); llSetTimerEvent(time); } } timer() { if (llGetTime() >= 5.0) //Pendulum has been swinging for 5.0 seconds, so stop. { llSetTimerEvent(0.0); } float stepOffset=(float)i/steps*TWO_PI; if(i>steps) i=1; if(swing==FALSE && (i==steps || i==steps/2)) { llSetTimerEvent(0.0); SetLocalRot(llEuler2Rot(<normal.x, normal.y, normal.z + swingRad*llSin(stepOffset)>)); } else { SetLocalRot(llEuler2Rot(<normal.x, normal.y, normal.z + swingRad*llSin(stepOffset)>)); i++; } } moving_end() { normal=llRot2Euler(llGetRot()); }}

Calculate the coordinates, translate them into local position vectors on the face of your display prim, and then rez a small red sphere prim at each spot.

EVERY 4-5 minutes? If it's doing that, your biggest worry is heat. A computer that crashes consistently after a few minutes in a high-demand environment like Second Life may be telling you that it's about to burn up its graphics card or worse. Open up the tower and use a can of air to blow out the accumulated dust bunnies and cat hair. Check to be sure that all your fans are spinning freely and that there's nothing blocking the air flow through any vents. You should be doing those things regularly, about once a month. Also, go on line and look for temperature monitoring software. There are several good, free routines out there. They'll watch the temperature at key spots in your box and, usually, adjust the fan speeds to compensate if things are starting to get too hot. A good program will at least give you a heads up before you lose expensive compnents. If you are using a laptop instead of a desktop machine, you will have to get a professional to clean out its innards. Do be sure that you always raise the machine above a flat work surface -- NOT your lap -- so that it gets good air flow beneath it. You can buy a fancy board to do the job. Some of them even have auxiliary fans. If you want to save cash, you can also just use a few pop bottle caps to lift the laptop off the table.

Marketplace >> My Marketplace >>. Merchant Home >> Store Setup >> Edit Store Information

Duplicate post. See http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/script-errors-on-screen/qaq-p/1636521

It's impossible to say why that's happening without knowing what the script error says. Even then, it could be hard to tell without seeing the script and knowing what it is supposed to do. Most well-written scripts will request permissions on rez or when they are restarted. If you know which object is sending the messages, therefore, try taking it back to your inventory and re-rezzing it. If that doesn't work, try selecting the object and resetting its scripts (if it will let you).

You should be able to open your Manage Listings page in My Marketplace >> Merchant Home, select any items in the Unassociated Inventory Items list, and then delete them. (See the little drop-down menu that says "Modify selected items"?). Then forget about the Magic Box. Within a few weeks (months?) you'll have to get rid of Magic Boxes permanently anyway. Just follow the instructions at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Selling-in-the-Marketplace/ta-p/700193#Section_.4.2 for uploading items for Direct Delivery.

I'm inclined to use a timer instead of relying on temp_on_rez. As Innula says, temp_on_rez leaves you with clutter until the garbage collector times out. I have been rewriting a few of my scripts that attach articles like books or drinking glasses. I want those things to vanish instantly when the user stops the anim that is using them, not hang around for a minute or more.

ruby5454 Coleslaw wrote: i got the mess back i still can not open sl this is not good they shound fix it i hope they do its been one week thur no sl a bug in all sl omg get a 0xc0000005 error that error i hope they sl will get it fix "They SL" are not going to "get it fix." There's nothing wrong with the SL viewer or server code, so there's nothing to fix. You picked up a virus on the Internet. You are going to have to get rid of it yourself. There are some excellent instructions among the comments at https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-29307 that have worked for other residents with the same virus. Go there and read them.

Hah. With mainland selling at L$1 per sq m, it's almost impossible to make much of a living (if any) in real estate. There's loads of abandoned land around at that price, so you're competing with Linden Lab if you try to get any more than that. If you put a lot of effort into keeping rental areas fully occupied, you might be able to make a decent living that way. The turnover in rental property is high on most sims, though, so it's hard to get full occupancy. There too, you're competing in a market where there's a lot of vacant rental property, so you can't make rental rates very high.

Treat SL like RL. 1. Visit places with people in them. 2. Join groups of people who are interested in things you like to do. 3. Post introductory notes in places like the Make Friends forum. 4. Walk up and say Hi.

I don't follow the action in clubs much, but as far as I have ever been able to tell, most clubs are losing propositions. Until you get a large, steady following, don't expect to be making money. Unless you get really lucky and rent on a sim with a lot of traffic, I suspect that you have to work hard to build that following. Work your Friends list, hire experienced employees who have deep Friends lists -- especially a couple of DJs with groupies, and sink some money into contests. On the broader question of what kinds of business are more successful, I think it's generally businesses run by people who create their own products and are in world, focused on the business, almost full time. I know a few people who can make a decent RL income from their SL work, but not many. You can probably earn more money for the same amount of effort with a RL business. My own measure of success is having a consistent positive cash flow --- earning more than I spend. So long as my SL business isn't a drain on my RL bank account, I'm happy. If you can live with that standard, you don't have to spend a lot of your in-world hours working.

The Lindex is like a RL currency exchange or stock market. When you buy L$, you are buying from other SL residents who are selling them. As in RL, the exchange acts as a middleman. It drops your cash into the drawer (taking out a commission on the way). The SL resident who sold L$ gets cash out of that drawer, so he's paid indirectly by you but gets his money from the Lindex. The same is true for the third party exchanges. Each exchange sets its own exchange rate, hence the amount that it keeps from every sale. You can shop among the available exchanges to find the best rate, but IMO it's more important to deal with exchanges that you know are trustworthy. I think the Lindex beats the others on both scores.

Darkie Minotaur wrote: Actually, for the vwsearch it seems to be the case that you cannot call it from an LSL script anymore - the call will return an 403 error - which usually means "Access denied". If you call it from outside SL, it still works fine. Yup. That's what I'm getting. Not much good for calling from a LSL script.