Rolig Loon

Many problems like the ones you describe are usually caused by a weak or flaky Internet connection, so work on those things first. If you're on wireless, get off it. Wireless is a notoroiously lousy choice for many SL residents. It was never designed for the heavy continuouis data streaming that SL demands, and it is susceptible to many sources of interference. Take a good loook at Nalates's blog for tips on how to diagnose and treat common connection issues >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ . There are also many common causes for teleport issues. You'll find several outlined at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Landmarks-teleporting-and-SLurls/ta-p/700123#Section_.1a If you have had these problems for a while and have tried several things to repair them, you may have damaged several settings files on your own computer too. Deal with the suggestions I just mentioned first. If they do not work for you, then consider doing a clean reinstall of your viewer. This involves not simply downloading and replacing the folder with your viewer's exe file, but removing the user setting files, where the damage probably lies. See here for instructions >>> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_clean_reinstall

Try asking in the Role Play forum. Those guys know everything.

Most landowners put out signs on their property, and some list in the Classified ads or in the Land forum. You can put the parcel in Search for L$30 a week too. There's always a lot of shop space to rent in SL, though, so it's a renter's market. IMO, the best way to attract new renters is to have excellent, happy current tenants. They'll let ttheir friends know that you have space open and that you're a decent landlord.

It's instant. If your friend has clicked the icon next your name in his Friends list, you'll see as soon as he comes on line. Even if he hasn't, you can go to his profile page to see. You won't be able to tell WHERE he is, but you'll know whether he is in world. ETA: If you only know his Display Name, you're out of luck. There could be a thousand other people with that name. You can only search for a username (and then only if the person hasn't UNchecked the Show In Search box in his own profile).

No, there really isn't. You can AR the person for harrassment, and if the person really has been violating the TOS and you have evidence, you can file ARs for that behavior as well. There's no way to keep him from rejoining an open membership group, though.

Probably. You can file a support ticket at https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ to report it. Linden Lab gives high priority to tickets ij that category.

Your store has its own profile that can be customized. You should take advantage of this to promote your brand: Click My Marketplace in the upper-right and click Merchant Home. On the left-hand side, click Edit Store Information. Click Store Banner Image - Click Browse to choose a JPG, PNG, or GIF image from your hard drive. Must be exactly 700x100 pixels.

Symptoms which may be the result of problem gestures include: You are unable to log in properly without having to clear cache fully before doing so. It should never be necessary to clear cache before logging in, so if you have to do this, something is wrong. Some find that if they don't clear cache each time, they get logged out within seconds of logging in, or perhaps they are ruthed or a cloud every time, or even that they crash shortly after log in.You are able to log in but find yourself under water (all you can see is a blue screen) at coordinates 10, 10, 10. If you log in to an all blue screen, check your location, see if you are near the SIM corner, at 10, 10, 10. If so, you almost certainly have a problem gesture.In some cases, you will see that there is an error in loading one or more gestures. If you do, make careful note of which ones, then find them and deactivate them - or better, delete them. If there is no such message, then please read more here >>> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/gesture_issues.

If you want help, you'll have to explain exactly what the problem is. Saying "i cany log in at all" isn't enough to tell us where to start. Have you ever been able to log in before? When you try now, how far through the login process do you get? Do you get an error message? EXACTLY what does it say? What kind of computer are you using? What sort of graphics card does it have? Which viewer are you using? How are you connected to the Internet? Add important information to your post by clicking on the Options link in its upper right corner and selecting EDIT. Even better, start a new thread of your own instead of burying your question at the end of someone else's old thread, where nobody is likely to see it.

Profaitchikenz Haiku wrote: Edit: After reading the first reply I must stress it is the OBJECT ( linkset) containing the script which has lost the modify permission. I have backups aplenty, but there is no way to restore the backup of a script into an object which NO LONGER allows one to modify it by adding/deleting or modifying content. Ah.. OK. That much wasn't clear from your original message. Unfortunately, that also is not unheard of. It can happen especially if your object includes linked prims that were made by someone else, or prims that have no mod perms on them. This also happens sometimes if you link to no-transfer prims (See this recent thread in the Building & Texturing forum >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Building-and-Texturing-Forum/Building-with-no-transfer-issue/td-p/1627599 ). It's very frustrating. As far as I know, though, there's no cure but to pull your backup copy out of inventory and hope that it isn't messed up too. As Lindal says, sometimes a sim restart will clear the air, so try that first.

If you are having DNS problems, your viewer and SL's servers have temporarily lost the ability to talk to each other. Unless there's a problem with the servers (Always check http://status.secondlifegrid.net/ first), it's probably something on your end. So.... (1) Try shutting off your computer, unplugging the router and modem for a couple of minutes, and then plugging them back in and restarting. That simple step may clear up everything (2) Add Google's free public DNS servers to whatever your ISP assigns you as a default. Here's how >>> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ (3) If things are STILL messed up, contact your ISP. Maybe they are working on their Internet connections. Mine go down for about 20 minutes once a month or so while they are vacuuming dust out of their servers, or whatever they do.

Innula's solution works. Beacons are your friends. I recently found a particle source that a SL resident had dropped into the prim water in his swimming pool and was emitting particles several meters overhead, apparently having nothing to do with the pool. A quick search with beacons turned on identified the source with no trouble.

That's one of SL's many mysteries. As a scripter, I learned a long time ago to always keep a backup copy of any script in my own inventory, just in case something like this happens. I have been locked out of my own scripts a few times and have been as mystified as you are. Sometimes I have been able to open the script by selecting Open instead of Edit from the right-click menu when I am inspecting the object's Contents. Sometimes I have been able to copy the offending script into inventory and then into another object, where I have been able to edit it. Occasionally, though, I have been glad to have those backup copies.

Increasing Max Bandwidth beyond 75% of your download speed doesn't help the lag and it starts to make Voice and streaming media cut out. There's not much you can do.

But if you have a choice between lag and not being able to see things......

Aha! You never mentioned that. That's a surprise. Well heck, if it works on Firestorm, why are you using Phoenix?

Each upgrade version of the viewers requires a little more ooomph out of your computer. It could be that you just passed your machine's oomph limit.

Bummer. That's about all you can do. Some people have pushed MeshMaxConcurrentRequests much higher than 64 with success, but I am not aware of other methods that work. Your computer may just not be able to handle mesh.

Two or three things catch my eye immediately. The first is that you have a large packet loss. You are losing almost 2% of the information that is traveling between your computer and SL's servers. That is just a momentary snapshot, of course, so it may have just been a temporary spike in an otherwise low-loss connection. Or it could be a low value in an otherwise higher loss profile. In any case, if packet loss is normally running more than 0.2 or 0.3%, you shouldn't be surprised to have texture rendering problems and a bit of lag. Next, your graphics "card" is not a card at all. It's an integrated Intel graphics chip. Those are becoming more popular for laptops now, but they still create problems for many SL residents. The switchable mode is meant to use lower quality graphics to save power when you are running on battery, but it sometimes uses low quality graphics at other times too. Finally, I notice that you have 3 Gb of memory, which may leave you less room than you'd like for cache. That will translate into slower texture rezzing. You may be able to improve things by dropping your draw distance from 128m to 64m. That will give your GPU less work to do and it ought to speed up rezzing. The packet loss is troublesome, though. Try rebooting your router for a start. Just unplug it from the power for a few minutes while you step out for a breath of fresh air. If you've been on wireless, change to a direct cable connection. That will cut down on potential interference and bandwidth loss. Check too to be sure that you don't have an unshielded power cord running over your Internet cables. Take a look at Nalates's blog for other suggestions about improving your connection >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ . See also this Knowledge Base article about ways to improve performance >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-improve-Viewer-performance/ta-p/1316923

If either of those remain greyed out, then increase the level of Render Quality until they become enabled and can be checked. In some cases, worn mesh attachments will not render properly still. Go to Preferences → Graphics -> Rendering and disable both of the Alpha Mask Rendering options. If none of the above work - and make sure you try all of them first! - then in the top menu bar, open Advanced → Debug Settings, find MeshMaxConcurrentRequests and gradually increase the value. It is recommended that you not go over 64; try to keep it less.

I figured. Hey, it's FRIDAY!

Only to 4096m.

This sounds like the old vaudeville routine Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I do this..." Doctor: "Then don't do that" (rim shot) Maybe this would be a good question to ask the Nirans support staff. :smileywink:

You can't build anywhere for free, except for temporary building in a sandbox. "Land" in SL is space on a server. Whether it is on the "ground" or up 4000m in the air, it's really memory space in a computer. Someone has to pay for maintaining that computer, the electric bill, the software upgrades, and the air conditioning to keep it cool. That someone is YOU. If you're building a skybox on someone else's land, he's paying for it. He won't be happy to have you mooching off him. Prepare to be ejected --- probably banned from the sim.

We can't do anything for you here because we are all SL residents like you. Lindens never come here. If you can't recall the answer to your security question, just contact Customer Support, preferably by opening a support case. You'll be asked to verify your identity and, working together, LL staff can reset your security question. Linden Lab apologizes in advance that support cannot retrieve passwords. Luckily, this won't be an issue once we reset your security question.