Rolig Loon

June 26, 2012

Continues at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Avatar/dont-take-action-on-my-name-leave-it-tooo-complicated/qaq-p/1580191#M9338

June 26, 2012

Continued from http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Abuse-and-Griefing/The-name-bleep-keep-giving-problem-can-you-drop-it-all-And/qaq-p/1579981

We couldn't have done anything anyway. As we explained earlier, (1) We are not Lindens here, so we don't have any authority or power to alter user accounts and (2) NOBODY can change your user name. It's yours for life.

June 26, 2012

Duplicate question at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/my-signing-up-did-not-work-and-my-user-name-is-not-avaiable-any/qaq-p/1580159#M24204

June 26, 2012

Change appearance, or change accounts? You can change appearance easily by buying a different skin and shape (or a new mesh avatar) or by using the Appearance sliders to modify the one you have. See http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Second-Life-Quickstart/ta-p/1087919#Section_.3.5 and http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Controlling-your-avatar-s-appearance/ta-p/700709

If you want to change accounts, you have to sign up for a new one the same way you signed up for your original account. Then just log in with the new account ID and password. When you do that,you have created an alt, which you can apply any shape and skin to --- just as you did with your main account.

June 26, 2012

Check a couple of things. One is the "D'uh. I'm standing in a no-voice area" reality check. If your sim or parcel don't allow voice, you won't have that option.

The other thing to check is your bandwidth. Voice depends on having enough bandwidth available after all other basic needs are met. You tell your viewer how much bandwidth it is allowed to use for basic needs by setting Preferences >> Internet & Cache >> Maximum Bandwidth. That setting should be no higher than 75% to 80% of your available download bandwidth (see http://www.speedtest.net/ ). If yours is set too high (or if your Internet bandwidth has recently taken a nosedive, which amounts to the same thing), then you don't have any bandwidth left for voice.

Oh, a third thing to try is to check your anti-virus software. Norton, in particular, sometimes flags SL or SL-related programs as alien threats. Others do it too sometimes. If your anti-virus software has been upgraded recently, it may be decided to block voice. See http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/antivirus_whitelisting

June 26, 2012

A local rotation is always a rotation relative to some other rotation. In the simplest case, it's relative to a global rotation, as in

rotation Zrot = llEuler2Rot(<0.0,0.0,PI/2>) * llGetRot();

where Zrot is a 90 degree rotation around the Z axis, relative to the global rotation of the object. If you wanted to set the rotation of a third object relative to the second, you'd do the same trick again, daisy-chaining successive rotations

rotation XZrot = llEuler2Rot(<PI/2,0.0,0.0>)*ZRot;

Calculations in LSL are always done from right to left, so this is read as "get the rotation of the object, rotate it 90 degrees around the Z axis and then 90 degrees around the X axis." If you want to write a set of SLPPF statements to move different parts of the object, you ought to be able to do something like

rotation RootRot = llGetRot();

llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(2,[PRIM_ROT_LOCAL,ZRot]);

llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(3,[PRIM_ROT_LOCAL,XZRot]);

If you want to start somewhere in the middle, instead of calculating everything from the root rotation, then you can get, say, the local rotation of child prim 1 from

rotation ZRot = llList2Rot(llGetLinkPrimitiveParams(2,[PRIM_ROT_LOCAL]),0);

and then apply it to calculate XZRot, which is what you did, except that your final step should be to set local rotation, since that's what you calculated.

June 26, 2012

Try using a different web browser. For unknown reasons, Internet Explorer has always had a hard time with some SL web sites. Try Firefox or Chrome instead and see if that helps.

June 26, 2012

Yeah, I can see why. :smileysad:

Unfortunately, you cannot change your login name. It's like your Social Security Number or pattern baldness. Once you have it, it's yours forever. You have only two choices, (1) use a Display Name (like a nickname) so that most people don't see your real name in chat or an overhead tag, or (2) get a new account (an alt). See more at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Usernames-and-display-names/ta-p/700173

June 26, 2012

If you have an ATI graphics card, your problem may be https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-28607 . ATI/AMD is not focused on development for programs like SL that use OpenGL, so SL residents have a long history of problems with ATI cards. If that's the issue you face, the workaround while you wait for the developers to figure out a permanent fix is to

Roll back to Catalyst 12.1
Turn off "Enable highlighting of selected prims"

June 26, 2012

From the fine support crew at Firestorm (http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_voice)...

Chances are good that the problem lies with the SL servers or the voice provider, Vivox. Still, there are things you can try:

Shut down all applications that use, or can use, voice - like Skype, etc. Then relog.

What sometimes helps to get voice working is disabling voice in Preferences → Sound & Media -> Voice Settings, hitting apply, waiting a minute and then enabling voice and hitting apply. When these methods fail (assuming voice usually works for you) it is usually the Vivox voice servers that are the problem.

Go to Preferences → Network & Cache and reduce your bandwidth setting to 500 (if it is not already set there). Repeat the above step to toggle voice off and back on. See here for more information on setting your bandwidth properly, but bear in mind that lower levels than those calculated there may be necessary for troubleshooting purposes.

Try going to another region to see if voice works there. If so, then the issue is the region you were in before. Was voice disabled there? If not, a region restart might solve the problem.

Try a relog, or even a reboot of the computer.

Sometimes device settings can reset, so check in Preferences → Sound & Media -> Voice Settings → Audio Device Settings, to be sure that the input and output are set correctly.

June 26, 2012

It may be time to upodate your drivers......

Mac drivers are included with OS upgrades. However, to determan what card you have, select “About this Mac” from the Apple menu, then click “More Info”. Under Hardware select Graphics/Displays
If you are not sure what type of video card you have, use GPU-Z found (win only) here. For linux, in a console use: lspci | grep VGA

Nvidia Video Driver

Latest driver Last checked Feb 6th- Windows: 285.62 (Oct 24) beta: 295.51 (Jan 31) - Linux: 290.1 (Nov 22)

ATI Video Driver

Latest driver Last checked Feb 6th- Windows and Linux: 12.1 (Jan 25)

Intel Video Driver

Intel driver download page Intel does not have a universal driver set. Please go to Intel's site and select the appropriate download.

June 26, 2012

No. We don't do that here. Shop around and ask your friends.

June 25, 2012

You found quite a necropost to add your note to. :smileytongue: Since the OP posted last year, the problem has become well-recognized (and maddening). See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7907 . Essentially, if you do not have rezzing rights at <0,0,0> in your sim, you can't get Restore to Last Position to work. It's busted, and there's no fix in sight.

June 25, 2012

Please put this into a NEW question, not into someone else's old dead thread. It is much more likely to be read.

June 25, 2012

I'm afraid that "nothing works" isn't a very helpful description of the problem. First, you need to tell us what kind of computer you are using and what sort of Internet connection. Then tell us exactly what you mean by "nothing." Error messages? When does "nothing" happen? What does it look like? What have you tried already? Give us something to work with. Most of all .... DO NOT add this information here, in someone else's two month old dead post. If you want anyone to see it, start a NEW question of your own.

June 25, 2012

KiskaNirpaw wrote:

[...]

I checked the knowledge base, and it says that VISA supports USD...

No, the Knowldge Base says that Linden Lab accepts VISA credit cards. It makes no mention of debit cards. That's why I refered you to the Billing Office.

June 25, 2012

Be very careful about using Third Party currency exchanges. Not all of them are trustworthy businesses. Some are reputed to be phishing sites that are designed to steal your login and account information. Some of them also charge very high exchange rates, compared to the Lindex. This compilation of Third Part exchanges has not been kept up to date, but ones on it have been tested by Linden Lab's Risk API and have passed. Linden Lab does not support or vouch for them, but they can be considered more reliable than ones that you grab blindly off the Internet.

June 25, 2012

Linden Lab accepts very few debit cards. You should probably call the billing office to find out if yours is one of the few. If you have a non-technical issue related to billing concerns, you can call the Linden Lab billing team at the following toll-free numbers:

US/Canada: 800-294-1067
France: 0805-101-490
Germany: 0800-664-5510
Japan: 0066-33-132-830
Portugal: 800-814-450
Spain: 800-300-560
UK: 0800-048-4646
Brazil: 0800-762-1132

Long distance ( not free, but you can use Skype to save some cost ) : 703-286-6277
**Note: Support is offered only in English

June 25, 2012

The 0xc000005 error may be caused by windows system files damage. Corrupted system file entries can be a real threat to the well being of your computer but they are easy to repair.

There can be many events which may have resulted in the system files errors. An incomplete installation, an incomplete uninstall, improper deletion of applications or hardware. It can also be caused if your computer is recovering from a virus or adware/spyware attack or by an improper shutdown of the computer. All the above actives may result in the deletion or corruption of the entries in the windows system files. This corrupted system file will lead to the missing and wrongly linked information and files needed for the proper working of the application.

1) Start your computer and log on as an administrator.

2) Click the Start button then select All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then click System Restore.

3) In the new window, select "Restore my computer to an earlier time" option and then click Next.

4) Select the most recent system restore point from the "On this list, click a restore point" list, and then click Next.

5) Click Next on the confirmation window.

6) Restarts the computer when the restoration is finished.

June 25, 2012

The overall problem is that your viewer and SL's servers have temporarily lost the ability to talk to each other. Yes, the router is often the weak link in the Internet connection. You may be able to solve your problem by unplugging the router from the power for a few minutes (not just disconnecting its data cable) so that it can clear its RAM and get a fresh look at an IP address. If you router is more than a couple of years old, you may need to think about buying a replacement, too. Like any piece of electronic equipment, it can wear out, primarily from overheating, with time.

The other possible solution is to 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/ It's not a difficult process.

June 25, 2012

If it's on your Transaction History, then you can see exactly where it went. If it's just your in world balance that's odd, though, don't worry about it. The in world total gets out of sync with your Transaction History sometimes. All you have to do is relog, or sometimes just click on the L$ sign (not the Buy L$ button) to trick it into resyncing.

June 25, 2012

Possibly not, but it can't hurt to try. Contact the merchant and explain what happened. If the item came with Copy permissions, it's fairly clear that you didn't need to buy extras. This is entirely between you and the merchant, though. Linden Lab doesn't get involved in things like this.

June 25, 2012

If you are writing one and want to post it to show where you are stuck, we can take a look at it. If you are looking for a pre-made script or someone to write a script for you, try the Wanted forum or the Inworld Employment forum.