Rolig Loon

1. You cannot request a lock for a user account, because you are not the aggrieved person. If your fiancee wants to file a complaint, she may. See http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Filing-an-abuse-report/ta-p/700065 and watch this informative video >>> 2. Nobody can "request a lock on another person's account." All anyone can do is file an Abuse Report. Linden Lab will review the infomation, perform thei own investigation, and decide what action to take, if any. 3. If your fiance is being stalked, she should follow the advice here >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Stalkers and be prepared to make a complaint to the RL police. 4. There are no Lindens here. This is a Resident-to-Resident Answer forum and we are all SL residents, like you. All we can do is offer advice about how SL works ( or doesn't).

Yeah. The catch is that a 13-15 year old cannot leave the sim of the organization that sponsors him/her in SL. So, if you met a free-range 14-year-old, you were right to file an AR. The rule is there to protect young teens from predators.

When you register for Second Life, you provide your birth date, because you are required to be at least 16 years old. Exception: those 13-15 years old allowed if they are restricted to the estate of a sponsoring organization. For more information, see Teens in Second Life. To access adult content, you must confirm that you are at least 18 years old by visiting the age verification web page.

It sounds silly, but check to be sure that you don't have any data cables sitting on unshielded power cords. Sometimes just moving cords around in the wrong place can mess up transmission. It's still a good idea to check with your ISP too. Take a look at Nalates's blog for some other suggestions, specifically about long ping times >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/

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 (or a white egg if your graphics quality is set to Low). 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. Then plug it back in and let it get a fresh hold on an IP address.

Viewers play a minor part in voice functionality. The bulk of voice support is given by the external application called SLVoice, which is made by the SL voice provider, Vivox. Voice failures are almost always due to one of the following reasons: Your ISP is throttling or blocking the voice service; failure of the Vivox service; voice issues on the region you are on; voice being throttled by bandwidth set incorrectly - please check it by following the instructions here; voice hardware (mic, headset) not configured correctly in your operating system settings; voice hardware not configured correctly in the viewer; another application has your voice hardware in use (example, Skype); your anti virus software has “mangled” the voice application; see here. You can test voice by going to Voice Echo Canyon. If voice is working correctly for you, anything you say there will be echoed back to you.

Of course. Take a look at this Guide to Jobs in Second Life. It's a pretty good overview. You'll find that most people who earn L$ are self-employed, either as creative artists or performers, or as merchants. We don't need middlemen and shop clerks as much as RL does. You can be almost anything, and many "jobs" don't require a lot of cash outlay to get started. Just talent and time. Time is the big thing, though, so give it serious thought. If you don't like working, why would you want to spend your "vacation" time in SL doing it? You can't earn very much for your time in SL, certainly not compared to what you can earn in the same amount of time in RL. Even those of us who are pretty successful as creators and merchants could probably do better by bringing cash in world with us. We work mostly because we enjoy it. If that's your motivation, go for it.

@Chic -- Thank you. I had momentarily forgotten Firestorm's Area Seacrh, which is a great tool. Use it sparingly, because it does put load on the servers, but it works. I'd be careful about taking things as coalesced objects and then hoping to put them back with "Restore to Previous Position." -- another cool Firestorm feature. There is a bug that is messing that strategy up for now >>> "Restore to last position" TPV feature appears broken if you dont have rez rights at <0,0,0> on the region If you try to use the function and you don't have rezzing rights in the extreme SW corner of the sim -- as on a sim with Linden Homes -- then it fails and tells you that you can't rez because the owner doesn't allow it. Then you have to mess with placing a coalesced object back in your home correctly, which is not an easy trick for a newbie.

Highlighting transparent objects is a good step in finding things, but it won't detect ones that are inside other objects, underground, or thrown way up in the sky. The way to find most of those is to set your Build/Edit tool to let you select only your own object objects by surrounding, and then drag a selection rectangle around a small area to see what gets highlighted. You'll have to do that over and over and over again, looking at different places from different angles. To find ones that you may have sent up in the sky by mistake, you'll have to get a scanning tool from Marketplace. There are many available.

I'm not totally sure that I understand the question. If you are asking when you get your house and your signup bonus, the answer is that you have to ask for a Linden Home >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Linden-Homes/ta-p/700103 and you get your L$1,000 bonus after you have been a Premium member for 45 consecutive days. You'll start getting your weekly stipend of L$300 next Tuesday. If you're asking why you can't see your L$ balance at the top of your viewer screen, the answer is that it is sometimes out of sync wih the REAL L$ balance, which you can see on your dashboard at secondlife.com. You can force your viewer to update the number sometimes by just clicking on it. If you're asking something completely different, you can add more explanation to your post by clicking on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and selecting EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread.

Not that it makes any difference, but as a side note..... you are getting the angle with llAtan2 and converting it from radians to degrees and then immediately back again. I assume that's because you want to know what that angle is during testing, but in the long run you probably don't want to do that. Also, note that llAtan2 behaves almost like arctan(angle), except that it is constrained not to hit a singularity at 0 and 90 degrees, so you shouldn't hit any division by zero problems there. The arithmetic sign of the result tells you what quadrant you are in.

That can be a tricky problem. You might try either of Void Singer's snippets in the wiki at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlRotLookAt and http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlLookAt . She's using a slerp routine that makes for a nice smooth rotation and avoids most of the side issues that you are probably experiencing. I've used both very successfully in similar situations.

It sounds like a common case of chat lag, usually a symptom of a slowdown in the sim's servers. If you open your Statistics Bar (CTRL + Shift + 1) and scroll down to look at the sim's stats, you'll probably see that the FPS number is hopping all over the place, often well below the ideal of 45. Also, the Time Dilation number, which should be close to 1.0, may be dramatically lower. There's not much you can do about either one unless it's your own sim and you can restart it. It's possible that you also have a slow Internet connection, which would add to the problem. While you still have the Statistics Bar open, scroll back to the top and look at your Ping number (should be < 150ms or so) and the Packet Loss number (should be close to 0.00%). If either is higher than it should be, you could be losing data in transmission, or at least experiencing a big delay. You might try rebooting your router and checking to be sure that you don't have a data cable sitting on top of an unshielded power cord.

I've never wanted to post a RL photo (or anything else) on my profile, but I think Val has it right. SL's various web sites don't get along well with IE, but they seem to like Firefox and Chrome. Try one of those instead.

Ah, well this changes things considerably. Your eagle eye is better than mine, Chosen. I don't recognize either of the people in the photos, so I assumed they were the OP and a friend. If that's not the case, then I agree. Without proper permissions, you don't mess with the photos at all.

Unfortunately "something about the grind" doesn't give us anything to go on at all. If you are having a login problem, you'll have to tell us exactly what any error messges say and at what point in the login process you are seeing them. Also, tell us what kind of computer you have -- in as much detail as you can -- and what operating system it is using, and what kind of Internet connection. Before you tried Phoenix, were you able to log in with a different viewer? What have you changed since then? To add more information, click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Try to avoid abbreviations and shortcuts. Be as clear as possible. Please do NOT start a new thread. BTW, you can always check the grid status to see if SL's servers are having trouble, or are undergoing maintenence. Today they are not.

Oh, so change it from a background later to an active one. Double click on the background in your Layers panel (or right click and select "Layer from Background ...") to open the New Layer window. Then rename the layer if you want to and click OK. Then you can edit it to your heart's content. You can't separate it it into layers that it may have once had, but at least you can make changes to it.

There's a good summary of common ailments that affect viewer performance here >> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-improve-Viewer-performance/ta-p/1316923 and another very nice one here >> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ and, finally, another here >> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_very_laggy . There's a lot of overlap among those three sites, but they each have some extra things to say, and they give you a well balanced picture of where to look in solving your problem. Without knowing more about your computer and Internet connection, to say nothing of your Preference settings, it's hard to give more specific advice. One very simple thing you can do, though is get off wireless, if you have been using it. Wireless is not adequate for SL, and it gives a lot of SL residents problems.

Easy, as long as you have the original pics. When you made the texture, I assume that you put each of the pics on a separate layer in Photoshop (or whatever), and then put your lettering on a thrid layer. So, all you have to do is change the lettering layer. If you have mislaid the PSD file or original pics, of course, you won't be able to separate out the old lettering without a lot of very fiddly handwork, and even then it will probably look odd. Your only choices then are (1) put the new lettering on a solid background that overlays the original or (2) take new photos and make a new texture. I like option #2, frankly. The right hand picture is at a much lower resolution, so it doesn't match the left hand one for quality. But that's just me. ETA: Hehehe... Or Dilbert can do it. NICE work! :smileylol:

Hehe.. It's best to leave it as is, so that anyone else reading these posts will be able to understand what we're talking about.

Good discussion, Emmett. Thank you.

Es gibt kein, leider. Alle Anrufe werden in englischer Sprache beantwortet. Wenn Sie eine Frage haben, können Sie es hier jedoch fragen. Wir können nicht beantworten spezifische Fragen zu Ihrem Konto, weil keiner von uns Lindens sind, aber wir können mit technischen Fragen, wie Second Life funktioniert (oder nicht) zu helfen. Viele Menschen hier sprechen Deutsch, oder kann es zu übersetzen.

You mean the Destination Guide? Or do you mean listing your Marketplace product as an Enhanced Listing? If you are considering an Enhanced Listing, be sure that you read about Listing Fees too.

My answer was generic. I left it up to him, and you, to decide when the modification looks "nothing" like the original. That's not my call. Ultimately it's the creator's. If the creator doesn't agree that it looks "nothing" like his original work, he can always file a DMCA complaint. Until then, you use your best judgment. My only advice is to err on the conservative side.

Right click on your av, select Appearance >> Edit Shape, and then look in the extreme upper right corner of the editing window. There are two buttons. Click the one that's the MALE button instead of the female one.