Rolig Loon

If you are talking about IM logs, they ought to be stored in a user file on your computer (or your ancient computers, wherever they are), at an address that looks like C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\SecondLife\rolig_loon . You would need to have set you Preferences to save those logs, of course. Most of us don't routinely save chat logs as well as IMs, because doing that adds to lag and uses up an incredible amount of disk memory in no time. If you did save them for some reason, though, they ought to be in another folder in the same vicinity as the IM logs. Linden Lab saves that same information as well. They use it, for example, in investigating abuse claims. Again, however, they can't possibly store all that information for the thousands of SL residents for very long, because of storage limitations. Even if they let you have access to the information --- a very unlikely if --- there's no way they're going to have logs that are 3 years old.

Good question, Peter. The physical analogy would be a chip on which you can read a voltage or a milliamperage at each pin and feed that information to whatever is hardwired to it. Here, each of the "chips" is an autonomous object of one or more prims -- a black box that takes an input signal and yields an output. You dump that output information as a comma-delimited string to an object's Description field and then let the script that controls the full logic circuit use llGetObjectDetails to read the information and use it as appropriate. No communication channels needed at all, and you can rearrange the "chips" by simply addressing them in a different order in your script. I'm no engineer, but if a chemist can figure out how to do that, it can't be all that hard.

Mister Webwyre wrote: [...] What I'm trying to figure out now, is how to "graphically" illustrate it with (linked?) prims, e.g three prims for an AND gate, the two inputs and the output, and how to show gates connected and their states. I'm wondering if an entire CPU / or circuit would have to be one linkset (is there a limit to how many prims in a linkset ?), or if I can make each logic gate a linkset, and then use chat to communicate between the linksets ? Mike Visit the fourth floor at the College of Scripting, Music & Science at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Horsa/52/221/113 to run through their panels on representation of logic in LSL. It's a short step from there to creating modules that you can use as linked objects in a model. You cannot daisy-chain child links in LSL. As you've already read, we do not have hierarchical linking. However, objects can certainly communicate with each other, so you can daisy-chain separate modules to create a logic board. I have run across several like that in the last few years, but I don't find a current valid LM to recommend at the moment.

All of scripting is just an exercise in logic. If you want to apply it to the problem of creating electronic circuits, that's fine. It's certainly been done enough times, but there's always room for a fresh approach. I'd suggest starting with a few of the basic tutorials at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Tutorial to see how LSL compares to other languages that you may be familiar with. Because it is an event-driven language, you may find that it is better suited to the sort of problem that you have in mind. When you've written something that you want to share or if you run up against problems while you;re writing, feel free to post your work here. Someone will be glad to help.

I wouldn't bother. All Marketplace merchants will be required to give up their Magic Boxes sometime early this summer and move over to the Direct Delivery system. The original date was June 1, but it has been delayed because of bugs in DD. Still, Magic Boxes days are numbered.

Sorry. There's no TOS violation here, so the Lindens won't touch it. You'll just have to be more careful next time.

Oh, don't worry about getting stupid answers from crazy housewives. There aren't any here. Just a bunch of us volunteers, sitting around waiting for rude people to ask perfect strangers for free advice.

It's impossible to answer a question like this. It's like going to your auto repair shop and saying "When I drive my car, I hear a funny noise. What's wrong?" O.....K. So what noise does it make? .......... If your friend wants help in tracking down a problem, she she tell us exactly what error message she has been seeing. Better yet, she should be asking the person who made the collar, or at least the merchant who sold it.

If you cannot use the Lindex for some reason, you may want to buy L$ through a third party exchange. Please be very careful, however. Some exchanges that you can find on the Internet charge extremely high rates and may even be phishing sites that will steal your account information. I would recommend using only third party exchanges that are known to Linden Lab and have been reliable in the past. Here is a list >>> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Archive/Third_Party_Linden_Dollar_Exchanges.

Try turning off shadows, if you have had them enabled. You may also want to turn off Basic Shaders. Both of those features have made some textures turn black for SL residents. If neither of those solutions work -- or even if they do -- you may need to update your graphics card drivers. 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.

That's highly unlikely. Despite its headaches with the recent introduction of Direct Delivery, Linden Lab can't afford to abandon one of the most lucrative arms of its business. Besides, the outcry would be unimaginably fierce. When you hear a rumor like this, the smartest thing to do is look at Linden Lab's own blogs ( http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Blogs/ct-p/Blogs ) to see if they have posted anything related. If not, it's 99% certain to be bogus. On a side note .... I know that Marketplace offers convenience, but please don't ignore in-world shops. It's often much easier to walk around an item, get a feel for how big it is and what it looks like from the other side, try it on for size, or click a button and see how it works. Personally, I would never buy a skin or a shape unless I could see it in world and try on a dozen demos in the shop, and wouldn't consider buying a building unless I could walk through it. (Hehehe... and I have a few buildings for sale in Marketplace. Go figure.). Besides, shopping in world can be an adventure. I always find interesting things in the shop next door.......

Aside from sending a friendly note to Brooke Linden, I don't think there is much you can do. As you pointed out, you are not the potentially aggrieved person, so you cannot file a formal complaint. If Brooke is not the correct person to send a note to, I assume that she will know what to do with it, and you will have done what you can.

You can download libsecondlife from http://swik.net/libsecondlife or libmetaverse from http://www.ohloh.net/p/openmetaverse . Until your note, however, I had never heard of Max/msp. Even after Googling it I don't have a clue about how you might connect it to Second Life. Perhaps people who are active in OpenSim would know where to start.

The easy ( and often correct ) answer is that you are a member of one or more groups that expect their members to share equal proportions of their liabilities (costs of advertizing in Search, for example) and assets (proceeds from land sales, maybe). For most groups, that amounts to a few L$ every couple of weeks. If you do not like having to pay your share, you can either leave the group or send the group owner a note and question the group's policy. (BTW, that's the default for groups, so a group owner has to make a specific decision not to share costs and income.) To be really sure where your L$ are going, of course, you just need to open your dashboard at secondlife.com and navigate to Account >> Transaction History and see who you have been sending money to recently.

It's hard for me to understand exactly what problem you are describing. Take a look at this JIRA, however, and see if it looks like your problem >>> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-4660 . If so, some people have been able to fix the problem by changing the language for their viewer to ENGLISH instead of their own language. If your native language is German, for example, try changing it in Preferences >> General to English. There are other ideas in that JIRA report too. You should maybe add your information to the report -- including information about your own computer --- to help Linden Lab find a solution. If that is not the problem you are having, you can add more information to explain by clicking on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and selecting EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread.

Darn. The simple bake fail issues (+90% of the ones we hear about) are transient things that are little more than annoyances. In this case, it looks like the bake fail is a symptom of something deeper. My bet is still on a connection issue.

Not that you need the information now, but for future reference ....... You have a third option on Blender. If you type S and then hold down the Shift key while you type the letter of an axis (so, for example, Shift +Z), Blender will resize on the other two axes but not the one you named. So, typing S and then Shift+Z lets you resize on the X-Y plane only.

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 has other wierd appearance issues. 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. Sometimes a simple rebake (CTRL + Alt + R ) works, but often it takes more than that. 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.

We are all SL residents here. There are never any Lindens, so we can't do anything but give you advice. So here's the advice, in two parts..... Part One: Here's what to do: Go to the Second LIfe Help page and log in if you can. If you can't access your account, use the Forgot your login information? link on the right to recover your username and reset your password. Then log in. On the Second LIfe Help page page, click the Contact Support link on the right. On the next page, click Submit a a Support Case form. Under What type of problem are you having?, select Account Issue. A second dropdown appears. Under Account Issue, select I believe my account has been compromised. Fill in the rest of the fields as directed. Click Submit. Check your email for your case number. Call our fraud number: 800-860-6990. Once you do this, Linden Lab will place your account on hold and investigate the relevant transactions. This may take a few days. Once we have concluded the investigation, we'll send you an email explaining our conclusion and the action we will take. Note that all transactions involving Linden dollars are subject to Linden Lab's Terms of Service. Part Two: NEVER give anyone your account information. It is almost impossible for anyone to get your password and account information unless you give it to them. Yes, there are phishing sites that occasionally trap unsuspecting people, but almost all account "hacking" happens simply because people are not careful about keeping personal information private. One final bit of advice .... Unless you really like receiving spam e-mail, remove your e-mail address from this public forum.

When your viewer crashes on VFS the problem is that you have a corrupted inventory cache on your own computer. This can happen for any number of reasons, but often because you had a flaky Internet connection at some point when you were adding things to or removing things from inventory. Your locally cached copy got out of sync with SL's servers, and now they are having trouble talking with each other. Deleting your local cached inventory should solve the problem. The following instructions are written for Firestorm users, but they apply to any viewer. Just change the filenames in obvious ways ..... Locate your cache folder. You will probably need to do this manually, if you are unable to log in. Use a file manager (like Windows Explorer for Windows system, Dolphin, or some such) to locate the cache folder. In its default location, the cache folder is hidden on most OSs. To find it, you will need to show hidden folders. Default cache locations are: Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[uSERNAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Firestorm Windows Vista: C:\Users\[uSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm Windows 7: C:\Users\[uSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm Mac: ~/Library/Caches/Firestorm linux: ~/.firestorm/cache In this folder, locate the files named data.db2.x.* and index.db2.x.* (where * is a digit: 0, 1, 2, etc; you may have more than one of each type of file) Delete all files that match these two names. Log back into SL, to a quiet region (try Hippo Hollow, Aich or Hatton). Allow your inventory to repopulate fully. If the above fails, then try doing a full wipe of all settings.

It isn't particularly obvious how to do it until you play with the math for a little bit. Here's a wind vane that works and should be easy enough to adapt for your use. At least it's something to play with ... :smileywink: default{ state_entry() { llSetTimerEvent(1.0); } timer() { vector wind = llWind(ZERO_VECTOR); llSetRot(llEuler2Rot(<0.0, 0.0, llAtan2(wind.y, wind.x)>)); }}

Peter's right. This sort of problem may be tackled more easily with keyframed motion. Take a look at this lengthy thread in which the OP was trying to create a vehicle (a follower, in her case) that would track properly and move smoothly around corners >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/LSL-Scripting/Trying-to-make-an-object-follower/td-p/1354695

Each of those problems sounds like a communication lapse between your computer and SL's servers. Changes to your appearance are all made on your own computer, where they are baked into a single composite image and uploaded to the servers. The inventory that you access in your viewer is a locally cached copy of the original that is in the servers, and is updated on your computer whenever you add or delete items. Teleporting involves transferring information about your avatar from one set of servers to another, again with a lot of communication between the servers and your own computer. The weakest link is often your router, which may simply need to be rebooted. Just unplug it from the power for a few minutes to clear its RAM and get a fresh grasp on an IP address. If you have been using wireless, get off it. Wireless is susceptible to all manner of interference and bandwidth loss, and is a common source of problems for SL residents. To rebuild local cache that may have been corrupted by flaky communication, go to Preferences >> Network and click the Clear Cache button. Then log in to a quiet sim like Smith or Aqua and type a single letter in the Search field of your Inventory to jump start the rebuilding process. Don't do ANYTHING until it is finished. Finally, in the year or more since you last logged in, there have been several major upgrades to each of the popular viewers and to SL's servers. Unless you have also upgraded your own computer, it may be less compatible with SL than it used to be, so you may have difficulty with some actions that used to be easy. You may need to revisit your Preferences settings, lowering draw distance or your quality slider and making other adjustments.

Don't bother with trying to earn money for now. There are more important things to do, like learning how to get around. Besides, there are so many free things in SL that you don't really need much money anyway. As others have said, most of us bring money in world from RL. Save your lunch money today, and bring it in world next time. You'll be amazed at what you can buy for the price of a burger and fries.

Well, we might be able to offer some help or advice if you had told us what the "problem with the land" is. Sadly, however, you didn't. If you'd like to add that information now, click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread. BTW, Lindens never come here. This is a Resident-to-Resident forum.