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  1. Rolig Loon
    No, it doesn't. Why not stay with Firestorm, if it was working for you?
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    You could just have the bad luck to be standing in a laggy sim, but it could also be incomplete baking. 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 file. Either way, your av's appearance can fail to rez completely, resulting in anything from a fluffy cloud to a blurry or poorly textured body. 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 possibilitites 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.
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    If voice is turned off at the Estate level, you can't turn it on for a parcel in the estate. If it's off at the parcel level but on for the estate as a whole, voice will work just fine in other parcels. It's more probable that your tenant is having problems in her own client. Advise her to lower her Preferences >> Graphics >> Maximum Bandwidth slider to something like 500. If voice works better, then she can try raising it a little bit at a time, but not higher than about 1,500. The problem is that if SL is using 100% of your available bandwidth for handling geometry, textures, and movement, there's nothing left for Voice and streaming audio/video. Lowering Maximum Bandwidth will increase her lag a little, but will potentially improve voice and parcel media.
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    So long as you do it in world, yes. If you do it in Marketplace, your alt will have to own one of them.
  5. Rolig Loon
    Check the Library >>> Objects folder in your inventory. I can't get in world at the moment to check, but I seem to remember that there's a full-perm Linden-built device in there for setting your parcel media. I don't know whether that one also displays the current selection title in chat, but you can do that for yourself as a standard option in Firestorm and some other viewers.
  6. Rolig Loon
    Storm Clarence wrote: I think she registered, but has not logged with a viewer. I think you're right. :smileywink:
  7. Rolig Loon
    Your #1 involves using different skins for the UI. You can create your own now if you are sufficiently skilled. Some viewers (Firestorm comes to mind) already have a selection of alternative skins to choose from. Firestorm also offers you the opportunity to customize the appearance of the selection beam or -- thank goodness -- get rid of the annoying thing entirely. Their built-in radar also gives you the option of getting an alert when anyone enters chat range, draw distance, or the region.
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    Sarah Rufus wrote: [...] I think the problem comes from that error message I getERROR:404 b: <html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head> <body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff> <h1>Error: Not Found</h1> <h2>The requested URL <code>/lookup/</code> was not found on this server.</h2> <h2></h2> </body></html> [...] That's unlikely. I don't know where you are seeing that error message, but not from inside SL. You're looking at something that's on your browser. As Venus says, it's a common baking problem. Start with the simple things at the top of the list at http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=fs_bake_fail and work down until you find what works for you today.
  9. Rolig Loon
    It sounds like you have a couple of other more important problems to solve before you go trolling for a BF. If you can't see yourself, what do you see? A white, fluffy cloud, perhaps? If so, take a good look at http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=fs_bake_fail . Start at the top of the list and try things in order until you find the one that cures your cloudiness. If you only see "lots of writing" and nothing else at all (no land, no trees, no sky, no other people....), you may be using a text-only viewer. That's a heck of a way to try experiencing SL. If you are on a real computer (not your mobile phone), download a standard viewer from https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/?lang=en-US and install it. Finally, if you are having trouble figuring out how SL works, see http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Second-Life-Quickstart/ta-p/1087919 . Once you get those things out of the way, then go looking for a BF.
  10. Rolig Loon
    (1) Delete his name from your post here before you get in trouble for violating the Community Standards. (2) If you believe that this person has violated LL's TOS, file an Abuse Report, including as much documented evidence as you can to help LL make a determination. If there has been a TOS violation, LL's will deal with it, but will not tell you the outcome. If they determine that there has not been a TOS violation but that it is a resident-to-resident dispute, they will not intervene. (3) Do NOT retaliate in any way. A smart griefer will file an Abuse Report against you, and you may be banned instead of him. (4) Walk away. SL is a big place, and there's no reason why you need to stay where you are not comfortable.
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    That all depends on how the merchant designed it. There are many different ways to make gift certificates. I'd hate to give you the wrong ones. There should be a notecard or some other instruction that came with yours. If there wasn't, send the merchant an IM and ask, or just visit his/her in-world shop and look for a poster that will explain it.
  12. Rolig Loon
    (1) Everything you will ever want to know about the Minimap is at >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/World-Map-and-Mini-Map/ta-p/700163 . Read and enjoy. :smileyhappy: (2) Your clothes are glowing? That's very unusual. If they are prim clothes and if you have mod permission, use your Build Edit tool (CTRL + 3), go to the Texture page, and be sure that Glow and FullBright are both UNchecked. If they are not prim clothes, I don't see how they can possibly be glowing. Maybe it would be a good idea to add to your question by clicking on the Options link in its upper right corner, selecting EDIT, and including a photo. (That's what the tiny icon that looks like a tree does.) (3) Parcel media, the function that controls streaming audio, sets a URL for the entire parcel. Anyone who has streaming music turned on hears the same thing. See >> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Parcel-media/ta-p/700097 , particularly Torley's cool video.
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    There is absolutely no way to tell. It's one of the great metaphysical questions in SL .... good for hours of meaningless conversation. If I were you, I would either (1) make up a number or (2) relax and forget about it. After all, what difference does it make?
  14. Rolig Loon
    You'll have to call the LL billing office and speak directly with a real person. The billing team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Toll-Free (US/Canada) 800.294.1067 Long-Distance 703.286.6277 Local Toll-Free numbers * 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 * Support is in English Only
  15. Rolig Loon
    Well, the first move is to get a different computer. If your laptop defaults to Low graphics in SL, that's telling you that it really can't do anything very fancy. My guess is that it has a graphics card that was designed for web browsing and normal office applications, not for gaming use. It may even be running on an in-board graphics chip instead of a separate graphics card. Torley's video gives you most of the obvious tips for maximixing performance, so there's not much to add. You'll be able to maximize FPS and texture rezzing time by reducing your draw distance drastically, to 64m or less. That's the single most important thing to do. After that .... Turn off antialiasing. Do not even think about shadows. Avoid using wireless. And don't expect miracles.
  16. Rolig Loon
    Try typing CTRL + R. That's a toggle to turn always running on or off. Unfortunately, it's very easy to type by mistake when you are trying to rebake your avatar to cure a cloudy appearance (Rebake is CTRL + Alt + R).
  17. Rolig Loon
    This can happen sometimes if other people are allowed to rez objects on the parcel, and if their objects force the parcel to go past its allowed prim limit. Normally, they should get a message that says "Failed to rez object because parcel is full." Sometimes, however, the object rezzes and that forces some other object to be returned to its owner. If multiple objects are returned that way, they will appear in Lost & Found as a single coaleseced object rather than as separate items.
  18. Rolig Loon
    You can't use more than 100% of your prim allowance on your land. Time to prioritize. Start taking objects back to inventory to make room for ones you'd rather have out.
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    That dialog is a fairly innocuous message, in itself, although any command could be used for less than honorable purposes. Whenever a script is designed to change the position or focus of your camera, it has to ask your permission to do it. Most of the time, you don't actually get a permission request, because your permission is granted implicitly if you are wearing or sitting on the object. If you rezzed that same object on the ground and activated it, though, a dialog box would show up. So, what does PERMISSION_TRACK_CAMERA do? All it does, if granted, is allow the object to know where your camera position is at the moment (not what it's looking at, just where it is). A script might want to know that, for example, if it was supposed to keep a hovering toy (a pet dragon, maybe?) at that spot. I can't guess what your newly-discovered object might have been designed to do.
  20. Rolig Loon
    Charolotte Caxton wrote: I went through and unfollowed all of my friends. Tedious, yes. Better way? How bout the default be I am following no one and I get to choose whom I follow. Friends is a cute way of saying contacts, I do not wish to follow all my contacts. I do wish to follow artists and content creators, but because I don't want the embarrassment of having to ask them, complete strangers to me, to be my friend, following them is a good solution, that way, I have them on a sort of list so I can see when they make new stuff without the psychological burden of having to be their friends. I agree, Charolotte. I just had to manually UNfollow 253 people. What a nuisance. The default should be Do Not Follow. My "friends" list includes business contacts, newbies that I greeted once at a help area but never saw again, and real friends (many of whom would be annoyed if I started "following" them). I can't think of even one of them that I want to follow, and it should be my choice to make that decision. I really want a way to UNdo the list of people who are following me now. We are getting a regular stream of people posting to the Answers forum, asking how to get rid of followers, too. All I can do is sympathize.
  21. Rolig Loon
    That all depends on how many other people have also paid for the same level of ads. The only way to find out is to experiment, as you are, and see how long it takes. I have never felt like spending the money myself, but I'd be interested in knowing the answer too. :smileywink:
  22. Rolig Loon
    My profile is my profile. I didn't enter SL with the expectation that it was going to be some sort of facebook lookalike. The profile is my opportunity to let people see who I am. That's it. I don't care to have anyone else mucking around in it, and no, I don't want to see any of my friends' posts.
  23. Rolig Loon
    Maybe (1) The places you want to go don't exist or are at least off line at the moment (2) The places are too full and can't take any more TPs, (3) You are not a member of the group that owns the land, and access is restricted. (4) You are underage, and tryng to enter Moderate or Adult land. (5) You have been banned from that land. (6) You have a firewall that is blocking TCP port 12043. (7) You just have bad luck.
  24. Rolig Loon
    We're going to be seeing that message a lot more frequently in the weeks ahead. That's coming from the Google Translate API, which is the basis for the automatic translation system that is built in to most of the current SL viewers. As you may be aware, Google announced last May that they would be discontinuing free access to their API on December 1, making it only available as a service to clients willing to pay a hefty fee. It's way too expensive for LL to keep using it. After December 1, therefore, our translators (and the common translation HUDs in world, like Simbolic and Universal), will no longer work. In fact, as that date appoaches, the translator is already kicking up error messages under some circumstances. That's what you are seeing.
  25. Rolig Loon
    I have been selling women's clothing in SL and in Marketplace for four years, catering largely to a clientele that I think of as somewhere between "business casual" and "everyday." (I also sell a limited line of nightgowns that are, again, not intended to flaunt sexuality but to help you look your best at the end of the day.) I hope to appeal to women who want to appear feminine but not shout their sexuality -- women who are looking for clothes that they would not be ashamed to wear in RL. That's a tough market to define. I have experimented with styles and with ways to display and describe my creations, following a few self-imposed guidelines: (1) I create clothing that I would want to wear myself. If it doesn't look good on me or if I would feel uncomfortable being seen in it, I won't sell it. I'm not really concerned about a niche. SL is a big place, and I'm confident that there are plenty of women out there who share my sense of what looks good. (2) I sell only designs that are my own. No purchased templates, no copies of RL designs. I will use selected textures and sculpty components that I buy from reputable designers in SL, but I prefer to create my own textures and sculpties. I will not use textures from unknown sources on the Internet. (3) I produce new designs when I feel like it, not on demand and not on any schedule. I don't want to be pressuring myself to create "this week's new dress" just because it's this week. To many shops are selling designs that were obviously created simply to have something new on the wall every time a customer walks in. I create when I have something to create. (4) I have tried to be sensitive to what my clothing looks like when it is actually being worn, not just when you are standing still for a photo. It's important to me that a skirt should flow well as you walk and should not fly away as you dance. I watch what happens as a design deforms when I move my arms or twist at the waist. (This is really tough, and I don't always succeed, but at least I try.) (5) I sell all clothing with copy/mod perms and without resize/recolor scripts. I want a client to feel free to adjust her clothes to fit her own body and her own taste. (6) I use myself as the model in all photos, and I try to maintain a constant format in them. That's partly so that the shop conveys a sense of a consistent "brand" but mostly because I think it helps a client to see how my different designs might look on the same person. For the last two years, my photos have all shown me wearing clothing in representative SL settings where you might expect to wear the clothing yourself -- while shopping, dancing, walking through a garden .... (7) Finally -- this is really just me -- I don't sell my creations because I want to make L$. Yes, this is a business and I need to meet expenses. Personally, though, I am selling clothing because I enjoy making it and I want to share it with people who have tastes like mine.
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