Lindal Kidd

As Rolig says, this date isn't recorded by the system. Her idea of "picking" an anniversary makes sense, if you can't figure it out any other way. I actually managed to remember to add the date into my profile, when I partnered. I'm so bad about birthdays and anniversarys, if I don't do this I will never remember them. I also put important dates and other facts associated with friends (and sometimes, enemies) in the Notes tab of their profile. Only you see this section.

Generally speaking , no. Smart TVs come with links to media sites like Netflix, not MMORPGs like Second Life. If your smart TV is being used as a computer monitor, then yes, you can use it as a monitor to display SL.

Or if you mean, you WANT to be animated, but your avatar is not doing the animation, then... ...if you are using Firestorm, cycle the Movelock on and off (or simply turn it off, if it is on.) CTRL+ALT+P ...make sure the poseball or piece of furniture you want to use is not set to owner only, if you are not the owner. If it is set to Group, make sure you are wearing the appropriate Group tag. ...check to be sure you aren't wearing something else that will interfere with the animation. This might be your AO, or it could be shoes or something else that contains an animation. ...check your notifications to see if the item sent you an animation offer, and you just forgot to accept it.

You are seeing "system hair." You cannot actually take off system hair, it is one of the "essential four" items that define a minimum avatar, along with eyes, shape, and skin. You can't remove any of these, but you CAN replace them with another item of the same type. But there are two ways to solve your problem. 1. Wear a different system hair, with its Appearance sliders set to zero to give you the appearance of a bald head. You will find such items in your inventory with titles like "bald head," "baldy," "bald cap," or "eyebrow shaper." Baldies are also usually sold with any hair you buy. 2. Edit the system hair you are wearing by going into Appearance/Edit my Outfit, and selecting the item in your outfit. Set all the sliders to zero and save it.

Make sure that you and your partner, and ONLY you and your partner, are in group roles that have the "pay group liabilities and receive group dividends" ability checked.

Nope. For example, if someone labels their venue "Club Bestiality" and advertises animal sex, and then stands there with her friends and laughs at and belittles everyone who shows up...well, in Second Life, the motto is "Caveat emptor" (let the buyer beware) even more than in Real Life. An exception to this is if the "bashing" is against a "protected class"...that is, insulting or making fun of people because of their race, religion, age, physical disabilities, or sexual orientation.

There's a known bug in 3.7.20 that is affecting some people. Your report is a bit different from most, though. Most people with this problem get to "initializing VFS" before the viewer crashes. In any case, you may want to see here for more on this bug and how to deal with it: http://blog.nalates.net/2014/11/11/second-life-main-viewer-failing/

Would an ordinary cube work? I should think you'd need to drop a sculpted prim in there.

See here for a description of the problem and what you can do about it, including getting the viewer to stop installing "mandatory" updates. http://blog.nalates.net/2014/11/11/second-life-main-viewer-failing/

Five. For more information, see here: https://secondlife.com/my/community/events/tos.php?nextpage=%2Fmy%2Fcommunity%2Fevents%2Fedit.php%3Flang%3Den-US

As Rolig says, use your SECOND LIFE password, NOT the password for your email account.

OMG, don't do it! As Rolig says, this would reveal a LOT of Real Life personal information, which is against the Second Life Terms of Service. But that's the least of your worries...I'd be concerned about a huge lawsuit. You might want to consider moving your educational region out of Second Life entirely and onto a virtual world of your own making. The free OpenSim software can create a region very like a Second Life one right on your own PC (more than one region, even, if your computer can handle the load.) These regions can be accessed by anyone with an OpenSim compatible viewer (most SL third party viewers will work) and the correct address. One benefit of creating your own private world is that it's FREE. You will, however, need to have a computer geek handy to set it up and keep it running. See here for more information: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page The official page for OpenSim http://iliveisl.com/ A blog by Ener Hax, an enthusiastic user of OpenSim for educational purposes. Oh...one other downside. The enormous variety of content that's available in SL won't be available. You can download a lot of free content from the websites of other OpenSim users, or get free copies of people's creations on other OpenSim powered grids, e.g. OSGrid. But you will want to have lots of creative people around, in addition to your tame computer geek, to build stuff for your regions, clothing for your student avatars, and so on.

Bandwidth issues or software conflicts is my guess. My best advice is, "don't use Skype and SL voice at the same time."

This can be complicated, frustrating, and maybe even impossible, depending on your belly chain item. If it's Modify: Right click and select Edit Use the colored position arrows to reposition it. If it needs to be rotated, hold CTRL and use the colored rings to rotate it. If it needs to be re-sized, hold down the CTRL+SHIFT keys and drag a white corner handle to re-size it. If you can't get a good fit in this way, you're going to have to do it prim-by-prim. Check the Edit Linked box in the Edit window. Select a prim. Move it into position Repeat until all the prims have been repositioned This can be tedious, frustrating, and horribly subject to slips of the mouse. Make a safety copy of the item before editing!!! If it has a re-sizing menu: Click the item to open the menu Select All Prims Re-size as needed. You can use the position and rotation controls as described above If you need to edit this type of item prim by prim it may be VERY tedious. Click on a prim in the chain, select This Prim from the blue menu Use the menu choices to re-position the prim Repeat until done or until you give up in disgust Do this while on a pose stand. But remember, when your avatar moves, the item may not move exactly as you'd like, because it's attached to a certain attachment point on your avatar. Your fit may need to be a compromise to get the best results in any body position.

It could be a land setting. Try this: Stand outside your Linden Home, several meters away, and offer a teleport to your friend. When they arrive, both of you walk toward your home. Ask your friend if she sees yellow "ban lines" appear and prevent her from entering. If she does see ban lines, go inside your home. Click World/Parcel Details to open the About Land window. Look in Access, and change the setting to "Allow Public Access" Invite your friend in for tea. If you want to invite ONLY your friend, but keep the milkman and the neighbors out of your house, keep "Allow Public Access" unchecked, but add your friend's name to the Allowed list instead.

I see right there on the ad that the creator tells you that you need to understand about many of the more arcane aspects of Second Life and how clothing and attachments work. Smart creator! Avatar appearance has, over the years, become a minefield for the new resident. Here is an explanation of some basic concepts. The most basic part of your appearance is your shape. This defines your height, weight, body and facial proportions, using the Appearance sliders. But these sliders only affect the "standard" or "classic" avatar body, which has some limitations. For example, at high settings, breasts and buttocks begin to look "blocky" instead of smoothly rounded. The classic avatar body can also be textured with several layers. These are bitmapped images that are painted onto the avatar. From the inside out, these layers are: Alpha (a layer used to hide part or all of the avatar body to keep it from showing through attachments) Eyes Skin Hairbase and shoe base Tattoo layer Undershirt and underpants Stockings and gloves Shirt and pants Jacket Skirt (this layer is great for certain styles of skirt, but does not do skin tight miniskirts or any full or flared skirt well) There is also another, invisible clothing layer called "physics." This layer controls the bounce and jiggle of your body. The most important thing to understand about these texture layers is that they affect ONLY the classic avatar body. They do not affect any type of attachments. One other fine point about your standard body: There are four things that MUST be worn at all times. They define the "minimum" avatar. You can't take them off, you can only replace them with another item of the same type. These "essential four" are shape, skin, eyes, and hair base. You can only ever wear one of each. All the other clothing layers you can take off entirely, or wear multiple things by using the "Add" command instead of "Wear." Attachments. You have thirty-some attachment points, to parts of your body and also on your screen, for attaching HUDs. Attachments like jewelry are easy to understand. But there are many, many others. Most hair is an attachment, worn over a "bald head" hairbase. Most shoes are attachments, worn with a shoe base to distort the foot to fit, and an alpha mask to hide parts of the foot that would otherwise spoil the look. Parts of clothes that stick out away from the body are attachments, like cuffs, flared skirts, poofy jackets, and collars. Attachments may be made of ordinary prims, sculpted prims, or mesh. The latest craze in SL is mesh, and most new clothing coming out is either entirely or mostly mesh. Strictly speaking, EVERYTHING in Second Life is a mesh, but when we say "mesh" we generally mean something that was made in an external 3D modeling program like Blender, not with the in-world building tools. "Rigged" mesh clothing is affected by your avatar's "bones". It's designed to bend and move with your avatar...but it cannot be re-sized, and therefore usually comes with several sizes so you can choose the best fit. "Fitted" mesh has the added feature that it will adjust to your individual shape. You don't need to worry about what size you wear with Fitted mesh. The thing about attachments that you have to understand is that they are "phantom." Both your own body, and other people's bodies, will pass through them. Put on a mesh dress, and you'll probably see parts of yourself sticking through. So, those parts are hidden by wearing an alpha mask clothing layer. So now at last we come to mesh body parts. You can get mesh replacements for everything...hands, feet, head, breasts, and buttocks. You can get a complete mesh body (some with head, hands, and feet and some without.) In order to match up with your standard avatar body, these attachments require several things. Your shape must be what the attachment was designed for. My SLink mesh hands wouldn't match up with my wrists until I changed to one of the Standard Mesh Sizing avatar shapes. You have to match the skin tone. Most major skin makers also sell "appliers" for the most popular mesh body attachments. An applier is just a little HUD that you wear temporarily. It's used to..well, apply...the appropriate bitmap to the mesh attachment. Clothing makers sell outfits with appliers too, so the right clothing texture can be painted onto your mesh parts. If your skin maker doesn't sell an applier for your body part, there are also controls in the body part's HUD to manually match the skin you have on. This requires some cut-and-try though. An important point! Mesh body parts that are new on the market can make shopping for clothes difficult. You may find very few outfits that have appliers for your new mesh bum. You must remember to wear the alpha layer. Depending on your shape, and your outfit, you may use a different alpha to get the best blend with your avatar body. The HUD pictures included with your derriere seem to offer controls for this. Good luck, and tread carefully in the minefield of Second Life fashion!

You can also simply right click the mesh attachment and select Detach. You'll also want to take off the alpha mask that is usually worn with mesh items, so part of you won't be invisible.

To add to Rolig's advice... If you can't log in with your regular computer, go over to a friend's house and borrow theirs. Install a viewer and log in as usual. Abandon your land, then downgrade your account to Basic. But, couldn't you just replace your broken video card? While it's great to run SL on the latest $1,000 graphics powerhouse, you can get a very nice card for SL for well under $200.

First of all, I can't understand why anyone would package a garden lamp in a rezzer box. Those are only needed if a build can't be joined into a single linkset. But it sounds as if the rezzer is improperly packed. You should contact the seller for assistance.

I would go with either Option 2 or Option 3. Both of them feature the excellent GeForce 750Ti graphics card. Option 1 uses integrated Intel graphics, which is not something I recommend for Second Life.

Your avatar may have gotten corrupted. First, log in to an empty water region like Pooley or Heckendorf and see if you can right click yourself and either select Detach/All, or go to Inventory/Library/Clothing and drag one of the avatar folders there onto yourself to replace your entire outfit. If that fixes the problem, then put on your regular appearance items one at a time, watching to see if any of them causes the problem to recur. If you can't do the above due to instability, or it does not work, try manually clearing your cache. Here's a link on how to do that. http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_cache_clear Also have a look here: http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/current_outfit_folder_corruption

I hold Nalates in awe for her knowledge of Second Life, but this time I have to respectfully disagree with her. MANY people, not just "power users" prefer one of the third party viewers. In addition, I feel that the Release Candidate or Project viewers are more likely to have issues than the TPVs. Try this one: http://www.firestormviewer.org/ They have an extensive web site with tutorials and troubleshooting advice, an active in world support group, and classes in how to maximize your use of the viewer.

Have you changed your maturity preferences? You do that in three places: Me/Preferences, General tab; the in world Search window; and on the Marketplace here on the website. If the option to access Moderate or Adult content is grayed out, and you are 18 or older, file a Support ticket with Linden Lab, using the Help/Support/Create Case link at the top right of this web page. You might include the problem with your payment info not showing, too.

I'll add my advice to the others. Special symbols in names are AWFUL. You can't pronounce them, you can't remember them, and most people can't type them back to you. Stick with the alphabet, please. And a few numbers, if you really must.

This is a problem I've not heard of before. Are you sure you mean that the ***IM*** function only works when you are close by, or are you using Nearby Chat? Either way, you should file a Support Case with Linden Lab. Use the Help/Support/Create Case links in the upper right of this web page.