Lindal Kidd

What you'd have to do is find, or make, a walk animation that includes the "hold the blazer over the shoulder" arm positions. Animations can be made in Poser or other animation programs and uploaded to SL. For details, see this page: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-create-animations/ta-p/700027 Once you have the animation, you can easily add it to an AO. If you use the Firestorm viewer, the viewer has a built-in AO. If you don't use Firestorm, you can get a free copy of the popular Zhao II AO, or any of several variants. These can be loaded with walk, stand, sit and other animations. An AO consists of four things: The HUD object itself, the AO script, a configuration notecard that tells the script what animations to use for which activities, and the animations. You just drop the animations you want to use into the content tab of the AO, then fill out the configuration notecard. This must be done carefully, because the script is very picky about syntax, spaces, and names.

Besides contracting for a custom shape, you can buy pre-made shapes. Be careful, though...most of them are No Modify, and that's not good if you want to tweak it or adjust the Hover setting to get your feet on the ground.

Me/Preferences/Graphics. Click the Advanced button and move the draw distance slider. Increasing your draw distance will affect your performance, so if your frame rate goes lower than you like, decrease it a bit until you have an acceptable compromise.

We all wish the old system of first name/surname would be restored. Unfortunately, Linden Lab messed it up good when they gave us Display Names, and they are unlikely to change it back. I have campaigned for years for a system with confidential user names as well as passwords. As it is, your password is your ONLY security measure for your account. So guard it carefully. Because both usernames and Display Names can be seen, depending on the onlooker's preferences, name confusion abounds. Plus, I've seen some very humorous attempts at name changes, like a female avatar named, say, "Marilyn Monroe (Bobby1234 Resident)." The lesson here is, choose your username with care when you first create your account. It's the one thing about your avatar that you can't change! Make it pronounceable, don't use profanity, and make it reflect something about how you want to be seen by others in Second Life. I've also suggested ways in which LL could implement a first name/last name Display Name system that would allow limited name changes for a fee (for example, changing your last name to your partner's, or correcting a stupid inital name choice.) It would cut down on the confusion of everyone changing their Display Name on a weekly basis. There's no indication that they think it's a wonderful idea, darn it.

You can also buy MORE land than 512 square meters. You will pay a monthly tier fee on land in excess of 512, but you get more prims to play with too.

How did you put them on? If you used the Edit menu and applied a texture directly to a wall or floor prim face, it should not flicker. If you made a thin "wallpaper" prim and then placed it next to the wall or the floor, if it is exactly on the face of the other prim you can get "texture fighting", a sort of zigzag pattern that changes as you move your camera around. The solution here is to move the wallpaper or rug prim just a tiny bit away from the underlying prim.

SL was having problems earlier today. That may be the cause. They say they are fixed now...try again.

Lumiya is a GREAT viewer for the limited capabilities of a smartphone or tablet...much better than the text-only option of Pocket Metaverse for the iPhone/iPad. It's been recently updated with much nicer graphics, if your device is up to the challenge. However, it is not yet a full featured viewer. You can't build, you can't do many group operations. To fully experience SL, you still need a real computer and a good graphics card.

Be sure and follow Nyll's FIRST piece of advice and edit your post to remove your email. This is an open forum, and posting sensitive information is hazardous to your online health. Then follow the rest of her advice to report your compromised account.

Follow the steps here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Account_Security Next time, don't give ANYONE your password. Not your boss, not your friend, not your own mother.

Rolig and Theresa are both correct! You can get a free Linden Home with your Premium account. But if you don't want that, you can find land for sale elsewhere on the Mainland. Use the Map as Theresa suggests, or use Search and the Land and Rentals tab, to find parcels for sale. You have to buy the land, it's not free...but it does not have to be expensive either. Much of the available land on the Mainland is for sale for $L1 per square meter or even less. Once you buy some land, your Premium benefit will become useful. You don't have to pay monthly tier fees on the first 512 square meters of land you own. So, if all you buy is a 512 m2 parcel, there will be no further charges. You can also, if you wish, buy MORE land. In this case you will pay a monthly fee. How much depends on how much mainland you own. See the Buy Land menu/ Land Use Fees link for details.

I have no idea exactly what's going on, and you've tried a lot of things already. Here are a couple more: 1. Have you tried accessing SL with a different computer? 2. Have you tried accessing SL from a different location? 3. If you have recently updated your graphics drivers, you might try uninstalling and going back to an earlier version.

See this web page for informaton on a chat bot called ALICE. Possibly it can be adapted to Korean. http://www.alicebot.org/about.html

@TIMONLINE, That particular error message is not a password problem, it appears when there is a connectivity issue.

one possible way...if you dropped the AO in world, it will ask permission to animate you. If that's the case, find it and take it back into inventory.

LOL!!! Ehhhhh...what's up, Doc?

Wow, that's a lot of questions in one post! 1. Your profile is not filled out automatically. Take a snapshot, save it to your inventory (costs $L10). Then drag it from your inventory to the picture area of your Profile. If you can't take a pretty picture, there are lots of photographers in SL who will create one for you at a reasonable fee. 2. You have lots of starter equipment, including all the starter avatars and some not shown in that "circle" when you initially chose one. Everything you own is in your Inventory, the button like a suitcase. All your "starter" stuff is in the Library folder in your Inventory. Find the avatars by looking in Library/Clothing/Initial Outfits. The Library section is "read only"....you can use the stuff there, but you can't delete it or add to it. Everything else is in the other main folder, "Inventory". 3. Second Life is free to play, unless you choose to upgrade to a Premium membership to own mainland and take advantage of the other Premium benefits. However, everything on the Marketplace and in the in world stores was created by other Residents, not Linden Lab. Most of these creators would like to be paid for their efforts. Even so, there are lots of freebies, both in world AND in the Marketplace. Just do a filter by price, then sort low to high. Then weed out all the "demo" items to find the actual, usable freebies. To find freebies in world, do a Places search on "freebies". Join the group "Fabulously Free in SL" to get notices of new freebies as others discover them!

File a support ticket and ask for a "region rollback".

The Masocado Resort has one vacant liveaboard yacht slip. It is next door to the Resort condo tower and close to all the amenities. The slip will accommodate craft up to about 35 meters in length. The Resort borders open Linden Ocean, with direct access to the Blake Sea sailing sims. It's a perfect spot to tie up your driveable floating home! The rental box is currently set to $L3,695 per calendar month (not four weeks like most rentals!) and 500 prims. However, the price and prim allowance are negotiable. If interested, please contact me via IM in world. Do NOT pay the rental box prior to discussing your proposed boat/home, size and prim requirements! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Masocado/188/153/22

The Masocado Resort has one vacant liveaboard yacht slip. It is next door to the Resort condo tower and close to all the amenities. The slip will accommodate craft up to about 35 meters in length. The Resort borders open Linden Ocean, with direct access to the Blake Sea sailing sims. It's a perfect spot to tie up your driveable floating home! The rental box is currently set to $L3,695 per calendar month (not four weeks like most rentals!) and 500 prims. However, the price and prim allowance are negotiable. If interested, please contact me via IM in world. Do NOT pay the rental box prior to discussing your proposed boat/home, size and prim requirements! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Masocado/188/153/22

If she is under 18 she can only go to General regions.

You don't have to give any warning at all. Although, IMO, orbs that are set to shoot planes out of the sky with no warning are rude as can be, they are not in any way against the TOS. I recommend that explorers get the Ban Line HUD or a similar navigation aid. It will show you rez areas, full parcels, void edges and ban lines. You can avoid general ban lines by keeping above 100m. Security orbs are another matter, but they can mostly be avoided by staying over the open Linden Ocean regions.

Since you've used different computers, and in different locations, and different viewers, the only common points I can think of are 1) your internet service provider, and 2) your network router and/or internet DSL or cable modem. Try swapping out one or the other. Change ISPs, or get a different router and/or modem.

A classroom is a useful thing. You can probably arrange to borrow or rent a classroom from some of the other educational organizations already in SL. Try contacting my friend kelley Griffith who runs GQ Start, she may let you use their classroom. There's a list of some schools (for SL topics) here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/List_of_Second_Life_Skills_Training_Schools There are a couple of aids that help in teaching. One is a HUD you wear. You can put your "lecture notes" into it in a notecard, and then click the HUD to "speak" them one line at a time. (If you use voice, of course, this doesn't apply.) The other is a presentation display. You can load textures, for example PowerPoint slides saved as bitmap images, into it, and present a "slideshow". But you don't HAVE to have any of this. A classroom is "a log with a pupil on one end and a teacher on the other." Assemble your class in some quiet out of the way place and go to it. For some of the advantages and pitfalls of teaching in SL, see my blog post, "Second Life for Educators".

The money shown in your account on the Beta grid is "play" money. You can use it for uploading textures and other things to the Beta grid for testing, but it has no meaning in terms of your actual $L account with Linden Lab.