Lindal Kidd

SL does not run on Netbooks. You need a real computer.

Work your way through this page: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Using-voice-chat/ta-p/700169

The submit button is very small. Look carefully!

If you are running the add-on "Ad-Aware" in Firefox, disable it.

There are several lycanthrope avatars in your starter inventory. Find them, as well as normal human avatars, like this: 1. Open your inventory, with the button bearing a suitcase symbol 2. Find the folder Library/Clothing/Initial Outfits. Each sub-folder is a complete avatar. Change into it by dragging the folder onto your avatar, or right click it and choose Replace Outfit.

You can turn off the typing animation just like you did in Phoenix. Avatar/Preferences/Chat, uncheck the "play typing animation while chatting" box.

We can't help you here, we are just residents like you. Call Billing at one of the numbers below. US/Canada: 800-294-1067 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 Brazil: 0800-762-1132 Long distance ( not free, but you can use Skype to save some cost ) : 703-286-6277 **Note: Support is offered only in English

There are G,M, and A check boxes in Search, too.

First of all, Joe, there are no Lindens here. We are just residents like yourself, and we can't change anybody's profile. But even if you WERE speaking with LL, they would not do what you are asking. You could file an Abuse Report and claim harrassment, but really, having someone's name in your profile as a friend, lover, or even saying that they are your partner hardly qualifies as "harrassment". I don't think anything would be done about it. If I were you, I would just Block her and forget about her. Tell your friends that they should do the same.

Dresden is right! Changing the physics shape of an object to Convex Hull can be a neat trick to cut the land impact of your builds. The actual prim count is not reduced, of course...all the prims are still there! But as far as the land is concerned, you only have a L.I. of 85 "prim equivalents". There is a drawback to using Convex Hull though. What this does is treat the object in a simplified fashion for the purposes of determining collisions. Part of the simplification involves ignoring hollowed out areas. If you have created a doorway with a hollowed out prim, or made a fence or wall from a hollowed out cube, you will no longer be able to pass through the hole. And sometimes, using Convex Hull (on a sculpted prim, for example) will INCREASE the land impact of an object. So be sure to keep an eye on that.

Besides using an alternate viewer, file a bug report. This "updating friends list" thing seems to be affecting several people.

You can easily MOVE the skirt with right click/Edit, and the position arrows. But if you need to re-size it, things become more complex. Some attachments have a re-sizing menu. Left click the skirt. If a menu comes up, select All Prims, then re-size by one of the buttons. If you see the option DELETE in the menu, it does not delete the skirt! Instead, it deletes the re-sizing scripts in the skirt. Once you have a perfect fit, (and have saved a copy of the skirt in your inventory) you can delete these scripts to do your bit to fight lag. Others allow you to use the Edit tools, the same way you re-positioned the skirt. Hold down CTRL+SHIFT. The position arrows change to a bounding box, with little white boxes at the corners. Make sure the "stretch both sides" box is checked, then grab one of these sizing handles and drag the bounding box smaller or larger to scale the skirt up or down.. In some cases you need to move individual pieces of the skirt for a perfect fit. In that case, check the Edit Linked Parts box in the edit window. Then click on one prim of the skirt to select it. You can move it, and you can size it both in scale, or along just one axis with the colored sizing handles. When doing detailed editing of this sort, it's a good idea to make a safety copy of the skirt first! In your inventory, right click the skirt, select Copy, then Paste. All of the above applies only to prim attachments. System skirts (the ones with a symbol of a skirt in your inventory, not a cube) can sometimes have the length adusted with the Appearance/Edit Outfit sliders, if the skirt is Modify. Rigged mesh clothing cannot be edited at all...so be sure you try on the demo and find one that fits.

Log in to this website with your alt account, then Account/Change Password

Madelaine is right, we need your computer specs. You can get them from Help/About Second Life while you are logged in world, or at your login screen. Copy and paste the specs to your original post by using CTRL+C and CTRL+V. Edit your post by clicking the Options/Edit button at the top right of the post. In general, a card that can handle water reflections needn't be too expensive, but you will need a pretty powerful card to handle shadows. EDIT: To qualify my comment about power needed to "handle" shadows, in light of Rolig's answer -- Rolig is right, almost any graphics card that will work with SL at all will also work with reflections and shadows. But in order for it to "work" well enough to leave them on all the time and still be able to move smoothly, you will need a powerful card. There were some sort of changes made recently to SL that improved my own frame rate enough for me to finally leave shadows turned on all the time, and I was using a GeForce 460 Ti. Your particular system can have a big effect too...one person I know with the same graphics card as mine would get 45 frames per second in locations where I was getting about 15 fps.

It's possible for your antivirus program to produce a "false positive." Turn it off temporarily while you download (use the download link found right on this web page, at the very bottom right of the page.) And add the program to your antivirus's "white list."

How do you know it is the viewer? Have you tried other viewers and NOT had this problem? Edit your post by clicking Optiions/Edit in the upper right corner of your post, do NOT begin a new thread.

If you use Singularity, and they have issued an update, go to Singularity's web page and download the update from there. You will never find updates for third party viewers on Linden Lab's web site, only updates for the "official" viewer. By the way, I checked and the latest Singularity download is dated April 21. Are you sure you got the update notice from them, or were you opening another viewer?

Firestorm will never change your password. If your password has been changed, it is possible that your account has been compromised by someone else. If you think that this may have happened, follow the instructions on this page: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Account_Security If I've misunderstood and this is not your problem, what might be happening is this: Firestorm can save the names of multiple user accounts, and their passwords. Maybe the name on your login page is the name of one of your other accounts (the box on the far left.) Change that to the account name you want, and it should then show the correct associated password, if you use the "Remember my password" check box. HOWEVER, I do not recommend saving your passwords on the login screen, it's poor security. Anyone can come by your computer and log in as "you". Always manually enter your password!

Yes, just as in any viewer. Avatars show up on the map and the mini-map as green dots. If you mean, "Can I find the location of someone in Second Life" then no...only if they have enabled the property "let my friend XXX see me on the Map" in their Friends List.

If it shows up in the old style search but not the web search, file a support case.

On your Dashboard page, in the Linden Exchange box on the left side, click "Manage", and then "Process Credit".

You can sign up for PayPal on the site you found. Then "verify" your PayPal account by following the instructions on their site to link your bank account or a major credit card (NOT a prepaid card) with your PayPal account. Then use your verified PayPal account as your Second Life payment method. You don't need their email address for that. You can also buy $L from one of the authorized $L resellers, then exchange your $L for $USD, and use that to pay for your Premium fees.

See this page: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Using-Second-Life-with-a-firewall/ta-p/1304539

You can pay with real world currency at checkout, BUT... I suggest you buy $L with your money, and pay for your purchases with $L. This is because every time you pay with real money, LL does an automatic "buy $L" for you, as part of the check out process, and you are charged a transaction fee. It's much cheaper in the long run to buy a large chunk of $L and pay only ONE transaction fee.

The item has been set to detect you when you enter the sim, and "follow" you. There is no way to stop this that I know of, except to: remove the item from the sim, or have the land owner remove it, or as Rolig says, "don't go there". You can also try Blocking the object and its owner, but I'm not sure this will solve the problem.