Lindal Kidd

My own little bit of it, of course...Masocado, baby!

Sorry, you're wrong. There is no guaranteed right of passage over privately owned land. I've been bumped off by security orbs, full parcels, and banlines. It's not very neighborly, but it's the landowner's choice. To the OP's neighbor: When rezzing prims in the sky, first set out marker prims at the corners of your parcel, and raise them up to the height where you will be working. This way, you can keep your builds inside your own borders.

I do what Peewee does...I divide my land into parcels and rent each tenant a parcel (in my case, with dwelling, but without furniture). I set all my land to one group, and all my tenants are members. Another person I know creates a separate group for EACH parcel of land he rents out...he claims this simplifies certain things, but I don't understand his system! I use the HippoRent rental system, and have been very satisfied with it. They also have door and window control systems and a security system you can tie into the rental boxes...but this means installing your own doors and windows, not the ones you find in prefab houses (unless the prefabs let you modify them). Having said that, you can actually rent land without ANY rental system, if you don't mind keeping track of payments manually. You could just tell your tenant, "pay me $Lxxx every Friday", then check your transaction history on Saturday. No transaction, boot tenant. Renting out land can be as simple or as complex as you choose.

if the center of the object is across the border on your neighbor's land, have him Return it to you

That's not quite correct, Peewee. LL will not use your $L balance to pay your $US obligations like Premium membership and tier fees. They will bill your payment method, either credit card or verified PayPal account. You can, however, sell $L on the Lindex to increase your $USD balance. LL will take money from your $USD balance before charging your payment method. I like to use PayPal for several reasons. 1) LL does not accept all credit cards (for example, most prepaid cards). 2) Some credit card companies flag payments to LL as potential fraud, and you can get delayed or refused payments until you straighten them out. 3) You can limit your liability with PayPal by only keeping a small amount of money there and in the bank account that backs it up. 4) PayPal is a two way street...you can cash out profits from SL and transfer them to PayPal. You can't do that with your credit card.

Has anyone seen a gadget that appears to put a title over your avatar's head? Someone did this to me today, and I was NOT wearing any sort of a titler! If you're familiar with this...how is it done, and what can be done about it?

You have two issues. First, you should turn on Particles. Do this in Me/Preferences/Graphics/Advanced. This will turn you from an egg into a billowing cloud. It will also let you see things like smoke, fire, and water spray effects. Second, your appearance isn't loading correctly. Either put on another outfit, or force the default avatar with Develop/Character/Character Tests/Test Male or Test Female. Then put on your normal attire one item at a time.

In the old viewer, you would create and list a Classified Ad for your parcel in (oddly enough) your Profile, not (as you would think) in the land settings. You can still do this with the third party Phoenix viewer. I've just spent some time looking in the latest released LL viewer (2.5.2) and cannot find the Classified Ad function anywhere. It would seem that it got dropped when LL added the new web-based profiles.

If the ground is covered with prims, you can get to About Land through the World menu, or by clicking info in the location box on the top menu row. Another way to do it is to go to Advanced (CTRL+ALT+D) > Rendering > Hide Selected. Select the house. While it's disappeared, right click the ground and select About Land.

It seems strange to newcomers, but Appearance mode is actually seldom used to change your appearance. It's mainly useful for altering your shape. To put your Fantasy Male back on, go to Inventory/Library/Initial Outfits/Fantasy Male. Right click the folder and choose Replace Outfit. An eyebrow shaper is also known as a "bald head" or "baldie". It's nothing more than standard avatar hair, set to 0 to make you bald. This is so no standard hair pokes through your "prim hair",an object you wear on your head. Eyebrow shape is also controlled by the standard hair item, thus the name. To wear individual clothing items, right click them in your inventory and choose Wear, or drag them onto your avatar.

Well, the grid seems to be completely down (1012 SL, Sunday). But I can't find the Grid Status blog on these newfangled forums, so this seems to be the most likely place to post the comment. Or is it just me? Anyone else in world?

I read somewhere that if you set a parcel to sell for $L0, the process will not let you set it for sale to "Anyone", but requires you to specifiy a name.  If true, this would be a safety feature to keep your parcel from being grabbed by a landbot. Can anyone confirm it?

You have to understand Lindenspeak. The translation of that is, "...the data currently bears little relationship to the happy bullship about the health and strength of the Second Life economy we are planning to spin now, and it would contradict the lies we're going to tell, so we are going to stop publishing them to keep from embarrassing ourselves."

Mandi Cobalt wrote: Can u tell me how to edit the house I got for free from second life You can't. Linden Homes are not editable. However, your house has a control panel that you can use to modify its appearance by using different texture sets, etc.

Something about you isn't loading correctly. If you had particles turned on, you'd be a puffy white cloud. Since you don't, you are a smooth white egg. Try the tips on this page: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Why_do_I_look_like_a_particle_cloud I would also add to those tips, turn off and re-set your DSL modem/router.

Cal and Nyll both suggested leads to things that are VERY close to what I'm looking for...especially Nyll's. I suspect Real Flight is going to have what I want though, so it's Sal for the win. Thanks, everyone. (honorable mention for the backpack heli suggestion, too. Not what I had in mind, but it's still cool. And it's given me the idea for one of my own. Ha! The building bug strikes again!)

Cubey has an *ultralight*, but it's an airplane, not a helicopter. Unless I missed something. (By the way, I share your enthusiasm for Cubey's vehicles. I have a parachute, hot air balloon, two seat amphibious copter, and convertible sub/boat/seaplane from Abbott's Aerodrome).

Well, Search is no use and I went through all the XStreet listings without finding this, so I'll ask here. I'm looking for a little one-person ultralight helicopter.  I know they're out there, because my partner has one and I've seen another (a different model, I think) at a little SL airport I visited long ago. Has anyone got any leads?

Several viewers allow you to reposition the inventory window...even in 2.1, you can open a second instance of it. That makes it a lot easier to drag things from one place to another in your inventory.

LittleMe Jewell wrote: SOME of the newbie skins come with panties painted on. Go into the Library in inventory and try some other skins - not all of them have that. Any skin that you buy inworld also won't have that. ETA -- I **think** the skins are in the Library under Body Parts. Inventory/Library/Clothing, then look in any of the avatar folders there. Each folder is a complete avatar, including a skin item.

Sarasvati Windstorm wrote: Thank you Cinnamon and others who replied. it was easy once I followed your instruction! NOW i'm having a problem with placing the new furniture where I want it! I can't seem to click and drag it to the places I want it to go! Aha! Here's a short course on how to do that. 1. Rez an object (let's say a couch). 2. Right click the object, select Edit. You'll see three colored, intersecting arrows appear on the object, and a new window on your screen with lots of options. 3. Put your mouse cursor on the head or tail of one of the arrows and drag it to move the object. 4. Hold down the CTRL key. The arrows change to three colored, intersecting circles. These are rotation handles. 5. Put your mouse cursor on one of the rings and drag it to rotate the object. 6. For precise positioning, especially rotations, you can enter values in boxes in the Edit window. 7. (optional). For some things, you'll want to re-size them. Hold down the CTRL and ALT keys simultaneously. You will see a bounding box with white handles at the corners. These are re-sizing handles. Drag them to scale the object. For single prims, you'll see colored boxes on each face of the bounding box. These let you re-size the prim in one dimension at a time. For much more information on how to manipulate prims and objects, go take the tutorials at The Ivory Tower Library of Primitives.

Karina Tyrellium wrote: With the same email address? Yes, Karina. I have five accounts, all using the same email address. No problem.

1. Try World/Stop Animating my Avatar (in 1.23, it's somewhere else in Viewer 2). If no good, then 2. Edit/Preferences/Network. Click the Clear Cache button, log out, then log in again. If no good, then 3. Find a "Stop All Animations" object. You can get them for free on XStreet. You will also find one, a twisty gray cone-shaped object, near the arrival point at Caledon Oxbridge University. Touch (left click) the Stop Animations object. In the future, try to remember to stand up and/or stop dancing before you teleport somewhere else. This way you won't be separating a running animation from its scripted originating object, leaving it an orphan, and you a mess.

In general, this indicates that your account has been IP banned. Now, this could be because you actually did something very bad, or it could be because someone simply accused you of doing something very bad, or it could be a case of mistaken identity (LL banned the wrong IP address, picking one very similar to the one they intended), or it could be a case of collateral damage (your computer shares or was assigned an IP address that someone else was using). Or, it could be that someone else in your household who has an SL account got themselves banned so thoroughly that ALL users of that computer are now banned from using Second Life. Whatever the reason, your only response is to file a support ticket and wait for an explanation. Then file an update with your appeal and supporting evidence of your innocence.

Hm. Can you buy $L on XStreet? Maybe the limits don't apply there? Try logging in to XStreet, My Account, Currency Orders, Buy SLL.