[my avatar remains as a white oval ghost when the program is run, how can i get rid of this?]

Like the other residents have stated. Try Rebaking your avatar, try the Test avatar.

 

What changed is always a good place to start.

You can open your statistic page and if zero downloads are pending and your frame rate is steady, chances are nothing is happening. Updated data is not being sent to your avatar.

Try visiting an empty region. Place your cursor on your ava-cloud and zoom in with your camera on you. Zoom in as close as possible and wait for a minute or two.  

[n't an opon on How do i get facelights to work on Viewer 2?!]

I think most of the confusion for residents is in having two menus. A Preferences settings menu and a Develop or Advanced menu.

Preferences is for editing general or commonly used features and the Develop or Advanced menu is for editing features not commonly used.

I'm not entirely familiar with the new viewer but it appears that most of the changes are a reorganization of previous features. To the best of my knowledge, positive features have not been removed. If you could enable a feature in the old viewer, you should be able to use that same feature in the new viewer. 

 

[I need space for a 40x40x50 building, 235 prims of space, what do I do?]

You can start by using Search. There is a Land sales tab. You can search by type of land, mainland or estate land. The lands maturity rating, PG, Mature or Adult. You can search by land price or size.

 

SL auctions off land that has been abandoned by residents, there is a auction tab in land sales.

 

You can post a Wanted ad in the Classifieds or you can open the World Map and select the Land for sale feature to show land for sale, it will be highlighted in Yellow. Then scroll about the map looking for land you might like. 

[Traveling]

I like to use Landmarks that I've created from previous visits.

The World Map is the most common way to explore and travel. There is a world map at secondlife.com and you have a inworld map. To get an overview of the SL world, I recommend using the map at the website. The inworld map can get a bit laggy if you zoom out too far or enable to many features like events or land for sale to be displayed.

You can fly around to travel but in some cases you will need to open your World map to get to the next grouping of regions.

Roads are a decent  way to travel if you want to explore every detail and you're not in a hurry to do it.

Walking could take months or years.

[What is your favorite location in Second Life?]

The Public Sandboxes, regions like Wanderton.

I did find a new public sandbox that's usually empty but I can't tell you where that is.

[How do I turn off the local lights?]

Funny, I don't know which viewer I use. I use the old one. Local Lights is in Preference Ctrl-P. In preferences is Graphics settings and in the upper right corner of that tab is a little (Custom) box that needs to be checked in order to expand that menu. At the bottom of the expanded menu is sun and moon only or local nearby lights.

Your viewer may be different. This is how mine works.

[How do I disable the L$ payment/transfer system?]

I don't want residents to give, send, transfer or offer me L$.

A foreign national gave me money. I suspect that this avatar resides in a Country in which the United States Department of State has placed sanctions against.  

Is there a way to abandon Funds? Maybe a right click on your L$ balance and choose delete from the pie menu?

I returned the funds and muted the resident. This is not a solution.

 

[Second Life Blogs Feedback]

Not happy

 

 

[How/why can't I transfer money directly to my credit card?]

Hey MasterEdward,

I think you had a legitimate question and plenty of people vent their frustrations here.

I'm sure if I wanted to get quote happy like some people I could find a few interesting comments from them. People who point out other people's spelling errors also bothers me and few of the enlightened ones here have yet to dazzle me with their grammatical perfectionism.

The answers for your question deals with rl banking regulations and individual State Laws. I agree that the current system does not serve or properly inform consumers in advance as to the total fees which may be incurred through the entire transaction process.

[How/why can't I transfer money directly to my credit card?]

LL is not the problem. We are supposed to have laws which prevent monopolies. The instant you deposit money into your local bank, that bank will lend 10x your deposit. It's called the fractional reserve banking system. A $50 customer deposit enables that bank with $500 in lending power.

Let's follow a $50 deposit into a savings account for 1 year @10% interest. The bank lends $100 to 5 different people. Each person pays a rate based upon what a private corporation (credit reporting) tells the bank. Borrower 1 pays 18%, 2 pays 22%, 3 pays 10%, 4 pays 15% and 5 pays 34.99% because of bad credit. If any of the customers are late on repayment a fee will be added.

18+22+10+15+34.99 and most importantly, the principle +100+100+100+100+100 = $599.99

from the $599.99 the bank returns your $50 + $5 to thank you for allowing them to make $544.99 plus fee's.

This is a huge social hurdle. Is lending money a skill?

[Receiving inventory when in busy mode]

I think all you can do is ask the seller to send the item again. This time make sure your not in busy mode or in your request to the seller ask if the item can be delivered at an hour you know you will be off-line.

[L$ No value?]

Productive people and natural resources, are, will be, and have always been the true sources of wealth. Every nation on the planet uses debt notes. Completely fake money backed by nothing more than our agreed belief in its value. This system does work so long as it is not diluted and only if each party to this agreed collective believes that their effort and labor is being properly compensated. I recognize the L$ as having value and I will continue trading Lindens in exchange for time and energy provided from or by, talented individuals.

Your question has an answer but that answer would be best debated in RL forums. I would recommend subjects like the fractional reserve banking system, hypothecation, captialization, use of three capitis diminutio, tacit acceptance.

Mr. is a fictional character.