Poenald Palen
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I like the comparison to 8Track BUT, will point out it is more or less than that, that was a sort of standard anyone could make tapes for!
I think sculpts are like those toys that are pretend music players and pretend cameras. You pull the camera's fake polaroidish picture out and it is the same picture lol. Exept, it has thousands of pictures that thousands of users create and sell...sort of. Like a happy meal music player thingy, the stereo at home doesn't handle it NOT because of age, it is due to it not being known or being used by many people!
Besides, you can pop in an 8track and listen to it...it might brtake these days due ot age. BUT, you can still play vynil records AND buy them and those are obsolete to! Not many stereo systems have a turntable, still bands make vynil!!!
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It sounds funny when the person says "I might have lost that..." BUT, I did once pay the wrong person a little money! I asked them to send it back, it was obviously a mistake. Do I need to tell the end to the story? Yes, they did not send it lol.
But thenever depleating? That is strange!
But, anyway. Here are a few questions if you can't find out via checking your accounts transaction history and figuring it out there (simply instant message the payer?) um...ok....
Did you ever build in a sandbox or anywhere? You might have made something set to 'buy' by accident and people are buying it. Though, that does not explain the money being there still. In your transaction history it might help you to see where this might be. Another one might be that you rezzed a vendor somewhere and that vendor was an affiliate vendor.
Another issue is, did you enter a competition?Maybe even in world, if you clicked something you might have been entered into a competition!
Another is, are you a premium member? If you signed up for a premium account then you get 300L each week and if you have a classifieds ad, then that explains the 50L taken. To check if you are, just look at your profile.
Another issue you might check out is, are you a member of a group that has options enabled that disburses money? There is a function that allows them to take money and maybe also one that pays...Here is a link about Groups and money ->http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Group#Groups_and_Money
I am sort of out of ideas here, other than a glitch in the new viewer!
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The private island thing is like out from snowcrash, right? I should dig into that book, but the general jist is to abandon government corporate corruption etc. by forming an island lol. That sounds neat. Almost another threads worth of thoughts and jokes from that I bet!
Not only that, but maybe buying a remote location and basically living all your social life sitting in a tank and swimming in a flipper hooked up to sensors and being a virtual reality mermaid might work? Or simply getting an expensive treadmill that is multi-directional (um, this is difficult but I have seen a university do this) and a headset...well, basically you can live in a tiny home and experience your socializing through a virtual world. You can connect links and web on a prim thingies into your world and order bulk food and extra proccessors for you cluster ( I mean, you will need to do something for a living and that is a scalable way to speed up rendering etc. since you will have a keen eye for 3D CG after spending so much time basically 'living' in it! Of course, then there is the vacation/texture map gathering. You can go and scan rocks, trees etc. or whatever and make animations, texture photography and such stuff. You can also maybe make money writing "how to make your own virtual reality world and excape the real world' how to books etc. Not to mention you will most likely become proficient enough to embark on being an expert at some kind of software or CG component. So, maybe lighting or how to use a specific software will lead to more book deals. You would make so little from the books compared to some jobs, but your place is super tiny and cheap to heat and cool. Do a HUGE amount of rendering in your tiny home and heat it up with the cluster! In the summer, simply don't do much render work and go on vacation/work travelling to collect images and 3D scans for your winter rendering!! There is of course the initial cost of all the solar panels, so you need to like make 10, 000 virtual goods items that earn you 2-3 USD a month....I mean, isn't that easy enough lol? Ok, back to rendering as I am lapsing and the renders are not as slow as I thought and are done.
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Of course it was mentioned! It was in a talk with Rob Humble at a big international magazine....um, Wired? They had a funny joke while eating that paper clad expensive chocolate...something about servers walking into bars lol. It was based on the new server side rendering stuff....to techie for me though. SaaS's and all that is something I lookup real quick, read 2 lines and then carry on being confused and going about my business of slowely attempting and failing while hearing many voices at me and wonder how much that gas the dude used to sufficate himself on the net was....uh, yeah...what was that again? Um, yeah. Server Side rendering is a bit tricky and hardware based decision/timeframe mixed with hiring some new guys to work on all that NVidia stuff to do with clustering etc. Not to mention Google's wireless net based solution that uses like 3 modems (if you can affod it) to get some kind of neato asset server, render server and chat server streaming going on with all those threads surging in your PC!! Cool super lag busting stuff. SL will most likely turn out to be one of the fastest online worlds...funny to think many people bash it for lag these days!
Basically the only issue with mesh has been amounts, pricing and scaling. To offer enough freedom for people to really build some amazing builds that might be complex (but only have several materials) there has to be a sort of math used to figure out scalign costs and set upload fees while not making it to low cost to flood the place with a DMCA nightmare.
I mean, that is what I got from it anyway....but maybe I am wrong....or it is april fools day...:smileywink:
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You might have more luck in the Animation Forum, but then again I am not sure, mesh uses the same animation rig as the standard avatar.
EDIT: the following crossed out text below did not work for me due to the items not importing etc.So, a new response is posted below...
Short answer? I would say barely, unless you are makign mocap. But then you have a whole set of stuff to learn and starting point is the Mesh file you can get from the second life wiki.
Having said that, this tutorial may help you if you are converting to be a blender user for animation and want to use the already existing poses or motions to mix together for more complex motions, to edit them, optimize them etc.
When you import a .bvh in blender 2.5x+ it basically makes a rig for you. The problem you can see is that not all mocap outfits use the same rig! Now, for a model that is to be animated and rendered in blender or maybe that is used with a game you are making yourself, you just modify the rig and attache it to your model and weight paint etc. But for SL or a specific game engine...well, it takes much more editing and then you might not be able to get the rotations etc. to be usable due to having less or different bits. I mean, if you have 5 peices in an arm and your games rig has like 3...well, you can maybe grab rotations etc. and asign them to the parts and skip a few pieces. But obviously the motions where made with the 5 peices rig so they are a bit off or possibly weird. So feet slide around etc. and this is a issue with mocap anyway, from what I gather. When you reduce the frames, feet slide etc. lol. But I am out of my knowledge level with this at the moment, but data is data and you might be able to asign it to a different rig. But he is talking about using a mocaps similar rigging that is brought in when you import, which is not subtible for SL in many cases....of course, unless the .bvh mocap was made with a similar enough rig to SL's...I think.
The good news is, you might be able to use it if you are switching from anther software or wishing to take several static poses and sort of make an animation from them. I can think of an example..um, you might have a object in which the avatar is seated and then does different actions and some of the actions have similar sequences...like working at a table, a kitchen scene. You have a bowl mixing animation you might wish to use withi 3 different animation sets, counter heights or even use this method of appending files to grab a few stock items and then modify them for different heights of avatars on a custom one on one basis. If you use your imagination you can maybe come up with a few more, but this is like a workflow issue that is a normal function and mostly the tutorial is not so useful. I mean, I have learned things from watching 3ds tutorials and didn't even intend to! I just thought it was so cool that the guy was makign a neat item and figured I might one day work on 3DS if this ever turns into something more serious than a small time thing. Basically, many things are similar and you can possibly learn things BUT, as an SL specific tutorial it is not really helpful in a specific way to SL.
Ok, this was sort of fun and part of investigating something else for another project I am moving onto right at this moment. Sso, I wil bid you farewell.
I am thinking the fastest possible way to figure it out might be to grab the avatar mesh and animation rigging from the Tentacolorprovided .blend file via 'Append' function found in the File menu of of blender 2.5 and go about getting an animation made and see if it exports the bvh. Next step, to the beta grid and see if it uploads! After that, you might want to look at the .bhv file to see any obvious differences. Then you might wish to try different options, if all seems similar in the file (which it will, after all .bvh is a file format and will look very similar to the untrained eye...um, but to someoen that knows the files they might see something obviously different) AND you might also have issues with file headers....this is starting push my knowledge to a limit about .bhv's and such lol.But, the contents might appear in notepad to be OK but the file iteself is not OK, due to different file format specifics between txt style of files. But maybe a copy and paste to a regular old windows notepad and then a file extension change to .bvh from .txt might be all is required, IF that is the issue? I stopped at this point in the past when I had file issues with Wine on linux....long story. SO...well, I don't have the hour to waste (anymore) and sadly must force myself to leave the forums and work on designing and modelling death traps. -
I doubt living in another country would make my life better or worse....but who knows. It might be worth a try one day. There is one thing to mention, it can be costly to move as the governments all want thier pound of flesh! You owe them because you where born thier....those roads are expensive! I mean, roads with missile launchers in them are sort of costly I guess!
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Wow, I can imagine people will sit on land waiting as it counts down for the 1L per sq. m. But with all the land for sale, this must be upsetting to those trying to sell thiers or hoping it would be a way to help keep afloat a bit if they down sized. If you sell some desirable land for a few L's a sq m. and by slightly less desirable land, and less of it, then you can use the money to stay out of the red or even pay for uploads is you are getting that low on money lol. Now...wow, not much one can do.
The funny thing is, will we see flocks of bots to block out people who camp out on the land for the last day and end up with 20+ bots shutting sims closed as they wait to compete to click and buy first? :smileyindifferent:
Maybe 5 mins before the land is up a flock of 40+ bots logs in and jams the sim shut in an attempt to buy the land and block any purchasers that might get thier order through faster?
Hey, forget bots....just groups of freinds might do it! lol. They all just camp out and IM and swap out with other freinds from thier group? I assume they can put up ban lines...but then there is always your store, the road outside your store of the empy looking lot beside you store. Wow, I am really going ahead with the idea of putting most of any future stores up in the air if we see flocks of people camping out waiting lol.
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yeah, the no qoute thingy is strange. It is usually a simply enough deal. I wonder why they don't do that so easily as just hitting reply, and still have reply buttons on the bottom of each post?
Lists are nifty though!
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oopos, I messed it up :smileyvery-happy:
Wow, what is up with the smilies here -> :mansurprised:
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I keep pondering this. The clothes are so unrealistically tight (for some styles, but obviously not all. We must all see people who look like their clothes where painted on them now and then LOL) that they sort of are like.Ell.."In SSL this is fun to see, but man that would look wierd in RL that tight!" and others simply look almost like muscular people with tailored clothes...sort of.
So I mean, the next question is....do you feel like all you need to do is work out and build some muscle and start gettinig tailored clothes or maybe there is no hope to look like some of the avis that are sort of more normal than doll looking? 'Normal' does not mean anything specific about style, I mean about the way the whole stuff looks and not even to much realism is needed to aid your imagination in how the clothes would fit etc.
I know my bone structure etc. Is not there, but still....I wonder if people really are shooting to make their av look like a muscular or toned person with fitted clothing and might actually do this look in real life, or at least dream or wish to in the future!
Do you think it could inspire people to work out? It doesn't seem to remind me though, I am not a huge looks improver (sort of no hope LOL) and do try to walk around and such for the health benifit of it all. Tailored clothes? I don't shy away from all DIY and we must know at least one person in our town who knows how to alter clothes, right? So....
Does your avatar (or others avis) make you feel like improving your own personal looks, buying fashions, working out, or getting altered/tailored clothing? If you simply don't want to put a person answer in here, any thought are welcome so you can keep your own personal life out of this LOL.
Please excuse retarded spelling errors, the spell checker has only grey buttons....zero text...yes, I got mixed up and don't care so much as this is understandable enough I think lol.
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Well, maybe a photoshop filter might help. You can also maybe find photo source. Even make your own by getting a peice of copper or similarly soft metal and boring or finding a pean hammer. You use the round faced (pean) part to simply hammer it over and over until you get that lool. A metal polisher or possibly a hand rag and some polishing compound might do the trick. Then, to get the right color, you take a photo and color adjust it in gimp or photoshop. Make is seamless and viola, you have a real life keychain candidate and a texture as well! lol.
Using a light tent and a few lights might work if you have a digital camera available or don't mind a tripod and some old film camera. A light tent can be made with some fabric and there are a few tutorials on the net to show you how to use some sheer fabric and a cardboard box to do this. So, making your own photo source is not totally out of the picture if you are worried of costs. But, how to light it to get a good seamless texure? Wow, that is trial and error I suppose lol.
Sorry I can't be of any help, this was a challenging thing to think about it and I did get an interesting enough vase out of the tests to see if I could figure it out in blender lol.
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There are is a wanted ads thing and employment help in the commerce forums right here at secondlife.com. Not only that, but I remember there are in world job agencies (not much luck here for me) and there was a DJ school that helped you get started somehow.
Most jobs and money exchanging endevours (like freelance or simply building stuff or gaining a partner) are not advertised...I think. I mean, since they aren't advertised it is hard to even estimate stats on! But this is the same in real life. Most people do not find work through classified ads and even get work via sending resumes to companies with zero advertising for workers! Why? They run HR departments that collect the stuff, they use headhunters, hire through stuff like job placement programs, and simply word of mouth! Smaller companies hire people many times through word of mouth, people they know are good through what is known as a Web Of Trust. So...I guess the "how" part might be answered by just simply getting to know lots of people! They will have advice, some bad, some good and much of it sounding simlar to previous advice lol.
If you go freelancing, I would advice scripting as it is harder to do and easier to get into as far as expenses. You have ZERO uploads, there is extensive help, not so much art and more logic and many people can understand it. It is not as hard as programming, there is far less to remember and do to make stuff happen and get feedback from stuff. Not to mention that stuff BUT there is also a library of code contributions at the second life wiki that shows you how to do many manythings. You can dream up products to show case you skills, use them with building skills to make a product or simply make scripts others desire for thier products to 'work' and react. Of course, there are other things you might enjy more. Artistic skills lend themselves to doing texture work and building. Maybe even sculpting is good for artistic skilled people. BUT, I can't draw well but I can make objects alright enough that they are recognizable lol. That is all it takes sometimes! Animating avatars is good for those who like to see things move lol. I like this myself and it is a second choice over making more complex items that move! You can sell the animations or add them to products to showcase you skills and then hunt for custom work at the Wanted forums....I guess. A sign in a small store might also work, as well as the afore mentioned socializing and makiing freinds to build a Web Of Trust you can benifit from mutually for all aspects of your second life. I use the forums to help me learn about stuff, but randomly talking to strangers lead me tolearn many things without trying to smooze and gain some web of trust. I sort of have non lol. Wierd, but you sort of get to know some small things that are tell tale sings or who you will trust and when you make many of the items you need....well, who needs to know who the best is when you can custom make it for yourself!
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You are right, he is more than a blogger! He is a journalist and has aso been sort of doing consulting and it is more than SL these days, he also covers social 'worlds' in a way. I would have to say that I might not agree with him, but there is one factor...journalism is rife with short quick word repetitions and idea repititions for the sake of search engines and to expand on the short initial headlines and attention grabbers. He might not do the same thing, but he sure as heck is not the only one talking about facebook as if it is the second comming ofthe world wide web itself.
EVERYONE is selling facebook so much it is like door to door salesman. I think I will pass. Not saying they are offering a bad product, but I smell a rip off when there is this much hype.
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Everything ads to lag, but lag is also a personal experience based issue as your network, hardware and tolerance all add to your perception of the subtle lag. Um, I go totally low lag and try to keep as little as I can. My avatar looks horrible lol. But, it sits in a car and builds, so no need! I really want to get into making a head of hair for my av that is super low prim, but I use the old playdoh/plastercine avatars hair for now! I put a helmet on many times, so it is unseen and doesn't protrude from the helmet as prim hair does. But for internal beta test (usually a tall shape with many prims attached) testing, it is not so bad really with all the hair and scripted shades lol. But, I like the frames pers second I get from less junk. Plus, hair bits sticking out of helmets is just not worth the prims.
You know, the best solution I have seen must be those new hair tatto layers! They are not perfect, but then again, prim hair can look odd close up as well. I like the movement of flexi hair, but the mohawk I have is very low prim and sizing is not as much an issue. Some other hair takes to much time, so less time, less lag, less helmet interference makes avatar hair blob or tattoo apealing. The tatto HAS to be beetter looking than the blob of av hair lol. This post reminded me to check the hair tatto layer thingy out for a av photo I really should make. For guy avs and female avs with Halle Berry sort of looks in mind, the tatto layer thing makes some sense I guess. It has zero scripts and almost fits any avatar head (bar the really odd alien or monster stuff), right?
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In my experience it might be one of 2 things. The easiest thing is to open Preferences (ctrl+P keys, or use the Me menu...I think) and then simply set the network speed setting lower. This helps me with no fail. Each time I have installed a client, bar the presets holding over from previous installs like during a update, I have this issue. I have went through several OS isntalls (long story, lots of stress and multiple old computers + experimenting with different OS's) all had the same issue, the bandwidth for the network was to high for me. It is a slider in one of the tabs...I really can't remember 2.x versions, but it is called 'Network' in v1.23 (the one I am using now) and you can sort of scoot it down and see if it works. Once you get it to where you walk, try scooting it up a bit until it works still. This will mean you are getting as quick download as you can get and still walk. It might mean more grey over a longer period of time though. Sometimes it is easy to just stand there, but if you can't even walk at all...well, that is another issue.
Second issue is your hardware. This is in depth and a little more than GPU's, but you GPU will be a HUGE influence. Some bios have a AGP apature setting, or maybe similar. It is a MB based setting. If it is at like, say 8MB you are going to have more issues than at 256MB> BUT, this usually doesn't cause freezing. So I can't think of a setting you can change other than to get a new GPU, if your systems mother board has a system bus that will work for SL alright. If it has a AGP card slot, DDR ram then you might be fine. If it is older, I mean...like sub 1ghz or Pentium III....well, then you might want to try linux as I the system req's are lower. But I mean, that is just my experience. I have NOT run SL on a Pentium III though, only P4's! It runs fine enough maxing out a P4 with a older 333mhz bus, IF you drop settings and have a quick enough AGP or PCIe based GPU system or card. Oh wow, problems with paragraphs here....hhhhm.
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It really might not be conflicting cache. Fresh PC install, fresh second life install and problems with freezing screen as inventory downloaded. I Deleted the folders associated with SL (it's main visable folder and also the hidden .secondlife folder that is present on linux OS based installs) and used the older viewer...still slow and had a hard time walking to basically not moving at all.
The fix? Delete the folder with SL in it, and then delete the .secondlife folder and simply install 1.23. I was doing laps in no time, seriously though I might be wrong but this seems to be inventory issue and sounds similar. When it first happened (following mesh beta veiwer try out) I figured it was just the conflict. But, waiting for inventory to load helped the first time around. This time...I can't wait several hours and see only 46 items and no more loading!!!! I can access everything fine from 1.23, so I figure it is an issue with the new inventory server stuff. I could be wrong, but I can't spend my time trying again until I get some things done. 1.23 helped me get stuff done, helped me simple MOVE to pay rent etc. Sad, but the new viewer was getting good frame rates on a decrepid GPU I tried it on and was surprised with it.
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A 3D CG software could make that. Um, there are possibly other ways using photoshop. I think even gimp might be able to make this, or possibly filters in inkscape. I mean, you can get down to painting by hand or paintstakingly constructing this form tiny bits (of course using zoom) in vectors with gradients (/me almost passes out of the thought of trying to do that) uh....I mean, heck you could paint it in oil paints and then photo it and use that lol.
I like to use blender, it works well enough and I can give you a hint or two on how to make that.
First things first. What is the material here? Metal, reflective, shiny, bumpy/dimpled and there is a tone or color to it.
Um, first thing you might want to do is check the blender materials library lol.
Basically, make a plane or curve froma plane and add or make a material. to add from the library you need to go to file > apend from file and then search for the .blend of the material. You click on it and then look for the materials folder. Select the material and add it. Now, just switch the curved planes material to that one. Next, lighting and camera.
To set the lights...um, I would experiment BUT try 2 or three, drop the power on them and make one higher than another OR move the others further away. The idea is to get light hitting it from different angles to drop shadows. Then the camera...um, well, Ctrl+alt+0 will move the render camera to the view you are presently working with. numbers 7,1,3 will give you different view of the plane directly on. 5 togles orthogonal view BUT for the camera you need to set this. I asume you will need to learn blender...um, that a bit much to explain real quick lol. Then render, tweak, render tweak etc. till it looks like what you want. I mean, you can even make the object in blender using domino's scripts and then bake the texture for it! For specular objects, remember to set a node thingy up and then open a new panel/view thingy and switch to nodes and render twice with the diff turned on and off to get the spec and diff to layer together in your fave 2d photo editor!
How to make the material? Ok, just a few ideas.
Bumpy = Normal Mapping and use some procedural texture stuff in blender.
Shiny/reflection = Check out the mirror setting BUT adjust the back ground and maybe add some planes to similuate what a photo studio would end up with in the reflection. If it is out doors though, then you might want to load a view of the place. Heck, even in door you could maybe stand in the area where the vase/object would be and take a pic of your SL surroundings and use it!
The color is sort of tricky BUT simple to adjust and set. I can't name the color of that as reflective objects also will be colored by the reflected surroundings! So you might also want to play with hues in the backgrounds OR even maybe the lights...though I doubt and obviously sutdio render would use much more than neutral lights. Adding large panels might help to mimic what a photo studio would have in reflections, they are called Soft Boxes. But they also use tents, so maybe even huger panels might mimic that.
I really have to get on with a search I was doing lol. But, maybe I will see if I can get another av to do a tutorial for this...no promises though. I have to continue the hunt right now lol. Bye, for now.
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I think some of the other viewers might work out, but to be honest I simply logged in at a different time once and it seemed to work....I think. Othewise, I used Snowglobe. Snowglobe was a 1.23(or was it 1.24?) based viewer. So yeah, the link above might help BUT it seemed to work once fo rme after I logged back in again at a different time.
It will do this to you when you hit beta grid as well, so you might want to quickly log in there in order to clear it with the viewer that works for you.I mean, that is if you intend to not use the viewer and uninstall/delete it to gain back some space on your hard drive. You might not even use beta grid (Aditi) so, maybe ignore this bit lol.
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Did you try clicking the custom cehck box or Advanced button?
The next advice is to ask SL tech support and maybe try another viewer, just in case. Snowglobe is the one Philip Linden and some others are using and is maybe a good safe non-third party viewer. But I figure they all are using the same rendering software at the core....hhm.
Also, do you have a facelight on? There are only 6 lights allowed to render, so a face light with 6 would stop others from rendering when they should.
Other than that, Sl tech support might help you. I say might on purpose lol. There is a staff issue and windows 7 support is still being worked out, last I heard. But I could be wrong.
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Did you log a bot iin and now are covering up what you did, or are you making fun ofpeople who are stalked or ? I mean, not be flame, argue or whatever but chatbots exist and it is possible for them to move to coordinates and scan for people to move toward, this sounds strange as you seem to be at the same location. But if you go to different sims and this happens via a TP...well, you should check your attachments, pc and what you have clicked on. If you click on a scripted item and it takes you to an account, or you use things ans say "I am logging off now to go to my buddies website forum" etc. you are maybe showing a person who or what you areand they can get your IP and attempt and possibly succeed at entering your PC. Using a hardware based firewall can help (some routers/switches and LAN hardware have there and you can even build oen with a packet sniffer out of an old PC using some Linux based firewall apps. You can get apps like this (clean yoursystem before downlaoding and making the CD-R, unless you are setting up honey pots etc.) and well....what is the point as it sounds like a bot is aroudn you. I get harrassed in RL, I get sound pumped into my house and have been stalked in RL, I don't think you realise how serious stalking can be and you only seem to have a bot issue...or you are stalking me as I know a person who has a similar name to yours....seriously not cool. If you are one of the hackers wh stalked me, I have news that the bot may be due to somethiing you see no issue wiht now but could be horribly anoying if they switch to live people, and I am talking about RL stuff and you really should stop hacking my stuff to ensure you are not seen as being involved with relaying communications from me!! This is not a laughing matter, in all seriousness you could be in great trouble if you are the one who hacked me. In fact, I only came to the answers form to ask a question to try and shake a pc intruder myself! I didn't run the tightest security on one of my pc's, so now I have ot contact LL and wanted to ask a question here first! No laughing matter, I will need to call LL this week possibly! Seriously though, I hope you have no issues with stalking but the strange bot interogation thing could be linked to a simple system used to intorrogate people, as I was intorageted and it is a bot used to translate moutha nd through movements into words. When you are interogated this is to make it harder for you to speak, which in turn forces you to be frustrated and try to speak more clearly...it could hav eother phschological effects also btu there are are other things done. You might think this funny, but a decadeor so from now you might be very much wishing you had never even heard me say this! I am not threatening you, only realaying some of the horror and confusion I myself had to deal with this past decade, the bots are the cheaper and safer way they use it. Since they risk personal liability I pressume. There are reasons men disapeared and went onto planes and where not over specific locations and kept beyong ther ability to figure out where they where...they didn't want them mumbling about it or pretending they where mumbling about it AND they use druglike effects to induce hallucinations into your mind. No, this is not from a conspiracy website, they only tell you stuff about beating and torture or aliens abducting people instead. I dont' like to mention these things, I try to make a living and gain whtever I can to aid myself in eating and living etc and slightly rely on the money here, though I eat and that is all I need so I dont' "need" the money. But as you are most likely now laughing I can assure I know you will not believe all I say, so don't think I am talking bigto threaten people etc. as that will not really work. In fact, I could be asking for more attention by saying this but...well, judging from a few of your posts you may be stalking me or used to post here and then trigger me (why I say the stuff about people who are innocent getting banned, the other reason is basically a person can be induced to dosomething simpile and cuase another stress. An example would be me getting stalked, I ask a question about it and then the guy who was stalking you is like a car guy or owns one of my cars and drives it into you as griefing right? Sounds to coincidental BUT is easy for the other guy to simpily be the only stalker AND just say you are nuts. You then go out and start stalkign ME and try to see what is up with me. You figure I must be spying on my customers (I don't and Sl can easily check my cars, that is why stalkers could be gotten rid of IF they are SL only and PC only) so.....well, you don't care and get me banned from sims! The guy who stalked you for real is still out there stalking you and after 20+banning of innocent citizens is left laughing at all of us! In fact, he could be harrasing me via you as well, since I did nothing wrong I woud lbe wronged! Sad right? Welcome to my stalked life, I guess you just got hyper over a bot (they are ust liek real contorlled avs sometimes as well)
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I mean the next extension of this is a system to share names to ban, right? Well, that is obviously an issue with people using that to get people they don't like, competition or even RL people stalked!!! I mean what is worse than a person using this to ban anyone as a payback that is unfair as the person is not a stalker but jsut upset them somehow? So, it can be hard to get goign and I think there are actually a few of these. I beleive I have sen a box that bans whomever it recieves and then there is a list somewhere with a group....not sure exactly what they are called though. I bet the justice leuage has alist of griefers and may investigate even, things like that must happen. There are also private investigation companies in SL, though I will not say weather I have used any of the above mentioned services or system....well, even if I said "absolutly not" you may think I did as I know they exist lol. I am nosey, but yeah...um, maye you should be scarred now and not mess with me as I has powerz and charlies angenls PLUS Shaft chasen you all down!?!?!?!
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Well, banning is hard to do (ok, it is easy when you only hang at sims and property of people you know well etc.) but I think there can be a deeper issue here. You are asking how and I can tell you a few ways.
1. They cracked into or used a trojean horse (hacked, the bad kind of hacking) into your PC and now you have a key logger, backdoor or a screencapture thing running that allows them to get your new account name.
2. You contacted former freinds(anywhere) and one of them, or someone they know, is the stalker. Also, sometimes a new account with similar interests may have tipped them off. So hanging out at the same sims or using similar typing patterns (always mispelling a word, always using a gesture, always using a particular catch pharase like "You da man!" etc.)
3. Someone is watching your house with a camera in the room! Silly? Yeah, but it could happen.
4. You log on at work and your work PC has a keylogger on it. Yeah, they 100% do record all you do sometimes, for security reasons. BUT, the guy in the cold basement with the servers might be lonely or bored and may think he has a secure enough and proxied enough connection to stalk you!!
5. There could be a physical bug. As in, you have a bug that key logs in your keyboard, pc, cable or cable connector etc. This is hard to figure out and a hardware hack is beyond any scope of knowledge other than I know it has, can and will be done to someone n earth as I know you can buy a small device and plug it between your PC keyboard and the PC and grab stuff. Employers can use this and if you removed it a big alarm would go off with the IT security dudes and you would be put under investigation etc.!
5b(the bug theory extended). Well, you could be saying your name or mumbing it OR, a very od instance, using a specific typ;ing rythm that is detectable and can be basically seen or heard! If you type ina specific way and your keyboard makes specific key noises when you type it couldbe possible for someone to use this to get a few keys in a particular order and basically search all new accounts and match the keys they coudl figure out! Poenald (bold for the keys figured out...or at least suspected) leaves a much smaller pool of n00bs if I where to have peopel pick up my keystroke sounds and those where unique or rythmic as I typed! Requires watching and listening to known words etc. Well, a long shot but with a parabolic ear they could hear you...maybe? Maybe you speak it with your mouth as you type and they watch you, so turning your pc would not help? All camera, mic and watching based. In a apartment a lowtech hole in the wall is sort of easy to find, BUT if the hole is small enough or behind a fixture it may be enough to allow one of those scopes used by contractors and termite inspectors to see in walls to fit there. Long shot, but you never know. You told someone on the phone and your phone is bugged, maybe even you signed in the web or whatever and your phone was hacked?
6. You are watched by military or intelligence agency(ies) who are recording your physical movements with a HSS based system. Basically like a human radar, it can capture your body movements and thus, you typing patterns. This is suspected to be used by Many investigative authorities and intelligence agencies. There are some peopel who claim teh NSA use it under the premises that you mouth is a signal maker, thus signal intelligence and legal for them to watch and even manipulate. Body language, hand signs and other codes used clandestinly can mean you woudl also see EVERYTHING come under the title of signal making! You go out, well....satallites can watch you and that could be intelligence agents sending a signal! You drive your car, well how much out of the norm are you driving? Did youget blocked from entering a particular place? Where you adament about that particular store when you could easily go to another? yes, even that is considered a reason to possibly continue following you! Why? You are not being logical and thus must have another reason for that particular store. So it means you could be communicating via your movements through sattalites to someone! yes, silly but there is a HUGE longshot you just really pulled intot he wrong place and BAM youa re now watched. I wish I was joking here, but your foriegn travel, who from a known area went near your home etc. may be a issue. If you are over the age of about...well, I would guestimate like 25 or so, you may also be in trouble as your whereabouts may not have been known and if you hang out in the wood with muslims when there is a eclipse....you might also be in trouble! Do you get calls form Iranians that tell you to try meals or do out doors stuff? Did you do outdoors stuff when they where calling you? Do you have a fixation with the lunar ecliipse? Wel...you never know! HUUUGE long shot, totally insane and mos tlikely not an issue as I am sure they are more intereted in NOT harrasing you and watching you.
Either way, stalking can get nasty and if you see on the news that people get away with some pretty terrible stuff....well, you can imagine what a hidden stalker may use and do without getting cought! It is not easy to catch stalkers and hackers, groups a bit easier I bet. But these guys can and may get cought and not realise it, sometimes the choas and secrecy backfires and thier smoke screen stops them from seeing who is sneaking up on them! Of course, boldness is easy from behing a computer, so it is a bit easier for you to shake them or catch them I bet! I would not know, I have not gotten justice to move and strike those I wish wouod leave me alone...yet.
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I think they turn people away when concurrency reaches levels or the system is stressed, I am sure they have stuff to check stats and adjust accordingly. They had issues with griefers taking out sims and replicating balls I remember lol. I was not a member, but stressing the sims and the grid where part of what I saw and even joined in a bit during a beta test on the aditi (beta) grid! So...well, I think they are carefull and do have limits. A confirmation obviously is way better than a guy who was bored once joining a migration accross sims test lol.
Recently I heard about a TV show streaming website having issues with to much bandwidth driving up thier costs etc. and they just started showing limited shows. Bitorrent is where many went, but then you start to see the creeping of a huge ISP problem like you are saying! NOt only that, but all the major softtware players seem to be focusing on web based subscription software using cloud computing stuff. SO they want the really neat and prized code to never touch your hardrive and you just get proccessed data servera with display and light easy stuff client side!! This means you are relying on the web, hackers can't easily see code and rip it, and bandwidth becomes vital. I think it is a shame, but profits and losses for some companies wiht rich media (video, music etc.) have issues and pre-internet years you can see how price dealt with bandwidth. The FCC, here in the US, regulates the airwaves and there have been changes to where the old TV channels are all digital now. All theold TV's with antenna's can't pick up a station without a digital converter and the bandwidth that was once used is now free. Bandwidth is already an issue to much they are changing laws and regulation, rendering things obsolete.
Another example of bandwidth usage creeping up is a the eBook devices that use wireless nationwide (maybe even worldwide these days?) to download books! If you combine those with a peer to peer network you can see how you can cut out middle men and get a bestseller from anthers device next door or in your town! So peer to peer will maybe pick up the slack by makign network connections with each other (devices having a read only pubic folder available?) and help reduce stuff. it is a logistics type of thing and many times with roads, water systems and various other infrastructure it is a simple to see solution but much more complex to implement and today we use the internet and have many systems while over a billion can't even get clean water, forget about plumbing and wirelessly downlaoded books! I am amazed when I see a old book, 40 years on various shelves and STILL not using much energy at all. It can travel around the world, it does totally wireless AND it rarely is obsolete (even dead langauges get revived by scholars!) over hundreds or even more years! Not only that but there is advantage in it's non flickering pages, you can retain more information from reading a paper book than a phospherous glowing screen! Of course, they take up space BUT that stores heat and evens out temperatures. Large walls or even water filled tubes are used to store heat in passive solar design...I wonder if a nice book case by a south facing window does similar? So the books might even save me energy while my PC uses it and makes me more forgetful...plus it crashes, which can sort of happen with books when spines go bad and pages come loose. But overall books are way way more reliable. In fact, that is what I should do now! I should read and go to bed lol.
Thanks for the interesting thoughts on bandwidth, I keep forgetting this and then worrying about it. Glad to see I am not the only one thinking what will happen in this world as we gather more relience on internet bandwidth. My money is on wireless usage increasing and people just sort of gettign over the hype and putting on a coat and going to real events in person. So, no sim dwelling when you have some fun place to go and play interactive computer games using small local bandwidth with zero inernet connections fora fun jumping, shouting and fun phsyical interface driven LAN party! This is a sort of backwards thing mixed with new stuff. You dont' sit and poke buttons but thrust a rubber sword around when you fight ina dungeon. I think enhancements in technology will maybe lead to virtual reality taking a larger role as we work out some kinks and get increbibly fast alternative interfaces. Like a Wii meets lan party with way more advanced interfaces PLUS simply using libraries LAN with enhanced security may lead to people chattign and interacting outside the library! less mental stress and mental disorders via freindly breif interactions? Who knows, but societies may change to be more dense as energy costs rise, so why not just walk to the library and get a copy from them via a LAN when you want to see a movie? It makes sense, but requires culture changes....so maybe not so easy and has it's own inherent issues? Like more people on the streets + bad economy = more theft or general crime? Ah, who nows, maybe no more internet for so cheap is the only answer? But, SVG is promising as a way to reduce the amount of data transfered, just have a standard buttona nd shade etc. library!? Why? Well...many websites look so similar anyway it is like just using colors and frames in HTML but with huge style gains as you have some shades with a few parameters? So the web can get lighter overall if new CMS and plugins are broat about, HTML is simplya markup langauge and can be extended and have the browser pick up the slack instead of the networks by defining a few shades, grads and bevels etc.? Well, off to bed for me.
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You can also make an "alt", which is just another account. You can make 100 if you want...well, maybe not BUT you can make another acount or two with not much fuss.
It is common to make 2 extra ones as a creator here to test perms or just have some to get the heck away from customers and business partners lol. I just tell people I don't socialize in world much, I just create and test and wonder alone. you could tell them you don't like mixing RL and SL, they may understand this if they are SLer's for long. But you know, this post may be seen by them one day and they will be more insulted than if you just said you don't mix work and play in the first place!!
Isn't it normal though? I mean, to not mix work and play and see all work people as well...."work people" ? lol. I don't work at a location with people anymore, but when I did I didn't try to hang out with the other employees etc. Even if I thought they where cool people to chat with etc. It is easier to just not hang out with work people for all involved, I think. I mean, if you get fired they might feel awkward and vise versa, plus they might disagree with something that is work related and feel you are not being a good friend, but work stuff is about getting tasks done mostly, and specialties don't smetimes agree on methods. In fact, arguably they should disagree to give way to discussion to come to better or different solutions that are more balanced, so I totally can see why you would never want to have work aquintences and friends in RL with you in a silly gameworld where you fly and what knot lol. You never know, you could steal away another mans hot pixel date and end up ruining a good pie at the factory, make a wrong decision on a poor customers financial plan or any number of oddities....all over hot pixel dollies with lingerie!! Nope, this is a silly fake world and no silliness from here should get mixed up at the factory, office, service or warehouse etc. So I am with you here and I know you think your friends are good folks but work is work and it is professional! Unless you are all balon animal makers, then you should all make giant baloon animal warriors with huge lazer guided balon missiles to sell to us all.... Imean, if you have the time as the world is recovering froma shortage of baloon crop failures that left us all without such items this pasty few months. Ok, time for bed for me. Bye, happy days to you!
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Poser 8 & Second Life issues. Need Help.
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Whoaaw...you are uploading to maing grid each time. I mean, you must not know of the beta grid? Um, the wiki will help you find out about how to log in, it uses the same viewer you have right now and all you do is enable a grid option menu at start up via...well, I can't remember teh key combo....ctrl+alt+g? Um, either way you just need to hit the key combo and then choose "Aditi" and you have a copy of you rinventory, 5000L (more added when LL feels like it lol) and you just upload and test away! The grid is seperate from Agni, which is the Main Grid. So anything that works there will NOT be in your inventory in world. Things on beta can NOT be put on marketplace or sold to put money into your main grid account. The Aditi grid is a clone, so is you avatar and inventory. They make an update now and then, so you might lose you beta grid test uploads if they decide to refresh the Aditi grid and your avatars inventory ect. YOu will get a exact copy at the moment they do the snapshot...um, that is all really. Free testing grounds, just map search for a sandbox (teh whole grid is not here, only a small portion of it!) and have fun! When you get something good, then spend L's to upload that one item that works!!!