Janelle Darkstone

Chelsea Malibu wrote: Do I have YOU to blame for the squaters I have to kick off my sim ? LOL "Ah! Bonjour Madame Chelsea, welcome home! *dust dust* I see vous haz returned from votre shopping trip! *dust dust* I certainly hope zee crowds weren't too busy for vous 'zis time and vous had a wonderful time shoppthis isn't working, is it? No, I'll see myself out, thank you."

One option is to remain homeless and just squat in other peoples' homes. A lot of times they're online so rarely you'll never see them, although it's a good idea to have a maid's outfit to put on in a hurry so if they show up you can claim you were just cleaning. (...not that I've ever done that. They didn't fall for it anyway.)

Locke Nider wrote: Anyway, I could try these security orbs out. How far can they detect someone? An individual sensor can at most detect 96m in all directions, but if you shop around for these orbs you'll find that you can set some of them to monitor pretty much any volume you desire. They generally do this by spawning some number of remote detectors that flit around the secured volume, sensing at different points. This moving around isn't as expensive as it sounds, but running multiple sensors all the time has (a bit) more lag impact. If your sim has a landing point set, then there are other options. The full-sim megaprim height barrier is one I'd never before considered, but I can see it might be effective for not overly determined intruders. At the very least, it should be able to detect a collision. Another idea might be to replace sensor-based detection with collision at the landing point, and then tracking the visitors with llGetObjectDetails() to make sure they're not getting close to the area you want to keep private. One possibly relevant upcoming development, just released on the BlueSteel RC channel, is limiting visibility within a parcel. I believe this has effect at any altitude, so if one could carve out a parcel where you want privacy (on the ground as well as the sky), and if other measures keep intruders from entering this parcel, one can be assured that visitors won't see what's happening inside, and you won't have to see them, either. (I haven't played with this, beyond setting it briefly on one of my parcels in a BlueSteel region.)

eyeye Afterthought wrote: 4 is marigold alive or dead? At 10:48 PM Monday, Marigold Devin was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. She was then taken to a better hospital where her condition was upgraded to "alive". She remains in critical condition at 'Our Lady Of The Occasional Miracle' Medical Center. (Fortunately, Marigold's health plan provides for her own personal nurse.)

What they actually mean when they say all that stuff in their profiles is "Mute me! Mute me now and save yourself the trouble later!" I find it extraordinarily helpful and a real timesaver.

So a few minutes before my shift ends and I can go home and devour a pint of mint chocolate ice cream, the dispatcher comes on the radio and asks if I can swing by and check out a suspicious person report. "Sure," I said tiredly. You see a lot of crazy stuff on this job, but I have to say this has to be one of the strangest, weirdest, most lunatic kooks I've ever come across since I've been on the for-- "Hi, Janelle!" "Oh, hi!", I replied, reaching for my can of mace. "She'll come back, I just know she will!" Keli appeared calm and quite content, considering she was levitating three feet off the ground munching on pistachos with what appeared to be three bags' worth of shells strewn all over the platform and the comfy-looking cushion. "Did you need something?" she asked. "Umm, yeah, uh.. we've got a report of a suspicious person ... erm, loitering ... Keli, why are you hanging around here?" "Waiting for Saint Brokoli." "...who?" I asked, trying not to step on pistachio shells. Keli looked at me. "Saint Brokoli. She appears right here on the... oh! You've never heard of Saint Brokoli? Why, here! Take this -- it's a pamphlet about 'The Church of Brokoli and Latter Day Cabbages'. It's very informative." "Keli..." I began. "And this is an issue of 'Vegetable!'; it's from 'Brokoli's Witnesses', you know those people that come around and knock on your door at 6 A.M. If you have some time I can sit down and share this with you as well." "...I have a Taser..." "Ooo! And here... have a T-shirt!" "Okay, that's it. Put down the bag of pistachios and step back off the... a T-shirt?" "It's Saint Brokoli on the front!" she exclaimed happily. "So it is. Oh, uh.. yeah. So, Keli, be sure to let me know if you see anything odd or suspicious 'round here, okay?" "Sure thing!" she replied. A slight breeze caused her to bob up and down while she busied herself prying open another pistachio with a fingernail. I got back in my patrol car and left. Yeah, I know the situation wasn't resolved, but I have a pint of mint chocolate waiting for me and, hey -- free T-shirt.

Chances are you belong to a group in which "Group Liabilities" are enabled. Best determine which one it is and then leave it if you're not committed to their cause.

Suella Ember wrote: This debate is all well and good, but what I want to know is, what is the price of cheese in Istanbul?!

Okay, you'll have to forgive me for assuming. :smileywink: The next step is a full uninstall and clean reinstall of the Phoenix viewer. It does look as if this is a known issue on the Phoenix jira and the uninstall/reinstall might help (described here). (And I'm also using Phoenix 1102. I'm hesitant to try Firestorm because I also can't stand the V2 interface.) Please let us know if this helps at all.

One thing to try is setting the push to talk to another key, perhaps the middle mouse button instead? It's possible something is getting crossed on your keyboard and you might be inadvertently keying the Tab key. Old or damaged keyboard wires or spilled liquids can cause that to happen (kids!). Also, what viewer are you using?

Next question; does voice work properly when you want it to? Can you send and receive without proplem?

Chances are your mic is in toggle mode. Any sound from your speakers is getting picked up by your mic and sent back through voice. Make sure "use push to talk in toggle mode" is unchecked, and then make sure your "push to talk trigger" isn't mapped to something you use all the time.

Oh God, not another one.... *reaches into pocket and clicks tape reco-VER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN, NEVER GONNA RU--- *click* *pushes correct button* "Victim is prone, large sword blade through-and-through. From the look of surprise on her face I'm guessing she wasn't expecting it. Lots of footprints and tracks all over the place... this isn't going to be easy. "The only witness at the scene refuses to talk; looks like she's gonna wait for her lawyer to show up. I don't blame her. Although I do see a bit of blood trace on her left hand. I requested a swab but she has been extremely uncooperative. We'll get this all sorted out soon enough. I..." "What?" "Who?" "'Our Lady of Perpetual Silence'?... hey! I don't care if she's her highness the royal princess fancypants of Equestria.. she will give me a damn swab sample!" "...man, why do I always get the weird ones?"

Marigold Devin wrote: Hell, Janelle, you were quick - you saw the version before I quickly edited ! /me cooly blows the smoke out of her twin revolvers and drops them into their holsters, tipping the brim of her hat down in the late afternoon sun. "Who needs to be quick when you're just... born lucky?"

Marigold Devin wrote: How the f*ck can anyone ever be bored??????? *BANG!* Medic!

Is it sad that one of the very few positive things I can say about SL is that it seems every other house has a dungeon in the basement? :smileytongue:

Well done, Agent Devin and Agent Schufang. Now, your next mission is to investigate reports of strange and hostile encounters with the locals in the Ahern area. Be sure to take extra tear gas and... hey, be careful out there, okay?

Man, this guy is boring...! No dungeon, no secret skybox filled with bots or captured Meeroos... what's he need a security orb for?

Suella Ember wrote: Janelle Darkstone wrote: I just looked on the Marketplace and I don't see the red arrows. What am I doing wrong? Don't make me come over there and kick you in the shins! :matte-motes-evil-invert:

Suella Ember wrote: When looking at an item you can add it to your favoruites from the listing by clicking the 'Add to Favourites' option (see red arrow below): You can then view anything you have added to your favourites in the future by going to 'My Marketplace' and choosing the 'My Favourites' option (see red arrow below I just looked on the Marketplace and I don't see the red arrows. What am I doing wrong?

Yes, that's true. But I'm from the school of thought that anything and everything can (and will) be stolen, so the trick is to make sure it's not worth stealing in the first place. The thing that comes to mind is when someone in SL passes me a (personal?) photograph with all sorts of copy/mod restrictions in place and they think it's "protected". :smileyvery-happy:

Also, watermarks are just fun challenges to Photoshop out and use the picture anyway. Better to use low-res images if you're concerned about them being stolen.

http://www.therecordist.com/assets/sound/mp3_09/Door_Counterweight.mp3 http://www.therecordist.com/assets/sound/mp3_09/Door_Vault_Large_SE.mp3 or perhaps http://www.therecordist.com/assets/sound/mp3_09/Door_Slam_Hvy_Rattle.mp3

Just so y'all know, I've been trying to get Marigold to put on the skintight spandex superhero outfit for the last several weeks so we can fly around the grid doing heroic deeds and fighting crime. ...ell, she fights the crime and I stand off to the side saying stuff like "Holy land bots, Marigold!" and changing the oil on our heromobile, but you know what I meant.