Kascha Matova

Luc Starsider wrote: I agree with George; it sounds like a connection issue. You could check a couple of things, however. First, check you packet loss in the performance panel (ctrl+shift+1). You want the number to be as low as possible. Preferably 0.0% for most of the time. If it is high, try *lowering* your max bandwidth in prefs. Second, if you enable the Advanced menu in me->preferences, and then select consoles->texture console from the Advanced menu, you will be able to see what textures are loading, how they are loading and wheter there are issues with them. These should normally load quickly and without error and will dissapear from the list when they have loaded. (Not sure if this console actually give you any information that will help. I think it is mostly for debug purposes.) Regardless of what you see in this console, you could try to disable http textures from the Develop menu (also enabled in prefs) to see if it helps texture loading. If it does not help, you should/could enable http textures again. - Luc - Thank you so much for this Luc. I've been having ongoing problems with my cable connection as mentioned in my AT&T thread and so I know I am losing a ridiculous amount of packets as per pingtest.net. I didn't know there was a way to monitor packets within SL, though I was looking for one last night in several different viewers (I've now got Firestorm Beta, SL 2.4, Ascent, Singularity, and Kirstens and only Ascent and Singularity are smooth). I've gotten to the point where everything stays gray for way too long and where any change I make to my avie no matter how small will turn half of her gray. Like trying to put on a choker and my entire upper body turns gray and stays that way. And I'm still having problems with tp despite reducing my script count, etc. big time. However in Ascent and Singularity, it's like I'm on my own T-3 while version 2.0 viewers are 56K modems. I actually had my max bandwidth wide open in each viewer, thinking I was throttling too much for what is supposed to be a 15Mbps cable connection supplying little else but SL while I'm in-world. Things did improve a little when I walked it back down to about 7000-8500, but if I reduce further, won't I start bottlenecking? SL requires a lot of bandwidth.

Venus Petrov wrote: Kascha Matova wrote: Venus Petrov wrote: I wore prim lashes for quite awhile until I found tattoo layer lashes. I wear Mozz lashes now and I am happy to be rid of that exercise of fitting the prim lashes. Mozz? I'll have to remember that! So then, tattoo layer lashes will cover up the - actually let me ask this first. Is there an eyelash thing that is part of the shape? My shape was custom ordered and isn't mod. If I'd known then what I know now I probably would have tried to get the eyelashes "disappeared", so I could add my own later, because now under (or intertwined) with the prim lashes I can see a very faint outline of lashes that look like they're supposed to be hidden or invisible but they're not. They flutter with the prim lashes and make the whole thing look sloppy. Do tattoo lashes dispense with this? Is there any way to make those phantom lashes not go away mad but just go away? Since your skin is custom ordered, you could have asked for zero lashes. If you go into Edit Appearence, Shape > Eyes > Eyelash length should be set to zero. That will not make them disappear entirely, but they will be very tiny. I have noticed the tatt lashes are a much 'cleaner' appearance and you do not need to worry about your lashes rezzing slowly in a busy environment (and, thus, having that ugly blotch over your eyes). Went to the store! Got Mozz lashes! I LOVE YOUUUUUUU!!!!!! Two sets!!! :womanvery-happy:

Dresden Ceriano wrote: Um... sweety.. have you ever given much thought that you could be cursed by the devil? ...Dres LOL! Well now that you mention it...after the pingtest result below, I'd have to say...not anymore. This is with AT&T DSL (although they gave me the wrong speed so I'll be calling them tomorrow and telling them to turn me up to 6Mbps and not 3Mbps). This is what pingtest is supposed to look like! WAATAWWW!!!! /throws pathetic sidekick

Jenni Darkwatch wrote: As long as it's optional... who gives a damn? As with everything on the Intertubes, ultimately you decide what you reveal and to whom you reveal it. Workplace? Simple. Don't be an ass and post your whole life online. For employers, it's an easy way to weed out the bottom feeders. On the other hand, for wiley jobseekers it's a way to manipulate their marketability as a loan slave. Ya. Keep telling yourself this, and someday, it may be true. Of course, identity theft costs a fortune in losses every year and ruins lives completely against the wills and without the knowledge of the victims, and several governments are now hopping from foot to foot trying to contain the damage from information leakage that they couldn't prevent and chose not to reveal, but that's neither here nor there. You can refuse to post your entire life online and keep your company out of your business, until you lose containment on the big mouths of one or more of your friends, or their friends, or someone else who interacts with you or someone you know, and a simple Google or photo search for your name or tagged images relating to you leads right back to your activities whether you like it or not. At this point, you can either realize that unless you control the actions and choices of everyone you know who can relate to you personally, and anyone they know whose affiliation can be used to "breadcrumb" back to you, you are not in control of the information out there about you...or you can spend your life as a clueless mark, looking the wrong way when you get hit.

Pep wrote: Desperation . . . and using corporate resources for personal purposes . . . Pep ( . . . which is petty fraud when it comes down to it; if it's on your own time you don't have to use IE9.) The only thing petty here would be someone seriously attempting to turn every open tab not related directly to work into "fraud" or "misappropriation". Naturally I would expect them to practice what they preach to the letter by not using company bandwidth to listen to streaming music, not using space in the company refrigerator to store any food or beverage intended for personal rather than companywide use, never taking or making a single call on company phone equipment, whether landline or cellular, that does not directly relate to company business, not having any non-business conversations of any sort in person with co-workers without clocking out first, never sending or receiving a single e-mail to or from a non-business contact in a company e-mail program, never installing a single piece of software not justified and deemed necessary as per a list of approved company software, not storing so much as a single grayscale 1X1 icon not directly related to the promotion of company interests on a company hard drive, not hanging a hat or any item of clothing that is not part of a company uniform on a company coathook, etc. All of those, to the tragically constipated, could be considered misappropriation of company time, space, resources, or equipment. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Or were you being facetious Pep, in which case, nevermind? :womanwink:

Venus Petrov wrote: I wore prim lashes for quite awhile until I found tattoo layer lashes. I wear Mozz lashes now and I am happy to be rid of that exercise of fitting the prim lashes. Mozz? I'll have to remember that! So then, tattoo layer lashes will cover up the - actually let me ask this first. Is there an eyelash thing that is part of the shape? My shape was custom ordered and isn't mod. If I'd known then what I know now I probably would have tried to get the eyelashes "disappeared", so I could add my own later, because now under (or intertwined) with the prim lashes I can see a very faint outline of lashes that look like they're supposed to be hidden or invisible but they're not. They flutter with the prim lashes and make the whole thing look sloppy. Do tattoo lashes dispense with this? Is there any way to make those phantom lashes not go away mad but just go away?

Willow Danube wrote: There just for the Midnight thread! Ooooh!!! To have been there! :womanvery-happy:

Penny Patton wrote: I'm more than a little biased but I have to go with Doomed Ship. It's huge, you can literally get lost for hours even tho it's only a single sim. There's multiple paths to get to any location and dozens of unique spots to find. It's incredibly atmospheric, floors and walls creak. Metal stress whinges through the walls. Machinery thrums. It's probably the only sim with as much thought and effort put into sound design as an actual videogame. It's interactive! Animated computer terminals will react to your touch, activation machinery, opening doors, clearing out flooded chambers. Some controls are even more detailed, with individual buttons that react and change when clicked. The control panel near the bridge entrance is a good example of that. The whole build is about as close to walking out of SL and into a videogame as you can currently find in SL. It is quite detailed. I was there last week, but I got into this room with a bunch of tanks full of green stuff with a control panel and it kept on blaring an alarm and not letting me out because I had been denied access to the door override mechanism until the emergency was handled. I assumed the point was to drain the tanks but no matter what I did, and how many times the computer said they were draining, nothing happened. I had to tp out. Very nicely built sim though. I still have to go with Ethereal Teal

Marigold Devin wrote: I had that happen to me one day, two random naked avatars walked into my house when I was there, complete with flexicum all over the place, and on a PG sim too. I laughed in real life, but all the same thought it was rude and disrespectful, so I said "bye" and ejected them. On the rare occasion I go to my home, I go there for sanctuary and solitude (unless I've invited a good friend round for a chit chat). And flexicum is so difficult to get out of the carpet and walls! "Flexicum"? Awww for realz?! Noooooo don't tell me someone actually made that. Cue flexiprim inventor : "WTF-F-F?! What - that's not what I DID THIS FOR!" :smileyvery-happy:

Argus Collingwood wrote: I do not know of any place that demands you use voice or leave. The way I feel about it is if you want to use voice, fine, if not that is fine too. I find that teaching folks about the "how to do it" phase of SL is much easier on voice. Very few folks RTFM let alone notecards. The new Basic Viewer folks do not have an inventory to put these notecards into and text chat is very confusing for someone who is on sensory visual overload. Text chat including IMs requires multi-tasking ... that is tough to do when you are concerned about how to fly and walk:smileywink: my tuppence:smileywink: They're out there; both voice only venues and so-called "Voice Verified" groups. I've seen their descriptions in Search. Of course I won't mention their names, but they are out there. Of course, it doesn't really even take a signpost to achieve that effect, does it? Once people not using voice stand around for five minutes while people in a voice activated sim blab on as if nothing is untoward, the same reality is faced. There is suddenly a part of SL that requires either that one voice, or that people who are voicing find them important enough to type for, which is not a universal sentiment at all. I'm not saying nobody using voice will text in the presence of a non-voice resident. But that the need for such decisions exists suggests that there is room for such decisions or lack thereof to cause problems, which didn't exist before voice. And then of course there are the people who have faced drama because their true identity doesn't match their avie to the last hair. Where voice has become exactly what I said earlier. A tool with which petty people can be petty and attempt to play Judge and Jury. The muti-tasking issue doesn't hold water in my opinion because the bulk of the people LL is trying to bring in are people bent on and accustomed to, multitasking. Or else what are FB, party and chat lines, and iPhone and iPad idolatry about? LL isn't marketing voice, or SL in general trying to capture the business of Q-Tips who wish we'd never gone past the abacus because they can't handle more than one task at a time.

WeeWillie Wylie wrote: have never used voice...don't like voice...don't need voice..let em learn to type and IM properly and create a personality without a voice..I got a phone I want to talk to someone.. Just my 3.145 cents... and let us all remember the world didn't actually fall apart when they bought in voice...or made the adult continent...or did wind light and raised SL's minimum requirements...or when they messed up the open spaces and homesteads.It was just that a very vocal group told us it would...and yet here we still are. Until the RL economy gets re settled and balanced again stats are not very relevant. The plain and simple fact is...this is about money above and beyond living expenses and RL playing expenses and that amount is low. "Fall apart" is a relative term but as your post was written, I'd have to disagree with it. Voice polarized the community, started witchhunts, started discriminatory practices in which people have been ostracized and barred from places in SL where people have decided that if you don't voice you're not welcome. Petty people who use voice as a crutch have gone out of their way to make "Your World Your Imagination" a farce, and this behavior has cost LL users and diminished the spirit of the place. The adult continent, the age verification systems, etc. introduced its own form of paranoia and concern about account details, information security, and freedom of expression. The ordeal over child avies also alienated and led to its own witchhunts. The banning of sploders and capitulation over gambling has cost the SL community some really great clubs. Of the ones I went to that were packed every single time I went there back in '07 and '08, only one remains, and that's GOL, which I've never seen doing the kind of business it once did. Festival Island, Hard Rocks, Phoenix Island, tons of places have left as a result. It's no coincidence that almost none of the people I knew who were devoted SL residents and business owners in many cases were still here a year later. In some cases even a matter of months and even weeks after these changes went into effect. You're right. None of these things instantly closed SL down. But SL was on a rocketship to the moon in '07 and post-changes it's dropped off the collective radar. There's no way they're not connected. SL is not FB and will never be FB. That crowd is never going to adopt this interface, with all of its challenges, to do the same things they are already doing with FB sans issues. And as unwieldy and security challenged as FB has become to many of its users, I'm not sure why LL would see that as a bad thing. There has been a disconnect between the company and the community in terms of priorities for a very long time. The same people who built SL with their unfailing loyalty are maintaining SL now, and those are the long term residents. As long as that realization is not reached by the company, and not only reached but understood and valued, that support structure will continue to erode, and SL will continue to plummet in stature.

@Mari : You know what kills me about that montage? The part that prevents me from regaining any sense of composure? It's that the hair is STILL on the skeleton and you still had the presence of mind to hold onto the umbrella! LOLOLOL :smileyvery-happy: Priceless!

Mog! I came too! In fact, I'm still there, since I brought my good friend, Crash T'Windows, and he apparently doesn't want to tp out anytime soon :smileyvery-happy: I saw you in your apartment on the first floor dancing around, but you were away and busy so I figured you were building and didn't want to be interrupted. I ADORE the alley though! And the music is perfect for it! What a nice job!

Ran everything again just now. 60% packet loss again, 22ms ping, 8ms jitter, 9.91Mbps download, 1.7Mbps upload. And this is to the closest possible servers which are actually in town. As in couldn't be more than 6-10 miles away. Houston, we have a problem! :womanmad:

This is probably my favorite picture of myself. Just sitting on my beach. So simple but it has always said so much to me about why I loved SL. I used to have it framed and hanging in my house (when I had an SL house) This is a business park I did. It's not finished in this picture (still working on the ground textures and grass then) but it always looked so pretty at night so I thought I'd include it:

Dagmar Heideman wrote: Kascha Matova wrote: How's this for a myth? After the obligatory No DNS to Any Browser Tab ordeal that I get every time I bring the computer up from sleep mode until I go to my router config page and click something, I decided to go over to pingtest.net and see what my line quality was after coming up with 10Mbps and 13Mbps speedtest results : LOL! Does F mean "Fine" or what? :smileyvery-happy: I get 0% packet loss, 12 ms for ping and 0ms for jitter. It sounds like TWC infrastructure for your location is poor. Move to the northeast coast? Just kidding. :smileytongue: Oh believe me dear if I could right now I would in a heartbeat! I'm from Copiague originally and I'd love nothing better than to move back home to NY, but after my brothers went into the military my parents moved out here so my sister and I could be closer to them when we went to college. Now to move back would be the opposite and they'd never forgive me if I moved their granddaughter that far from them. And they're old now too, so... But yes. This is horrible performance. And I'm not even showing you the test I did after this one to another server in Nevada. 83% packet loss on that one about a half hour after this one. :smileysad:

Void Singer wrote: the "no dns" after wake up is seen most often on cable system that gateway to older DSL equipment that is set to disconnect idle connections.... and I'm betting you have to refresh your dhcp every time it happens, because the cable modem doesn't properly drop it? and packet loss shouldn't go up like on a busy node either, just throughput. That looks more like someone has equipment on the node that is spewing feedback down the line.... especially with a jitter value that's half your ping time. yeah I'd be torqued off about that.... they need a tech to examine the neighborhood and see why the hell there aren't some noise filters in place. Ya that's pretty much it. If I do a /release and /renew every time I wake the thing up, it will start working. Either that or I have to log into the router and start doing stuff - it doesn't matter what, which confuses me. I don't actually have to change anything, but once I bring up the router config page the connection starts working. Pretty stupid stuff here. Lots of messages on every startup in Event Manager about stuff it couldn't resolve, and the router logs complain of handshake problems involving the main circuit - as if it's cut off. I wish I could be more specific but I had quite a night last night and I might have left my thinking cap in the bathroom at the club, lol :smileyvery-happy:

Jolene Benoir wrote: I have Comcast/Xfinity which has a cap of 250GB. I tried Qwest DSL years ago, and it was very slow, and on a graduated pay scale. I had issues with the phone lines as well. I was told that it needed to be upgraded for x amt of dollars. I called Time Warner (at the time). They were out and set up completely within the day, at much faster speed. Comcast has since taken over Time Warner in my area. The only thing that bugs me about the cap that Comcast has, is that should you go over repeatedly, you won't be charged extra. They will just cut you off completely, which effectively leaves only a choice of DSL. The second thing is that they are strongly pushing their Xfinity Online viewing of any cable channels in which you subscribe. Much of it in HD. That could eat up alot, right there. I consistently test very well on speed with Comcast, both up and down. I had Comcast several years ago too but they screwed me over royally one time and I'll never use them again. I actually handed my credit card to a tech who called in my payment to Comcast on my own house phone and had them later cut me off 5 or 6 times in the next two weeks claiming I hadn't paid. They disbelieved a bank statement faxed to them that clearly showed the payment had been made and the money received, refused to reimburse me for the outage period and then when I cancelled the account and refused to pay them the money a second time, they put it on my credit report. They tried to pawn the whole thing off on a separate division of the company, claiming that I must have paid the TV division but I owed money to the internet division. Ya right whatever have a nice day. I wouldn't even visit their homepage now if they posted the winning Powerball numbers the day before each drawing. I'm glad they're working for you however :womanhappy:

How's this for a myth? After the obligatory No DNS to Any Browser Tab ordeal that I get every time I bring the computer up from sleep mode until I go to my router config page and click something, I decided to go over to pingtest.net and see what my line quality was after coming up with 10Mbps and 13Mbps speedtest results : LOL! Does F mean "Fine" or what? :smileyvery-happy:

Void Singer wrote: the only areas likely to have problems with crowded nodes on cable are high density rural apartment complexes, and poorly managed large city services... and even then I've only seen that problem once. Glad to hear you made it! What time do you want me to pick you up so I can take you to sample some Hollywood nightlife? You're going to love the Walk of Fame! :womanvery-happy:

@ Ceka : Ya they actually formed up and started going in there I think two weeks ago. Incredible story of benevolence and determination. That sort of selflessness should serve as a template for the rest of the world that right now has the opportunity to commit to same without the immediacy forced by circumstances like that in Japan. Tragically, what we, and they knew would happen has already started happening, and some of those workers have already come out sick. Two were found in the plant dead a few days ago. I pray for them, for the rest, and for the people who are living there and depending on them. It's an awesome thing to comprehend and consider. A single second where no matter what your life was before that second, or what it meant, the only way for it to remain meaningful is to make the decision to give it up. And to make that decision right now. I'd like to think, or actually to hope, that faced with a similar situation, I would have the strength to make a similar courageous decision.

@ Marianne : Your look is incredible! I love it! How do you get your eyelashes to fit so well? Does your skin feature some sort of minimal eyelid/eyelash coloring like mine does that is difficult to completely cover with prim lashes? It seems like no matter how hard I try or how long I sit there with the editing tools I can't make them look like they're not glued on and too big/wide/long. I've seen autosizing lashes too. Are they worth it at all?

Void Singer wrote: :: cough :: I would have figured that most SL users were net savvy enough not to still IE out of anything but desperation =X I maintain the company intranet site here at work and it's written using largely VBScript with COM applications and DB access on the back end. The script includes IE-specific interface calls to CSS elements to such a degree that navigation is impossible in any other browser. Since I have to have it open all the time and can't test in anything else either, I just end up having all my sites open in IE tabs rather than running two different browsers all day and having to alt-tab. It was more annoying pre-IE8 but with the advent of 8 and now 9 IE has gotten more streamlined and more adept at handling the other 90% of what I need a browser for. But I'm converting the company site to Javascript/ADO/PHP just as fast as I can! Give me time! :womanhappy:

1. Landscaping, as in creating the external natural and "me-made" surroundings on properties such as tree/plant arrangements, bridges, natural sound acoustics, etc. 2. Shopping for all kinds of stuff. Probably the ingredients for #1 above first, but then of course clothes, hair, jewels, etc. 3. Boating and jetskiing on the large ocean sims 4. Weirding out at all the sights and sounds over at Ethereal Teal 5. (Formerly) dancing the night away with friends at the clubs that used to be huge in SL such as GOL, Festival Island, Carribean Breezes, etc. 6. Exotic dancing for pay in the clubs I used to work at, which also no longer exist. Some of which were friend owned. 7. Orbiting myself, hehe

Ceka Cianci wrote: bleh..i just got U-verse Elite march the 3rd..which i don't know what the hell is so elite about a cap on my bandwith.. the stupid sales people didn't say crap about bandwith limits..we set it up before the 3rd ..but the 3rd was my day i activated.. i looked at all my paper work and all the tons of junk mail or anything i have from them and it doesn't mention it.. why hide something that is suposed to be what some would call a feature AT&T? not even on my U-Verse bill does it say anything about usage..if they are gonna cap me then shouldn't i get somethign that shows my usage? how do i know if they are not ripping me off if they say i went over? figures i pick the one that sux...if i go over one time..you can bet i'll be going for less speed and no cap.. just one time AT&T and you can kiss my cheeks..and not the ones on the sides by my nose.. Hi Ceka, I believe it goes into effect on May 11th or something like that. Internally, AT&T CSRs have just gotten the memos within the last couple of days, or so says the one I talked to the day before yesterday. I read an article about it on one of the tech sites the other day. It's possible that when you signed up they had no idea or had an idea but very little verifiable information about it - at least officially. Again, you supposedly have two freebie overages you can be found guilty of before they institute the added bandwidth penalty, so you would actually have to go over three times before you get charged. The problem is that those three instances are over the life of the account, so it's three violations "period". Even if I never sniff 150GB in actual practice, the existence of the cap still annoys me. But better that I guess than dropping down to Pony Express speed every evening on RoadRunner. I wonder if "FIOS Availability" is ever going to escape Urban Legend/Oxymoron status?