Shockwave Yareach
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Land is Terraformed. Prims are modified, and only if the owner and the creator of the object wants to allow you to modify it.
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Most frequently this is caused by people not having enough UP bandwidth to stream the music, causing gaps in the stream that are filled in by repeats of the previous packets by the music players. You'd no doubt have the same problem turning your Winamp or Media player to the address of the stream.
And THIS is most often caused by people who try to play music to a parcel and their friends directly from their homes, with no relay.
Let's pretend I'm in your parcel and I'm listening to the 128Kbps music stream from your in-house music server. This causes your server to make and feed a single connection and 128Kbps upstream data flows. Now I invite 3 friends to come listen. Now your server has to handle 4 seperate connections and send four 128Kbps streams to four different IP addresses - you are now pumping 512Kbps upload rate, not counting commands you give the viewer (walking, talking, turning, touching, paying). Since many DSL and cable plans have 500kbps as a maximum upload rate (and usually slowdown to 400Kbps at peak times) you are trying to push data far faster than the network can accept it. This causes packets to be dropped and discarded before ever reaching the net. And this causes the stream to halt and skip.
Unless you have something in the neighborhood of 5Mbps upload rate minimum, you aren't going to be able to handle lots of people in a parcel without a relay. A relay is a colo server running Shoutcast that you send your stream to, and IT is what all the computers around the world connect to. They typically have 100Mbps connections to the backbone (as they are designed for website hosting) and can send lots of music to lots and lots of people. And all you have to have is a single upload rate of greater than 2x128Kbps to send the music stream to your colo. It is not easy, it is not cheap, and it's something only the geekiest of us do just for fun. Most people rent time on someone elses colo and stream to it for a short while as it's more cost effective -- several outfits in SL are in just that sort of business.
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One, this is just a user to user forum. As such, we are not employees of Linden Labs.
Second, all you have to do (assuming a PC here) is go to START, settings, control panel, add and remove programs. Then you find Second Life Viewer and SLPlugin and uninstall them from your computer.
Third, if I may ask, what about Second Life did you not enjoy? Did you try it for a couple of days? Did you join thinking it was a fighting game? Was it too hard to figure out how to do things? I'm curious.
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Do you have a software firewall like Zonealarm? Is it configured to allow access and server rights to the viewer and to SLPlugin.exe? Because everytime you upgrade, you are replacing the program outright. And to many firewalls, it's no different than any other new program you installed -- you have to give the firewall permission to let the new program reach the web.
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You must use the About Land function in your menu to get a count of the prims. If you are merely looking and tallying up what you see, you'll miss the invisible prims, the hidden prims inside other things, and the skybox and all the prims in it.
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Frankly, even if you got that 386 or Athlon running SL, you would have abysmmal frame rates. We generally get poor results with a P4 running below 2.2Ghz -- a 386 running at 1Ghz would be painful to use under optimal conditions.
If that's your rig, then it truly is time to buy a new computer. Consider that you can buy a new machine with an i7 running 3.2Ghz and 6 gig of ram with a decent video card for less than 800$. Turn the old box into a media server or storage farm, and get a new machine to handle the heavy lifting.
And Kudos to you for keeping an old rig running for so long. That's at least a 1999 machine.
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You still have to have a 3D graphics card in the computer, even if you run Linux. Without the GPU the installer will silently fail when it tries to figure out what APIs exist to communicate with the card. Do you have a 3D card installed and all the linux drivers for that card correctly integrated into your system?
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The 3d world of Second Life requires a Viewer to visualize it, not a webbrowser. While an earlier experiment with browser based visualization was attempted, it simply streamed live video and mouse/keyboard clicks back and forth and in order to have 100,000 people inworld at once, LL would need to buy 100,000 visualization computers with highend GPUs. This was prohibitively expensive.
Furthermore, LSL has nothing at all to do with rendering a 3D space. It is a scripting language that allows builders in SL to build interactive items within the 3D world itself. It is not a 3D rendering standard of any sort.
What you seem to be asking is how to create Web3D. Take a look at the Web3D consortium, which has created a XML standard for 3D object describers that can be added to any website. There is also VRML, which never really took off.
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LL is attempting to create something like social networking through the profile pages. Thus when someone "friends" you in the profiles, LL calls it "following" and announces that said person is "Following" you. It is not a stalker you cannot see, don't worry. It's just a notification that someone wants to know when you put something up in your profile section.
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Absolutely. But if you are shopping, a GTX470 cost 1/3 as much and SL doesn't even slow it down.
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*rolls eyes*
If you don't want to have a baby in SL, then simply don't have a baby in SL. Nothing forces you to wear the pregnancy thingabob. It's all make believe.
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The Sound setting in About Land in any land parcel has to be set to the URL of your radio station.
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Just PAY that account. Find the name in Search or your friends list and Pay them.
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There is no way anything they are running prevents you from getting your IMs.
You can fly up high over their parcel and come down onto your land from above. 200m+ is good. Use the map to position yourself correctly. If you are on YOUR land then their device can do nothing but verbally harrass you. Should it do that, you have a reason to say they are being abusive. Likewise, the rules state that nobody can deny you right of access to your land. But the argument is whether or not being able to fly down into it constitutes access or not.
And you can always teleport to your destination by entering the coordinates at slurl.com and pressing Teleport. Or creating LMs of where you want to be so you can just TP in rather than crossing neighbor's yard.
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Another way to stop the "Cloud" problem is to change your clothing. Wear a different shirt and pants. When that has rezzed, you can wear what you want once more.
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While Clarance is being silly, there's a germ of truth to what he says. If you have an animation running which is higher priority than the Point animation, you can be editting things / touching things and no arm movement occurs.
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That has been an intermittent problem since SL was created. The balance is displayed when the viewer gets an update from the MONEY server. If you log in and MONEY doesn't respond to a query, it displays 0L. If you buy something but the packet with data from MONEY telling your viewer about the new balance gets dropped (a common problem in busy lagged sims) then the lindens balance on the viewer never changes. This can be force updated by paying someone (anyone) or they paying you 1 single Linden. This makes MONEY server change the data on the accounts and send out the updated balances to the two accounts, kicking new data onto the viewer.
The problem typically is caused when you are in very laggy areas or are so bandwidth limited that the packets from MONEY get delayed, then discarded. If you have ample bandwidth, it should be a rare thing. If you have only the most basic DSL and your family is watching movies on it at the same time, you're going to see it a lot.
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Because before the teens were permitted on the mainland, people were allowed to be naked out in public or in their own parcels. As part of the teen grid closing, land use was restricted so that PG was no nudity and no sex, and Mature could still have nudity. To protect your virgin eyes the lab has to restrict you to PG areas so you won't see anything that would get the lab into legal trouble.
Besides, if you want to see nudity, just cam across any PG border into M and look inside people's homes. It's courteous to offer some L to the home owner for the land costs after the sex show is finished, mind you. Oh, you mean the lab and the users aren't really protected after all? Hmm. You know, you're right. And I seem to remember hearing other people say that about this same time last year too. Now who was it that said that? Oh well, it'll come to me later.
SL is a virtual world where every user can do anything, be anything, and there are no consequences. Some people will therefore not behave just like they do in RL, chosing instead to be hookers, dragons, other sexes, farm animals, and so on and on. Since the lab has no way of guaranteeing that you won't see the odd schlong or loose nipple someone may have visible on Mature, they simple ban those from PG entirely and restrict you minors (and legally you are minors - deal with it) to those areas. This has no chance of working as we told LL when they came up with this **bleep** and bull answer to a serious problem. But that's the way the world is today, so relax and wait a little while -- you'll be 18 before you know it and can then verify and see anything you want -- which isn't a whole lot more than you are already able to watch.
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Nothing requires the vendor send you another copy of what you purchased when you made the mistake. But almost every vendor and builder understands that mistakes happen, and if you write a nice letter saying what you bought and when and ask politely for a replacement, almost all of us will send you another copy. Sims crashing and networks faulting and Asset throwing up also cause products to disappear. We lose stuff ourselves, so most creators will replace your lost stuff without too much worry. But you need to be kind in your message to us.
Note also that some builders get so many messages in one night that messages are capped. Thus they may not see an IM you give them. In that case, write them a nice notecard and explain the situation, then give them the notecard. That'll reach the vendor even if their messages are capped.
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Go to any combat sim and take on the entire opposing army single-handedly. You'll be quite marred in no time at all.
If you mean Married, you simply offer to be someone's Partner at https://secondlife.com/my/account/partners.php?lang=en-US If they accept, you do a search for places which hold weddings; there are many. Be sure to give your friends a week's warning about when and where it'll be so they can all attend.
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I personally run V3. No, it's not perfect yet. But how long did the 1.x chain take before it got stable? Never mind perfect, as it never got there either.
Firestorm and V3 are still a little touchy. But that will be fixed in time. If you don't care about mesh then Pheonix is very popular.
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I've always just doubleclicked on the top bar of the window. Voom, Fullscreen mode.
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What you describe makes me wonder if the drivers for the GPU are installed at all. I've had a friend complain that they could play no games or anything after putting in the card, and he was still in VGA mode with none of the 3D card drivers installed. Perhaps you could download the latest drivers for your video card from the manufacturer?
I've had a bizarre glitch before where the VFS announcement stayed on teh screen as the program crashed. But that was caused by having a particular USB device hooked up which killed Dinput8.dll early in initialization.
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I find such claims very hard to believe. More than likely it's a bug in the FPS calculation rather than real world performance. If such a tweak were possible, they could sell a TPV incorporating it and make lots of cash even at 10$ a pop.
And even if that worked, your LCD only updates at 60 hz, and the sim state only updates at 45 hz. In a word, pointless. Tweaking the computer to get 400FPS in a game and then watching it on a 60hz LCD monitor has always struck me as odd.
Have him tell the tweak here and see if others can duplicate and improve on teh results. If there's a way to get the performance up without hammering the network, better viewers can come of it. But I'm dubious that this is anything but a glitch in the FPS calculations.
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win7 on only 1.5G ram means you'll have maybe 1.1G of ram to actually do anything. And one fo the first things SL viewer does is take LOTS of ram and create a virtual disk drive in it (that's the VFS - virtual file system).
I would say your problem is almost certainly lack of ram. Fortunately for you, RAM is very cheap today. You should be able to throw out that ram completely and just stick in two 2G sticks (turn on interleaving if your board supports it for a 50% speed boost.) That should only cost you about 60 bucks and will max out the computer (32 bit OS limits you to 4G, of which only 3.2G or so is usable.)
Your cpu is nothing fancy, but will serve. Your issue sounds to me like you are simply running out of ram. And that's easy and cheap to max out nowdays.