Shockwave Yareach
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I could be evil and ask for the card number and the number on the back since you were so kind enough to give me a real name. But I'm a good guy, so I'll pass on the opportunity. I'm hoping you'll not give the card number on the forums, as we are not LL helpdesk but just ordinary users.
What kind of card is it? I seem to recall LL only permitting certain European Credit cards (not debit). Look here.
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Billing/ta-p/700037
Also a note on that site says:
If you are outside the US, your card may not be set up for international/overseas transactions (this is very common with Visa Electron). Contact your bank and get the overseas bit turned on your card, give it a day, and then try again.
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If you are wearing something they gave you, that may be what is controlling you. Simply detach it from what you are wearing. Otherwise, you have to give permission to do the animations someone wants you to perform.
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I thought that died and was buried. It was an experiment that didn't pan out. All it did was put a bank of computers that had direct connection to LL's servers and streamed the video/mouse/keyboard data. All the graphics would be generated on site and streamed to your computer, making your machine nothing but a graphic terminal.
While this is wonderful in theory, in reality, everybody has bandwidth caps nowdays. And it would be easy to bust that cap only playing on SL for a single day on some ISPs. Plus the lab has to buy and maintain a dedicated computer for every person logged into SL -- so if concurrency is 50,000 people, that's 50,000 PCs LL has to buy to do the rendering and streaming. A very expensive proposition, that was. So the idea was shelved. I've heard no hints that their are plans to try it again.
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Just because I have an Alt and tell you so, is not permission for you to tell the universe that I'm also "Surgical Resident" and I sleep with "Nurse McKinzie" in the skybox at 122, 140, 600 on the sim Scirocco on alternate Thursdays between 6 and 8pst. If I want the world to know, I'll tell the world myself. But I told you, privately, and I expect you to keep things told in confidence, confidential. No doubt you'd be upset if I told the world details you confided to me, now wouldn't you?
Good seats are still available by the skybox at 122, 140, 600 on the sim Scirocco btw. Order your tickets now.
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Every horse in SL is a fake horse. How have you been "had"? If the store is selling Copybots of the Amaretto horses, then yes, the lab needs to hear about it and fast. See, you can copy anything but scripts, so a copy of the Amaretto will not function.
How to approach this? Well start with http://amarettobreedables.com/ and advise the creator where you bought yours and all the little details like what name is seen in the Created By block of Edit. The real creator must file the DMCA with LL, not you. But they cannot if nobody tells them when they get robbed (like you were.)
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You need either an ATI or NVIDIA graphics chipset to be able to play SL with the regular viewer. The Intel stuff isn't supported.
That said though, try Phoenix. Just do a search in Google for Pheonix Viewer (since giving you the URL is against the rules here.) That and LL's own Snowglobe have been seen to work SOMEWHAT with Second Life and an Intel graphics system. I say somewhat because the quality of the rendering will be poorer and you'll have far fewer FPS. But if it's poor or nothing, poor at least is something. Just don't be upset when you don't see the wild, vibrant world you expected.
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Simple: you MUST have a premium account to OWN any land, be it the freebie house or the new digs you just bought on mainland. As the others have told you, the land you bought has a fixed tier price that you pay directly to Linden Lab. Your 2K parcel will require you to pay only 15$ a month to LL. If someone is trying to tell you that you also have to pay some group membership every month, you can quit that group -- the only requirement for land ownership is the premium account. People can require a group membership and monthly fee for that group when you rent land, but nobody can require that of you when you've bought the land; the only people you have to pay is Linden Labs.
If you are going to keep the land awhile, one way to lower the cost is to pay your premium account for a whole year ahead of time. You then pay only 7$ a month for premium after all the math is done.
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Except for a very few people, no.
To do what you desire, you need the source of material (say cable box), Video capture device, a computer running Darwin, AND a relay server running Darwin on a colo computer with 100Mbps to the backbone. Very few people have the skill or the gear or the cash to do that. And even then you have no control over your cable box, unless you also send commands to a realworld device which changes the channels upon command via the internet (an HTTP call with ?chan=xxx at the end). If you are looking for something like a slingbox for SL, they don't exist and the MOV-only requirement for streaming video limits what you can do.
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@Darkie: That page no longer goes anywhere.
@Leth762: The common problems are cache related. The most uncommon problem, well, I'll get into that in a minute. Take a look at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/How_do_I_fully_uninstall_and_reinstall_Second_Life%3F and try deleting all the caches and folders in the computer having anything at all to do with SL, and Reinstall it. (Assuming you are running the SL viewer -- other third party viewers may be in different folders.) This fixes 95% of the problems.
However, there IS a small percentage of people who have USB devices which cause DINPUT8.DLL to crash while the VSF indicator is still on the screen. If the wipe did not stop the problem, you may have a USB device plugged in which crashes the direct input portion of DirectX. For example, the PICKIT3 programming device is known to me as a device that when plugged in, utterly prevents any SL viewer from loading or working. There are certain to be others. Unplug your USB devices one at a time until you can launch the viewer again, and you'll have found the fault. (Note: this is a problem with DirectX and poorly written USB devices, not Linden lab fault.)
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Is that your new character's name? If so, in the login screen, at the bottom, enter "Timer Wild" for the user name and the password you entered when you created your new account name at secondlife.com
I do not see any sim named "Timber Wild" so I don't think you are asking how to go there.
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SL will work on a 64 bit Vista or 7 machine just fine. I run it routinely on my x64Win7Pro with 6Gig of ram, and never have so much as a lick of trouble with it.
I can't say much about Vista, cept I detest it. But I know that the SLviewer2 works perfectly on my x32XPpro, the x64Win7pro, AND the x32Win7Home machines. I've seen people with your problem before though, and their issue was with their firewalls or with their DNS settings. (apparently most cable companies have really bad DNS servers which are poorly suited to gaming and accessing game servers.) I use google DNS in my router and I don't have any issues at all accessing SL.
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@Nyll What I understood their official policy to be is "Yes, but be sure you don't go anywhere where sexual activity may occur." Which was immediately followed by comments of "And since sexual activity is assumed to take place anywhere in Adult, it is your risk to take if you want to do so." Mayhaps I am mishearing, but at the very least it is clear that while the official party line is "AOkay", there WILL be some Lindens and some busybodies who are going to take a "No Child Avatars in Adult" line whether it's company policy or not. And attempting to get UNbanned after such a thing is going to be difficult, even if you "officially" did absolutely nothing wrong.
There are the rules and then there is application of rules. And the application in SL has always been and will always be spotty, owing as so many Judgement calls depend upon the personal attitudes of either the Linden making them, or the person reporting on them. So in this case it would be wise to err on the side of caution and simply not get into the situation where you are so close to the cliff's edge that you may slip on a rock and fall to your doom, or you may not.
My personal opinion on avatars has not changed -- they aren't real and real world laws don't apply to a video game. And call it a platform if you like, SL still has videogame characters doing videogame actions in a videogame world that's no more real than what you see in Grand Theft Auto. And if child avatars doing something visually repugnant warrants real world authority notification, then so too should all of you who bang your naughties together with vampires be visited by the authorities for committing Necrophilia. Oh, that's silly, you say? You are absolutely right! Charging someone with a real crime for what takes place in a videogame world IS silly, regardless of what silly avatar does what. And while I understand LL's wanting to stay off the law's radar, do not these same busybody countries also have the same distaste for necrophilia? Are vampires soon to be forbidden to have sex because the Germans don't cotton to sex with the dead?
Or should I also be able to call the police when someone hacks my WOW account and steals my battle ostrich? (let's see who watches Big Bang Theory)
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I recall that being asked before. As I recall the answer from the lab was No, Heck No, and Not in a Million Years.
From a gaming standpoint, WHY if you are RPing an innocent young waif, would you need to be in an area where quite non-innocent things are present? If you want to play a child, play in child-friendly and child-safe areas. If you want to be in an adult sim, put on an adult avatar. Even apart from the rules is the matter of good RPing. And a child avatar in an area where sexual activity is permitted and expected is not playing a child very well.
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Check at the foot of the virtual bed.
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You can only set the media on land either you own, or are a member of the correct group on group owned land. If it's not your land to control you won't be able to set the media to anything, looping or otherwise.
Some people want a list of people to be able to control the radio or media settings. There are control boxes (like many of the DVD players on the market) that allow the owner of the land to permit those on a list to control the media on that land.
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If it WERE possible to prevent people from stealing textures or prim layouts, I would agree with you. But even my best experimentals don't protect 100% of the time.
As the code which viewers are made out of is open source, anyone can add a few lines to capture all the prim data and texture data to the hard drive with their own homebrew viewer. And even if you had bulletproof encryption (something even the Govt. after spending billions cannot accomplish) the easily found GLIinterception programs catch the textures going to the video cards. Banning people who get caught using such scumware is likewise a failure, since generating a new IP address is child's play. So really, the redzone was easily defeated, and IP numbers are not and never have been a reliable way of identifying people.
What should be done is creating an IPLinden who checks stuff upon reporting, and whoever made X first is the winner. LL should then ban the losers by their credit card or other financial data. A thief can create as many alts as they wish. But if those get banned whenever the credit card number gets added to the account, the thief has no way to get the money out anymore. No money, almost no theft. Take the financial gain out of stealing in SL and you reduce it drastically. And while it's possible to get new credit cards with a phone call, most banks won't allow you to do that more than 3 times a year -- it costs them money when they have to issue new cards. At the fourth time you call to get a new card, they cancel you. While this requires an employee evaluate each complaint, it is the only real solution to the mess, as no tech solution is possible when the prims and the texture data get sent to people for the rendering to occur.
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There is always the scorched earth approach, where you uninstall SL, then delete:
(XP) - C: \ Documents and Settings \ (USER NAME) - Application Data \ SecondLife AND
C: \ Documents and Settings \ (USER NAME) \ Local Settings \ Application Data \ Second Life(Vista) - C: \ Users \ (USER NAME) \ AppData \ Roaming \ SecondLife AND
C: \ Users \ (USER NAME) \ ApplData \ Local \ Secondlife(Win 7) - C: \ Users \ (USER NAME) \ AppData - Roaming \ SecondLife AND
C: \ Users \ (USER NAME) \ AppData \ Local \ Secondlife(LIstings lovingly provided by LoveAngel)
Once these are gone, your preferences and your caches will be no more. You can then install SL from scratch, and everything will get recreated once more. While it's a bit of work, it guarantees that no old glitch can remain and foul up a new install.
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Rolig -- yes, but he's still searchable. Some of us didn't enter SL so total strangers could look us up and ask personal questions/hit us up for a quickie/demand free building lessons/beg for gold plz... A great many of us want to have fun, hang out with our friends, and explore Second Life without worrying about who can see what in our profiles. If we wanted to worry about what stalkers could see, we'd be playing in Facebook, not SL.
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As I stated in the other thread, sheer power is not something you will find in laptops. Speed means heat and power consumption, both very bad things in a laptop. And while the machine you pointed out from Acer would run SL, you'll have buyer's remorse in under a day. I personally find desktops to be cheaper, faster, and give better graphics than a laptop because it is not limited by either heat or power consumption.
If you are going to spend some coin, buy a machine that works very well for today and can be expected to work well enough 4 years from now. Buying a computer that is already underpowered for the task will make you curse it everytime you make a payment. Better to spend a little more and get a good experience than to spend less and get a rock of a computer that doesn't do what you want.
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the i3 processor is not really suited for SL. You need an i5 or better running at 3Ghz or faster for good performance. And while the latest viewers can take advantage of two cores for speedup, half of the quad core won't be used for anything.
Ram at 4G makes me think this is running a 32 bit version of windows, meaning you cannot expand that memory if that's the case. If it's not 64bit OS, look elsewhere.
The graphics card is borderline. Yes it will work. No you won't get all the bells and whistles.
Synopsis: you will have buyer's remorse in under a day. Keep searching, and consider limiting your search to units which have Nvidia graphics cards in them. My experience with ATI in SL has been so excrementally bad that I've sworn them off entirely. You want a CPU that's at least an i5 at 3Ghz or better, 4G or more ram with expansion possible, a 64bit OS, and a GT260m or better GPU. I personally find desktops to be cheaper, easier to upgrade, and faster than laptops. SL needs sheer computing power, which means heat and battery consumption.
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It is most likely not positioned correctly on your avatar; you'll have to select it and move it to where your belly button is. This is a common issue with prim clothing or jewelry.
A good way to select is to go someplace where you have nothing built, take off all your other attachments, then left click and drag a selection square over your avatar. The arrows for positioning will appear and you can move the attachment where it needs to be.
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double check that you caps lock isn't on. Bobspassword and BOBSPASSWORD are not the same thing.
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I'm NOT saying this to be a jerk.
Gah. Thank god it's friday...
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if (m="show_rings");
do llSetAlpha (1.0, ALL_SIDES);
while (llGetLinkName(i) =="ring");
This should be:
if (m == "show rings")
{
i = 1 ;// the first link
while (llGetLinkName(i)=="ring")
{
llSetLinkAlpha(i, 1.0, ALL_SIDES);
i += 1;
}
}
}
Your errors are numerous. I'm saying this to be a jerk, but you should reaquaint yourself with C if you are going to script, as LSL is a cross between C and Java.
= is an assignment; == is a comparison.
having a ; after a comparison test will mean there is no code the comparison runs if true.
do loops don't work the way you think - they always execute at least once and then check to see if they should run again.
If you want to test first then run in a loop, you have a while loop.
A good resource for LSL and examples of it can be found here. http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage There is also a LL webpage for the scripting language, but I find this one easier to use.
Good luck to you. If it helps, just as with any other coding exercise the learning curve is steepist when you are just starting out. Don't let that discourage you. Look at the examples given and learn from them, and you'll be over the hump in no time.
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Radeon HD 6850 or Gforce GTX550ti?
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go with the Nvidia card. Stay away from the ATI as SL doesn't run as well upon it as it does on Nvidia. I've had both kinds of cards and the Nvidia cards work much better than the ATI ones. The issue appears to be iffy drivers and OpenGL support. ATI wants to drop OpenGL entirely so their drivers are thus poor and only halfway support it. This has been a well-known refraign since 2005 or so -- SL runs far better on Nvidia hardware than ATI.