Shockwave Yareach

If you were a premium account and you didn't log in for a long time, odds are that your credit card number changed in that time period. When LL cannot get to a player's money for tier or for premium charges, they suspend the account. Open a ticket with them on the webpage, tell them the avatar name, and ask what the problem is. It could be that you left as a premium and when the card expired, LL suspended your account.

Brief: You may not do it, regardless of the other person's permissions, stated or implied. You cannot claim a right which you do not have under the TOS, anymore than I can claim to own the money in a bank by walking in with a sign saying "Seeing me implies consent to take all your money". The act is forbidden in the TOS and that's that, regardless of what is in anyone's profile. That said though, most IM's are also stored as an unencrypted file on your computer in your directory. And as much as LL has authority in SL with the TOS, US law states that your data on your computer belongs to you. Thus legally you may do as you like. Course, so then will LL and then bannage will follow, legal act or no. However, it is common to munge logs so no avatar names are recognizable, and then post them under a different name in any forum not under LL's control. While LL can still ban you for doing so, they have to know who you are first. But a different username on a forum where they cannot demand user data and the lack of identifying names in the chatlog itself makes this impossible. At the same time however, the act of changing the log renders the log itself quite suspect -- how do we know you didn't make it all up to begin with? And since posting it there does nothing but fan lots of drama without fixing anything, it's really kind of pointless to bother with it in the first place.

Oh my avatar has a first name; it's O S C A R... Sorry. couldn't resist.

You could always upgrade the account to Premium for one month on the website, get the matter resolved, and then drop the account back to basic again. Would only set you back 10$ for the one month. Be sure to voice what parts of SL you are disatisfied with when they ask why you downgraded. If SL of today isn't what you wanted and were sold, that 10$ is a cheap ticket to unleash your acid pen. And they can't fuss at you -- they ASKED you why.

In your inventory, you should be able to find your Lost and Found folder. Stuff that is Returned to you goes there. One caveat though -- if your partner has edit rights to your things and she deleted them rather than returned them, then they are totally deleted and not in your Lost and Found Folder. Take a look and see. Worst case, you can file a ticket (quickly) to have your homestead rolled back to the way it was 24 hours earlier. Then you can properly take your things before doing the mods. Note that after 2 days, you cannot roll it back anymore -- 3 days is all the backup that they store so do NOT hesitate.

Sounds to me like that sim is being sold or abandoned. As you are renting there, your only recourse is to simply go find a new place to live. LL will not get involved in private contracts between residents (which renting is). So just find a new place to call home. There are plenty of us looking for renters.

LL is not in business to provide support for your hobbys. Our hobbys are what supports LL. What LL needs to figure out is that their products are overpriced and they will grow the world and make more in volume if they lower the prices some to allow sim owners to be able to survive these lean times.

It is also possible that the item has too many prims and the parcel cannot support it.

As was already mentioned, the New Citizen Center has such a map of the layout of the "world". But if your plan is to create a master list of everything to see and do, you are doomed from the start. Stuff opens and closes with such frequency that you'll never be able to keep up with the changes. And any static book or map you create will be worthless in less then 6 months. As an example, take the book "Second Life: the Official Guide", published only 3 years ago. Almost all the sites mentioned in the book are long gone already, and the book is useless except as a primer for v1 viewers. I keep my book mainly because one day, whatever second life grows up to become, I'll have a hard record of what it started out as.

Adult: anyone can do anything anywhere. Here there be dragons, whooping it up in a Roman orgy. Mature: Nudity permitted, but no visual representation of extreme violence or sex. There are exceptions of course, such as what you do in your own home. Principly it exists to force sex-oriented clubs and businesses to the adult regions where one must be verified to enter. PG: Nothing permitted that would squick little Timmy's grandmother.

Sims come and sims go. It's a fact of life. And while yes, LL has a little responsibility in this (principly for failing to pass along price drops in hardware, and for ruining trust in the platform thus driving away paying customers), most of the responsibility falls on the sim owners. If a sim is a playground, than real cash has to go into paying for the playground. If it's semi self supporting then customers have to exist and be willing to pay for their little piece of the bigger pie. the problems as I see it are four-fold. Longstanding customers who have been barely hanging on for a long time are giving up hope on SL returning to a happy fun place that's worth the time and money to visit. Two, as LL is learning the hard way (and we did warn them), the people who were willing to pay money for a VR world were the ones already here. Most of the newcomers haven't exactly been big spenders, buying islands. And three, while LL has improved SL somewhat recently, it and trust still have a very long way to go. And without trust in the lab and in LL, there isn't enough money flowing in SL to support these nifty things. If the price of the sims were lowered, they could survive the lower cash flow situation. And anyone saying the lab cannot, I ask you to show me any computer servers or routers which get MORE expensive rather than less over time. And fourth, yes, there's a worldwide reccession -- it was in all the fashionable papers... SL has always been a moderately expensive escape. In the past, when it was novel, money flowed fairly freely. But with the poor economy and the poor trust in the providers, the money just isn't flowing anymore. And those holding on waiting for better days are having to give it up, at least temporarily. If LL wants more land sales and more customers, as well as keeping the ones they have, they need to look at the prices of their products. A 10% cut in the tier would be about right. And having a "Come Home" special for a few months where people who abandoned their sims can have them again for nothing more than picking up the new tier again would put those idle servers to work and get them making money once more -- empty planes make no money and neither do idle servers. Of course some of us who have been stabbed in the back by LL won't contenance another land purchase until the lab says that yes, they said we would own the virtual property in SL and we do after all. I personally refuse to do serious business with companies that run like the mafia, changing the contracts anytime they see fit. I am hoping that lawsuit in the courts today firmly smacks LL's hand and they realize that they DO have to provide what they advertised, virtual or not. Things are improving. But they are not yet good enough. And only more about face by LL is going to bring more customers in and drive profits higher by making less per person but making up for it in volume. The past 3 years have been ruinous (and again, we warned the lab). I think Rod is honestly trying to get the ship off the rocks. But it'll be hard to convince those who have and are abandoning ship to jump back on board once more.

A simpler solution is to simply have the MESSAGE say which store it is, and you just use your own Landmarks in your own inventory to go there. Also make sure the units do not message you while you are offline. While I've built devices which give a unique LM (that you drop into the item) when the greeter goes off, I do not sell them nor do I recommend their usage. They fail to meet my criteria for usefullness. Here's why. You are logged out to sleep and 25 people step across 25 greeters. What will be awaiting you when you log in again? Not to mention this barrage of LMs and Messages will cap your offline IMs and keep you from getting real messages.

Many things can cause packets to fail to arrive at the SL servers. You could have a firewall in your computer that is blocking communciations with the server. You could have the same thing in the router, say, in a business environment. You could have automatic DNS in the router but the cable people have lousy tables ( a common issue.) Anything that can prevent a packet from going out can be the culprit. Consider adding a few static entries to the router's DNS tables so you aren't stuck with what the cable company "permits" you to see. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ has a couple of DNS lookup servers that are fast, free, and very usuable. Just add them to the Static DNS in your router configuration, then turn your computer on. Chances are this alone will get you back up and running.

24 bit should work just fine.

As an aside, 2.7.1 has given me a remarkable speed improvement, even with AA and Shadows turned on.

If you compile a script and it fails, you have an error in the script. Most common are: * a capitalization error -- Index and index are not the same thing. * spelling errors. * using a variable you've not declared yet. * neglecting to put an ; at the end of a line somewhere.

First, I know of no way that the money server can be tricked into giving you free L just by running a program on your machine. Even if it faked the protocol to purchase L, the real cash would be deducted from a real account somewhere (and if it was from a stolen credit card, you'd be an easily found accessory to the crime). There is no free lunch or free L. Everything costs something. And if you were foolish enough to run this program, there is no telling what else it will make your computer do. Perhaps this is simply the carrot someone is offering to put your computer on his botnet. Most likely it'll add viruses and other malware and not even give you any L, as the feature will be "temporarily unavailable" when you run it. Anybody offering you cheap L or free L is a criminal. The only legal way to do that would be for them to buy L from the lab and then sell it to you at a discount. But that would cost them lots and lots of money! Do you go around looking for ways to throw away your money? No? Well, nobody else will either. So either this is trying to get your credit card number for the cheap L, they are selling L with a stolen credit card, they are trying to put malware on your computer... or they will ask for your name and password so they can hijack your account. None of these are good for you. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is.

The first thing you need to do is DISABLE SCRIPTS in the estate tools. That'll prevent it from replicating or moving or spamming or whatever. Next, see who owns the device by finding one and going to Edit. Write the name down and be sure to file an abuse report (for all the good that does.) Finally, using the estate tools, find ALL the objects owned by that name. Select the first on the list and then all by that person by holding the Shift key and pressing the last on the list as well. Return them all to the owner. Repeat a couple of times to ensure you've gotten them all. Then you can reenable scripts. What you describe sounds like Prizm as well as poofers. Prism is a bunch of madly spinning and wildly changing textures on megaprims up in the air. But the entire thing is transparent, so you cannot see it. But the poor viewer is trying to download the textures over and over again and cannot keep up with all the wild changes in the Prizm, so the viewer lags very badly. Fortunately getting rid of all the griefer items by this guy will get every "lulz" item he left; not just the poofers.

The only way the island could be "gone" would be if you allowed anyone and everyone to edit the land. Do not worry about your horses as they will be fine floating in the air temporarily. Just say that the horses have gas today or something... What is needed is a Rollback. Get a Linden to roll the sim back to how it was 24 hours ago. If you are renting, you'll have to get your landlord to issue the support ticket. And in an absolute worst case that nothing can be restored, hey, it's not too difficult to terraform a new island.

it is ALSO possible that you were given a piece of griefer jewelry and you are wearing it. And that device is what is doing the blathering.

This is a very simple greifing device designed to get other people in trouble with folks who are new inworld. Commonly seen in sandboxes or new citizen centers. The device can be worn as a piece of jewelry, so simply setting an area as No Build won't help you. Note the color of the name of who is speaking -- Green indicates it's a prim speaking. You can easily mute such stuff btw. How does it work? Simple. The device now and then scans the area with llSensor and makes a list of the avatar names around it. Then it changes its name to the selected nearby avatar. Then it starts talking trash. Very simple indeed, even if the griefer kiddies don't just copy the script from one of the many Lulz sites on the web and have to write it themselves.

http://ttcsweb.pbworks.com/w/page/11098471/Cable_modems_in_Trinidad Cable systems in Trinidad The one you will want is the Unlimited 1 for 189$ a month; 2Mbps down and .256Mbps up. Not incredible, but sufficient to run SL.

Do you mean "Why can I see inventory of items when I click EDIT?" If so, then everything in SL can be looked into. Nothing stops you from examining anything. But people making items to sell usually lock down the scripts and text files within the items to prevent copying or damaging the product. You can still see they are there, but you cannot look into them. And some stuff isn't secured at all, since the scripts are public knowledge and there's no point in doing so.

If the item is Transferrable, you can nicely ask the person you gave it to to return it. They are not required to do so though. And if you were unfortunate enough to send it to someone who never logs in anymore, well, not much anyone can do about that. Odds are that in a couple of days if the person hasn't returned it, you are simply going to have to chalk it up to experience and buy another one for your friend. There's no way to force return it.

The fact that your E key is working well enough for you to make this post, indicates that the keyboard is not the problem.