Eternus Soulstar

you might have a look at http://slnamewatch.com ... if there is a glitch affecting the main registration portal, one of the offsite ones listed there might allow you to work around it.

Ansariel.Hiller wrote: Ain't you supposed to have a Linux system? i just have a system. several flavors of Linux multibootable alongside my XP. mandriva 2010, openSuSE 11.2, Chakra, and a testbed partition that i just toss anything on to play with as the mood strikes. and each Linux runs XP in a VirtualBox while i am in Linux. where amusingly enough it usually runs better than it does when i boot to it natively. i'm thinking of giving OpenSolaris a try.

Ansariel.Hiller wrote: Try turning off virtual memory completely. You will see what happens - or not! You're education initiatives are really funny. i did that on my system and i only have 2 GB of ram. it limits a little how much stuff i can run but i never really need or want to run enough stuff to need a pagefile, i prefer the performance of what is running being better, than having more stuff running. and even with no pagefile i can still have four concurrent logins if i want to.

Eli.Schlegal wrote: Is it really necessary or even beneficial to de-frag daily? prediction: the answer you get to that is going to depend as much on levering as much feeling of intellectual superiority as possible from the ensuing debate as it is on actual technical information pro or con.

i wear an anti-forum-knowledge-cop amulet, and sprinkle the dust of the ground bones of red headed virgins around my house walking backward counter clockwise under each full moon. i really think it's mostly the amulet tho.

Pussycat.Catnap wrote: There are some people who I have chosen not to interract with in world due to the poltics they've expressed in forums (and I mean expressly, rather than implications both sides might make in a debate. If you expressly declare a certain set of political ideologies)... - But that's it. I don't take the arguments and discussions in world. I just tell myself "there is a person I could not get along with, no matter how hard either of us tried." I leave it at that, and simply don't bother them. I'd probably leave if I landed somewhere and found one of those people there, just because I'd feel awkward. But that would be it. Not many people even that. Choosing to actively pursue someone inworld over something out, is just not a good way to go about things. But I have vented about a person inworld on an outsde blog... yea some ideologies are just skin deep and not much to bother about but others go clear to the bone. that said i generally dont meet someone on a blog or forum and then develop much of anything in world from it anyway, friend or foe, tho there are exceptions on rare occasion on the friend side and usually by the other person's invite not mine. but yea if something i say outworld bothers anyone, believe me when i say, bugging me in world about it is gonna get a lot more ugly rather than less, and by the same token no i will never ever bother anyone in world about anything said outworld. tho i did notice a sharp uptake in the general craziness and moronity on this blog, starting as the weekend was being born and commented to someone in world about that, just in a 'are you noticing that too, is it a full moon on the internet?', but idk if they even got the message. in the other direction, as far as venting outworld about inworld stuff, i'm too reclusive, nothing ever happens to me inworld to vent about. tho i get sappy from time to time and say something about how wonderful my partner is.

Cheetah.Hammerer wrote: tl;dr response: because, they assume LL doesn't by rule of thumb generally investigate the relevant data. also, why is it impossible to move the typing cursor to AFTER this smiley? (was meant to be directly behind "data.") missing quote, eh.... oh well, re-read OP if needed... smiley... still... winning... URK. Message was edited by: Cheetah Hammerer

someone that gets butthurt on the flogs, and usually tho not always is on the losing end of a battle of wits here, can go in-world and get "the last word" by rattling off whatever they think of as so cool or whatever, mixing in a little harassment and a little of something they think sounds intimidating, then slamming the mute button. some might be trying to actually provoke an AR-able response but i don't have to have ESP to have a fairly good guess in this case and i don't credit enough deviousness for that.

and this is not a jackets and ties affair. it's a bar, and Lexie and Blue are the bouncers.

dont ask questions that google or the search here can answer dont ask questions that are thinly veiled attempts at garnering sympathy for a pet cause or gripe dont add yet one more to the bajillion threads about emerald being maybe the antichrist of viewers also any question, bar none, that is anything at all but a very strictly technical question... in short anything at all about which there can be more than one opinion... is guaranteed to generate debate, and the core of debate is that people disagree, and thats where that 'spirited discussion' specifically allowed in the ToS comes in. get used to it, it ain't going away.

hm actually, yes. i can tell by your key that you are very likely located on planet Earth. probably on or near the surface of the 1/4 of it that is not covered by water. that can be farther narrowed down, if i can trick you into telling me whether you see penguins and polar bears when you look out your window, assuming i can trust your word on that. (pimpin' mah new sig)

Zena.Zemlja wrote: Did you just reply to your own post? Ok, it's officially now: you blog too much /me ducks lol indeed i did least i havent started posting rebuttals to my own posts yet

lol i guess you could say, for me, little touches like that are the geek version of 'art', even if i didnt have that HUD to put keys into. the radar has stuff i dont ever need to know too but i like it being there anyway.

hehe well my blog-fu is not strong but it is getting there the more i have to use this thing. i miss the old forums but at least now i have their colors in my Firefox thanks to Cerise Sorbet !! http://userstyles.org/users/40711

Qie.Niangao wrote: Prokofy.Neva wrote: Keep asking questions about the Emerald viewer, and do not be dissuaded by the propaganda. The issue of scraping the avatar key needs a lot more debate than it gets from the cheerleaders here. There may be good reasons to question the Emerald viewer, but this is not one of them. ... Actually, this feature is one that really does make me question the Emerald viewer--but not for a reason with which Prok would likely agree. Say I have somebody's UUID. There are exactly two things I can do with it: I can manually type those 32 hex digits punctuated by some hyphens as part of the URL for that account's world.secondlife.com webpage, if they have one. This is only about a thousand times more difficult than just looking at it on Search/All or search.secondlife.com. I can put it into a script to do nice or nasty stuff to that person. But wait: It's a friggin' script. It can get that UUID by a simple http-request to an external service. So again, I have a feature that's only useful if I want to make my life more difficult. So the question is, since this is an utterly useless "feature", how ever did it get into Emerald? I think there are only two possibilities: Either they're just adding any random crap to Emerald without any regard for utility or UI design; or they did it to drive Prok crazy. i like the key being there. i dont care if it has any general use, i like it, and it doesn't hurt anything in my use of the viewer. almost any feature is useless to someone, but almost any feature is useful to someone sooner or later too. i can't speak for the dev team but back in the day when i scripted for IRC clients i did sometimes put stuff in just because i could, and people sometimes found uses that never occurred to me. but as far as the key goes i do have a use. i have an online status HUD, a very unobtrusive little dot in the corner of my screen that float-texts the names of a few people close to me when they are online, and it can determine status by either name or key, but it reacts faster if a key is given it because it doesn't have to query a name2key database. it is much more convenient for me to see that list at all times and not have to click at all, it's just there, as opposed to having to either open or tab to the contact list. emerald saves me the trouble of a name2key lookup myself when i want to add a key to that HUD, and occasionally when one of my tiny circle of friends creates a new avatar emerald has the new key a long time before it ever makes its way into any of the online databases anyway.

you can't see it because it is a tiny tortured prim. but you can use the About Land dialog to return it to him, or he can open an edit dialog and draw a rectangle around the general area where it is and it will select, then he can use the edit window to change the size and shape of it and remove the transparency from it so he can right click and 'take' it.

this gets asked more and more frequently and the answer never changes, the opinions posted never change, and the actual recourse never changes. the ToS keeps saying disclosure is a no-no, the disclaimers keep being in profiles, it keeps being true that the only recourse is 'when in doubt AR and let the Lindens sort it out', and the results keep being a crapshoot of how the AR was worded and documented and what Linden you happened to get that day. and it keeps being STUPID to worry about it because if you say anything in IM to anyone that has that disclaimer it is going to get shared no matter WHAT the damn ToS says because (extreme and impossible case to make a point) even if someone managed to code an automatic banhammer that would boot you from SL if it detected the same text in any other window that ever existed in any IM window, as per ToS, the same text can be posted in yahoo/aim/skype/twitter/blogspot/*.NotLindenSpace.* and NOT be a violation so wtf difference does it make? i have a dog in my yard. he will eat you whether you read the sign or not. you might sue me if you survive but you still got chewed up.

if i encountered such a bold statement as that and really felt like being anal about it i would in fact AR the person that had that in their profile, on as many alts as i could muster to the cause. i can't think right now exactly what ToS clause i would use but i'd think of something. sooner or later something would be good enough to get one of those famous uninvestigated banhammers to drop on her head.

and by the way i dont know why this simple thought didn't occur to me before but once your avatar is registered and has a key that is its key forever. for it to have anything meaningful to do with geographical location or for that matter any other mutable data the key would have to change when the data changed. anyway take your own key or anyone else's and plug it into search engines from time to time, who knows maybe you will discover someone's plot for world domination and save us all.

reac.Feden wrote: A final thought from me in this post. Isn't it odd how much shorter this would be if only the people who wanted to be helpful had replied, and not those who apparently are elitist/dismissive/vitriolic/self important/self promoting/unsupportive/(add your own thoughts here). Perhaps they should have started their own thread rather than clutter this one. Personally, if I have a question I will ask it. If that offends or upsets anyone ... so be it. A final thank you to those who helped. lol throw enough shoes on the pile and one will fit everybody? dude just because not all of the help was sugarcoated doesn't mean it wasn't help. besides you are not the only one that will ever read the answers and even if the style isn't to your liking or suits your purpose it might be the best match for someone else later. you have no monopoly on the replies just because it was you that asked this time.

reac.Feden wrote: How odd ... Daria suggests i should have looked on "Snopes, Google, Wikipedia" .... and Eternus says in response to a reply that someome should have done "the same searching the OP should have done." and here's me ... with a question relating to sl ... asking it in sl blogs ... in the section where it says "Ask a Question." OOPS ! How silly am I ? I, again, thank those who responded with the information I needed. on any forum/blog/wiki/whatever that has information you need and has a search function, 'information you need' is that using that function should be your first stop, and if it is a publicly indexable site Google et al count as search functions. not only are the odds extreme almost to infinity that your question has been asked before in most cases, chances are also high that you will learn more useful stuff that way, and if your question does not get answered that way chances are still high that you will learn something that may help you tune your question to get the best answer. it also promotes a cleaner, easier to search site if the same question is not appearing in a dozen permutations of itself, and that is especially true of this blogmonster thing that doesn't as of yet have 'stickies' implemented. 'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' is a cliche for a reason. some of us will be caustic or blunt with replies to questions that have been asked a lot before; welcome to the internet. to quote a friend of mine from another forum: Use the search, Luke!

Unklebob.Hotaling wrote: You can respond to how objects that have been in place for weeks can suddenly go offworld when i'm not even there if you wish to be serious ie "Until I have time to check out my house with legs, anyone have any suggestions?", or have fun with the concept like others as is your preference... i'm not really keeping score maybe she's studying the ToS to be sure it actually allows 'fun'? hehe j/k Ann, i love your posts most of the time and read threads just because you posted in them.

Bunyip.Fanshaw wrote: Is there any way of muting someone who keeps derailing these threads with insulting and obnoxious comments? I think y'all know who I'm referring to short answer: No. long answer: No. and if YOU had done the same searching the OP should have done you would have seen that muting has been discussed several times in this blogmonster too, though not to the extent that various emerald features have. even longer answer: No. and, derailing? not. insulting? granted. obnoxious? also granted. but anyone who can't tell from the post "we all know you are referring to" that the answer is indeed No to the question that was asked needs to get off the internet before they break it or it breaks them.

Johan.Laurasia wrote: Yeah, about the edits.. It's stupid how the blog automatically subscribes you to the thread and you have to manually opt out of receiving notifications all the time, what's up with that. The least they could do is have some sort of control panel setting that lets you turn that functionality on and off, or more sensibly make you manually subscribe to an important thread. If I come in and post to 4 or 5 threads, the next day when I get up I have 50 or 60 emails sometimes. It's just stupid. they do have a control panel for that. up at the top left, click Your Stuff then click Preferences. and just bask in the lovely dark glow of all the No you can click. however if i do subscribe to a thread, which i dont exactly because of this, it'd be nice to just get ONE DAMN MAIL until i view the thread, not one per post.

thank you! sometimes who posted or when is more important to me even than what the thread is.