Vick Forcella

Paulyta Miles wrote: Phoenix-Firestorm Preview 2 v2.4.2.14915 For me it crashed within a minute so I'll wait for the update.

Innula Zenovka wrote: I see. But legal gambling sites -- people like Betfair or Paddy Powers or Richard Branson's Virgin Casino -- are OK? Gambling is illegal in The Netherlands except a few state controlled places. I assume the ban would include all (internet) gambling anywhere.

Madeliefste Oh wrote: It's on volunteery base, the banks can choose to cooperate or not. According to the articles the blacklist was compiled by the banks themselves.

Innula Zenovka wrote: Try https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/L$_Marketplace Strange I could not find it. It used to be linked from the Get L$ page.

Amiryu Hosoi wrote: We make our own ,oney in Second Life so I have nothing to worry;-) We doesn't include me...

Perhaps the box is now on a laggy server. Remember there are 4+ sims on one server so even when it appears to be lagfree the other three could be hell. Make a copy of the magic box and place it somewhere else, a different sim. If delivery isn't possible from one, the system will try to deliver from the other.

I tried to find the KB article for other L$ suppliers but that article appears to be gone.

Innula Zenovka wrote: The new payment system has been in operation since late last year -- November, I think -- so if people with bank accounts in The Netherlands haven't had problems so far, I don't think they're likely to start now. The publication is from yesterday and reading it through it appears the implementation isn't inmediately but will take some time. I checked the Dragonfish website again and the ties with gambling are all to clear. I have no idea how the blacklist will work and what is on it. I tried to find some official source but could not find it, seems unlikely that the list will be published. I do understand it is not a Dutch-only blacklist but that it is an international list. My PIF is also PayPal so I'm not affected.. yet.

Read this: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Commerce-Forums-General/Dragonfish-and-Second-Life-Strike-ePayment-Deal/m-p/39216/highlight/true#M10115 Then these: http://www.rtl.nl/%28/actueel/rtlnieuws/binnenland/%29/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2011/03_maart/31/binnenland/banken-blokkeren-betaling-goksites.xml http://www.nu.nl/economie/2481615/banken-krijgen-zwarte-lijst-gokwebsites.html Short translation in English: Gov tells banks they are not allowed to do any business with gambling related websites. Anyone any idea whet the status is with 888 and Draginfish? Are they on the blacklist? Does anyone know what is on the blacklist?

Last time I sold off L$ was 8000 for 249 so: 8000 L$ 8000/249 = 32.129 US$ 32.129*3.5/100= 1.125 US$ fee 32.129- 1.125 = 31.004 US$ My balance was credited 31 US$

https://secondlife.com/my/lindex/describe-transaction-fees.php The error is probably that you base your calculations on the L$, it should be based on the resulting US$. So first sell off the L$, then calculate 3.5% over the US$, then subtract the fee from the US$ balance. I did not calculate through though Add to that the fee for payout/ transfer to PayPal. US$ 1.-- each transaction.

Opensource Obscure wrote: As another JIRA contributor, that's good to know. Pity! Thanks for your reports anyway. It is not what I want. I want a viewer that works for everybody, that welcomes old and new users. It's the reason why I worked with Jira, making it better. Thy did good so far but the latest is just unusable, it's broken in many ways making Second Life impossible to use. We, the old, know where to find a TPV that works but the new? The new just don't enter. We need new residents! Just download Phoenix (not Firestorm yet) and you will find out yourself. So sad.

squashy Beeswing wrote: @ Vick I've persevered with V2 as long as i care to. I don't object to the UI or the sidebar menu, but this latest version is unusable. I can't move, things don't rez, and it just isn't performing well for me. I don't know what the problem is, or why it's become so much worse since V2.4 but it has. Oh, and the web-based profiles? They suck to high heaven. I'm now using Phoenix because it works. 2.4 also worked ok for me except the inventory load that is broken since V2. The latest is pushing the CPU way up for no obvious reason and I can't get it onto one core or it will freeze over and over again. If that is related to the extreme slow loading I don't know, often a scene doesn't load at all leaving many grey. Something has also changed in the way network traffic is being handled. Looks like one one thing at a time can be rendered while in the old versions it rendered in parallel. Must be UDP and HTTP, but not only for textures, for other actions as well. It feels like it's coming through a small pipe one at a time. Could it be HTTPS is being used slowing down everything? Not rendering is BAD ©, not being able to fetch inventory is BAD ©, lag is BAD© and taking away functionality is worse as BAD©. What is odd is that Firestorm has a few of the same bugs and that Phoenix is running soo fast. It's my guess that LL is near to the servers and do not notice the massive LAG the rest of the world experiences. Also they roll out half tested Viewers and drop them on the noobs pushing them away in one minute. By cutting away critical functionality and dropping a half finished product they push out the ones that adore V2. This is so sad since LL will one day cut some things server-side making it impossible for any TPV to correct it. We all loose.

Willow Danube wrote: :smileysad: Good Bye, Vick... I'm going to miss you. I'm not leaving Willow I'll be a PITA forever

Irene Muni wrote: And an interesting video (well,l for me) about Firestorm: I remember seeing that vid. Telling about the amazing new features of V2 as if they are Phoenix. But if it restores the taken away functionality of V2 it's well woth a try

George Orellana wrote: I meant Phoenix Firestorm 2.4.2.14918 (Preview), you can download it from here http://phoenixviewer.googlecode.com/files/Phoenix_Firestorm-Preview_2-4-2-14918_Setup.exe ok. I'll try that. Thanks!

I tried the latest from Imprudence but that lacks. Kirstens has the webprofiles. Now running Phoenix Viewer 1.5.2 (977) Mar 11 2011 07:41:45 (Phoenix Viewer Beta) and it appears as complete.

With the introduction of V2 many amazing featured were added. A great improvement. Didn't like the sidebar but also didn't hate it. I adopted quick and began to love the so many added features. Also it was obvious that V2 was updated with a high frequency, bugs were fixed fast. LL was doing it's best to make V2 even more amazing, more stable. With the introduction of the Webprofiles LL is doing the opposite as before. They are removing features making the official LL viewer the viewer with less features. Loss of functionality is described as Expected Behaviour.... So I went looking around for a viewer that has the added features without loss of functionality and tried Phoenix. I am AMAZED! It is very fast. The inv in V2 takes me 10 mins to load, in Phoenix 2 mins. A busy sim never renders in V2, in Phoenix I can look around and actually see people in their chosen outfits. Profiles are complete again, with all the options that were removed. Profiles are fast and predictable! Search is back, almost as good as before. Land options are complete again. The CPU is back to 50% without causing lag, V2 often takes well over 70% and forcing it onto one core causes freezes. The only thing I'm missing... the sidebar and a fully functional outfits folder. There is a workaround for the outfits but that isn't all to obvious. So, sorry LL. I have dropped V2 and the Jira's that go along with it. Besides. I am back being a normal resident and not a guinea pig any more. I had good reasons to adopt V2, it's the noob viewer and I want to give support for the products I sell, the added features, the stability, the completeness, the innovation, the UI, helping to improve the viewer with Jira's. V2 was a major step forward but someone has put it in reverse for some unknown reason. I am sad and fearing the loss of functionality and lag will also hit TPV's one day. I like the UI of V2 a lot more as the UI of Phoenix. I'm double sad feeling forced into this UI but the total package is more functional as V2 and that is what counts and what has pushed me over the edge.

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PincoPallino wrote: What's possible the situation w hich is it unable to process credit? You need to have Payment Info On File first to be able to receive Credit. So best is you once buy 25 us$ direct from LL and then process credit. This has nothing to do with VAT since VAT is only charged when you increase your credit.

tiarAIice Twine wrote: I did Cleared cache . After clearing cache you *need* to reload your inventory. Open your inventory and start a seach for the character "a" (or any other character. Your inventory will start to load showing an increasing number. Next click, while the search continues, on Recent Items. The combination of Recent Items and Search inventory forces the viewer tho drag your inventory back to your cache. If the number stops increasing it does not always mean the inv has been loaded, sometimes it stops a while, click one of the tabs to force the loading to continue. Loading inv can take anywhere between one and ten minutes depending on the size. Best is you go to a lonely lag free sim. Pooly is known, Welsh is also ok. If the freeze starts inmediately at log-in it can be that your Home sim is broken. Try logging into a different sim (Pooley, Welsh) and see if that solves a problem.

Suspiria wrote: I logged in today to find my sent PM's missing from last week. Who allows this to happen and why is it allowed to happen? Q1: Linden Lab Q2: Because it can. Kudo's? *holds out hands*

Display names can be changed every week. Usernames are unique.

Dilbert Dilweg wrote: I dont understand why they make all these changes and do not inform the residents. Receiving information is an opt-in system: the forums. If LL would send out an e-mail for each change then .. wow.. one long mail each week at least ending up in the spam tray of the users.

Follow the tips described in this artice http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Why_do_I_look_like_a_particle_cloud