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I've occasionally had similar problems with auto-detection of drivers. This might be because of the browser being used, rather than the drivers. Also, check the driver settings for hardware acceleration. Finding that setting is very dependent on Windows version, so I can't be specific. In my experience, for OpenGL, one should avoid like the plague the Microsoft website. Second Life viewers depend on OpenGL. DirectX, while a useful rating for the capacity of the hardware, is irrelevant to the program. (The different DirectX versions require specific hardware features as a minimum.) It can happen that a Microsoft driver has been loaded because of some system glitch. In any case, it is worth having the installation file for the graphics driver available. So even if checking the details fixes the problem, download a current version. Step 1: Check the model number for the laptop and the graphics chipset. There are utilities which can help with this. I use one called PC-Wizard to keep an eye on a lot of stuff. Step 2: Go the manufacturer's website--check the laptop manufacturer and the chipset manufacturer--and use those numbers to select the required drivers manually. Step 3: Download the drivers and install. (Not the same problem, but every so often I have to fiddle with system-level sound volume settings--something, somewhere, resets the master volume to zero. Seems a pointless sort of check, but it's the sort of detail that is frustratiung if you miss it.)

Cinnamon Lohner wrote: If you don't want the aggravation of living on the Mainland, move to the Estates. Really quite simple and frankly not worth all the typing you just did which I scanned and then lost interest in. All my property is mainland and on Linden roads and as stated I don't have a problem with these vehicles. You have other options, exercise them. Or live your Second Life as a miserable mainland owner. Your world, Your choice --Cinn Mainland: it's only going to vanish when Linden Labs vanish. Private Estate: the estate owners do seem to pay more attention to their customers. I can see advantages both ways. Part of the problem with issues such as this is that we can think we have cause for an AR, but nothing seems to happen. And eventually people start finding their own solutions, which was part of what made RedZone possible. Annoy enough people, with no apparent official reaction, and something nasty will start happening. I've seen these vehicles bounce off Linden Land at region boundaries, and I can imagine somebody using a sort of instant-action security orb to get rid of them. And then a legitimate manually operated vehicle has similar boundary-crossing problems, and *Wham*! This could escalate.

The roads are empty because a LOT of people gave up after being bullied off routes from these things. The roads always seemed to be pretty empty. Crossing region boundaries has become a little more reliable, but I've travelled for miles without seeing anything on roads. Maybe that's why these stand out so much: even a few automated vehicles have been a big increase in traffic.

My experience is that the old LDPW office hours were the place where a lot of the problems got aired, but there's no LDPW Official Position. I was just a lowly user, but I miss those meetings. They were a large part of finding out what was happening. It strikes me a little odd that this business seemed to start when they ended, as if we lost a set of connections and channels that allowed for the sort of feedback which moderated individual excesses.

3 days seems unduly short. Maybe not for the initial grace period, but it biases toward people who connect every day. In the real world of legal notices on abandoned property, one reason why they use longer periods--one instance I know of is 28 days--is because people go other places. They have accidents which put them in hospital for a few days. There's all sorts of things. Getting the balance right is difficult, but I had a patch of abandoned land across the road from my little 512, been unchanged for around 15 months, and that is way too long. At least it was clear ground. The Lindens have just put a volcano on it. Doesn't look like they expect it to sell.

It really is pure accident that I found out about the westward extension of Bay City. It's not the forums which get a mention on the Dashboard page, not like in the old days, and it's not like in the old days when Michael Linden posted on new things such as this. This new interface, and the new patterns of sub-forums, aren't helping me judge this, but it looks as if you Linden guys need to do a much better job of telling us about things,

Yes, it is ridiculous. This is nothing at all new on the Internet, and is one of the reasons why Scunthorpe has an entry in Wikipedia You have to wonder if the Lindens know what they're doing when this sort of thing happens.

I've just seen a new post to the Blogs. It's not in the default "Featured Blogs" section on the Dashboard page, and that doesn't have, as it used to, an option to show all blog categories. As far as I can tell, there's never been any announcement of the TOS change that took place on the 25th February. As far as I am aware, the Blogs are the only official channel for announcements. Am I mistaken? If so, has there been anything else missed during the changeover in the Blog/Forum system? Please clarify.

I yjoink I know what you're referring toL it's not the one I mentioned else-thread.

"Halting State" by Charles Stross "A Point of Honor" by Dorothy J. Heydt

The NCI freebies are a good start, and you'll find people around NCI Kuula who will gladly help. They are also one of the places which run courses on how to do things. It is a good thing to buy a few Lindens, and get "payment info on file" status. Making that payment is a tricky process for some, I know, but it only needs a few USD. What does video rental or a burger cost? Put in 10 USD and you have enough L$ to put together a good AV. The default library clothes are good quality. There's no reason you can't mix-and-match to get a different look. The same with the sources of free and cheap clothes: a good pair of jeans can go with so many other items. Good skins aren't so commonplace. Some clothes might look best with particular shape settings, but creating a shape doesn't depend on buying or uploading stuff. Whatever you do, it helps to have some style in mind.

It's frustrating. Standard ban-lines are visible at close range, if you're in the same region. I've also seen them on abandoned water-only land parcels--at least the LDPW does a got job of sorting that out. Security orbs with a hair-trigger timing are hellish in a vehicle, and I get the impression that Viewer 2 makes the warning less obvious, but that could be down to my general struggle with finding a usable colour scheme. Another possible aid: make parcel boundaries visible at water level. Though that won't always help for the similar awkwardness with roads, where the road surface level is not simply defined. It might be something a TPV could add. I think some of the problems can be partly blamed on ancient history and badly-arranged land parcel boundaries. There's that sea-crossing past ANPR, but getting a boat past Purple is very tricky, especially sailing. Worse, there's no route for watercraft out of the Bay City area.

I can't say it's obvious from the name what that button does. Thanks for the explanation.

So, was there nothing at all worthy of a blog entry since the old system went Read-Only. No server roll-outs? No TOS changes? Nothing?

Very short summary of the info that is out there: there was a change of the TOS on the 25th Feb, which makes RedZone a breach of the TOS, unless some changes are made. Stuff is rattling about in places such as JIRA comments but, partly because of the Dark Time, your best bet is to check outside sources, such as Tateru Nino's blog. What I've seen, which may not be the complete story, suggests that zFire Xue is enthusiastically digging himself a deeper hole. I think the TOS change does need a proper blog announcement.

We need to sort out the issues before IPv6 takes over from IPv4. Much of the unbcertainty about IP addresses--the shareing and the re-use--vanishes with IPv6. Where there are privacy laws, the advice to those who collect data is to treat an IP address as though it identifies an individual, because some IP addresses do. IP addresses are rather like telephone numbers. They need to be passed around so that the internet can work. That's the inescapable technical reality that RedZone exploits. It needs to be controlled by regulation, whether the SL TOS or through statute law. Without it, we get abused by the sort of amoral idiots who think it is a good idea to keep making advertising phone calls from overseas call centres, or who pay the spammers to flood out mailboxes. Right now, I have no protection if I deal directly with a US company. (And some of the security checks I am protected by in Europe, when making purchases on the internet, I've never seen applied in the USA.) The Lindens charge me VAT, a European tax, but they don't seem to guarantee, yet, the data protection with European laws grant me. No taxation without data protection!

Sling Trebuchet wrote: RIght now, that JIRA hasn't broken the record for Votes. The Lindens, a while back, said they had stopped counting votes.

Lexie Linden wrote: This particular forum was set up with just the 4 threads so we can keep all the feedback for each space in one spot. so, you are correct. No new threads here. And no threading apparent. These threads are going to be horrible to read: long and no visible structure.

I've just spend some time looking through the Preferences and other Option buttons. 1:Who's the idiot who chose grey on white as the default for the text: not just text entry but all through the page? What are you guys doing to set your monitor brightness/contract/colour balance? I take the trouble to set mine, since I work some with CGI. I thought the old Mac/PC monitor gamma difference was long finished with. Aren't you even bothering to test? 2: so far, I haven't found any option for a threaded display of messages, as the old forums had. It looks as though you're using the unthreaded approach that was used by the old-style blogs, which made comments on controversial subjects horribly impractical to read. Having the choice is fine, but I haven't found one. I am not impressed. So far, I wouldn't consider the system, as you have it set up, to be fit for purpose.

I wonder if Community Feedback would be a better match. Anyway, they changed the TOS during the Dark Time, and it looks rather as if Redzone is in clear breach of the new terms.

other worlds manage better but user experience doesnt seem to be a priority for the developers, they just seem to like developing new toys to play with. I can't comment on other worlds, but a few things I've seen at the old Office Hours are consistent with the "new toys" hypothesis.

They might catch up with Phoenix one day.

Whether being searched on the web is a "huge plus" depends on what the user wants. I don't expect you to want the same as me. Which is why I'm a little surprised this choice of access levels wasn't in from the start. I'm afraid I know a few dirty tricks that can be pulled with HTML, and I'm really not sure how I can keep an SL viewer as secure as I keep my web browser.

As I read the new rules, the ban would be an act of moderation, and so couldn't be mentioned.

Oh joy! Oh bliss! Twitter and Facebook... Such an inspired choice—well, it's inspiring something, anyway, but I am not sure I can express my feelings on the matter with a sufficient combination of vigour and clarity, given the new rules.