Nalates Urriah

@TielenMoraes Some additional information for you. SL downloads inventory folder by folder. Not the things, just the names and pointers to the actual assets. So, it is downloading text information. Depending on connection quality and speed, problems appear around 5,000 items per folder. May be less, way less, on a really poor connection and more on a great connection. Computer performance may also affect the problem. There is no SL limit on the size of inventory or the number of items you can have in inventory total or per folder. But, the physics of the Internet network system imposes a per folder limt. As it is different for each user, there is not definitive recommended limit. On a practical level, I find it difficult to deal with more than a few hundred items per folder. So, have lots of inventory folders. NOw that I've been playing in Sl for 9 years, I need to clean out old stuff I never use. For the last 3 years I have been using year numbers in folder names. So, in CLOTheS I have: 2014 Dresses 2015 Dresses 2016 Dresses 2017 Dresses Mesh Short Sexy Long Evening etc Classic There are tools built into the viewer available for cleaning up and organizing inventory and working with outfits. If you aren't using them, look them up.

For those that don't follow Second Life News... In 2017 we will see Animesh and a new Windlight added to Second Life. Animesh is a new type of 'primitive' (e.g., cube, sphere...) that allows a mesh object to be rigged to a Bento Skeleton and placed in world. Some what like a bot is now. But, there will be no external server control as there is with bots. It will be just like a scripted car or pet, wholly within SL. (well... kinda) The Bento Skeleton can be made into anything. Pets, people, machines... and animated very much like we animate avatars with animation files, BVH or ANIM. Windlight will be enhanced. There will be new controls for cloud and moon textures. Rider Linden talked about the coming changes to Windlight at the Content Creation UG this past Thursday (8/10). Medhue live streamed the meeting (see about 12 min in) and I provided a link to the video and a text index to the video here. The big Windlight change is script control that will allow Windlight changes for individual avatars. If I understand Rider, this will mean while in the same region I can walk into a cave while you are on the beach and we will each have individual Windlight changes. Windlight settings will become an asset. We can create them, trade them, sell them on the Marketplace. Animations are changing... being extended. There is a default WALK animation. Newer AO's change that default animation. The SL servers then tell your viewer to play that animation whenever it detects you are walking. There is a default sit-animation that is handled the same way. So, once the defaults are set, you AO does not have to do anything. The older AO's before this new stuff was added had to continuously watch your avatar and notice what it was doing and play the right animation. The new style is much less work for the viewer and servers. Bento has added new complications for smiling and hand movement, along with wings and tails. The animation system is being changed to allow for default animations for Bento related new stuff. 360-Images - This project is partially complete. Those testing it are posting 360-Images on Facebook, Flickr, and other social sites. Voice - There is an RC Voice Viewer in testing. It has various fixes for voice problems. Alex Ivy - This is the 64-bit Linden Viewer that is in testing. Maintenance Viewer - There is a maintenance viewer with changes and fixes that are in testing and likely to soon be the new LL main viewer. (Release Notes) and more... This past week the SL Lindens had their planning summit. This is the meeting where a significant portion of the viewer software, server, and operations people figure out what they want to accomplish in the coming months. That information is semi-classified... so we don't hear a lot about what was decided. There is a lot happening in the area of SL development. If you have been thinking SL is static, you have lost touch with the reality. Follow my blog, link below, Inara Pey's blog, Medhue's YouTube Channel, Daniel Voyager, and others that talk about the new things happening in SL. Each month or usually each week there are dozens of improvements and changes in SL. This past 6 months many of the changes have been in the SL infrastructure. For instance, all the servers running SL have been updated to a new Operating System. Software libraries have been being upgraded to the 64-bit versions over the last year. Some of these changes require a huge amount of effort. There is a constant effort to combat griefers and improve security. There is a good sized team of Lindens that are devoted to improving SL. I believe they have a clear idea of what SL and Sansar are and how DIFFERENT they are. The best explanation I can give in a nontechnical way... I will be working in Sansar and Playing in SL.

You can search on Display Name. But, you must have selected the PEOPLE filter for it to work. Even then it may not work well.

Now I understand why you are having problems. Good luck.

I think you mis-assumed what 'specifics' are in relation to your problem. Go read the troubleshooting steps, follow them, then come back and talk to us.

@alizza Rhapsody Join the Firestorm Support Group and ask for help. Alwin is right about voice being flaky. But, in general it should work well. There is a Voice RC Viewer available at LL's Alternate Viewers page. That tells us there are voice fixes in testing. With any luck Firestorm will release a new version in September with these new voice fixes. If you want to chase down a fix or work around, work with Firestorm Support. If you are serious they may let you help test a beta FS version. ...Or they may just have a work-around.

I have only seen this 'ghosted' when a user gets disconnected. Their avatar may hang around for a couple of minutes before poofing. I can sort of tell when someone I am interacting with is about to poof. I haven't seen the old time ghosts that used to hang around for days (until the regions restarted) and blocked you from entering the region in subsequent logins. ...and WAY more than a year ago.

Appliers and some other HUD's can NOT be reset. It breaks them. Read the instructions and any troubleshooting info the creators provide to figure out the case for your Appliers and HUD's.

Teleports are especially sensitive to script load. Everything else Lindal points to is secondary. There have been some server issues with some regions not making good backend connections. So, you may find the slow teleport problem specific to certain regions. Tuesday and Wednesday restarts shuffle the deck. So, the problem may appear on different regions or disappear.

@Tdawg14 Landfall OMG! Let's clear up the confusion. Ranting in the Answers section is pointless. If you are frustrated... kick the cat. Ranting here inspires the trolls to mess with you. The helpful people respond to clear statements of a problem and questions. Your ISP is giving you a hard time. It is easier for them to blame SL than take the time to look at their system. Your questions should be 'How do I figure out who is the problem?' and 'How do I get them to do something?' My Connection Troubleshooting Guide helps you figure out where the problem is and who to blame. The only choices are; you (operator error), your equipment, your ISP, the backbone provider your ISP uses, the backbone provider Linden Lab uses, Linden Lab's internal network, and-or the LL servers. Lots of stuff to check. In running the troubleshooting steps you will record information that can be provided to your ISP and/or Linden Lab that shows where the problem is. Then they can get it fixed. If it is a backbone provider the ISP or LL has to deal with them. Most backbone providers can't be reached and refuse to talk to mere mortals. Linden Lab in 9 years has always fixed the problems on their end. But, they can be guilty of assuming it is the user when it isn't. That is VERY reasonable on their part as years of experience show that is the most prevalent case. It usually only takes seconds for 10,000+ of us to let them know some part of their system is down. So, if you alone have a problem, the odds are it is on your end. When thousands of us have a problem odds are it is on LL's end. When that is not the case, they have to be shown proof. Your word is that of an uninformed non-network specialist. They won't take it. Their time is better spent working on what they likely can fix. Whether that is right, just, or fair only matters to those that have lost contact with reality. It is the way it is. Cope. Your ISP tends to behave similarly. They may think they know their stuff is working and push you off by sending you to anyone, not them... Only when you have documented the problem showing where the fault is will they take action. Learn to deal with it. Since you haven't given us the specifics of your system or Internet service, we can't really help you at the technical level.

@PartySmile Lillith is being a bit hard on you. The i5-7600 is a seventh gen CPU released in Q1-2017. Of course the day a CPU releases there is a new CPU's moving from the design boards to the assembly line. So, in some way any CPU you can buy is 'out dated'. Second Life needs CPU speed more than it needs processor cores. Since your motherboard, which is really tiny, has overclocking capabilities, look into those. I push my i5-6600 by 14%. More than that and my system becomes unstable... well, in the 20% area I have problems. The 16GB of ram, when used with HD Graphics, is used to provide your video ram, which for video is slow. A dedicated card will use an internal data bus, faster video ram DDR5 or better and run at faster clock speeds and hundreds of GPU's and leave the whole 16GB for your system to use for data. For more speed consider placing your cache on a RAM-Drive. Your system memory is WAY faster than SSD. There is software which will save the Ram-Drive at power down and reload on power up. Provides a noticeable boost in performance. You have a tiny MB for a standard case. So, depending on the case you have the system in, in a small case, you may have cooling issues. Get something like CPUID HDWARE Monitor (free) and watch your temperatures until you know you aren't over heating.

When you ask WHY a person does anything you are asking a question that has aspects of human nature and circumstance. Without knowing the individual, there is no answer, just our projection of our thinking. Consider who you think such a thief is, where they live, and how. Then answer the following questions. Are they in a poverty ridden country trying to feed their family? A hacker trying to gain status? A maladjusted person feeding a mental need? A North Korean military hacker stealing funds for Dear Leader? Were any of these types of people in your first pass at who they are? There is your preconception. The reality is far more diverse than I have tried to convey.

Rolig is right. I'll expand a bit because your friend's problem is almost ALWAYS caused by a weak network connection. Most high-quality games require a 4 to 10 GB download which stores all the game content on the local computer. Those that are multiplayer then only have to send information about what each character is doing. All the buildings and clothes are already on the local computer. This is NOT the case with Second Life. Second Life's content is measured in Petabytes. Last I heard we were nearing 200 petabytes of content and have likely exceeded that by another 200 to 300. You can't fit that much in a home computer. A good connection to other games doesn't mean anything. If the highway from Chicago the Detroit is clear, great. But, that says nothing about the highway from Chicago to San Diego. One can be clogged with a wreck and have no effect on the other. Having one good Internet connection tells us nothing about an individual's connection to the SL servers. Plus at any moment a component somewhere along your network connection path can fail or be hit with a denial of service attack. The Internet changes by the millisecond. So, test the connection to the SL Servers. See: http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ - This article will tell you how to know if the problem is your friend's computer, router/gateway, ISP, backbone providers, or the Linden network. Run the tests and you'll know what to fix and/or who to complain to.

Yay! I am surprised the problem is in your router. The TraceRT shows it down the line. But, if it works, it works.

The location of chat logs changes with 32 & 64-bit viewers. Still in roaming but the viewer name changes. Be sure you are looking in the right Firestorm or SecondLife folder.

You wrote, "There is a DNS problem, since login failure started all-of-sudden." Did you mean to write "there isn't"? Either way the 'all of a sudden' part is a VERY possible and likely change. DNS servers get over loaded, break, routing files corrupt, or get updated with errors. It can happen in an instance. My granddad had a mule. It died. It never did that before... it was fine yesterday...

Check Grid Status. You'll see many are having the same problems. The Lindens are aware of the issue and have posted in GS that they are looking at the problem. Avoid any drastic attempts at fixing the problem, like cache clear and reinstall.

I take it from what you have said that while in a region you and others see your avatar changing appearance. Also, this has happened over a few logins. Since others see the change happening, it is unlikely your computer/viewer or connection. MY first guess would be that it is a region issue. Since many on the grid are having attachment issues over the last 12-20 hours your issue may be related. I suspect some confusion between the regions servers and asset backend. I suggest you avoid drastic steps, like cache clearing, until the Lindens announce the issue is resolved. After that, you can get more aggressive. Before then you may just aggravate any existing or even create new problems.

Remember. You can answer the Payments question asked when recovering a password by looking in your PayPal account.

The pertinent pares are: Packets Lost: 59/1,294 (4.6%) 12 51 ms 51 ms 51 ms if-ae-7-2.tcore1.FR0-Frankfurt.as6453.net [195.2 19.50.1] 13 * * * Request timed out. Here is the break... 14 * * 201 ms ae-1-11.bear1.Phoenix1.Level3.net [4.69.210.157] The 4.6% packet loss is higher than the SL system can work with. Thus the disconnection. There is a problem between the Frankfurt and Phoenix routers. So, the problem is most likely the backbone provider. To get that fixed, send the same information you pasted in the post to your ISP and place in a trouble ticket with Linden Lab. Your ISP and the Lab working from both ends will find and fix the problem. If you want to add weight to your complaint include 3 or 4 TraceRT's with time and date in your complaint/tickets. Spread them over 3 or 4 hours or even a couple days. This will show it is an ongoing problem, Good luck.

The function llGetAgentInfo is used to find when the avatar is walking, running, flying, sitting, etc. The script has to continually poll the system to know when state changes, You can look at an older AO script to get the polling code. The script you have is pretty much useless for your need. I suggest you post in the Tech section where scripters are likely to see your request. Not many scripters in Answers. Builder's Brewery may have a script in their library that will do the job. Plus there are several LSL libraries on the web.

Scroll down the page and look at the pending Buy/sell orders. The buy stack this morning was L$90+ million for 261. It will take several days for that backup to process through. If you place an order for 261 you are at the end of that line. By placing a 260 order you move ahead all the 261 orders. It is first come first served within a L$ bracket. So, theoretically your order would eventually be filled. However, I doubt a L$271 purchase will fill this year. The L$260 bracket had 15,000 pending this morning. Now that is gone. Check it each hour and see how the numbers change. Earlier it was sell @ L$250 with L$82 million pending and buy @ L$260 with L$92 million pending. Now it is sell @ L$251 with L$1.5 million pending and buy @ L$261 with L$96 million pending. Not many sellers are going for that L$261. So, it will take some time.

Check to see if you have to have a specific group active to use the tip jar.

@natsumi Latour The page layout has confused you. You are seeing a "pop up" request from PayPal requesting you add a credit card to PAYPAL. This isn't the Lab asking for a credit card. PayPal has to have a credit or debit card to process immediate payments. Otherwise, you would need to keep a balance in PayPal. Since PayPal doesn't trust anyone to do that, they require a card be on hand for immediate transactions. You can prove this to yourself by going directly to PayPal and setting up the card then return to SL and try again. It should work then. PS: Look at the page's URL. You are on the PayPal site.

You apparently are not familiar with currency exchanges. Exchanges are pure free market businesses. People and governments often try to manipulate them. But, these are the places where democracy rules supreme. People vote with their dollars. People are free to sell at whatever price they choose as long as someone else is willing to buy at that price. An important concept is understanding the value of the L$ is set by the last, most recent sale. So, just as homes in a neighborhood are priced by the recent sale of similar homes in the area, so too are currencies prices. If one needs to sell or buy a home or currency quickly, the market movement comes into play. To sell quickly, sell below market price. To buy quickly, buy above market price. Another concept is market spread, the gap between sellers' and buyers' offer and bid prices. Understand all the sellers and buyers that matched prices have closed their transactions and left the market. That leaves only those that haven't agreed on a price. What you see in the market are those saying I'll sell at 250 and those saying they'll buy at 260. To know how long it is going to take to close your bid, look at the amount of L$ that have to move before your transaction can close. This morning there is L$97 million (US$400,000+) waiting for a seller @ L$261 and L$87 million waiting for a buyer willing to pay the higher L$250. All those transactions and more have to be processed before your silly offer will be processed, likely never.