Dillon Levenque

Czari Zenovka wrote: Dillon Levenque wrote: Of course it worked perfectly and continues to do so. However, I apologize to all (especially to Czari, who was physically injured by a recalcitrant power supply) for suggesting that computer upgrades are a snap. Heh - I need to go back and re-read my post when I first tried to install the graphics card (which I did an "ok" job of and then found out I needed a couple different connecters...lol). I recall the metal side of my old PC case cutting my leg because I had stupidly propped it under the counter where I was working. Ah, good times. *Grins* TY for the clarification. I could only remember it as 'computer bites Czari' so I went with what seemed like the most logical choice: a dropped power supply. Now that you've explained, I remember it perfectly. :-)

It isn't really all that cut and dried. I recently bought a new PC and, separately, components for upgrading same. I used to build PC's as a matter of course but stopped when I could buy ready-mades cheaper (admittedly, that was as much as fifteen or more years ago). These days, most of my inbox adventures are just drive/ps/RAM swaps, so no experience needed. I got the PC and the power supply before I got the graphics card, so I decided to install the PS. I'd checked the dimensions against what looked liked the avaialble space in my new box and thought there would be plenty of room, but in fact it was way tighter than I'd figured. The PS was a Corsair 750, and thankfully it comes with modullar flat cables, because with normal cabling it would not have fit. As it is I had to pull the DVD drive to install the power supply and cablles, and then ease the drvie back in afterwards, but there was wiggle room to tuck the flat cables back over the top of the drive. All was well. Then my Nvidia 770 from PNY arrived. It had one six-pin power connector and one 8 pin. My Corsair came with six-pin video power connectors only.I read the paper instructions packed with the video card, and they talked about FOUR pin power connectors (with admittedly a mention that "your card might have a six-pin connector"). I went online to PNY's site and downloaded their latest intstructions (from 20 freaking 09!). Same: four pin, possibly six pin. Packed with the video card was an adaptor cable that converted two six-pin males to one eight-pin male. The Corsair, bless its heart, did have extra six-pin graphic power connectors and cables. Coutd that be the answer? Double-checked both Corsair and the PNY's support pages. Nuttin. Didn't expect anything from Corsair, I mean all they make is the PS; it's up to everyone else to utilize it. If there is a technical type that can be defined as "Throw caution to the winds", I am the exact opposite. People argue with my step by step approach to new things sometimes, but it's who I am. I didn't really enjoy powering that sucker up with connections I had no idea (other than the fact they all fit together) would work. I just mentally decided I could live with trashing the graphics card and since I was watching and waiting, knew that if it burst into flames I could pull the plug and foam it down before it took out the motherboard.. You're probably breathless with admiration at my willingness to forge ahead. That's me. Danger is my business. Of course it worked perfectly and continues to do so. However, I apologize to all (especially to Czari, who was physically injured by a recalcitrant power supply) for suggesting that computer upgrades are a snap. edited, spelling and punctuation

I ran across this last night while looking for something else; I'd forgotten how much fun they were.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: I thought that was what you made Snugs use? Ya know, I'm getting tired of these insinuations that Snugs is a red headed stepsibling or god's gift to humanity (I'm looking at you Dil). I don't need you people chiding me to lavish gifts on the jackass riding on my back, thank you very much. /me high fives Perrie...well, midrange fives: Martians are height-challenged.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Hi William, I'm going to guess that's a rhetorical question. Anonymous social platforms like SL allow people to behave like jerks. It also allows people to do wonderful and imaginative things and to share of themselves in ways they might not otherwise. You'll have to thicken your skin, temper your expectations, work on your patience and believe that there are neat people here. And I apologize for swearing at you when you came out of your house the other day. I mistook you for my *^@#$ neighbor. ;-). Funny, Snugs gets along with the neighbors just fine.

Phil Deakins wrote: To fulfill your "most simple" and "LOW PRIM" specs, it's a hollowed cube for the walls with a 1 prim ceiling and a 1 prim floor. It doesn't come any simpler than that. That's 3 prims. Forget about setting anything to convex hull if you actually want to be inside the room and use stuff inside it as normal. Just link them together as normal. My first skybox was built to that spec except that I used two hollowed cubes (actually rectangular solids, wider than they were tall) mated end to end, and the two end walls for 4 prims. I made one of the end walls transparent from the inside so I had a nice view, and I used a fairly bland texture from the Library—some kind of beige-ish plaster texture—for the interior walls. Even though all the interior surfaces had the same texture, in practice the effects of region lighting made that almost a non-issue; the ceiling was so much darker looking than the walls you really didn't notice that they were the same. I threw a couple of big rugs on the floor. Architectural Design Award for Excellence. Or perhaps not ;-). Worked, though.

I don't give a hang about a Linden dollar. the OP made this song come instantly to mind, but I'd no idea Hoyt had done a recording with the Chambers Brothers as backup. It is dated 1962, four years before the Chambers Brothers' one huge hit came out. I love Youtube.

Second cafe to the right, and straight on till Brussels.

linklinkI don't know how long you've been in SL but this is a terrific question and one I wish I'd asked early in my SL existence. Things are changing, but up until just recently, your shape is just that, a shape. If you select the Appearance option in your viewer and then select 'Edit Shape', you'll see the very same menu everyone works with. I went almost a year thinking that the shapes sold in stores were some kind of special custom creation not available to the average user. They aren't. They're made by people moving the sliders on the standard SL avatar shape. Now that's not to say they aren't custom: they for sure are. It might be well worth your while to just go ahead a purchase a shape you really like, rather than spend all the time using trial and error to create one yourself. Just be aware that in fact it's not magic; it's just someone moving the sliders. You can do it yourself if you want to. Skins, on the other hand, are ground-up creations by individuals, at least as near as I can tell. They're images created by the designer upon an existing pattern, and the good ones are really good and usually fairly expensive. Oh and that's all changing, a bit at a time. Now we have mesh shapes, presumably designed from scratch and bearing no connection to the original/basic SL avatar. We need a whole new wiki on shapes, I think. Anyway, great question.Google again, there are tons of really good articles about editing your shape. Unless you're a PhotoShop whiz, you might want to just deal with your shape and buy a skin (get DEMOS FIRST! ALWAYS!) but that's your choice. Enjoy :-) Edited to add this link I just saw posted by Qie in another thread: http://avatartoolbox.info/Skins.html. It's designed for beginning creators, but it's really stuff that everyone should know and it will give you a much better idea of how skin 'works'.

JamieThunder wrote: My reply to him is in keeping with the subject at hand, no different than when someone posts on here about an item, clothing,,,etc etc and someone shares a link or name of designer or builder... as for your retort on my C/P in the other forums...I'll call you on your bombast,,They are BOTH in keeping with the Forum subject at hand,ie., MESH and FASHION>>>> What you are doing here really is advertising. When someone affiliated with a merchant or creator posts here in answer to a question, the typical format is to mention the store name and then tell the OP you'll send them a PM with a link or IM them inworld. You're going well beyond that, therefore you should expect to catch some flack for advertising.

entity0x wrote: 10/10 non creators artists leave and never come back. They simply don't know where, why, how, who or what to do. 10/10? I'm going to guess you did not intend that to be understood as a fraction of 10 over 10 (aka 1) but as 10 out of 10 (aka 100%). If that's what you meant you really need to get out more. There are tons of us who are neither creators nor artists. We may make stuff because it's fun, and we may even try to be artistic. Most people do, in RL and in SL. But we're not here for that reason at all. It isn't why we came, and it isn't why we stay. PS (were it not for us, in our tens of thousands, the ones who DO spend all or most of their time creating would have a pretty puny market for their goods).

Suella Ember wrote: F*ck off, I'm full! Oh, lovely. Turns out skipping breakfast was a good idea for me! Nice to see you, Suella :-).

I've seen your other thread so I know you are still relatively new to Second Life. Thus it might not have crossed your mind that internet search might have answers to Second Life questions. In fact, it does! Google does, anyway. And the great thing about it is that most of the Second Life answers I've found via google are actually correct (a claim that cannot be made for most of the 'answers' to Real Life questions I've seen in places like Ask and Answer). Typing, "how do I turn off group notices in Second Life" in the google search bar will yield a bunch of relative results. For me, all but one of the first page results were from this very forum's "Answers" section. You can search and/or ask there too, simply click the green ANSWERS tab in the upper left of this page. "How to" questions will probably lead mostly to the Answers forum, but searching about almost any SL topic on google witll lead you to information: blogs, articles, tutorials, etc. The number of people that have taken the time to not only learn properly how to do something in SL but then document that knowledge is breathtaking.

Nice shoes :-).

Wow, I must be one of the slow-pokes. I'd been here a couple weeks at least before I ever knew there were freebie places, and that was because someone who took pity on me dragged me to one. While not denying my interest in adult places, it was even more than a couple weeks before I found out how all that worked, and that too was because someone dragged me to one and explained what poseballs were all about. We were both, of course, fully dressed at the time. She was probably laughing at all the people who were laughing at us because we appeared to be without a clue. Only half true, in this case. I seriously doubt very many newcomers even discover the availability of free stuff or the workability of sex poseballs on their first day. Unless they spend like 20 hours inworld and ask a whole lot of questions.

Was it, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"

Kelli May wrote: I've no idea of the efficacy of this solution, but other people have had the issue and solved it this way: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/VFS-initialization-error-continues/qaq-p/1591381 Again, I haven't read through the post other than to determine that they found a fix. Wow, what a cool Answers thread!. It is SO nice when the asker takes the time to come back and post the remedy, once they finally find it. Blu, the remedy in this person's case was removing some video drivers that were left over from a previously installed graphics adaptor. If you have changed your video card it might apply to you, but I'm guessing that's not the case.

Snugs McMasters wrote: The Devil is everywhere. Kick her in the (back)side and take all the credit you can get your hands on. She'll never give it away willingly. If Charolotte Caxton ever stops by for a visit, ask for a copy of her diary. She took no crap as M's assistant. :smileyvery-happy:

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Syn Anatine wrote: This thread has turned so entertaining, yet informative at the same time. I am impressed! And whoever plays judge in the end, PLEASE slap LL on the wrists and make them bring our spellchecker back ... slaps LL's rist and poynts you to this... You can't be the Judge. You're the executioner. Now excuse me while I round up the kangaroos.

Perrie Juran wrote: I'm not sure about my status here either............. Apparently your status is 'food'! I'd had second thoughts about MY comment, thinking perhaps I should have been more inclusive, but at least I still mentally considered you part of the sentient crowd. To these ladies, it appears you're just a piece of meat.

I make it a rule not to question nor quarrel with other people's religious beliefs. Of course, being a Martian means you aren't really 'people' in the sense I intended. So yeah, that's just crazy.

Aethelwine wrote: Wow that sounds like powerful magic. Sing that 20 times a day and everyone will be falling in love with you after a month! Once. Once a day, that's all it takes. You must take a deep cleansing breath, and then do the chant beginning to end. Do not omit 'ramma lamma ding dong' nor "dit de dit dit". Trust me. Works like a charm. Who was that man? I'd like to shake his hand.

Kwakkelde Kwak wrote: or did you mean the very hard to come by Limited Edition? Some might prefer this custom built one: That is a display of fabulous forum knowledge, as well as cleverness. I hope the McMasters enjoyed that as much as I did. Well done!

A. I did not 'get that' from anywhere. I didn't get anything, actually. Read what I wrote. I was responding (quite clearly, to anyone who takes the trouble to read) to a post that suggested you might have intentionally placed your OP to sneak past the rules. B. Please note (again, this will require that you read carefully) that my post began with, "LOL. You could be right.". That phrase means that while the post to which I was responding MIGHT have accurately described the situation, it also might be off the mark. I personally thought it was unlikely. It would take a pretty smart person to come up with that idea. C. I didn't come from anywhere. I've been here the whole time. It's a forum, lots of people read what gets posted here. I have even commented in this thread (not to you, because I thought your questions had been answered accurately) back on Page 3.

LOL. You could be right. Maybe the whole thread was a clever way to get around the Forum 'no advertising' rules! If so, it succeeded brilliantly and now a few of the several hundred forum visitiors might know of the OP's store. Seems to me that's not exactly a marketing coup. Probably be better off trying to attract the attention of the 40,000 to 50,000 people who are inworld at any given moment. For the record, I did not look at the OP's store or profile. I'll do so now just to make sure I never buy anything of hers. I don't want to accidentally support someone who thinks going up to people and starting fake conversations with the intent of selling them something is perfectly okay. Yuk. edited for spelling