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I just located and fix the Slow Script error that many users have been getting when they login. Hopfully this fix will correct it for everyone. If you still continue to get it after today please let me know.

Eric

I just realized that we had a lot of comments backlogged waiting in the queue to be approved, so if you are one of those people who have been waiting your comment should now be showing. Sorry for the long wait.

Eric

You can have lots of fun in Second Life, but there will be times that you feel that you have been wronged. This blog will go through the steps of filing an Abuse Report against the person or people that have wronged you, and the categories of the abuse (the BIG 6).

To file an abuse report, go to Help-Report Abuse (alternatively, you can right-click an object or person, go more-more-Report Abuse) Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Everyone,

Yet another week in that wonderful world they call Second Life ™, well, I think I need a ™ on the end of it.

SL proved to be pretty steady for this week, there are no reports of major problems, nor of any greifing problems. This could be a short report. We are gettig good feedback from our students, though not may give us feedback. If your a student, please complete the form at http://nci-sl.org/education/st-feedback.pl, all feedback, good or bad, is appreciated.

I had a lot of fun at my Physical class on the Sunday. The talk at the start was about bots, which someone mistyped as bats. I promptly changed into my cute fruit bat AV, turned my movelock stand upside down, and taught the class like that. It added a bit of humor but did not detract from the class.

Ok, you just bought a new shirt, but now have realized that the sleeves are too long….what to do? In this tutorial, I will explain how to edit your clothing for a more comfortable fit.

Wear the piece of clothing from inventory that you would like to edit….I will use the example of a shirt. Read the rest of this entry »

How many times have you gone up to people and said, ” Where are you from and what do you like?” OR how many times have people come up to you and asked the same questions? People let me introduce you to the profile! A handy dandy little tool that everyone should make use of.

Simple enough to overlook but can save much annoyance. Go under the Edit tab at the top of the screen and go down to profile. This is a wonderful place where you can tell everyone all that mundane stuff about you like where you are from or what your interests are.

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In a previous post I have gone through, the different tabs of the search window, but I left the All tab to have a blog of its own.

The All tab works the same way a web browser would. Along with the powerful search engine, you can also narrow your search by category. These categories are Events, Groups, People, Places and the Second Life Wiki.

I will break down the search categories and give an example of each:

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Hi Everyone,

This blog covers two weeks as RL has proven to be a pain. My Manager has move on and we are replacing our phone system. Basically, I’m it, hell desk, network, servers, managing, etc. At least the phones are in now and I do have outside help. Anyway, back to my report.

SL proved to be a bit wobbly for both these weeks, the first week being worse. There were problems reported with rezzing, TPing, and crashing.

We tried to run a couple of classes at SL5B, but this proved not to be successful due to bad lag, scripts not running, and rezzing failing.

A couple of incidents happened to me during the two weeks, one was having to eject an av who decided that I needed very close inspection during a class! The other was, having moved my power tools class to NCI South, finding I had more students than South’s classroom or dance floor could accommodate. I ended up rezzing a temporary low flying classroom above the sandbox. This has now been raised and made permanent, releasing the Nova Civis sandbox to be used as a sandbox (and making it easier for folk to find the classroom).

I have run several version updates on the blog. I am hopping all is well and i didnt break anything in the process. If you do notice any issues please let me know.

Thanks

Eric Boyer

Here is part two of my blog regarding the communicate window…I will focus on just the Contact tab for this blog.

On this tab of the Communicate window, there are two tabs, one for Friends and one for Groups. The Friends list will show all the people you have added to it and will show if they are online or not (online names are bolded), and the Groups list shows the groups you have joined and the bolded group is the one that is showing in your name tag.

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