Support Ticket #01587329 XIV

It´s the middle of the night here now and I woke up after a nightmare and needed to drink, so while I am airing out my bedroom and cooling it down I checked my email.

There was a new message from Theresa Linden at Linden Lab waiting for me:

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"A comment has been added to your Case.. 

Case: 01587329
Avatar: Bock McMillan
Type: Other Inworld Issues
Status: Information Requested
Hi Bock!

Thanks again and again for the info. I love details! I hate that you had to delete your inventory to see if it were associated with this. Any new updates since this has happened? Or are you on a very well deserved hiatus? LOL!

Warm regards,

Theresa Linden

To reply to this case, either Reply to this email, or visit : https://secondlife.com/my/support/?caseID=01587329

(To view the Case online, you will need to log into Secondlife.com with this Avatar: Bock McMillan)"

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I sent my dear tech support the following reply:

"Hello dear Theresa,

You´re most welcome, after all we are in this together and I must do my part!

No, nothing new to report really. As Bock I keep on repeating in local chat, IM and with payments on most venues except when at home on Southern Charm. The newly created alt (LadyCruellaMcMillan) doesn't have any problems at all. She is fine wherever they both go while he is a stuttering fool, although still very dashing and charming of course...

I have a Swedish friend Zigadena Gabardini, who had the same problems. After I had been on the Second Pride meeting on Sunday with my bandwidth set to 5000 and been free of any problems for two hours, I told her to yank up her bandwidth (which was set to 500) up to 5000. She tells me that she has had no problems with repeats in local chat, IM and payments since she pulled up the bandwidth. Bock of course, as I have already told you, was not so lucky.

Hugs (we Swedes hug a lot and all the time),
Bock"

Cool Guy

See more of sexy blogger Jeff Ellsworth as a hunky scantily clad Iceman in only iconic 80´s gay porn white briefs on his blog Jeff Ellsworth Witnessing A Second Life.

There´s A New Girl In-World

There is a new female avatar is SecondLife and I met her tonight for the first time.

Her name is Butchella DeVille and she is only two days old. She looks wonderful, stunning and really sharp! Exquisite taste always helps in creating an avatar and this girl can rely on one of the best.

Actually she has everything except shoes, which is how you would recognize her creator... smelly, bare feet (Butch has actually progressed to sandals lately. I am happy to say.)

Below you see today's gathering of male avatars with their newly created female alternate accounts (alts).

The amazing thing that happened is that I kept up my usual repeats in chat (sighhhhhhhh good old #01587329 is getting really tiresome), while Lady Cruella didn't repeat at all. As Butch told me, it cannot be my computer or my broadband causing this problem, it must be something else.

From left Butch Diavolo, Lady Cruella (reclining), Butchella and Bock.
Photographer Butch Ciavolo

Support Ticket #01587329 XIII

Further developments as more pieces are added to the confusing puzzle.

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I received this email from my dear Theresa Linden at Linden Lab today.

"A comment has been added to your Case..

Case: 01587329
Avatar: Bock McMillan
Type: Other Inworld Issues
Status: Information Requested
Hello Bock,

Welcome back and thanks for the updates! Your last reply unfortunately got cut off for some reason as you were saying: "This got me totally con..."

I don't know why the system has cut you off but I do need the rest of that information. So, if you are able to, please paste the rest of it to me. I would be grateful. Also, if you can please include in your next reply your computer specs (from Help, About Second Life).

Thanks a bunch and I hope your headache is gone :(

Theresa Linden

To reply to this case, either Reply to this email, or visit : https://secondlife.com/my/support/?caseID=01587329

(To view the Case online, you will need to log into Secondlife.com with this Avatar: Bock McMillan)"

To which I responded as soon as I read the email.

"Hello Theresa,

Thank you, yes the headache finally decided to leave me on Sunday morning. I was extremely grateful for that! ;)

The part missing from the previous email is:

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"This got me totally confused and to the brink of total madness (as you may notice I sometimes like to exaggerate wildly). I had two accounts running on the same computer, one with problems and one without! Well, even if I was not quite at that point I was still feeling absolutely despondent and felt that we would never get control of this problem. We stopped the testing for the day and I ended it with deleting everything in my Inventory that I had amassed since September 2012. Luckily I have not been shopping a lot lately...

I am going back in today, feeling refreshed and eager to try again. I will get back to you with a new report on the results later today.

Hugs,
Bock" 

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And this is what it says under Help, About Second Life, Info:
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"Second Life 3.4.4 (268697) Jan 3 2013 19:48:48 (Second Life Beta Viewer) Release Notes
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (3392.31 MHz)
Memory: 12269 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8 64-bit (Build 9200) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 580/PCIe/SSE2
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.0013.1090 OpenGL Version: 4.2.0
libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.0 Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000 Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded) Voice Server Version: Not Connected Built with MSVC version 1600"
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I hope the information will be helpful and am waiting to hear from you soon again, meanwhile I will keep on experimenting...

Take care,

Bock"

And then the following postscript:

"P.S. As you can see from the info I yesterday tried switching to the Beta-viewer to see if it would help, it didn't.

Bock"

SecondLife Superstar Turns Six

Today is the sixth rezday in SecondLife of Eddi Haskell, my friend and mentor. This supersexy, superblogger is one of the extremely few persons in SecondLife that can rightfully claim to be a superstar.

Eddi is a man of very many talents, not least among them are a gracious manner and a willingness to help newcomers who are trying to follow in his gigantic footsteps. As you can see from the picture above he - in spite of his advanced age - also has a super-cute backside...

HAPPY REZDAY EDDI!

Eddi invites you all to join him in celebrating his sixth rezday today at The Bunker (SLurl).at 5-7 PM SLT. Music will be provided by DJ Ms. Bigred

Eddi suggests casual attire and ask you please not to bring gifts, just come and have a good time.

There will be a post-event celebration tonight at nearby Aqua Lounge beginning at 7 PM SLT with DJ Kaj for those of you who want to party the night away.

I Am an American

For at least twenty minutes today, while listening to  President Barack Obama´s second inaugural address, I did become an American.

He had me from the get go; when he quoted the first line of the American Constitution "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

That quote is one of the most beautiful and hopeful I have ever seen in any founding document and Obama filled it with even more passion and life and hope.

I have always wanted and expected from my leaders that they be filled with a vision and passion and that they are able to instill that vision and passion in me and all around me. What I have gotten from Swedish politicians the last twenty years is base economics and nitty gritty-hopelessness. Give me what I need, hope, vision, passion and a social consciousnesses and I will follow. Of course economic realities must be handled in a responsible way, but that should never be the only point - or even the main point.

For twenty minutes I became an American and proud of it. I was filled with hope for the future and our ability to handle the problems we would meet together. 

Support Ticket #01587329 XII

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"Hello Theresa,

I hope you had a great weekend and Inaugural Day.

Let me give you an update on what has been going on and the results of my testing with invaluable help from my family members Guyke Lundquist and Dej Mycron. They have been very patient and supportive and have also given me assistance through it all.

On Thursday evening, after I had pulled down the bandwidth on Bock from 1,500 to 500, as recommended by Alexa in the Jira, it seemed that we might have gotten the problem in hand. The repetitions in local chat, IM and payments seemed to have gone away even at laggy stores and I was very happy but did not dare rely on it until further testing had been made, so as you may remember I told you I was cautiously optimistic.

Friday and Saturday I spent in first life nurturing an end-of-the-workweek-coma on Friday and a head splintering headache on Saturday.

When I returned to SecondLife again on Sunday the repetitions also returned when I left the home sim without any of the settings being changed (i.e. the bandwidth was kept at 500 initially). I then got so frustrated that I yanked up the bandwidth to 5,000 and went to a two hour long membership meeting of the Second Pride. Lo and behold, I did not repeat once, neither in local chat, nor in IM.

However, after the meeting had finished I went out shopping and to my utter dismay and confusion the repetitions returned again, first at 5,000 and they remained even after I had pulled down the bandwidth to 500. This happened while testing at the stores of KMADD, Burley, Kalrau and Greed (Sey). When I was at Greed Guyke suggested I create a new alternate account and that we do some parallel testing with the new account and Bock. So I created LadyCruellaMcMillan (someone had been talking with me about animal-abuse earlier that day). Well, the strangest thing happened while Bock kept repeating in local chat and IM and with payments the new Lady Cruella had no problems at all, none in the least.

This got me totally confused and to the brink of total madness (as you may notice I sometimes like to exaggerate wildly). I had two accounts running on the same computer, one with problems ad one without! Well, even if I was not quite at that point I was still feeling absolutely despondent and felt that we would never get control of this problem. We stopped the testing for the day and I ended it with deleting everything in my Inventory that I had amassed since September 2012. Luckily I have not been shopping a lot lately...

I am going back in today, feeling refreshed and eager to try again. I will get back to you with a new report on the results later today.

Hugs,
Bock"