no more help
So my techie friend (Gwyneth from SL) is here and I figured I would have her help me figure out how to get my laptop graphics to do Second Life. We hunted for an update to my driver, found one, downloaded it, and my laptop said it would not install. How rude.
So I logged on to SL. While I could see a bit more than my last attempt at the office, much of the scenery was still just a gray mass. As I wandered around I saw a sign for a guide book. I touched it and it promised the book would be delivered to my inventory. I wandered into a new house on Help Island where you can practice sitting on furniture, opening and closing the blinds, etc.
There was a kiosk for a newspaper and I clicked on it. It told me that a copy of the paper would be delivered to my inventory. Another avatar came into the house. The head was a "he" with a little goatee beard. The body was a "she" and wearing a dress. And s/he was carrying the torch from orientation island.
Remembering my own torch struggles, I smiled, betting that s/he couldn't put it down. Sure enough, as soon as s/he got into chatting range the words came across my screen, "How the hell do I drop this thing?!" Unfortunately, I couldn't quite remember what I had done to get rid of it. I made a few suggestions. I looked again and s/he was carrying a sword instead of the torch. In another second the sword was replaced with a car, stuck to the side of the avatar. He went off muttering.
Then an avatar named Kung Fu came into the house. He had a large oval can in place of a head. Because of the can I'm just guessing at the sex, but I know very few women who would walk around the world...even a virtual one...with a can for a head. Must be a guy.
He called to me through the chat system and as I tried to respond, that's when I got stuck again. I couldn't move, couldn't chat. It crashed and I had to exit.
In the meantime, Gwyneth was on my desktop and discovered why I was having problems. The graphics card in my laptop wasn't one that was supported by SL. It predicted I would have exactly the problems I was having. But the problem is bigger than that. The card in my laptop can't be upgraded. Well, I figured, it's a few years old. Maybe it's time for a new laptop. But new laptops come with Windows Vista. SL won't work on Vista (quite a bit doesn't work on Vista apparently). So that's not good.
I checked my e-mail. I had two notes from SL, each one telling me that to receive the item I had clicked on earlier in my inventory I had to log in. It gave me a link--different e-mail for each item. Even though I figured it would probably freeze up, I thought I would at least log in and get the items.
I clicked on the link. A large map spread before me. I was in-world. This was not help island any more. And once you leave help island you can't go back. So I'm guessing that I'm done with trying to sit on furniture and will have to roam about on my own in the...ummm...real world. But I will do so next on my desktop.
So I logged on to SL. While I could see a bit more than my last attempt at the office, much of the scenery was still just a gray mass. As I wandered around I saw a sign for a guide book. I touched it and it promised the book would be delivered to my inventory. I wandered into a new house on Help Island where you can practice sitting on furniture, opening and closing the blinds, etc.
There was a kiosk for a newspaper and I clicked on it. It told me that a copy of the paper would be delivered to my inventory. Another avatar came into the house. The head was a "he" with a little goatee beard. The body was a "she" and wearing a dress. And s/he was carrying the torch from orientation island.
Remembering my own torch struggles, I smiled, betting that s/he couldn't put it down. Sure enough, as soon as s/he got into chatting range the words came across my screen, "How the hell do I drop this thing?!" Unfortunately, I couldn't quite remember what I had done to get rid of it. I made a few suggestions. I looked again and s/he was carrying a sword instead of the torch. In another second the sword was replaced with a car, stuck to the side of the avatar. He went off muttering.
Then an avatar named Kung Fu came into the house. He had a large oval can in place of a head. Because of the can I'm just guessing at the sex, but I know very few women who would walk around the world...even a virtual one...with a can for a head. Must be a guy.
He called to me through the chat system and as I tried to respond, that's when I got stuck again. I couldn't move, couldn't chat. It crashed and I had to exit.
In the meantime, Gwyneth was on my desktop and discovered why I was having problems. The graphics card in my laptop wasn't one that was supported by SL. It predicted I would have exactly the problems I was having. But the problem is bigger than that. The card in my laptop can't be upgraded. Well, I figured, it's a few years old. Maybe it's time for a new laptop. But new laptops come with Windows Vista. SL won't work on Vista (quite a bit doesn't work on Vista apparently). So that's not good.
I checked my e-mail. I had two notes from SL, each one telling me that to receive the item I had clicked on earlier in my inventory I had to log in. It gave me a link--different e-mail for each item. Even though I figured it would probably freeze up, I thought I would at least log in and get the items.
I clicked on the link. A large map spread before me. I was in-world. This was not help island any more. And once you leave help island you can't go back. So I'm guessing that I'm done with trying to sit on furniture and will have to roam about on my own in the...ummm...real world. But I will do so next on my desktop.
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