User talk:Torley Linden/Archives

Office Hours

Heyas! =)
Marv 'n I finally went the last step to fully replace the old office hour scheduling system with the new one. All current office hours are already transfered to the new system, though people who'd like to change their current OH or who'd like to schedule a new one, will need to become familiar with the new system. Doing it the old way won't have any effect on the Office Hour page anymore. The manual for the new system is stored at Template:Office Hours/Documentation. It would be great if you could give your colleagues at LL some heads-up :-)
Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:15, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll spread the word 'round LL. Thanks for the heads-up. - Torley on 2009-03-02 @ 8:05 AM PST

History of Second Life

Hey hey :-)
Inspired by your culture category, I toyed around in my sandbox and came up with an article named History of Second Life. I spent quite some time to collect links for the right dates when things happened but I'm not really happy with the output yet. My rezday is in the beginning of 2007, so I missed quite much about SLs history. The article would need some ♥ from people who were around when the stuff happened. So the skeleton is online, maybe you know someone who you can poke to flesh it out :-)
Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

This looks GREAT so far! Thanx, I'm going to take a closer look and share it with others who could contribute. - Torley on 2009-02-23 @ 9:08 AM PST

thx :-) Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:30, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

ImageMapping

Heyas =)
Since I remember you sayin' you'd like the ability to use images as links, I wanted to let you know that Sue and Rob made it possible yesterday. We now got the ImageMap Extension available. So it can even link different parts of a picture to different pages. Like having multiple avatars on one picture and by clicking at an avatar, you get to that persons profile page. Or so. Here is a manual and here is an easy to use tool to create image maps. Using it that way, the extension will produce a line break before and after the image. But by placing picture and text in between <div class="imagemap-inline"></div>, it will be usable as an inline element. Just wanted to let you know :-)
Greetz,
Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 02:08, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Thrilled! Thanks for remembering me, you have superb acuity with your followup. Good to know this exists... :D -Torley (who needs to get my sig added to my Mac)

Very welcome =)

BTW: you can store your sig in your Wikis preferences, so you can place it anytime at any computer. Add

<font color="#ff0080">'''-[[Image:Torley-favicon.png]] [[User:Torley Linden|Torley]] on {{#time:Y-m-d @ g:i A|{{subst:LOCALTIMESTAMP}}}} (UTC)'''</font>

to the "Nickname" field in your prefenrences. Then check the "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" checkbox. In case you save it, you'll then be able to add your sig using 3 tildes (~~~) not 4 tildes, like usually.

BTW2: The Mac looks stunning ^_^

Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

OH BRILLIANT, I didn't know that. You're such a great help! - Torley on 2008-12-08 @ 11:53 AM PST

Test. - Torley on 2008-12-08 @ 7:54 PM (UTC)

Marv's note to fans of your music

A whopping 3.75GB download (which lead to me overshooting my bandwidth usage for this month :-P) lead me to write this rather simple post.
SignpostMarv Martin 05:55, 30 August 2008 (PDT)

Totoro Cream Puffs

Thought you might want to see this, if you've not already: http://www.alafista.com/2008/06/05/totoro-cream-puffs/
SignpostMarv Martin 16:26, 18 August 2008 (PDT)

Tasty, yet I'd feel guilty snacking on their skulls. - Torley on 2008-08-19 @ 7:41 AM PST

Help Portal help request

Heyas! =)
Gally 'n me stumbled upon 2 problems related to the new Help Portal, where we wanted to come back to your offer to ask for help. So the one thing is, that we'd like to have a representation of the portal at the Main Page, which is Sysop-locked so we can't alter it on our own. A Template:Main Page/Help is ready for that purpose. The second thing is, that the newer VidTuts are hosted at BlipTV, while the Wiki's videoflash extension isn't supporting it by now. Marv wrote a patch to fix this issue and posted it in the Jira (WEB-761). We'd then be able to make all VidTuts look like this one =)
Can you help us out with these issues?
Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 07:20, 13 August 2008 (PDT)

Happy you asked. Thanx for continuing to excellentize our wiki. =^_^=

1. I'll ask Rob and Sue Linden about this, as they're the designated masters-in-transition of the public wiki. I can make the change myself, but want to be sure to give them, and VTeam (since this is connected to Scribes contributions) and Documentation Team (obviously why!) a heads-up.
2. All video tutorials continue to be uploaded to YouTube. I prefer blip.tv, and earlier asked if http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Widget could be added to this public wiki, since it appears elegant and easily-extensible. However, there may be some security concerned, so it's (internal DEV-18567) currently assigned to Yoz Linden to check out. If Marv's patch is a quicker, short-term solution that is really no-fuss, I'm for it! - Torley on 2008-08-13 @ 7:50 AM PST

Yay, @#1: Glad you're spreadin' it! The more people becoming aware of the new portal, the more might contribute and improve it so yuss, that's good news!

@#2:The widget extension sounds neat... As far as I understand it, it seems to enable some simplified PHP code for a special namespace and yeah, that might be a security risk (I'm not entirely sure, since I'm not a programmer). So maybe not enable it for anyone but for some you can trust? I'd think that for example Strife and Marv would be people you could give editing access to such a namespace. I don't want to step on anyones feet but I think it would improve/speed-up problem resolution in the Wiki alot. For example the requested RSS feature (WEB-590) is pending since 4 month although 3 Lindens (Amber, Lexie & Mia) voted on it as well. Since there is also a widget for that feature I'm sure it would be already implemented in case (some) Residents had editing access to such a widget namespace. So in the end, it would save work for LL (less feature request Jira's) and improve the Wiki at the same time.

However, thx for taking care of it! :-)

Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:38, 14 August 2008 (PDT)

Hello Torley ! thanks a lot for your interest on this projet ! I share Zai's point of view, the more people will be involved, the better the portal will be :)

About the videoflash I have finally used youtube codes, I will update them with bliptv codes when they are supported by the wiki. (Almost) All your vidtuts are now available here : Category:Video Tutorials :))

Gally Young 10:47, 14 August 2008 (PDT)

PS: I have just noticed you added the portal on the main page! THANKS A LOT ! :)))

RE: twitter

I have a patch for Extension:VideoFlash- which is used for embedding the YouTube vidtuts in the wiki (I've left a note on the author's talk page about the patch)- the patch adds support for blip.tv videos to the extension. The blip.tv flash player includes "episode navigation", so rather than including a link to each individual episode, the article could be cleaned up by just displaying the latest clip in each volume.

SignpostMarv Martin 07:19, 5 May 2008 (PDT)

Audio Problem

I'm having some sound problems, who would you suggest I talk to?

--Brickman1444 Faulkes 11:16, 25 April 2008 (PDT)

--Nevermind. It fixed itself.

--Brickman1444 Faulkes 14:39, 26 April 2008 (PDT)

Tips for backstory?

I just followed your tutorial for creating a user page here yesterday and I was wondering if you had any tips for things to put on it? Is there any information that most user pages display? --Brickman1444 Faulkes 07:03, 6 April 2008 (PDT)

HOLY MOLY! Your user page is looking FABULOUS. Looks like you answered your own question, very colorful and fun. WAY TO GO!!!! - Torley on 2008-04-07 @ 1:11 PM PST

Thanks! I ended up looking at other user pages and altering some things from a Wikipedia article. The strategy of just starting to write and jumping right in really worked.--Brickman1444 Faulkes 15:56, 7 April 2008 (PDT)

SL-hCard version 2.0

Just drawing your attention to the watermelony example for Template:SL-hCard/2.0 :-)
SignpostMarv Martin 08:04, 10 March 2008 (PDT)

VidTut Request

Don't suppose you could do a video tutorial or two on using the SL Wiki ?

SignpostMarv Martin 15:33, 19 February 2008 (PST)

P.S.- could you upload your vid tuts to your blip.tv account ?

SignpostMarv Martin 17:43, 19 February 2008 (PST)

Marv, I've been thinking of doing one on how to create your own "user page". What did you have in mind? And re: uploading to blip.tv and many other video sites, it's time-consuming for me and I just don't have enough time! So I'm looking for a better way, maybe http://www.tubemogul.com --Torley

re: blip.tv

• Uploading with FTP
• Blip.TV-sl-feed transposer- transposes Blip.TV RSS feeds into a plain text format easily parseable by LSL (the transposed feed parser is being worked on in my Lanercost office)
• Unless Tube Mogul uses APIs to hand videos over to the services, you'd need to hand over your passwords to a third party service, which is never a good idea.

re: wiki-vid-tuts

• User Page Templates
  • Template:visl- only specific to SL Volunteers
  • Template:skills
  • Template:ISO 639-3/cat-speaking- quite flexible for creating niche categories, as well as general Resident/Volunteer/Linden ones
    • don't forget the wiki-code generator
    • Template:SL-hCard/2.0
• Using talk pages
  • Signing Comments with ~~~~
• Sandboxing articles in development within the user-space

SignpostMarv Martin 20:04, 26 February 2008 (PST)

Watermelon Watch

• Watermelony Kitty SignpostMarv Martin 16:58, 23 February 2007 (PST)

How utterly delightful. --Torley Linden 11:11, 25 February 2007 (PST)

• Oklahoma declares watermelon the state vegetable, disputes it's only a fruit SignpostMarv Martin 13:19, 19 April 2007 (PDT)

• Watermelony Site design SignpostMarv Martin 17:44, 20 April 2007 (PDT)

• Watermelony Enterprise SignpostMarv Martin 07:17, 21 April 2007 (PDT)

Oh gosh, these crack me up so much! --Torley Linden 14:53, 23 April 2007 (PDT)

• portrait in watermelon SignpostMarv Martin 11:50, 1 May 2007 (PDT)

• zoomed-in food

• Microsoft Popfly SignpostMarv Martin 17:12, 18 May 2007 (PDT)

Sweet, Microsoft's getting in on the watermelon action! I have no clue what a Popfly is, now I gotta check it out. :D

• Watermelon Flavored Sigmund Freud Head Lollipops SignpostMarv Martin 15:49, 17 July 2007 (PDT)

That's somewhat disturbing. I wonder what Freud would think of it... Daedalus Young 16:13, 8 September 2007 (PDT)

• watermelony css rollovers SignpostMarv Martin 14:54, 30 July 2007 (PDT)

• Watermelon Sculptures SignpostMarv Martin 17:51, 9 August 2007 (PDT)

Indubitably delicious. Mmmmm. If I'd steal art, that would be what I'd snatch too. Not that I'm really going to!

--Torley Linden 22:52, 10 August 2007 (PST)

• Watermelon Love animated short WARNING: WHAT IS SHOWN ON THAT VIDEO AND WHAT MIGHT BE IMPLIED BY IT MIGHT NOT BE CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE BY SOME, VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED

I'm not sure what to make up from that video, the 3 things it made me think on: Hanibal Lecter (the character), Venus Fly Trap(the plant) and Hellraiser(the movies). but perhaps I have a very twisted mind and someone else might find only beauty in it. The site mentioned on the end doesn't seem to be there anymore and the wayback machine had some issue in the server it has that site stored.--TigroSpottystripes Katsu 17:47, 10 August 2007 (PDT)

• Torley Mii, aka Torlii SignpostMarv Martin 01:51, 12 August 2007 (PDT)

• Baby eating watermelon

• Watermelon cat collar (should go well on that Watermelony Kitty :P ) Daedalus Young 16:13, 8 September 2007 (PDT)

• Ipulele, mixture between ipu (melon in Hawaiian) and ukelele. Daedalus Young 14:23, 9 September 2007 (PDT)

• Joss Stone's Torleirific music video it is watermelicious :D

(there was an oficial one on your tube, but it wasn't playing right near the end, this one has some artifacts in the beggining but then it starts to flow well tot he end) TigroSpottystripes Katsu 05:34, 16 September 2007 (PDT)

edit:balls, they removed the one I linked first, I changed the link to point to one that don't seem to be going to be deleted (but I'm afraid it is the one that had bugged ending :/ --TigroSpottystripes Katsu 18:49, 17 September 2007 (PDT)

• Watermelon Jelly sweets SignpostMarv Martin 04:22, 16 September 2007 (PDT)

• Watermelon Jack o'Lantern SignpostMarv Martin 05:46, 29 October 2007 (PDT)

• watermelon webcomic- this strikes me as the kind of thing one of your alter-egos would do :-P SignpostMarv Martin 14:10, 26 November 2007 (PST)

Tru dat! Just wanted to say thanx for continually contributing to this page over the year. I am rich in watermelon goodness, and very appreciative for it. --Torley Linden 09:45, 11 December 2007 (PST)

• Disco Dancing - Drawing a friend of mine made :) Daedalus Young 14:10, 23 December 2007 (PST)
  • Thanx for sharing Daed, and Happy Holidays! Your friend's art would look fab as a sleek vector T-shirt design. I wonder if she's ever done some before? I browsed through her gallery and she sure has a unique penchant for braided hair! --Torley Linden 17:00, 23 December 2007 (PST)

• Taste So Sweet - Poem a friend of mine made :D Daedalus Young 09:11, 23 March 2008 (PDT)

• Wow. - Torley on 2008-03-24 @ 11:39 AM PST

• Elephant hawk moth - they'd better named it Watermelon Moth. Someone should make an avatar of it! Daedalus Young 21:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Then I could fulfill my very own Mothman Prophecies! - Torley on 2008-10-27 @ 6:01 AM PST

• Quickly, to the watermelon-mobile! SignpostMarv Martin 12:47, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

re:Wacom Intuos3 6x8

How much does it cost to get one of these ?

I'm stuck with a rather cheap-ass graphics tablet at the moment- this is the second one of the same model I've had, due to problems with the first generation model being even more cheap-ass than this one. But as you've seen it still plays nice with ArtRage 2 :-)

SignpostMarv Martin 08:04, 29 January 2007 (PST)

P.S. I'm suspecting you might've got it cheaper from elsewhere, since manufacturers tend to list padded prices.

Mine was 'round CAD$350 and I got it from NCIX. Wacom seems to have quite the hold on graphics tablets — I appreciate their elegance but also wish there was more diversity. I wonder what other alternatives are more affordable but... not cheap in the quality-lacking sense.

--Torley Linden 12:56, 30 January 2007 (PST)

Mine cost GBP£25.

It works, but the graphics pen is rather fragile, and breaks easily. The coating on the pen tends to rub off, and the coating on the first edition of the tablet itself suffered from the same issue.

SignpostMarv Martin 08:30, 31 January 2007 (PST)

What make and model is it?

--Torley Linden 10:26, 31 January 2007 (PST)

P-Active XP-5550A, although the catalogue I bought mine from (Argos) doesn't appear to be stocking them any more.

SignpostMarv Martin 11:15, 31 January 2007 (PST)

BTW, when I say it's fragile, the barrel buttons no longer work, making it a pain in the ass to do anything that requires both right and left clicking.

SignpostMarv Martin 08:10, 3 February 2007 (PST)

RE: My united states of whatever... ok i just need sleep

A clever soul suggested (by forum PM) an official FAQ on SL and Vista. I wouldn't imagine it would have to be long just answer a few of the more basic questions that get asked (like: why won't it run, when will it run, and why does it turn the bread on top of my CPU into burnt smoldering bread when in XP it only made toast (it has ruined my breakfast habits)). Said I would pass it along. I did sticky a thread in the RA forum though. In retrospect might have been better to PM; opps. Strife Onizuka 21:03, 31 January 2007 (PST)

Hey Strife, thanks — please ensure that future support-related suggestions go through the Knowledge Base Request page so we can keep track of them. You can show said clever soul my reply here if ye wisheth. Re: Vista, I've asked our Quality Assurance dept.; there are some Lindens like Lawrence and Milo who've had considerable experience. I haven't used Vista yet, but eventually, we'll be updating the KB and System Requirements page.

--Torley Linden 11:30, 1 February 2007 (PST)

re: Category:Linden Community Managers

Any chance you could fill the info in here Torley ?
SignpostMarv Martin 07:21, 17 January 2007 (PST)

Hey Marv — I'd like to get more dedicated wiki-editing time in but I've been swamped... when am I not? ;) Seriously though, I super-appreciate your initiative and oodles of contributions here. I've shared the idea with my fellow Community Developers ("Manager" = old terminology) about getting more info about us and Lindens in general into the wiki. It'd be nice to have a more comprehensive "Who Does What".

Torley Linden 10:55, 25 January 2007 (PST)

Heh. I'll get the manager > developer terminology thing updated at a later date. Hope you don't mind, but I've tweaked the talk page layout to be in keeping with the format exhibited in the Wikipedia.

SignpostMarv Martin 08:02, 29 January 2007 (PST)

I'm learning the ropes here, this is all good to know. I'm cool with it! But dang, I crave my WYSIWYG.

--Torley Linden 12:56, 30 January 2007 (PST)

GCal

Please direct your attention to Talk:Office Hours#Google Calendar

SignpostMarv Martin 12:04, 11 December 2007 (PST)

Are you..

Are you gay? 'cos i see all the pink on your userpage and I just turn all warm and fuzzy inside.. --Felixe Thorne 11:40, 8 February 2008 (PST)

I'm definitely gay in a happy way. But don't forget the green and black, and sometimes yellow. ;) But srsly, in First Life I'm committed to a lovely lady.--Torley

LLQuaternion

I know you don't deal with this, but I don't know who to bug.

Could you possibly ask whoever deals with the Second Life Protocol to update this page to reflect how an LLQuaternion is represented now. When the client sends an "AgentUpdate" request, it sends 12 bytes not 16, as an LLQuaternion should be. Thanks, --Felixe Thorne 11:56, 8 February 2008 (PST)

I'd suggest asking on SLDev. :)--Torley

*cough*

He's back as Special:Contributions/Jumpman_Landau (changes to User:Jumpman_Lane). You even made his enemies list. I think though I'll remain incognito on this one. -- Burnt Page 00:14, 13 May 2008 (PDT)

Thanks for the heads-up! Vandalizing the wiki and using it to air personal grievances is, of course, inappropriate. I'll let our GTeam and Rob Linden know. - Torley on 2008-05-15 @ 8:45 AM PST

A PJira Issue that may interest you, and that you may wanna do yourself : )

I submitted http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8333 and it's all about you! Well all about you and the amazing Residents! : D

Meghan Dench 15:12, 2 August 2008 (PDT)

A prim, a prim, my kingdom for a prim

You might want to check on this...
https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Limits&curid=14330&diff=321712&oldid=304593
I'm wondering if this change was intentional.
-- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 03:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

it's in the release notes and everything. We are on E-Zee-Street with this prim windfall! --Cerise Sorbet 11:12, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Fix linking of >255 prim objects. Linking should work for 256 prims, fail for >256 prims. (Previously failed to link 1 prim to a 255-prim linkset.)

Hay thanks for the heads-up! Appreciate the update. - Torley on 2009-04-17 @ 9:52 AM PST

Since it's in the release notes, I'll insert foot in mouth. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Decentralized Moderation

I got a PM on the forums with this link. Looks very interesting. http://scobleizer.com/2009/04/20/decentralized-moderation-is-the-chat-room-savior/ -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 14:50, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry...

... to drag you back into the problem that is the forums but this requires action. I don't know where the line is for TOS 4.1.iv but it has been crossed and the TOS shat on. I have split the offending posts from the parent thread. Here is a thread containing my incoming PM record from the last two weeks: [1]. Here are the threads where I dumped the offending posts: [2] [3]. Be advised you might be sick after viewing... or just downright angry at the LL's forum mod for being asleep at the switch. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 14:11, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for continuing to care — you already reported this and so did the complainant? I'll ask our RESI Team gurus what to do, we've recently been improving policy re: inworld abuse and the blogs, and the forums came up in discussion too. - Torley on 2009-04-23 @ 7:40 AM PST

I haven't checked my email but I've heard anecdotally that ARs were filed. I believe it. I'm told (by one of the suppose alts) they are an acquired taste. It's folks like this who make people loose faith in the AR system. Thanks for prodding the appropriate folks about this. I really didn't want to have to do this. :-/ -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:36, 23 April 2009 (UTC)