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paul // User SearchThe GameFeb 25, 2004, 4:10am
I don't know why you are all giving The Lady such a hard time. She ahs
always been nice and pleasant with me. But then this is the same old NG crap that has gone on ever since I've been in AW. Only the names have changed (somewhat). Paul [View Quote] Beta NewsgroupMar 4, 2004, 7:14am
That's a lot of hooey. It just makes it harder to get problems fixed. I
had to badger Roland at times to get him to come look at some Av problems back in 3.0 and 3.1 and when he finally did come he was able to track down the problem and get it fixed in the next upgrade. AWI and the current programmers just want to stick to a little "clique" of people to work on the beta's and that's why it has taken so long and been so many problems to fix and IMO a big part of the reason Roland left. It's just like the terrible problems that exist with transparencies now. They used to work better back in AW 2.2 and 3.0. But particularly since 3.2 multiple transparencies are much worse and if you aren't on the "beta team" no ones wants to listen. Well I don't want to be on the beta team. I just want to tell someone at AWI about the problems I see since I am a modeler and have some insight to some of the problems from observation in Truespace vs the AWB. Andras and I just had a few discussions about the transparency problems and he was going to talk to the programmers about what we saw. he is more of an insider so maybe he will have some luck. I gave up sometime back trying to get my opinions heard. I'm about at the point that it can stay broke for all I care. Paul [View Quote] new list of stolen object passwords circulatingMar 16, 2004, 5:33pm
Geez it's your software and you don't have to sell him a cit and he has to
pay by credit card or check so you have personal info so why don't you cancel his account(s) and not sell him any more? There is no law that says you have to sell a cit to anyone who wants one. Paul [View Quote] PostApr 1, 2004, 6:08pm
Just a note for everyone.
If anyone ever gets and email from mpbarrow at yahoo.com it is a fake and you should report it to AWI with all the header info so they can track who it came from. I have my Outlook Express set to use that yahoo email address in my news post so that any spam anyone may decide to send me will be sent to my yahoo account and not my real ISP accounts. I NEVER use my yahoo email account to send email from except for one Hammond Organ news group that I subscribe to. Paul PostApr 2, 2004, 11:02pm
It has nothing to do with viruses Andras. Shankahtus got a flame email that
said it was from my yahoo email and it was faked from someone who uses the AW newsgroups (since this is the only place my yahoo email would show up when I do a NG post/reply) and who is in Spain as the headers indicated. So it is someone here faking emails again and thus should be reported to AWI. Paul [View Quote] PostApr 3, 2004, 7:52pm
AWI does have jurisdiction if someone here in the news groups is faking
emails using other posters email addresses in the Return header to send fake emails. After all, they are stealing the email addresses from this news group which belongs to AWI and I think falls into the category as M A T T stealing passwords and models. Paul [View Quote] Lara & Raine. Have Passed Away?Apr 3, 2004, 7:38pm
This goes exactly to the post I made about someone sending fake emails using
my yahoo email address as being the sender. I only this yahoo email address here in the newsgroups so as to avoid getting spam in my ISP email accounts and I never send email from yahoo with about 2 exceptions. I got the ecard in my yahoo email too and the only way someone from AW could get my yahoo email is to have gotten the address from my post here. So we still have someone in the new groups sending fake and fraudulent emails, probably to email addresses they got here, to the rest of you who post here. Paul [View Quote] Lara & Raine. Have Passed Away?Apr 3, 2004, 7:41pm
It probably doesn't help but the return email on the card I got in my yahoo
email was from deedee6013 at hotmail.com Paul [View Quote] is this a virusApr 12, 2004, 11:43pm
Probably a virus. I've been getting a ton of these in my yahoo email,
returned email etc etc with an attachment file size of 24k. I just delete them everyday. I think Andras explained it somewhere in here. Paul [View Quote] Lost FriendMay 20, 2004, 2:00am
Telegram from Diane, sent 47 minutes ago:
Daphne passed away tonight about 5:30 ;o( I know she counted you as one of her dearest friends. She was still weak from her surgery last year, and Sunday she and her husband went shopping, she insisted on taking the cart back, ran into a guard rail with it, and when it flipped her forward, broke a rib. The rib punctured her lung lining. she thought she was having heart trouble, so she had Howard take her to the hospital. It was all downhill from there. I'm still in tears here, don't know what else to say. AW has been her life for alot of years, it won't be quite the same without her here. Muir Funeral Home in Lapeer, Mich probably Friday or Saturday services. Daphne Coon Diane said she requested to be wearing an aw t-shirt for burial. I've lost a dear friend and AW has lost a valuable citizen :(((( Paul Contact List vanishingMay 27, 2004, 9:10pm
Has anyone lese had problems with your contact list vanishing when you are
in a heavy download world? and to get it back you have to (1) (more or less) wait for the downloads to end and for the Contact List to Refresh (like the world list does periodically), or (2) bounce to another world which will usually case the contact list to restore, or (3) close and restart AW. And once it is back and you go back to finish reload that or another world (if you didn't wait for it to finish) do you perhaps have it vanish again? I think ever since version 3.4 and later I've had this happen. The World List is still there but just the Contact List disappears until I do one of the 3 steps above. And it doesn't really matter which world it happens in. It not related to the World Server. I get no waiting for server or anything and if there is anyone in the world when this happens I still see them and can talk to them and the objects and textures continue to download and I can move to other areas in the world and those areas will continue to download. Just no contact list until I take one of the above 3 actions. I don't think it's a connection problem on my end because a year ago I had Charter Pipeline with 1m/128k and later they increased the speed to 2m/128k and just recently again to 3m/256k and I've had the problem during all 3 speed services. Also if I run the speakeasy bandwidth test on any of their site around the US I get a consistent 2.2 - 2.5meg download speed and about 239k up. And if I do Tweak Test on DSL Reports web site I get no problem issues there. If I do trace routes to auth.activeworlds.com however I do get some response times ranging from about 40 to 400+ ms at times on the 1st couple of hops just prior to the AW auth server hop and an occasional packet loss or timeout on a few of the vario.net hops just before those that are in between me, Charter, and Broadwing (charter backbone here). If anyone else is having this problem please post it or email support at activeworlds.com so they can maybe try to look into the cause. I kinda think maybe it's routing issues maybe with vario.net or maybe the sometimes high response times on the ISP AWI is using just prior to the auth server hop. Paul Contact List vanishingMay 28, 2004, 9:38pm
New ModelsJul 23, 2004, 2:30pm
I have some new models available for sale in Ganymede for anyone
interested. There is a Tiki Village set with thatched hut pieces walks and rails, thatched tents, tropical plants, tiki poles, wood bridge and other pieces. Also is a new Restaurant Items set with stainless steel oven, freezer, sinks, cabinet, ice chest, ice cream chest, drink dispensers, coffee dispenser, pizza warmer and numerous other items. Also there are new Kitchen Appliances, many oven styles, fridges, sinks, microwave. Paul 3 cob seqs to seq filesAug 6, 2004, 4:29am
Need to make a black box...Aug 6, 2004, 4:32am
take out the Lit in the Texturemodes command in the rwx or if you are using
Truespace instead of using Phong shading use Flat instead which will cause no Lit command when you convert the cob to rwx. Paul [View Quote] A few new modelsAug 6, 2004, 4:41am
I have a few new models for sale in Ganymede.
A new metal frame Victorian Bed #3 and Mattress in the Victorian Furniture section New Pillows in the Victorian Furniture section More items added to the Diningware set. New Restaurant Items New Kitchen Appliances New Outrigger Canoes New Tiki Village set New Fish sprites with offset axis in the Animals section Roman Theatre Roman Chariot Retextured Horses in the Animals section Paul Mountain CavesAug 14, 2004, 7:00pm
I have 2 new Mountain Caves for sale in Ganymede, one with stalagmite/tite
objects and one with inner ledges and stairs/bridges over chasms. Also there are some new Victorian Tables. Paul End of Summer SaleSep 21, 2004, 1:54pm
End of Summer Sale in Ganymede 9/21 to 10/20
30% off all model prices Paul New Log CabinsOct 18, 2004, 12:29am
New Log Cabins, 2 sets with different textures - many construction
possibilities also Masked and Transparent curtains work with these glass window panes in the cabins. Look for the New Log Cabins sign at Ganymede GZ Paul Axis Changing Tool?Oct 27, 2004, 1:06am
The command you want is Translate, Bit. it's listed in the AW Help file in
the RWX commands. Depending on how the object is constructed (in the rwx) can be tricky using it. if it's a COB converted to RWX then you could put the Translate in the ClumpBegin section at the end of the file on a live after the Rotate commands. In general you want it in the Top Clump so it affects all child Clumps. Sometimes you might have to put a new ClumpBegin / End around the whole of the original with the Translate there so that it affects the whole thing. Paul [View Quote] Horse Drawn CarriagesNov 4, 2004, 10:58pm
I have a few new models for sale in Ganymede.
Horse drawn Royal Carriages. There are 2 styles and 2 of each. 2 are hollow with seats inside and with 2 separate doors. The other 2 are solid 1 piece models with no separate doors. They can be used with the free Objectd horses or you can get the optional Textured Horses I have in the Animals section in Ganymede. Paul Technical Problems, looking for help!Dec 1, 2004, 2:01am
The next time you get the waiting for server try opening IE and try to go
to www.activeworlds.com and see if you can bring up their web page. If you can't then there is an internet problem somewhere between your ISP and AWI's computers. If you or someone you know where you live knows how to use MSDos prompt (or Command) then you can try these commands: ping auth.activeworlds.com and tracert auth.activeworlds.com you should not see any timeouts. if there are any timouts tracert will show you where along the path they are if they are in the 1st 2 - 4 hops then the problem is most likely your ISP if they are in the later hops colse to the AW site then it's either the internet of AW's sites. Paul [View Quote] PoinsettiasDec 13, 2004, 3:28am
I have some new Christmas Poinsettia plants in the Flowers section in
Ganymede for any who might be interested. Paul Help needed with new upgrade please.Jan 20, 2005, 5:26pm
Check your Options - Settings - Video and make sure they are still set to
Direct3D and T&L Paul [View Quote] New Terrain setFeb 23, 2005, 2:01pm
New Terrain set - see picts in Ganymede - winter set coming soon
Paul Wood Burning StovesMar 11, 2005, 9:35pm
Hi,
I have 3 New Wood Burning Stove models in Ganymede is anyone is looking for such. You can see them in the New Appliances section. Thanks, Paul New Castle modelMay 7, 2005, 9:23pm
I have a new Castle model for sale in Ganymede.
It's called Dark Castle. It's designed to be built out on a lake or the edge of the ocean (about 5 meters deep) but can also be built on flat land using the alternate bridge piece. The bridge can be any length you choose. Paul DaphneJun 11, 2005, 5:35pm
I'm a few weeks late but I just want to post a tribute/memory to my dear
friend Daphne who passed away 5/19/2004 a year ago. I miss you Daphne, Hugs, Paul Pyro Goddess and Maddness AvatarsJul 8, 2005, 8:51am
If you got custom avatars at anything close to $10 then you got a deal.
I sure wouldn't sell you an avatar for $10 as hard as they are to make and an avatar for you to have exclusive usage right to would cost you a lot more than $10. If Pyro made you more than one or 2 avatars then 4 months is not necessarily a long time to take to make them depending on what other projects may have been in the works. Of course I work a little differently that some modelers in that I don't charge or accept payment until the work is completed and the models have been seen. That way if for some reason it takes longer - well that's life and you don't have to buy them. Paul [View Quote] a few new models for saleAug 14, 2005, 6:25am
I have a few new models and some updates for sale in Ganymede.
(1) Wizard's Tower (2) Dark Castle (3) additional Fish sprites for vertical rotation (jumping out of water) Also not on display yet but in the avatar list: (1) Rowboat avatar with Oars and seq (2) Rowboat2 (in the av list) Motorboat avatar with sitting man at the motor Good for use with Cotarr's Tourbot to set up tours on a lake. There may be some other new items some of you haven't seen. Thanks, Paul |