Darrius Gothy writes about the Second Life Market Place problem of delayed delivery. It seems starting at midnight Pacific Time deliveries take 30 minutes to 5 or 6 hours to deliver. You can imagine how happy that makes everyone.

30 Day Summary of the Web Project

Darrius explains that slow delivery leads to other problems. Not the least of which is user frustration and overall poor impression of SL. You can read his post here: Slow Spiral Into Demise.

The delivery problems are reported in JIRA item: WEB-4260 – SLM deliveries consistently delayed in early morning hours. The JIRA was filed November 11, 2011. It has only 72 watches, so the Lindens are not going to get too excited about it. (Still more votes than watches. It is amazing how hard it to get the word around about WATCH being the important click.)

The reason no new code rolled to main grid was because of problems with the diagonal region crossings code. The code failed because the utility servers in AGNI were running an older version of their software than the utility servers for ADITI. The utility servers have been updated, the diagonal crossing code has more fixes and all are now in testing in the release channels.

Test Area in Magnum Sandboxes

Can’t Login

We have been seeing a number of requests for help with ‘Can’t Login’ in the SL Forum. It seems this is caused by a problem in the region crossing code. The Linden answer to the problem for now is call support. I suggest you run through the steps here: I Can’t Login. With any luck the fix should roll to a release channel next week… but, I was a little confused on the issue. It may only be in the release channels that this problem has come up. In which case the roll to the release channels will solve the problem and it will never be rolled to the main grid.

Mesh Feet w/Deformer On

I was asked to help a person get some bare feet working with their Xcite Feet. The person was about 6 months old. First we had to get past lots of confusion. She had ideas about what Xcite was going to do and what bare feet are. The problems I ran into trying to get things sorted out show several reasons people probably give up on Second Life. Whatever that case is, I learned a lot about bare feet, which is what this article is about.

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There is no roll out to the main grid this week. None of the release channels tests passed. I think this is the second week in a row they have failed. It appears the weekly restart has also been skipped.

Server Scripting Meeting

Blue Steel and Le Tigre

These two release channels are to get a new server maintenance package. No details yet.

You have probably heard enough about these laws. But, the depth of the deceit in these laws is escaping many of those writing about SOPA, PIPA, and OA. Some creators and merchants in SL actually support SOPA, PIPA, and/or OA, which I see as shooting their own foot.

It is reasonable to want to protect one’s intellectual property and ownership rights. It is a basic tenet of freedom to protect private property. Without such protection things devolve into anarchy and poverty. It’s a basic lesson of history.

One should research the facts and make up their mind if they are to support SOPA, PIPA, and OA or not. The best analysis and explanation of the proposed laws I’ve seen is Gwyneth Llewelyn’s article: SOPA/PIPA revisited. Please read the article. Gwyn has taken the intellectual step to reason beyond the surface of the issue and look at how the proposed laws can be misused.

Qarl posted a new video on his blog to update us on the Mesh Deformer. Qarl says thanks for your support. He points out that he does not have the time to answer everyone’s questions on all the forums he reads. He has noticed several problems with the Deformer being discussed and provided in the feedback.

Body Poking Through

All the cases he has seen these are problems of having used the wrong beginning avatar. If one designed over size clothes for an over sized avatar, then the deformer will make the clothes twice as big. The same problem happens going the other way toward tiny avatars, but twice as small.

Deformer Complcations

Base Avatar

The base avatar to use is the one you get when you create a new default female shape. Domino and Gaia both provide copies of that avatar.

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Content/Mesh Meeting

Shape Height Slider

For humans we have a pretty nice set if shape editing tools. However, when we start making non-human avatars the values we can set with the shape sliders falls short of what we need. A JIRA is being opened to request an extended range of values. Basically, taller and fatter avatars will be possible if the feature is added.

Since this is likely an easy programming change, I would expect it to happen. If there is any interst, then it might happen quickly.

I can’t find the JIRA they were going to make for this, so I can’t link you to it. I suspect they have not gotten to it as I write this.

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Now there is an idea… Inventory likely becomes a headache for every user of Second Life. I know I have an ongoing battle with inventory. Now the Lab has come up with a new idea. I suppose it is a spinoff from the SLCC announcement of making SL easier to use.

New Folder View Inventory

ProductTeam Linden posted an announcement in the Second Life Forum about the new project to test the idea of a simplified inventory. See: Simple Inventory Project Viewer. They want feedback on the new inventory. They ask you to give them information on how you think it will affect new users. I guess we can put on our newbie avayar and see how it goes.

The project has a Project Viewer, JIRA Section SINV, and a Simplified Inventory wiki page.

Download and Install

This is the standard download (28mb) and install. The viewer installs in its own folder, so there should be little conflict. It also uses its own settings file (settings_projectviewer-simpleinventory.xml). It does share the cache. While I am a great fan of separate caches for each viewer, I have been allowing all the viewers from the Lab to share the same cache. I don’t recommend allowing the Lab’s 1.23 to share a cache with the new 3.x.x viewers.

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