March 2011 – Page 4 – Nalates’ Things & Stuff

RedZone Pit Opens

2011/03/13 by Nalates Urriah

While all the stuff about RedZone has been bad enough, now we find out that the misuse of the database is even worse. A group of crackers penetrated the ISellSL web site and databases. They have revealed what they found in the database and web site. Not only were user ID’s being associated with IP … Read more

Phoenix Viewer 1.5.2.977 Beta

2015/04/132011/03/12 by Nalates Urriah

It seems a number of people have been having trouble running the Phoenix Viewer 908. Some users crash after a few minutes and some after a longer time. The Phoenix team has been looking for the problem. This Beta release is a step in confirming they have found the problem. They need more testers on many different type of hardware to test the viewer. So, it you are one of those that has had problems with Phoenix crashing, get the new 977 and give it try. If you crash, file a report on the Phoenix JIRA.

Download & Install

The release announcement advises us that this install will clear the cache. For most of us that just means you may notice your first login rez taking just a bit longer.

Windows users have a choice between an SSE and an SSE2 viewer. To know which your computer will use the Phoenix Wiki SSE page links you to a handy tool that examines your computer and checks what type of SSE support it has. SSE2 is better than SSE. Newly made computers support SSE4. Two year old computers probably support SSE3. So, don’t sell your computer short, just check it.

Imprudence Viewer Experimental Release 2011.03.11

2011/03/12 by Nalates Urriah

The Imprudence team has just released a new version of the Imprudence Viewer. This is still 1.4 version of the viewer. The imprudence web site lists the changes and fixes and this version of the viewer. See: Imprudence Experimental Release

Download & Install

The download is about 35mb. The announcement warns that they have had some problems with this installer program. It worked for me. If you have a problem with the install see the fix on the Imprudence site.

This version has the option to associate SLURL’s with the Imprudence viewer, a nice touch. It is common to find the SLURL’s associated with the last viewer installed. For more information on associating SLURL’s with a viewer see: Emerald Viewer vs SLURL

Mesh Update?

2011/03/10 by Nalates Urriah

Daniel Voyager reports a bit of a mesh update tidbit from an interview with Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble. While we still have no ETA for the mesh roll out, they expect to have a timeline for the roll out this month.
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Second Life Viewer 2.5.1 (222867) Update

2011/03/082011/03/08 by Nalates Urriah

I haven’t been writing much about the SL Viewer. Most of the work is on boring techie stuff. Things that have to be done and make the viewer work better, but they are difficult to explain. A couple of things stand out that are somewhat interesting.

Version Numbers

You may or may not have noticed that the Development viewer version numbering changed. We were up to 2.7.0-222124 (dated: 2/26/11) and today we are on 2.5.1-222867 (3/7/11). This could be confusing for some when reading JIRA’s about bugs found in the Development viewer.

KirstenLee Viewer S21(6) RC1 Released Review

2011/03/202011/03/07 by Nalates Urriah

Early this morning Kirsten released a Release Candidate of the new S21(6) version. KirstenLee’s announcement lists the significant changes in this version. See: S21(6) – RC1 shipping now! Read on for my experience with this version of the viewer.

SL Community Roles or Ranks Explained

2011/03/03 by Nalates Urriah

Second Life Community Roles — SL Community Role Icons

The new SL Community Web Site has roles, or ranks. Mine is ‘Honored Resident’… which sounds kinda nice. It does make me wonder if they have one for AH or DS… for my opposite. 😛 Probably not. Whatever, we do have roles now. Apparently one’s role or rank determines what one can do in the SL Community Web Site.

The SL Community now has a series of roles to recognize users who contribute content valued by the community. I’m not sure how much the community contributes to one’s rank or how they do that. There is a FAQ on the subject here: Roles and Ranks

New SL Community Badges

2015/03/032011/03/03 by Nalates Urriah

Second Life — Combined AV Pic & Badge – #1

Update: As of March 2015 this article is still accurate.

Now that the new community blogrums are open people are exploring the settings and tools in the new system. Seems there are some gotcha’s you’ll want to avoid. Making your avatar image or badge has some dandy gotchas. Hopefully this tutorial will help you avoid them.

Yesterday I provided a link to Torley’s Welcome to a new Community System video tutorial. At about minute 5 in he explains how to add your avatar picture to the blogs/forum. I uploaded a couple of images and using Torley’s instructions got the images uploaded and one set as my Avatar picture. My 150×150 px image appears as a 36×36 px image in the forum. Phfffffpt! Not really what I wanted. See image #2.