Second Life 2013 in Review

…ed on. It turned out this problem is a viewer side issue with the Interest List. In week 15 we got word that Interest List II was starting to wind its way through QA & RC. The new AO functions roll out to RC channels. A Beta Viewer became available in week 14. For information on the new functions see: New AO Stuff 2013-14. In week 15 the server side package with these functions was removed while fixes were made. More drama breaks out in the Mesh D… Continue reading

Second Life News 2013-42

…of that. Soon we will see updates to the Wiki describing the new Interest List process. The Interest List process is a complex mix of the server and viewer updating the render process. There are currently problems with keeping scripted and sound emitting items updated. Richard says they have done little to resolve some of those issues. So, doors that close behind you may still appear to be open. However, the server will update the physics engine,… Continue reading

Second Life News 2013-40

…ome other bugs to be found. One of those is removing people from your mute list or block list. Now when you remove them they will actually be removed. There has also been a problem where people have been putting spaces before their Display Name. Baker’s fixed it so that’s no longer possible. In the situation for regular spaces Unicode spaces and other flavors of spaces have been handled in the process. Interest List Richard Linden was to appear to… Continue reading

Myst-Uru-SL Updates

…ners. See Aclugs Myst-Uru Fan Age List for Drizzle/UAM. Ancient City’s Age List This list provides direct download information and links. This list is for those that need to manually download an age for whatever purpose. See Ancient City’s Myst-Uru Fan Age List How to visit the Ages For now these ages are only usable in stand-alone mode using Myst Complete Chronicles or Path of The Shell using a tool called Drizzle. The install is a bit geeky and… Continue reading

#SL Group Edit Update Week 34

…be some rough spots. For instance, it takes some time for the larger group lists to download. A 40k member list produces about 5+mb of data. That can take from query to list load completion on the viewer side a couple of minutes or more. One needs a progress indicator of some kind. That indicator will be missing in the first pass. Users will have to have patience and understand what is happening. I can imagine how well that will work, not. In the… Continue reading

Looking Back at Second Life 2012

…est of the month we saw rolls succeeding. Scripting was seeing revision of List functions that gave us better performance. Most List functions were in testing through January. Advanced Creator Tools aka Experience Tools were just a hot rumor. Direct Delivery went into Beta testing January 10. By the end of the month merchants were crying a river about how bad Magic Box delivery was getting. We got the ability to cross into any of the 8 surrounding… Continue reading

LINDEN LAB STATEMENT ON TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON IMMIGRATION

…State and the Director of National Intelligence. They started with Obama’s list of countries. But, obviously, the list may change. So, everyone crying about other countries that were the home of known terrorists not being on the list are way premature. Those saying those not on this list are off because trump does business there are just silly. Paragraph (c) is a bit more complex. (c) To temporarily reduce investigative burdens on relevant agencie… Continue reading

Network Performance Tip

…rent top 50 than I do in California. The benchmark run then provides you a list of the best performing name servers for you. You get a list that shows the best servers and your current in-use servers. Reading the list and informative explanations in the tool you can select the best serves for your computer. There is quite a bit to consider when selecting a new server. GRC explains all that. I’ll just say read it, because if you don’t only you are… Continue reading