Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The show is titled: Come Together.
I’m behind. I’ve been wanting to take the time to listen to the podcast for a couple of days and just now got around to it.
Usual caveats here… Don’t blame them for what I write until AFTER you listen to them.
I’ve added the usual time marks.
For the last few weeks several of the Lindens that are good news sources have had little to say. They are working on various fixes in infrastructure, Experience Tools, Pathfinding, and other stuff. While some of the things are interesting most is rather tedious and boring. The result has been my consolidating news for various subjects into a single article.
This week and to some extent last week I have been breaking news back into separate articles. I’m doing the same this week. The left over interesting stuff is in this article.
SVC-4444 – Objects become fully permissive when rezzed under certain conditions. Baker Linden and Andrew have been looking at this item and working on fixes. It is a complex permissions issue that touches several inventory and transaction services. The work seems to have spun off into fixing other parts of the SL system so item 4444 can be fixed. Seems this is going to take some time.
Andrew Linden even said they gave up on 4444 until they get the associated problems fixed.
Oskar Linden: “Let’s talk about Monday. So, as you all are more than well aware, some of the tools in the experience tools project on Magnum got abused over the weekend (week 22). Monday morning (week 23) was pretty much fire drills all day. I rolled out of bed and logged in and BAM, even before my coffee.
We do take active griefing vectors seriously. [We] determined a fix for the issue. We got it tested and deployed Monday afternoon. The griefing exploit was unintentional.
The exp tools project was removed from the [release channel] grid this week. It lost its slot on Magnum [RC]because of other security issues, those that were addressed in this meeting actually. I want to thank all of you for the feedback you gave to Huseby last week.”
Griefer Monday cut into Kelly’s and Nyx Linden’s meetings. So, not much news from those meetings. I think pretty much everyone knows about the Advanced Creator or Experience Tools getting lose from the Release Channels.
One of the Scripting/Server meetings was hijacked by Slee Mayo’s fun new educational toy. It uses the LSL functions for HTTP data queries to make a live near real time map of earthquakes. See the opening image. Plus I was distracted and late getting there and they stopped posting transcripts in early May, so not much news from that meeting.
SVC-7902 – Problem of not being able to rez on my land continues. This fix went to release channel Magnum Wednesday.
I’m always interested in hearing anything about the Mesh Deformer especially when when Karl Stiefvater (aka Qarl Fizz aka Qarl Linden) is talking. So, running through the MetaReality outline on Friday is a regular thing for me. Not much new on the Deformer, but Gianna touches on some of the Avatar 2 stuff I’ve been reporting on.
I used the Outline form with time marks.
Oz Linden created a new page in the Second Life Wiki. You can find it from the main Second Life Open Source Portal page. I looks a bit like a Google Maps thing. For a larger image click.
[Posted 2:10pm PDT, 4 June 2012] We will be performing rolling restarts for all regions shortly. They will begin today, June 4 at approximately 2:15PM PDT. Please refrain from rezzing no copy objects, making inworld L$ transactions and remember to save all builds. I suppose this is due to the Tp Griefer attacks.
Today we are seeing new griefer toy creating chaos. The new Linden Realm’s Advanced Creator Tools currently in Magnum is being user to create teleporters with broken permissions. When taken outside Magnum the toys will teleport people without their permission. This morning I got to see the Cornfield for the first time. Then they teleported … Read more