Friends from the D’ni Refugees occasionally post information about Myst-like things in the group’s notices. Today a link to this cute little video showed up. Niecia Davi posted the link to this video by Tez String.
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Second Life
Things about SL
Second Life News 2014-9
Tomorrow (Tuesday) the main channel will get the update that has run on the RC channels for the last two weeks. This is a small package with a couple of bug fixes. One is ‘logout due to premature region restart’ bug. The other bug fix is for some obscure email issue.
RC Channels
Both Blue Steel and Le Tigre will get a new package. The Lindens describe it as an infrastructure update. I have no details on what in the infrastructure the update may be enhancing. We may learn some more tomorrow.
The Magnum channel is getting a different package. This is the package several of us were trying to figure out the status of last week. This package has the AISv3 updates. To make use of the new features you must use the Sunshine Project Viewer.
Bits & Pieces SL 2014-8
Fabulously Free is a blog I recently started following. It has interesting stuff most every day. They mention the Cherries on Top hunt, running until Feb 28, Free SL Couture, Fab Friends – Advice on SL things, Nail Me – free fashion, and Princess Rose Hunt.
Having watched the blog for a couple of weeks now I have decided this is a good site to recommend to those new to Second Life™, free stuff, advice, and how to’s. And much of the free stuff looks really nice.
The list of hunts Fabulously Free provided this Friday is a couple of dozen long. They list both grid-wide and in-store hunts.
Second Life Mesh & Land Impact Costs
This is an old subject people keep asking about. Drongle McMahon just answered the question, again. I consider it a rather succinct answer and wanted to add the information to my content on mesh. (Reference) I’ve added to it and changed wording in a place or two, but most of it is Drongle’s words.
Second Life Login Problem/Fail
Inara Pey made it to the Beta Server meeting I missed due to RL work. In that meeting Monty Linden discussed a login problem some have been encountering. See her article: SL projects news week 8/1: server, viewer and log-in issue PSA.
In the meeting Maestro spoke about login problems a small number of people are running into.
BUG-5130 – Cannot connect to second life as it comes up with error message saying: cannot connect to simulator. That pretty much says it all, so the additional details are not important.
Whirly Fizzle provided some troubleshooting steps for Purity Davi in that JIRA item. I’ll put them out here where they can be seen by anyone.
Second Life JIRA Change Coming?
In early September 2012 a JIRA update was rolled out. It wasn’t just a software update. How the Lindens used the JIRA was changing and most of that change was in how Second Life™ users used the JIRA. Basically user freedom in the JIRA was severely curtailed. Most SL users can only read JIRA items in the BUG project that they create. Now that may change.
Innula Zenovka got a comment from Ebbe Altberg about the JIRA. It is being widely quoted in numerous blogs.
Funny, both engineering and product heads here also didn’t like that jira was closed and want to open it up again. Proposal for how is in the works! I hope we can figure out how to do that in a way that works/scales soon.
This comment suggests that Mr. Altberg is open to the idea of opening the JIRA up. Ciaran has an article that covers problems and benefits of having an open JIRA. See: Ebbe Holds The Jira Door Ajar. I think I will be a bit more succinct then he was.