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Second Life News 2013-2v2

2013/01/10 by Nalates Urriah

This week we are coming off the holiday No-Change Window. Yesterday we got a rollout to the main channels and restarts. The package is a maintenance release listed as having stability improvements. I generally think that means there is new code to fixes crash bugs and to close exploits. Whatever is in it, we have it.

Release Candidates

The Lindens hoped to get two new packages into the RC channels. Andrew Linden’s Interest List improvements were one of the candidates planned for testing. Due to some last minute discoveries, that package didn’t make it to the RC channel.

Second Life Business Survey

2013/01/09 by Nalates Urriah

An SL resident (B-day: March 23, 2008 – Forum: Jan/6/2013) named Heavenly Villa posted asking SL users to complete a survey. The claim is it will help them improve business in SL. Heavenly Villa says the results will be published on the group’s web site/blog: Centre for Business Development. The poll is here: Centre for Business … Read more

Mesh and Other Upload Crashes

2013/01/09 by Nalates Urriah

There is an odd gotcha or two in the mesh Upload process. One is from cloud storage programs. If one has Skydrive or a similar software installed it can be nearly impossible to upload mesh without crashing. Some times deleting the SLM file in the folder with the Collada DAE file can solve the problem. … Read more

Second Life Problems

2013/01/08 by Nalates Urriah

Today, Tuesday, some time after the restarts people started to see problems. There was no software rollout today, just a restart. There is very high packet loss of everyone. Which is an indication it is on the Lab’s end of the network. Even Lindens were seeing the packet loss. While some of them work from … Read more

Second Life News 2013-2

2013/01/07 by Nalates Urriah

Sever Side Avatar Baking

This change touches many parts of the Second Life™ system, both server and viewer side. The server side changes are nearing completion and the viewer side changes are about midway, IMO.

Third Party Viewer Developers are working to get the code changes merged into their projects. This is a VERY complex task because of the changes TPV Dev’s have made and the changes from Server Side Avatar Baking. (SSAB)

Since the SSAB clock started ticking most of the time has been used to sort out merge problems. I get the impression that is getting worked out and TPV Dev’s will soon be in a place to actually run their test viewers.

Connecting to Second Life

2013/01/06 by Nalates Urriah

People have been having problems connecting to Second Life™ for as long as I have been using SL, probably longer. As the viewer is shifted to use more HTTP protocol services some are seeing better performance and others worse performance. Whatever the case, more use of HTTP is coming.

HTTP Library

Monty Linden has been working on the communications library used with Second Life. In general we know that work as the HTTP Library. The library is a file that contains all the code to run the HTTP communications channels for the viewer.