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Second Life News Week 29

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Firestorm

Today the Third Party Viewer List was updated and the new Firestorm Viewer release has moved to the top of the list, being the most stable viewer in use, congratulation FS/PH Team.

Dolphin Viewer 3 follows Firestorm and is ahead of Imprudence.

I have yet to crash while using Firestorm… There are other minor annoyances, but crashing is not one of them.

More Phoenix users are changing to Firestorm. There are no numbers out on how many or how fast. They are rather secretive about those numbers.

Main Channel

This week the main grid is getting new software. The Lindens have decided the Advanced Creator Tools will be rolled out to the main channel. The Advanced Tools are also known as Experience Tools. These are the functions that were used to build Linden Realms.

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#SL ADITI Fixed

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If you use the ADITI grid for proofing your various types of builds, you’ll be glad to know that Maestro Linden has just changed the status of SVC-7727 – Aditi grid problem. After changing my password to cause my inventory on Aditi to update, my inventory no longer saves changes made to it from session … Read more

Second Life News Update Week 27

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You may have had problems logging in Thursday. Around 1 PM SLT things were getting sorted out. Thursday was to be the main roll out to the main channel. That had to stop because of network outages. I was trying to make it in about that time. No login errors. Viewer would just sit there doing nothing.

Beta Server Meeting

As to exactly what the network problems were no one is saying. That means either they don’t know, some information travels slowly within the Lab, or it was security related.

The roll of the Pre-rendered Library Avatars package was stopped. The Linden regions got the roll. The network outages forced a stop before the roll out could be completed. So, the grid is in a rather unique state this week and will be until next Tuesday. Then the Pre-Render package will go grid wide.

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#SecondLife News Week 26

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The Lab is doing a bit of server update dance this week. The roll outs took longer than past roll outs on Tuesday, or that is the rumor from some people’s subjective experience. New roll out tools are being used. They will be optimized and get faster as time passes. One of the new features, if I understand correctly, is the ability to update the server’s operating system and roll out a new simulator package too.

Server Scripting User Group

So, this week we get new operating systems and simulator updates.

Magnum Release Channel

This channel was to get the Pathfinding package. Actually it did. BUT… there were problems with the package. So, it was rolled back and the Pre-rendered Avatar Textures package was rolled to the Magnum channel.

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#SL News Week 25

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Remember the Cloudy, Blurry Avatar issue that Nyx Linden was working on? Nyx says they are making some progress. They have some work-around fixes for a subset of the issues that is running on Blue Steel. This would be the pre-rendered avatars in the inventory thing.

Nifty Avatars

There is a team working on a general fix for blurry avatars. But, Nyx says they are not far enough along to be ready to say anything about that. I suspect that means they are experimenting with a collection of fixes to see what works best and what side affects the fixes may have.

So, while we don’t know much, we do know the Lindens are working on it.

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#SL News Update Week 24

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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.

Kingdom of Sand by: Nils Apfelbaum – Flickr

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

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.

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