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Second Life Removing Snapshot-to-Email

2015/04/26 by Nalates Urriah

In the Third Party Developers’ meeting Oz Linden mentioned that someone spotted a maintenance version viewer without the ability to send snapshots via email from Second Life. This omission of the feature Snapshot-to-Email from this RC version is deliberate. It will eventually be removed from all Linden and Third Party Viewers.

The way the system works, the images are sent TO whoever with the FROM address of the user-sender, at least when the Lab knows the sender’s address. But, the email is being sent from a Second Life server, so they are spoofing the FROM address. This ‘spoofing’ is a common practice of spammers and black-hat crackers. So, the SL servers are getting blocked by numerous ISP’s automated systems as spammers. That is affecting other email services the Lab uses to communicate with users.

Second Life Losing the Linux Viewer?

2015/05/132015/04/25 by Nalates Urriah

The fate of the Second Life Linux version viewer is now up to the Linux community of Second Life. In the Third Party Devlopers’ meeting Oz Linden spoke about the Lab’s Linux support for the near term future. Basically the Lab is going to provide less Linux support.

Identity by Jewel Appletor aka Karalyn Hubbard, on Flickr

There are two reasons; one is the Lab’s limited resources and second the new projects they will be starting in the next months or so, which I take to mean late May or early June.

Second Life TPD Viewers Update

2015/04/25 by Nalates Urriah

Oz Linden in the Third Party Developers’ meeting mentioned that the Tools Update Viewer made it to main viewer status. That means the Lab is now fully committed to building viewers with VS2013.

Fantasy Faire 2015 - Ichi-go Ichi-e - I — Fantasy Faire 2015 – Ichi-go Ichi-e – I by Caitlin ‘Caity’ Tobias, on Flickr

Since the Tools viewer got promoted the main viewer is less crashy then previous versions 2% less. That is a significant improvement. While 2% may sound like a small number, it is a significant improvement.

Second Life Viewers Week 17 #2

2015/04/24 by Nalates Urriah

I was surprised to see the RC Tools Update Viewer version 3.7.28.300918 promote to the main viewer. This is two updates in one week…

Jada Is Super Serious On Killing Stormcloaks.. by Christina, on Flickr

That leaves two RC viewers on the list this morning.

Second Life: Layer Limits Viewer

2015/04/20 by Nalates Urriah

RC Layer Limits Viewer version 3.7.28.301019 updated this afternoon, after I published my viewer updates. :/ My viewer attempted to update to this version. I had an in viewer notice that a new version had downloaded. I clicked to have it go ahead and install. That was a mistake. It could not install and I … Read more

Second Life Viewers Update Week 17

2015/04/20 by Nalates Urriah

The Main Viewer has updated to 3.7.27.300636. This version was the RC Maintenance release with a load of fixes (Release Notes). This viewer first appeared as an RC Viewer 3/18. I found it to be a good improvement over the previous main viewer, 3.7.26.299635. Some of the improvements are targeted at performance.