Warnings – Page 10 – Nalates’ Things & Stuff

Flatterbots

2013/01/03 by Nalates Urriah

I suppose most of my readers know about Flatterbots. These are automated avatars that run an AI program to carry on a conversation. They basically flatter you while they beg. There is an interview with the person behind the bots on: Every Second Man. See: The Mind Behind the Scam.

Is 3D Safe for Kids

2016/05/112012/12/28 by Nalates Urriah

I was answering a question in the SL Forum about 3D and Second Life. The involved people seemed short on info about how 3D works for single screens. So, I was looking for a good explanation of the state of the tech. I came across an article at Tech Crunch. Title: A Guide to 3D Display … Read more

#SL News Week 50

2012/12/12 by Nalates Urriah

Once again, there is no roll out to the main channel. Bugs in the release candidate channels prevented a promotion.

Blue Steel & Le Tigre

These channels will get the same package as last week, but with fixes for the found bugs.

Magnum

This channel get a slightly different package. It is the same package as is running on Blue Steel with the addition of additional bug fixes, an improved fix for the memory leak fix, and a new feature: longer animations.

In a short article I mentioned the animation change. Animation files were previously limited to 60kb. That limit has been changed server side to 120kb. The change will allow for 60 second animations that are more complicated.

A viewer change is required before we can take advantage of this server side change. No one is sure when the viewer change will hit Dev or Beta viewers.

Griefing Alert

2012/11/20 by Nalates Urriah

WARNING: A malicious freebie is making the rounds in second life. If you receive an object called “[L4L]-Gestures & Walkers (Freebies) <3”, delete it at once. DO NOT Rez, or wear it! This object will rez replicating micro cubes in YOUR name filling up a sim, which could cause it to crash, inadvertently making YOU … Read more

Symantec Norton Anti-Virus Problems

2012/07/16 by Nalates Urriah

Recently I’ve been seeing more people having problems with Norton Anti-Virus giving false positives on various viewers used with Second Life and OpenSim. The problem us usually the file slplugin.exe. The SL & OS viewers run multiple copies of file. So, a false positive renders the viewer unusable. Today I saw this article: Symantec Software Update Rendered … Read more

DNS Changer Virus

2017/05/262012/07/05 by Nalates Urriah

Everyone in the media is making a big deal of the DNS Changer Virus. If you have it, you will drop off the net in a few days when the virus kicks in. If you have an anti-virus program and it is working, try doing a manual scan, then you are likely OK… like 99% … Read more

#SL Pyramid Warning Symbols

2012/06/14 by Nalates Urriah

Recently a number of us have been seeing a flock of organdy-yellow pyramids appear around us when trying on mesh. They look very much like the script warnings we see when a script fails. However, they are a little different in that they do not have the little piece of paper denoting a script within … Read more

Griefer Monday Postmortem

2012/06/11 by Nalates Urriah

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.”