Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
I get announcements for various benefits and sales and other stuff happening in Second Life. Some seem solely commercial. Others are definitely benefits. Some I know, some I don’t. This is an ‘I don’t know.’ But, it looks like they will have good stuff at good prices.
Check it out…
This week there was no roll to the main channel.
The RC channels all got the same package, today 5/11. The stated changes are: Minor internal improvements. No visible functional changes to Second Life.
Politics: It isn’t getting any better.
Hamlet has posted: Donald Trump Vice Presidential Shortlister Newt Gingrich Once Called for US Congress to Meet in Second Life. [sic] There are some surprising bits in this article. One would think Hamlet would be a fan of Second Life, on the realist side. But, still a fan. Check these points:
A new version of Black Dragon Viewer is out. Niran has dome some more rendering tweaks. Check out the pictures at Niran’s blog.
This release is a set of minor fixes, one of which is invisiprims.
See more here: RLV 2.9.17
If you are an RLViewer user, time to upgrade.
Seems those using Norton have started having problems since Thursday’s (5/5/16) update. Seems they get double posts in chat and clicks don’t work first try.
The fix is to uninstall, run the Norton removal tool, and reinstall.
I am seeing lots of people in the Firestorm Support group asking for help with the issue. The problem happens on all viewers – LL viewer, Firestorm & Singularity have been tested.
In trying to dig up more information on the problem I found the SL JIRA was down… I couldn’t get a page to come up. But, then I tried Firefox, I can get the pages to come up in Firefox. Weird. I was using Chrome.
The report I was looking for is: BUG-11891 – Text duplicates in local and IM. Movement lags and sometimes clicking an item requires multiple clicks. Reading you’ll find that group announcements are posting twice too.
Kyle Linden posts the fix the Lab is going with.