Nalates' Things & Stuff

Torley Linden Interview

2016/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

One of the better people in Second Life™ is Torley Linden. When I first started playing in Second Life I soon found Torley How-To videos. His personality comes through as fun and joyful. I can’t imagine a better spokesperson for Second Life and Linden Lab. Now Exolymph has an interview with Torley. Check it out: … Read more

The Great Purge of 2016…

2016/02/282016/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

What’s with the perma-bans we are hearing of?

I’m seeing reports of long time users with big shops, whole regions, and massive marketplace stores being perma-banned. So, what’s up?

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Firestorm Viewer News 2/26

2016/02/27 by Nalates Urriah

We are to the final stages of a new Firestorm Viewer release. Jessica Lyon, team leader, says they have pushed all new work into a new development branch as the finalize testing on their release candidate. This next release will have TLS 1.2 (Transport Layer Security).

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See: Canary Dec 2015

TLS is sort of part of SSL and sort of a replacement. It is enough to know that it is the part of the viewer that secures all the viewer’s money handling communications. I forget the cutoff date, but there is a date coming soon when a viewer MUST have TLS 1.2 or the SL servers will refuse to talk to the the viewer for money things. You can use your viewer and run around SL. But, you won’t be able to buy things.

Second Life TPD News Week 8

2016/02/27 by Nalates Urriah

Friday (2/26) saw the Third Party Developers user group meeting. It lasted about 40 minutes. We have some interesting news and even a few specific details. You can watch the video of the meeting here, thanks to Pantera Północy.

There isn’t much change in the Viewer pipeline. Work is proceeding but some of the problems have taken time to resolve. The RC viewers are revealing problems, which is the whole point of having RC versions.

A Match

2016/02/26 by Nalates Urriah

I included this just for fun.

Marketplace Beta Search: Better?

2016/02/252016/02/25 by Nalates Urriah

I am one that has bitched about ‘search’ in Second Life™ for years. The results have always been a confusing mix of items related and unrelated to the search target/term. Now the Lab is making the new search, Marketplace Beta Search, easier to find and use.

In November 2015 Linden Lab posted an article about the Beta Marketplace Search. See: Introducing Marketplace Search Beta. They updated it later the same month. Now they seemed to have moved to broader testing and have placed a link to the new search on the landing/home page of the current Marketplace or I’m just noticing it.