Second Life Direct Delivery Info

…moved. But, some people now have thousands of things in their Unassociated list. It may now be that only 100 DD items can be in the list before the Merchant’s Outbox stops sending new items. There seems to be no limit on how many Box items can be in the list. Payments Lost A number of people are reporting seeing items sold and even improved sales, the items are being delivered, and they are failing to receive payment. The consensus is, if you can,… Continue reading

Creative Commons & Open Source Music Review

…that explains CC licensing and how it can be used. http://ccmixter.org/ – Listed in the top 14 list above. http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/creative_commons/ – The selection process in genre is multi-level selection broad and then narrower genres of music. You click each track and dig down to its license to find out if it is useable for your project. The few I looked at were mostly CC Attribution non-Commercial. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14… Continue reading

Second Life News 2013-12

…ld be so much more it would result in a net loss of performance. Group Ban Lists Baker Linden is working on Group Ban Lists. Currently this feature is in the planning stage. So, it could die. The Lindens normally never talk about things in the planning stage. But, Baker is new. I suspect the conversation sort of got away from Simon. So, we got to hear about it. Whatever the case, the Lindens are thinking about it. I believe we will see some form o… Continue reading

Greenlife Emerald Viewer Review – Continued

…rald it is labeled Avatar List (Ctrl-Shift-a or via menu Emerald -> Avatar List). In some other places in Emerald it is referred to as radar. In Emerald it is a handy floater listing all the nearby avatars and some handy information. See the image. Once upon a time the mini-map was called radar, until Linen Lab renamed it for a better new player experience. But that is not the radar usually meant in comabt SIM’s. Radar in Second Life previously wa… Continue reading

Emerald Viewer 1.4.0.2439 Released – Review

…f the list to your local computer (Save XML – Load XML). This makes an XML list of your blacklist items. That would let you move a complex list to new viewers and also back it up. Avatar List – This has been around awhile now. There is a sticky in the Modular Forum that tells you what all the icons mean. This is radar, by the old definition of radar. Use Ctrl-A to pop it open. Teleport History – This holds a history of your teleports and is persis… Continue reading

Second Life News 2013-8 #4

…changes. Several light weight clients for SL have not handled the Interest List changes well. I’m sure they will update quickly. The Interest List changes are causing some odd problems here and there. Dwarfins Ciaran Laval is seeing some odd problems with the Dwarfins. It seems on some parcels they rez as invisible. So, that problem is being looked into… Server Side Avatar Baking Thursday there was a pile-on load test of the system. The idea was t… Continue reading

Firestorm Q&A on #SecondLife’s Future

…smaller teams, he came up with a number and he got that number of people. Listen to this couple of minutes of video if you listen to no other part. Oz picked his people to get the ones most interested in Second Life. Several came up to him and said the new world is great, but I came here to work on Second Life. So, Oz feels he has a dedicate and enthusiastic team. 18:00 – Jessica talking about a smaller team; easier quicker… 18:30 – Changes to Pe… Continue reading

Second Life Inventory & Performance

…nge from Firestorm to Singularity we can still get a copy of our inventory list from the servers. To see and use that list our viewer must download a copy of it. The time needed to download a list and arrange in the viewer’s computer memory is affected by the number of items in our inventory and how they are arranged. Also, some part of the process goes through the region servers, which is why when we are clearing inventory problems we go to a des… Continue reading