Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Gaia Clary has released an updated candidate. You can download it from your AvaStar download page.
Try this out and test it for problems. If all is well this could be the next release. In a few days Gaia will make a revised tutorial using the new release and probably Blender 2.7.
I’ve done some more work on my blog. For a time the updates for Followers failed, again. I got that fixed. I think it is still working after my last changes.
The notices fix broke the pages behind the menu items The Stuff and Viewers. Now those pages are fixed and it looks like Follow Notices are still working. Let me know if you do or don’t get notices.
I’ve been looking for a fix for the iPad’s having Google Ads that cover up some of the article text. I can only reproduce the problem on iPads. The problem seems to be in Google’s code. There is a particular page size that is not being handled correctly.
I suppose Samsung and other tablets might have the same problem as they render a page in the size range of iPads. I don’t have access to any of those. Let me know if you are using a tablet and seeing a problem.
I have some hope I may be able to correct it with a CSS change. But, not much. From time to time I’ll work on it. I’m just short time.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) the main channel will get the update that has run on the RC channels for the last two weeks. This is a small package with a couple of bug fixes. One is ‘logout due to premature region restart’ bug. The other bug fix is for some obscure email issue.
Both Blue Steel and Le Tigre will get a new package. The Lindens describe it as an infrastructure update. I have no details on what in the infrastructure the update may be enhancing. We may learn some more tomorrow.
The Magnum channel is getting a different package. This is the package several of us were trying to figure out the status of last week. This package has the AISv3 updates. To make use of the new features you must use the Sunshine Project Viewer.
Gaia Clary has posted in the forum about the preview videos of Blender 2.7 changes and features. See: Blender 2.70 sneak preview videos.
The playlist is here. The second in the series is rather interesting.
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On the subject of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) I follow the UN, several Pro-AGW sites, and a number of skeptic sites. I probably know more about the studies, claims, fake and real science, and political moves going on than most of the debate’s audience.
One of the main players in the debate is Michael Mann, the ‘scientist’ that came up with the tree-ring based chart showing the temperature jump commonly known as the Hockey-Stick. The UN and various government agencies have relied on the chart as evidence for making drastic policy decisions. Al Gore made it famous.
Skeptics have attacked the ‘Stick’ with a vengeance. For observers it has been an obtuse subject hidden in a blizzard of claims and counter claims too massive to dig through and verify or debunk. It is like an endless storm of chaos and conflicting statements, debunking and debunking the debunks ad infinitum. Too many people with various reputations have weighed in on the subject to allow the layperson to come to a reasoned conclusion of what is or is not true based on personalities.
Fabulously Free is a blog I recently started following. It has interesting stuff most every day. They mention the Cherries on Top hunt, running until Feb 28, Free SL Couture, Fab Friends – Advice on SL things, Nail Me – free fashion, and Princess Rose Hunt.
Having watched the blog for a couple of weeks now I have decided this is a good site to recommend to those new to Second Life™, free stuff, advice, and how to’s. And much of the free stuff looks really nice.
The list of hunts Fabulously Free provided this Friday is a couple of dozen long. They list both grid-wide and in-store hunts.