Second Life and Virtual Worlds
This video shows problems with animation sync since some Interest List roll outs. Notice the dates changing as the video plays.
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A JIRA is being filed today. If you want to file a JIRA on the same problem, please do. Since referencing JIRA numbers other than your own is difficult, make a reference to the July 30 Sever-Scripting meeting and ask your report be referred to Andrew Linden.
A couple of days ago Blender released version 2.68a. It seems a number of bugs are getting through the release candidate testing. The development team is talking about how to change their testing procedures.
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The video is about Google Summer of Code work being done on Laplacian Surface Editing with Hook Objects. Don’t ask me… I don’t understand what is happening in the video. I would have to make some guesses. But, it seems to be an aid to animation, which is not what I expected from the title.
Since the JIRA is closed to most users browsing the contents it is hard to know what is happening with Second LifeTM bugs. Nor can we easily keep up on bug changes. The SUN-99 problem is hard to explain. So, I’ve tried some of the JIRA’s options to get a copy of the SUN-99 JIRA report.
I have it in a Word Doc file. You can download it here: SUN-99
I got most of the interesting news out Sunday. Today we have confirmation of which server updates they plan to roll out this week.
The main channel will get the maintenance pack with some bug fixes and the faster materials processing that ran in Blue Steel last week (30). So, objects failing to detect collisions after teleporting, run time permissions messing up in attachments, and pathfinding characters wondering out of their parcels should all be fixed. The Materials system will now be able to request 4 textures per second in place of the 1/sec previously.
This channel gets a new maintenance package. llListen (BUG-3291) and llApplyImpulse (BUG-3307) have fixes. Plus there is another… or some more crash fixes… which I read to mean more exploits cured.
The recent Snowden leaks have become lost in the debate over whether he is a whistle-blower or a betrayer of his country. As government tries to silence whistle-blowers from Benghazi to NSA-IRS misuses of power by tapping the news medias phones and targeting selected groups they gain more control over citizens.
Few have realized how these scandals are affecting the Internet. Until now the Internet has been controlled by the USA, generally thought to be a freedom loving democracy with a science organization and technical society that could be trusted to live by the US Constitution and keep the Internet free for all.
Snowden has revealed that is not the case. The US government agencies are misusing their authority. Earlier CNN interviews with former counter-terrorism agents in the Boston Bomber case revealed even phone conversations of American citizens not on watch lists were being recorded for future reference.
Preliminary Congressional investigations are showing that security work and data mining are being farmed out to private companies giving thousands of people access to sensitive personal data that could never get a security clearance, which is sort of what happened with Snowden.
The UK’s Guardian has a good article on where all this is leading. See: Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is. The UN has long pushed to have control of the Internet take away from the USA. Since the UN is made up mostly of repressive governments we can easily see what that will lead to. Iran would love to have control of the Internet within Iran as would China. That will mean the end of any hint of free speech and outside news for those countries.
And what will it mean for the USA and Europe?
Some of the most interesting news comes from the Third Party Developers meetings. This is not a meeting that is well publicized. I suspect many think that having just the well informed attend is more productive. I tend to agree.
This article is 2,600+ words. It has some work-around methods for some current problems that people are experiencing. It covers some of the most informative news about SL that is available.
SSA is going extraordinary well. The stats coming in are as expected, which means the backend is performing as expected. This means the Lab’s estimates for the amount of hardware needed are going to be correct.
View adoption is going pretty well. About 75% of users have adopted an SSA capable viewer. (84% of Firestorm users – see chart) Looking at that the other way, something like a quarter million people login each day with an old viewer. Also, the numbers vary quite a bit from day to day.
