Moving Your Avatar

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Strawberry Singh is well known for her personality and gorgeous pictures. She has a talent for posing an avatar and composing a great image. In the blog post Moving your own Avatar! she explains how to position your avatar. I mean to actually move the avatar.

Singh Logo
Singh Logo

One of the ways to move an avatar into just the right position for a photo is to sit it on a prim, play the pose, and make the prim invisible. You can edit the prim and move it wherever you want. Of course the avatar goes with it. But, things get much more complicated when you are in a no rez region.

That is when Strawberry’s tips will come in way handy.

SL10B Hunt

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About mid-afternoon (SLT) the Lab posted about a Premium member hunt. There are also more free things in the Market Place. Look for the Party Pack.

The hunt has gifts for Premium members. But, the hunt seems to be staged as part of a story. The post says: “Magellan Linden has uncovered an evil scheme by mad Doctor Talpa, to build some form of mind-control machines and take over the world. Magellan is busy building a machine to counter this scheme, but in the meantime YOU are needed to gather materials and components — and to destroy any of Talpa’s machines you can find.”

See the post here: SL10B News and Premium Gift Hunt.

Second Life Griefing 2013-24

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Every release of the viewer and server software has more fixes to stop griefing. But it is an escalating problem. Sort of an arms race.

A recent casualty appears to be the Pornstars group. It seems that group is going to close because of griefer infiltration. It will be replaced with a new group:  The Sexiest® : Pornstars click the name to find the group.

You may be unexpectedly ejected from the group. That will be the group closing. There is some hope this may be avoided. But, that depends on whether the Lab helps out.

Many are hoping the coming Group Ban Lists will help with this problem.

Second Life News 2013-24 #4

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Thursday we got some news on the recent rollout. The Main channel rolled as planned. The Blue Steel and Le Tigre rollouts didn’t last the day. In just a couple of hours they were rolled back. So, now those two release channels are running the same software as is on the Magnum channel.

Server Beta 2013-24
Server Beta 2013-24

Magnum is running the planned rollout, Interest List and fixes.

Wednesday Maestro Linden posted: “BUG-2850 is severe enough by itself to warrant a rollback – Le Tigre and Blue Steel are rolling to the same version as Magnum.” 

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Privacy Lost

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I am an online type person, so I find this electronic privacy thing highly pertinent to my life style and freedom. Recent events have shown that we have serious challenges in the area of privacy. What Pres. Bush started Pres. Obama has put on steroids. The first 15 minutes of the video is an interesting interview with a mover and shaker in the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The video is non-political, but some may see it as politically biased. The last 15 minutes is about US Patents. If you are interested in Podcasting, the last 15 minutes will be of interest.

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If you want to get a sense of what is happening with privacy in your life, check out the Ghostery plugin, blog, Facebook, Huffington Post on Invisible Web by Ghostery, and Ghostery on Twitter. Ghostery runs on Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.

Shortly after the Boston Bombing information came out that has started to disappear from the search engines. Just try and find the CNN story by Erin Burnett on Outfront about the phone call between the bomber and his mother. In a May 1st show a former FBI Counter Terrorism states everything electronic is being gathered by the government. (Clip 1 and Clip 2)

While I could find the clips easily a month ago I had to work to find them to get a link for this article. It appears this information is disappearing from search engines.

Since Second Life is international, I will assume that makes any American user… well ANY user of SL a target for NSA.