We have had lots of discussion in the community about tier prices. The Lab is quietly contacting educational and non-profit groups that have abandoned Second Life™ Sim’s. Hamlet has an article about it here: Linden Lab Quietly Offering 50% Discounts to Select Non-Profit & Educational Groups Who’ve Given Up Their SL Sims.
Google Reader Dying
Alan Green, a Software Engineer at Google, has posted an announcement that Google Reader is to cease operation July 1, 2013. (Reference) OUCH!!!
Google Reader is a primary tool I use to track events and happenings in Second Life, technology, and world politics. It reduces my reading time and provides a means of quickly finding important news. I love several fashion blogs and bounce through pictures of the latest fashion just for fun.
Technorati Stuff
Long ago I entered my WordPress.com blog into Technorati. It just occured to me to enter this blog (nalates.net) into Technorati… Duh! Some days I am a bit slow.
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News You Won’t See
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This is healthcare being enforced by bureaucrats. Look at the judge’s final decision for the facts.
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Second Life Review – Blender 2.66a Released
A new version of Blender came out March 6: 2.66a. You can download Blender here. If you are not using the Archive Version install, save yourself some hassle in the long run and use that install.
There are release notes for Blender 2.66a. The notes are mostly about bug fixes. The release notes for Blender 2.66 are about the new features in this version of Blender.
One of the new features is the addition of: Dynamic Topology Sculpting. Previous versions have sculpting tools that only allow you to move existing vertices. The dynamic tool will allow the addition of vertices as you sculpt. I have yet to try it, so I am not sure how it works. I imagine this will be handy for modelers targeting Second Life™.
Second Life News 2013-11 #2
New software rolled to the main and RC channels this week. There isn’t much to say about the rolls. We hit some problems with last week’s rolls. Fixes for those problems are in this week’s RC channels.
The main channel got the Large Object Rez upgrade that Baker Linden worked on. The idea was to place handling the rez tasks in separate threads. This allows the simulator to continue doing other tasks while a large link set is rezzed.
Blue Steel and Le Tigre are getting the same package. It fixes a crash mode. Presumably this is some exploit fix. I think that because almost nothing else is being said about it.
The Magnum channels got the package from last week with fixes for problem found last week. The known fixes are; region managers being exempted from Direct TP disable, neighboring region visibility issues, and bogus User Not Online error messages.