Fund Raiser DMCA Abuse

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You may or may not know about some of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) abuse that is happening. I’m a free market supporter and in general believe in protecting Intellectual Property Rights. But, this 2001 law in the USA, with similar laws in other counties, violates some of ideas expressed by the founding fathers of America. This law uses guilty until proven innocent logic, which is about as anti-American and anti-freedom as one can get. The remedy to prevent misuse, which opponents of the law said would never work, is a law suit for damages.

Fund Raiser in Pulse

The problem is a DMCA Complaint is easy to file with almost no downside. Fighting it is difficult and there is no real up side. The recording industry and related companies liked that it was difficult to fight and easy to use. DMCA has consistently been misused for coercion and elimination of competition. We are seeing its misuse in Second Life™.

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Dolphin Viewer False Positive

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I am not a fan of Norton Anti-Virus. My opinion is that company is more about selling software than making an excellent product. Whatever the case, Lance has posted a new article on the Dolphin Viewer blog.

It seems Norton AV is detecting Dolphin Viewer 3’s slplugin.exe as a possible virus. Lance has explained what he has done to check that a virus has not snuck into any of his systems or the viewer files.

The latest Dolphin Viewer is not setting off my ESET/NOD32.

 

#SL ADITI Fixed

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If you use the ADITI grid for proofing your various types of builds, you’ll be glad to know that Maestro Linden has just changed the status of SVC-7727 – Aditi grid problem. After changing my password to cause my inventory on Aditi to update, my inventory no longer saves changes made to it from session to session. The JIRA item is now marked FIXED.

I think I was part of some Linden experimenting because I saw my account on ADITI start working a couple of weeks ago. I had been dealing with problems on ADITI since the beginning of March and adding to the JIRA every so often.

Maestro suggests that your follow these steps and try ADITI again.

  1. Change your AGNI password, meaning change your login password. This affects all Second Life logins.
  2. Wait 24 hours.
  3. Log into ADITI.

That is simple enough. Of course if you see the problem after waiting the 24 hours, say so in the JIRA.

I changed my password today at about 3:15 PM SLT. I’ll try logging into ADITI sometime after 3:15 PM tomorrow.

 

Scripting User Group Closing?

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For the last few weeks there has not been much going on in the Scripting User group that Kelly Linden chairs. The group has been getting smaller, fewer people attending. There has also been less to report about in regard to scripting. Today’s meeting was no exception.

The news we have been getting from Kelly has been more about server upgrades than scripting upgrades. So, Kelly is considering rolling the user group into Andrew Linden’s Server/Scripting User Group that meets Tuesday and Friday.

While uncertain, today’s meeting may have been the last scripting group meeting. Kelly is usually at Andrews meetings, so it will still be possible to discuss scripting problems with him.

Does this suggest that we will see a period of slower growth in the Linden Scripting Language? That is hard to say. Time will tell.

Sailor’s Dilemma: Havok Upgrades

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One of my readers is into sailing. Sailors have been having some problems with region crossings. We all have. Region crossings are an old problem that the Lab has worked on for years. It is a complex problem unique to Second Life™. The current Havok upgrade arriving with Pathfinding is a concern for the sailors because of know problems, which lead to the following in-world note.

Hi.   I’m a reader of your server and scripting blogs, an active sailor, and Head Race Director for one of the clubs.  

I was talking yesterday to our Estate Owner who is contemplating a bulletin to our members warning about what I think some are calling “Hell week”.  

I have not been in world as much as normal over the last couple of months because of RL. So, I’m not fully up to speed on what’s going on.   I’ve done some spelunking around and think I’ve got a rough notion of the issues at a superficial level anyway.    I’ve drafted a note (which I’m dropping on you) that we might send round to our members.   I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at it and set me straight if I have got the situation wrong.  

I’ll be checking Oskar’s forum for specifics on this week’s roll, I haven’t seen anything yet.

I won’t relate the attached note card. The preliminary bulletin ties Havok and Pathfinding to closely together, but it was pretty much right on and the sentiments understandable. There is a problem with Havok Physics Engine upgrades. The problem comes from how Havok handles moving-mesh-objects or dynamic objects like a vehicle or boat. The Havok people are constantly improving their system, as is every company that makes physics engines for games.

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Niran’s Viewer Update

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Niran is releasing a new version about each week. The coming 1.44 release is delayed white new code from Linden Lab™ is integrated and debugged. And the user interface is being redone.

Niran Viewer 1.43 Splash Screen

Version 1.43 is available for download. The news on http://niranv-sl.blogspot.com advises that the version is going to be buggy and crash prone. But, it does have new code and fixes coming out of the Lab.

NiranV 1.43 Download 32bit. A 64-bit version is available. The download is about 42mb and only takes a couple of minutes. Niran recommends clearing the settings and cache when installing new versions.

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