Kirsten Reminder

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In my article Kirsten Viewer Update I covered the effort of people to raise enough money to pay Lee to continue development of the Kirsten Viewer. That effort is under way. This is a reminder of the need for more money. Remember, you get your money back if the project does not reach its goal. … Read more

#SL Server News Week 42

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We got several complaints this week. I’m not sure how many of them are real. But, when the foundation shifts everything shakes. The HTTP Inventory Services made it to the main grid. That type of fundamental change usually comes with some problems.

Server Meeting 2011/10/20

Critical OS Updates Complete

Oskar Linden announced that about 3 PM Thursday this update process completed. All LL servers have now been updated.

The additional restarts for the COS updates are over.

It appears this update may have partially or completely solved SVC-5040 – Script performance dropped on regions deployed on class 7 hardware since rolling restart.

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Blender 2.60 Released

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A new release is out. There are reports of some new problems for those importing rigged mesh to Second Life. Some rigged Collada model uploads are failing. The Lindens know the reports and in yesterday’s Mesh Content group it was discussed. So, a fix is already in the works.

New Blender 2.60

3D Audio

This is the big NEW feature for this release. However, it cannot be used for anything in Second Life. The SL viewer has its own sound system. This feature is for those making animated videos and games in Blender. It is an OpenAL thing.

Animation System

This is an improvement to an existing feature in Blender. The user interface has been polished and usability improved. Also Collada integration has been improved; I suppose they mean integration with the animation system. The release information links to a section on Full Collada Animation Support.

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Adult Content Comes to the SL Forum

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We now have an Adult Content section in the Second Life Forum. It looks like it came into being today, or at least today it became public.

There are Community Guidelines posted. These are pretty much what you would expect, no harassment, spamming, advertising, not personal information. But surprisingly nor is sexually explicit content… Nor are nudity or adult content per the SL Guidelines allowed… well… then what is it they are going to talk about that is different from other sections of the forum?

The forum section does not require age verification. I can read the forum without logging in.

Secret Forum

I hear that the previous Adult Content forum made by Blondin Linden was a private by invitation only section. If that is accurate, then this section of the forum has just been made public. Personally I thought the private thing was an SL Group, but what do I know? I’m not even 4 years old yet.

Who’s in Charge?

I’m not sure anyone outside the Lab knows. I think the moderators are in control of the forum. At some level above the moderators there is management. In some fashion direction from various management levels reaches the moderators. Somewhere in that management tree is Viale Linden. How much control he really has over the moderators is unknown.

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