Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Daniel Voyager is taking a poll of which network is your favorite. Jump over and give a click.
See: Which social networking site is your favorite for Second Life in 2011?
Some choices are not what I would consider social networks, but that is just me. I suppose I can see how Flickr might be a social network. I just never thought of it that way.
With 16 votes Twitter is leading… we need more votes to get an idea of where SL Residents hang out.
I haven’t seen anything official yet. So, this may not be a permanent change. However posts appearing in the SL Forum are saying people are seeing 1-prim, actually PE, minimum cost for mesh objects.
If this remains the minimum cost for mesh objects, it is a nice reduction in mesh cost.
See: August 3–PE down!! 1 prim mesh is here! by Vivienne Daguerre, a regular attendee of the Mesh Upload Group. Also, Ashasekayi Ra asks: New Server Weight?
Today (8/2) the Firestorm-Phoenix team released a new version of the Phoenix Viewer. The announcement says a new griefer-crasher fix has been added along with several bug fixes. The full list is in the release notes. I’ll cover the ones I find interesting.
Phoenix Viewer Download and Release Notes
The rumor persists that Linden Lab will block Series 1 viewers. It doesn’t seem to matter how often the Lab says they won’t. Some rumors say all V1 viewers will be blocked. In general those rumors come from people misunderstanding what has been said and what will happen.
Most Series 1 or alternately labeled V1 viewers will never render mesh. The changes needed to a V1 viewer to accommodate the mesh render pipeline are massive and complex. It is easier to just start over with V2 code and add V1 features. Adding V2 features to a V1 viewer require extensive rewriting and are time consuming, which is why we see the V1 viewers fallen farther and farther behind the V2 versions.
Opensource Obscure has been warning us a new login screen was coming. It seems to be here. It came up in my SLViewer (2.8.3) this morning.
You can see what appears on the new screen here: http://viewer-login.agni.lindenlab.com/
The old screen can be seen here: http://secondlife.com/app/login – that may soon redirect to the new screen.
Older viewers may still use the old splash screen and some Third Party Viewers (TPV) will too. The rumor is the URL redirection will at some point be set to allow the new splash screen on older viewers.
Some TPV’s will switch over from their own screen. Some will likely create custom splash screens.
Tateru in a post on Dwell On It tells about the Meeroos account being blocked. This is the fulfillment account used for all the Meeroos orders in Second Life. So, for now the provider of Meeroos is screwed.
Seems this was an enforcement goof. Similar Meeroos account names were being opened by those hoping to scam on Meeroos somehow. In an effort to remove those accounts the enforcement team got the real one.
See: Meeroos master account blocked by Linden Lab. All Meeroos stores offline
That has to hurt.
If you think Google was a problem for you with its pseudonyms policy you have no idea what is in store for you.
HR 1981 is in process in the US House of Representatives. This will require ISP’s to log all activity on their networks and retain it for 18 months along with all the personal information they have on you in their accounts records. A search warent is not needed to access and study the records. What your date with that hunk reviewed by a bureaucrat?
If you are a US citizen call your Representative and ask that they oppose this bill.
You can read more about it here: Is Congress’s ISP-Logging Bill A Violation of the Fourth Amendment?