You may have noticed that it is nearly impossible to delete a Facebook account. Some believe it is impossible. However, on the ReadWriteWeb.com blog they have the steps needed to backup your profile and delete it.
There are other ways. As one person has said, just post something politically incorrect and Facebook Staff will delete it for you. Another is to have a friend report you as a fake person, one using an alias. Another is to convince them you’re an avatar.
Today one of the long pending updates has finally rolled out to the main grid. With any luck, it will work fine and a roll back can be avoided. So, what is in this new roll out?
Mono2
The big gun in this roll out is Mono2. Kelly Linden is generally blamed for the Mono2 Update… well… attributed is probably a better word. But, since no good deed goes unpunished… we can thank him while gathering tar and features. Whatever your feelings on Mono2, it has been a long time coming. Today it was rolled out to the main grid.
Mono2 is an update to the Linden Scripting Language (LSL) system. The original language is one created by Linden Lab for use in Second Life (SL). Scripts are used by residents to make things like doors open and teleports teleport. Scripts are written in a language. Many of you will have heard of JavaScript, which is used widely with web pages. LSL is a somewhat JavaScript like language used exclusively in Second Life with a dialect used in OpenSim (OSSL). I suppose one could say the relationship between JavaScript and LSL is a bit like English and Spanish being Latin based languages. Your ability to speak one does not allow you to speak the other, but any other Latin based language will be a bit easier to learn.
Mesh cost is still an annoying topic of conversation. It is still undefined. But, we are getting closer to a cost and we are learning more about the reasons for the costs. The Lindens are definitely being more open about the Linden costs. That hasn’t done much to improve the manners of residents participating in the meetings. 🙁
Mesh Meeting
Mesh UUID Swapping
This subject keeps coming up. Kyrah Abattoir asked the question in a new way. Quoting, “Figuring out a sane and conservative way to implement “set by UUID” for Meshes, builtin delay by link set for example, to prevent excessive mesh swapping/animating attempts, yet allow loading and unloading a mesh for legitimate uses. It seems to me this question assumes a swap can be done and that it is frequent swapping that overloads the sim. Originally many hoped that mesh could be animated as sculpties are.
I just saw a new Firefox browser is out, version 5. I started looking to see what is new in Firefox 5. The hype is 1,000’s if new things. The reality is; not much… from the users perspective. There are the ubiquitous bug fixes, plus new security measures and a few new features.
Firefox Twitter
Popularity
Internet Explorer has the largest number of users. However, that does not make it the most popular browser. As it is built into Windows, new and novice computer users have no clue that better browsers are available. Among intermediate and advanced computer users alternate viewers are popular. They actually make a choice as to which browser to use. So, while debatable it is Firefox that is the more popular browser. Behind it is Google Chrome, my favorite.
For those of us using Blender 2.5x the problem with rigged mesh not exporting correctly is a known issue. A couple of days ago Tapple Gao posted a fix for that problem in the SL Forum. See: Rigging working in Blender 2.5
This is a geeks only fix. The fix submitted to Blender.org is code that must be used when COMPILING a version of Blender. The fix is simple enough, simple as in short, and I suspect will be in the next release of Blender.
Someone may put up a build of Blender with the patch implemented. Until then the fix doesn’t do most of us any good.
