If you have been wondering about Second Life Search and why all the squawking about search… then read Where, Oh Where Has My Little Store Gone? by Darrius Gothly. It is well written and easily understood.
Second Life Seach
Emerald Viewer 2439 Update
Update: 2010-08-11 6:45 PM SLT – A new post appeared today explaining a bit more about the 2439 update and the removal of the 2439 beta release post being removed. Fracturedcrystal posted:
Posting to clear some confusion, I unpublished the previous post with beta 2439 because we are working on a new beta which fixes several security issues with some of the new features introduced in that version. There has however been unexpected technical difficulties in the 1.5 port, some of the other features in trunk, and our dedicated build servers, which we are working to fix at the moment.
The post has links to older beta releases, the 2226 being the newest. See: Re: Beta 2439
Original post: Today I find that the blog link to and article about the Emerald Viewer 2439 build have been removed. A post showing statistics of Emerald Viewer use seems to replace it. Presumably when the 2439 problems are fixed the post will reappear.
There is a thread in the Modular Systems forum titled Where is the 2439 release post?
AleiaSerenity Sapphire of the Emerald Support Team posts:
there were some issues with the avatar texture feature on the pie menu so the dev’s removed 2437 [I think Aleia meant 2439?] from the blog
I suspect it was more than just a pie menu problem, but who knows? Read Emerald Viewer 1.4.0.2439 Released – Review and look at the bugs we know of… I suspect the inventory problems we have been seeing has placed a load on the LL servers as people clear cache and reload inventory. But, that is speculation. Not the inventory problems… the server load.
Update 8/15/2010 – Be sure to read Emerald Viewer Scandal Erupts… Again
Qarl Linden Departure/Layoff – Second Life Issues
(Update 2010-08-10) After Phillip Rosedale’s July 30th meeting many of us, while cautious, were more optimistic about the future of SL. Many things in this latest round of layoffs are puzzling and shaking our optimism. But, none are more puzzling and disconcerting than the layoff of Qarl after the 30th meeting. In this article I’m writing about what I have learned about issues in and changes coming to SL and comparing Phillip’s talk with his walk.
Much of what was said Friday the 30th comes under questioning with the subsequent layoff of Qarl. The reason for that is the contribution Qarl was making to SL. How can a company that has a highly productive employee, that apparently consistently solves complex problems with innovative solutions, be released if the company is about fixing problems? This is sort of like a coach with the best pitcher in the league claiming he is going to concentrate on a pitching game and then trading off the pitcher… everyone is going, “WTF?”
KirstenLee S20 (31) Released
This release is mostly about stability. Not much new to talk about.
See: S20 Build 31 ( Back from Holiday Special )
I’ve gotten to use this version for several hours now. It seems more stable than my SL 2.1 and Emerald 2439. I’ve been visiting high lag places (NWN’s popular places) and it does pretty good. The LL servers seem to be having problems. Everyone is complaining of lag (8/7 AM SLT).
Imprudence Release 1.3.0 RC1
The release news has come up on the Imprudence blog today. Imprudence 1.3.0 RC1 Released
There are Windows, Linux, and Mac Intel versions. I’ll get a review as soon as I have time. But, Imprudence does a good job of getting new features listed in there blog.
It may just be me but when I rez a new cube it comes in with all dimensions set to zero, which means it is invisible. Set the dimensions to something more than 0.0000 and it becomes visible.
Second Life and Phillip’s Friday Meeting
On Friday July 30, 2010 Phillip Rosedale, Second Life founder, held an in world meeting to talk about the new direction and focus of Second Life and what residents can expect. RL work kept me away. I’m reading the blogs to see what went on and what people think. I wrote my reaction to some of those posts, then watched the meeting’s video. This article starts out some of my thoughts in reaction to others comments. After the title After the Video I provide a point by point summary with time marks on the video . So if you are interested in a single topic you can see if it is in the video and jump to the right spot in the video.
See the Meeting
First, you can see the video of the meeting on Treet.tv. See: Inworld Meeting with Philip Linden and BK Linden – It runs an hour long. Massively and New World Notes link to it. Massively’s Tateru Nino provides an analysis of the event. In this case I read analyses before watching the video. Sort of gives me something to listen for and relate things to. I provided time marks so you can watch just the parts pertinent to you.
Transcript is available on Treet.tv.