- And from other me, too @GinnyRED57: Condolences to EVE Online gamers from an ordinary #SecondLife resident. RIP Vile Rat #
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- I just used #Shazam to tag Little Black Submarines by The Black Keys. http://t.co/sS9N3s7i #
- @revpaperboy Eeesht, that's not good. #
- @isfullofcrap Well, I haz a happeh for the Flickr button returning. It worked in Dolphin, but streaming media doesn't. #
- @AbelUndercity Have fun! #
- @isfullofcrap Complete and total fustercluck-o-Rama? #
- LOL listening to @radioriel playing Animal Magic. Save the Essex Lion! @prof_elemental #
- "Jeffrey, fetch me my blunderbuss." Poor Jeffrey, always fetching stuff. #
- …cont) http://t.co/zeVB7BYs #
- RT @xeni Uninsured comic artist @llaurappark draws the moment she opens thyroid cancer surgery bill. I know that feel, bro. (cont… #
- @AbelUndercity Thought it was a turkey, but who's counting? #
- @lhavenst He'd have to be, but he never speaks so its hard to tell. #
- @AbelUndercity Sounded like a turkey, but I just had a turkey sammich for lunch. Related? Possibly. #
- @m_ethaniel @AP The local SLC affiliates routinely changed the television schedules around to keep "family hour" pure when I was a kid. #
- @lointaine @m_ethaniel So not surprised. I remember when SNL was "removed" from the schedule, picked up, and then it was a huge hit w/ teens #
- Ooweee, got the STEAM7 hunt items, ready to go out now but may add a separate desk size giftie. #
- Help, help, the baby-fascists are being repressed! http://t.co/j2MOIOEw #
- @lizzwinstead If only it werent a workday! Also, too, I don't think I'll be able to wear my vagina costume on the train. #
- RT: @GinnyRED57: Ha! Funny! Song is about an African immigrant who talks funny and becomes American. Very funny. Too funny? #CurrentTV #
- @JC_Christian I didn't know the Kool-Aid came in Postum flavor. #
- @JC_Christian since I grew up non-Mormon in Utah in the 60's, I'm somewhat horrified by all of this. It's like junior high, but with nukes. #
- I think the only thing not loathsome about these people is letting the kids play in the balloon drop. #RNC2012 #Current2012 #
- @WendellPierce I know, how do they do that? Is it magic beans? #
- A Catholic archbishop praying for a Mormon ex-bishop.Doesn't he realize the LDS used to call the Catholic Church the Whore of Babylon? #
- I guess both churches hated teh ghey more than they hated each other #gaymarriage #gayrights #sinedie #RNC2012 #
- Important #clownbitches educational opportunity for @isfullofcrap (not spam, its a YouTube clip) http://t.co/HK5aQcTF #
I’ve been watching this issue on Firestorm’s JIRA for a month or two, and it appears that the Flickr uploader has finally been fixed.
UPDATE: Ooops, the release was withdrawn, something about a bug. It’s not affecting me, but I’ll have to download the fix once THAT is released.
New in 4.2.1.29803
– Skin improvements to Starlight, Vintage, Metaharper, FS High Contrast and Ansastorm.
– New windlight sky settings, including Ambient Dark, Grey and White and a new Tron Legacy series.
– Added pathfinding LSL functions from Linden Lab.
– Ability to disable group chat on a per-group basis!
– Snapshot uploads to Flickr (thanks to Katharine Berry and Exodus Viewer for that work).
– Temp uploads from snapshot floater.
– Cool new SLurl command line feature!
– New toolbar buttons for ground sit, sound explorer, asset blacklist.
– Our own less intrusive “Rebake terrain” button next to no build/no script/no push icons in menu/nav bar.
– Improved AO handling with other animating inworld objects.
– Ability to join our support group from Help menu.
via Phoenix Firestorm Blog: Firestorm Update 4.2.1.29803
I… probably won’t take their advice about doing a clean install. It’s late tonight, I just want to verify that the uploader is working for me, so…
IT WORKS!! HOORAY!
My Workshop (surprisingly organized, if I do say so.
And now, time for bed. The typist, who now works from home will have a rough commute tomorrow morning dodging the cat and procuring a bowl of Cheerios. She has yet to log in for work wearing her nightshirt and fuzzy slippers, but if I don’t let her get to bed, tomorrow could be a new low in workplace attire.
- Dhughan finally got a Round Tuit: he updated a product on #SLMarketplace @DF@ Jade Walking Stick with AO https://t.co/ZYr5CdXt #
- I just used #Shazam to tag Let Her Go by Passenger. Listening to KUNC Ft Collins stream http://t.co/wcwsA00n #
- I just used #Shazam to tag Ruby Soho by Jimmy Cliff. #KUNC http://t.co/Q8kUQeYr #
- Dancing at the Green Fairy for DJWillow's weekly swing jazz show in Steelhead Nevermoor. GREAT TUNES! http://t.co/E8Ov2qzu #SL #
- LOL inflight wifi. I haz a HAPPEH. #
- Ooh! Disney's Gravity Falls looks like fun. Reminds me of a cartooney #SteelheadSL 😉 @TensaiHilra @TLEclipse http://t.co/ucfmWAoX #
- Almost finished with my gifty for the #SecondLife #STEAM7 hunt. It has an Easter egg, Martian style. #
And now, at last, some time this week to work on my offering for the upcoming STEAM Hunt 7.
The theme this round is “Time and Space,” highlighting the work of H.G. Wells, who got a little steampunk love (and a surprisingly effective gender change) in a recent story arc on the aetheric vidshow “Warehouse 13” last season.
There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of “C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities,†was inscribed. The contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one human, several moth-eaten stuffed monkeys (one holding a lamp), an old-fashioned cabinet, a fly-blown ostrich egg or so, some fishing-tackle, and an extraordinarily dirty, empty glass fish-tank. There was also, at the moment the story begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of an egg and brilliantly polished. And at that two people who stood outside the window were looking, one of them a tall, thin clergyman, the other a black-bearded young man of dusky complexion and unobtrusive costume. The dusky young man spoke with eager gesticulation, and seemed anxious for his companion to purchase the article.
via The Crystal Egg by H.G. Wells | Rediscover Reading
Right, then! The ideas that I’ve had swirling in my mind for the duration of an enforced absence from Second Life during my adventurous vacation can finally be virtually realized.
There may be some opportunity for a real Easter Egg-style joke, too. The prize has to be placed by the 30th, but this time I’d like to finish it far enough in advance to post a sales texture on the STEAM blog (many other creators are well ahead of me on this).
What I have in mind could be a simple few prims, or it might become pretty elaborately textured and animated. I’ll start with the simplest option see how it goes. My idea for the elaboration (which would act as a display pillar or plinth) might end up becoming a separate new sales product. Either way, now that I’ve finally read the story (Internet access was tricky when we were traveling, and I was incubating ideas anyway), I see the way forward.
Sharp-eyed consumers had noted the rather good deal offered with the simple cane-friendly AO that I had offered for free on the Marketplace; rather than build a “demo” cane, I threw in an older unscripted cane that had always sold rather well (at a lower price than the scripted ones that worked well with Posture is Everything’s Gentleman Jim AO, which I recommend highly).
This deal, being free and at no cost, zero virtual ducats, was selling rather briskly. Or “Raw-THER” as Papa was wont to say.
Sad to say, but all good things must come to an end. An unscripted jade cane with a large DEMO box attached is now included with the free AO HUD that uses cane-friendly full perm animations that I’d collected.
A new version of the jade cane, with slightly richer textures and some slight changes in size and rotation, is now available. It is scripted to be compatible with my own simple AO and also works well with the more complicated rotations demanded by PIE’s Gentleman Jim AO. I shall be adding more images later, but for now I pronounce this product GREATLY IMPROVED!!
And now to bed.
via Second Life Marketplace – @DF@ Ivory-Headed Walking Stick (c/m/nt) with NEW AO
- RT @rivenhomewood Can we please stop calling them "gunmen" and call them "domestic terrorists" instead? #
- Saw a guy carrying a holstered handgun in Glacier Natl Park yesterday. Its legal as long as he doesnt take it into Federal buildings… #
- Like the visitor's center, or the ranger station, or possibly the Federally funded and maintained trailhead outhouse. #handguns #
- Vaca almost over. Fun's fun but I miss the kitty. Also need to get inworld to work on #STEAM7 stuff. #
- Visited the Polebridge Mercantile yesterday. All the eclectic junque and antiques gave me lots of ideas. http://t.co/ftMi6do9 #
- RT @AbelUndercity @AirshipEmbassy: British Library's Online Victorian Newspapers open to everyone… #steampunk http://t.co/Bcf9f7wp #
- George R. R. Martin, #GOT author, says of #GOP "They are oligarchs and racists clad in the skins of dead elephants." http://t.co/6qWomels #
- @ROBLOVE146 I'm on the part of my vacation where I'm trying to figure out how to get Norman in my carry-on bag. #
- @isfullofcrap Been there. And now the wires are naturally curly! #
- Mosque shooter not that crazy looking, really: http://t.co/3IwaBlcg #
- @MoodyLoner Best of luck! #
- How many kids make a Quiverfull again? 12? Fourteen? #QuestionsThatWontSeemOddAfterGOPMakesRyanSeemMainstream #
- Where can I buy my daughter's Chasitity Pants(tm)? #QuestionsThatWontSeemOddAfterGOPMakesRyanSeemMainstream #
- #CafeWellstone @cskendrick @jacksonstbooks @MoodyLoner @MicheleMrigesh see Second Life Newser: Politics in Second Life http://t.co/yKOfEUPi #
- @MsKoro I bet they still have the kneelers and pole dances, but we have better DJs and dance animations #virtualredvsblue #
- Know what I'm making for my STEAM7 gift, can't work on it here, home on Saturday. #secondlife #
- @KrisKaine I hang out at #CafeWellstone pretty often, drop by some time. #
- @HolocluckHenly Steam The Hunt 7 in #SL #
- Tesla FTW! RT @vicwu Tesla museum! Fuck yeah, The Oatmeal!
http://t.co/JOADBYdH # - "Bad Reviews: I can handle them and so should you" by @scalzi applies to any niche fandom. >.> #SLblogs http://t.co/Gzkqpoqz #
- Whoo whoo, on the train (with cell service ATM). Proceeding at a stately 35mph because freight is more cost effective than people. #
- ERMAGERD, TRAIRNS!! Ours was delayed 8 or infinity hours and they were going to put us on a bus for 9 hours. http://t.co/5gKeBahL #
- So we're "flying" the #RL way. Wooooorth it. So much easier to teleport home in #SL Vacation so over. #
Back after a longish vacation, and went to log in using Dolphin to be greeted with the “You are using an unsupported version of Dolphin Viewer” message – the developer, Lance Corrimal, does update frequently and I had missed several week’s worth (or maybe a month’s worth) of small and large updates.
Went to the Dolphin site and noticed this, which I had been expecting given the recent announcements by Linden Labs (I’ve been able to stay current with LL and SL news via aetheric handheld while wandering around the Great Northwest).
I’m sorry Lance won’t be able to provide forked versions as Firestorm has said they’ll do; I like Dolphin (it still has a working Flickr upload button for snapshots). Gradually, I’ll end up using Firestorm OS and Firestorm SL more often than not (especially when they finally get their upload button fixed). Users who don’t need to access Open Sim will continue to use Dolphin, and happily. I will, too, for Second Life. I will miss some features I’d gotten used to while fooling with my standalone grid. However, the lack of an import/export feature was hampering, so I was headed in the direction of Phoenix or Imprudence anyway. I’m also thinking this is not necessarily a bad thing; Lance leaves a pathway open for anyone that might like to develop his viewer for Open Sim. And forked versions of Firestorm, as Inara Pey notes, means that the Open Sim version team can develop features and capabilities that are geared for the OS community.
One reason to continue using Dolphin – it’s got special features for machinimators, although for photography I still prefer Firestorm’s lighting/environmental floater.
I’ve installed the latest version of Dolphin (not a clean install, I don’t feel like messing with setting up my preferences yet again) which will still have OS support
I am writing to Dolphin users to advise that in the current development code for Second Life, Linden Lab has removed support for connecting to other grids. This is due to licensing restrictions imposed on Linden Lab for the use of Havok libraries (needed for pathfinding, mesh uploads etc).
This means that in order for future versions of Dolphin to access OpenSim, there would need to be a separate version with its own maintenance path.
Since Dolphin is a one-person project, I regrettably do not have the time to develop two parallel versions of the viewer for 3 operating systems.
So, please note that effective with the next release, the Dolphin Viewer will no longer have the list of OpenSim-based grids on the login screen, or the following commandline parameters –loginpage, –loginuri, and –helperuri.
See image at http://bit.ly/Nnnpby – Second Life
torley.linden I completely empathize when efforts don’t appear to get visible results — and it’s frustrating that my.secondlife.com isn’t under “active development” as pieces break down. Its future is undetermined due to more pressing priorities at the Lab, but I’ll continue to share your feedback to show why it matters. Lindens would rather know how you feel than silence, and the opposite is true too. 🙂 Sometimes it takes a long time for something to get fixed (like http://bit.ly/N0K1Zz ) but don’t give up!
Link: POSTS KEEP DISAPPEARING. NOT IMPRESSED. http://bit.ly/Nnnpby – Second Life
As my RL vacation ends I look forward to building again, and will try to comprehend Blender once again. Every time I make a start, I get stymied by class schedules; it seems best to just go the tutorial route as below.
It took me about three days to learn how to do in Blender, albeit clumsily, pretty much anything I can do with prims, starting from having looked at Blender a couple of times and thought WTF. I expect it’ll take me the rest of my life to learn how to do it really well, though.
For what it’s worth, it was a combination of the Blender Cookie Basics and Gaia Clary’s Coffee Cup tutorials that kick-started me.