Ardy Lay

Is this a place we may visit?

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_URI_Name_Space I find the teleport URI to be most useful. Click WHOOSH. No futzing around with linking your butt to a scripted prim and hoping it comes unlinked after it stops moving. No worries about crossing region boundaries either. If you want a confirmation, the viewer can do that. If you don't want a confirmation, just turn it off the first time. Riding a scripted object has it's uses too, I am sure, but I felt compelled to point out the APP URI as it's great for going the distance with a minimum of fuss.

THis is so fun. They LOOK like travel trailers but are quite large, on the order of 20 feet wide by 54 feet long and one is over 20 feet tall. Should be possible to use them. SL scale is kinda hard to describe but I'll assume you have all been in SL. 😉

Okay, this is interesting. Some of these things I wrote up as bugs during the Viewer 2 closed beta: The parcel border lighting in yellow when selecting an object; The object in edit highlighting green, blue and yellow and strobing maniacally; Not being able to edit something of mine as far away as I am accustomed to, even when "limit select distance" is disabled; No longer able to edit move objects more than about 100 meters at a time. Edit axis arrows not being grabbable at times requiring me to move my point of view as if evading an invisible object in the way. Toolboxes not staying where I put them, seeming like small children vying for my attention.

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-227526 Issue with compiled experiences being lost when script is copied in-world.

The only people that benefit from "defragging" an SSD are … uhm, wow. I don't know of any. I guess maybe people that like watching the defragmentation program run? ZERO benefit since there is no seek time to be saved. Saying it helps speed up prefetching is telling us you wasted even more performance by forcing prefetching enabled for your SSD hosted volume, overriding the knowledge and experience of many system-level programmers.

I see false-attributions made to equipment we deploy at work. People think the black boxes work better than the brown ones. They are the same inside. I really like the white ones myself but they are also the same inside. We tried to get the vendor to make transparent housings but they have a real reason not to: Children poke stuff in the vent slots because they can see inside. It's the yellow #2 pencil thing all over again! (Referring to a product trial where other colors of paint were used, all else being equal, people claimed the yellow pencils worked better than the other colors.) Well, not quite, since the software on the SL servers is slightly different from one version to the next but we do that at work too, when the vendor provides updates we want. I still wonder why I see more broken black boxes than white or brown. Oh yeah, we have way more black ones than brown or white ones because they are more popular! So, false data skew is easy when people make such attributions. Personally, the only reason I ever cared what channels my regions were in was to match them up to the weekly deployment schedules but even that got old as a game so I won't miss the overt channel names. Do anything you can to get people to report bugs against code versions, I say. I can't say how many times I witnessed Oz release a little steam when all a reporter would say is "the latest".....

"Several times a week" seems a bit excessive. Do any of the Second Life Viewer cohorts update "several times a week"?

Detach translator? Sometimes people forget the things are there and some malfunction in awkward ways when you attach a second translator.

" While I'm playing, a black box with white text blinks into existence and then closes itself before I can read it. This usually happens several times over the course of a couple weeks. " Is this a clue? What is this?

Golly. This was years ago: https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/viewer-release/commits/f9049d3acd3497ee837bcb53280acd6ebf36e102 Is it still in there? I haven't built a viewer for a long time.

Might I suggest a strategic llListen(channel,"",llGetOwner(),""); be added as the second statement in state_entry?

I can teleport around, without failures, fast enough to "hit the fence." I teleported 28 times in 11 or 12 minutes, at somewhat erratic intervals due to numerous stale landmarks. I might assume "the teleport issue" has been rectified.

I was offered a slightly different form to fill:

Yay. I finally had an idea that both is in demand and is feasible to implement. Don't mention that it's been, done, is creepy and most likely illegal in most jurisdictions including Second Life. 😉 Okay, I re-read his post and understand it now.

There are a lot of bots running around SL looking at various things. It would not surprise me one bit to learn that at least one bot operator is divulging the locations of agents present in a region during a brief visit to a third party or to find a bot with these capabilities made available for rent or purchase.

Heh, well, the fellow with the yacht got it stuck and IMed me in a bit of a snit about violating his rights as a vehicle owner so I rezzed a tiny sedan and got in and explored his yacht while it was stuck between my house and my picnic area. I got my tiny sedan stuck in the yacht's bath tub. He conceded that I had made my point and removed his yacht as he should have done in the first place. Prior to my logging in and reading his IM he was ranting about me in a forum. Those posts got removed.

Please check again. The regions I own land in allow all not explicitly banned to pass 50 meters or greater over the height of terrain, not 40 meters or 30 meters. Is this not consistent in all regions of Second Life? I edit parcels to exclude paved roads and railroads on LDPW and Governor Linden owned land by at least 3 meters when establishing areas that do not allow all to pass. I do, however, have a private waterway that I made for my own use. It is usually navigable by anyone in a small vessel but I occasionally exercise my right as a land owner to restrict access when I do not want to be disturbed. My neighbor, not just anybody, is welcome to remind me when I forget to lift that restriction. The person that attacked me in a public forum for not allowing his yacht to traverse my property via my waterway that lays wholly on my property knows who he is and will not make that mistake again. I have no tolerance for vehicle rights activists so don't go there please. I won't drive my clown car in your bath if you don't attempt to shove your yacht up my tributary. I was simply stating that the scripted security devices should be cubes because this is Second Life, and it all begins with a cube. It was a joke, of sorts, which you don't seem to have picked up on. I agree that scripted security devices provide a function that parcel settings fail to provide: a polite notice and a grace timer upon entry. The devices I use have been designed to be part of the parcel's seasonal décor. They use a centralized database system with mirrors to determine if an agent is permitted on the parcel they guard, thus eliminating the need to maintain a database in each device. I have turned on "Sell Passes To:" to expel trolls while they are present, because that amuses my friends. I am aware of how this feature behaves. I have been successfully expelling ego-centric and belligerent people from personal and community owned land for a decade now. To clarify: the aforementioned database contains UUIDs of agents that are denied re-entry to the protected land.

All that fancy stuff is cool but I still just dump an app-uri on them: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_URI_Name_Space default { touch_start(integer total_number) { //Instant message whoever touches me a SLURL to click on llInstantMessage(llDetectedKey(0), "Click here: secondlife:///app/teleport/Perry/64/208/28"); } }

I have used "Sell passes to:" for comedic value. Otherwise I don't have a hard preference on my own land. The scripted "security orb" things seem weird to me. Cubes would make more sense to me as that is where it all starts in Second Life, but I realize people have their preferences. I use the Parcel access lists some; when somebody does something worthy of an abuse report. For the lesser infractions I just keep freezing them until they sublimate.

Years ago I blocked a simulator host IP address in my router to make an offensive neighboring region invisible and impassible. I wonder if that still works?

Thanks Tommy

I submitted a support ticket asking for a restart. 4 days later I get an email from the "freshdesk" system from a Linden telling me I should have filed an abuse report for a region performance issue. The region I was having trouble with did eventually get restarted but apparently not in response to my support ticket.

SL is sporadically unreachable via Level3, which is damn near the same thing as down. I get to SL via XO Communications so I am in SL consistently.