Life in TSL

We have moved to a new site:

t-jelle.com/blog 

Sadly the links aren’t working right now (and you wonder why I am moving >_>) 

The Lindens announced that an explout had been found that allows people to gain access to scripts that aren’t theirs. A rolling restart is going to fix this….If only I knew sooner (Harbinger products AT HALF THE PRICE when you come to my store! )

 The Lindens reported on their blog today that the Lindex will be down until Monday. You can perform transaction online, though you will most likely get annoying errors. All in world buying has been turned off and you get errors when trying to do so. Seems like everything is going haywire over at LL, what with the assest servers, presence issues, Login errors, support issues and Lindex problems…when will things clear up? Only time will tell, meanwhile residents are getting quite annoyed…

The login screen is showing an error, but it will not inhibit your login process. The Lindens are working on getting rid of the pest…along with the Lindex pest and the Asset server pest…

The LindeX is goofing up and spitting out errors to almost everyone who tried to use it. The Lindens have posted about it, but no response to as how they are going to fix it or when it might be done…in the meantime, your stuck with the L$ you have.

Along with assest server problems and support portal problems now we have presence issues. The current amount of logged in people is: 0. And my friends only appear online after I IM them or they IM me. Lindens have posted no information about this yet, I am still awaiting a posting on the blog.

I found this tucked away in the blog. One of LL login servers crashed for a while, no one really notices as they quickly re-routed all the traffic to another server. You know, this on top of the Search problems post-mortem is making me think LL is finnaly understanding the importance of speed and communication . Only time will tell. Anyways, the problem is fixed, but all logins are down for the update…oh well…just keep waiting just keep waiting…

One of the Lindens finnaly decided the residents should know a little about all of those search problems that was going on for a few days. On the blog Everett Linden posted a lengthy post about everything they found. Mostly saying: This is what happened, this is what we did. It does show some Lindens understand that the residents need to be told about things going on…after all most of us are what allows you to get this weeks paycheck :p

Well, the grid is down for updates today. The projected downtime is from 6am till 12pm. A lot of bug fixes, thank god the annoying ones will be gone now.

Release Notes:

Release Notes for Second Life 1.17.0(12) June 13, 2007
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Changes:
* Inventory transfers
** Auto-accept inventory and auto-preview texture/notecard/landmark are now separate preferences.
** Viewing an embedded notecard or landmark no longer adds it to your inventory.
** Muting the sender of notecards, inventory, textures, etc., now removes all blue pop-ups in the upper right corner from that sender.
** Offline inventory transfers and group invites now include the name of the item or group, along with group role, in the email.
* Added “Clear Browser Cache” button to web prefs.
** This only affects the embedded browser, not any other browsers installed on your system
* Embedded Mozilla browser now supports cookies.
* Preliminary support added to the Windows installer for selecting a language (English, Korean)
* Closing a changed Classified now confirms changes

Bug fixes:
* Fixed a client crash while in startup
* Fixed group chat reopening with one message and an error after closing group chat
* Fixed “Stop All Animations” when stuck in an animation after teleporting
* Fixed group messages to allow the use of UTF8 characters
* Fixed “Show Owners” from automatically turning on again
* Fixed an issue with “Release Controls” when an object is taken and rerezed.
* Fixed an issue with texture picker not displaying any results unless inventory had been shown
* Fixed chat history to not show muted resident chat
* Fixed “Mute Resident” button, now opens the user picker
* Fixed group ability settings for group owners in German language viewer
* Fixed embedded Mozilla browser to work with HTTPS sites (affected Windows only)
* Notecards no longer display the “Keep” and “Discard” buttons when opened from inventory
* Acquired date is now set for items dragged from the contents of a container prim
* VWR-1040: crash when opening several gestures quickly
* VWR-966: Minor memory leak in llfloaterpreferences.cpp and a tiny leak in llstatup.cpp
* VWR-908: Various memory leaks in the group dialog
* VWR-871: More bad f00d: Two minor (or inconsequential) misses of initializing object members
* VWR-870: Memory violation through uninitialized variable (invisible or unrendered flexis)
* VWR-869: Possible hard-loop (endless, viewer-hang) in script editor
* VWR-827: Toruses are borked after making/editing sculpted prims
* VWR-823: Two unintialized variables in lltexturefetch.cpp
* VWR-822: “Create new…” clothing buttons don’t auto-wear items
* VWR-810: Destructor forgets to delete mFloaterContros member in llui/llview.cpp
* VWR-809: Destructor fails to clean up global menus in llviewermenu.cpp
* VWR-808: Incorrect cleanup in message.cpp
* VWR-807: Forgets to delete gToolInspect in lltoolmgr.cpp
* VWR-804: Quirk in llviewerwindow.cpp
* VWR-805: LLCurl not properly cleaned up
* VWR-765: Cannot open embedded notecards in other notecards when Automatic preview of new notecards/textures/landmarks is off
* VWR-409: New Feature -> UI -> Dialog -> Buy Copy/Contents -> Default Action -> Cancel
* VWR-682: Text Editors should try to preserve X cursor position
* VWR-671: Line editor history for recalling previously typed lines
* VWR-648: Texture picker should highlight the texture in the swatch
* VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you can’t edit.
* VWR-364: Viewer memory leak

Well, on May 25th at 10am LL opened the new support portal. What does that mean? If your not premium and you have a problem…good luck. This is how it works (from secondlife.com)

* Support Availability by Account Type

Billing (outworld currency transactions) support is available for all account types. You will be provided with contact information after going through the Solution Finder. (9am-6pm PST Monday-Friday)

Basic Accounts: If you are a Basic account holder, you have access to our in-depth Knowledge Base and Solution Finder. You do not have access to our Inworld or Outworld support teams. However, we’re constantly improving our Knowledge Base and Solution Finder to assist Residents who are Basic account holders with resolving your issues independently. There are also a few Special Questions** for which we DO provide Basic account holders with ticket access.

Premium Accounts: If you have a premium account with Second Life, you have the ability to submit a support ticket or engage in a text chat session with our Billing, Inworld and Outworld Support teams through the Solution Finder. Live text chat is available for you from 9am-6pm PST Monday-Friday. Please note that we also offer premium support to Lifetime, Beta, Teen Basic, and Basic accounts with LindeX trading tiers.

Concierge Accounts: If you are a Concierge client (with $125 per month or greater in Land fees, mainland or private estate), you have access to all Basic and Premium services (see above) plus a dedicated support team that can be reached by phone, support ticket, and live text chat from 1am-6pm PST Monday-Friday.

So now that is one more reason to be premium! Yay.