Torley’s got some new videos

Friendly greetings! No, it’s not Torley, nor do I play him on SecondLife, I just love the way he starts most of his vids and since this post is about his videos I thought I’d borrow it.

SecondLife is getting ready to roll out Dazzle, but there’s a workaround for the biggest complaint

The latest round of Release Candidates for the SecondLife viewer have been including the Dazzle “skin”, and yesterday they rolled out Release Candidate Viewer 1.20 RC5. Along with all of the other complaints about the new series of RC, including why haven’t they fixed the invisible skirt issue, one issue seems to be almost unanimously hated: The Dazzle skin is fugly! Luckily there’s a way to get rid of the hideous Dazzle skin.

SL on invisible skirts issue: It’s a network problem

[Updated to include a link to the JIRA bug. - Nanci]

Pastrami Linden addressed the issue with regular (non-prim) skirts being invisible in his recent Windlight Office Hours. According to Zen it turns out it’s a networking problem with packet loss. Sorry, but that sounds like a bunch of hooey to this girl.

I’m afraid I’m going to have to close Nanci’s Naughties

Several things happened today in my real life, and one of the things that happened is that I found out I’m going to have to log out of SecondLife for an indeterminate period of time. Since I don’t know when I’ll be back in SecondLife I’m going to have to close Nanci’s Naughties.

By Popular Demand: The GNOME Equation tees are now available in SecondLife

I’ve been seeing hits from people looking for tees with the GNOME Equation on it, and while I don’t have them available for your bod to wear, you can now get them for your SecondLife bod.

Did you get the newest SecondLife client? You’ll need it as of Wednesday.

At the tail end of February SecondLife released it’s version 1.19.0.x clients as an optional release. But as if tomorrow it will be required. Updated 6:55 PM EDT Wed 12 Mar: They’ve decided to postpone the requirement of the 1.19.0 client until the 1.19.1 version comes out in 2-3 weeks. Get more info in the original SL blog post (link below).

Windlight is now a Release Candidate!

I wasn’t able to get on SecondLife yesterday, but today I found out some awesome news! SecondLife has taken the most recent First Look Windlight client, updated a few things, fixed a few bugs, and presto! We have SecondLife 1.19.1 RC0, complete with Windlight!

SecondLife promotes the Linux viewer to Beta status

Ever since SecondLife started having a Linux version it’s been listed as alpha, although many of us felt shorted by that label. But that’s changed (a little) as SecondLife has released a beta version of the Linux viewer software.

Torley rolls out QuickTips

Torley Linden does some great Tips of the Week for SecondLife, but they’re often pretty long (I’ve seen some six minute longs tips) or end up leaving something out. To address that Torley has rolled out a dozen of QuickTips. At no more than two minutes in length, they’re a great way to give a quick hit on how to do something cool in SL.

SecondLife 1.19.0.x is no longer an RC

Last evening LindenLabs finally took the 1.19.0.4 client that many of us have been sing in Release Candidate form for some time now and gave it an official release. There are some nice fixes, but they have definitely published some changes that are pissing people off. (I would have blogged it last night but the announcement was kind of buried on the blog and I didn’t see it until I fired up Thunderbird to check my RSS feeds this morning.)

To add insult to injury, there were some security issues in the 1.19.0.4 release, so they quickly pushed out version 1.19.0.5 to fix them, as well as some annoying issues from early RC versions that hadn’t gotten fixed yet.