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

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 13 April 2008

[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. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in SecondLife, Tech | 3 Comments »

Stop waiting for Ubuntu info with Ubuntu Live Stats

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 12 March 2008

Peng and I saw some things about Ubuntu Live Stats over the last couple of days, but neither of us saw things that needed to be blogged now. But I just followed a link from yet another story on it and I have to admit this new site brings the wow factor to keeping up with our favorite Linux distro. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Linux, Open Source, Tech, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »

Windlight is now a Release Candidate!

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 7 March 2008

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! Read the rest of this entry »

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Once more with feeling: SecondLife pushes out Release Client 4 for their version 1.19.0 viewer

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 27 February 2008

LindenLabs is ever so close to releasing the SecondLife 1.19.0 software to everyone, but they fixed a few more bugs and want to try a fifth Release Candidate before officially releasing 1.196.0. (They started with RC0, which is why the fifth RC is numbered RC4 rather than number five.)

As we’ve said before, RC4 is test software and not to be used by the general public yet. There are still bugs that could cause major problems, (Blahblah softwaretestercakes.) Read the rest of this entry »

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SecondLife does it again. There’s yet another Release Candidate available

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 22 February 2008

Ignoring their history of problems following software releases on Fridays, LindenLabs released RC3 of the SecondLife 1.19.0 this evening. Read the rest of this entry »

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Lindens bring out two more test versions of SecondLife

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 17 February 2008

Before the week closed the devs at Linden Labs rolled out another new 1.19.0  Release Client, as well as a new Windlight First Look client based on the new RC code. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Lindens have been busy. We have yet another Release Candidate for SecondLife

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 9 February 2008

Tuesday I told you about the first Release Client for SecondLife version 1.19.0 (RC0), and they’ve already fixed a bunch of bugs. The result is the second Release Client, SecondLife 1.19.0 RC1. Read the rest of this entry »

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SecondLife rolls out new Windlight preview

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 5 February 2008

Earlier this morning I posted that there was a new SecondLife Release Candidate, and now I’m happy to say that they’ve rolled out a new preview of their Windlight client that includes the 1.19.0 code. Read the rest of this entry »

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SecondLife rolls out 1.19.0 Release Candidate

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 5 February 2008

After jumping the gun last week, Linden Labs has released the first Release Candidate (RC) for SecondLife version 1.19.0 today. They fixed a ton of bugs, but there are some changes you definitely need to know about. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in SecondLife, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »

Mozilla does a quick turn. Firefox 2.0.0.11 is out

Posted by Peng on 30 November 2007

Firefox 2Wednesday I posted that Mozilla had released Firefox 2.0.0.10 but there were some pretty biug bugs that popped up that they were going to fix quickly. Today they fixed them and released Firefox 2.0.0.11. Read the rest of this entry »

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