I apologize! I forgot that a great many people don't have the luxury of high speed internet. Which is why I'm responding to the list: hopefully others who might makes the same mistake either here or elsewhere can learn from my mistake...
Ricky Cron Stardust PS: As an (lame) excuse: I daily have to work with emails, FTP, etc. that are sending files in the 5 to 25 MB range... Which is why my mind skipped on looking at the filesizes; they uploaded fast. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Opensource Obscure <opensou...@inventati.org> wrote: > Hi Ricky - watch out! You sent 4.5 MB of attachments! > ;0 > I suggest using JPG for this kind of image files - the SL viewer > itself can save in this format, and you can even adjust the > quality - using something as low as 60 will still produce > decent-quality files, at a smaller size. > > HTH > bye > Opensource Obscure > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:58:12 -0700, Ricky <kf6...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Server: Various beta grid sims >> Client: 2.1.2.210027 >> OS: Mac OS 10.6.4 with a 64bit kernel, on a newer Mac Mini >> >> Less than an hour ago I was on my first exploration of the beta grid >> (getting used to the place in prep for mesh!) and was flying around >> the regions connected to the first login location I found myself at. >> I explored for a couple of hours, running across normal laggy spots, >> region crossings, heavily scripted areas, etc., when suddenly my >> screen showed blocky interference across it. This covered the UI, so >> I snapped a screenshot just in case, and when I minimized SL I saw >> that my desktop was showing the same corruption so I took another >> shot. I figured that somehow SL had corrupted OpenGL, if that's even >> possible, I don't know, so I brought back up SL to close it... And >> then my system hardlocked. I couldn't even get access to force quit, >> even using the keyboard shortcuts. I eventually forced the system off >> by pressing and holding the power button. >> >> During the lockup I would occasionally be able to see and control my >> mouse cursor, but not all the time. Most of the rest of the screen >> never redrew, not even the menu bar. I have Activity Monitor docked >> up there so that I can keep an eye on CPU. CPU had been a constant >> low mid, and showed lower than the the screen shots when the system >> locked. >> >> I have the log from this session, if it would be helpful. However, >> the client never got to send a crash report, as far as I can tell. >> After the reboot, I tried running the same version of the SL client >> again, but it froze before it displayed again, so I force-quit it. >> The next run ran perfectly. So I quit it and made a copy of the >> SecondLife.old log so that I could keep it with the the images. >> >> Has anyone else run across anything remotely similar? I've done a >> cursory search of the JIRA, but nothing seemed to match for me. >> >> Ricky >> Cron Stardust > > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
