[opensource-dev] new viewer

2013-07-23 Thread aklo
Thanks for the info, guys! if it's really just grey blobs and not danger to my inventory or shape or whatever, then i can live with it as long as i need to. everything was like that for the longest time when my computer was broken, anyway. Have a Happy SL! ___

[opensource-dev] new viewer

2013-07-23 Thread aklo
hey guys! i was just wondering if somebody here could tell me what will happen for real if i don't upgrade my viewer? i'm still using snowglobe 1.5. i won't bore you with the long, teary story of why. It's just upgrading my viewer for a while more isn't going to happen. Like, not even possible

[opensource-dev] MOSES & Stuff

2012-10-20 Thread aklo
So, it's like LL made something that the military was interested in buying, and now maybe they're interested in buying it again? Like that? Actually, what you say sounds like LL sells the whole SL package, server & everything as a product or something. Must be expensive! Am i getting it right?

[opensource-dev] MOSES & Stuff

2012-10-20 Thread aklo
Hi! When i read the dev mail about MOSES & MIAB & stuff, i couldn't help but ask. What does SL (or i guess, LL) have to do with the military? Is there any kind of real connection or something? Are some of the SL devs military people? Thx! - AK --- http://s

[opensource-dev] Why Develop?

2012-03-10 Thread aklo
Hey Everybody! pls forgive me if this sounds kinda off-topic. i don't think it is, really, but you have to be a little patient. Anyway, before you read the hopefully un-boring things i have to say, pls look at this: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/09/us-japan-digital-diva-idUSBRE8280DO20

Re: [opensource-dev] An Idea

2011-10-24 Thread aklo
Hey Y'all, thx for the suggestion, but that's what i already do, except i try to make it a little better chances of finding someplace interesting by picking places i see lots of avis or whatever. Like Lance & Nexii pointed out, most coords are kinda boring to tp to. They can be interesting if yo

Re: [opensource-dev] An Idea

2011-10-23 Thread aklo
Y'all, i hadn't thought about how much of SL is someplace that would be pretty boring to tp to. i don't know what tp'ing within range of a security orb would be like, but i'll trust you if you say it it wouldn't be fun. It doesn't sound like fun, anyway. i think the things that made me think th

[opensource-dev] An Idea

2011-10-22 Thread aklo
Hey Everybody, i had an idea. My dad used to tell me that when i had one of those i should treat it kindly, 'cause it was in a strange place. "Ha-ha," huh? Anyways, what if there was a "Random TP" button or keypress or whatever? i mean, just to make things interesting?* i don't know what kind

Re: [opensource-dev] FUI project just out - no more sidebar

2011-10-18 Thread aklo
Dude! For serious? That's just the kind of thing that could inspire me to fix my computer so i can try the v3 viewer and start spending some quality time in SL doing something other than just meditating at the Buddha Center! i mean, the meditating is good & all that, & it's not like it doesn't m

Re: [opensource-dev] Review Request: STORM-58 Allow objects to have 99.99% max hollow for default hollow shape.

2011-09-09 Thread aklo
Jamey (or anyone else that would like to answer), can you please explain "the Megaprims debacle"? i know it's a little off-topic, but i've always wondered why Megaprims have such a bad rep. i can see how they could be abused, but i don't see how the abuse could be anything more than a minor anno

Re: [opensource-dev] JIRA Search

2011-08-27 Thread aklo
LOL!! Better make that 5L$, though, huh? Since L$ seem to wobble around 250L$/US$, 5L$ = 2 US cents! Like, you can get your two cents in for two cents!! Hahahahaha P.S.s.s.t.: Since L$ only come in 10-paks, give 'em "two4one" purchase Jiras! With a little marketing, Jira could pay for it

Re: [opensource-dev] [re:] Snowglobe Startup Failure

2011-08-13 Thread aklo
Boroondas, thanks for the response! i figured out a way to get SL going again by backing up to Snowglobe 1.4 Nicky Perian (Thanks Nicky!) helped me some last weekend. i found this sorta official stuff: "Sysinternals Suite" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062 on a Microsof

[opensource-dev] [re:] Snowglobe Startup Failure

2011-08-07 Thread aklo
Hey Everybody (again), after that last message i sent i remembered that i had a thumbdrive with stuff on it that i didn't want to lose if something happened to my computer. It had a saved copy of the Snowglobe v1.5 i installed. But, re-installing didn't help. i've done everything i can think of

[opensource-dev] Snowglobe Startup Failure

2011-08-07 Thread aklo
Hey Everybody, somewhere during installing a buncha junk i need for stuff i actually earn money for, i made it so Snowglobe wouldn't start anymore. i don't think i did anything strange, i just click-installed the downloaded stuff right out of my browser's downloads window. Anyway, Snowglobe won'

Re: [opensource-dev] Blocked

2011-07-18 Thread aklo
Thanks for the info! Between you and Dave i may figure something out yet! But i think tunneling to my home network is not a way to make it happen. My download speed at home is never much better than 1 Mbit and usually a lot lower. Upload is never over about 150 Kbit. (i just checked: 880 up, 1

Re: [opensource-dev] Viewer development 2.8.1 and a few new bugs

2011-07-18 Thread aklo
On 18/07/11 11:32, Nicky D. wrote: > > Over the weekend, I pulled the latest sources and build a new viewer. > > In short: I have those issues as well. > > > > It looks really odd. > > - I see 'shades' of attachments other people have hidden. > > - My HUD (Magical Compass) has buttons who are half

Re: [opensource-dev] Blocked

2011-07-15 Thread aklo
Hey Helpful People! Thx, Dave. i got your suggestion, but hadn't tried it out yet. See, i don't actually know as much about computers & stuff like that as i would like people to assume, my boss & present company included. To be honest, your message seemed really great, but it confused me and i

Re: [opensource-dev] Blocked

2011-07-14 Thread aklo
Robert, thx for the info, but i think the page is telling me the answer is actually, "No," because i don't have any access to the company's network stuff. They look at you funny if you even ask about it. i can configure a test machine any way i want to, but i can't do anything at all at all to t

[opensource-dev] Blocked

2011-07-14 Thread aklo
Hey y'all, i had something i wanted to do at work a coupla days ago that i coulda used SL for. It installed, but i couldn't get it to connect. Is there some kinda proxy setting that i need to fix to get SL to start from where i work? They have a proxy server there that all external traffic has t

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-13 Thread aklo
While clear, such an icon doesn't look much self-explaining to me with regard to its associated Draw Distance functionality. I still feel binoculars may be the best option. Binoculars may not be a commonly used glyph outside of SL, but it's a fact that many Second Life features are just .. not co

Re: [opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-12 Thread aklo
Hi! i found a cool idea on a camera. It had a single large tree on one end of the focus setting and 4 small trees on the other end. i know the draw distance slider isn't a focus button, but how about a single house pic on one end and a small cluster of houses on the other? Or maybe a group of s

[opensource-dev] Review viewer -- draw distance slider

2011-06-10 Thread aklo
Guys, the whole thing with the easily accessible slider for draw distance is really great! Inspiring, actually. It's almost enough to make me wanna try out the v2 viewer again. i hope the feature gets back-ported to Snowglobe v1 by someone better at that stuff than me. The binocs idea for the i

Re: [opensource-dev] in-viewer translation is dead soon.

2011-05-28 Thread aklo
Hey Everybody, i don't know if i misunderstood or not, but are you really talking about Google translation services particularly picking on SL access? All the mail sounded to me like it was more of a policy decision at Google affecting everyone everywhere? It seems to me that way worse abuse has

[opensource-dev] Press release that affects us all!

2011-03-31 Thread aklo
Like, i thought we'd know if LL was being bought or for sale or anything, but still - Not Funny. i mean, maybe i just don't have a sense of humor or something. But y'know, Not Funny. - AK - DCS has just finished Acquirin

[opensource-dev] no snowstorm meetings today

2010-12-27 Thread aklo
Oz, Merov, &c., then, please, turn off your computers and have a day off! Y'all deserve it! Thx for all you do, Happy Holidays!! - AK On 2010-12-27 13:36, Erin Mallory wrote: > Did i miss an announcement or have my times off? or did snowstorm meetings today just get quietly cancelled on accoun

Re: [opensource-dev] Message Reception

2010-12-03 Thread aklo
Bunny, one of the reasons i asked the question is that the "remote" idea here is not real clear. My friend has worked in the same SL club several hours per day, almost every day, since something like early 2007 as club security. The idea is to keep the place PG, among other things, since it gets

[opensource-dev] Message Reception

2010-12-03 Thread aklo
Hey, an in-world club employee (security) i have worked with would like to know if there is some way to be able to pick up local text chat without moving the avi closer to the chat source, like the way you can cfg the viewer to hear voice chat from either where the avi's at or where the camera's at

Re: [opensource-dev] lslwiki

2010-11-20 Thread aklo
Yes, it is working now for me, too, and thanks so very much to whoever fixed it! Both the official LL doc & the lslwiki are really great & i use them both lots, though i gotta say that the lslwiki is my fave. - AK -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The LSL Wiki was privat

[opensource-dev] lslwiki

2010-11-20 Thread aklo
Hey, y'all! Does anybody know what happened to the lslwiki? (lslwiki.net) It's been down a coupla days. Do we know who runs the site? LL support says it's not LL. Thx!! - AK ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.se

[opensource-dev] SL Browsification

2010-11-17 Thread aklo
Hey, Y'all, the mail below is a copy of a msg i got from SL this afternoon. Is it some kinda sign that the viewer is in danger of going extinct? i can't tell you how much i wouldn't like it if my SL experience was doomed to be boxed up in a browser! For real, i think i see a big deficit in the

[opensource-dev] IP Violations

2010-11-11 Thread aklo
Please forgive my submitting this mail to this list. i know it's not the perfect forum, but i think some of the people who need to read it are on this list, and that it may be of interest to others. Pretty please, if this bugs you or you think it's spam or whatever, just delete it and forget i se

[opensource-dev] Down tools and play the "game" -- was Re: What was the point of display names?

2010-11-07 Thread aklo
Excuse me, brief word from the lunatic fringe, here. Some of us aren't so giddy about the idea everyone has that SL is a "game" and what we do there is "play" that game. i wouldn't be making this noise that most of y'all probably consider "embarrassing," or maybe like being the bad trip at a big

Re: [opensource-dev] Request for feedback - Preferences Cleanup

2010-11-05 Thread aklo
Can mine please say "Shut Up". When i think of the context i usually have when i go for that button, "Shut Up" works a lot better for me. Or maybe "Kill" with a little skull & crossbones icon. i'm pretty sure there's a UTF skull & crossbones character that can be used. i know i've sent it to pe

Re: [opensource-dev] Files deleted by uninstaller don't appear in Recycle Bin

2010-10-26 Thread aklo
i've seen several products that have an uninstall option to "delete user data?" Like, the uninstall won't delete anything except its executables and program data that it installed unless you give it permission to do more at uninstall time. At least one program i've seen asked two uninstall questi

Re: [opensource-dev] 2.0 Absolute Dealbreaker - script count feature request

2010-09-29 Thread aklo
Me too! Every time i've dealt with support they've been terrific! i haven't always gotten what i wanted, but support's been real good about what i needed - and really good about helping me understand why what i didn't get was because it was unreasonable. But it's been at least 3 months since i h

Re: [opensource-dev] 2.0 Absolute Dealbreaker - script count feature request

2010-09-28 Thread aklo
Hey People! Please excuse me while i say something for all the n00bs in the world, whether their "inexperience" is their fault or not, and without judging anyone's learning speed, patience, or whatever else those with criticize the others who are without for lacking. Maybe i'm just "challenged

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowstorm changes (more Lindens fired)

2010-09-28 Thread aklo
Aimee & Tofu - the information you've shared is only matched by your great attitudes! i know i've sensed only a small part of the awesome work y'all have been doing - i totally agree with all the others that you will be missed. Best wishes for everything!! - AK _

Re: [opensource-dev] Possibility to revert UI changes on snowstorm?

2010-09-21 Thread aklo
Miss C, as someone who's complained bitterly about the Viewer 2 UI, i wanna say that i *like* change. It just has to mean something. It has to make things better, not just different. My opinion has been that the Viewer 2 UI seems to be trying to fix a lot of stuff that wasn't broken. i think w

[opensource-dev] Possibility to revert UI changes on snowstorm?

2010-09-20 Thread aklo
Sorry everyone! i pushed the wrong button and didn't get Malachi's msg quoted. Pls forgive the excess traffic? But i thought i'd better redo my msg or the lack of context would make it (more) nonsensical. Thx! - AK (retransmitting...) Malachi, what a wonderful question! i know a lot of us w

[opensource-dev] Possibility to revert UI changes on snowstorm?

2010-09-20 Thread aklo
Malachi, what a wonderful question! i know a lot of us would like to have a positive answer to that question. i think right now the status is "almost, sorta". Please do keep me on your list and share any info you get? Thx! - AK ___ Policies and (un

Re: [opensource-dev] Draw Distance

2010-08-23 Thread aklo
the same way it works for the maps. If you think about it for a sec, isn't a quick and easy type of "draw distance" adjustment part of the way our eyes work? It seems very natural to make SL work in its world the same way. - AK (Aklo Modan) On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Erik A

Re: [opensource-dev] Draw Distance

2010-08-23 Thread aklo
of the way our eyes work? It seems very natural to make SL work in its world the same way. - AK (Aklo Modan) On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Erik Anderson wrote: > > > > Shouldn't the SL client be able to figure out what a good draw distance > > would be? Maybe have it star

[opensource-dev] Login Pic

2010-08-22 Thread aklo
So, is it fixable? Is there some way to change the Snowglobe login channel? Or can the server be configured to respond to the channel Snowglobe already has? Or is this just something Snowglobe users should not care about? For reals, it's not important, but i miss it, & the pics are a nice touch

[opensource-dev] (no subject)

2010-08-21 Thread aklo
Hey! Um, i've been meaning to ask... Why don't i ever get the login screen pics with Snowglobe? i just installed the latest release (1.5.0 3625) from the website and still all i ever get are little arrow icons in the middle of a black screen. It's not all that important, i know, but i've been m

Re: [opensource-dev] Draw Distance

2010-08-21 Thread aklo
!! YES !! If all i had to do was mouse up over the camera widget and roll the scroll button i would be *soo* happy! Serious. i mean, Henri's Cool VL innovation is great! And i think that even if it were a mouse wheel scrollable widget it should still have some kinda additional text box to i

[opensource-dev] Draw Distance

2010-08-21 Thread aklo
There was some talk lately about draw distance. i mentioned that from my place if i have my draw distance turned up over about 150 i can almost count on crashing when i tp. i'm really sorry i can't describe the problem any better than that. If someone wants to tell me how i could understand it b

[opensource-dev] Display Name & Viewer 1.x vs. Viewer 2.x

2010-08-18 Thread aklo
Display Name: i don't want my name to *ever* appear in a login screen or anywhere else as something like "aklo.modan" If there's a reason to have that kind of construct as a name used by scripts or whatever, that's fine so long as it's kept "under the covers." But no simple user should ever see

[opensource-dev] V2.X & V1.X support on the same machine

2010-08-07 Thread aklo
i like what Dzon has to say more every time she has something new to contribute. Just sayin'. And to Fractured Crystal re: "Drugs are bad." In SL the usual psychoactive options (even alcohol) are obviously not an option. But, if you look at it like that SL is sorta like a drug. Is it bad? It

Re: [opensource-dev] IRC bridge for brown-bag, Tuesday 4/13 noon PDT

2010-04-13 Thread aklo
i must have lost the SLURL for the brownbag that starts at noon. i may be able to attend the meeting, if only to listen. Could someone pls let me know what the SLURL is? THX!! -AK ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki

Re: [opensource-dev] Two Worlds

2010-04-12 Thread aklo
Do you mean something like an interface that allows us to do this: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-375 Yes!! That's part of it, anyway. The main point i was trying to make is that i see there as being (at least) two very different types of user communities for SL. One community is like

[opensource-dev] Two Worlds

2010-04-11 Thread aklo
Hey Y'all, maybe i had an idea... There's been a lotta "comment" on the new viewer 2.0 look 'n feel stuff. Some ppl love it! Others hate it! Whatever it is, i think it's been a sorta polarizing issue, huh? One thing, the official claim is that it tests well with noobs. Some say that's 'cause t

[opensource-dev] TPVP Discussion

2010-04-10 Thread aklo
i've been watching this TPVP discussion go round 'n round since it got started and just biting my tongue 'cause i don't "have a dog in the race," as they say. That doesn't mean i haven't had an opinion i've wanted to share, though. So, if you don't mind, i'd like to make a respectful submission,