tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219960882011-09-12T15:50:25.315+01:00A Second Life on Linuxninjafoo Nghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11891276292472040351noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21996088.post-1155118733313655832006-08-09T11:17:00.000+01:002006-08-09T14:12:33.656+01:00

I had two adjacent parcels of land for sale. a 1024 and a 512. the 512 was getting no interest so I decided to merge the two plots together. I went into edit land, selected both plots and joined them. Suddenly ppl started rezzing on the land, I realised something must be wrong with the land price and quick as I could poped up the land dialog and tried to take the new merged plot off the market.

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Zi Ree has created a Qt3 port of Avimator (currently using FLTK - ewww!). Full details of the port (and instructions for downloading and compiling) can be found on the Avimator forum, or if you're feeling brave you can just go straight for the Source / Homepage.

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After a recent period of downtime, the Avimator website is back online, not much info there for now, but it looks hopeful, fingers crossed we get a new version with some bug fixes soon!Avimator is avatar animation software for Secondlife, allowing the creation of poses and keyframed character animations and saves you buying Poser :)

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Wednesday 21st June, 12pm SLT (8pm BST, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux').SL Hacks & ScriptsTopic for discussion is 'SL Hacks & Scripts', so, try out some of the scripts the community has come up with and share your experiences at the next meeting. Some good scripts to start you off include :SL

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Wednesday 14th June, 12pm SLT (8pm BST, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux').Nothing planned for this week, just a chance to chew the fat, catch up with any new issues affecting Linux users. Maybe do a little show and tell if anyone is willing :)Discuss the upcoming meeting, or anything related to

ninjafoo Nghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11891276292472040351noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21996088.post-1150107920369920462006-06-12T11:22:00.000+01:002006-06-12T11:56:13.000+01:00

An update for Wine has come through, essential for those times the Linux SL client isn't up to the job. It's still as crashy as ever for me, but is worth getting as it finally fixes the alpha transparency issues! The appearance editor will no longer eat your favourite outfits!

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Another Wednesday, another update - Only this time its solid gold!! Latest SL client is rock solid stable, good framerates, all the usual bugs remain but at least we can get back to running native. Grab it from the usual place.

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Jim Bunderfeld has sorted us out with our very own IRC channel - #secondlifelinux on irc.EnterTheGame.com

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Wednesday 7th June, 12pm SLT (8pm BST, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux').I will update this post with details of the second later SL LUG meeting once I have spoken to Drake Bacon. Meeting Karen LindenKaren Linden (Dev. Program Manager) will be coming to the 12:00 Meeting to have a chat about

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Well, another Wednesday came, and at the 11th hour an updated Linux client was released. Initial reports have been patchy, it seems more stable than 1.10.0.32 but still crashes hard with the same errors. At least we seem to be getting a little Linden involvement now - SL Forum : 1.10.1 Released!.

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The SL LUG meeting scheduled for the 27th of May has been moved back to the 31st of May. This reflects a permanent move to a new Wednesday meeting slot that we hope more users will be able to attend. Saturdays do have a habit of clashing with RL :)The meeting will be at the same place and time, just on a Wednesday - 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check

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Well update Wednesday came, with no word from anybody regarding the status of the Linux client for quite some time, we all got a bit nervy. Especially when someone claimed to know for certain that there would be no Linux client for the short term. Panic!! (SL Forum : Current Development?, Linux Alpha gone?).Imagine our relief and excitement when a download link for a new Linux client appeared on

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 27th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux').Bring a bottle...well, after the update to 1.9.10 was dropped at the last minute (No New Newness) it looks like this Wednesday will see a roll out of the new client. A new Linux client might be on the table, it might not,

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Someone said on the SL forums that LSL is great, until you try to do just about anything with it. They weren't kidding. To a dedicated OOP fanatic like myself, working with LSL feels like one hack after another. A project of any size rapidly feels like a huge collection of workarounds. I can only hope that things will improve when Mono is finally implemented. It's little wonder scripters are few

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 20th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux').Lets Get Logo!Its high time the SL LUG had a well designed logo. So if you have any ideas, design skills and are prepared to commit a little time (please bring examples of previous work), or just want to have your say come

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I have decided that its time I started to write up my experiences in Second Life, if for no other reason than to keep a record of my journey and help keep things clear in my own mind. I have never kept a journal before, so I apologise now for all the rubbish parts.So much has happened in the short time Second Life has been a part of my life, It's made me question some of the very foundations of

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For reasons unknown, the Second Life 1.9.1 release has been postponed (All platforms - SL Forum : 1.9.1 release postponed). From the forum chatter it seems some of the new features simply weren't ready for release. With the latest preview offing less than previous versions (SL Forum : And boom. Vertex shaders and shadows are gone.) combined with reports of rendering weirdness (SL Forum : specular

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 13th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150). As usual you can find the location using the find (Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux')New Newness!Nothing planned for this meeting other than to discuss the wonderful new client, the new features and how the Linux port faired. Second Life 1.9.1 is due to be released

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 6th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150). As usual you can find the location using the find (Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux')Up for discussion will be ideas for the long term funding of the LUG, all ideas and suggestions welcome!3 Prim Building EventGoing to try something a little different this week and

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 29th April, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9 pm CET) at Maryport (182,150). As usual you can find the location using the find (Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux')The redesigned meeting place with better seating and a stage for presentations went down very well, it still needs some tweaks (and perhaps some more / different seating poses).

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place in a few short days time as we get back to our usual Saturday meeting slot (12AM SLT at Maryport (182,150) In world : Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux') This week we hope to have a talk on GPG by Dale, will update this post with details as I get them. This weeks competition is for the 'Best Dress' - yes, that means exactly what

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The upcoming SL LUG meeting has been moved from its usual Saturday spot to Tuesday 18th of April at the slightly later time of 3PM SLT (11PM BST) due to Easter weekend. We decided at the last meeting to extend the deadline for the T-Shirt competition, as it turns out most don't read the SL Linux Forum! Anyway, this gives you a few extra days to work on your entries, you can read the rules on the

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An optional update to the client has been released for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Many thanks to Karen Linden for letting us has the Linux client as soon as it was ready :)Karen Linden:I can just post it now....but no one has really tried it much yet, except for installing. Have fun!As usual this update fixes a number of cross platform issues (SL Forum : Second Life 1.9.0(21) Release Notes). There

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The Second Life Community Classified Adverts are now available via the web, you can browse the categories page by page and filter for PG or mature content. All the adverts link through to SLurl.It's a real shame there is no search (the new google powered Second Life site search does not index the classifieds), you cannot see how many pages of classifieds there actually are, and the navigation is

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Following on from the last SL LUG meeting. we need a selection of Linux themed T-Shirts to place in the freebie box. Far to many people are wandering around in that fugly gray sweater! So, At the next meeting of the SL LUG we are going to have a little T-Shirt competition. Things like distro logo's, tux's, Linux / geek humor ("My Other T-Shirts Your Windows Box" etc etc). What ever you fancy.

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Following on from Rizzermon Sopor's post on the SL Forum (Linux User Group Movie). Because the overhead of the Second Life client and gvidcap resulted in a poor framerate he cooked up a little script to dump a series of screenshots from the Second Life client window using xwd.As its a lazy Saturday morning, I decided to give gvidcap a blast before resorting to anything scripty. It took quite a

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Just a reminder that the next in world SL LUG is going to be held at 12:00 SL time on April 1st at Maryport(181,147). Lots of things to cover this week including any ideas for guest speakers.In game just pop open the find, click events and search for Linux (if nothing shows up, select 'upcoming' and try again).In related news, Rizzermon Sopor has hacked together a short video clip from the start

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One thing I did try recently with the Second Life Linux alpha client, was to set the cache to 500mb and replacing the cache folder with a link to /dev/shm - Essentially putting the cache in a ram drive. If you don't have a ram drive - its a kernel thing, see your distro.Now, as the cache is cleared every time the Linux client is started, you can probably get away with a 50mb - 200mb cache

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An optional update to the client has been released for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Among other things, this fixes a couple of known issues that crept in with the previous release (SL Forum : Second Life 1.9.0(18) Release Notes). If your using Zonax Delorean's SL Alpha Installer Script you will be pleased to know it works like a charm :)Bug reporting is now working from the Linux native client, just

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Zonax Delorean has cooked up a little perl script to automate the installation of the Linux Second Life client. It checks you have the latest version, downloads and installs if needed and copies your configuration files. I was going to waffle on sarcastically about it not getting any simpler than tar, but I am far to lazy.You can get the script from this thread on the SL forums : SL Alpha

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After almost a week of Windows and Wine, the Second Life Linux 1.9.0.17 alpha client has been released. Unfortunatly, it fails to run for me and just hangs (SL Forum : 1.9.0.17 Hangs on startup). Bugger.Update : It seems that copying all the config and user files from the previous version is enough to jolly the client into action. Just a little odd, as, if you're a new user you wont have any

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Windows and MacOS clients have been updated, as expected there is no sign of an updated Linux client. The new Windows client has been reported to work with Wine 0.9.9 so you might not need to reboot to get your fix.Well, that would be the case if the logon servers were working! Turns out there is an issue with some users (myself included) being unable to login (SL Forum : Login issues in 1.9.0).

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Karen Linden has posed on the SL Forums (Linux 1.9.0 is in the works...) that the Linux client might miss the Wednesday (15th March) deadline for being updated to 1.9.0 (a mandatory update that includes a grid update).It has been confirmed that the Linux client does not have its own developer, and that the dev who did most of the work to get the Linux ball rolling is busy with other projects.

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A weekly SL meeting for users of the Second Life Linux client has been set up.Meetings will take place every Saturday starting March 18th 12:00 SL time (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport(181,147). Don't forget to thank Vinci Calamari (Blog) for organising and Angel Sunset for providing the land.SL Forum : First meeting, weekly meeting.

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Zi Ree has come up with a truly evil hack for getting text into the Second Life editor. Write LSL in your favorite editor and then invoke a little perl/xse voodoo. SL Forum : Pasting into Second Life Linux client.

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So, how does the shiny new Linux alpha client stack up to the established Windows one? Well, as you would expect there is a (not so long) list of bugs and issues, the big question is, what can you live with?My system is an AMD 64 powered Shuttle box, 1 GB Ram and an Asus 6800 V9999 GT (128MB). Dual booting between Windows XP Pro (used exclusivly for games) and Gentoo AMD64. I run the Second Life

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Following on from a previous blog (Frustrated Character Animator?), Avimator has gone open source! (See this thread on the SL forums).This is a fantastic move by Vince and I hope everyone who finds his software useful will donate a few Lindens :)

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Within minutes of my last blog, Don Linden posted the following on the Second Life forums :-"The linux client is now in the 'main' codebase. However, not all of our developers have a linux workstation to test it on. Until we get a linux box for the specific purpose of building/testing the linux client, however, the linux deploy needs to wait for me to get a chance to run a build.Building another

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Well, it's good to know where the Linux Second Life client stands in the grand scheme of things over at Linden labs. It looked so promising only yesterday, the 1.8.4.6 update was released for all 3 platforms and it looked like it would only be a short while before the alpha status would be revoked.But it was to much to soon, turned out there was a rather nasty glitch in the new client, 1.8.4.7

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The Second Life Herald have just reported on a free tool to create and edit BVH files, that is, to create and edit character animations as used by avatars in Second Life. Essentially it's a very light weight alternative to stumping up for Poser.Big deal! I hear you say, we don't need you to tell us what the herald has on the front page. But what the Herald doesn't mention is that you can download

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I wouldn't usually post about RL, but this is one everyone needs to remember.BIG TIP : When your going to paint a room, get a colour swatch book and choose your colours IN the room your going to be painting. Check your colours look right at different times of the day, maybe even buy a sample pot and slap some paint on the walls.We have just finished decorating our dining room, and because we

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Linden labs have just released an alpha Linux Second Life client. Be sure to check out the forum. As this client logs onto the main world you use it as your own risk. That said, aside from a couple of minor glitches it looks like Linden labs have pulled a blinder with their very first offering.The only problems I have found so far have been very minor, more annoying than anything else. There is

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Wooo.

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