So my sweet new Dell puked and died (vid card issue). Thanks to all the problems they've been having with their machines the replacement part isn't available until late feb. The only other option was to wait two weeks for a replacement machine which is obviously the option I've taken. In the meantime however I'd like to get my painfully old Toshiba laptop machine into SL somehow. Text only would work fine, just so I can tell people I didn't die if nothing else (although I might without my computer).
This machine is running Ubuntu because that's all that will run on it. It will not run the regular SL client at all... not just won't run well, won't open period. If anyone can suggest a very tiny text only program that would work for me I'd be a very happy camper. And yes, I'm sure other people have asked this but getting that out of the forums with my slower connection has been difficult.
TIA to any suggestions.
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Eris Zaoh
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12-19-2008 15:18
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-19-2008 16:16
There are web based viewers called Movable Life and one called AjaxLife.
There's a wiki page on alternate viewers at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Alternate_viewers . _____________________
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Eris Zaoh
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12-19-2008 21:00
Thanks... looks like ajax life is down possibly forever and for some reason I can't get a response from the server for movable life but I'll keep trying or create an new alt just to get in if that works. I had checked out the alt viewers but most if not all appeared to make for a better more high performance SL which sadly isn't what this machine will handle. I'll keep trying Movable Life unless someone else has another suggestion.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-19-2008 21:13
Bad news about AjaxLife.
I think some of the text only clients are open source and in theory able to be compiled for linux . _____________________
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Eris Zaoh
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error retrieving server response
12-19-2008 21:17
Yup, can't get in to movable life at all, even with a newly created alt. Keep getting "error retrieving server response"
Not sure if that's a problem with movable life or something about this puter or? If anyone has any other ideas that would be super |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-19-2008 21:55
Same error here on Windows based Flock for Movable Life. It could be a brief problem. I have tried it before and had it work and not work.
Might as well try it with IE. Same thing with IE. _____________________
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Eris Zaoh
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12-21-2008 18:48
Still getting this same error... is anyone able to get in to Movable life?
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Osgeld Barmy
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12-22-2008 21:14
i just tried it and yes i was able to log in
Ubuntu x86 32 bit, firefox 3.03 bout the only thing "special" about this current install is i have the sun microsystems java add on installed in firefox, not the generic ones that come stock with ubuntu |