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Tarina Sewell
Just Browsing Thank you
Join date: 20 Jul 2007
Posts: 2,180
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10-06-2008 19:33
Are we back to required downloads?
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Kirby Burnstein
Registered User
Join date: 4 Jul 2008
Posts: 17
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10-06-2008 19:36
For this one, yes.
see... http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2008/10/06/post275/ |
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Marianne McCann
Feted Inner Child
Join date: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 7,145
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10-06-2008 19:38
Oh my, this is gonna make for some very upset peoples.
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HoneyBear Lilliehook
Owner, The Mall at Cherry
Join date: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 4,500
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10-06-2008 19:58
I'm upset. My power went out and I'm on my laptop on quickly diminishing battery power, and a wireless card, and forced to download. Lovely.
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Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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10-06-2008 20:01
I'm upset. My power went out and I'm on my laptop on quickly diminishing battery power, and a wireless card, and forced to download. Lovely. Uh, why not simply halt the download now, shut your computer down, and then restart later when your power comes back up? Am I missing something? |
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HoneyBear Lilliehook
Owner, The Mall at Cherry
Join date: 18 Jun 2007
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10-06-2008 20:05
lol Chosen, it's my last hour before bedtime! I don't *want* to shut the computer down
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Chosen Few
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Join date: 16 Jan 2004
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10-06-2008 20:08
lol Chosen, it's my last hour before bedtime! I don't *want* to shut the computer down OK, I think I get what you meant now. You want to spend as much time as you can in-world before your battery dies, and the download is cutting into that time. Got it. When I first read it, I thought you meant you were stuck in the middle of a download, and afraid your battery would die before it would finished. |
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Ann Launay
Neko-licious™
Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 7,893
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10-06-2008 20:09
Nicholaz still works....I just logged out and back in with no prompt.
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HoneyBear Lilliehook
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Join date: 18 Jun 2007
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10-06-2008 20:11
OK, I think I get what you meant now. You want to spend as much time as you can in-world before your battery dies, and the download is cutting into that time. Got it. When I first read it, I thought you meant you were stuck in the middle of a download, and afraid your battery would die before it would finished. On the nose _____________________
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HoneyBear Lilliehook
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10-06-2008 20:11
Nicholaz still works....I just logged out and back in with no prompt. Oh sure Puss, rub it in lol _____________________
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Harrie Skjellerup
Registered User
Join date: 4 Dec 2006
Posts: 18
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10-06-2008 20:14
damn damn damn..... all this time ive managed to avoid having to suffer windlight viewers crippling SL on me, now a required download, crap crap crap!!!! Ya just know its going to be good when the pop up keeps telling you your computer does not meet second lifes minimum system requirements... damn damn damn.... here i go back into lag hell
 anyone got a link for a working nicolaz viewer download??? |
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Ann Launay
Neko-licious™
Join date: 8 Aug 2006
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10-06-2008 20:17
Oh sure Puss, rub it in lol lol, I just thought it might minimize the shrieking if I mentioned it right away! anyone got a link for a working nicolaz viewer download??? http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/2008/05/version-overview.html _____________________
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Kirby Burnstein
Registered User
Join date: 4 Jul 2008
Posts: 17
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10-06-2008 20:18
damn damn damn..... all this time ive managed to avoid having to suffer windlight viewers crippling SL on me, now a required download, crap crap crap!!!! Ya just know its going to be good when the pop up keeps telling you your computer does not meet second lifes minimum system requirements... damn damn damn.... here i go back into lag hell anyone got a link for a working nicolaz viewer download??? You can always try the instructions here... http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Turn_off_WindLight_rendering ... and see if you can use the normal one. |
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Rhaorth Antonelli
Registered User
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 7,425
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10-06-2008 20:26
personally I would rather have a secure viewer
I don't like the idea that someone could see files on my PC (or anyone's PC for that matter) I think this was the right choice given the circumstances Not sure why anyone would want to use a viewer that could have this flaw in it (being all viewers are based on the opensource code) nicholaz could also have this security flaw in it and why would anyone want to subject themselves to such a security risk? will be interesting to see if nicholaz updates his viewer _____________________
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Ann Launay
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Join date: 8 Aug 2006
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10-06-2008 20:29
You can always try the instructions here... http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Turn_off_WindLight_rendering ... and see if you can use the normal one. Turning everything down to Low on these viewers does NOT make the world look like it does in a non-WL viewer. Not to mention that, if you want to be able to adjust the lighting to something that's actually usable, you have to set 'Quality and Performance' to High, which a lot of lower end computers can't deal with. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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Join date: 10 Jan 2007
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10-06-2008 20:39
personally I would rather have a secure viewer I don't like the idea that someone could see files on my PC (or anyone's PC for that matter) I think this was the right choice given the circumstances Not sure why anyone would want to use a viewer that could have this flaw in it (being all viewers are based on the opensource code) nicholaz could also have this security flaw in it and why would anyone want to subject themselves to such a security risk? Because the Nicholaz viewer works , whereas anything beyond that doesn't, at least on my machine. It's Nick or it's Nada for me. It's a risk I'm willing to take. I really don't have anything to lose. And Annie is right. Turning WL down is not a workaround for us low enders. It's not the same as having a non WL viewer. _____________________
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Tarina Sewell
Just Browsing Thank you
Join date: 20 Jul 2007
Posts: 2,180
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10-06-2008 20:40
For this one, yes. see... http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2008/10/06/post275/ I never installed the viewer they need to patch.... I hope it works.. so far so good though. Agreed, a security update is priority. Goodness knows I wouldn' want someone to access my personal files.. ty |
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Alicia Sautereau
if (!social) hide;
Join date: 20 Feb 2007
Posts: 3,125
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10-06-2008 20:51
better have a good look at home
some of my latest crap has dissapeard into thin air... |
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Ann Launay
Neko-licious™
Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 7,893
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10-06-2008 20:53
They've said repeatedly that there is a very, very low likelihood of the issue being exploited, and it's already been in the viewers at least since the 1.19s came out...I can't afford to upgrade my system right now, so I'm going to chance it. *shrug*
If they break Nicholaz...well, WoW isn't so picky about hardware and the new expansion will be out in about a month. _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
Forums Rock!
Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
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10-06-2008 20:55
I strongly suspect at least one of the old school viewers will be available with the security fix in fairly short order.
Don't it figure, I had just yesterday finally gotten around to trying the Cool Viewer for the first time, now I suppose it might not work. Hmm.... The Release Candidate Cool Viewer still works. That's "Second Life 1.21.4 (0) Oct 3 2008 11:56:46 (Cool SL Viewer)". I think the older third party viewers will work because when the "channel" command line paramter is used, it bypasses things like checking for updates from LL. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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Join date: 10 Jan 2007
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10-06-2008 20:57
They've said repeatedly that there is a very, very low likelihood of the issue being exploited, and it's already been in the viewers at least since the 1.19s came out...I can't afford to upgrade my system right now, so I'm going to chance it. *shrug* If they break Nicholaz...well, WoW isn't so picky about hardware and the new expansion will be out in about a month. What flavor Kool Aid would you like? _____________________
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Ann Launay
Neko-licious™
Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 7,893
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10-06-2008 20:58
What flavor Kool Aid would you like? Ooo, red! Red's a flavor, right? _____________________
~Now Trout Re-Re-Re-Certified!~
I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things. Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut. |
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Brenda Connolly
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10-06-2008 20:58
Evidently, a fix will be made available for 3rd part viewrs, if their makers wish to use it.
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Ann Launay
Neko-licious™
Join date: 8 Aug 2006
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10-06-2008 21:00
Evidently, a fix will be made available for 3rd part viewrs, if their makers wish to use it. So we just need to go find Nicholaz and follow him around while making this face:  _____________________
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Winter Ventura
Eclectic Randomness
Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,579
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10-06-2008 21:02
I'm using 1.18.5.3. Since the reason there's a forced update, is that there's a huge exploit out there that allows a hacker to take over your session, steal your money, steal your land, and all your transferrable items, and allows them to install programs on your computer.. do you really want to advertise that you're not using the latest viewer? _____________________
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