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Naz Fride
21st Century Faux
Join date: 8 May 2007
Posts: 341
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01-20-2010 14:00
Ever since I started SL, in May of 2005, I have noticed that whenever I open a box containing more than 2 or 3 objects, I get a system message that states, "Items coming in too fast, automatic preview disabled for 10 seconds." My questions are 1. What is/was automatic preview, and what does it do for me when it's NOT disabled? 2. Why can't they fix it so it works all the time? 3. Should they explain this to us at some point, so noobs don't think they are doing something wrong (like I did the first few times I saw it?)
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Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
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01-20-2010 14:15
Automatic preview opens textures and notecards automatically when they are received. Uh, and I think LMs too.
There is a setting in Preferences to enable or disable it. Getting whole lot of things at once, the system chokes, and so it automatically stops opening things on your screen. The items are still added to your inventory, however. _____________________
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Cristalle Karami
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Join date: 4 Dec 2006
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01-20-2010 14:17
There is a limit, I think 10 items, before the disable preview kicks in.
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Naz Fride
21st Century Faux
Join date: 8 May 2007
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01-20-2010 14:57
Oh THAT. D'oh!
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Dawnee Swansong
A Simple Wench
Join date: 17 Jun 2009
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01-21-2010 08:58
Thanks for posting this Naz .... I was wondering the same thing only yesterday.
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Johan Laurasia
Fully Rezzed
Join date: 31 Oct 2006
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01-21-2010 11:25
The "items coming in too fast" throttle was put in because some griefing tools would flood an avatar with (usually hundreds or thousands of textures) which would overload and crash an avatar. Before the throttle was in place, someone could easily crash avatar's client program which is not good.
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Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
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01-21-2010 12:29
The "items coming in too fast" throttle was put in because some griefing tools would flood an avatar with (usually hundreds or thousands of textures) which would overload and crash an avatar. Before the throttle was in place, someone could easily crash avatar's client program which is not good. There's a variant of this tool that uses drop down menus instead of textures. Do you know of any way to defend against it? _____________________
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Raudf Fox
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Join date: 25 Feb 2005
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01-21-2010 12:46
There's a variant of this tool that uses drop down menus instead of textures. Do you know of any way to defend against it? If I remember correctly, muting the person will prevent them. I haven't tried this recently to be sure. _____________________
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