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Uvas Umarov
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03-25-2007 19:46
Will we be required to download it?
SuezanneC Baskerville
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03-25-2007 19:53
You could go to San Francisco and pick up a copy on a disk.

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I'm pretty sure it's a mandatory upgrade. The version number change makes me think that.

Lucy Linden just said she doesn't know and that it would be posted on the blog.

Ain't much time left for it to be posted before it happens.

I'm no longer quite so sure.
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Kitty Barnett
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03-25-2007 19:53
From: http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/03/23/1140-update-monday-preview-available-for-download/#comment-168448
Robin Linden Says:

March 25th, 2007 at 6:25 AM PDT
@Winter, trite, and Edie: I’ve asked Josh to confirm, but it’s my understanding that this viewer release will be optional. If you prefer to continue to use the latest 1.13 version, you will be able to.
I'd suggest grabbing a copy of the current viewer so you can uninstall and go back if it turns out to have more problems :).

(Edited after finding the blog comment)
Uvas Umarov
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03-25-2007 20:00
"You could go to San Francisco and pick up a copy on a disk."


*Slaps knee*

Ho ho!
Peggy Paperdoll
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03-25-2007 20:07
No one's there to answer the door bell................all the grid monkeys are caged up in the server room and the rest are sleeping LOL
SuezanneC Baskerville
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03-25-2007 20:07
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/03/23/1140-update-monday-preview-available-for-download/#comment-168448

From: someone
Robin Linden Says:
March 25th, 2007 at 6:25 AM PDT

@Winter, trite, and Edie: I’ve asked Josh to confirm, but it’s my understanding that this viewer release will be optional. If you prefer to continue to use the latest 1.13 version, you will be able to.


I hope Robin's right - that would be ideal, strong encouragement for everyone to use it, but still have the old one to fall back on if needed. They'll have more pressure on them to fix the bugs and more bug reports to help find them.

Heh, didn't see Kitty's post above. Hard to move fast enough.
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Kitty Barnett
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03-25-2007 20:18
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
Heh, didn't see Kitty's post above. Hard to move fast enough.
I posted first, then a little voice said to check the blog and make sure :p.

It seemed odd that Robin's post wasn't in the usual yellow for Lindens though :confused:.
Usagi Musashi
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03-25-2007 21:42
"March 25th, 2007 at 6:25 AM PDT
@Winter, trite, and Edie: I’ve asked Josh to confirm, but it’s my understanding that this viewer release will be optional. If you prefer to continue to use the latest 1.13 version, you will be able to."


Well you better ask Steven Linden.....Now we are getting a second set of opions?.............Shakeshead there is to commucation between the coders it seems.......
bilbo99 Emu
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03-26-2007 03:07
From: Peggy Paperdoll
No one's there to answer the door bell................all the grid monkeys are caged up in the server room and the rest are sleeping LOL


and the weasels aren't answering the phone.
Howard Sachs
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03-26-2007 04:16
*GRINS*

Well good luck everybody.. *crosses fingers* I am still looking for that extra gig of RAM that I was sure I put away somewhere in the basement.. I wouldn't dare hoping the new client will use less memory :)
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03-26-2007 04:21
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
I hope Robin's right - that would be ideal, strong encouragement for everyone to use it, but still have the old one to fall back on if needed.

Agree that would be an ideal arrangement.

Keeping the current main viewer as an alternate that is no longer supported (ie, no more bug fixes) should be technically feasible for the short term. Eventually, with increasing changes to the server code, the veiwer would probably become too dysfunctional for use, but it would certainly ease the transition.
Ceera Murakami
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03-26-2007 04:47
It would be the first time in LL's history if they allowed us to continue using an old viewer even one second after they release a new one. As soon as the new one is official, I'll bet the old one will be impossible to log in with.

No official relase notice yet, and it's not available for download except as the last "First Look" viewer, which supposedly is identical in all but version number...
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Brenda Connolly
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03-26-2007 05:01
Why all the worry? What makes you think the new viewer won't work? :rolleyes:
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bilbo99 Emu
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03-26-2007 05:14
I have seen at least on two occasions when I log in that it is compulsory to download the new viewer. Is this not going to negate anyone's attempt to run an old one?
Francesca Alva
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03-26-2007 05:21
From: bilbo99 Emu
and the weasels aren't answering the phone.


I find this post to be defamatory and offensive to phone weasels.

Weasel out of that if you can.
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03-26-2007 05:34
From: Francesca Alva
I find this post to be defamatory and offensive to phone weasels.

Weasel out of that if you can.


I thought I was complimenting the Lindens



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Francesca Alva
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03-26-2007 05:36
From: bilbo99 Emu
I thought I was complimenting the Lindens



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LMAO

Do these permabans run concurrently or consecutively? :D
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Morwen Bunin
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03-26-2007 05:37
From: Francesca Alva

Weasel out of that if you can.


I hear some hobbit brains doing overtime :P

Morwen.
bilbo99 Emu
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03-26-2007 05:43
From: Francesca Alva
LMAO

Do these permabans run concurrently or consecutively? :D


well, given the choice .. I'd have to go for the first ... you can eat currents ... there's nothing in consequt .. conseccut ...

.. the other one ... that's edible

overtime? me?? ;)
Francesca Alva
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03-26-2007 05:44
From: Morwen Bunin
I hear some hobbit brains doing overtime :P

Morwen.


Is that what that noise is? I thought my computer was malfunctioning.
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bilbo99 Emu
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03-26-2007 05:54
From: Francesca Alva
Is that what that noise is? I thought my computer was malfunctioning.


<sniff>
Morwen Bunin
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03-26-2007 05:58
From: Francesca Alva
Is that what that noise is?


Yes... and as long there is no smoke all is relative safe.

And even he lives in a state of denial concerning overtime... I bet he keeps running for some food....

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bilbo99 Emu
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03-26-2007 06:16
From: Morwen Bunin
I bet he keeps running for some food....

Morwen.


.... not fair .. <sniff> ... two giants ganging up on a poor l'il hobbit!
Raudf Fox
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03-26-2007 06:48
From: Brenda Connolly
Why all the worry? What makes you think the new viewer won't work? :rolleyes:


*snickers* Oh, it works, just as well as the grid works! :D

I hope it's optional. I'd rather just use the First Look for now and keep my main viewer separate, because if I have to muck with my vendors, I want to do it quickly - sans workaround.
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Zaphod Kotobide
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03-26-2007 06:51
My understanding is that they are working -away- from mandatory upgrades, with this new "capabilities" concept, but I don't know if they're quite there yet.

From: bilbo99 Emu
I have seen at least on two occasions when I log in that it is compulsory to download the new viewer. Is this not going to negate anyone's attempt to run an old one?
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