What is SL4 Portal?

SL4 Portal is my personal blog. I am Tux Winkler, an avatar in Second Life. I am for the most part a friendly and helpful person. I use this blog to sound off about anything really.

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Our sim: DISTURBED

Mar 142010

As I was busy, I decided a very dear friend could choose todays music video.  So here it is with Lyrics on screen.  Thanks to Elicio Ember for choosing a truly great track.  And for those who don’t know Elicio makes the wonder Skeech AV’s I wear (amongst other things).  Please, go visit his place in SL:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Griffin/33/86/33/

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Mar 142010

Ok, let me start off by saying I spend a fair amount of time around SL, but I love the sandboxes.  I love creativity and watching the masses of variety pass through.  Now, unlike others comments of masses of griefers, their is hardly any.  Of course a few cagers (but nothing serious).  Now, today I was wlking along when an automated cannon thing began shooting me.  No big deal, I surrounded it with a sphere and did a few scripts I have been wanting to try.  For containing such things.

I then removed my prims and stood back.  You see the ANN turned up.  Just a part of the Superhero themed ‘anti-griefers’.  Once again, no problem.  I figured they would come in contain and AR.  Maybe two of them.  Thats how it started, with three of them:
Mar 102010

So, being so busy I welcomed any excuse to take a break.

An event was perfect.  Open Mic Poetry.  So I went along.  As did Chapel (aka Dirtface), you cannot miss him, looking like the grim fandango, a scary tic-tac or a man with a fridge on his head, he wanders round making people smile.

Seriously, full of humour, he is often mistaken for a griefer.  Although this is yet to be seen.  I took a spur of the moment recording, I hope you enjoy!

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Mar 052010

The Luna Viewer (formally FlexLife – changed because of 3PVP) is in need of extra Devs.  Click the following:

http://nexisonline.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/call-to-developers/

If you fit any of the following (or feel you can contribute in other ways) send a mail to nexisentertainment@gmail.com.

  • Build Environment
  • UI (User Interface)
  • Lua Event Queue
  • Cmake Integration
  • SL-Lua Bindings
  • Web Applications
  • End User Documentation
Mar 042010

Wow, time runs away with me lately and before I notice I have missed loads.  So I figured I would tell you whats been going on:

GRPS – Generic Role Play – As requested I have been rewriting to change the meters, within the game.  At present the working of a random seed is to be included, for example:  Your character is a street thug in a cyberpunk era.  You go to mug someone.  Would you get all their money?  Not always, they may have hidden some in their sock.  So the random seed factor creeps in.  Also, the new version is trailing more server side calculations to prevent cheating.  This will enable us to distribute weapons/addon scripts easier too.  So unfortunately GRPS will stay in alpha, but I am allowing extra testers so those of you who applied for the beta will be bought on in alpha – YAY.

DISTURBED – Removed the big shop.  Created a weapons shop and a photo studio.  There is also a woodland and cave.  Its crazy the number of times I change it, I know.  But although a few people are not so happy at losing the clothing, I feel it isn’t justifying itself.

FLEXLIFE – Ok, here is the thing, LL release 3PVP statingthe viewer cannot have life in it.  Great, thanks.  So currently changes are being implemented to become a new name:

Luna

I actually think this is a good thing.  A very dear person says ‘A change is as good as a move!’.  So, despite the pain in the preverbial, rebranding goes on.  Fred works his nuts off, and should slow down a little.  But he wont – XD.  Still excited about the new name and release.  I am going to start on the Lua/Luna wiki.  So finding out commands is as simple as using the wiki.  The support ticket is going up too.  As is the website.  The features are massive with Lua.  Watch the official blog (when its up fully):

http://luna.nexisonline.net

So thats it, up to date.  Sorry for missing so much.  Here are a few of your questions answered:

Q. Hey dude, you been arrested or something?
A. Nope, still here =)

Q. The JLU got you banned?
A. Nope, still here =)

Q. Why no posts?  Is something wrong?
A. Nope, still here =)

Q. Do you have an answer to the question?
A. 42.

Feb 282010

Oh wow, its been two whole weeks.  I have been really busy rewriting from scratch the GRPS system to include the new meters.  Anyways, here is the Sunday Music Special.  Something different this week.  Enjoy . . . .

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RSS Second Life Grid Status

  • Asset Server Error Messages 18/03/2010
    [UPDATE 11:43am PDT] We continue to work on the asset server issues. [UPDATE 9:42am PDT] Work on the asset server issue is still in progress. [8:42am PDT] We are aware of a problem affecting some residents when rezzing or deleting items and getting asset server error messages. We also suggest temporarily refraining from inworld purchases until we [...] […]
  • [RESOLVED] Inworld Logins Slow 17/03/2010
    [RESOLVED 3:31pm PDT] Log ins have returned to normal. [3:02pm PDT] We are aware that some residents may be experiencing log in issues. We currently are looking into the problem and Log ins may continue to be slow as we work toward a solution. We will post further updates as we have them. […]
  • [RESOLVED] Land Store Maintenance 17/03/2010
    [RESOLVED 10:08 a.m. Pacific]  The Land Store is back in service. ***** The Land Store will be undergoing maintenance today, Wednesday 17th March 2010, from 9.30am until 10.30am Pacific.  No land purchases will be possible during this time. Should the timing or duration of the maintenance change we will update you here. […]
  • [RESOLVED Mar. 16 2010] In-World Voice Chat 16/03/2010
    [RESOLVED March 16th 2010 10:56am] All residents should now be able to use voice chat as normal. [POSTED March 16th 2010 9:51am] Some residents in-world may be experiencing issues that are not allowing them to voice chat with other residents.  We are aware of the issue and are working to get it resolved.  Please watch here [...] […]
  • [Resolved] Ticket/Live Chat Issues 16/03/2010
    [Resolved 11:40pm PDT, 15 Mar 2010] Tickets and Live Chats are back online. [Posted 11:20pm PDT, 15 Mar 2010] We are currently experiencing issues with the Live Chat and tickets. Until we resolve this issue, residents will not be able to create tickets or speak to a live chat agent. For abuse issues, please continue to [...] […]

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  • NeilLife Blog has been Nuked
    Looks like Google finally got off their collective asses and nuked Neil’s blog after he posted some Bloodlines code. (Reported here.) […]
  • Not-So Breaking Nuze: Stolen Shit is #1 in Popularity at XStreetSL
    It appears that Linden Lab’s sheer incompetence has come to (another) head. Some throwaway alt named Kristina Catronis is selling 230 Top-quality stolen dances, and now can also brag that she’s the top selling in SL, as “her” product has reached the #1 sales rank in XStreet.  Several sellers have claimed to have filed DMCAs several [...] […]
  • Modular Lua
    I’m making some big changes behind the scenes in Lua. First of all, Lua modules (which bind Luna to Lua) are being broken up from one (SL) to many (Base, GL, Region are what have been completed so far).  This will aloow for faster development, as devs can work on their own modules without interfering with [...] […]
  • Call to Developers
    Luna is in need of dire attention. Our build environment is clunky We need a new UI that will work in a multithreaded environment We need to fix the Lua event queue Both Luna plugins and Lua modules (LuaBitOp/LuaSocket/LuaExpat) need maintainers and integration with CMake We need to add and restructure Lua bindings with SL’s infrastructure Web apps are a bit […]
  • Luna website (mostly) online
    http://luna.nexisonline.net/ Still working on the tag registration server so that client tags can be added/disabled automatically. The new theme is…. okay, still working on replacing logos and stuff. […]
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