You may remember (or not) that I was last year's over all winner and went away with a nice iMac. Obviously this was a different time, a time when everybody thought that contributions would continue to be readily accepted and not largely ignored.
I'm a pretty ambivalent about this years awards, given that the Nicholaz Edition is now more of an independent viewer and given that I even stopped making submissions. I'm pretty proud of my last one about the Asstachments, which was around January, but the feedback from the Lindens (essentially calling it a cheap band aid) about was less than thrilling. Others which I'm equally proud of, actually the ones which make most of the difference between Linden versions and Nicholaz Editions, have hardly been accepted or I pulled them out after seeing them ignored for months.
Well, anyway ... someone asked me for some of my submissions, so here is a list of the better ones.
- VWR-374 Attachments sometimes move to where the sun doesn't shine ...
- VWR-3877 A nasty possible memory overwrite and two minor leaks
- VWR-1769 Memory bubble, clearning the keyframedata cache
- VWR-3878 Purging cache textures causes viewer. to pause for many seconds, with heavy disk activity
- VWR-2685 Possible crash in bounding box (getBoundingBoxAgent()) from hud attachments
- VWR-2683 Possible crash accessing dead llviewerregion
- VWR-2682 Possible crash accessing dead cubemap
17 comments:
As I was lifelong banned from the Blog (For calling Lindens a bunch of amateurs), my dear "friend" Jonathen Snow made a comment on the Blog with why you should win this contest again.
Having to go into Jira to vote is again ignoring the residents as we all know Jira is way way too difficult to navigate for the average crowd. It is just another typical example of the huge gab between the leaders and the population. Nicholaz you stay my hero beyond doubt :) Then a long time nothing and then Arcadia Asylum for her fabulous content creation. :)
Hugs
VWR-1769 seems to have been fixed in v1.20.11.0. See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6800
Of course, no credit to your work is given, and Lindens are acting like if they discovered and fixed the bug all by themselves...
You may have given up, but I put my two cents in anyway on the JIRA voting topic (subtask with your name on it) because I felt someone had to. :)
Had to spend some time finding some of your issues tho... closing them makes it difficult to find later. :(
Henri: I guess they (as it happened so often) did it another way (reverting buggy changes was never popular with them :-). I know Soft has been working on this for some time (I guess it's now almost 9 months after I detected the leak and fixed it for my viewers).
Alex: I do appreciate the nomination. Btw, The Asstachments do fall into the time category, it's August 2007 to August 2008 and the fix was submitted around Xmas. And I do agree with your comments there, that my submissions even though they stopped in 2008 are still competitive ... Thanks
Sylvia: I did read Jonathan's comment there and had to smile when reading it. It'll be interesting to see how my nomination fares ... the judges are all Lindens AFAIK and I guess I haven't made too many friends there recently :-)
No problem, Nicholaz, hehehe :)
Those of us using your viewers DO appreciate your work, even if the lindens clearly don't give a rat's arse. (And I think they need to be reminded about that as often as possible by as many people as possible. :) )
I guess the awards depends on what they deem a contribution , personally i just gave up interacting with LL, like talking to a brick wall.
But the few people who use our viewers and see the benefits are more important, and at the end of the day thats who really counts.
Kirsten: Exactly my reasoning ... it just took me a bit to arrive there :-)
Hi guys, Is it me or the server updates that I have this crash at terra-forming more often again?
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It seems closing the viewer, now never 'closes the server side' as Linden keeps trying to contact my viewer after I close it down. Before this was only after I close the viewer when it has been online a long time(memory leak maybe)
I use the Bleeding edge viewer.
Only a small note. The link to the asstachement jira-entry seems to point at the wrong entry (371 instead of 374).
Sylvia: I've heard about occasional problems with BE viewers, even looked at crash dumps but it wasn't anything obvious. It's something I don't understand entirely .. and regretfully can't do much about at the moment.
I'm sorry you aren't doing anymore updates but, just to say and I guess I'm being rude, but I and others, are the ones who lose out. Lindens are Lindens and most smart people suck, because their smarter then us, well as they think. I'm starting to give up too but, I think I need to just try not to be offended. I love what you do " YOU ROCK " There are more who care for what you do, even if we aren't lindens It should still matter...
Kulayle
opps
If it matters for anyone still reading this, "Dazzle" is now prime time as of today.
IF you are tired of LL, http://www.osgrid.org could always use someone of your caliber.
I can't remember the last time I used any viewer other than yours. Thanks for all the hard work!
I have been using Nicholaz's viewer since I first heard about it. If memory serves Old School 18g was the first one that I tried. I've been through the Old School, Bleeding Edge and now Eye Candy with the EC-f viewer.
I'll keep using the viewer as long as I can log in with it or until Nicholaz's addiction kicks in and he finds the time from his RL business to bring forth a new version.
IMO LL was shamed and became jealous of the work done by Nicholaz and the OS community and reacted like spoiled brats.
Thank you, Nicholaz for all the time and effort that you have expended in giving us a viewer that the Lindens can only dream of matching.
I hope we get Nicholaz version of 1.20 too :)
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