[opensource-dev] Current Snowstorm commit builds

2010-08-24 Thread Jonathan Welch
Oz & company, Would it be possible/easy to have the table of the most recent commit & build of Snowstorm enhanced to be more humanly readable by non-developers, like the one for Snowglobe "Development Snapshots"? That is, keep the table, but also have a simplified set of links for Windows, Mac, L

Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-24 Thread Katharine Berry
> PHOX and Fractured are very close. All the way back when it was VLife and > PhoxSL. they were nearly identical. So i would almost bet that its a blitz > attack on the public. Fractured walks away. PHOX stays. Fractured and PHOX > still have control over the program cause PHOX is still commi

Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-24 Thread malachi
well the developer of the emkdu dll file is PHOX. From the interview on treettv, Fractured purchased the license to develop it, PHOX did the actual developing, Fractured was asked to step down, PHOX is still on the team of emerald developers. PHOX and Fractured are very close. All the way

Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-24 Thread Dale Innis
Yet another plea to move the endless offtopic Emerald discussions elsewhere. (Preferably fr elsewhere...) ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before postin

Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-24 Thread Rob Nelson
They used a custom build of the KDU JPEG compression library to embed information in baked textures, such as the installation directory and the title of the window. The outrage around this is that Emerald developers: 1. Disclosed private information without informing users about the disclos

Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-24 Thread Alexandrea Fride
Sure true but the differences is for a normal sl viewer to do this they need to specify their own login screen using url parameters or someting while with Emerald has there own custom login screenpage with users see evrytime they login into Emerald while what you say is true but that user count

Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-24 Thread Gareth Nelson
Yes, but most viewers have decent legit developers who won't put that stuff on the login page. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Harold Brown wrote: > What I find interesting is that people are neglecting to realize that > ANY viewer, even a LL viewer could have been used to do the same thing > by

Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-24 Thread Harold Brown
What I find interesting is that people are neglecting to realize that ANY viewer, even a LL viewer could have been used to do the same thing by changing the WEBPAGE the login screen pointed to. Or for that matter distributing a object using the new Media functions to load a webpage with the exact

[opensource-dev] New Weekly Office Hour for Product Backlog & Viewer Idea Discussion

2010-08-24 Thread Esbee Linden (Sarah Hutchinson)
Starting tomorrow, Wednesday Aug 25 from 8-9am PT, I'll be holding weekly office hours for discussion of the Snowstorm Team Backlog and to discuss ideas for the Viewer. If you have ideas for Viewer improvements, usability enhancements, new features, or just have questions about our backlog, th

Re: [opensource-dev] Draw Distance - TPV Solution Example - SLIDER Correction

2010-08-24 Thread Trilo Byte
It s XML. I've been dropping in this replacement XML file into all the viewers I download/install, which adds a Draw Distance slider along with Land and Sky buttons to allow easy access to the About Land & Advanced Sky controls. It would be fantastic if there was an ability to choose in prefere

Re: [opensource-dev] Draw Distance - TPV Solution Example

2010-08-24 Thread Dale Innis
Miro Collas : > FWIW, I still prefer a type-in field to a slider for this. Much faster. I do, too. In general I miss various of Emerald's chatbar commands when I use V2. Draw-distance, and gth (Go To Height) and flr ("floor"; go to ground height) the most. fwiw, Dale (finally posting from my

[opensource-dev] VC Express/2008 request for testers/code review

2010-08-24 Thread Robin Cornelius
Hey everyone, I've spent way to much of my time recently trying to fix up the builds initally for 2005 Express, but that very rapidly became tangled with needing to fix the build process to be aware of which compiler version it was using so this naturally led to 2008 support being addded. I really

Re: [opensource-dev] Draw Distance - TPV Solution Example

2010-08-24 Thread Miro Collas
FWIW, I still prefer a type-in field to a slider for this. Much faster. On 08/24/2010 02:14 AM, Science Fiction Computer - SCi-Fi PC wrote: > If you find the time, download the latest "Kirsten's Viewer" S20(33). > > There is a neat little Draw Distance slider located in the TOP-LEFT of the > Viewe