Re: [opensource-dev] Fermi Viewer

2010-10-18 Thread Ron Festa
Visibuild is RealXtend and Naali, not vanilla SL or OpenSIM. Nothing contributed to that would benefit SL or vanilla OpenSIM especially since both SL & OS are getting mesh support. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1

Re: [opensource-dev] WebP, a new image format for the Web

2010-10-01 Thread Ron Festa
Also forgot to add this link as its a good write up and comparison of x264 vs vp8 vs JPEG w/jpgcrunch for still images: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=541 Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 On

Re: [opensource-dev] WebP, a new image format for the Web

2010-10-01 Thread Ron Festa
hen its an unproven format that so far only shows its better at compression then standard JPEG even when jpgcrunch is used. IMO, its not worth using until the issues are resolved and even then its still got a long way to go for adoption. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies

[opensource-dev] User Stories: Water Prims

2010-09-27 Thread Ron Festa
various shader features, doesn't match up to, and/or looks worse then the Linden Water. As a resident I would like a standard for these kinds of applications. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474

Re: [opensource-dev] SL on ARM platform

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Festa
PU power and RAM would be a better choice to attempt a port (Google does have an NDK that you can use to code in C/C++). Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:0

Re: [opensource-dev] Viewer blacklist to replace the TPV directory ?

2010-04-29 Thread Ron Festa
rectory as a true White List, which it's not, many will think that any viewer that is *not* on the black list is then safe to use. So for example if Neil Life is on the black list and SuperGriefer Viewer 1.33.7 is not there will be folks who will think SuperGriefer Viewer 1.33.7 is safe to use

Re: [opensource-dev] Fwd: [gnu.org #566095] Possible Licensing Conflict

2010-04-20 Thread Ron Festa
I just noticed that the email licens...@fsf.org is being replied to. Guys please remove that email address from your ReplyToAll list to avoid spamming the FSF. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583

Re: [opensource-dev] Fwd: [gnu.org #566095] Possible Licensing Conflict

2010-04-20 Thread Ron Festa
As Joe explained in the brown bag currently going on at the time of this writing, you'd be required to end distributing the version that connects to SL. In other words you will be required to remove support for SL. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Ru

[opensource-dev] Fwd: [gnu.org #566095] Possible Licensing Conflict

2010-04-20 Thread Ron Festa
Since people wanted to see it here it is right from the Free Software Foundation. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 -- Forwarded message -- From: Brett Smith via RT Date: Tue

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Festa
ffect open source development should be encouraged. If you only want to see stuff relating to SnowGlobe then either encourage LL create a snowglobe-dev list or configure your mail filters to only allow email related to snowglobe to enter your inbox from this list. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin D

Re: [opensource-dev] Viewers in the directory are being impersonated already

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Festa
authority figures like Linden Lab can only *react to criminal activity as it happens and its impossible to truly prevent it.* The TPVP is more or less an example of a clear cut distinction between M's and Phillip's management styles. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing

Re: [opensource-dev] Viewers in the directory are being impersonated already

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Festa
isn't the case. As Real Life has proven over and over again, no Law or Policy will prevent criminals from obtaining the tools they need to commit crime and only hurt legitimate residents in the end. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key

Re: [opensource-dev] Brown-bag meeting to continue dialog on TVPV

2010-04-09 Thread Ron Festa
ussion would be better suited on a non-LL controlled grid. Maybe one of the other opensim grids would be a better choice. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Simon Disk w

Re: [opensource-dev] A note on preserving "NO WARRANTY" for SL TPV developers

2010-03-31 Thread Ron Festa
some black hat alters for example Imprudence's or Emerald's Import/Export feature to ignore ownership the developer team can be held legally responsible because even though the Import/Export feature was altered, it was still their code at the core and by the TPVP agreed to take on that l

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowglobe Mecurial Repository

2010-03-19 Thread Ron Festa
Then why Hg over Git? Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Jonathan Irvin wrote: > If I'm not mistaken, Hg is distributed like Git. > > Jonathan Ir

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowglobe 2.0^H^H^H1.3 way forward?

2010-03-12 Thread Ron Festa
ofile and other controls when I'm just trying to check my friends list. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Argent Stonecutter < secret.arg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [opensource-dev] New topic: Snowglobe 2.0 way forward?

2010-03-10 Thread Ron Festa
To be honest the MonoVida does it right. If you're gonna detach the UI from the world it should be completely detached not just over lapping the world. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 O

Re: [opensource-dev] New topic: Snowglobe 2.0 way forward?

2010-03-10 Thread Ron Festa
content developers. The tweaks found at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_2_Tweaks definitely improve things, but we really need a middle ground for end users and developers instead of a UI tailored for either extreme. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers

Re: [opensource-dev] Client-side scripting in Snowglobe

2010-02-19 Thread Ron Festa
rver sided script engine and should be compatible with OpenSIM. Ron Festa Virtual Worlds Admin Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University PGP key: http://bit.ly/b1ZyhY Phone: 732-474-8583 ___ Policies and (un)subscribe information available