Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-31 Thread Anya Kanevsky
I made the executive decision to do that along with creating the issue :) 2011/1/31 Philippe (Merov) Bossut > We should really take STORM-949 in the next sprint. > There are only 4 strings to change in 3 xml files to get that straighten > out. > > Cheers, > - Merov > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-31 Thread Philippe (Merov) Bossut
We should really take STORM-949 in the next sprint. There are only 4 strings to change in 3 xml files to get that straighten out. Cheers, - Merov On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Opensource Obscure < opensourceobsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happened again a few hours ago with the same username (Gru

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-29 Thread Opensource Obscure
Happened again a few hours ago with the same username (Grumpity), unfortunately I couldn't take note of which viewer build I was using. Photo: http://www.plurk.com/p/afagjx In a comment to that photo, another user reports noobs sending Abuse Report against Grumpity, and again this happened yester

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-06 Thread Carlo Wood
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:44:31PM -0500, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > So the reason that semi-plausible strings are used for these things is that > they're the only strings available when we use the test floater feature from > the login screen. > > But we should probably try not to use real n

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-05 Thread Simon Quinnell
I vote for Hippo Linden! On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > So the reason that semi-plausible strings are used for these things is that > they're the only strings available when we use the test floater feature from > the login screen. > > But we should probably try not

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-05 Thread Kent Quirk (Q Linden)
So the reason that semi-plausible strings are used for these things is that they're the only strings available when we use the test floater feature from the login screen. But we should probably try not to use real names. And yes, Jonathan, these should mostly never be visible. But sometimes thi

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan Welch
This is actually a small symptom of a larger problem. The text in those xml files is supposed to be replaced by some valid string but that does not always happen. I've often hovered over some object which would show it was for sale for L$30,000 when it was not valued at that amount--a failure to

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-04 Thread WolfPup Lowenhar
: opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com [mailto:opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Boroondas Gupte Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:31 AM To: Anya Kanevsky Cc: opensource-dev Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence... On 01/04/2011 07:07 AM, Anya

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-04 Thread Boroondas Gupte
On 01/04/2011 07:07 AM, Anya Kanevsky wrote: > Ponzu, I'm understandably very interested in finding out which xml > files ... Thanks! > Getting IMs from people telling me to lay off other people I don't > know and have never talked to is getting kind of old. > [...] > > 2010/12/31 Ponzu mailto:lee

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-04 Thread Vadim Savchuk
On 01/04/2011 08:07 AM, Anya Kanevsky wrote: > Ponzu, I'm understandably very interested in finding out which xml > files ... Thanks! inspect_avatar.xml: value="Grumpity ProductEngine with a long name" inspect_avatar.xml:value="Grumpity ProductEngine" inspect_group.xml:Grumpity's Grump

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2011-01-03 Thread Anya Kanevsky
Ponzu, I'm understandably very interested in finding out which xml files ... Thanks! Getting IMs from people telling me to lay off other people I don't know and have never talked to is getting kind of old. Thanks! a 2010/12/31 Ponzu > I just thought of looking in the xml files, and indeed "Gr

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-31 Thread Dahlia Trimble
I've seen evidence that the Improved Instant Message packet still contains a good user name while the group chat window displays ???(???) for the same message. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Nicky D. wrote: > > phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day. Sometimes they're ??? > at > > log

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-31 Thread Ponzu
I just thought of looking in the xml files, and indeed "Grumpity Productengine" shows up in a few of them, I assume as some sort of place holder left by a programmer. Maybe such "magic words" should be replace by something like "Unkown Resident" or some such. On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Arg

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-31 Thread Argent Stonecutter
> > There should be a few fallback strategies like: > a) Try to keep the old cache entry. > b) Use the normal user name. > c) Maybe even use the UUID. > > But just showing everyone (in the worst case) as ??? really screws > things up IMO. Agreed. The TPV I'm using seems to use the Legacy Name if

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
This was related to a brief load server configuration problem yesterday. This is unrelated to the problem that's taken over this thread. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Trilo Byte wrote: > Very interesting - what specific Viewer & version are you running? The > only 1.x Viewers I've heard of t

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Nicky D.
> phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day.  Sometimes they're ??? at > login, sometimes they show properly at first and then flip to ??? on their > own.  Sometimes the ???'s remain throughout the session, and sometimes they > flip back to show the correct names.  It happens regardless of wh

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Frans
I was in a event a hour ago, and towards the end the viewer forgot my own name, I appeared as ??? (???) in chat and in the balloon above my av. I had all avatar names hiding while this happened, and wonder if that is somehow related. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Trilo Byte wrote: > Very inte

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Trilo Byte
Very interesting - what specific Viewer & version are you running? The only 1.x Viewers I've heard of that are also experiencing the problem are recent builds of Phoenix (which are Display Names capable). On Dec 29, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Andromeda Quonset wrote: > Trilo, > > I had the ???'s displ

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Andromeda Quonset
Trilo, I had the ???'s displaying last night on my friends list for quite awhile, and I have never had a Display Names capable viewer even installed. The version 1.xx viewer I use predates by several months, and I am posting to let anyone know that the problem is not "only appears to be happ

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Trilo Byte
It's still happening (currently), in only some of my groups. On Dec 29, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Ponzu wrote: > Last night I was using the 2.5 beta I had just built from the weekend's > changes, and this odd thing happened... > > I logged

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Bunny Halberd
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Trilo Byte wrote: > It's not you, it's been happening to others.  A lot. It's really confusing the heck out of newbies. I've gotten to the point where I have to explain to people how to turn off Display Names a few times an hour. (Ctrl-P -> General -> Uncheck "V

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Carlo Wood
It is still a (serious) bug. The viewer should have showed '???', not Grumpity. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:44:02AM -0800, Brian McGroarty wrote: > That was the result of a brief load server configuration problem yesterday, > and > it shouldn't repeat. The message didn't come from Grumpity, and th

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Ponzu
OK, thanks. Sort of like the good old days. 8-) BTW, if anyone wants to go to the Magic Castle in Hollywood, ever, I am a member and can send you an invitation good for 8 people. ponzu On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Trilo Byte wrote: > It's not you, it's been happening to others. A lot.

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Trilo Byte
It's not you, it's been happening to others. A lot. Before Christmas it happened much less frequently, but since then the phenomenon's been occurring at least once a day. Sometimes they're ??? at login, sometimes they show properly at first and then flip to ??? on their own. Sometimes the ??

Re: [opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Ponzu wrote: > Last night I was using the 2.5 beta I had just built from the weekend's > changes, and this odd thing happened... > > I logged in. My friends list showed ???. (Odd, the pictures load OK, but > not the names.) I had been logged in about 15 min

[opensource-dev] Very Strange occurrence...

2010-12-29 Thread Ponzu
Last night I was using the 2.5 beta I had just built from the weekend's changes, and this odd thing happened... I logged in. My friends list showed ???. (Odd, the pictures load OK, but not the names.) I had been logged in about 15 minutes. Then I got an IM from Grumpity Productengine. So