Monthly Archives: August, 2009
Meerkat Viewer
Recently I stumbled upon the Meerkat viewer, and I have to admit that I loved it, because their main goal is to make the SL viewer 100% GPL compliant. I think that is the only way to go, because collecting all the supplemental libraries from different places and not being allowed to re-publish them with [...]
Snowglobe, Frequency Edition
You may have read about the Snowglobe SL viewer, although it’s mainly targeting developers who want to build their own SL viewers. However, it implements some reliability improvements like using HTTP/TCP for textures rather than the UDP protocol.
Apparently, some library dependencies have changed as well, and other changes have been made. Hence, it’s not trivial [...]
Cool SL Viewer, Frequency Edition
Yesterday evening and today, I managed to implement some additional changes to the Cool Viewer for Second Life. It was more out of curiosity, but then I felt tempted to implement two changes, which I was really missing in all SL viewers out there:
keyboard shortcut for toggling busy mode (trivial change)
going to busy mode after [...]
SL Viewers for OS X, and the GPL
I have to admit that I’m severely fed up with the “policies” some SL Viewer projects employ. Why is it so bloody difficult to provide the full source code, which the client has been compiled with? And if they provide the patches only, why without a rudimentary how-to to make compiling easier?
Yet another Second Life Blog…
…and to make things worse, even another one which deals with SL viewer clients. Well, in fact, it’s not only about that. Also about my encounters in Second Life. So if you continue reading this blog, don’t say you haven’t been warned!
I’m not only a geek, nerd, or whatever you want to call [...]