Every once in a while, I have had the impulse to blog about things that don't really merit going on everyones login screen. I'm not sure if others have, but apparently enough were interested in my solution. There is now a subdomain dedicated to blogs of various individuals working here in the Emerald project or on other things in Modular Systems. This is http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/ .

Shown there, and reposted here as a why not:

Fractured - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/fractured/
Chalice - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/thatpurpleone/
LordGregGreg - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/lgg/
Discrete - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/discrete/
Neurocam - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/neurocam/
Phox - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/phox/
Jessica Lyon - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/jessica_lyon/
Zwagoth - http://blogs.modularsystems.sl/zwagoth/

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Please vote how you would like your default icon to behave.

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Question to all Mac users, how about moving from 10.4 on 10.5 and 10.6?

Apple stopped support for 10.4 and Mac users still on Tiger systems should be aware that there are no further security or system patches planned for these systems.

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Over the course of the last year or so, more and more people have chosen to use the Emerald Viewer; so many in fact, that it is now the most used third party viewer in Second Life. As a result, it is undeniable that even the most incidental of changes in Emerald, when multiplied by the sheer amount of users, can cause drastic effects on the grid. We thus felt it was necessary to work more closely with Linden Lab to prevent any serious issues from occurring.

As some of you may already know, for the past several weeks we have been meeting with representatives from Linden Lab for the purpose of discussing issues that impact the Second Life service and the Emerald Viewer. By initiating and maintaining direct and frequent contact with Linden Lab, we have access to the information necessary to ensure that our improvements and features do not disrupt the service. This allows us to make certain that the changes we implement, when scaled up to the tens of thousands of people using Emerald, will not cause anything to explode. ;P

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A Linux release for 1.23.5.1101 has been published to googlecode, for now.

http://code.google.com/p/greenlifeemeraldviewer/downloads/list

As with the Windows and Mac releases, we have changed our method for supplying the Kakadu image decoding libraries and Vivox SLVoice binaries. The base Emerald client will have audio support without voice and use OpenJPEG for image decoding, but if you desire voice, simply run the fetch_bins.sh script in the application directory. This will automagically grab an official Linden Lab client, extract the Kakadu and Vivox binaries distributed with it, and apply them to Emerald's own directories. Comments on this method and on the quality of the fetch script are welcome.

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The latest and greatest version of Emerald is now out.  If you downloaded 1101 earlier and had problems with voice, please get this new update.

Keep in mind, avast had a big mistake with false positives (it even considers itself a virus XD ) in a automatic update they made today, depending on when they update it, it may report emerald as a Trojan.  (It is not, more info here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=51647 )

Please be sure you update at your closest convenience, a couple serious bugs have been addressed.

Please keep in mind that the site will be under very heavy load during this time.  Be patent, and refresh the page if it does not show up at first.

 Also, you may notice that their are no longer voice packs for these downloads.  This is because they are no longer needed (YAY!)  The windows installer will automatically download and copy over the extra files you need from Linden Lab's server.

Publicly for the first time, we have a stable release of the Emerald viewer combined with the texture downloading changes from Snowglobe!  If you got the time, check out that section of the downloads for one of the fastest Emerald viewers yet!

Linux Version Coming Soon.

Mac Voice Downloader Coming Soon. (do it manually like this until then http://tr.im/GrdM)

Changelog is attached.

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If you have not yet noticed, you can attach items to duplicate attachment points.

If you choose to do this, keep in mind that Linden Lab's official viewer will not display these items correctly.  (Either they will not appear, or they will not be in the correct location).

If you wish to patch a non-emerald viewer to display these correctly, it is actually very simple.  Copy the file "avatar_lad.xml" found in the "character" folder of Emerald, and replace the one inside the other viewer with it.

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There is a bug in the 950 release of emerald that does not notify senders or receivers of inventory offers, if the receiving user is in busy mode.  If you use busy mode, please be sure to check your trash inventory for missed items.

A fix for this has been made and will be rolling out in the next version shortly.

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YAAAAAYYY!! We hit 50,000 users in one day!

 We also have a new downloads section. Please update your bookmarks and referring links as soon as possible.

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