Inte trodde jag att jag skulle på se Godwin’s law i en pappers tidning. Men här är det, säkerhetshet experten, säkert skälv utnämd, Kim Pihl, skriver i Ålands posten, ” – De nyare mac-datorerna med operativsystem med djurnamn drabbas lättare av virus än vad windows gör. … Det gamla systemet var skyddat från virus. [MacOS [...]

Filed under: Journalistik, internet, operating systems, security

Thanks to Vint I have now read an uninformed rant over at the register. “Second Life from a security perspective is horribly broken,” Greg Hogland sais to The register, and continues ”When you look at Second Life, you know in your bones they simply did not think about security when they developed this application. It’s [...]

Filed under: Second Life, operating systems, security

W00T, I’m connected to Second Life with: Second Life (Nicholaz Edition) 1.19.0 (79462) Feb 9 2008 09:14:42 (SecondLife Nicholaz NICHOLAZ_VERSLONG Edition) BBWL-c-b0 Most memory leak and bug fix patches are in, almost none of the gui fixes, I’m not planning to release this until the GUI also is better than the Linden version. From the [...]

Filed under: Balp Build, Linux, Nicholaz, Second Life, Windlight

When Linden land thou Joshua published the Roadmap: 1.19.0 Viewer, I was sceptic and not thrilled, one could say negative. The updated time plan looked much better and realistic. The only bad stuff making it into 1.19 is the age verification, look at Nadine’s killing of the technology. Keeping under ages out might be good, [...]

Filed under: Balp Build, Linux, Nicholaz, Second Life

Ok, back from vacation and new patches from Nicholaz, this time for the windlight code. My build is made against the 18.6.76116 versions of the code, (last source code, new viewer from LL). I have tested with the 18.6.76453 viewer as well. The 18.6.76116 contain an error in a German language file that might have [...]

Filed under: Linux, Nicholaz, Second Life, Windlight

A build for Second Life 18.5.3 with the addition of Nicholaz patches. It needs a install of SL 18.3.5 Linux version to run. E.g: balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3.tar.bz2 balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf balp-build-u.tar.bz2 Then start Second life from that directory with: balp@kitiara:~$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3/ balp@kitiara:~/SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3$ ./balp-secondlife Patches at the same place for download.Feed back on the [...]

Filed under: Balp Build, Linux, Nicholaz, Second Life

As Nicholaz have released BE-t i can’t be worse, down load of my build from Umeå University, and patches from the same place. This build need the 18.4.3 build from Linden Labs. Unpack my files into the Second_life directory. E.g: balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_4_3.tar.bz2 balp@kitiara:~$ tar jxf balp-build-t1.tar.bz2 Then start Second life from that directory [...]

Filed under: Balp Build, Linux, Nicholaz, Second Life

Why does stuff have to be that hard, to install XP i did have to disconnect the main drive of the computer. As XP liked to destoy my Ubuntu install. So whan XP and vista was running i connected thet drive again, told grub to add a many alternative to boot the windows ion the [...]

Filed under: Linux, operating systems, vista

So was it finally time to tackle the Vista installation, in XP insert the dvd, nice works installation looks good and starts with out any proble, it gives the choose to look at the internet, find that i have to restart the process, but doesn’t ask the old questions again. Good. I don’t like to [...]

Filed under: Arnholm.se, balp.nu, operating systems, vista