Keep on Balping

What is Emerald sending

2009-12-15T10:54:00.000-08:00

Or an explained Trafficdump, first I started with Emerald 1.23.5.950 on my mac and did a TCP dump, why beaces that was the last version I had running n tat machine, and it whas with me at work. The Dump was made using Wireshark over a bluetooth connections to the internet during lunch break.

I will try to make a view of most of the traffic, as just a short SL session have about 4500 packets, This was a login an almost ressing one self over a slow line. I can't explain all packets.


34 52.149720 192.168.20.2 80.251.192.245 DNS Standard query A modularsystems.sl
35 52.160008 192.168.20.2 80.251.192.245 DNS Standard query AAAA modularsystems.sl
36 53.115613 80.251.192.245 192.168.20.2 DNS Standard query response A 213.133.100.231
37 53.162052 192.168.20.2 80.251.192.245 DNS Standard query AAAA modularsystems.sl
38 53.414537 80.251.192.245 192.168.20.2 DNS Standard query response

This tell the computer where modularsystems.sl are, it at the address 213.133.100.231. Next a connections to modularsystem.sl is made and the following data sent and recived:


HEAD /app/login/ HTTP/1.1
Host: modularsystems.sl
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
Accept: application/llsd+xml

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "3318998541"
Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:01 GMT
Content-Length: 6964
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:13:08 GMT
Server: lighttpd/1.4.19

After this one more http connections is made to the modularsystems server and a few more files downloaded:


GET /app/login/?lang=en-us&firstlogin=TRUE&channel=Emerald%20Viewer&version=1%2E23%2E5%20%28950%29&grid=Agni HTTP/1.1
GET /app/login/images/back.png HTTP/1.1
GET /app/login/images/excla.jpg HTTP/1.1
GET /app/login/images/Error.jpg HTTP/1.1

Feed2js.org is used to make the LL and the Modular system blogs into one list at the login page.


GET //feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rssmix.com%2Fu%2F285120%2Frss.xml&num=6&targ=y&utf=y HTTP/1.1

Host: feed2js.org

The client downloads, /ga.js from www.google-analytics.com,even that javascript get's downloaded over a gziped connection. The java scripts will get a small file form google, that is used for the tracking in google analytics.

Once all the normal traffic to lindenlabs have been done, and you allow the viewer to update the clients tag data base the file "GET /app/client_tags/client_list.xml HTTP/1.1" will be downloaded form the server.

Emerald 1.23.5.1101 for linux

2009-12-03T21:42:00.000-08:00

Update: http://greenlifeemeraldviewer.googlecode.com/files/Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2 Discrete got the official build out.

I have the Emerald 1101 build for Linux, it's build optimiced for Ubuntu 9.04 and newer, I have tested on 9.04 and 9.10. On 9.10 it works badly at least for me with pulseaudio, removing pulseaudio and it works well. (sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio;sudo apt-get install esound).

Installation is like:

wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2
tar jxf Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2

This will get it running, but voice is missing and the graphis uses the much slower OpenJPEG library. These have to be copied form the official viewer, or is you have the old emerals voice pack.

With the old Emerals voice pack:

cd Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101/
tar jxf ../Emerald\ Non-Free\ Binaries.tar.bz2

With out that:

wget http://download.cloud.secondlife.com/SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262.tar.bz2
tar jxf SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262.tar.bz2
cd SecondLife-i686-1.23.5.136262/
cp bin/libllkdu.so bin/SLVoice lib/libfmod-3.75.so lib/libkdu.so lib/libvivoxsdk.so lib/libortp.so ../Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101/
cd ..

Some checksums to verify:
sha256sum:
55ed30949cbc23d03e691821a7fa5c75a00c6dbb065bbce1f161cf968cc43938 Emerald-i686-1.23.5.1101.tar.bz2

GnuPG signature, it's signed with my new key:


pub   1024D/79B24AB7 2009-11-30 [expires: 2014-11-29]
      Key fingerprint = 92CF B806 5127 2ED0 7882  61F1 B5B4 7749 79B2 4AB7
uid                  Anders Arnholm (Balp)

Omg rain

2009-08-28T05:58:00.001-07:00

Omg it's raining.

Emerald -> The Green life viewer

2009-08-26T22:49:00.000-07:00

I'm now happily hacking in the GreenLife Emerald stuff really nice viewer with good features and great developer gang. The main reason if the Hyang, thanks for taking my time. Anyhow new drop out 1.23.4.673, Linux, Mac, and even a windows version at the download site. Check the signature.

downlad the asc signature file and then run gpg on it.

And an other new viewer

2009-04-30T00:30:00.000-07:00

Boy Lane, made some changes in the CoolViewer, and so was Rainbow Viewer born. As boy only make windows code, and I would guess the interest for this version is about 0, form Henri. I decided to take it to linux. Now ready to be downloaded form google.

I made some small changes to make the install easy. For the first time, well the first time in know of, SecondLife third party viewer have voice, and kdu support without breaking the licence agreements and NO extra install steps.

Install by:


balp@goldmoon:/tmp$ wget http://coolviewer.googlecode.com/files/RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0.tar.bz2
balp@goldmoon:/tmp$ tar jxf RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0.tar.bz2

Run by:


balp@goldmoon:/tmp$ ./RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0/rainbowviewer

First time you start the viewer some missing stuff will be found on the internetz and added to the installation. It's a 36Meg download. So it might take some extra time. I'm sorry i can't add these few files. If you like to save the download on a slow line and have an other version of SecondLife installed copy the following files in to the RainbowViewer-i686-1.22.11.0 directory.


fonts/MtBdLfRg.ttf
fonts/MtBkLfRg.ttf
bin/SLVoice
lib/libvivoxsdk.so
bin/libllkdu.so

Given my reading of licence agreement these 5 files are not re distributable by me.

Just as it started a wall...

2009-01-30T07:08:00.000-08:00

And a crash, sadly Kirsten could not take the idiots hurting her. And Bye Bye Shadowdraft.....

Optimized build.

2009-01-29T03:32:00.000-08:00

The last build of the KirstenViewer was not as fast as expected, missed to make a release build with optimization. I usually build with Henri's scripts making this for me. But as this code came in an other form that was not possible an I goofed. I had the feeling it was not as quick as I expected but never got the time to make clean test. yesterday I did, the numbers was so bad I had to do something. Lime add optimization flags. This runs well on my AMD-64, not tested on any intel props, it might not work as well there. New build here, code diff against 1.21.6 here. Full code is here and follow the viewer at her blog.

S16 Build 90 For Linux try two

2009-01-22T10:12:00.000-08:00

I missed that i fixed some stuff while testing that didn't come back into the code. like making needed files unix files and executable.This is what i can see a working:

Kirstens Viewer 1.16.3 (90) Jan 22 2009 07:07:13 (Kirstens Viewer)

KirstenLee build second upload.

Just unpack and start the secondlife binary.

New viewer new builds.

2009-01-18T02:56:00.000-08:00

Kirstenlee have made a new viewer, a release called S16-90 is now out and I make a build for Linux. Just unpack and any SL build...

Blackist blog

2008-10-23T02:22:00.000-07:00

Found out there to be a BL blog as well.

Hyang and BE-x, EC-h

2008-10-23T02:01:00.000-07:00

Hyang have BE-x and EC-h for Mac running.

Build BE-x

2008-10-20T02:03:00.000-07:00

Balp Build version of 1.18.5 (3), same as Nicholaz BE-x with a minor fix in region transfers.

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-x.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-x.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3
$ ./balp-secondlife

Patches are here.

BalpBuild OS-p1

2008-10-09T21:39:00.000-07:00

Balp Build version of 1.18.0 (6), same as Nicholaz OS-pWith back ported Security fixes from LL 1.20.17.

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_18_0_6.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-os-p1.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_0_6.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-os-p1.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_0_6
$ ./balp-secondlife

Patches are here.

BalpBuild BE-w1

2008-10-09T14:55:00.000-07:00

Balp Build version of 1.18.5 (3), same as Nicholaz BE-wWith back ported Security fixes from LL 1.20.17.

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-w1.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-w1.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_5_3
$ ./balp-secondlife

Patches are here.

BalpBuild EC-h

2008-10-09T14:31:00.000-07:00

Balp Build version of 1.19.1 (4), same as Nicholaz EC-f, with a fix for VWR-4575, as discussed in. And backported Security fix of LL 1.20.17, the version -g missed the UDPBalcklist stuff and works with old versions of OpenSIM. This build -h have thet change as well.

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-ec-h.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-ec-h.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4
$ ./balp-secondlife

Patches are here.

BalpBuild EC-g

2008-10-07T10:34:00.000-07:00

Balp Build version of 1.19.1 (4), same as Nicholaz EC-f, with a fix for VWR-4575, as discussed in. And backported Security fix of LL 1.20.15,

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-ec-f.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-ec-f.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4
$ ./balp-secondlife

Patches are here.

Semester äntligen

2008-07-13T23:53:00.001-07:00

På väg!

Asus EEE :-)

2008-07-03T06:31:00.001-07:00

Har skaffat en ny dator för att kunna ha med på semestern. En liten Asus EEE snygg liten sak in med kortläsare och en bra blogg maskin.

Svensexa för brorsan

2008-06-28T07:48:00.001-07:00

Är med lillebror på svensexa ute på brustholmarna

Nordens ark besök

2008-06-21T07:16:00.001-07:00

Så tar det till slut dags att ta sig förbi nordens ark djurparken. Jag, Linda, Bosse och Ingrid ägnade halva dagen åt att vandra runt parken.

Midsommar

2008-06-20T08:08:00.001-07:00

Sol och regn om vart annat under midsommar lunch med tapas av allt

Balp Build EC-ae

2008-04-18T08:06:00.000-07:00

Balp Build version of 1.19.1 (4), same as Nicholaz EC-e, with a fix for VWR-4575, as discussed in.

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-ec-ea.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-ec-ea.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4
$ ./balp-secondlife

The irritating IM tab bling bug still havn't been fixed. I was a hot issue 11 of feburary, on RC0, today we had two code releases after that and they still don't have a working forx for it. You can make it party work in a debug setting, but with that all tabs blink out of order making it annoying to look at.

Blinking IM tags

2008-04-18T02:15:00.000-07:00

There will soon, really soon be a new EC-ea realeas with a patch tyo make the IM tab's flashing again appear in a sensible manner. I did have time to test the final version of the patch before leaving for work. But hopefully it will work great. I hope this will make a good patch to close VWR-4575.

The code containd three small changes that make SL so much easier.

Make all tabs flash at the same time. This was teh behaivour before 1.19 and the "ButtonFlashCount" could not be used as work around for this.

Make value less that 1 on "ButtonFlashCount" have the buttons flash for ever, not that the offical viewer took values like -1 meaing 0 flashes.

"ButtonFlashCount" now have default value of -1 making flashed go on forever

Balp Build EC-e

2008-04-17T00:42:00.000-07:00

Balp Build version of 1.19.1 (4), same as Nicholaz EC-e

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-ec-e.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-ec-e.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_19_1_4
$ ./balp-secondlife

The irritating IM tab bling bug still havn't been fixed. I was a hot issue 11 of feburary, on RC0, today we had two code releases after that and they still don't have a working forx for it. You can make it party work in a debug setting, but with that all tabs blink out of order making it annoying to look at.

Balp Build -w for 1.19.0 (5)

2008-03-07T08:39:00.000-08:00

Balp Build version of 1.19.0 (5), no major changes to the GUI but many stability fixes.

$ wget http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_19_0_5.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-w.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_77495_WINDLIGHT.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-w.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_19_0_5
$ chmod +x balp-secondlife
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/releasenotes.txt
$ ./balp-secondlife

There are some irritating bug's left to fix, VWR-4575 IM tabs no longer blink when new IM text is received. A so called hot, issue at LL since 1.19.0.RC1. But LL have been working getting this back and we'll probably get it in 6 months, that's about the same time if took to get the friends list out of the communication window.

Balp Build: WL-c

2008-01-24T22:52:00.000-08:00

Windlight is now out in version 77495, and I added the patches from the previews version and it runs. So here you go.

$ wget http://firstlook-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_77495_WINDLIGHT.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-wl-c.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_77495_WINDLIGHT.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-wl-c.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_77495_WINDLIGHT
$ chmod +x balp-secondlife
$ ./balp-secondlife

I assume the problem with gtk and file dialog on suse still exist, this is made on ubuntu 7.10 and tested in that environment. I think the wrapper now is executable (e.g. chmod +x) isn't needed, I'm not sure i understand the moon problem correct yet, and to be honest i have no time to look into what the windlight code actually does.

Relese: Balp Build WL-B

2008-01-14T19:39:00.000-08:00

Windlight is now out in version 76886, and I added the patches from the previus version and it runs. So here you go.

$ wget http://firstlook-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_76886_WINDLIGHT.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-wl-b.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_76886_WINDLIGHT.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf balp-build-wl-a.tar.bz2

I assume the problem with gtk and file dialog on suse still exist, this is made on ubuntu 7.10 and tested in that enviroment.

Relesed: Balp Build wl-a (Nicholaz EC-b)

2007-12-31T05:12:00.000-08:00

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 you log into a false SL site. (The kind of stuff the new login behaviour is there to "save" us all from...)

However downloads are on acc, binaries and patches. Inteneded for 18.6.76116 but works with 18.6.76453 as well. (LL seams to have removed the 76116 version from all but source code...)

To install with 18.7.76453 do as follows.


$ wget http://firstlook-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_76453_WINDLIGHT.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/balp-build-wl-a.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_76453_WINDLIGHT.tar.bz2
$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_6_76453_WINDLIGHT
$ tar --strip 1 -jxf ../balp-build-wl-a.tar.bz2
$ wget http://www.acc.umu.se/~balp/second_life/18.6.7453/releasenotes.txt

The last file added the 18.6.76116 to the top of the release notes to tell the nicholaz version you have 76116 installed.

Release: Balp Build - 18.5.3 - v0b

2007-12-14T10:22:00.000-08:00

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-v0b.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 build to me, anders (at) arnholm.se. This version if build on Ubuntu 7.10, other linux versions might have different library versions and might give strange problems.

DJ List 071205

2007-12-05T23:40:00.000-08:00

This is what i played tonight at Dark Angels.

20:52 :: Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
20:56 :: MALICE MIZER - Beast of Blood
21:01 :: Tiamat - Cold Seed
21:05 :: Holly Dolly - Dolly Song
21:10 :: Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
21:14 :: Amon Amarth - Bloodshed
21:19 :: Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
21:22 :: Clawfinger - Do What I Say
21:26 :: In Flames - Man Made God
21:31 :: MSI - Mindless Self Indulgence - Faggot
21:33 :: Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
21:37 :: Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up
21:40 :: Korn - Twisted Transistor
21:43 :: Tarja Turunen - I Walk Alone
21:46 :: My Ruin - Terror
21:52 :: Foo Fighters - Best Of You RCA
21:56 :: Staind - Outside
22:01 :: Foo Fighters - Everlong
22:08 :: Rammstein - Bang Bang (Triple X Soundtrack)
22:11 :: Mindless Self Indulgence - Bed Of Roses
22:15 :: Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Snow ((Hey Oh))
22:21 :: Green Day - Welcome to Paradise
22:25 :: Therapy? - Diane
22:30 :: Korn - Coming Undone
22:33 :: Tenacious D - Fuck Her Gently
22:35 :: Lordi - It Snows in Hell
22:39 :: HIM - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
22:45 :: David Bowie - Blue Jean
22:48 :: Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
22:53 :: Daft Punk - Technologic
22:57 :: The Donnas - Bitchin'
23:00 :: Judas Priest - Love Bites
23:04 :: HIM - Resurrection
23:08 :: Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
23:12 :: Pantera - Walk

I have been Tagged

2007-12-04T09:18:00.000-08:00

Nadine tagged me after Timothy Lilliehook spread the meme to her.

The rules are quite simple:
(1) Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
(2) People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
(3) At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
(4) Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

The problem for me is finding eight persons to tag, maybe I'll do as Vint and ignore that part. I'll follow her lead and divide the facts between my avatar and me.

Fact 1: Balp has no real meaning.: During my last days in "Gymnasiet" little like high school. Me and a friend made up dummy sounds, burp, bjummp, and balp. Then when I started at the university I started a BBS. It needed a name. Making names isn't my strong side, but somehow Balp BBS sounded easy, I type that in and didn't think more about it. The BBS grew a little and soon it was a local point of interest in Umeå. Soon friend abound me started to notice the BBS, some called me Balp as a joke. A name that stuck on me since then, when it was time to apply for an account at the computer association, it was natural to put balp as username, with the email balp@tsdf.umu.se. it really stuck I was Balp.
Fact 2: DJ roots.: When I was young, I worked at the post office, every other week sorting mail, yes I still know to many postal codes, and I can hit a bag throwing an odd shaped object. During this time, we needed music working and the only day a week there was anything on Swedish radio was Fridays. (This was before commercial radio in Sweden, yes I'm THAT old!) My mixed tapes was the most popular, much because they mixed what I call all good music and no special style. I like good music from all types of music from classical, punk, goth, EBM, pop, jpop, anything.
Fact 3: SL relations.: I have just very few SL friends, I have to little time for that being in game other that DJ that I like very much. It can also be so that I have alt's that does most of my social need.
Fact 4: I'm Lazy: Yes I'm a lazy person, but smart and lazy, what a great guy at Sun (Adrian Cockcroft) called long-term lazy. That means I don't like to the same shit two times, I'm to lazy for that and I can invest a little extra time to make the second time go away.
Fact 5: Inventory, stuff.: My inventory is a real mess, i have 1000's of freebies in no order, on the other hand I test to just use about 20 items so why care. I'm still a freebie junkie and collect stuff, never clean stuff out, so it's a mess in there.
Fact 6: I'm a coward.: Both in relations and in stuff i do. That's the base for me to know that I can scuba dive and drive an MC. It's i hadn't been a coward such stuff might have been dangerous.
Fact 7: I'm Dyslectic.: My problem is that I can't see when stuff is not spelled correctly, I can read to well. How bad it's spelled I can usably read it. With out reacting to the spelling errors it really hard to fix anything you type wrong.
Fact 8: C= 64: My first computer was a commodore 64, that sweet little machine. Cost me way to much money as it was new on the market when I got it. I only came so long that I learned some basic and pokeing stuff into the sid chip. Never really learned to program it. Then I got an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 1000. I liked computers but never really considers working with them.

The big questions that still is around shall I tag someone or ignore that part of the rules. Well i like to know a little more about Nicholaz, on the other hand it looks like most SL bloggers have been hit by this. I'll leave it open. I had a sort idea to spread this out of the SL blogging area, but it's better not to.

Linden Lands and Open source

2007-12-02T01:26:00.000-08:00

First i must admit that I'm still pretty new in the open source community around linden labs. However I have been around open source environments for like my hole computer life starting at University. I have also been working in commercial companies, like Ericsson, since 1998. There are big culture differences between the two. In some parts this is now clashing hard to the surface. The open source developers starts to feel frustrated that the LL don't care about them. the LL getting frustrated that the open source community is so open and frank in there communication.

This culture clash comes really to the surface in a flame war between Bryan (Linden) and Alissa, about the move to cmake. Here Linden labs does what is common in a cooperate world. They share a little informations about what they are doing. How the progress is going and so forth. Alissa coming form a more open source world, is more direct in her words of why she don't see the need to wait with giving out all the needed info, e.g. the code. Bryans answer now show just how big the culture clash is at the moment. And even more so in the following message. Then Rob Linden come in and shares some information that probably is a severe and strange to the open source comunity as it is unavoidable in how LL works there company.

This is also probably the reason why i can't get windlight builds to work. Linden labs have made a clean out off stuff that they don't release. There internal source structure is different and there own. Releasing code, and releasing a viewer is a painful process. My releasing is to hard, i think:


$ scons -j4 DISTCC=no BTARGET=client OPENSOURCE=no BUILD=releasefordownload CHANNEL=Release MOZLIB=YES
$ diff -Naur -x '*tar.bz2' -x .sconsign.dblite -x packaged -x '*.o' -x '*.a' -x '*.pyc' -x '*.so' -x '*sln' -x '*-bin*' -x '*.swp' -x build -x '*vcproj' 18.5.3.linden 18.3.5  > balp-build-u2.diff
$ grep ^+++ balp-build-u2.diff |less
$ scp balp-build-u2.diff.gz 18.5.3/indra/balp-build-u2.tar.bz2 shaka.acc.umu.se:public_html/second_life/

Then make a blog entry about it and hope it helps someone. In all commercial projects i have worked at, I can't stay at that level. It's to much work. For source code it can not be harder that merging and checking in and applying a label. Any code clean up for release tells me I'm working the wrong way. My favorite way are checking in, label and send a mail to a college asking him, her to merge it. That way we get a code review, and make sure that someone else have understood the code. When i merge code, I also make the the release build, e.g. after making the code merge, just type "merge release" and maybe in a hard world add a label to that. There should be no more interaction form me them more build would have errors in them. Errors that could have been avoided.

Released: Balp Build BB-u2

2007-12-01T06:12:00.000-08:00

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-u2.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 build to me, anders (at) arnholm.se.

Release: Balp Build - 18.5.3 - u

2007-11-30T11:08:00.000-08:00

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 build to me, anders (at) arnholm.se.

Nicholaz view on LL

2007-11-27T01:45:00.000-08:00

The patcher Nicholaz have started to write a series of long articles to understand the Lindens Labs, a great series that started with his rant, talk about how LL sees the future, not what the residents have now. And now he followed up with how the bugtracker works. Reading these two as a developer you get this scary feeling of understanding why communication's broke down. It's just to separated, it's like the old protected world of developing inside software giants. This with the addition of adding a façade of being a new hip agile company, working with open source and other new cool future stuff. The organizations how ever is what I can see the same as the old dragons, maybe even stiffer in some area. The day to day developers mostly live in there own internal world, is they ever connected to the live net? Have they ever day to day interactions with normal residents? Or is that considered not working, except for a few customer contact people?

It explains how the Windlight browser code could be "release" with out working code. I think many people at LL now feel the open source and customers take energy away from "work". The only time for feedback an communication is a few hours of office hours, with a few selected people. Yes LL is making a new product and new area not yet fully developed, a new area. And it's great, however much of they do are stuff also appearing in other places, they are not the biggest online service, Blizzards are much much bigger. Many things we see in Second Life also appear in WoW. Many thing we see exists in Eutropia Univererse. How ever EU have a less working economy, imho. It's imho much uglier, especially the avatars that you can't customise anywhere near Second Life.

Windlight

2007-11-26T08:09:00.000-08:00

How ever good windlight looks, it's somehow broken, the source code can't compile. There is a error about that in the JIRA. Some header files are missing from the library files at least. (glh/glh_linear.h), the include names and the layout in the nVidia headers i have found suggests that there are some modification done to these headers, they don't like to be in the glh/ subdirectory by default. I think the export of the source code have gone wrong at LL. One more think that points to how expensive it it to walk half-hearted into open source. When one starts to duplicate information, there will be more errors. One place contains a number of errors in the information, two places the double amount of errors, and usually not the same errors.

I hope that these error soon can be fixed with a new source code release from LL, at least in the subversion that contains the layout and maybe changes of the nvidia headers.

DJ Events

2007-11-17T06:28:00.000-08:00

Had a great time playing for the Malks at Katies party last night, they are a great bunch of people and makes a nice time chatting with. I'm sure I'll make one or two more nice partied with them.

Nicholaz BE-t for Linux

2007-11-17T05:21:00.000-08:00

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 with:
balp@kitiara:~$ cd SecondLife_i686_1_18_4_3/
balp@kitiara:~/SecondLife_i686_1_18_4_3$ ./balp-secondlife
Feed back on the build to me, anders (at) arnholm.se.

Keep on Balping

2007-10-30T02:24:00.000-07:00

Tänkte samla tankar och annat skärp jag plockat upp i Second life här. Detta för att styra upp min vanliga blog till med verklighets förankrad. Om nu det lyckas.