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New Avatars and Log-in Issues...

Doug Barbieri — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:15:43 +0000

Recently, Linden Lab changed the way they create names for new avatars for Second Life. Now they allow you to create an avatar with a first name-only, whereas in the past they used to allow you to choose from a list of pre-defined last names. You still do have a last name, but it is actually "Resident."

For SLiteChat, this causes a problem for people who are used to logging in via first name only. For example, a new avatar named Angel123 cannot log into SLiteChat because SLiteChat expects a last name in addition to a first name. So, if Angel123 wants to log in using SLiteChat, she

MO Glossary Anchor Support Improvements

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:52:31 +0000

We are glad to let you know that we just made an update to the MO Glossary module, a module extension for Drupal 6.x.

This update brings better support to anchors by offering you five different anchor classes and five different filters (i.e. you can change the look and feel of each anchor based on some criteria that fits your website and group your glossary terms in five different taxonomies!) Also, the anchor can be made to point to one of three different destinations:

The Drupal Core Term Page;
This is the default for an anchor
The Taxonomy VTN Term Page;
...

"Ruthing" of your Avatar

Doug Barbieri — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:37:07 +0000

Hi all,

With the release of Linden Lab's Viewer 2, an issue has cropped up for users of SLiteChat. Presently, SLiteChat does not attempt to rez your avatar in-world. With pre-2.0 viewers, this was never an issue (the AV just appears as a ghosty-blob). However, Viewer 2.0 handles in-world rendering a little differently than pre-viewer 2 and other viewers like Snowglobe and Emerald. This results in a fully dressed AV that has the default "Ruth" body (i.e. if you have a male avatar, it will appear as female, hovering in the air, to users of Viewer 2 who try to look at you).

SLiteChat Release 1.6.3

Doug Barbieri — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:51:31 +0000

We are happy to announce another maintenance release of SLiteChat, version 1.6.3. This release patches a major bug that was introduced on the 1.6.X line--when SLiteChat loses connection to the server and times out, a dialog pops up informing the user that the connection was lost. However, in previous versions, that dialog would pop up so many times recursively that it was shown that this crash could render the user's computer completely inoperative.

SLiteChat Release 1.6.2

Doug Barbieri — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:14:44 +0000

We are happy to announce another maintenance release of SLiteChat, verion 1.6.2. This release addresses the following issues:

SLiteChat Release 1.6.1

Doug Barbieri — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:10:24 +0000

We are happy to announce a maintenance release of SLiteChat, verion 1.6.1. This release addresses the following issues:

Log-in issue with SLiteChat

Doug Barbieri — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:51:44 +0000

For those SLiteChat users who are experiencing the following error message:

Cannot log in! Reason: Login failure: data, First name parameter must be alphanumeric.

If you feel this is an error, please contact

support@secondlife.com.

If you see this error message, it is because you have a leading space in your Second Life name in the log in dialog. Just delete the space and you should be able to log in normally:

New version of the MO Auto add terms module for Drupal 6.x

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:22:58 +0000

We just made a few fixes to our module MO Auto add terms. We have now released version 1.9. This module automatically updates your Drupal pages with terms from your taxonomies making it a lot easier to manage a large index on all your pages.

As defined by Drupal conventions, the module should not generate any E_NOTICE errors. This version has most, if not all of them, fixed.

Drupal Security Updates and Module Upgrades

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:28:37 +0000

As usual, we stay busy keeping our Drupal installation updated and secure.

We have just upgraded to Drupal 6.16, installing several securty updates to bring us up to date. Although security issues that the updates addressed have not affected our customers, it is our duty to our clients to keep everything up to date nonetheless.

Critical Security issue found with MO Anti-Pounding module for Drupal: Please update!

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:23 +0000

Urgent Notice:

Made to Order Software has discovered and fixed a security flaw in our MO Anti-Pounding Drupal module. We have removed version 1.0 and made version 1.1 available.