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Some people seem to think so, at any rate. I’ve gotten a few comments to that effect, though to be honest they didn’t make as much sense to me as I’d like, due to the fact that at least one of them was sent by a person that does not speak English natively, and I had trouble understanding exactly what he meant. But the basic message seemed to be "it’s broken".
I looked at the source for the update, and it would appear that while I had thought I was using the same code that a few testers had gone through not long ago, I was in fact using a slightly different version. It is not obvious to me why the few minor differences would cause any problems, but just a few minutes ago I released another update with the code that I thought I was using in the first place.
So, if this latest "latest update" is still broken, I’d love to hear why and how, and I will look into it immediately and see what I can do about that.
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Wouldn’t you know it… Pretty much as soon as I was ready to get back into SL and start updating stuff, my laptop dies. This weekend the fan on my main laptop starting making the most horrible racket you ever want to hear from a computer, and within hours the fan stopped rotating altogether. I’ve been able to limp by without it by doing only the bare minimum of light work on this machine such as sending emails and light web browsing, but I’m pretty sure the machine would be reduced to a pile of smoking rubble if I even *attempted* to load Second Life.
Apparently I’m not the only one with this problem; as you can see if you click the image above, it seems to be fairly common with this model. This is the third time now that I’ve had to replace the fan, and being essentially poor financially embarrassed, I cannot afford to have the machine repaired by a qualified laptop repair technician, so I’ll be doing the work myself. I finally received my new fan this morning, so I’ll be starting the swearing and crying sensitive operation after I get a few cups of coffee in me.
If you’ve ever had to replace the fan on an HP laptop, you’ll probably share my urge to kill intense hatred for the designers who must have thought that it was perfectly logical to put the only moving part on the entire machine in such a place that you have to literally remove every other component to get to it. That’s right, as steelclash’s photo above shows, you actually do have to pull your laptop completely apart to replace the fan. And it’s a harrowing experience for me, one that I am really not looking forward to.
Once I get that done, though, I’ve got a bunch of code changes to update for the Taketori, and I will try to get an update released as soon as possible. I doubt that I will be able to accomplish that today, because certainly once I finally log in I will be unable to get much work done because I’ll be catching up, paying rents, etc, etc. But I will try to get it done and delivered by this weekend.
Among the important issues that this update will address are the stamina bug and the backward compatibility issue. I’ll provide more information in another post as soon as I am able, but I can feel the spot just left of the laptop’s touchpad getting warmer than I’d like so I’m going to wrap up this post and shut ‘er down in preparation for the butchery repair procedure.
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Check out this dialog I was just presented with when I opened Firefox to read some of today’s blogosphere buzz :
Okay… "Apparently there’s a picture or something in that blog post that is hosted on JIRA, which is causing the browser to ask me for my password", I thought to myself, "I should go to the actual blog post and mention that fact, I bet they’d appreciate that". Well, easier said than done :
Naturally, comments are closed. Well, it’s not my problem, and I don’t have any real responsibility to try any harder than that to tell LL when they screw up, but I would like to point out the irony of a blog post about Payments by Bank Wire which appears to be phishing for my password 
PS: The authentication dialog looks the way that it does because I’m using Firefox 3 with the Nasa Night Launch Theme.
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