Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2013-04-14

18:47 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Good evening Deans!
18:47 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Im early but that's okay .. go ahead and chat if you want
18:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome back, Miss Cymbal.
18:49 Marion Questi Good evening Miss Sociopath...:)
18:49 Marion Questi And Mr Dav2
18:50 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Why is it so dark in here?
18:50 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Its not dark to me
18:51 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) But then I set my own environmental settings
18:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's not dark on region settings.
18:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nor stormy.
18:52 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Well Plan A, log off and back on.
18:53 Phrynne It's somewhat dark for me on region, but not on anything else.
18:55 Tea cup w Tea wear whispers: Enjoy your green tea dav2j Resident
18:55 Free Radar HUD /me v1.1 by Crystal Gadgets
18:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good eve, Miss Larky.
18:56 Larkylouz Good evening, everyone!
18:56 lorra (notshure2) thank you
18:56 lorra (notshure2) and to all of you
18:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Mr. Zsun
18:56 Shouten Haller Greetings Deans, Hello Everyone
18:56 lorra (notshure2) smiles
18:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen wb, Mr. Haller.
18:57 Josain Zsun Greeting around
18:57 lorra (notshure2) waves
18:57 Martini Discovolante hello all!
18:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Evening, Miss lorra.
18:57 lorra (notshure2) hi
18:57 Martini Discovolante sorry for snoozing outside.
18:57 Marion Questi Welcome Miss D!
18:57 Martini Discovolante i thot i logged out. we had unexpected company RL.
18:58 lorra (notshure2) waves to evil
18:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Dean D. (3 dean night, assurred)
18:58 Very old leather fireside chair w 3 fireside, 4 normal sits whispers:
(⇞PgUp or ⇟ PgDn ) change your pose. Touch for menu.
18:58 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) hello lorra
18:58 lorra (notshure2) hi hun
18:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Miss Gronk (distinctive wingbeats)
18:59 Gronk Seriman God evening!
18:59 Gronk Seriman Good
19:00 Marion Questi It is 7 o'clock...let us make a start.
19:00 dav2 -j- (dav2j) A first question, can I have a landmark to pop up in front of the bulletin board outside? http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8170/screenshot20130414at636.png
19:00 Marion Questi Welcome everyone!
19:00 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:00 Marion Questi This is an "open mic" Q&A which we hold at this time every week. We, the Deans of Oxbridge, assemble to answer questions from the attendees about Oxbridge, it's mission and operation, or about SL in general.
19:01 Martini Discovolante no dav, the region is hubbed.
19:01 dav2 -j- (dav2j) ?
19:01 Martini Discovolante if a region is NOT, you may make a LM yourself.
19:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen You can pop up at the lecture hall entrance or in the main entrance area.
19:02 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Why would you want to sit in front of the bulletin board?
19:02 Marion Questi Is that what you are asking Mr Dav2
19:02 Martini Discovolante region owners can set the land to allow or disallow random lnadmarks
19:02 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Because I never remember the class times...
19:03 dav2 -j- (dav2j) And I prefer a table to a notecard.
19:03 Josain Zsun Isn't the schedule available online?
19:03 Martini Discovolante you can set an larm on your computer like most peopel do with any of a variety of free software, RL, nad every calendar will give you a schedule
19:03 lorra (notshure2) the group im is very good
19:03 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) You could get the new I-phone and put it in there.. and have Miss Siri remind you
19:04 dav2 -j- (dav2j) says the one, pardon me, who was snoozing..
19:04 Martini Discovolante it is a manner of management of your own time, not our duty to accommodate you
19:04 dav2 -j- (dav2j) ty lorra
19:04 Marion Questi Next question?
19:04 lorra (notshure2) looks down
19:04 MichaelNeff Macbeth *raises hand*
19:04 Martini Discovolante /me fondles the ejecto- button fondly.
19:05 Martini Discovolante with fondant
19:05 Marion Questi Yes, Mr Macbeth?
19:05 Martini Discovolante in fond du lac
19:05 lorra (notshure2) ong
19:05 MichaelNeff Macbeth I shall refrain from the imaginings of certain faculty in Fondue, and persevere,
19:05 Martini Discovolante ummm fondue.
19:06 MichaelNeff Macbeth Let's say I had a music video on my computer, oh, Ituned M4U format, and I wanted to show it to you and others here inworld. What is a procedure that would work? There may be a program required possibly, not sure.
19:06 lorra (notshure2) you did it lol
19:06 lorra (notshure2) what
19:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, the land controls have a media stream that enables that.
19:07 Marion Questi You could play it as media-on-a-prim...assuming it is accessible from http
19:07 MichaelNeff Macbeth OK, so. ..
19:07 lorra (notshure2) nods
19:07 Martini Discovolante could you post it on YOutube nad show it on web on a prim?
19:07 MichaelNeff Macbeth youd have to place it in a URL
19:08 Marion Questi Correct
19:08 Martini Discovolante most just post it someplace and then give the URL to it
19:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen As streamed content.
19:08 MichaelNeff Macbeth I am a Dj here in SL, and I have thousands of videos, licensed thru Promos Only. I use Virtual DJ which shows the videos , but when using it in world here, you can hear it but I can't seem to get it to show the video, possibly due to a shortcoming in Shoutcast.
19:09 Marion Questi Shoutcast is something different.
19:09 Martini Discovolante synching it would be the problem here i think
19:09 Marion Questi Shoutcast is used for streaming "parcel media"
19:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen I know that Magdalena has been working with media on a prim for the new Caledon movie theater, but don't know the specifics.
19:10 lorra (notshure2) smiles
19:10 MichaelNeff Macbeth hmm I suspect a program involved,, I shall seek her out
19:10 Marion Questi Do your videos have urls? Are they accessible from a web browser?
19:11 MichaelNeff Macbeth they are on my hard drive, I play Vrtual DJ and it runs thru a URL to the parcel,, on the prim I make, you can see the Shoutcast URL page but not the image
19:11 MichaelNeff Macbeth not hte video
19:12 Martini Discovolante all of your viewers would have to be Media on a prim enabled, and each would view it individually, i believe
19:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen Contact: Magda Haiku (Magdalena Kamenev)
19:13 Martini Discovolante so one starteing later than the others woul start from the beginning, not "live" entry
19:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen She might be able to help.
19:13 Martini Discovolante land music is immediate
19:13 MichaelNeff Macbeth that wouldnt work for DJing,,
19:13 Martini Discovolante no it would not
19:13 MichaelNeff Macbeth ye the land thing is what i would need I guess
19:14 MichaelNeff Macbeth THank you
19:14 Martini Discovolante for media, every viewer is seeing it individually
19:14 Marion Questi No...media-on-a-prim would not work for DJing...you can't synchronize it for all listeners.
19:15 Marion Questi Let is move along...who has a question for us?
19:15 lorra (notshure2) yes i do
19:15 Marion Questi Yes MIss Lorra?
19:15 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:15 lorra (notshure2) if i am at a dance and the music stops
19:16 Gronk Seriman ...you should find a chair and sit down quickly.
19:16 lorra (notshure2) we all keep danceing did no one think to put in a pose butten
19:16 MichaelNeff Macbeth the man should lead you to refreshents, then your seat, of course.
19:16 Larkylouz /me grins
19:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, the dances and the music are independent.
19:17 Marion Questi Alas...dance animations in SL is unrelated to the music...:)
19:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen And SL music can stop/restart/stop/....
19:17 Shouten Haller a pause button would be a good idea .... an AO might suffice to override the dance animation
19:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sometimes you have to hit the play button again.
19:18 lorra (notshure2) i do use a dance hud
19:18 lorra (notshure2) but for the balls none
19:18 Marion Questi And stopping the animation between dances can be hazardous in a crowded region...it may take several minutes to get a another animation going...
19:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen At times, the built in music playing feature won't work well, and you can pick up the music stream on an external player.
19:18 lorra (notshure2) ohhhh
19:18 lorra (notshure2) ty
19:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen VLC, ITunes, ....
19:19 lorra (notshure2) i see now
19:19 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:19 Martini Discovolante we are all subject to this, likewise dandcing thru tables and companions.... i wouldnot worry about it.
19:19 Marion Questi Next question?
19:20 Larkylouz Oooo - I"ll have to try that.
19:20 Martini Discovolante and a good DJ will keep the flow going!
19:20 lorra (notshure2) nods
19:20 Larkylouz I think my computer periodically quits hearing the stream. Did the other night at a live performance in SL
19:21 lorra (notshure2) yes and i have to restart
19:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sometimes the stream itself will drop and resume. Sometimes the viewer seems to lose the stream.
19:22 lorra (notshure2) yes ?
19:22 lorra (notshure2) and the fix is
19:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen You restart (upper right)
19:22 lorra (notshure2) not good
19:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen The fix is .... Welcome to SL.
19:23 Marion Questi He means restart the stream...not the viewer.
19:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sometimes getting the music again takes a relog.
19:23 Martini Discovolante you can leave the sim and come back sometimes, or relog, or toggle the button. sometimes you simply have to request an external listening URL
19:23 lorra (notshure2) yes relog
19:23 Gronk Seriman The external player idea works well for me.
19:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or using about land to get the stream URL and then starting that in a player outside of SL.
19:23 Martini Discovolante i am plagued with that often
19:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen VLC is free and works.
19:23 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:24 Gronk Seriman http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
19:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Miss Gronk.
19:24 lorra (notshure2) we just want sl to work
19:25 Shouten Haller You are new here aren't you Miss Lorra?
19:25 Larkylouz 'Tis a community of geeks by definition. Some work arounds seem to go with the territory. IMHO
19:25 lorra (notshure2) needs to relog now
19:26 Marion Questi Next question, then?
19:26 Shouten Haller Weclome back Miss Lorra
19:27 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:27 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Yes .. I have a question.. There is a rumor that SL is shutting down in favor of a farm-town like game on facebook is this true?
19:27 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Why is Dean Questi wearing a pith helmet?
19:27 lorra (notshure2) lol
19:27 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Finally dithered in.
19:28 Marion Questi Why would it be true? If you were Linden Lab and you had a cash cow, would you shut it down?
19:28 lorra (notshure2) i dont farm
19:28 Martini Discovolante they have a Minecraft like entity.. it is rather unrewarding
19:28 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Are you speaking of the Linden Realm experiment?
19:28 Martini Discovolante no "Patterns". they flog it on the splash screen
19:28 Marion Questi SL will be around until the technology is so old people will no longer come here...
19:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think it is more that LL is attempting to become more diverse.
19:29 Martini Discovolante or latch onto the new hawtness, instead of being the new hawtness
19:29 lorra (notshure2) smiles
19:30 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Perhaps more of a chat roulette application on smart phones? With pre-paid avatar appearances?
19:30 Martini Discovolante so far, all ihave seenis lesser but cheaper
19:30 Gronk Seriman /me mutters "Cloud Party."
19:30 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Yes faster cheaper worser
19:30 Martini Discovolante instead of nakey creepy guys?
19:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Mobile has captured so large a contingent that they can't ignore that.
19:31 lorra (notshure2) drive and sl
19:31 Larkylouz Oh, Dean D! Those are such an intrinsic *part* of SL
19:31 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Well there goes my plans to die in a virtual helmet
19:31 lorra (notshure2) lol
19:31 Martini Discovolante if they could develop a viewer as good as Lumiya is for phone, for iPad, i would never get out of bed.
19:32 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Now I'll need a freaking magnifying glass
19:32 Martini Discovolante well, at least not till 8.
19:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen (Thinks Miss Larky has the right attitude for a Tutor)
19:32 Larkylouz /me cracks up
19:32 lorra (notshure2) smiles wide
19:33 MichaelNeff Macbeth Applauds Miss Larky
19:33 Larkylouz /me is losing her naivete by the second.
19:33 lorra (notshure2) claps with
19:33 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) /me sneers at Miss Larky .. "Saint..."
19:34 Larkylouz /me lends Cymbal her halo.
19:34 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) :)
19:34 Shouten Haller That's the last you'll see of that
19:34 MichaelNeff Macbeth You'll be needing to wash that when it's returned.
19:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen You see 'weird' things in SL because they are possible. Someone who is horrified by the strange isn't going to deal well with newbies.
19:35 Josain Zsun /me offers some Brasso
19:35 lorra (notshure2) smiles
19:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ahh. Yes, Mr. Josain. A bit of polish.
19:35 Shouten Haller who is Polish? Mr Josain?
19:36 lorra (notshure2) shes a spice girl
19:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Notes Mr. Hallers brassiness.
19:36 Marion Questi Is there an actual question for the Deans in there somewhere? :)
19:37 dav2 -j- (dav2j) The World map shows 20 people in Oxbridge. I judiciously check. I suppose Dean DiscoVolante has her eject button ready.
19:37 lorra (notshure2) yes i do have one please
19:37 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:37 Marion Questi Yes Miss Lorra?
19:37 Martini Discovolante /me rolls her eyes.
19:37 lorra (notshure2) so we just have to um put up with things sometimes
19:38 Martini Discovolante dav, if you do not like the weather here, you can find a new house to haunt
19:38 Marion Questi Every piece of software I have ever met (or written) had quirks in it...
19:38 Shouten Haller Looks like a storm coming
19:38 MichaelNeff Macbeth As did most programmers,,,
19:38 lorra (notshure2) yes thank you
19:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, Miss lorra. SL is amazing, but not perfect.
19:39 lorra (notshure2) well its the very best
19:39 Marion Questi Quite true, Mr Macbeth...:)
19:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen And they keep doing this trick of evolving it while it's in use.
19:39 Larkylouz Don't stop asking questions, Miss Lorra. I am always learning new fixes for things.
19:39 lorra (notshure2) yes thank you
19:39 Larkylouz (and I am hardly alone in that)
19:40 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Yes I have been here for years and still learn some of the most basic things, but again that might be because I am.. *looks around
19:40 lorra (notshure2) ooo no
19:40 Larkylouz sweet? angelic?
19:40 lorra (notshure2) lol
19:40 Shouten Haller Yes Miss Constantine?
19:40 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) easily distracted
19:40 Marion Questi /me chortles
19:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Skipped the basics and went to advanced, leaving holes in her knowledge....
19:41 lorra (notshure2) nods
19:41 Larkylouz /me frisbee tosses Cymbal yet another halo
19:41 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Squirrel
19:41 Gronk Seriman Ha!
19:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen common_squirrel
19:41 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) /me slides down in her seat a bit lower
19:41 Larkylouz Just teasing, Cymbal.
19:42 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Let me find the facebook poster.
19:42 Shouten Haller YOu aren't a squirrel Miss Constantine, at least not a common one
19:43 dav2 -j- (dav2j) No, Squirrel is a joke from the Disney Pixar UP movie.
19:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen I was more referring to https://twitter.com/common_squirrel
19:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen A distraction ... something to be chased.
19:43 lorra (notshure2) nods
19:43 Friends of Caledon Oxbridge Donation Medallion notshure2 Resident gave a generous donation to Friends of Caledon Oxbridge to help support classes, tutorials, & tier at Caledon's Oxbridge
19:43 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) :)
19:44 Shouten Haller 12243 tweets ... from a squirrel!
19:44 Larkylouz LOL, Dean J. Some people need a Second Life, clearly.
19:44 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) How did you know that was me?
19:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen ;)
19:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Miss Lorra.
19:44 lorra (notshure2) yes your very welcome
19:45 dinobuckli hello everyone
19:45 lorra (notshure2) hi hun
19:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen And for the more science inclined (who need to get a life) https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover
19:46 Marion Questi Welcome Mr Dinobuckli.
19:46 Shouten Haller Hello Mr Buckli
19:47 lorra (notshure2) whispers: i am good ask them somthing
19:47 dinobuckli hello, how are you tonight
19:47 Marion Questi This is a Q&A, and the floor is open for a question, Mr Dinobuckli.
19:47 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Mr. dinobuckli - we have got to talk about alarm clocks.
19:47 Marion Questi Anyone?
19:47 dinobuckli alarm clocks?
19:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ask a question, so that we don't recite Volgon poetry.
19:47 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Does anyone have any complaints about the new nearby Chat system?
19:48 lorra (notshure2) ok um how long has sl been around
19:48 dav2 -j- (dav2j) (dav2 always has insipid questions.0
19:48 dinobuckli Sorry to have bothered you dav2
19:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Let's see SL10B, so 2003
19:48 lorra (notshure2) wow
19:48 dav2 -j- (dav2j) You did not.
19:49 lorra (notshure2) counts on fingers
19:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen SL10B is the upcoming 10th birthday celebration.
19:49 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:49 Shouten Haller it is pronounced "SLOB"?
19:50 Calina (calina.mcmahon) /me laughs
19:50 lorra (notshure2) smiles
19:50 Martini Discovolante the graphics look like it
19:50 lorra (notshure2) i do have one now
19:50 Marion Questi And Caledon has been here for 7 years.
19:51 lorra (notshure2) please
19:51 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) That is amazing and also a bit scary
19:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Miss Lorra?
19:51 Calina (calina.mcmahon) Are you guys thinking of moving into mesh architecture?
19:51 Marion Questi What is scary, Miss Sociopath?
19:51 lorra (notshure2) why is sl so picky about vidio cards
19:51 Martini Discovolante some is already... if you mean the OXB infrastructure
19:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen In some things, Calina.
19:51 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Oh nothing Dean.. just the length of time
19:52 Marion Questi :)
19:53 lorra (notshure2) i am sorry did you hear me
19:53 Marion Questi We have 7 minutes left in our hour....time for another question or two....anyone?
19:53 Calina (calina.mcmahon) I just go there, what is this forum for?
19:53 dav2 -j- (dav2j) I asked, lol.
19:53 Calina (calina.mcmahon) *here
19:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, SL stresses Video cards.
19:54 Marion Questi We are three of the Deans of Oxbridge and this is an open Q&A.
19:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen And the more you enable features that make things look good, the more video capability required.
19:54 lorra (notshure2) yes thank you
19:55 lorra (notshure2) whispers: i did get the big one
19:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Size matters?
19:55 lorra (notshure2) 2 gigs
19:55 Calina (calina.mcmahon) yup
19:55 Calina (calina.mcmahon) broadband speed too
19:55 lorra (notshure2) nods
19:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's a new project viewer for materials.
19:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen That means specular reflection and normal maps.
19:56 Very old leather fireside chair w 3 fireside, 4 normal sits whispers:
(⇞PgUp or ⇟ PgDn ) change your pose. Touch for menu.
19:56 Gronk Seriman Oooo!
19:56 lorra (notshure2) is very happy
19:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Still in the "very shaky" state.
19:56 lorra (notshure2) thank you
19:58 Marion Questi No more question?
19:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen http://blog.nalates.net/2013/04/12/second-life-news-2013-15-3/
19:58 lorra (notshure2) no deans i dont
19:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen (that's on the material project)
19:58 dav2 -j- (dav2j) ty
19:59 dav2 -j- (dav2j) Questions continue outside on the lawn?
19:59 Marion Questi Very well...I declare us adjourned. Thank you all for coming!
19:59 Shouten Haller Thank You Deans!
19:59 lorra (notshure2) claps
19:59 Larkylouz Thank you, Deans!
19:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming.
19:59 Martini Discovolante thank you all for coming tonight.
19:59 dav2 -j- (dav2j) map says 17 here.
19:59 lorra (notshure2) yes thank you for being thare all of you
19:59 dav2 -j- (dav2j) better skedaddle (sp)
20:00 Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.constantine) Thank you deans