Uninstall. Download new version. Reboot. Install latest version. Reboot. Run… Crash. Does anyone have Second Life running under Vista?
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Vista and Second Life – Part 4
28
Feb 2007
Nope, rebooting didn’t solve the crashing problem. Next attempt will be to uninstall and reinstall the SL program.
Category: second life, vista
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Vista and Second Life – Part 3
28
Feb 2007
Well, the video drive upgrade went smoothly and I wasn’t even required to reboot. (Kudos to Vista for that one.) When I start Second Life I no longer get the video driver error. However, before I reach the login screen it crashes without specifying why. I’ll try rebooting anyway, just to see if that might solve the problem.
Category: second life, video, vista
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Vista and Second Life – Part 2
28
Feb 2007
I looked at the AMD site for a driver update to my Radeon X1400 video card and found no X1400 series listed as having available driver!
So, I took a look in Windows Update and I’m told there’s an update available.
Let’s see if that solves my problem…
Category: second life, video, vista, windows
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Vista and Second Life
28
Feb 2007
Well, I tried to run Second Life in Vista a got this:
I clicked Yes and then got
Who’s fault is this? Well according to Linden Labs, it’s ATI’s fault:
Question
Under Windows Vista, my graphics card reports as a GDI Generic. Why is that?Answer
Second Life requires that the Windows drivers for the system’s graphics card fully support the OpenGL graphics standard. Any graphics card whose installed driver does not support OpenGL will detect as a “GDI Generic” instead. This message means that Second Life has detected no hardware OpenGL support.It is up to the graphics vendor (Nvidia or ATI) to provide drivers that support both OpenGL and your operating system. As of this writing, we have successfully run Second Life on Vista under several PCs equipped with Nvidia’s Geforce graphics cards. However, it does not appear that ATI has provided Vista drivers with OpenGL support. (Check ATI’s website; they may have updated drivers since then.)
If you receive this message under Vista, are running graphics hardware that meets our Minimum System Requirements, and cannot find a driver provided by your graphics vendor which provides OpenGL support, you will be unable to run Second Life under Windows Vista on that computer.
As far as I can tell my driver’s up-to-date so I’m stuck. Anyone got an answer that will actually help?
Category: second life, vista, windows
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Visualize the blogosphere
28
Feb 2007
The recently released Twingly Screensaver displays live blog headlines from around the world, with the source location visualized on an interactive 3D globe. The video below shows it in motion but be aware of two things. First, the video is sped up, your copy will not work this fast. Second, it takes a while to download the data a first so you won’t see actual headlines for a little while. Third, some of the headlines may by NSFW. Fourth, it doesn’t seem to totally like Vista. It’ll run for a while then Vista will inform you that it has stopped working, despite it seeming to still work.
Category: blogosphere, data visualization, screensavers, video, vista, youtube
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Porn at my hometown library
28
Feb 2007
Yes, folks, it’s happening again. Another local TV station has done an “undercover investigation” (video available through the link) to catch people looking at porn in the library. (I grew up in a Rochester suburb and used the library in question regularly so that’s why I’m posting this story.) What makes this story extra interesting is that County Executive Maggie Brooks is now threatening to cut $7.5M in funding unless the library changes its policy. The policy is the one that was upheld by the Supreme Court under CIPA in which filters are installed but are turned off for anyone 17 and older without being asked why. (It is not clear whether the library is required to follow CIPA or is just doing it anyway.) Because of this the ACLU has criticized Ms. Brooks stating “What real significant difference is there between denying an adult patron access to these sites and denying patrons access to Catcher in the Rye?” The most interesting part of all this, which isn’t mentioned in any of the articles: Ms. Brooks used to be a reporter (even an anchor if I recall correctly) for the TV station that started all this. I smell a setup.
Category: library, policy, politics, pornography, rochester, video
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Wishlists via RSS
28
Feb 2007
I just noticed that you can subscribe to someone’s Amazon.com wishlist via RSS!
Category: amazon.com, rss
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Stick Library
28
Feb 2007
What do you get when you cross a library school student and an obsession with doodling?
Thanks Sarah
Category: cartoons, funny
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