Linden Lab announced yesterday that the 1.23.5 Release Candidate would be depreciated. If you attempt to log in using that viewer you will be directed to the update download. They also mentioned in the same post that 1.22.11 would be depreciated on June 1st.

http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology/release/blog/2010/05/12/viewer-123-release-candidate-deprecated

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You can bitch and moan about 2.0 all you want. You can scream and yell. You can threaten to take all your toys and go home. You can hold your breath until you pass out. The steady pace of viewer progression will march on with or without you. It won’t be long before the regular 1.23.5 viewer is no longer officially supported. That means if you have a problem the Lindens won’t help you. They will tell you to upgrade to 2.0 if you want support. Then it will only take one critically necessary update to render 1.23.5 completely obsolete and you won’t have a choice anymore.

Well, not ANY choice. You could always move to Emerald. But then LL doesn’t support that viewer now as it is. Emerald support consists of a handful of ‘volunteers’ who answer questions between gesture spamming in the Korea welcome area. Plus you are trusting that known thieves and data miners haven’t put something fishy in their viewer to track you or totally fuck you over if they feel like it. Good luck with that. (If you really can’t stand 2.0 I suggest Kirstens viewer or one of the other third party offerings NOT made by sleazy quasi-anonymous (former?) hackers and content thieves. )

My advice is to do yourself a favor and bite the bullet and move to 2.0 now while you can still use 1.23.5 as a crutch. Do you know you can add your own tweaks to the viewer? You can find instructions how to do it in the wiki. I’ve added transparent windows and extra buttons to mine and I love it. Hell, if you’re adventurous you can make your own skinned 2.0 viewer that LOOKS like 1.23 if you really hate 2.0 that badly.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_2_Tweaks

Just don’t cry when 1.23.5 finally gets canned. It WILL happen and there ain’t thing one you can do to stop it. The handwriting is on the wall plain as day and you really need to start breathing again. You’re scaring your mother.

Another of the Lost Episodes. This episode was recording back in December of 2009. We talked about Linden Homes when it was just announced as a limited beta and everyone said it was crap and no one would want them. Turns out they were so popular when they were opened to everyone that Linden Lab ran out within a week or two and had to clone the entire continent TWICE to meet the demand.

Anyway, I ended with one of my favorite goofball songs. Voltaire-The USS Make Shit Up

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So, here is what happened. With Podmafia and Rezzed and Confused and working as a Mole and everything else going on I simply could not keep up with everything. It was all over the place and frankly I couldn’t keep track of it all. The end result was I ended up doing nothing. So, I’m consolidating. I’m dumping Rezzed and Confused and that horrible libsyn ‘blog’ (I hate to even call it a blog. It’s not a blog. It’s the cousin no body talks about of blogs) and switching to new hosting, a new WordPress blog with a nifty plug in and the rest will die like road pizza on the information superhighway.

A few of you who have not killed all your brain cells with excessive drink will notice that on RezzedTV the Coronaverse episodes jumped from 24 to 30. What happened there is we had a slew of episodes that were supposed to go into the feed but for some unknown reason *cough* stuart *cough* they never did.

So, for these first few installments I will post as many of them as I can find here over the next few days. After that, new episodes will follow. Some will be podcasts. Some may just be my own personal rants. Who knows. What I do know is aside from Podmafia this is going to be my one and only outlet for all things dealing not only with Corona Cay and SL, but for me and anything else I want to put out there.

So listen, subscribe, comment, email, or give me the finger and tell me I suck.  Whatever you like.

This is the first of the “Lost Episode” series. It is an episode we recorded way back in the fall of ’09 with Angela Talmasca. She was the lone members of the Third Party Viewers and Content Theft series that seemed to understand human nature enough to know you don’t give everyone a gun and expect them to all play nice and not start shooting.  We talked about developers of third party viewers and their responsibility to make moral and ethical decisions on what features should and should not be included in their viewers. This was before the Third Party Viewer policy when most developers (especially the ones behind Emerald) seems perfectly comfortable putting in anything and everything they can code in and washing their hands of any responsibility when those features are used for more harm than good.

http://www.coronaverse.com/podcasts/Coronaverse25.mp3

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