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About Whatcha B. Eaton

I'm mechanical, biomechanical, or human -- mostly human -- depending on my mood and the charge on my power cells. Some call me Wut, others call me W. I'll answer to just about anything especially if there is food involved.

It was only a matter of time

Posted on 20101025 by Whatcha B. Eaton

My virus scanner has decided that part of SL is malware. To be clear, I think this is a “false positive” on the part of the virus scanner. But maybe this is a sign.

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The Follow at Eccentricity

Posted on 20100924 by Whatcha B. Eaton

At the Second Life 7th birthday bash I happened onto a performance by The Follow and they blew my mind (and speakers). This is a band you might hear in a dark venue on Earth, but they manage to pull … Continue reading →

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More Viewer 2 preferences

Posted on 20100903 by Whatcha B. Eaton

As promised in part one (and nearly broken), I have a few additional tweaks to the Viewer 2.11 interface to share. I’m not brave enough to dig underneath to change the xml code. All of these preferences can be set … Continue reading →

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oops…

Posted on 20100902 by Whatcha B. Eaton

I was going to talk more about my Viewer 2 prefs today. So… um. I’m out of time. It’s not going to happen today. But… Wait! I could just write it up tomorrow and then back-date it as if it … Continue reading →

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Buh-Bye Emerald?

Posted on 20100901 by Whatcha B. Eaton

Just in case you haven’t heard, the Emerald development team as we knew it (did we ever really know it?) has disintegrated. Or has it? Arabella Steadham has resigned. Or has she? The Lindens are coming for your viewer! Or are … Continue reading →

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Wut’s Viewer 2 Preferences

Posted on 20100901 by Whatcha B. Eaton

Hello everyone. Someone in my Tiny Empires realm asked me to put together a list of the preferences and settings I use in Viewer 2.1.1 (Hi Sterling!) so that’s what I’m going to do here. Keep in mind these are … Continue reading →

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Quick testing with Display Names

Posted on 20100901 by Whatcha B. Eaton

So last night I spent about 30 minutes with the project preview edition of the Second Life viewer on the Beta grid. This is going to be a bit of a mess for a while, I fear… but not a … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name?

Posted on 20100830 by Whatcha B. Eaton

I just finished reading Gweneth Llewelyn’s post about the coming “Display Name” changes in Second Life (and, there is no doubt these changes are coming no matter how much we complain.) Pop over to her post to see what she … Continue reading →

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Not that it will do any good…

Posted on 20100829 by Whatcha B. Eaton

…but I put my foot into it and suggested that MAYBE we should talk about Viewer development in the Viewer development list-serv. I’m crazy like that. As is customary in this new SCRUM world, I made my proposal in the … Continue reading →

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Space for Rant

Posted on 20100828 by Whatcha B. Eaton

I signed up for the opensource-dev mailing list so I could keep up on what has been proposed for the SL Viewer going forward. I enjoyed my experience because I’ve gotten a rare look into how the sausage is made. … Continue reading →

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