LL taking on ad-farms

We all know that in the past the mainland experience was quite distrubed by advertising farms. Most of them advertisng stuff not even related to Second Life. On October 1st. LL new policy regarding those farms has kicked in.

Before the new policy was introduced by Linden Lab, about 15-18% of the mainland was covered by massive advertising on so called "micro-parcels". LL announced today on thier blog that this number has droppped to about 2% over the last 6 weeks. This is very impressive progress by LL to improve SL residents mainland experience. We say.. "Well done Linden Lab"!

"Before the new policy, between 15%-18% of parcels were being used primarily to advertise, mostly on micro parcels. As of this post, that figure has dropped to 2% and is still dropping.

The last few weeks have seen a huge clearance exercise take place as we have worked hard to remove advertising that violates the new policy. As a means to understand the impact of policy changes like this one, we have been running surveys of the most affected areas across the different Mainland continents. We hope that you have seen, as we have, a substantial improvement in a short space of time."

Read the full news on the official LL blog.

Regards,
-Wise

House Demon v1.2 released!

hi all,
it has been some exciting time since the initial release of the [SLCI] Builders "House Demon" Control System. In the last week we have been working on a few fixes and updates and added the first customer requests.

Version 1.2 now uses a "smart sensor".
This sensor automatically detects only present devices for the controller menu. In the initial release version this wasn't the case. We also added a "keypad" this is basically the same as the control server but you can slap it onto your build walls.

Here is the change log for v1.2:
* Added "auto detect" to all devices. System now only lists the devices available in the controller
* Added "Demon Keypad". Same usage as the server, customer request.
* Added Demon Mailbox
* Changed a bug in the object permission of the blinds

We're adding new features at the moment such as texture change for doors and windows from the control menu and other aditions. [SLCI] has a google group online as well. If you like to contribute and send us your feature requests / feedback for the system feel free to register with the group.

If you already own the system you will get a automated update when you login from our server. In case you don't get it just rez the "House Demon Updater" that came with the product. If you have any issues please contact slci Planer in-world.

Enjoy Wise...