That's the term being used for the Imprudence (third party) viewer. Since I am starting to explore the open grid, I have been looking at what Imprudence offers to support grid hopping.
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I downloaded and installed Imprudence. That is a job of only a few minutes. The main delay I had was checking on the SSE2 choices. Summary: If your processor supports SSE2, you want that version.
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This wikipedia page list the following processors as supporting SSE2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2#CPUs_supporting_SSE2
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- AMD K8-based CPUs (Athlon 64, Sempron 64, Turion 64, etc)
- AMD Phenom CPUs
- Intel NetBurst-based CPUs (Pentium 4, Xeon, Celeron, Celeron D, etc)
- Intel Pentium M and Celeron M
- Intel Core-based CPUs (Core Duo, Core Solo, etc)
- Intel Core 2-based CPUs (Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, etc)
- Intel Core i5
- Intel Core i7
- Intel Atom
- Transmeta Efficeon
- VIA C7
- VIA Nano
The Imprudence instructions incorrectly omit Intel Core i5.
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And BTW, it does run on Windows 7, 64 bit. At least on my machine. There were no problems. Not even the famous message from Second Life: "Warning! Your machine does not meet the minimum requirements! Your system may run badly or not at all."
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It just loaded and was ready to run. I tried it on InWorldz first (Second Life was down at the time). I dropped by Hobo HQ (the hobo beachhead in InWorldz). Found several people there from Second Life. I looked into the settings offered by Imprudence. They are much the same as those offered by the other 1.x viewers. More than the basic set, but none that I craved enough to test at this time.
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There was not much time, actually, because one the the people I met at the Hobo place was on both grids and so could tell me that Second Life was back up. I had things to do in Second Life so I hopped to that grid.
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The hop was easy. Imprudence comes preloaded with login addresses for second life and all the main OS grids. You have a drop-down menu to make your selection. And Imprudence may remember your name and password if you want it to.
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The logon to Second Life was also flawless. Including good settings for my graphics. To be expected, of course, since it apparently recognized my graphics card.
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I used Imprudence for a while and found it to be similar to the standard 1.x viewers, but with a few extra features and options. The feature I was most interested in was the save and transfer of content. Here is the claim:
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Content Backup - Imprudence
"In Imprudence 1.2 and later, you can export objects that you have created inworld, save them on your hard drive, and import them again later. This allows creators to keep backups of things they have created, so they can be sure their creations won't be lost by an asset server problem.
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You can also use this feature to move your creations from one grid to another! For example, you could build in the comfort of your own OpenSim (with free and fast texture uploads), then import the final version to SL. Or, you could export something you've already created in SL, and move it to an OpenSim grid to expand into a new audience or market."
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I am trying out this feature and will report on what I find.
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