I’m having an annoying issue with screen captures – it might not necessarily be the Second Life client, but I’m not sure. I’ve opened a bug report with Linden Labs. Torley has been real helpful in trying to track it down. It seems to have started with the last 1.15 release maybe. I’m getting an ugly black band across the center of a high res screen capture. It makes a screen capture pretty much useless. I’m going to tinker around more with it to see if it might be anything with my system or the client.

Has anyone else seen this sort of thing before or currently? There are some JPEG2000 capture shots in the bug report. If you need a viewer for JPEG2000, try IrFanView – it’s free.

-Veyron

Okay, so I broke down and bought a new keyboard. The Logitech G15. My old one, a Microsoft one, does not seem to be supported by the empire any more. This is very annoying. I can’t get a driver for it and the scroll wheel on the keyboard doesn’t work anymore – which is friggin’ annoying.

It’s actually a pretty nice keyboard. What really drove me to it was the function keys on the left side of the keyboard. You can program them to your hearts content. I programmed the middle set to act as the arrow keys and the page up/page down keys. So, now I can move without switching back and forth between chat mode and movement mode. I also programmed the lower function keys to act as the alt and make day keys. I has been pretty convenient.

It also has a LCD display which can give you information on what’s going on. At one point, a Second Life beta displayed information on G15, but then subsequent beta’s did not and the release that followed, does not either. Which is a disappointment. It would show chats, IM’s, where your location is, etc.

Oh well, at least I know it can do it.