[Opensim-users] Animeeple download problem (was Re: Open Source Male Walk Animation for OpenSim?

[Karen Palen]

I have often had trouble with Google Analytics in being able to access it from some places and not others when I travel.

I don't think it is directly my firewall, but more likely some sort of bad routing somewhere along the chain.

I have seen the same thing with Yahoo mail, especially when you move a long distance - like Phoenix AZ to Singapore as we did a couple of years ago. Normally Yahoo services you from one of their local servers, but when you are travelling that is not always possible.

I have found that they seem to move your "host location" after about 6 weeks to a month, until then you have all kinds of strange problems cropping up! Of course when you return home you get to do it all over again :-)

In this case the problem seems to be that the Javascript crashes when it can't reach Google-Analytics, which given the vagaries of the internet is bound to happen fairly often! 

Most websites who use the service simply return an error and continue this is not ideal but at least keeps things going!

Actually it is an indication of just how complex the whole thing is when you "look under the hood"!

Karen

--- On Wed, 10/14/09, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Animeeple download problem (was Re: Open Source Male Walk Animation for OpenSim?
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 2:16 AM
> How strange.  I'm wondering why I
> never had any issues downloading the software from the
> site.  I even just tried it here at work (I work at a
> hospital with a very strict firewall) and it downloaded just
> fine for me in both IE7 and Firefox 3.5.3.
> 
> 
> I'm not by any means disagreeing with you.  I've
> seen weird things like this before when it comes to
> blacklisted malware sites, etc.  I'm just particularly
> curious about why this seems an issue with some and not
> others.
> 
> 
> I have a good friend in a nearby state and he has been
> unable to download it as well.
> 
> I'd almost be willing to bet the trouble lies in your
> use of some kind of firewall/malware/spam filter.  But even
> then, like you mentioned - Google Analytics should not be
> blacklisted.
> 
> 
> Weirdness.  But that is what makes the Interweb such a fun
> place to hang out.  :)
> 
> - Len
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:46 AM,
> Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> I wanted to clarify this a little,
> it seems that the "malware site" which was flagged
> below is actually "Google Analytics". For some
> reason this site is returning a null pointer and causing the
> download to crash.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> As far as I know "Google Analytics" is NOT a
> hacker site that tries to download viruses, trojans, etc.!
> 
> 
> 
> Animeeple is working on the problem now that we have
> identified what is happening.
> 
> 
> 
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Open Source Male Walk
> Animation for OpenSim?
> 
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> 
> > Cc: contact at animeeple.com
> 
> > Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 9:46 PM
> 
> > I traced the Javascript and it seems
> 
> > that it sends output to a website that is blacklisted
> as
> 
> > containing malware! :-(
> 
> >
> 
> > Not a good way to build trust!
> 
> >
> 
> > Karen
> 
> >
> 
> > --- On Sun, 10/11/09, Michael <mikeeab at gmail.com>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> > > From: Michael <mikeeab at gmail.com>
> 
> > > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Open Source Male
> Walk
> 
> > Animation for OpenSim?
> 
> > > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> 
> > > Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 8:02 PM
> 
> > > Take a look at a free program at http://www.animeeple.com
> 
> > > . It has explicit export support for SL friendly
> BVH
> 
> > files.
> 
> > > I've had luck taking the poser friendly CMU
> files
> 
> > > mentioned earlier in this thread and converting
> them
> 
> > in it.
> 
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