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Reuters Second Life not Quite Dead?
2008-06-06 20:08:00 Reuters Second Life not Quite Dead? Reuters Second Life is not quite dead. Apparantly the sparse posts are not yet an indication of the end. But the decreased frequency of posts is telling. A new post showed up around June 5, 2008. I will closely monitor when the next one makes it’s ...
1.20 RC9 Viewer is available
2008-06-05 23:03:00 The new 1.20 RC9 Viewer is available. There are some issues with crashing. Search is not working as expected. There are still some bugs there. Some issues with Mac and rendering have also been found. Camera issues still exist as well. Many many fixes have however been put in ...
In response to a report by the Gartner Group
2008-05-24 05:40:00 In response to a report by the Gartner Group that 90% of virtual businesses fail in 18 months, the Electric Sheep Company posted to their blog. They called it sensatioinal and strange. As well they point out apples to oranges and call into question the definition of failure. The Electric Sheep Company ...
Reuters Second Life site is down
2008-05-23 20:43:00 The Reuters Second Life site is down today. The page is coming up with “Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/reuterss/www/stories/wp-i-ncludes/streams.php on line 180″. I wonder if this means Reuters will no longer be covering Second Life? Their stories have been farther and fewer inbetween lately. ...
The new 1.2 RC7 Viewer was pulled
2008-05-23 00:07:00 The new 1.2 RC7 Viewer was pulled. The new 1.2 RC7 Viewer was initially available but was then pulled. Problems ocurred with buying Linden Dollars and Land as well as Mac login problems. Please visit the viewers test page and wiki for more information. I recommend extensive testing first. Related Posts The New ...
Voice will be down tomorrow for maintenance
2008-05-21 07:56:00 Voice will be down tomorrow for maintenance. The update will start at 2:00 am and go for about three hours. This update will include a media server update and web API update. Only voice will be down. Capacity and fixes will be included. I look forward to improvements in the ...
As my site traffic continues to grow
2008-05-16 19:07:00 I have used shared web hosting for years. It is a very cost effective and good solution for small businesses. As my site traffic continues to grow I found the need to switch to a virtual dedicated server, and then a fully dedicated server. It can be a somewhat confusing process and ...
Rolling Restarts are scheduled in Second Life
2008-05-14 19:20:00 Rolling Restarts are scheduled in Second Life. The rolling restarts will run from Tuesday May 13, 2008 until Thursday, May 15, 2008. These rolling restarts will include bug fixes and patches. These are high priority fixes. Expect service issues during the restarts. Related Posts The rolling restarts for server version 1.21 are now ...
Remove Unreliable Systems, People, and Vendors to improve Second Life Grid
2008-05-12 21:16:00 Remove Unreliable Systems, People, and Vendors to improve Second Life Grid stability The Quality Metrics information was just updated. The post on the Second Life blog from Linden Labs says: “April was not a good month for Second Life Grid availability”. About 630,000 usage hours were lost representing a large increase from March. ...
After a delay the new Land Store is open.
2008-05-08 06:03:00 After a delay the new Land Store is open. It is in business but only as a beta. You can purchase normal islands and Openspaces. It is not currently available for all residents. You can submit a ticket to request to participate in the beta. The new store features an ...
Clay Aiken As Long As We?re Here
2008-05-07 09:24:00 Clay Aiken As Long As We’re Here Lyrics Why do we have to fight? Why can’t spend our time… trying? I wanna be close to you Keep love from slipping through… my hands The words said in anger aimed at someone Are hard to take back once the damage is done Let’s stop now…. As long as we’re here… alive on this earth I’m ...
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Group Notices
2008-05-06 18:02:00 photo credit: ?? Orlandoo ?? Group Notices Group Notices in Second Life will have some new rules. In order to minimize “load on the databases” old group notices will be deleted. Group notices older than fourteen days old will be deleted. They used to be held for thirty one days. This will ...
Linden Labs to stop support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
2008-05-06 02:29:00 photo credit: keithr? Linden Labs to stop support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Linden Labs will stop support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Gasp?! What? Lol. No seriously of course they are stopping support. This is not only an OS from 2003 but one that has been updated two ...
Second Life grid status reports And Popular Places tab replacement
2008-04-29 01:38:00 In case you didn’t know you can now get Second Life grid status reports in a variety of ways. My favorite has to be the Twitter SL Grid Status Report but there is also a web site, and the ability to get RSS updates. In other news Second Life will soon be providing ...
Another rolling restart is planned
2008-04-29 01:04:00 Another rolling restart is planned. This rolling restart is to correct a bug in database simulators in the version 1.21 server software. No viewer is required. Regions will be given the standard warning five minutes before the restart. The Rolling restart will happen on Monday at 5pm for 1 hour, Tuesday ...
Whoops. Database and asset server problems
2008-04-27 05:58:00 Whoops. Database and asset server problems began today. Starting at about 2:15 pm and continuing into the evening Saturday. Multiple services including scripts, rezzing, logins, teleporting, and more were down. Equipment was replaced. Asset Server issues continue for the time being. Related Posts Problems hit this weekend Problems hit this weekend. There ...
Rolling restart completed Saturday morning
2008-04-26 21:26:00 photo credit: TomerCohen Friday eventing brought on problems with logins, transactions, teleporting, mapping, search, profiles, inworld services, and more. A rolling restart completed Saturday morning. Group Payouts were again delayed and had to be processed manually. The support portal will be down for three hours tonight. Related Posts Second Life Rolling Restart A rolling restart ...
Many regions were offline in Second Life today
2008-04-25 22:05:00 Many regions were offline in Second Life today. The problem was related to the rolling restart. Many regions were quickly back online with the majority restored by an hour. After two hours all affected regions were back online. Hopefully we will enjoy a weekend full of stability and reliability. Related Posts Second Life ...
Credit Card Information Freeze
2008-04-25 19:22:00 photo credit: ShutterCat7 Credit Card Information Freeze. Linden Labs is having a problem with their credit card processor. You will be unable to delete or modify a credit card and updates are taking several hours. Paypal information is so far unaffected. I recommend using Paypal as a preferred payment method. Related Posts Do You Need ...
Ye Old Land Store
2008-04-25 04:19:00 Ye Old Land Store Well, the old land store is back. Linden Labs has scrubbed the new land store. The old land store will be set up with the new prices. Please remember that you must wait for delivery and the old land store does not work correctly with Internet Explorer. You ...
The rolling restarts for server version 1.21 are now scheduled
2008-04-25 02:02:00 The rolling restarts for server version 1.21 are now scheduled. On Thursday, April 24, 2008, the process will begin at 8:10 pm. The Wednesday update went well with a few minor bugs. Most of these bugs have been fixed with other fixes scheduled for Friday and Saturday. I really love the ...
With the release of the candidate viewer RC3 version
2008-04-24 19:22:00 With the release of the candidate viewer RC3 version 1.2 stability should replace bugs. The support portal will also be down. The outage will be from Saturday April 26, 2008 starting at 6 pm until midnight. Chat support and ticket support will be down. Get your tickets in now ahead of ...
Rolling restarts will hit for the rest of the week
2008-04-23 22:13:00 Rolling restarts will hit for the rest of the week. This will be to correct a but in Server version 1.21. Physics fixes will be the highest priority. No viewer update is required. The backup and restore process will also be updated. Expect limited availability in Second Life. Related Posts Wait wasn’t ...
Old 97?s Here?s to the Halcyon
2008-04-19 08:37:00 Old 97’s Here?s to the Halcyon lyrics (and Old 97’s Here?s to the Halcyon music video –if it will publish on youtube and embed video codes to be free– ) coming soon. Please visit again at next times. Buy original Old 97’s Albums. Click here to buy from Amazon Maybe you want to send your fav. artists’ songs’ lyrics Send ...
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The new Viewer 1.20 is now available
2008-04-19 02:07:00 The new Viewer 1.20 is now available. Updates include a fix for Linux and other languages. Other fixes for Mac have been included as well as color improvements and much more. Several fixes including graphics card issues, snapshot issues, age verification fixes, and xml updates are also included. You can download ...
The 1.21 version Second Life software was unsuccessfully implemented
2008-04-18 08:31:00 The 1.21 version Second Life software was unsuccessfully implemented. Linden Labs is attempting a partial upgrade to a version 1.20 initially. This will then be followed with an upgrade to version 1.21. The downside is that the upgrade process will take much longer. More down time will also result. Additional ...
Lol has Second Life been down all week?
2008-04-17 19:29:00 Lol has Second Life been down all week? There are more in world issues today. Problems included failed logins, transactions, mapping, teleporting, search, the support portal, live chat, ticket submission, and more. Interesting how support always goes down at these times isn’t it? Linden Labs better get it’s act together. ...
Linden Labs has released several ?executive graphs?
2008-04-15 23:59:00 In the face of criticisms over land prices and talk of a land crisis and abandoned land in Second Life Linden Labs has released several “executive graphs”. What is an executive graph? Why a bunch of green and lots of bars going up up up! You can see some of the graphs ...
Rolling Restarts will thunder across the land Wednesday
2008-04-15 06:15:00 photo credit: Brett L. Rolling Restarts will thunder across the land Wednesday. They will be broken up in three stages startingat 8:00 pm on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 and lasting until about the same time on Thursday. New patches and server changes including Havok4 updates and central database changes will be implemented. ...
Beam Me Up Scotty. I can?t I don?t have the Power!
2008-04-13 06:19:00 photo credit: bibliona Teleporting was flaky recently in Second Life. The problem lasted for over 7 hours. The problems seemed to be limited to certain regional virtual sims. If you encounter this problem you can change your start location to avoid this region. Teleporting and region crossing is such a vital ...
Database and Firewall Problems
2008-04-13 06:13:00 Database and Firewall Problems. On Thursday evening Second Life ran into further database problems. Logins were slow, mapping was down, transactions were down, teleporting was down, and other features were not available. This was corrected but another problem showed up. Firewalls were causing timeouts were causing problems with the web site, Lindex orders, ...
Friday login problems.
2008-04-12 05:51:00 Friday login problems. Friday brought more login problems. So far it has been about two hours. I am still getting difficulty logging in. Search is also down. A patch is heading out. I would expect another rolling restart shortly. Wasn’t the database upgrade supposed to increase performance and reliability? Related Posts Login ...
Non-English Display Issues
2008-04-11 06:42:00 Non-English Display Issues Starting early this morning Non-English characters were not displaying correctly. This was a fallout from the database update. Many non-English symbols are showing up as question marks in chat, descriptions, ads, groups, and profiles. The data is currently being restored. After about eight hours the process is still under ...
Today brought the promised upgrade to the central database systems
2008-04-09 19:30:00 Today brought the promised upgrade to the central database systems. The upgrade was scheduled for 7 am to 8 am. This should greatly increase performance and reliability. During the upgrade Second Life is basically down. Logins are disabled as is teleporting, transactions, profiles, mapping, and more. The upgrade seemed to ...
Problems hit this weekend
2008-04-08 01:42:00 Problems hit this weekend. There were many problems this weekend. A ISP and routing problem brought down Second Life. Logins were disabled most of Saturday. The outages lasted for at least 12 hours on this day. After logins were restored problems continued with telports, objects, scripts, rendering, rezzing, transactions, mapping, ...
After a rolling restart yesterday there are more plans in the works
2008-04-03 22:28:00 After a rolling restart yesterday there are more plans in the works. A load balancing test will be held specifically for group functions. (very needed). The rolling restart took about 5 hours. Many residents are still reacting to the new viewer. Related Posts Second Life Rolling Restart A rolling restart was completed for the ...
Second Life Viewer 1.19.1 is now available
2008-04-03 02:31:00 Second Life Viewer 1.19.1 is now available. This viewer includes WindLight atomospheric lighting. Other improvements are as follows: 1. Rendering Features improvements 2. Rendering improvements and bug fixes 3. Fixes to decrease crash rates 4. Add web media to a parcel for web content inworld 5. Embed a web browser 6. Voice bug fixes 7. Better Linux support 8. Inventory fixes 9. ...
Problems continue in Second Life
2008-04-01 22:13:00 Problems continue in Second Life. Transactions were down. Teleporting was not working. Logins and mapping had issues. Support was also unavailable. More of the same I am afraid. We really need some stability. Related Posts It is monday morning and the problems continue It is monday morning and the problems in Second ...
Here is a rundown of some of the recent problems in Second Life
2008-03-31 19:46:00 photo credit: Ordinal Malaprop Here is a rundown of some of the recent problems in Second Life: 1. The asset servers are having problems 2. The call center went down 3. The Auction service is under maintenance 4. Rolling restarts afonte! 5. The Havok4 Betta is still getting bug fixes 6. Problems with transactions continued Related Posts Source of grid slowdowns ...
Problems continue this weekend in Second Life
2008-03-22 22:28:00 Problems continue this weekend in Second Life. In world transactions are down, teleporting is down, and regions are out. Rolling restarts and new ip addresses will take down thousands of regions at a time. The outages should last for about three to four hours. Sigh. Maybe a new CEO will ...
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Oh Thursday, Thursday, you bring so many problems to Second Life
2008-02-28 19:21:00 Oh Thursday, Thursday, you bring so many problems to Second Life. Billing and payments were again having connection issues. Then a massive server update was announced. The thing that bothers me is that this update is being deployed “by ear”. Over 500 regions will be restarted in the morning. Another ...
The January Economic stats for Second Life have been released
2008-02-23 01:36:00 The January Economic stats for Second Life have been released. One of the most interesting figures is that the resident owned mainland has decreased from 185.35 km2 to 182.92 km2. The number of premium accounts has reduced from 93,219 in December to 92,096 in January. Both of these stats look very bad. ...
Server, Network, and Hardware issues continue in Second Life
2008-02-21 06:52:00 photo credit: alex.linesServer, Network, and Hardware issues continue in Second Life. Another IP address change will be made and regions will be restarted frequently for the next two weeks. Server code is also being updated and resulted in outages of almost six hours. The support portal went down for about 15 ...
Problems in Second Life
2008-02-19 20:01:00 The last few days have brought many problems in Second Life. For about 4 hours several regions were down due to network problems. Login, teleport, and map functions were down. The land auction queue stalled out and no new properties were able to begin the auction process. Then PayPal services went ...
Linden Labs is begging for applications to the Second Life Department of Pu
2008-02-18 22:34:00 I reported earlier on the creation of the Second Life Department of Public Works. Well the new Linden Labs Department of Public Works is still a little short on builders. Linden Labs is begging for applications complete with detailed experience and references from two different Second Life avatars as well as images of ...
Residents were experiencing DNS failures after a login
2008-02-12 22:05:00 Residents were experiencing DNS failures after a login. The DNS failure was caused by a bad router. Linden Labs recommended a dns flush (strange). This problem prevented many from logging into Second Life. The problem now seems resolved. Related Posts Second Life has been plagued by website failures, support failures, and other web ...
Linden Labs launched a new department for Second Life
2008-02-10 04:32:00 Linden Labs launched a new department for Second Life. The Linden Department of Public Works is dedicated to improve the living experience through the creation of new art and architectures. Some great examples include building of parks, utilizing Linden Land (that’s right Linden Labs gives itself free land that if it wanted to ...
Wait wasn?t there just a rolling restart?
2008-02-05 19:23:00 Wait wasn’t there just a rolling restart? Why yes there was. but here is another one. The voice servers got a rolling restart to collect voice errors. And now another rolling restart is underway to fix many bugs. Expect an outage of six hours with many bugs surrounding for about ...
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