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Friday, February 29, 2008
The living
Creatures of the night roam the lands freely and the innocent become victims.
When sheep turn to wolves and nothing is what it seems a bright light will come.
The messenger has arrived." (more in our extra section)
A City of Dreams….
Rolling restart over the weekend !
We’re going to play the deploy “by ear”, meaning roll it out to a small number (hundreds) or simulators first before deploying to the whole grid. Here’s a rough schedule:
* Thursday AM: Rolling restart of ~500 regions [Done]
* Thursday PM: Rolling restart of ~1500 regions [Done]
* Friday/Monday (?) AM: Rolling restart of the rest of the grid
We plan on updating the regions running the Havok4 Server Beta code in parallel with this early today. Sidewinder Linden will post with an update soon.
As usual, the rolling restarts will occur in “random” order across the grid (they go by hardware arrangement rather than region arrangement). A 5 minute warning is given before each region is restarted.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
A Wedding Fit for a Princess
Most of us women have thought about our perfect dream wedding at least once. We have thought about the details of who we would like to marry, where the wedding would take place, and who we would invite. Even more of us have fantasized about the perfect wedding gown that would make us look and feel like a princess. So, what would it be like to have that fairy tale wedding? I’ve been talking a lot with a Tiny Empire princess, who would like to share with us just how much work goes into having the perfect royal wedding!
read more about Bachel and her royal wedding in the PEOPLE section of the paper!
WSE to Abandon Linden Dollar, Postpones Re-Launch
VLB - Virtual Live Band Celebrate 1st Years Anniversary
Click here to go to Events section and read more.
Violence erupts in Ghul Federal Prison
Action Movie
The invention of Television Time Travel (3T)
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Content theft continues
I can fully understand the designers' and content creators' frustration over this issue I just wish just for once the Lindens would stop worrying about user numbers and start worrying about the users themselves!
Finance in the news...........
Well, I have access to my money back, though there's a catch.......................
By Bixyl Shuftan
AVC ESN Update and proposed re-structure
Dear Investors,
As you are all most likely aware, Vstex have decided to delist AVC and leave you guys to fight over the bones................
Read both in FINANCE
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Linden Department of Public Works PART II
then, we will also move on to look at.............
Want to know it all, then check for more in our EXTRA section.
Zero Linden & Rob Linden
[13:06] Zero Linden: what is that sound?
[13:06] Harleen Gretzky: The spiing cube headcrab zombies in MF's land
[13:07] Zero Linden: there - that's better
[13:08] Rob Linden: hi folks
[13:08] Everyone: hi rob
[13:08] Zero Linden: welcome all to my office hours - now with less zoombies!
[13:09] Zero Linden: likes the notion of zombie as a mass noun
[13:09] Zero Linden: okay, all discussion is in public here - speak clearly, right into the wiki....
[13:09] Zero Linden: testing.... one, two, three....
[13:09] Zero Linden: is this thing on?
[13:09] Zha Ewry: hlkjgkj kjfgyut8 kghikyu56967togl.,
[13:10] Zero Linden: Zha - that can and will be used against you in a court of the internet!
[13:11] Zero Linden: Well - seems that our nemsis, multi-agent chat (including group IM), is just a very very difficult dragon to control
[13:11] Zero Linden: Do not take this a full post mortem - or even an official one....
[13:12] Zero Linden: but, there have been some memory leaks in the code for multi-agent chat. So far, two have been fixed, but there appears to be a third
[13:12] Zero Linden: these are hard to find because they seem to only really leak with the server is stressed enough to start swapping
[13:13] Zero Linden: at that point, something isn't reaping some data structures fast enough and the whole thing snowballs
[13:14] Zero Linden: indeed - and as I understand it, this was all just supposed to be the server side push of some IM improvements,
[13:14] Zero Linden: Rex - actually, multi-agent chat is now handeded entirely by its own python process
[13:14] Zero Linden: actually, 16 of 'em on the central utility machines
[13:15] Zero Linden: Well - yes, though I don't think leaking in the sense of losing memory that is no longer reachable (Python's GC does work, as far as we know)
[13:16] Zero Linden: but as in there are things, like unused sessions and agent caches that under some condition or other isn't getting cleaned up fast enough
[13:16] Zero Linden: and thrashing python isn't pretty....
[13:18] Zero Linden: ah - I see from the internal IRC that the team has just caught one of these IM servers in the act!
[13:19] Zero Linden: Is Rob still here? and movement on the possibility of getting some of those files released?
photoLIFE Brings Next Generation Photography to Second Life!
Find out more in DESIGN
Baron DeSantis Set Free
To read the Diaries of “The Ghul Prison Sink Freak” part 1, click here. Names of Guards and convicts have been deleted to protect the guilty and innocent, but they will know who they are, especially the one that dragged me to The Tower twice in one day, B******.
Monday, February 25, 2008
BNT Financial Unveils Depositor Repayment Plan
Vstex Delists AVC, SLC
Fashion News
PLUS
Rfyre's newest release
both in our DESIGN section
Bid for a Model Raised more than 100,000L for Warchild International
Sunday, February 24, 2008
AVC Trading Halted; CEO Announces Departure
The Virtual Stock Exchange (VSTEX) has temporarily halted trading in the shares of Atlas Virtual Capital (VSTEX:AVC). According to VSTEX Communications and Public Relations Director Samantha Goldflake the action was taken in response to allegations by AVC CFO Mike31 Dawes that CEO Monkey Canning was in the process of liquidating AVC assets and that he, Dawes, feared that Canning intended to “take that and run.” Read the full story in SLN Finance.
Electronic transmission from Ghul Federal Prison
Hi Everyone, have to be quick as managed to sneak into unmanned security station. Success I finally got a sink !! Oh the agony of three painful trips to the Tower was worth it for a sink. Will release full details of incarceration when I get out... I Am getting out right? Oh no.. a Guard has noticed the monitor is on..he has seen me uh oh..
'No Sir I got lost Sir. Didn't touch anything Sir. No Sir not the Tower. Nooooooooooooooooooo
connection terminated........................
by Wishedon !
More in our design section.
Reader Responses
Linden Department of Public Works
Work has begun on Bay City, home of the "Fighting Moles" also known as The City by the Void.
LDPW is getting in touch with, and getting signed contracts from, our first set of resident builders and we expect to have our first team meeting in the upcoming week to discuss allocation of tasks, share reference materials, and hand out trowels & grout bags. These skilled contractors will be given project-specific accounts so should you run into a very small avatar with a hardhat, bearing the last name "Mole" be sure to say say hi!
In the meantime, Michael and I (bluelinden) have been organizing the layout of the Regions and parcels.
The style is the American urban experience, between 1940 and 1965, perhaps best typified by Chicago circa 1950 and marked by a distinct deco influence. Most parcels will be around 1024 square meters and "join and divide parcels" will be turned off at the estate level. Residents can still build across parcel boundaries if they own, or have permission to build on, adjacent parcels; but by not allowing parcels to be joined or divided, we hope to influence the "scale" of builds in Bay City.
Secondlife in REAL 3D !
3D glasses like the image below do their magic by means of LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) shutters, which let only one eye see your monitor at a time, and flicker very rapidly so you get the illusion of a continuous image. Asus has brought this before for usage in games like Quake and Halflife, but now the way to secondlife seems to be found.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Beauty is Far Deeper..
THE CAGE - Dance Club !
If you like to have fun - chat amongst the peeps...this is the place for you !!Great Place to meet new people - and find out what the locals are up to !!
Find out more in EXPLORE
Friday, February 22, 2008
Breaking news - reporter arrested...........
Baron DeSantis: What the **** can someone get me a lawer!!
Be-Dazzled
Department of Public Works project
No less then 7 Lindens were attending at a Linden press conference yesterday. Voice powered everyone could ask questions about the ongoing DPW project involving the "beautification" of public locations in SL.
The full transscript will be available soon from Linden Labs. As soon as its available we will publish it here !
Jack Linden said that the main goals for DPW are
1. To improve the mainland experience for those living or visiting there.
2. To encourage community involvement in the mainlands.
3. To make the Linden Estate the best showcase for the face of Second Life.
It was great to see Jack, Melissa and Catherine Linden so enthusiastic about this "beautification". Thanx
JamesT Juno
Thursday, February 21, 2008
What to do around the Zurich Sims?
Music Awareness Event to be Held March 21-23
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Crashes & Lag:
To read the poem click here.
The Unicorn
FORSYTHE WHITFIELD RELEASES CD
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Varma Bumm - Day +5
The Late Yonsay.
Life! Or should I say Second Life, no that’s too much, how about slife, that’s better. Yes, I like that, slife, said with a certain pathos. So anyway, here’s a double apology. Sorry for the gaps between articles, and sorry for being late Zena! Who is Zena, I can almost hear you mutter, don’t worry, I’m going to tell all (about her positive thinking talk that is).
Find out more in the Explore section.
Designs from Nyre Gray of Caliber
Find out more in the DESIGN section
RL education in SL.
Monday, February 18, 2008
KoKo Nuts Beach Club
Read all about it in EXPLORE section.