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Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Looks like its gonna be a bumpy weekend for Residents!
Rolling Restart to deploy server version 1.24.5, Wed-Fri, Sep 10-12We will be deploying server version 1.24.5 to Second Life this week. This version includes no new major features, but fixes bugs with the current 1.24.4 server that is on Second Life. More details of what’s been changed can be found on the Second Life Wiki’s release notes page for 1.24.
This rolling restart will follow our usual three-stage deploy:
Wed, 09/10, 9pm : A pilot group of ~3000 regions will be restarted.
Thu, 09/11, 5-9am : Half of Second Life will be restarted.
Fri, 09/12, 5-9am : The remainder of Second Life will be restarted.
As with all rolling restarts, each region will receive warnings starting 5 minutes before they are restarted. No region should stay down more than 10 or 20 minutes; if your region stays down longer than 20 minutes, please contact support.
Further discussion of the 1.24.5 server deploy can be found in this thread in the Second Life forums.
Server Crash Affecting Logins
[6:59 AM Pacific] One of our main infrastructure servers has suffered a crash. This will result in various in world problems as well as failed logins. Our technicians are working on damage control and we hope to have things back to normal and logins fully restored shortly.
Prospero Linden
The problems we had before (an hour or two ago) were not due to the rolling restart. A technician in our datacenter hooked up a cable, and somehow a network loop was created. We figured out what was going on pretty quickly, and asked them to disconnect the cable. In the mean time, however, there was a fair amount of chaos. We're not sure exactly how the cable was connected incorrectly...............
In case you didn't see it on the status blog -- we're postponing this morning's rolling restart, as we have one more bug fix that's going to go in. Assuming all goes well, we'll redo the pilot roll later this morning, and then will do a Thursday Night / Friday Morning half-and-half roll of the entire grid.
9.11 Events today:-
9.11 Never Forget
On 9.11.08 At approx 8:30 AM Eastern Time
"9.11 Never Forget - A Memorial in Second Life"
will take place in Second Life at the New York, NYC Sim at the World Trade Center Memorial. This event will be hosted by Melody Regent and her staff at Regent Estates. All are invited to attend and be a part of this very special day of remembrance in which the names of all of the almost 3000 people who perished in the terrorist attacks of 9.11.01 will be read by residents from SL Fashion, Music, Art, Builders, TV, Bloggers, Podcasters and others who have donated their time and efforts to take part..
The "9/11 Firefighters Memorial Wall in SL" by Second Life builder "Talin Sands" will be unveiled.
If you miss the 8:30 AM reading of the names you can still stop by the sim later in the day when it will be replayed again throughout the day on the music stream.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20York%20NYC/173/157/21
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"Tribute in Light: A 9-11 Memorial in SL (Cetus)
(CETUS) - As night falls in Cetus this Thursday, September 11, "Tribute in Light," a replica of the glowing light beams that shone in RL New York in 2004, will glow brightly in the skies over Cetus Gallery District during a 24-hour memorial event and fundraiser to honor the firefighters, police, and emergency workers who gave their lives or were injured in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
The light towers were commissioned by Cetus founder Xander Ruttan, and constructed by Zachh Cale of Cetus-based Zachh Cale Gallery along with help from Supremious and Sensuous Maximus of SL's Builder's Brewery, based on the DIXON Perfect sim.
Interestingly, the 9-11 tribute isn't the only connection Cetus has with Ground Zero. The Beauchamp Building in Cetus, an iconographic structure due to its central location, height and distinctinctive bell tower reminiscent of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C., was conceived by Ruttan and built with a RL architect whose projects include rehabilitation of one of the buildings badly damaged when Tower 2 fell.
A daylong series of events will occur in Cetus to mark the 7th anniversary of 9-11.
For a complete lineup of the day's speakers and performers, contact event organizers. CONTACT: Hope McAlpine, any1 Gynoid, event organizers,
or Xander Ruttan, Founder, Cetus Gallery District
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On 9.11.08 At approx 8:30 AM Eastern Time"9.11 Never Forget - A Memorial in Second Life"
will take place in Second Life at the New York, NYC Sim at the World Trade Center Memorial. This event will be hosted by Melody Regent and her staff at Regent Estates. All are invited to attend and be a part of this very special day of remembrance in which the names of all of the almost 3000 people who perished in the terrorist attacks of 9.11.01 will be read by residents from SL Fashion, Music, Art, Builders, TV, Bloggers, Podcasters and others who have donated their time and efforts to take part..
The "9/11 Firefighters Memorial Wall in SL" by Second Life builder "Talin Sands" will be unveiled.
If you miss the 8:30 AM reading of the names you can still stop by the sim later in the day when it will be replayed again throughout the day on the music stream.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20York%20NYC/173/157/21
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"Tribute in Light: A 9-11 Memorial in SL (Cetus)
(CETUS) - As night falls in Cetus this Thursday, September 11, "Tribute in Light," a replica of the glowing light beams that shone in RL New York in 2004, will glow brightly in the skies over Cetus Gallery District during a 24-hour memorial event and fundraiser to honor the firefighters, police, and emergency workers who gave their lives or were injured in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.The light towers were commissioned by Cetus founder Xander Ruttan, and constructed by Zachh Cale of Cetus-based Zachh Cale Gallery along with help from Supremious and Sensuous Maximus of SL's Builder's Brewery, based on the DIXON Perfect sim.
Interestingly, the 9-11 tribute isn't the only connection Cetus has with Ground Zero. The Beauchamp Building in Cetus, an iconographic structure due to its central location, height and distinctinctive bell tower reminiscent of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C., was conceived by Ruttan and built with a RL architect whose projects include rehabilitation of one of the buildings badly damaged when Tower 2 fell.
A daylong series of events will occur in Cetus to mark the 7th anniversary of 9-11.
For a complete lineup of the day's speakers and performers, contact event organizers. CONTACT: Hope McAlpine, any1 Gynoid, event organizers,
or Xander Ruttan, Founder, Cetus Gallery District
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
What were they thinking?
In this SL economy, why would Hellespont Hoorenbeek actually buy a couple of regions and set up a new residential community?Find out in the EXPLORE section
RUNWAY Magazine Hits Milestone
Since launching their first issue in March 2008, RUNWAY Magazine has made its mark on the fashion industry in Second Life, distributing over 40,000 copies of their August 2008 issue alone.Find out more in the DESIGN section
Monday, September 8, 2008
Emilin Nakamori’s Physical Machines
Emilin Nakamori had a few things to say about her "Physical Machines, " and her hands-on research into the limits of Second Life physics.Continued in DESIGN
2008 Hippo Award Winners Announced:
Today on the Blog - Rob Linden presented the awards at a mixed reality event that linked an inworld gathering of nominees, attendees of the Second Life Community Convention in Tampa, FL, and others tuning in via audio stream. See the wiki for the full text of his presentation and a review of the last year’s highlights.
What are the Hippo awards? :
"The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards -- aka the Hippo Awards -- acknowledge excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards highlight open source community members who have made the biggest impact on the quality and advancement of the Second Life Viewer and the Second Life experience for all."
The winners this year were:
Best Documentation are Asuka Neely and Gally Young.
Best Issue Tracker Organization is Harleen Gretzky.
Best Working Group Organization is Tao Takashi.
Best Code Contribution goes to the contributor of the voice lipsync feature, Mm Alder.
Best Code Contribution goes to the contributor of the voice lipsync feature, Mm Alder.
Best Community Influence: Lex Neva.
The 2008 Hippo Award Contributor of the Year is Michelle2 Zenovka.
Please join Linden Lab in thanking these contributors and the open source community for their work to improve the Second Life experience for everyone.
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