Archive for June, 2007

Online Storage and backup is the way of the future with ever increasing internet and soon fiber speeds.

Remote Online Storage and backup is the way of the future with ever increasing internet and soon fiber speeds. Data redundency quickly makes this a cost effective solution as apposed to maintaining multiple external drives or servers on site and adds the extra security of a seperate physical location in case of natural disaster [...]

Rolling restart cancelled and other issues

SecondLife reported on their blog Tuesday that they are cancelling the rolling restart due to crash-on-edit bugs and rescheduling the release for tomorrow. Bugs on slow logins and login failures was also plaguing second life and contributed to the delay of the rolling restart.
Related PostsRolling Restart CompleteThe rolling restart was completed at 10:55 a.m. [...]

SecondLife to eliminate manditory viewer updates

SecondLife said in their blog Monday that they will be forever eliminating manditory viewer updates allowing backward and forward compatability of the viewers by updating the way SecondLife handels a viewer template.
Actually, security viewer patches updates will still be manditory but it does sound nice and will eliminate some of the constant manditory [...]

SecondLife will release an optional viewer and rolling restart on Monday

SecondLife will release an optional viewer and rolling restart on Monday June 25th which will include bug fixes from open source contributors. Some of the more prominent fixes include memory leak fix, stop all animations fix, png images support, accounts with negative L$ can’t purchase L$0 free items, camera controls fix, avatars eyes crossing [...]

SecondLife Birthday Celebration!

Second Life will celebrate it’s four year birthday at SL4B sim Saturday, June 23 Linden Labs said in their blog Friday. Volunteers have been planning the event and building up the surrounding sims.
Events include a large, 4 tiered cake and a time capsul filled with items from the past 4 years of life in [...]

LindeX removes PayPal access from inworld transactions

Linden Labs announced on their blog Tuesday that PayPal is having issues processing LindeX transactions.
Related PostsHere is your broke back payment mountain Second Life UpdateHere is your broke back payment mountain Second Life Update. Early this morning…Linden Labs Cracks Down on Fraud While Lining Their PocketsIn an attempt to crack down on money [...]

Second Life is launching a contest for the new Speech Gestures

Second Life is launching a contest for the new Speech Gestures. Contestants can submit a gesture to Heretic Linden by 3pm PST May, 7, 2007 and winners will be announced on May 9, 2007.
Related PostsAutomatically Gesture in Second Life Based on Chat Type InputAre you tired of talking to avatars in Second [...]

YouTube Remixer lets you edit video in real time adding titles, transitions, graphics and more

The new YouTube Remixer (help from Adobe) lets you edit video in real time adding titles, transitions, graphics and more
http://www.youtube.com/ytremixer

It is so easy and fun to edit together or shorten down video clips, add some audio in (already available), maybe some popup bubbles, titles and transitions, and WHAMMMO you have a much more professional looking [...]

Learn how to breakdance

Learn how to breakdance
Breakdancing, also known as b-boying and b-girling is a dance style that emerged from the street as part of the hip hop movement particularly in New York City and the South Bronx after 1970. The breakdance music or music accompying breakdancing is typically a remix of hip hop or funk music. [...]

Global Warming Caused Me to Shat My Pants

Global Warming Caused Me to Shat My Pants
…”A few gallons of ozone killing chemicals later the problem disappeared as an afterthought….”
Related PostsGlobal Warming Simulated in Second Life photo credit: Fabiano Goldoni

Global Warming Simulated in Second Life

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