Second Life Crackdown on Music Piracy? Linden Labs is creating a mailing list of Second Life residents who are interested in forming a community focused on all issues related to music in Second Life. This community will be made up of Second Life musicians, Second Life venue owners, Second Life music enthusiasts, and Second [...]

Second Life Update: Data Loss. Linden Labs is reporting high levels of packet loss (lost data) when transferring between the Second Life Dallas Texas collocation facility and the Second Life San Francisco collocation facility. This data loss or packet loss is disrupting logins to the Second Life grid and is resulting in very [...]

There are some new key metrics in Second Life which include the rate at which the client crashes, server performance, and client performance of frames per second. The client crashes covers a percentage per session, unrequested logouts, disconnects, and manual reports of a crash. Server frames per seconds is an important new measure [...]

There were grid issues as of early this morning. The Second Life web site was not functioning. Logings to the Second Life Grid were also down. In world search in Second Life was also disabled with instabilities in the grid following for a few additional hours. With all the talk about [...]

Second Life Download Update Viewer Process. There is a new process for new viewers. The viewers will first be released as side by side viewers that can run concurrently with the last viewer. This will allow for easier bug comparison and feature checks. Public testing will be available of the latest [...]

Second Life Update. Here is your Second Life Update. For early September the mainland land supply will be reduced to no more than 8 regions per day. The current level was 10 regions per day. The total number of residents who have logged in the last seven is 440,589. There [...]

Second Life Identity Verification. Second Life is developing a new Identity Verification system. Options such as location, sex, and age are optional. The Second Life Identity Verification system will verify age most importantly. Land owners can then flag their land as restricted to over 18 using the new system. Information [...]

Do you smell that burning smell in your computer? If you are an experienced computer user you know exactly what it is. Try to turn on your computer and that will only confirm it. Your power supply has fried. This typically happens with cheap power supplies or power supplies that are [...]

There is a new radio station in Second Life. The Virtual World Radio Network provides top of the hour news brodcasts as well as news stories and advertising. All you need is a virtual radio to listen to their broadcast. So far the broadcasts have been professionally done and have been very [...]

Second Life was experiencing inworld slow downs yesterday and today. The slow downs resulted in very slow functionality of the search functionality as well as slow mapping usage. Other features such as teleporting and payments were not fuctioning or were working very slowly. Asset operations and linden dollar balances displays were iffy [...]