Archive for November, 2007
Problems in Second Life loomed large again today. It is Tuesday, November 20, 2007 and some “maintenance” took out much of the functionality in Second Life. Search has been down for over 7 hours, logging has been disrupted, and general slowness and outages continued. The Second Life Support portal went down and [...]
November 20th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Here is Your Second Life Update for Monday, November, 19, 2007. On Monday Second Life experienced login problems. The login problems in Second Life were caused by network problems. Regions experienced the problems for over 2 hours. The new Second Life viewer 1.18.5 Viewer candidate was also released.
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November 20th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Coca-Cola recently awarded the winner of a contest in Second Life. The Second Life contest was for the design of a coke despensing machine. Winner Emerie May took home the prize and the new Coca Cola vending machine was recently unveiled. Emerie May designed a large pink Coke vending machine featuring different [...]
November 19th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Serbia Enters Second Life
The country of Serbia has entered Second Life. Serbia has created Serbia Island in Second Life. Serbia Island will feature a concert from the Belgrade Philharmonic. The virtual sim o fSerbia Island is currently under construction but will include information terminals for the Ministry of Diaspora. This is [...]
November 19th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
It is monday morning and the problems in Second Life continue. Voice chat in Second Life has been down since 2 AM and is still down. Ho hum, sesame street blues. I suspect other services are having problems as well. Hopefully things will stabilize soon before the next rolling restart when [...]
November 19th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Thommas Miles has won the L$500,000 machinima script competition. The scriptwriter Weltbild ran the contest. The finalists were: “Das Geheimnis des 7.Meeres” by Orpheus Kurosawa, “White Spot” by Thommas Miles, “Blow Up” by Awie Apfelbaum, and “A Sailor and the Lady of the Lake” by Vivan Jackalope. I hope to see [...]
November 18th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The issues in Second Life continue. The new IP address assignments took over 7 hours with two thousand regions down during the process. The surprise surprise a network problem in the Dallas colocation facility took down five hundred and forty regions in Second Life for over an hour. Later on Saturday in [...]
November 18th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
I will be attending the Metaverse 07 Conference. The Metaverse 07 Conference will feature a party and is free for Second Life residents. Keynote speakers for the Metaverse 07 Conference include Jean Linden and Anshe Chung. The party will be at AvaStar Island. The converence will be held from November 19, [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Second Life began the process of restarting over two thousand regions. The restart is being caused by the assigning of new ip addresses to servers. The restart process will be broken up across the entire day. Hurray for the uptime percentage in Second Life. Good work Linden Labs.
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November 16th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Wind Light is a great program in Second Life. With Wind Light you can customize and design beautiful skys and scenes. Wind Light greatly adds to the quality of photos taken in Second Life. Wind Light features a sky editor, day cycle editor, water settings, glow settings and more. Check out [...]
November 16th, 2007 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments