Archive for April, 2008

Live Music Opportunity

photo credit: danceinthesky
There will be a live music concert in Second Life. The concert is on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Melodee McDonnell will be performing her jazz, classic, and pop songs. The concert begins at 8:00 pm on the Jades Jazz Island virtual sim in Second Life. Make sure to [...]

Whoops. Database and asset server problems

Whoops. Database and asset server problems began today. Starting at about 2:15 pm and continuing into the evening Saturday. Multiple services including scripts, rezzing, logins, teleporting, and more were down. Equipment was replaced. Asset Server issues continue for the time being.
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Rolling restart completed Saturday morning

photo credit: TomerCohen
Friday eventing brought on problems with logins, transactions, teleporting, mapping, search, profiles, inworld services, and more. A rolling restart completed Saturday morning. Group Payouts were again delayed and had to be processed manually. The support portal will be down for three hours tonight.
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Tomorrow features a very cool event in Second Life

photo credit: Miss K
Tomorrow features a very cool event in Second Life. There will be a hard rock concert at Frankfurt Rock Stage. Music should include hard rock, heavy metal music, gothic music, and more. The event is at the Frankfurt Sued West virtual sim in Second Life. The event [...]

Many regions were offline in Second Life today

Many regions were offline in Second Life today. The problem was related to the rolling restart. Many regions were quickly back online with the majority restored by an hour. After two hours all affected regions were back online. Hopefully we will enjoy a weekend full of stability and reliability.
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Credit Card Information Freeze

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Credit Card Information Freeze.
Linden Labs is having a problem with their credit card processor. You will be unable to delete or modify a credit card and updates are taking several hours. Paypal information is so far unaffected. I recommend using Paypal as a preferred payment method.
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HiPiHi is now in Open Beta: Video with Gameplay

I have written before about HiPiHi. Please enjoy this short video about the open beta of HiPiHi:

The video is in Japanese but gets much more interesting about half way through. With actual game play scenes. It is shockingly like Second Life yet very different.
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Ye Old Land Store

Ye Old Land Store
Well, the old land store is back. Linden Labs has scrubbed the new land store. The old land store will be set up with the new prices. Please remember that you must wait for delivery and the old land store does not work correctly with Internet Explorer. You [...]

The rolling restarts for server version 1.21 are now scheduled

The rolling restarts for server version 1.21 are now scheduled. On Thursday, April 24, 2008, the process will begin at 8:10 pm. The Wednesday update went well with a few minor bugs. Most of these bugs have been fixed with other fixes scheduled for Friday and Saturday. I really love the [...]

With the release of the candidate viewer RC3 version

With the release of the candidate viewer RC3 version 1.2 stability should replace bugs. The support portal will also be down. The outage will be from Saturday April 26, 2008 starting at 6 pm until midnight. Chat support and ticket support will be down. Get your tickets in now ahead of [...]