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SL Support Offline 11/7

2017/11/02 by Nalates Urriah

The Lindens have posted that they will have support offline November 7th starting at 3PM PT. They plan to have it back up by 9AM PT 11/8. It may take longer. They are changing the infrastructure of the support system. Only ‘open’ tickets from 2017 are being transferred over. There are 1.2 million tickets and … Read more

Second Life – Beta Animesh is HERE

2017/10/19 by Nalates Urriah

This week the awaited project viewer for Animesh was released. See Second Life Project Animesh Viewer version 5.0.9.329458 here. Release Notes: This is the first build of the Animesh Project Viewer. Animesh is a new feature under development that allows non-avatar objects to play animations like avatars do today. Animesh is still under development, so … Read more

Second Life – Just fun…

2017/10/16 by Nalates Urriah

Every so often I find an article that is just fun. Check this one out. http://bliss-imo.blogspot.com/2017/10/i-love-second-life.html Putting aside that you can fly and magically teleport yourself wherever you want to be in a matter of seconds, there is the factor that you can wander mountains in your lingerie. … It gets better.

Protesting in Second Life

2017/10/04 by Nalates Urriah

Hamlet has run a couple of articles about fat chicks protesting a store with the sign ‘No Fat Chicks’. (Link) Everyone commenting seems to think this is a serious ‘body shaming’ issue.

Hamlet made an effort to avoid promoting the store with The Sign, ‘No Fat Chicks’. But, the brand name is visible in the images he used so it doesn’t take long to figure out which store is being talked about, Back to Graceful.

It is hard to tell how the protest is going. Hamlet saw a bunch of people protesting. This morning there are 2 and they show as AFK. I suppose protests are boring…

Reading the articles and the follow-on comments, no one talks about basic principles or philosophical ideals. Seems most espouse narcissistic arrogance, situational ethics, and personal preferences. Protesters never seem overly bright to me. Emotional, yes. Activists seem to hold the brain trust. But, what’s the difference?

PSA – Talk Like a Pirate – Can you?

2017/09/15 by Nalates Urriah

This is a benefit with an in-world component. It looks fun. The announcement is: Issued: September 15, 2017 PRESS RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT Caledonia Skytower, Seanchai Library caledoniaskytower@gmail.com Seanchai Library Goes Salty for International Talk Like a Pirate Day Second Life – They are dusting off their cutlasses, refreshing their command of “The Code” … Read more

Linden Lab pours MILLIONS into Second Life

2017/08/29 by Nalates Urriah

Ebbe Linden has posted in the SL Forum. The post is titled Celebrating 14 Years of SL with Investments in Its Future. In it, he says they have budgeted US$ Millions for the coming year, which is awesome.

He tells us about some of the coming changes to Second Life. Some we know about, others are new news.

One change is moving SL to the cloud. I have heard no details. So, exactly what this means is currently speculation. My speculation is this should significantly drop the cost of running the system. I imagine an empty region could be spun down and then only spun up as needed. Would this reduce land cost? It might.