Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
Maestro Linden has posted in the Deploy thread answering Inara’s question on when the AO functions would be rolled out. The answer: today. The release notes have been changed to avoid making it sound like the AO functions were being taken out.
We have an RC package rolling to the main channel Tuesday. This is the package running on Magnum last week.
The features in it are:
You probably know about SSA – Server Side Appearance by now. But, as we move into it and more people try it we are finding an oddity here and there. Today I heard of a new one.
As things are planned your viewer will handle your appearance during editing in Appearance Mode ( as right click on avatar Edit My Outfit ) always has, baking things locally and quickly. But, when you go into Appearance and pop on an Outfit, does the SSA system try to find a cached bake of the Outfit? Or does it just start baking the Outfit? Either would take some time. Does the viewer have to wait on the server?
Second Life™ data centers are located in Phoenix and Dallas according to Maestro Linden. He is not sure but thinks there is another in DC. A few months ago the Lab was consolidating from three data centers to two. So, it is probably two, but one never knows.
When asked, Maestro confirmed there is no data center in San Francisco.
If you geo-locate the region IP addresses (site) you can get from the viewer’s Help-About…, you will probably find the addresses are in other locations. For me most regions appear to be served from San Francisco. I suspect that if you are on the east coast of the USA you’ll find them in a different city, but I’m not sure. Let me know if you check it.
I’m about 460 miles from San Francisco and about 300 miles from Phoenix. So, one would think that I would connect to the closer servers in Phoenix. But, network traffic routes through the major backbones and data centers. Traffic leaving Southern California generally travels up to Los Angles (LA). For me to connect to a site in Cambridge, Mass. (173.223.104.110) my connection is through LA and up to Montréal, Canada and eventually to Cambridge. Not the most direct route for surface travel. The point being map distance is not the same as network distance.
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Lette has a new page up with solutions for the top three problems Firestorm Support is seeing: Frequently Asked Firestorm Support Questions: May 1.
The three top problems are:
Lette has provided the fixes the Firestorm Team has.