[Posted 2:10pm PDT, 4 June 2012] We will be performing rolling restarts for all regions shortly. They will begin today, June 4 at approximately 2:15PM PDT. Please refrain from rezzing no copy objects, making inworld L$ transactions and remember to save all builds.
I suppose this is due to the Tp Griefer attacks.
Today we are seeing new griefer toy creating chaos.
The new Linden Realm’s Advanced Creator Tools currently in Magnum is being user to create teleporters with broken permissions. When taken outside Magnum the toys will teleport people without their permission.
This morning I got to see the Cornfield for the first time. Then they teleported a load of people into the Scripting UG Meeting.
An immediate fix is for a region owner to turn scripts off.
Or, if your region is in the Magnum Release Channel it is immune.
Otherwise expect chaos until the Lindens figure out a fix, which may be to roll the package running on Magnum to the main grid.
PS: Motor Loon says, “Hi mom!”
UPDATE: The server updates rolled late Monday seems to have fixed the problem.
Scanning the Second Life® news today I found an article on new World Notes by Hamlet about Oz Linden reconsidering whether the Mesh Defmer is worth the effort… the bother to add it to Second Life. Hamlet’s article is: Linden Lab Needs Mesh Samples to Test Qarl’s Mesh Deformer — Or May Not Incorporate It Into SL Viewers At All.
Crying Leo by storyvillegirl on Flickr
If you don’t know the Mesh Deformer or the Parametric Deformer is the missing part of the mesh project that was never completed. The Deformer will allow mesh clothes to change with avatar shape controls. It causes mesh clothes to follow the Enhanced Avatar Physics, the clothes bounce with the boobies. The Lindens are considering dropping the project. We need to demonstrate support for the project for it to continue. This article is about getting the support into a visible place for the Lindens to see.
I found Oz’s comments in the JIRA STORM-1716 item. Continue reading
Taken from the Second Life Grid Status page.
[Posted 9:45am PDT, 8 May 2012] We [Linden Lab] will be performing scheduled maintenance [on the Second Life system] today, Wednesday and Thursday of this week (May 8, May 9, May 10), beginning at 6:00pm PDT each day. Each maintenance is scheduled to last around 8 hours. Please save all builds and refrain from rezzing no copy objects, as some regions may be taken offline and remain offline for extended periods of time. Please follow this blog [Grid Status blog] for any updated information.
See the coming SL News post for some speculation and ideas to what is going on.
Also…
[Posted 9:25 pm PDT, 07 May 2012]
Some regions are taking longer than normal to work their way through restarts this evening. In addition, they’re reporting higher-than-normal spikes in performance and viewer instability.
Our engineers have done the preliminary work tracing the problem and will be forming a team early tomorrow to fully diagnose and correct it.
Tonight, please file a “region offline” service request as needed for any region which remains inaccessible to you for longer than 15 minutes or so, and we’ll work with our network engineers to assist the restarts as needed.
I ran into this problem in early March. It seems my idea to change my password to flush and refresh my inventory in the ADITI grid was not such a good idea. It seems others use the same idea and change their password too. Or some may do it for security reasons. I suspect those of us playing and working in ADITI are more concerned about our inventory.
No Save Inventory – This is an annoying problem. When a password is changed one’s inventory is copied over to ADITI. Any inventory one had in ADITI previously is REPLACED. This is an expected behavor. It can be used to clean out the tons of test stuff one generate playing and experimenting in ADITI.
The new problem is anything created and saved to inventory will be gone the next time you login. Build something, save it to inventory, relog, and it is gone.
It seems we are getting more people biting on or may be just casting phishing scams in Second Life.
About a month ago I did an article on Second Life Phishing and how one can avoid being suckered. See: PHISHING? NO, THANKS.
If you haven’t read the article now is a good time. This is psychological warfare.
Auryn Beorn's Profile Pic
Auryn Beorn has made a note card that is making it around Second Life. I received a copy of it from a friend in D’ni Refugees (a Myst related group). It is great advice and information about avoiding being scammed.
Auryn’s profile has info abour being into; The Basic to Advanced Scripting, SculptCrafter, MLP, Animation, Tips&Tricks instructor at Builders Brewery. And she is the owner of “Black Tulip” (scripted tools, books, scripts).
Yep, another one of us creative types in Second Life. 🙂 After the fold is the copy of her note card with some tweaks to fit the formatting of my blog. Continue reading
If you use the ADITI Preview Grid for testing things you make or the new features coming to Second Life, be warned.
A few of us have recently updated our password, which forces an update of our inventory as it exists in AGNI, the main grid, to overwrite our inventory in ADITI. In many ways for me it is cleanup process for all the stuff I play with in ADITI.
This weekend I changed my password and my ADITI inventory updated. I suddenly could not rez anything from my inventory to the Path Test regions in ADITI. I made the things I needed from scratch and wrote my scripts for testing Pathfinding. When I was ready to log out I saved those things to inventory.
When I returned several hours later and logged in, all the things I made were missing from my ADITI inventory. I’ve been through this a couple of times now. I am so glad I use LSLEditor for writing scripts.
At the user group meetings I found out others are having the problem too. So, my advice is to avoid changing your password until the problem is resolved.
If you have already run into the problem, see JIRA item: SVC-7727. Please click Watch and add any additional information you may have. Remember. The JIRA is not for discussion. Also, ‘me too’ posts do not help if they do not add new information. For ‘me too’ just click watch.