Nalates' Things & Stuff

Second Life: New Forum/Community Site … Almost

2017/03/01 by Nalates Urriah

Today I see the new SL Community Site is up. Not working, but there is a new landing page. No posts are showing. I can’t post anything. But, there is progress… I think…

Second Life Bits 2017 w09

2017/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

Forum

There is an update on the new forum roll out. See: UPDATE: New Community Platform Timeline.

Seems the data transfer is taking longer than expected. So, the forum remains locked today, no posting. The forum should open 2/28… some time today… well may be…

Mesh Addicts

Mesh Body Addicts has a new Weekly Fitmesh Finds are here! I’m not sure how much their finds affect traffic to the regions listed. My empirical experience is: it may take days for me to get into some of the regions listed. Uber seems unusually busy.

Internet Outage

2017/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

The outage is large enough to be making national news. Amazon cloud servers went down. That affects many web sites and services like Second Life. The SL asset services depend on Amazon’s cloud, the S3 services – AFAIK. SL login is supposedly not affected. The login servers are in one of the Lab’s locations or on … Read more

Second Life Current Problem

2017/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

Currently, Tuesday 2/28 at 10:15 AM SLT, There are grid problems and login problems. Lindens are investigating. We are on ‘do not rez no-copy items’ status. You may have problems rezing anything. It seems a service provider to Linden Lab is having problems. Identified – We have identified the issue as a problem with one … Read more

Second Life News 2017 w09

2017/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

This week (Tuesday) the main channel is not being updated or restarted. The RC channels are getting an update and that requires a restart.

Mazidox Linden writes the Deploys announcement even more briefly than Caleb did. Comparing the version number going to each of the three RC channels it appears they are all getting the same package.

The Release Notes list some improvements and a known bug.

Second Life: What Viewer Statistics?

2017/02/27 by Nalates Urriah

If you have ever pressed Ctrl-Shift-1 to reveal the Viewer Statistics panel and wondered what all the stuff means, there is a good explanation of the items in the panel over at the Firestorm Viewer Wiki. See: Firestorm Viewer Statistics. Almost the same information is available in the SL Wiki: Viewer help: Statistics.

I think on both sites they have simplified the text for the less techy users. I think that is a bad idea, as the people looking for explanations of how the items in the panel work are likely tech savvy.

The first four items listed on the pages are the source of a lot of confusion; FPS, Bandwidth, Lost Packets, and Ping. So, I’ll provide a bit more information.