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Second Life: Marketplace Issues

2016/08/16 by Nalates Urriah

Word is getting around that the Marketplace (MP) has shifted to the new search feature. There are some problems with the new search. I like it, but nothing is perfect. One problem is items removed from the MP are showing up in search. Another is how title words and keywords are ranked in the search … Read more

Second Life News 2016 w33

2016/08/162016/08/16 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

Is there a roll to the main channel this morning? There was a release candidate running on the RC channels this last week. But, my in-home restart tracker and the Grid Status page do not show a restart on the main channel this morning (7:25 AM SLT/PT).

There is no update in the Second Life Server – Deploys thread.

Grid Status shows a schedules restart for the RC channels tomorrow, Wednesday. But, is this a real event or just an automated post from a standing schedule? No way to tell.

My guess is something didn’t work as expected in the RC package running last week. It will get a revised version tomorrow. And there will be no roll to the main channel.

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Second Life: HUD Bug

2016/08/15 by Nalates Urriah

There is a bug in the new Firestorm 4.7.9 and Second Life 4.0.7. The bug is not much of a problem unless you play in combat games. Whirly Fizzle explains it: Yep, it’s a bug on Firestorm 4.7.9. I saw you already found the JIRA issue, but here it is for anyone else having the same … Read more

Second Life Marketplace Changes to New Search

2016/08/15 by Nalates Urriah

For some time there has been a link on the Marketplace’s home page that allows you to switch over to the new search feature. That link is gone.

The Lindens explain why here: New Second Life Marketplace Search is Live. As of 8/15 the new search is ‘SEARCH’. The old searching infrastructure is retired.

Project Sansar – August 2016 & January 2017

2016/08/15 by Nalates Urriah

Jo Yardley covers a recent Ebbe Altberg interview: Ebbe Altberg interview about SL & Sansar which is going public next January. The original is here: Episode 7, Ebbe Altberg, Virtual Reality Snowball Champion. I found two interesting points. In the early testing they ran into problems with users getting dizzy. Recent testing shows they have eliminated that … Read more

Nvidia Titan-X Pascal

2016/08/15 by Nalates Urriah

August 2, 2016 Nvidia released their top of the line video card the Titan-X. There is a previous generation Titan-X. To distinguish between the previous gen and the current generation we have to include the architecture descriptor; Maxwell (previous) or Pascal (new).

How much faster is this Titan-X Pascal than the previous one? Almost twice as fast.

You can see the card is about 30% faster than the GTX1080.