Nalates' Things & Stuff

Second Life: Down Time

2016/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

If you use the Preview/Beta Grid (ADITI) then you know that there were problems in ADITI this week. But, last week on Friday parts of the main grid went down. The operations people via April Linden have posted an article on what happened. See: The Story Behind Last Week’s Unexpected Downtime – 2016-05-09 10:22 AM As … Read more

Lab Chat #3 Bits

2016/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

Inara Pey has written a well done summary of the Lab Chat #3 meeting. See it here: Lab Chat #3 in 10-ish minutes. Inara touches on all the questions asked and answered.

While most of the initial questions and answers have to do with Project Bento there are plenty of general Second Life™ questions and answers in the middle. Discussion then moves to Sansar. I’ve touched on just a few of the interesting points I think needed more information and context.

In regard to adding photography tools to the Linden Viewer similar to Firestorm’s Photo Tools, the Linden answer is a bit of spin. But, very much in line with their policy of not commenting on coming features until just before release.

Bento Update?

2016/05/12 by Nalates Urriah

I’ve consistently had problems getting to the Bento User Group Meetings. Today between arriving late because of RL work and ADITI acting up, I gave up trying to get there. Try again next week.

Ghost Horse - Project Bento May 2016 — Ghost Horse – Project Bento May 2016

I couldn’t log into the Mesh Sandbox. I could log into Morris, the region where the Beta Server UG meets. But, the World Map wasn’t working, so no TP via the map. In my history was an entry for the sandbox. But, TP failed and failed and failed. After 20 minutes I gave up.

Benefit

2016/05/11 by Nalates Urriah

I get announcements for various benefits and sales and other stuff happening in Second Life. Some seem solely commercial. Others are definitely benefits. Some I know, some I don’t. This is an ‘I don’t know.’ But, it looks like they will have good stuff at good prices.

Check it out…

VR Matrix Disassociation from Real Life

2016/05/11 by Nalates Urriah

Start thinking about whether you REALLY can take the Blue pill or life is force feeding us the red one. Hamlet is pointing to an article in Rock Paper Shotgun titled: A Matrix Moment With The Vive.

The article is about the disassociation a Vive (VR Headset) user, Philippa Warr, feels after taking the headset off. He obviously hasn’t heard the warning coming from several sources about possible negative side effects from using 3D anything.

Second Life News 2016-19

2016/05/11 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

This week there was no roll to the main channel.

The RC channels all got the same package, today 5/11. The stated changes are: Minor internal improvements. No visible functional changes to Second Life.