Second Life News 2013-4 (3)

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From previous news you know we did not get a new package rolled to the main channel. Thursdays  Server Beta meeting gives a bit more information on what to expect for next week. For now Maestro Linden thought the Interest List package running on Magnum was the best bet for getting promoted next week (5).

Magnum is not completely trouble free. Some people are reporting problems with Bots…. aaaw. Sorry. Those running bots are people too and are probably paying the Lab ore than most Second Life™ users.

It seems LibOpenMetaverse bots go into some type of high bandwidth use, pulling 100kb/sec. Restarts of the bot and region don’t seem to help.

Bandwidth Problem
Bandwidth Problem

You can see the difference in the graph. The day of the rollout 1/23, you can see the jump in data transfer. Below you can see the rate increasing during the first four minutes of a bot relog. 

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Flufee Destinations: The Arrival

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A new Flufee video is out today. Draxtor describes it:

I [Drax] visited “The Arrival” by Rose Borchovski a few days ago & I have to say: immersive art (or whatever we should call a digital-installation-interactive-performance-3D-persistent-sculpture-space-what-­not) is not ON EVERY DARN art curator’s top agenda is a shame… shame… shame…..

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Designing Worlds on Griefing

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There has been on ongoing discussion on new developments in the nature of griefing.  In mid December I wrote: From #SL Griefing to Extortion. Also, we have seen the DMCA case between Curio/Hush resolved… sort of. No one is overly happy with that outcome. Rod Humble said the Lab would be doing something to make griefers very unhappy. As of now he certainly has not done anything about griefer to make legitimate users happy.

Guests on the show - left to right: Rails Bailey, Robert Galland, Frolic Mills, Dina Petty and Kiff Clutterbuck.
Guests on the show – left to right: Rails Bailey, Robert Galland, Frolic Mills, Dina Petty and Kiff Clutterbuck.

Several Second Life bloggers have been covering events. Designing Worlds recently did a show on the topic. It aired and is now on the site: Designing Worlds discovers when griefing turns into extortion. 1 hr 8 min.

Kiff Clutterbuck and Dina Petty, the owners of Junkyard Blues, are in the show. Robert Galland, the owner of Galland Homes, a Member of the Second Life Bar Association, and real life attorney, gives a legal perspective on what has been happening.

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Second Life News 2013-4 (2)

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At today’s meeting of the Server-Scripting User Group we got little news that we did not already know. There was no rollout to the main channel. So, we have the same package running as last week and will until next Tuesday.

Wednesday the Release Candidate channels will get the packages they started out with last week: the Interest List improvements and Threaded Region-Crossing.

Server-Scripting Group 2013-4
Server-Scripting Group 2013-4

Magnum will get the Interest List packages that was on Blue Steel and Le Tigre last week.

Blue Steel and Le Tigre will get the Region-Cross improvements that ran there two weeks ago… according to Maestro… I had to look back and see if that was right… I think the regions had the Interest List package. See: Second Life News 2013-3 or Deploys.

The changes to these packages are fixes for the problems they found running in the RC environment. Otherwise they are the same. 

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Second Life News 2013-4

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It looks like we won’t have a rollout this Tuesday. Last week the RC rollouts had to be rolled back. That happened on Friday. Neither of the two candidates passed. Monday is a holiday for some in the USA, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We can include Linden Lab in that group. So, there is … Read more