#SL News 1 Week 40

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Not much news this week. Plus I have been trying to resuscitate dying laptops. Seems to be a rash of those this week.

UPDATE: 1:54 PM PT – Le Tigre had serious problems and is being rolled back to the previous version. The regions have to be rolled back to get an earlier version of the server software. That is an automated process. Next all the regions in Le Tigre have to be manually updated to a previous SIM state prior to the problems. There are a over 1,000 regions to do. It is going to take some time.

Main Channel

There was no roll of a new server package to the main channel. Last week no Release Candidates made it to the RC channels, so there was nothing to roll.

There is a the New Lag Problem. This problem is pretty much invisible to the Lindens, meaning it is not showing up in their stats. Nor is it an easily reproducible problem. Both of those things make it invisible to the Lindens for all practical purposes. However, those running events are pulling their hair out dealing with the problem.

So, if you are an event manager or promoter, you will want to record the date and time, nearest minute, the lag hit, get as close as you can. Attend the Server Beta and Server & Scripting user group meetings (Time & Location) and provide at least the server version, region name, and date time of the problem.

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Current State of Mesh Clothes

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The new Mesh Deformer Project Viewer seems to be working well. See the left column for a link to it. I’ve been playing with it in ADITI. I’m excited and seriously getting into finishing some of my models (clothes). I’m spending more time weighting and tweaking now that I think we know how the Deformer is going to work.

Problem Clothes

I will caution you that the Deformer is only in testing. It could change. But, I think it is pretty much as it will be at release time and I could be wrong. So, keep that in mind, if you plan to go crazy with mesh clothes making…

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Some OpenSim Stats

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It is a slow news day… So, I took some time to run down some stats. You might remember that back in January 2012 Hypergrid Business ran a rebuttal to and article by Hamel Au’s on New World Notes: Is OpenSim usage falling? vs OpenSim Gaining Regions… But Not Gaining Many Users.

Possible Trends – Jan 2012

The graph supplied by Maria Korolov on Hypergrid could be looked at numerous ways. In Hamlet’s eyes OpenSim was losing users. In Maria’s they were gaining users. My take was that for most of the last year OpenSim had been losing users. So, the red line is Maria’s and the green lines are mine.

It is now 9 months later. Has the trend changed? Is OpenSim gaining or losing users?

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Adult RP 2012 Postponed

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Nikira Naimarc sent me a news release on the Adult Role Play 2012 event. It seems it is being postponed. While I think it could be an interesting event, those sponsoring and participating as the movers and shakers have to be excited too. There also has to be enough of them to pull off such an event.

Adult Roleplay 2012 Logo

Events like SL9B takes a bunch of work and money. It can be far too much work and money for one person. The more people involved the easier it becomes. That is sort of what is happening with the Adult RP 2012 event. There is also considerable financial risk. Event sponsors will want some assurance of a successful event that has a good possibility of returning their investment. Such assurance is hard to come by with first time events.

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New Lag Problem

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In the forum and at Friday’s Server & Scripting User Group meeting the issue of sudden crippling lag came up. People are reporting regions with lots of free script time dropping to 0.3 Physics Frames per Second (FPS). One cannot move within the region nor can they TP out of the region. After a couple of minutes people are logged out of Second Life™.

Regions were events are occurring seem to get hit more often than other regions. It may be the high number of people. But, that may simply be their getting reported more often because people are around to notice. There are a few reports here and there in the forum from people asking about the problem. Those regions are not event regions nor do they always have a large number of avatars.

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Metareality Week 39

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This week we get a new Metareality podcast titled: Disgruntled Frogs. This video is from Drax and I think discussed at 1:02:00.

 

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As always, this is a summary and my take on what I heard in the podcast. Any relationship between what I write and what was on the audio is likely just a coincidence. Enjoy.

01:10 – Yoz Linden has left or been laid off from Linden Lab. Nicest Linden Drax has met.

06:10 – Malcolm Dunne is new CFO.

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