#SL Possible Down Time

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There is a post on the Grid Status page. It gives a bit different spin to Thursday’s down time than what I heard. Whatever, there will more work done to fix some things on Monday and that work may take SL offline for a time Monday morning.

[UPDATED 2:30pm PDT, 27 April 2012] On April 26, 2012, the Second Life engineering team was performing an upgrade to the core network. The upgrade triggered a bug that led to downtime and instability throughout the day. The maintenance described in this post is scheduled for Monday, April 30 at 6am PT in order to correct the bug and may result in additional service interruption. We apologize for the service disruption and appreciate everyone’s patience.

[POSTED 1:00pm PDT, 27 April 2012] We will be performing scheduled maintenance Monday April 30, 2012 beginning at 6:00am until approximately 9:00am. Please save all builds and refrain from rezzing no copy objects or making inworld L$ transactions. Some residents may experience delays logging inworld. Please follow this blog for any updated information.

Emphases mine.

See: Scheduled Maintenance Monday, April 30, 2012

LEA Call for Pose and Animation Creators

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Dream Promenade posted a call for pose and animation creators to participate in a new exhibit titled Intimate Spaces. The Dream Promenade is seeking to explore the  sensual side of art in SL. This exhibit is one of the Linden Endowments of the Arts’ new initiatives.

Dream Promenade

No date for the exhibit start is given. It seems to be a short fuse. So, if you are interested, no waiting, connect the Dream Promenade’s management now.

#SL Server News Update Wk17

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Seems we had a major melt down Thursday morning (USA morning). One of the Linden Lab® data centers had hardware network failures. In systems this size there is usually considerable effort put into load balancing to distribute the workload. So, with the center dropping offline everything went out of balance as the servers remaining online could not carry the load. The Lindens turned off some services until they could get the data center back online. Mostly money related services went offline. It took several hours to correct the problem.

During that time login’s were closed or inaccessible and the main Second Life® web sites went offline.

There is no truth to the rumor that one of the gerbils peed on a router after waking up from a hard night of partying in Zindra.

Main Channel

This week a roll did make it to the main grid. This is the package with the Inventory API’s. So, with luck we will see better inventory and delivery performance. As Thursday the Tuesday roll has not shown any problems.

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#SL Deformer Update Wk17

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Qarl Fizz change his code posting and the missing parts are up. So, presumably Third Party Viewers have the code and are able to compile viewers with the feature.

Henri Beauchamp’s Cool VL is likely going to see a new version release today.

Henri Beauchamp 4.25.12 / 10am

@Qarl

New patch ported to the Cool VL Viewer and working fine (a new release including it will likely be published tomorrow or the day after).

The issue with “jumping meshes” (see my comment for v0.2) is yet still not solved (but I implemented a work around for it in the Cool VL Viewer, that at least doesn’t trigger the “jumping mesh” issue with avatars not wearing deformed meshes).

I was unsure what Henri meant by ‘jumping mesh.’ I have seen mesh winking in and out of existence using Niran’s viewer… whatever, reading the referenced comment:

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#SL Mesh Deformer 0.3 Released

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This morning on qLab, Qarl Fizz’s blog, I see Qarl has released a new version of the Mesh Deformer. He writes:

quick announcement – i’m releasing version 0.3 of the deformer code. primary changes: 1) should now apply cleanly to recent linden viewer code, 2) deformation tables are computed in the background on another thread, so no frame stalls.

enjoy.

Henri Beauchamp 4.25.12 / 12am

Err… Qarl… lldeformerworker.h and lldeformerworker.cpp are missing from your patch !

I think we will see this version come out in a Linden Lab® project viewer as the previous version did not play well with the 3.3.0 viewers. It also handles the problem I ran into: having to wait for about a minute to see the Deformer kick in.

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Humor AND Dark Sex?

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This article is an interview with an adult content maker in the BDSM community.

Everyone likes sex… I think. Mixing it with humor is like chocolate with cherries for me, way better. Some prefer a much darker experience. And that darker part leads me to Myrylyn Shinn and her sometimes humorous and always dark Frenemies.

Myrylyn Shinn

I’ve only done a couple of interviews from the interviewer’s side. If you are a regular reader, you know I am more into news and tech oriented. But, I need a change from time to time. I play in some dark RP games. That and my coverage of Adult Content caught Myrylyn’s attention. Her role play and toys are very dark and was curious if I would cover her creations for the adult community. So, in this interview I hope you can experience the talented and fun Myrylyn. You will see the interesting mix of her humor, dark role play, and toys in her Frenemy Fashion blog.

I want to point out this is NOT a paid promotion.

I first knew of Myrylyn when she IM’d me and asked if I wrote about adult topics in my blog. As you know, I do. I try to keep things safe for work. I do have articles about Zindra, where I live, and Adult Content. I think I’ve kept this safe for work. I’ve labeled links that lead to NSFW pages to avoid surprises.

Myrylyn IM’d me wanting to talk about and show off things she is making for the adult community. At first I’m thinking penises… which I generally find interesting. So, sure. Show me yours… I suppose meeting a woman and imagining she has a collection of penises on display somewhere is pretty much a Second Life thing… or maybe that’s just… never mind. Whatever, I had no idea what I was getting into, I teleported over to talk with her.

When I arrived, Myrylyn and her friend Thessally were building-testing a new Myrylyn toy. The ball gag may have had something to do with Thessally having little to say. As I rezzed I was wondering if I had gotten in over my head. The toy Myrylyn was building is The Frenemaker (NSFW). Yikes! A change of my mental gears was needed.

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