Second Life and Virtual Worlds
There are a few interesting things that came up in Andrew’s late Friday afternoon meeting.
Andrew has been building a script to turn on Encroachment Return across the grid. The feature made it through QA and has been rolled out for some time. But, enabling it in thousands of servers is not small chore.
The script was run Thursday morning. So, you should now be able to return encroaching objects.
I had seen Levity Magazine and vaguely know about it. But, one day Victoria Lenoirre sent a note card asking to interview me. She was doing an article on the top 10 blogs about Second Life. Top 10? I was wondering if she had that right. But, I wasn’t going to argue.
There were 5 questions. You’ll see them in Volume 7 of Levity Magazine.
I’m flattered to have made the cover. Just my picture with other top bloggers… that sounds so odd. I’ve never considered my self a top Second Life blogger, still don’t. But, may be…
I am way impressed with Christian Marquis’ photography. I look gooood. Its Christian’s photography and skill with an editing program.
Ok… I’ve had my minutes of fame. 🙂
Information is starting to leak out about new features coming. We are getting more details on the features we know are coming. So, it has been an interesting week.
Also, meetings are overlapping with the same subject coming up in different meetings. Rather than have parts of the subject scattered throughout various articles, I’m trying to condense them. So, information in the article is from one or more meetings. Thus the title change.
The image shows the meeting place for Open Source. This is the site that is the subject of the build competition being run. See: Hippotropolis Theater Design Competition.
From this week nothing has rolled out. On the other hand the last two weeks have seen a major change to the better in stability stats. While teleporting is still a problem, the number of failed teleports is decreasing.
I use Google’s Chrome. Recently I’ve been gettin lots of “Oops Chrome Crashed” and “Unresponsive Page” errors. Also my browser seems to go into slow motion. It seems event my New Tab pages crash. So, whatsup?
A bit of Googling and I find others are having the same problem. there is a thread titled: I can’t kill a chrome process that has become unresponsive. Then I realize this problem started in 2009.
For most this is a problem that occurred when using Windows 64-bit. I’m using Vista 32-bit. Both Vista and Win7 users seem to encounter the problem. The problem runs from 2009 to late 2011. I’m having it now, so I suppose I could say it runs to now.
Some time ago I saw a forum post about reducing prim count by changing from the old prim count accounting to the new Land Impact cost accounting. Many people think the Lab was screwing residents over with the new Land Impact system. They simply haven’t figured out how to use the new system to their advantage. It is possible to use the new system and reduce your prim costs.
When mesh objects and Land Impact were rolled out along with them was a change to the maximum prim size. The max size went from 10 meters to 64 meters. This allows one to replace over six prims with one prim. That is a possible 640% savings in prim costs or looked at another way, you get 640% more prim coverage in a region for the same price…
Second Life is full of rumors. If you can’t find one you like, make one up. A new rumor to me is the idea that Governor Linden is going to rezone the mainland. I can’t find any reason for the rumor or even a source of it. I first came across it in the SL forum in a post by Gingir Ghoststar.
Gingir Ghoststar has ranted about rezoning the mainland a couple of times. She has one of the more interesting feeds I’ve seen in SL. (See Gingir Ghoststar) Her collection of SL posts is here. In her Flickr bio she writes: “Gingir Ghoststar is my alter ego in Second Life. I am Gingir Rocks from Gameinatrix.com and co-host a daily video game news web cast [called] Lunch with Gingir and Cori.” I found it under Gamer Girls Radio. The audios are about 45 minutes long. The show is girl oriented and is about gaming in general with Second Life stuff. The fashion is sexy, as is the role play things they get into (Cori is a host with Gingir). The blog and fashion is the kind of stuff I would recommend to my BFF Shayla. Just read the URL hiding under the last link. 🙂