When you take a look at the recent development of Second Life, then there are some things different compared to earlier developments: There are still no key metrics available for August 2007. Those tend to get published later and later over … Weiterlesen
The official Second Life blog has today an entry about so called megaprims (greater than 10m at one side at least). Megaprims where never intended to be, but they happened some while ago and they are in use in different … Weiterlesen
The statistical mark of 10 million residents in Second Life has been reached today. No big fanfare nor press message at all, this shows the shift from promoting Second Life to promoting the grid. Heck, the number of residents isn’t … Weiterlesen
All the big databases of Second Life are using MySQL. Lindenlab runs them on the premise: databases are ordinary, better run 50 of them than just to have a big one. Choosing and running a database engine is one thing, the other … Weiterlesen
There is now a blog from Charity Colville in which she tells her side of the story about “The rise and fall of Phat Cat’s”. The events around Phat Cat’s have been going on for quite some time now, I still wonder … Weiterlesen
You can read this on the blog of Second Life now: Linden Research, Inc., Philip Rosedale, and Marc Bragg have agreed to settle the “Bragg v. Linden and Rosedale” lawsuit currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District … Weiterlesen
Just something that happened on a public group channel in Second Life today: [2007/10/04 14:07] Dreamland ACS: there have been serious problems with last upgrade .. already done 2 rolling restarts of all sims[2007/10/04 14:07] Dreamland ACS: the entire grid has more lag … Weiterlesen
Microsoft has reacted to the demand on the market and now has created two new options for purchasing XP: It allows big manufacturer now to offer their customers of computers with Windows Vista a free downgrade to Windows XP. Consider this … Weiterlesen
The rollling restart today has been very unusual and a royal pain in the ass. Sims have been offline longer than usual, asset server is working slowly or not at all and teleport hiccups have been there, too. All in all … Weiterlesen
Hamlet Linden once goaded me and goaded me to try to ask me if I had any regrets. Did I wish I hadn’t been so critical? So radical? So like “Noam Chomsky”? But that’s all fake. I’m a normal, common sense person speaking normally … Weiterlesen