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Support Portal Currently Offline

Date Posted: March 8, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[8 March 2010, 6:30PM PST] We are currently experiencing issues with the Support Portal. Until we restore access to the Support Portal, residents will not be able to create tickets or speak to a live chat agent. For abuse issues, please continue to use our abuse report system. Telephone support is still available. We are working to resolve this issue and will update you here with further information.

Logins and Inworld Services down for Maintenance March 10 5:00 AM PST

Date Posted: March 8, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[POSTED 9:35am PST] Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 5:00 a.m. Pacific, we’ll be closing logins and disabling major inworld services for one hour of upgrade work on our databases.

Residents who are in world will not be disconnected when maintenance begins, but will lose access to services such as

mapping,
teleport,
inventory,
object and L$ transfers, and
LindeX.

We’ll warn in world several minutes before the outage begins, and we’ll post any changes to the scope and schedule of the work here as they develop.

We appreciate that this will inconvenience a number of our Residents. The maintenance work is to enhance the stability and performance of our database-backed services.

Voice maintenance scheduled March 11th

Date Posted: March 8, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[Mar 8th, 9am PST] There will be a scheduled voice maintenance on March 11th between 3am - 4am PST. Please refer back to this blog for updates

NCI Class: SL Skills – EVENT ORGANISATION

Date Posted: March 7, 2010
Author: colleen Criss
Syndicated from: Colleen Criss's Weblog
Filed Under: MV-SL-Fashion, MV-SL-General, MV-SL-Technical, MV-SL-Tutorials

NCI Class: SL Skills – EVENT ORGANISATION
When: Sunday, 6pm to 7pm, 1 hour
Instructor: colleen Criss
Location: Boomer Island, NCI Classroom

Blog and Forums Temporarily Offline

Date Posted: March 7, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[12:20 pm Pacific] Our public blogs and forums have been taken down for a bit of unscheduled maintenance. We’re checking with our service provider to obtain an ETA on their return to service.

Server 1.38 Beta Now Open

Date Posted: March 5, 2010
Author: kelly@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Technology
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

The next server version, Second Life Server 1.38, is now up on the Preview Grid (Aditi) and available for testing. Server 1.38 is scheduled to be deployed to Second Life the first week of April.

What is in this release?

This server version includes new LSL features and a look at script memory usage if you are using Second Life Viewer 2.0. Check out the release notes here, which are a work in progress.

The script memory reporting will allow anyone to see summary data for the script memory used by all objects on a parcel - that is the cumulative total amount of memory used by all objects on the parcel. Parcel owners will get a detailed

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[POSTED 5 March 2010] Server Maintenance March 9th & 11th

Date Posted: March 5, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[POSTED 5 March 2010] We will be performing some required maintenance on March 9th & 11th at 8 a.m. PST on both days. This work should only last an hour each day. This maintenance may disrupt teleporting, transactions, and logins and new registrations. We ask that you please refrain from making any purchases in-world during this time.

We will update this posting if anything changes.

Inworld issue affecting handful of residents

Date Posted: March 4, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[Posted @ 12:40AM PST] An issue where objects cannot be opened or taken back into inventory is being investigated. This issue only affects a handful of residents. Any additional information or status updates will be posted here as they are available.

The Onyx Project

Date Posted: March 4, 2010
Author: arabellasteadham
Syndicated from: Arabella's Amblings
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Or, all You Wanted To Know About Malicious Viewers

The Onyx Project exists to educate those people who care to know, of known malicious third party viewers that either have been, or are being used on a daily basis within the Secondlife environment. I am a firm believer in sharing knowledge – it is up to you the reader to determine what you can do with it. Pleae be aware that when these viewers are detected in world, the users are banned by CDS owners and often finish up with accounts terminated by Lindenlab. Please do not use this list as a reference to ‘try out’ a malicious viewer – this is not the intention of this post.

To this end, a

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[RESOLVED] Support Portal Currently Offline

Date Posted: March 4, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[10:22pm PST] The Support Portal is back online.

[Posted 10:05pm PST] We are currently experiencing issues with the Support Portal. Until we restore access to the Support Portal, residents will not be able to create tickets or speak to a live chat agent. For abuse issues, please continue to use our abuse report system. Telephone support is still available. We are working to resolve this issue and will update you here with further information.

Search in Viewer 2: More Than Just a Pretty Face

Date Posted: March 3, 2010
Author: liana@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Technology
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

I'm very happy to announce that, as a core feature of the new Viewer 2 Beta, Second Life Search has been redesigned inside and out to make finding the people, places and content you're looking for easier than ever before. We've revamped the interface, overhauled what's happening under the hood, and refocused our work on Web-standard tools and methodologies that have not only improved our ability to bring you more relevant search results, but also made us faster on our feet as a development team. And, we've been building a first-class Search team--

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Customize Your Linden Home With Our New Control Panel

Date Posted: March 3, 2010
Author: jack@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Land and Sea
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

If you have a Linden Home you have probably noticed a control panel cunningly placed on an inside wall of your house. Today these panels will be enabled, allowing the home owner to use the Linden Home Control Panel -- a web page that you can use to configure various aspects of your Linden Home. Since the launch of Linden Homes on February 17, we've seen nearly 13,000 people take up residence in a Linden Home. The response we've seen to the program so far has been beyond even our expectations, leading us to double the number of homes that we originally made available. And there are more to

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[RESOLVED] Viewer 2 Log in Announcement Error

Date Posted: March 3, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[RESOLVED - 11:03am] Viewer 2 Log in announcement error has been taken down.

[10:16am PST] We are aware that the Viewer 2 Beta login screen is now indicating that residents are logging into the beta grid, when they are, in fact, actually logging into the Main Grid. This announcement will be taken down later today. All transactions on this grid are live and will be applied to your Linden balance as it would normally. Check back here for any updates.

Album of the Week ~ Pteron

Date Posted: March 3, 2010
Author: Snapzilla Blog
Syndicated from: Snapzilla Blog
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Another stunning series of images by Carthalis Rossini from the gorgeous futuristic sim pteron.

Flickr SLURL Issues

Date Posted: March 3, 2010
Author: Snapzilla Blog
Syndicated from: Snapzilla Blog
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Flickr logo If you are a Flickr user, it seems that Flickr is currently treating SLURL.com urls as spam. If you try to add one to a description on Flickr, you get the following message:

"Hey! That URL you tried to post has been used for abuse on Flickr before. If that's you, stop it! If that's not you, sorry, but you can't post links to it."

If you are sending your images to Flickr through Snapzilla (either via flickr@slpics.com or individually), it will still add the SLURL correctly. However, if you try

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Twitter OAuth Comes to Second Life

Date Posted: March 2, 2010
Author: communities@secondlife.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Technology
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Hi, I’m Gisele Linden. I’m a product manager here at Linden Lab supporting a variety of technical projects, and today I’m here on behalf of the Scripting team, also known as Team Pixie Dust (see below), to share exciting news with you. While working on new scripting features, we built a library that allows scripts in Second Life to talk to Twitter on our internal prototype platform. We recognized that this could be really useful to the Second Life community. And so with the help of residents Cale Flanagan, Latif Khalifa and Strife Onizuka, we converted it to run on the current LSL scripting platform.

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Server Version 1.36.4 Release

Date Posted: March 1, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[Posted 01 March 2010, 4:05pm PST] Hi everyone, another server deploy is upon us! The schedule for the rolling restart is thus:

2010-03-02, 7a - 12p: Pilot sims [1] (20%) 2010-03-04, 7a - 12p: Remaining sims (80%)

Regions should be down no more than 30 minutes. If yours is down longer than that, please leave a comment with the region name and we’ll look into it. This thread will be updated with the status of the deploy when it begins.

For more information, comments, and updates, visit the Discussion Page.

[1] Details on pilot rolls: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Agni_Pilot_Regions

Maintenance on Wednesday

Date Posted: March 1, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[7:38 AM Pacific] On Wednesday from 5am to 7am Pacific there will be downtime to carry out vital maintenance. During this time you will be logged off and unable to log on again for approximately 20 minutes. This will not impact all residents and should you be logged off for more than 20 minutes please contact support for further information.

At 8am approximately xstreet will also be down for an hour to carry out maintenance.

We will update when both are due to commence.

Grid Stability Update

Date Posted: March 1, 2010
Author: fj@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Technology
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

I wanted to follow up on my Feb 18th posting, specifically to update you on the concurrency blips we’ve been experiencing the last few weeks. These blips would occur at regular intervals and mostly impact login for short periods of time (less than 1 minute). As I mentioned in that last posting, we were focused on some networking issues with our newly deployed Juniper core switches. We’ve made great progress with Juniper and have those issues under control, but the network turned out to be neither the trigger nor the root cause of the login problems. The trigger was a non-responsive state occurring in one of our mysql.agni slave databases (aux.mysql.agni).

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Behind the Scenes of Viewer 2

Date Posted: February 25, 2010
Author: howard@lindenlab.com
Syndicated from: Second Life Blogs : Blog List - Technology
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Woohoo!

This past Tuesday, we released Viewer 2 Beta to the public. To give you some insight into the work that went into the renovation of the viewer, I want to give you a quick guided tour below. But first, a few important headlines:

This is a Beta. We're still fixing bugs and massaging the UI based on your feedback, but there likely won't be major functionality changes between now and when it becomes the default viewer. However...

We'll be going back to more regular releases from here on. This means more frequent releases (hopefully quarterly), each with a more manageable amount of new features.

There's lots of new

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Client Detection System – CDS – UPDATE AND FAQ

Date Posted: February 25, 2010
Author: arabellasteadham
Syndicated from: Arabella's Amblings
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

A few days ago I wrote here about the new system developed by Gemini Cybernetics, enabling land owners, content creators, estate managers and in fact anyone, to at last acquire a reasonable method of protecting their content by detecting the use of malicious viewers.

Many will be pleased to know today of the release of an update and publication of FAQs.

First of all, the FAQs

GEMINI Industries’ CDS FAQ

“Why did I get banned for using the official LL viewer/Emerald/Imprudence/etc?”

During the first months of beta testing, avatars using flagged viewers were added to the database. Upon the GEMINI CDS’ official release,

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Server Maintenance Thursday at 5 a.m. Pacific

Date Posted: February 24, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[Posted Feb 24, 2010; 1:35pm PST] We will be performing required server maintenance tomorrow, 25 Feb, beginning at 5:00am PST and lasting for approximately 45 minutes.

Logins and new registrations will be disabled for the maintenance. There should be no significant disruption in services for those in-world.

As always, we’ll post here if the scope or scheduling of the work changes.

[Emerald] 1626 Release Candidate

Date Posted: February 24, 2010
Author: arabellasteadham
Syndicated from: Arabella's Amblings
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

For your viewing pleasure, another release from Emerald. Go here for Emerald_Viewer_1.23.5.1632

Go here for release notes

Avatars United Log In Issues

Date Posted: February 23, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[Posted Feb 23, 2010; 7:30pm] Some users may experience some errors when attempting to log in to their account on Avatars United. We are aware of the issues and are working to resolve the issue. If you are unable to log in, we recommend you wait a short period and try again. We will update this post when we have more information.

viewer | Snowglobe 2.0

Date Posted: February 23, 2010
Author: Ana Lutetia
Syndicated from: Ana Lutetia inSL
Filed Under: MV-SL-General, MV-SL-Gridhop, MV-SL-Technical, MV-SL-Tutorials

The regular viewer wasn’t the only one getting a facelift. Snowglobe also has a 2.0 version:

This version of Snowglobe is available in the wiki: Snowglobe – Second Life Wiki

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Public JIRA Restart

Date Posted: February 23, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[Posted 3:20pm PST] Our vendor will be restarting public JIRA between 1am and 4am PST on February 24th, 2010. Public JIRA should be inaccessible for about 10 to 15 minutes.

viewer | Second Life 2.0

Date Posted: February 23, 2010
Author: Ana Lutetia
Syndicated from: Ana Lutetia inSL
Filed Under: MV-SL-General, MV-SL-Gridhop, MV-SL-Technical, MV-SL-Tutorials

Welcome to a modern version of your Second Life®:

You can downloaded the Second Life 2.0 Beta directly from the Second Life website.

Further reading:

Second Life® official blog :: Second Life Viewer 2 Beta, Now Available Building 43 :: Second Life launches new innovative browser New World Notes :: Robert Scoble Interviews Linden CEO Mark Kingdon About the Second Life 2.0 Viewer Prad Prathivi :: SL Viewer 2.0 and Other News

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Introducing a New Third-Party Viewer Directory and Policy

Date Posted: February 23, 2010
Author: arabellasteadham
Syndicated from: Arabella's Amblings
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

From Lindenlab….

Today, in addition to the Viewer 2 Beta, we are announcing the launch of the Third-Party Viewer Directory and the Third Party Viewer Policy governing third-party viewers in general. Last year, we announced these efforts in blog posts on Our Content Management Road Map and Upcoming Third-Party Viewer Policy. Since then we have collected a great deal of important feedback from Residents, merchants, and third-party developers alike, all of which has helped guide our development and decisions on the new Third-Party Viewer Directory and Policy.

The goals of the policy and program are to:

* Prevent Residents’ passwords from being stolen
* Protect Residents from griefing and other harmful conduct

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2.0 IS HERE!

Date Posted: February 23, 2010
Author: arabellasteadham
Syndicated from: Arabella's Amblings
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

The new viewer 2.0 is out now! As a beta release, you can get it here

Here’s a quick look:-

Obviously I still have to tweak my settings somewhat. I am showing you the interface to give you an idea

Best advice I can give – download it and play with it before jumping to conclusions. And enjoy!

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Teen Second Life search issues (Teen Grid Only)

Date Posted: February 22, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[22 Feb 2010, 7:45pm PST] We are experiencing isolated issues with search functions on Teen Second Life where opening the search window may cause the SL viewer to crash for a small set of Teen residents. If you are experiencing this issue, please send us a Support Ticket and we will investigate. We are working to correct the issue as quickly as possible.

[Resolved] Blog site down for maintenance

Date Posted: February 22, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[Resolved 8:16pm PST] The maintenance on status.secondlifegrid.net has been completed.

[Feb 22, 2010 7:45pm PST] We will be performing very brief maintenance on status.secondlifegrid.net blog site tonight at 8pm PST. The blog site should be inaccessible for only a few minutes. Please come back here for updates (once the site is back online).

Client Detection System – CDS

Date Posted: February 20, 2010
Author: arabellasteadham
Syndicated from: Arabella's Amblings
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

An exciting new development has been released in the seemingly never ending battle that so many creators endure – theft, ripping, texture stealing, content theft – it has many names.

[GEMINI Cybernetics] has released their latest development, the Client Detection System / CDS Ban Relay 1.9 / 1.

For creators, this device is a godsend – “The Gemini CDS detects all known viewers with copybot/griefing functionality without utilizing channel listeners, !quit spamming or other inferior techniques.”

[GEMINI Cybernetics] Client Detection System / CDS Ban Relay 1.9 / 1 month license is available here

For those SL users who have now,

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Album of the Week ~ Ilike

Date Posted: February 19, 2010
Author: Snapzilla Blog
Syndicated from: Snapzilla Blog
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Transparent Banshee's album Ilike features some great images from a variety of Snapzilla members.

Sapphire Etchegaray ~ Dancing

Support Issue Regarding SL Postcard Problems

Date Posted: February 19, 2010
Author: Snapzilla Blog
Syndicated from: Snapzilla Blog
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

Marianne McCann has created a JIRA support issue regarding problems sending postcards from SL. If you are experiencing issues,please vote for it and add information to it if you can. The JIRA is at: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-5387

https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/attachment/35129/Error+message.jpg

[POSTED] Log-in, TP, and In-world Transfers

Date Posted: February 19, 2010
Author: Status Desk
Syndicated from: Second Life Grid Status Reports
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

[POSTED 19FEB2010 12:55 PM PST] Some residents may be experiencing issues logging in, and residents in-world may be experiencing issues with teleporting. We are aware of this and are currently working on it. Please also hold off on making any in-world transfers as they may not be completed. This blog will be updated with new information as it becomes available.

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