Category Archives: How Marv would fix Second Life

Ad-Hoc vs Application Process: pre-emptive analysis for SL6B

This document was written prior to changes enacted by Linden Lab, and prior to my stepping down from an organisational role within SL5B. Do note that SL4B was planned 5 months before the launch, SL5B was planned 3 days before the end of SL5B, and though at the current time I am unsure as to [...]

Marv's new computer fund

Like a lot of people, I feel a bit odd about asking for charity. But there comes a time in a geek’s life when he has to swallow his pride and ask for help.

blog-fu solution to alert request feature and semantic world.secondlife.com replacement

The past several weeks I’ve been unable to get in-world, so I’ve been making little if no progress on the alert request service. I have however been able to work on the semantic world.secondlife.com replacement. One of the topics that came up in my rants, conversations & internal dialogue was how the notes feature is [...]

Postponing updates to generated images

Over the weekend I discovered that the Linden Lab webmap API is giving out rather odd results- it’s showing the same region existing in a couple hundred different places at once, which is of course a technical impossibility. Because of this, the Linden Lab webmap API can be considered unreliable and unfortunately since I’m using [...]

Improving the MN:SL Map API

Over the new year, I exhaustively searched the grid within the confines of the size of the grid as my database was aware (e.g. the query didn’t check outside the minimum and maximum boundaries). Afterwards, I generated and posted several images of the Agni grid. In an effort to improve the data provided by my [...]

one idea after another

Hair Plug Hair Plug is an idea I’ve had to establish an open standard for dynamic, potentially “living” hair. The idea came to me after thinking it would be nice to have facial hair for my avatar that grows to remind me to shave more often :-P llRequestMoney() An LSL function that does the opposite [...]

Map API in new location

In an effort to future proof my version of the SL Webmap API against 3rd party grids (as well as open up the possibility of mapping Linden Lab’s various grids), I registered a new domain this afternoon- mapapi.net. The reference implementation for the client interface is now available at agni.sl.mapapi.net, which as you may notice [...]

Abolishment of Premium Accounts

What a premium account gives you Access to a second tier of customer support A 512sqm deduction from your land tier fees The ability to buy land A weekly stipend What a premium account gives you if you own landsource Access to a third tier of customer support Why Premium Accounts don’t make sense Pay [...]

Group Notices: borkage during high concurrency

Some people have found that during periods of high concurrency rates in Second Life, features such as Group Notices fail to be recieved by everyone logged in. As always, I have my own ideas as how I would fix Second Life. In my view at least, Group Notices are similar to blog posts/mailing list emails. [...]

Things that are broken about Second Life and how Marv would fix them

I’ve been a long-time Resident of Second Life- I recently celebrated my 2nd Rezday. Throughout these two years, I’ve experienced almost all Second Life has to offer and bar inventory loss, all of it’s problems. Some of the problems with Second Life really, really bug the crap out of me; the ones I know how [...]

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