Category Archives: Second Life
re: How Secure Is Your Password?
Update For those looking to reset your password, please see the Second Life website instead of asking me :-P My password would be considerably stronger if it wasn’t limited to 16 characters. I use an interleaved technique that produces passwords with 20+ characters. Before Linden Lab put on this rather odd 16 character length restriction, [...]
Redesigning Region Management- RAW files are a pain in the ass
RAW files are a pain in the ass Through my work on SL4B, I’ve become painfully aware of how difficult it is to manage the terrain of a multi-region estate at once. It was decided at a recent meeting to terraform the SL hand logo into the SL4B estate. Completing such a task with any [...]
summary of Town Hall with Cory Linden
Database Scalability Linden Lab hadn’t upgraded to MySQL 5 since it’s release as it wasn’t until recently that the performance and stability of MySQL 4 compared to version 5 satisfied Linden Lab’s requirements. Linden Lab are currently upgrading to MySQL 5. Linden Lab are putting more effort into more scalable architecture rather than using a [...]
Marv playing about with the Joystick Flycam debug option
Click to Play Found under the client menu, "Joystick Flycam" is a method of using the axis of your joystick (or any other game controller) to control the camera params. Up to 5 axis are supported currently, but since I'm on an old MS Sidewinder, it seems I can't use the throttle control for the [...]
Summary of meetings regarding discontiuation of Help Request
The current state of Help Request Live Help/Help Request has not scaled to meet the volume of Help Requests, nor the requests themselves. Not changing with the times means that Help Request was becoming less and less helpful overall. One of the problems with current support/help system is that it’s not targeting the people that [...]
re:Jenny Diski on ‘Second Life’
Jenny Diski As far as I can understand it, Many Worlds Theory proposes that there are n zillion worlds like this one but marginally different, operating in parallel to the only world in which we think we exist. We might each be living out all our possible lives, through all the variations of what we [...]
Grace McDunnough leads a discussion on “Does Second Life fulfill any basic human needs?”
3PointD Metaverse Sustainability
Wikipedians Unite!
I’m not addicted to Wikipedia. Not a bit. Well, maybe a little. I made an SL group for Wikipedians After my recent bout of Wiki edits, I noticed there wasn’t any Wikipedia group in Second Life. It be called Wikipedians. Choice of Names I thought about naming the group along the same lines as the [...]