The great and ever so powerful M Linden (Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon) has spoken on the OpenSpace pricing and performance issue …. read it all here.
Basically, you now have a choice - less performance “Openspace” for the same price or the “Homestead” which you get to pay more for what had originally offered. [...]

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Linden Lab once again has stepped into the virtual poop with it’s price increase for Open Space sims announcement on Oct 29.  Since then, the few remaining land owners of Second Life, estimated to be less that 85,000 are in an up roar.  And rightfully so.
As an owner of both a regular sim (Los Arboles) [...]

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Scalability and stability in Second Life are huge issues.  Why can we not get more people on at one time?  And while many promises have been made over the last few years in in virtually every infrastructure-related announcement from Linden Lab, many of my clients and friends indicate that they’re finding the progress to be [...]

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I think the foam waves under the huts has added a very nice look and feel. Plus they have sound. Check it all out on Meta Magic Studio sim (next to Los Arboles).

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Working in Second Life has it rewards and trials. There are good days and bad days. Hell it is bleeding edge technology.
Now I believe with all of my soul that Linden Lab makes every attempt to provide a good working grid, but the complexity of this world makes 100% testing impossible. Things [...]

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Cheerie Beery (Jen) has been working on a project that uses avatars to story board out advertising concepts. By using the tools of Second Life, advertising, marketing and branding concepts can be fully explored at cost effective prices. Here is a couple of pics from her most recent project for a local RL beach [...]

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The next two days will be review days of sim builds that Meta Magic Studio has (hopefully) developed to customer satisfaction. One of them is a final check off phase, where basically we turn over the “keys.” The second project is in next to last phase review which means the client goes through [...]

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I tried to Login into Second Life. Was stopped at the gate. With a “on line now” of 62,235, I got a throttle message at 12:10 pm pst on Sunday. It read:
Login failed.
Due to higher-than-usual load, logins to Second Life have been temporarily disabled. We anticipate logins will be disabled for [...]

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Daily Photo - Los Arboles Storm System

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I got a notice yesterday about Mono in Second Life.  No, I did not have to rush to my doctors.  This all about SL script improvement - or we all hope it is.  From Linden Lab:
I’m delighted to announce that Mono is ready to launch as part of the 1.24 Server deploy starting today.
Mono is [...]

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