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Surprise

Surprise

Now that was a nice surprise when I started up SL this morning and found a photo of Miriel‘s GORGEOUS sim on my screen.  Next time you visit for your jewelry/eye/hair or shape fix, be sure to explore the sim too, ok? The landscaping is amazing, and the trees that Miriel has been making are among the best I’ve even seen in SL. Besides, there are some goodies hidden on the Island… The Golden Cage is an ongoing treasure hunt, with a beautiful, albeit sad, story that will give you clues about where to find the next exclusive item.

[update] unfortunately as of June 20, 2009 Miriel is closed and does no longer exist.

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LL Scares Me Again

From the official Linden Blog:

As announced earlier, Second life is being taken down for scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, August 22, 08:00am SLT (PDT) (15:00 GMT).

[Updated 10:40] The bulk of the work is done. We are performing internal testing now. One issue has been identified and is being investigated.

[Updated 11:00] First set of issues is resolved, but a new one has been discovered and is being worked on now. Once this is resolved, we need to complete additional testing prior to opening up the grid. We expect this to be completed by 11:30.

so far so good.. but then:

[Updated 11:25] The new issue has been resolved, but deploying the fix and subsequent testing will take some additional time. We now expect the grid to open by 12:00

[Updated 12:15] We have completed deployment for the fix and are continuing testing.

ok.. better safe than sorry… after all.. Maintenance Wednesday has more than once turned into a general nightmare…..but wait… there is more:

[Updated 12:45] We have identified another problem, resolved it and deployed the fix. We are again testing prior to opening up.

[Updated 13:05] We have identified yet another issue which would affect inworld email delivery. We are currently fixing it and resuming testing.

How much more issues are going to be discovered prior to the grid being brought back up…? is this the point where they are going to fix EVERYTHING before putting the grid back up? Keep searching guys and you will find many more issues, work for weeks of downtime.

What I am really afraid of though is that many new issues will be discovered… by residents.. after finally being able to log back in. I think I might not wait up for it and tuck in early. Ciao!

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A planned release was postponed last Wednesday wooooo! Too many bugs to release v 1.17.0. Instead there would be some maintenance and limited down time to complete some database work. Sounds good, and I am convinced of the good intentions of our brave Lindens, but OMG… what a pain did SL become after the completion of the work. That cannot have been the purpose.

A blog post on the official Linden Blog mentioned some Search problems that need to be adressed. Such a euphemism. Is that the Bristol influence that we notice already? UK people are masters of understatement. SL is borked. Big time BORKED. Search does not work, you can’t upload anything, sims have disappeared, TP’s fail, people get stuck in sims where they don’t want to be and on top of everything I just tried to log on to a sim where I wanted to go which apparently was unavailable, so I got sent to a nearby sim which happened to be Linden land Hanson. Not only not being able to go where I needed to, but ruthed to the bone. No previously worn attachments have stuck to my avie. Second time around my account was unavailable for like 10 minutes. Good work guys.. awesome maintenance job. I think I am going to faint when the next update is anounced… must be sheer hell as this is only the aftermath of “some maintenance”.
Taking photos is also a virtual impossibility right now, so I took one from my archive.

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