Archive for June 17th, 2007
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
On-Demand Storage
When I use the phrase “On-Demand Storage” it usually means that I am talking about Amazon S3. Today, however, I received some on-demand storage of a whole different type.
We are doing some renovations to our house, replacing some well-worn carpet with fresh hardwood, painting, and so forth. Instead of shuffling the furniture around from […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
How to apply textures on individual object surfaces in Second LifeWithin Second Life you have the ability to apply multiple textures to a single object. The process is very simple and can greatly enhance the appearance of your builds.By: Wilder_LindenWilder_Linden
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
SecondCast #57 - Search Furtherment The cast discusses the debate and the technical ins and outs of the recent search beta for Second Life by Sheep Labs with guests Christian Prior of Sheep Labs and Hiro Pendragon of Infinite Vision Media. Furtherment is actually a word. Heh.Download Standard […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Klaatu Niu of sun [Flickr]
Tao Takashiposted a photo:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Login screen broken, carry on
Filed under: Gridbugs
The login screen for second life is broken at the moment. It looks like this on the right. No word from Linden lab just yet, but the cause is the squid proxies that are used to take the load off backend services (they’re running in reverse-proxy mode for all […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Recumbent Bicycle from Garage RefuseCombine an old BMX bicycle, wood, EMT conduit, and boat seat, to bicycle in laid-back comfort. Save $100’s off the cost of a new recumbent bike.By: dome_headdome_head
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Today in Second Life - Thursday 14 June, 2007.
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
28,070 new signups bringing us to 7,245,544 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 43,907 at 2:13PM, and a minimum concurrency of 23,098 at 12:48AM. Average concurrency for the day was 30,094.
Second Life’s (third-party provided) support portal was down for […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
IBM Thinking of Virtual Passports
Filed under: Odds and Ends
They aren’t calling it that, of course, but the premise is roughly the same. IBM’s vice president of standards and open source Bob Sutor has mentioned that the company is considering ways in which avatars might travel between virtual worlds while keeping their essential appearance and possessions […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Passion Based Learning and Baseball CardsSo, it’s pretty obvious that I’ve been in the midst of a fairly intense case of edublogging ennui of late, thus the pretty shallow link blogging that’s been showing up here. I’m in one of those grim spaces that I get into with all of this from time to time, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Free Dove for free things
Filed under: Shopping, Newbies
Nestled in next to A White Dove (if such a large store can be said to nestle) is The Free Dove, a place of free (as in a free lunch) goodies for human avatars only; there are no non-human goods available, and non-human avatars are not permitted on […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »