Second Life

Sean Linden: " you own the stuff you create, so if you make something in SL you can take it with you to another grid. I have no idea how the rights work for anything else, even fullperm objects created by someone else, or any texture not created by you (including the "default" textures like plywood), but anything made by you belongs to you. So you can take the plywood cube if you made it, I'm just not sure you can take the plywood :)" - Opensource Obscure via Bookmarklet

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[NetBehaviour] Liminal, slow

August 24 at 8:24 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"There are liminal moments when real and virtual intersect in a contrary and wayward matter, when Second Life, or any other program, isn't quite loaded, is only half present" - Alan Sondheim - Opensource Obscure via Bookmarklet

To access the Odyssey exhibition 'The Accidental Artist' go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Od... - Sondheim himself is publishing photos and videos of his Second Life research at http://www.alansondheim.org (click on Last Modified twice, and the most recent files are at the top) - Opensource Obscure

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Opensource Obscure: FFHUD - a Second Life client for Friendfeed

August 21 at 8:55 am - via Reshare - Link

Here are samples of how posts appear: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ff... - double click to sent the parcel description, one click + your text to publish a message. Photos are thumbnails from world.secondlife.com. - Opensource Obscure

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Buddhist Hell Theme Park in Second Life | Torley Lives

August 22 at 3:30 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Buddhism isn’t just about meditation and denying self-gratification to attain a higher state of being. When I was bute a chylde, I visited a Buddhist Hell Theme Park in Thailand. Fun for the whole family: sculptures depicting tongues being torn out, lots of spikes and bodies on said spikes, and certainly heaping amounts of simulated fire and brimstone that would make other religions’ demons feel inadequate" - Torley seem to be into Budhist hell theme fun ;) - silpol via Bookmarklet

I strongly suggest to visit that place - it's awesome, with lots of characters and things moving all around. - Opensource Obscure

I wish I could - I didn't go in-world already for months -- wrong mix of broken PC at home and lack of time... - silpol

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Avatar Watch!: 3D mind map in SECOND LIFE made with SKY PEN.

August 22 at 3:26 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Joan Kremer posted a link

How I Became a 'Movie Star' in Second Life

August 21 at 3:37 pm - Link

an entry from Official Second Life Blog

Mono Launch

August 20 at 6:09 pm - Link

If you want to try Mono right now: 1. download the Preview Grid Viewer from http://secondlife.com/support/... - 2. at login page, press CTRL SHIFT G to make the grids menu appear, and choose Agni (that's our Main Grid) - 3. go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sa... (Linden sandbox alrady upgraded to 1.24 server release) - 4. have fun! - Opensource Obscure

an entry from Second Life Grid Status Reports

Rolling Restart to deploy Server Version 1.24, Aug 20-22

August 20 at 8:28 pm - Link

Should you notice disappearing of entries from the Second Life Grid Status Reports feed, that's because I'm deleting them some time after the issues have been resolved, in order to make room for more interesting items. Let me know if you're OK with this. - Opensource Obscure

Christian Scholz posted a link

We implemented an Agent Domain for the Open Grid!

August 18 at 4:22 pm - Link

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YAAY - another step forward. I just created my account on http://syntronik.de and logged in COM.lounge sim. Right now teleport doesn't work, but it's going to be fixed. Then one can teleport to my Opensim region both ways: by logging in the syntronik.de Agent Domain, or by logging in the Linden Lab Agent Domain. - Opensource Obscure

what is an agent domain? does that mean a different grid authenticates your avatar even if you haven't created an account in every grid you're trying to tp to? - Gaby Benkwitz

actually, the concept of 'grid' could disappear: http://justincc.wordpress.com/... + http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog... - that said, here's how I'm understanding it (I hope Christian Scholz aka Tao Takashi joins us, he deeply knows this stuff): - Opensource Obscure

An agent domain hosts your avatar, verifies your identity and you get authenticated with it. It "talks with" other grids and other grids' regions, and manage trust relationships with them; according to these trust relationships, you get enabled to teleport to other regions and maybe to operate inside them. See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wik... + http://syntronik.de/about + http://syntronik.de/forum/synt... - Opensource Obscure

As OO said: An Agent Domain is storing all your agent's data, like your profile, group information, friends list and so on. Everybody is free to choose an Agent Domain of their liking (even create their own). SL might be one AD out of many. A Region Domain on the other hand is the keeper of 3D environments (regions) as known from SL. Theoretically you can connect from any AD to any RD but trust issues might limit this somewhat. - Christian Scholz

and yes, there is no technical grid then anymore. It's more a loose coupling of servers. I need to post more on this, look out for posts on http://mrtopf.de/blog :-) - Christian Scholz

Annie Ok posted a link

"BSG47 - VICE Combat Training" in Second Life

August 19 at 4:04 pm - Link

an entry from Official Second Life Blog

Burning Life: A call for volunteers

August 19 at 2:24 am - Link

silpol posted a link

Reuters/Second Life » Second Life residents propose their own solutions to a troubled UI

August 18 at 2:22 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Dani Radu, Grey Drane, Erik Chevalier and Lady Blackice liked this

"By Eric Reuters SECOND LIFE, August 12 (Reuters) - Doug Thompson loved Second Life from the start, but there was one aspect he hated — its notoriously clunky user interface. “The Second Life interface sucks,” he wrote on his blog, recalling his first days. “Which will lead to the next sacred cow, which is that the newbie orientation experience sucks.” ..." - silpol via Bookmarklet

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Will Mark Kingdon’s Reign Boost Second Life? - GigaOM

August 18 at 12:34 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Back in April, ex-Organic CEO Mark Kingdon took the helm of Linden Lab, replacing its charismatic founder, Philip Rosedale, at a time when the company was already struggling in an increasingly competitive market. While Linden claims to be profitable, its market share has plateaued, with scalability and usability woes keeping the number of monthly active users around 550,000 since last summer." - silpol via Bookmarklet

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“Are you experiencing unusual sim crashes in these hours?”

August 16 at 4:01 am - Link

Our region (Vulcano) crashed 4 times in the last 16 hours. I don't see any news on http://status.secondlifegrid.n... so this could just be a single episode. Anything bad happening to your favorite sims? - Opensource Obscure

According Linden LiveSupport, the sim crashed only once in the last week. If they are right, my 4 Crash Counters are broken. Do you have a reliable way to misure your sims uptime? - Opensource Obscure

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going to race cars on my REAL BIZ show on SLCN Monday (2pm SLT if you want to watch & laugh at me)

August 16 at 7:22 pm - Link

an entry from Official Second Life Blog

How to report abuse and handle griefing - Video Tip of the Week #47

August 16 at 7:30 am - Link

Gaby Benkwitz posted a link

Finally, A Second Life Cheatsheet!

August 8 at 5:06 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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all keyboard shortcuts (Mac & PC) on one page. Thank SL resident Kippie Friedkin! - Gaby Benkwitz via Bookmarklet

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