Rolling Restart - Complete
Friday, July 27th, 2007 at 9:11 AM by: Steve LindenIn order to improve the voice experience available in the First Look: Voice client, we will be issuing a rolling restart today starting at 9:30 AM PST. The restart should finish by 12:00 PM.
During the rolling restart and for a few hours afterwards, residents making use of the voice client may experience intermittent problems with voice. These should all be resolved by 3:00 PM.
Regions will being restarting at approximately 10:30. The restarts occur in a wave that progresses North to South through the grid. Residents can teleport southward to avoid being logged out.
[UPDATE @ 1:24pm] The restart is complete.
[UPDATE @ 2:24pm] We’ve discovered that several hundred regions did not restart during the restart wave. We’re restarting those now to make sure that the voice updates will behave correctly. We apologize for the inconvenience, and will be investigating why the regions were not restarted with the rest.
[UPDATE @ 3:10pm] The final batch is complete. This time for sure!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:17 AM
Is This To Undo The Mess That Was Secretly Made Of The 1st Look Client On Wednesday?
I Hope So..
Crashing On Login For The Majority Of Attempts Is Pathetic…
And The LAG?
Where On Earth Does That Come From All Of A Sudden?
So Much For Voice Not Creating More Lag…
:/
July 27th, 2007 at 9:17 AM
Hmm…Okay..
You guys should also make a blog post for all the problems with ATM’s
July 27th, 2007 at 9:20 AM
they did … they baned gambling A whole bunch of folks pulled all there cash out at once.
slingo 
Greedy…. im board most of the time now.
I miss poker
and to date voice = no lag here at all.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:23 AM
09:19 “unexpected” login problems - thx for screwing with SL on friday afternoon/early evening. Your european customer thank you …
July 27th, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Err. rolling restart… but it seems like the whole grid went down
July 27th, 2007 at 9:25 AM
I am, right now experiencing crahed on login. Meaning after I hit login that bar appears, says logging in, and then the client crashes.
it worked fine yesterday. Is that somehow related to the work done on the grid?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:27 AM
Seems like things running in slow motion. Could just be me though : P
July 27th, 2007 at 9:27 AM
In order to improve the voice experience we get to crash on startup again, on a friday - end of the working day in Europe. Ty LL
July 27th, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Weather forecast: Thunder and Lightning!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:30 AM
Will this fix the estate bans suddenly disapearing?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Rolling restart? Not only was it 4 minutes early at 9:26, but there was no usual 5 minute warning - just “Ting! - The simulator you are in…” etc
Thanks for that - NOT.
Whats the bet what I log back in, the real rolling restart rolls through as well??
July 27th, 2007 at 9:31 AM
*shakes his head
July 27th, 2007 at 9:32 AM
Great, couldn’t have given everyone better notice then 19mins?
Most of us dont even use the Voice Client, but we all have to suffer!!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:34 AM
Gosh, I wish you folks would quit carping. Complain about problems, then complain when they do something to try and fix them.
Sheesh.
For what it’s worth, I use the First Look Client daily and haven’t had problem one with it crashing when I start it up.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:38 AM
“Unable to connect to Second Life.
Despite our best efforts, something unexpected has gone wrong.”
Mmmh, it’s annoying…really
July 27th, 2007 at 9:39 AM
Gee Do Some thing THAT MATTER LIKE aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
GIVE BACK GAMING !
July 27th, 2007 at 9:41 AM
this is crap i crasht and now i can not login anymore exactly like last time…
is there something happened in san francisco again or what i dont belive it
only written - again :
unable to connect to secondlife something unexpected has gone wrong etc etc…
whats wrong again?? sl seems to get really worse
July 27th, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Seems the login is impossible now. Anyone else has problems with it?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:42 AM
Dear Fellow Restart Dodgers,
Remember to teleport North or South “over the wave” to avoid being killed/logged off.
Let’s consider the rolling restart to be just a “bad weather pattern” that moves North to South - Starting in the new island continent of Corsica on the upper right (North East) of your map, then proceeding through White Sands and Newlandas (also on the upper right/NE of the map), Sever Island, Costa Bianca (as the White Snowy area is known to the local residents ), the Korea Island Infohub, and finally the U-shaped Southmainland (where we live on the Golden East Coast in Yuja and Mul).
At least it isn’t the whole grid like on “down Wednewdays”… right?
B
July 27th, 2007 at 9:42 AM
We are not complaining that there trying to fix the problem, we are complaining about the notice given, or therefore lack of, first time the notice showed up apon log in was after the client crashed and we, well I still can’t log back in, too bad for those that were in the middle of a huge build or anything.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Does anybody find voice a fulfiling experience and would you really miss it if it went away ? Just wondering if all the effort might better be spent on things we really need such as error handling on the links, solving the teleport crashes, fixing the memory leaks once and for all and so on.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Well, to me it seems like it is… “unable to connect to 2nd Life…”
July 27th, 2007 at 9:49 AM
“… or otherwise busts the rules will be …”
Could you also resurrect use of the English language some of us know and love and say “breaks the rules” or somesuch please.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:50 AM
my first comment was meant to add to #12!
couldnt care less for things like voice, i’d much prefer the game “as is” to run as it’s supposed to be!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:50 AM
where ist the RESTART?? got kicked out, without any warning, and then no more getting in! Guys, you dont need power failurs in Frisco, you found other ways!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Cant login into SL either anymore. Thanks, voice!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:53 AM
hi guys,
please think about the definition of “rolling” and “re”start.
i want the sl free wednesday back and let us the weekend.
tc
July 27th, 2007 at 9:58 AM
@10 AGREED
@12 Good idea - something I always do.
To the rest of you with problems, use Forums or Support Ticket.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:58 AM
My logins fail because of a simulator/database bug. Hopefully the database servers are restarted too.
The bug has been on for 10 hours and no response from Support for 6 hours.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:59 AM
I’m glad the login crash problem is not my own. I was going crazy last night thinking that a debug option I’d set was stopping me from logging in and that I couldn’t get back in to fix it.
Can’t wait till you’re done!
P.S. I love voice. Second Life was more crashy before it, in my opinion.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:02 AM
@19 wrong man! this is what the ‘ comments * are for ! ALL of them …concerning this ‘rolling restart’.
I always prefer getting inworld warnings if somethin alike is goin to be expected. Power failures are an exception, for sure.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:03 AM
I dont need this voice thing. I need a working SL!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:05 AM
20seconds to asset db to respond, vendor not sending items anymore from server and lagging
rollback what u “fixed”
July 27th, 2007 at 10:05 AM
An in-world warning of the restart would have been nice. If the sim I was on hadn’t crashed I wouldn’t have seen the blog entry notice.
Also, Voice (at least for me) is underwhelming to say the least. I’m an RL mute so the technology makes me feel like a second class citizen. People all around me are using Voice and ignoring chat. I am becoming a non-entity avie.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:13 AM
@22: even this is not exactly point for this comment line, I totally agrre! Have some firends here in SL , also hard of hearing, and I really feel sorry for them, because I fear its goin exactly as you described it…2ndclass citizens! again RL is goin to overtake. As long as this is goin to happen, I am not ‘in’ with voice! Still goin with the ‘oldfashioned typers’!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:13 AM
The lack of in ingame warning
was not amusing at all.
I lost some some work due to that…
a small amount but nevertheless.
On the other hand..
“Only a dead bug,
is a good bug.”
July 27th, 2007 at 10:14 AM
Sorry Guys…Cant login into SL !!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Hey. I cant login anymore since the rolling restart begun. It tells me Logging In (Attempt 1) and then it tells me it cant connect.
I can only login to the Beta Grid. Anyone got an idea?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Uccello, you are not alone. Many of my friends refuse to use voice as well. It is breaking immersion and will lead to more separation instead of integration (people of the same language will cluster more often).
I definately do not want to hear people’s RL noises, like barking dogs, crying kids, ringing phones or their locale music they hear cutrently.
And I dont want to wear a headset all day long and I also do not want to be griefed in a new, more annoying and harder to monitor way with all kind of verbal and acoustic crap.
Voice?- No, thanks.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:16 AM
I can’t log in now getting the message “Unable to connect to Second Life. Despite our best efforts something unexpected has gone wrong blah blah”
Nothing on the blog page or status page so what now *twiddles thumbs*
July 27th, 2007 at 10:25 AM
GRRRR…right in the middle of building =/ hehe.
Best of luck voice people.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 AM
> Does anybody find voice a fulfiling experience
I’m not interested in having voice.
However, the competition has voice so we have to keep up with the Joneses, right?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Thank you Lindens. Thanx a lot that I can’t login any more.
I pay a lot of money each month, and what do I get????
No logins, a sim that is slowed down, even when only one AV is in there. Objects won’t rezz or rezz 10 m away from the point they should. The asset server doesn’t respond in time.
But Lindens worry about Voice, hurray. That we need really.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Bad surprise. I announced an event and an opening party of my business right now. “Something unexpected has gone wrong.” Unable to cennct to Second Life. Why aren’t you able to announce a buggy restart one day in advance?? In Rl your customers would attack your company with a lot of lawyers: action for damages, compensation, loss of carning and so on.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 AM
Why is there time for an unwished, silly and unnecessary feature while database problems, stability flaws, a terrible overall lag and SL becoming more and more unplayable and unreliant isn´t even worth a comment, not to speak of adressing these issues?
Big Biz pressuring? Hey, We are the people, listen to us!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 AM
I haven’t been able to log in for a solid hour now. What’s this?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 AM
oh well
July 27th, 2007 at 10:28 AM
Good lord people…. Voice never was completed, you should have know better.
That’s why it’s on FIRST LOOK… as a BETA, not an actual release.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:29 AM
In order to improve the voice experience available in the First Look: Voice client,
DAMN LINDEN IDIOTS !! .. Its for Voice, You DAMN IDiots I don;t fucking care about VOICE. Solve first all other Problems.. Thank you for this Friday Europe Evening Fuckup !
July 27th, 2007 at 10:29 AM
At the moment sooo many problems. Textures and avatars stay grey…. When rezzing, I get the message: Rezz object failed. I tried several sims, cleared cache, rebooted all… it’s hopeless….. it’s awful…. We all keep flying / floating in the air… sometimes when walking.. always when tp-ing…
July 27th, 2007 at 10:29 AM
so when we get the full voice we get the full problems?
SCNR
July 27th, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Could someone please ask the cleaning lady to unplug her vacuum cleaner and plug the cable from the central router back in?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:31 AM
hey i try to connect doesnt matter what - first look and at the normal one i cant login always “something unexpected has gone wrong - unable to connect to secondlife”
whats that?? a rolling restart u wanted to make… now i cant come online like many here… not only on the first look… and u dont even give a comment??
July 27th, 2007 at 10:31 AM
Hey Guys.. Login isn’t working and even http://www.secondlife.com shows no response at all! What’s happening there? Is it a Europe Backbone problem or are you “down” ?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:32 AM
#22 what competition? anyone came up with an alternative? *thinks about packing her bags*
July 27th, 2007 at 10:34 AM
@31 ….but it is tieing the forces, desperately needed somewhere else! FIRST comes the paying customers, then the so called ‘development’ (if it really is…)
Linden, pls. dont bind all your power on ‘Voice’ or whatever… let SL keep WORKING! …dont slowly kill it!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:34 AM
So…Now the main grid has become the new beta grid?
How can you guys justify restarting regions to satisfy residents using experimental viewers?
I hate to say this Llindens…. Arrogant or incompetent, which is it?
I wonder what you guys will do when eventually competion from other online worlds emerge….. you face a dimm future is you don’t shape up your customer service strategy.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Everything works fine here anyways.
Crashing I did have was related to an overheating video card.
Keep up the great work LL!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:36 AM
I haven’t been able to log in for a solid hour now. What’s this?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:38 AM
Rolling restart…..9:30 AM
Unable to connect to Second Life …..
DNS could not resolve the host name………10:35 AM
Europeans allways seem to be at last
July 27th, 2007 at 10:38 AM
Not interessted in voice but interessted in log in now!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:38 AM
hey guys on this blog , not having a go , but we are all human , these lindens are try to make this place better…give them some kind words please ,,,i’m sure they are trying hard with all they know to help us ,,,GOOD WORK LINDENS thanks for making this awesome place
July 27th, 2007 at 10:40 AM
@ #24:
Same problem here, opening party is sheduled for this evening…
At the moment none of the owners is able to log in, so the whole event will turn out to be a complete flop.
Thanks Lindens, thanks voice….
July 27th, 2007 at 10:41 AM
grrr i still cant login doesnt matter on what viewer
July 27th, 2007 at 10:42 AM
@37 : “..unable to connect to second life. Despite our best affords something unexpected has gone wrong …..”
ooops, sorry, I also crashed, but I didnt realize my/a Videocard might cause such big connecting problems to SL for thousends of customers who all wait now for more than one hour to log back in to SL !
July 27th, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Oh well, I’m not even using the Voice Viewer. Can’t log in with any account, any viewer, nor any region. I have to agree with other comments, a warning would have been preferred.
And Uccello, hope this consoles you, since Voice isn’t my prefered option either I tend to sit there ignorant to all chat too. It’s always gonna be a side feature for me, and not worth the bother.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Dear Linden. Voice is Fine, but a restart around 19:30 CET time on the main grid for a first look viewer issue due to the fact that Voice is stil in Beta is strange. Its against every way of IT Sense.
Please do fix all other issues with embedded notecards, viewer crashes when empty the trashbin etc. before implementing or even testing voice.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:42 AM
it would be helpful if some LL speaker could at least tell us when we will be able to log in again. thank you.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:43 AM
@ 22
“However, the competition has voice so we have to keep up with the Joneses, right?”
What cpmpetition? Didn´t SL sweep them away WITHOUT having voice?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:43 AM
I second Nicholaz’ request… please let us log in again
pretty please. You can lock us out next wednesday, but please not on fridays.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:45 AM
reading what other people type is all the voice i need
July 27th, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Does anybody know how long this will last?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Oooh, that reminds me. I do need to d/l the First Look so I can turn voice off on all my parcels, and at least try and reduce my lag. Thanks LL.
July 27th, 2007 at 10:49 AM
It is nice that Linden would decide to fix the problems that are actually occuring in SL-perhaps they can concentrate on that instead of the gambling which will cost a lot of people a lot of money-I suppose there is no way I can be reimbursed for all the time and money I have used to create a nice plae in SL-as it seems the creativity is slowly being choked out of this place-maybe you can fix the grid problems enough so I can build again without a hassle-and I don’t even have gambling machines-but I go to gambling places when the grid is too sloppy to try building-come on guys, the more you stifle people the less creative opportunities we have to make this place what we want, I thought the purpose of SL was to create our own world-or did all the lawyers you guys hired change that?
July 27th, 2007 at 10:52 AM
….and another: “Linux client installer not available.” Ok, but this does not mean the we cannot connect - not at all? I do not like to change to hipihi.com, because I did not finish to learn Mandarin
July 27th, 2007 at 10:53 AM
Will that be just the same like the last time Linden did a roll back?
I lost some Linden I had paid for an items it never showed in my inventory.
Oh, Sad wheather
July 27th, 2007 at 10:58 AM
@42 You brought it to the point!!
THANKS! will do exactly as suggested! All you landlords of SL: if you want to let yor place work, do it ! TURN OFF VOICE and show Linden, what for you are in SL - to create YOUR working! second life!
July 27th, 2007 at 10:59 AM
HELP!!! i cant Connect, DNS could not resolve the Host Name, what does it mean? What should i do?
July 27th, 2007 at 11:00 AM
NOBODY WANTS VOICE !!! EVERYBODY WANTS GAMBLING !!!
what does LL ?
FORCE INTRODUCTION OF VOICE … AND BANS GAMBLING
PHILIP ROSEDALE I THINK YOU HAVE BEEN CEO TO LONG TIME !
July 27th, 2007 at 11:02 AM
i am happy that you introduced a new bug: rotating myself is now incredibly slow, thanks!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:05 AM
So… as I read all comments above I found a lot of similarities to my situation.
*makes some gestures with her hands to Uccello Poultry*
I too feel like a second class citizen now… SL gave us the possibility not to be dependant on voice… now I will be asked… “Why don’t you say anything?” And again and again I need to explain… nice… makes me feel like RL…
And since the begin of the rolling restart login is dead… “… we did all we could… but were unable to login…” sure… maybe you should really fix SL to a running system first instead of adding new features to the grid! Still have a lot of items rendered useless because of the DB problem “… Item/gesture missing from database…” error.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:09 AM
So much for for the unwanted feature being *optional* and having *no effect* on anybody who doesn’t want to turn SL into a mobile phone add-on .
July 27th, 2007 at 11:10 AM
#29 LOL
Nice timing tho..in the middle of a contest TY
Who needs voice when theres a shit load of anoying gestures?!
HOORAY for gambling & STOP CHILD PORN…
July 27th, 2007 at 11:13 AM
When i log into Secondlife, my Client crashed directly after saying “Logging In (Attempt #1)” and then i can have a look at the lovely Crash logger.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:13 AM
hmmmm…is this a rolling restarts on regions or accounts?
cant log in on any account in any region for about 2 hours now.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:15 AM
“10 Sougent Harrop Says:
July 27th, 2007 at 9:34 AM PDT
Gosh, I wish you folks would quit carping. Complain about problems, then complain when they do something to try and fix them.
Sheesh.”
DITTO!!!!
Thanks Lindenonians!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:17 AM
WTF! I can’t login any more! Always the same problems!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Fixing problems is ok, and all want the problems fixed, but building in new problems is not ok.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:20 AM
I am trying to login for 2.5 hours now without any success (’DNS could not resolve the host name’). Now I miss the event I have planned for 1100 AM SLT, and I wonder why you are doing a rolling restart on a friday.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:20 AM
well, now I am getting DNS error upon attempting to log in, this bites.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Hmmm, I am troubled that they have to restart the WHOLE grid to take care of a problem with the FIRST LOOK client. The tail is wagging the dog here folks, if voice is that important, then BETA it some more, rather than bringing down the whole grid for an optional piece of software.
Priorities Lindens, and voice First Look should NOT take priority over the grid as a whole.
Max
July 27th, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Well, it’s now approx. at least a 5-6 hour “restart” … since then no login is possible and the whole grid seems to be somewhere in the restart process (my guess, somewhere at the “totally down” stage of the restart process).
It’s Friday night in Europe now, so - wow - there’s a night without SL coming up. How horrible for some of us, but other might just want to go to the movies, the beaches or the bars … I mean the first life variations of these sims …
See you later everybody …
July 27th, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Who does care abt that voice feature. Nobody needs it. It will only adding to the existing problems and lags.
Not possible to log in. Its really upsetting.
Marc
July 27th, 2007 at 11:23 AM
@31 Would also love to know of a better alternitive. if they block the reply here you can send me an in game note ^^
July 27th, 2007 at 11:24 AM
I can’t loggin since over 45 minutes - getting the same error message like others too. Would someone from LL finally give us a statement to this problem ?!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:24 AM
I just read #44 and managed to login (slowly) from Washington DC.
Is there any way to know “how far South the Restart Wave has progressed” ?
I’d like to know if my sims have been restarted - Can anyone report specific server names? Maybe we can figure out “who is safe” and who is not?
B
July 27th, 2007 at 11:24 AM
lol cant even get in wonder what kind a problems you are now creating…. wish it would be like it was a couple millions ago lol…..
July 27th, 2007 at 11:26 AM
wow - if this isn’t a sign of things to come.
The gambling ban was brutal for some I am sure - but most should have seen it coming a mile away - at least those of us who live in the US.
Voice??? Who cares about voice. I suspect it will be forced down our throats though so open up and say AHHHHHH.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:26 AM
I just joined and it seems pretty stupid that I cannot even get started while a Beta item shuts the whole thing down. I was told that this was the best new thing online. Sure seems just as messed up as the real world…
July 27th, 2007 at 11:27 AM
I’m in Europe, I got a response to my support request but it doesnt help because once I get in how many hours later, Qarl Linden’s office hours will be over.
Hope someone is logging it.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:28 AM
I CAN´T LOGGIN ANYMORE !!!!
GIVE US SOME STATEMENT O THIS PROBLEM !!!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:30 AM
@ 31
Agreed I too would love to find a more stable and enjoyable alternitive. I have been here since before they hit the 1 mil mark and it seems like its just spiraling down now. this “added lag” and othre issues from this new vois feature are just the next level. how long before the grid crashes beyond repair or recovery?
July 27th, 2007 at 11:31 AM
Its really a mess putting the whole grid down for a feature nobody needs. Europe is down. Its more than crazy, its really stupid!!!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:32 AM
LOL, those Linden guys are great… Fixing probs on things that nearly NOBODY wants and ruin the day at a time when EVERYBODY wants to play SL…
Customer care is written in very small letters at Linden Labs.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:33 AM
I’m in Europe too, no login possible since more then 1 hour, Friday evening here, well done again LL. Please don’t bug me with anymore polls how good Second Life expierience became recently …
July 27th, 2007 at 11:34 AM
why starting new problems, before fixing the old?
July 27th, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Not able to connect to Second Life!
Since many hours!
Im from Germany, this really sucks guys !!!!!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Hey there, I cannot log in to Second Life anymore, since an hour!!!!
What in earth are you doing???????
This is not true now… every single day a nother BUGGGGGGG
I´m truly upset
yours Cris
July 27th, 2007 at 11:36 AM
Crashed about an hour ago and not able to login since than…this is REALLY getting on my nerves.
The error messages keep on changing from unable to connect to DNS problems to Login Failure because of whatever.
All I want is to login and play…I pay enough money every month and hey, the last few days we had NOTHING but trouble on SL. That starts to frustrate me.
PLEASE LL…FIX THIS PROBLEM QUICK AND LET US LOG IN AGAIN!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:37 AM
I’ve been trying to log back on for 15 minutes now, no luck with different accounts. I really wonder how the 35 k people that are supposedly online right now got on…
And I really wish for once you would actually tell us if there are problems, like, oh, for instance, logins. Instead of giving the status “everything’s hunky-dory”…
July 27th, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Great… must be a big roll… I’m getting DNS error, when i try to login. I guess Amber will have a lonely meeting at the Volonteer HQ right now.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:38 AM
@30, love that comment on the cleaning lady LOL
And for the rest… Why bother with the voice thing at all???
If I want to speak with someone, there is phones and IM-clients with webcam support, so why introduce something unnecessary in here?
Focus on better stability, better hardware support and better information and support for us paying users… (Thinking of stop paying soon if they don’t get better at telling things in advance and listen to us users!!!)
The only Lindens that has done somthing valuable for the masses are Torley Linden and Tofu Linden as i see it :-/
LL needs to loose their focus on the US market and start thinking global…
Another €0.02 of thoughs while grabbing the big melon gun and running after that cleaning lady so my friends can log in…
July 27th, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Lets hope this rolling restart takes care of all the MASSIVE AMOUNTS of lag lately and also the HUGE amounts of packet loss. Its been happening ever since the “Great San Fran Blackout”.
NEWAYS
Look you guys at LL need to really step up your intelligence levels. Most of us could give a dang about some voice chat cept for the pervs buyin escorts and the RL business that seems to be pushing the rest of us SL business owners out of the loop. Maybe this BS voice client is the reason for all the lag lately eh?
Not to rant but I also think its some MAJOR BS that we as american citizens have to take a back seat and have our freedom of speech and person violated because LL decided to go GESTAPO. Look there is no LAWS in the american judical system that goverens ANYTHING we do inside video games. Like it or not thats just what this is LL. A GAME. Call it what you will but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck its a DANG DUCK. I DARE LL to post a comment with web link to ANY laws that govern what we as americans can do in video games.
Its impossible. Ive looked. You guys are cutting your own throats anyways. The casinos are the biggest “Ad Revenue” generators in SL. I dont gamble. But I AM A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN. And I do not freely give up any of my personal liberties as an american citizen to ANY ONE.
And because you guys choose to enter these BS countries like germany (Which is where all this censorship started IE the ageplay) we have to suffer. You didnt seem to mind when us AMERICANS supported you when you were a tiny lil nothing company. You didnt mind when it was OUR money pouring into the SL economy. But you mind now that weve supported after all these years? Its just a pitiful state that this metaverse has entered and It will fall apart by your own hand. Stupid LL.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Waah Waah Waah… gods all the cry babys, I for one am thankful for voice, and glad for a fix to it. Stop comparing it to gambling, gambling was illegal, unethical (rigged machines), and the only people who miss it were the ones making money off ripping off the new user. There was an announcement about the rolling restarts, if you missed it, that is not Lindens fault, I saw it, a nice big blue box on my screen saying that rolling restarts will be occuring to bring in a hotfix. Give LL a break and let them do their jobs.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Ahh great! I think you just killed the database too. I’m in Cyclops and don’t get my attachments loaded. Why has this to be done always at start of the weekend?
July 27th, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Haven’t been able to log in either for hours, ever since the rolling restart has started (despite our best efforts…..), some info on this would be appreciated since it seems I’m not the only one having this problem
July 27th, 2007 at 11:41 AM
hooooooooooooooo guys….
thank you very, very much for kickin’ me outa my business
it’s friday and i have to run a club and pay my bills…watcha think will happen if my credit card provider will tell you lindens ‘you can’t get money from that credit card’???? huuuuuuu…you gonna cancel my prem account immediately…
but if ya goin on with that buggy beta testing software i gonna cancel that account myself and gonna look about a other place to spend hundreds of RL US$ a month
July 27th, 2007 at 11:41 AM
I am from Europe too. “Unable to connect to SL” since over 90 minutes. It would be very nice, if somebody could give some informations about this problem to us.
THANKS !
July 27th, 2007 at 11:42 AM
…more than two hours now…
July 27th, 2007 at 11:43 AM
My client crashes on every attempt to log in. - Mac OS X, PPC.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:43 AM
I cant log in too.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:43 AM
@23, that could be my words.
@40, well some guys want voice, but who the hell needs gambling ? only guys who want to make fast money without much work
i can not log in for 2 hours. would be nice if you lindens fix this problems.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:43 AM
I know that at least a rolling restart is better than a Wednesday “grid offline” but …
I know that you may have ruined your inworld economy with the banning of wagering/casinos.
“Your world, Your imagination” Right? That’s how you advertise it.
I love SL but I WANT “MY WORLD, MY IMAGINATION” please.
Oh, and voice? SL beat the pants off anything out there before getting voice.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:45 AM
@51 … the ban of gambling looks like a simple thing after the ban of advertisement for gambling… and it was YOUR AMERICAN FBI and the us goverment and laws that made this step unavoidable
July 27th, 2007 at 11:46 AM
I cant`t log in for a few hours now…what happend to you folks?
It`s friday….
July 27th, 2007 at 11:49 AM
@ 58
Obviously you cant read english well. HELLO. THERE ARE NO LAWS.
And second the FBI would have never entered SL if LL didnt invite them in with OPEN ARMS.
Look your name is an obvious statement that your new to SL. More than likely just signed up in the last year or so.
Dont talk about things you wasnt even here for. It makes you look ignorant. Ive been here a REAL LONG TIME! And no it was the GERMANY that gave us all the censorship in the first place. Do your research. Look around at the past news in the blogs and even in Google news. Youd be suprised.
July 27th, 2007 at 11:49 AM
@ 58. yes you are right