We be pullin’ in to drydock! (Scheduled Outage - COMPLETE)
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 5:39 AM by: Joshua Linden
Avast!
Belay that spoutin’, ye scurvy dogs! The good ship Second Life be furlin’ her sails and pullin’ in to drydock for some tidyin’. She’ll be ship shape again soon and ready to sail the seven seas. Don’t think we Lindens will be gettin’ any aRrr and aRrr, either! Aye, we’d rather be downin’ some grog, but one false step and we’ll all sink down to visit Davy Jones, n’er again to feel the wind across our billowing sails.
So heave to, laddies! Keep your noggins close and sing ano’er round ‘o Fifteen Men while ye be waitin’. We’ll meet ya topside once we’re ready to hit the seas - a’fore the clock be strikin’ 10 round the Golden Gate, if ol’ Neptune be kind to oh such as the likes of us.
(What the…? At Linden Lab we take International Talk Like A Pirate Day very seriously. But not as seriously as we take Second Life. If your pirate translation skills are rusty: as mentioned here and here we are entering a scheduled outage window for hardware maintenance on Second Life systems at 6am Pacific. We expect to be up by 10am Pacific, and will post updates if anything changes. Unfortunately, the maintenance work affects our public Beta systems as well.)
Yo ho!
[UPDATE @9:15am] - Arr, we be ahead ‘o schedule. The sun’s arisen over the Barbary Coast here in the western bay port city, and we be done with our toolin’ on the ship. We’re makin’ sure she rides steady in the waters afore we lower the gangplank.
[UPDATE @9:50am] - Belay that last utterin’. Seems a bit o the islands be under a hurricane and not yet reachable. We be seein’ if we’re ready to set sail and hope for calmer seas ahead. (Translation: some lingering power work has left about 5% of regions offline. We’re doing final tests on the central services, and then will probably open up and work on bringing those regions back online.)
[UPDATE @10:05am] - Prepare to welcome boarders! We’re open! NOTE: many regions still offline, but most of Second Life is available.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:43 AM
firt and well the downtime … im so lost without SL. what can i do now? lol
September 19th, 2007 at 5:44 AM
why is the beta grid locked down for? I usally go there when the main grid is down.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:44 AM
always helps to read the blog full moe ^^ dont mind me
September 19th, 2007 at 5:51 AM
is the beta online when main grid is off ?
September 19th, 2007 at 5:52 AM
Ok this is good. BUT, when will we see the first signs of the next rendition of Windlight or that thing called Havic something? We heard in a previous blog report that both were just around the corner. I think that was a month or so. Well we are approching the corner. Will we be seeing them when we turn the bend?
September 19th, 2007 at 5:52 AM
Shiver me timbers hope ye mates get ole bugz fixed… I’m gonna make ole P. Linden walk the blank if ole bugz aren’t fixed!!!!
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
September 19th, 2007 at 5:53 AM
if is online all go to beta
September 19th, 2007 at 5:54 AM
tell me why right before and after a upgrade is my mac always being booted off and sometimes well after upgrade as much as 30 times a day and why is there no longer phone support and please dont tell me you cant afford it lol or even in world love help thankyou
September 19th, 2007 at 5:54 AM
Arrr, shiver me timbers…
Lets us all be praying for fair weather this day!
For no good will come of giving ye lindens the black spot
Stomps off to the local grog house for the duration
Arrrr
September 19th, 2007 at 5:55 AM
I dont expect havoik to be on the grid anytime soon. first they need to eliminate the rest of the class 2 servers and fix that stupid estate ban exploit that is causing us problems
September 19th, 2007 at 5:55 AM
i mean live help lol lol
September 19th, 2007 at 5:56 AM
Second Life should be rated ARRRR FOR PIRATE CONTENT
September 19th, 2007 at 5:56 AM
Look out! It’s a “Constructive Comment”
It would be nice if there was some info or a link to a page with some info on which changes are being rolled out? Then we’d all know what to look out for when we log back in and might me able to make more useful contributions on the JIRA.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:57 AM
/me wishes the Lindens luck
Thanks for all your hard work :))
Glad to have a REAL life to play while you make my second one even better!
September 19th, 2007 at 5:57 AM
Wow … lucky me …. a new update …. Grey hair again after restart …. GREAT (already aprehensiv to log in due to some invenory and other problems … clearing caches … and in the worst case .. reinstall SL )
But why does it always have to be the european and other nationalities ( the right side of the GM *Greenwich Meridian) who have to take the burden of it? Why never doing it when US SL citizens are for the most online?
Anyway thx for for the fun … of SL … and also for your neverending effords …..
Kind regards
Fell
September 19th, 2007 at 5:57 AM
Aargh! There be free rum for all ye land lubbers at me pirate pub in the great sailin sim of Sanchon, if Sec’n Life be workin’ again.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:58 AM
Ummmmm, Joshua, you usually lower your sails going into dock and raise them when you are leaving. HMMMMMM, may that is some of the problem ;DDD
September 19th, 2007 at 5:59 AM
This outage anouncement must have been pushed down on the blogs list because of useless features and bugs, maybe you need to have something on the main page stating theres going to be an outage….. Estimated outage, 4 hours. Realistic outage, 6 hours. Thanks for the heads up so I could grab my scripts and work on them outside of SL.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:59 AM
YAAAaaarrrrrR!!!!!!!1elevntyone!!?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:00 AM
Loved the in-world reminders! TYVM
September 19th, 2007 at 6:00 AM
oh wow…harsh
i’m having a day off work sick…what the heck am i gonna do now
September 19th, 2007 at 6:00 AM
Good luck!
Get that ship out by the 10 o’clock tide lads, and you can splice the mainbrace.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:01 AM
Yo ho and a barrel of whine
September 19th, 2007 at 6:01 AM
yarrr hardware fixes be good
September 19th, 2007 at 6:01 AM
Damn good to see guys at LL hasn’t lost their sense of humour
Keep the spirit up!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:01 AM
Arrr, just when I be fixin me avatarrr up with some new booty…
Harrrrdware maitenance be a good thing!
So I be hoisting a bit o rum to thee on the Linden ship, may the seas be smooth and free of them pirate hunters!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:01 AM
How can we connect to the beta grid now? =)
That was always a party during these outages!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:02 AM
I’m really curious if the Grid is in 4 hours up again…
And i hope also, that you don’t mess up SL again, like the last updates.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:02 AM
Hey there:_) best of luck. Hope the hardware upgrades and maintenance goes well and finally address’s the server load balancing problems.
JayR Cela
September 19th, 2007 at 6:02 AM
/me prepares the plank… just in case.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:03 AM
arg? hehe. um i’m so confused but i get that its down…..so we gonna be searching for some booty or swabbing someone’s deck today? (don’t ask. old joke)
September 19th, 2007 at 6:03 AM
First Thought: I saw the picture and … “Torley’s posting early!”
Second Thought: I read the headline and … “Um … Joshua seriously needs to take some time off.”
International Talk Like A Pirate Day? OK, that’s a new one on me. Any chance we could get an auto Piratetalk translator built into the viewer? Oh, and a ‘leet translator for those of us who have a hard enough time spelling things normally, please.
Anyway, good luck with the hardware maintenance, and let’s hope this might help to alleviate some of the problems that have been making Second Life very unfriendly to a lot of us this past week (extreme lag, horrendous packet loss, regardless of Internet connection or computer used and varying from sim-to-sim).
September 19th, 2007 at 6:04 AM
Well… if the bullpen got few more outs, and maybe Nady starting hitting with runners on base, we wouldn’t be sitting out the playoffs once ag—- oops, it’s NOT International Talk Like a Pittsburgh Pirates Fan Day?. my bad.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:04 AM
<3 LL
September 19th, 2007 at 6:04 AM
Mmmm pirates… ‘/me Mouth Begins To Drool’ =P Good thing I got school to go to while the grid is down, or i’d be quite bored x.x
September 19th, 2007 at 6:05 AM
What can i do now, I am at a loss!… Looks around, and sees how untidy the place is, but i left the maid on sl.. ohhh well best go and take a nap.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:06 AM
Yar, I be get’n this song a go’in!
Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
The mate was fixed by the bosun’s pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey’s throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o’day in a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:06 AM
New hardware…….
can mean,,,new patch cables..heh..
September 19th, 2007 at 6:06 AM
Whooott… Keeping with tradition, we are given 40 minutes notice…
Pity I hadn’t known this earlier.. I could have rescheduled all those meetings, actors for the movie we are making, clients wanting installations to meet their deadlines, clients wanting to meet to discuss more business, OH and did I mention I took a day off RL work (booked vacation, not sick leave) to do all this today?
Lets hope that this ‘downtime’ is worth it somehow, and not just adding a few more bugs than those cured.
Maybe we should make a few Lindens walk the plank?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:06 AM
SAVVY?…How rude!
So what bugs are to be fixed this time?
More to the point. How many more will be created?
Sigh, and the USA will still not be affected by another close down like us here in the UK and Europe……SO UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:06 AM
you said 4 hours, its 6 hours now and still no sign of the grid comingback up any time soon! stop making unrealistic promises!
im just posting since i know they restrict the comment feature in this blog. ignore my comment until the time is due
September 19th, 2007 at 6:07 AM
Tis a mixed blessing, to be sure. System hardware upgrades are a good thing, when done right. Even better when done on or ahead of time. So, let’s all pray that it goes smoothly.
And hopefully, todays work will improve some of the issues that hardware updates can fix, like laggggggggggg.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:07 AM
I am so lost without SL, oh well guess I will go to a chattroom. Anyone wanna join me? hahahaha
September 19th, 2007 at 6:07 AM
feel free to take the game offline as often as you like SO LONG AS you pirate-talk like that to let us know about it!!! brilliant.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:07 AM
Yarrr,, our scheduled maintenance be ‘ere again.. ye all be ready for a cruise on the good ship laggy to the land of broken tp’s
September 19th, 2007 at 6:08 AM
Iffin ye lan’ lubbers would read -snicker- ye would see tha that there beta grid be sunk jus the same as ye ole main. Hardware meanins da it’s all down matey. So drink up some rum and go plunder a town. Or go back to sleep ye lan lubbers which ever dat might spark yer interests
September 19th, 2007 at 6:08 AM
In world warnings this time.. GREAT.. could finally finish in time.. not any open objects when kicked off…
September 19th, 2007 at 6:08 AM
Yes, the rum is gone!
Why is the rum gone?!
But why is the rum gone?!”
September 19th, 2007 at 6:08 AM
Just do what ever you would of done before SL arrived?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:08 AM
God thats it, im lost nothing to do now.
Seriously though, i hope u guys fix things. I love playing sl but get so annoyed with all the problems.
But i must say sl rocks for me no other game compares (not even close) to sl.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:09 AM
Thankee,
ye not-so-scurvy lads and lasses for givin’ yarrr report in Pirate *an* previdin’ ah tranlation inta landlubber!
Keeping your senses of humor is a good omen for fair winds and skilled piloting on the continuing voyage ahead …
hurrah!
Paradox Olbers of the good islandship Spindrift
September 19th, 2007 at 6:10 AM
oh nuts! cant even use babbler to understand the ‘land ahoy’ notice.
AVAST SCURVY, YE GODS, WEVE HIT ROCKS AGAIN CAPTAIN!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:10 AM
I second all that was said above by the lads and lasses…
Avast me hearties…we’ll be a prayin that LL refloats the good ship SL on time and with all the leaks fixed, the planking freshly caulked, the beck scrubbed, lines payed, and the sail shipshape and in Bristol fashion.
It has been a rotten time in SL for weeks now…so let us hope this fixes things up.
Good luck all you lubbers!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:10 AM
I hope this update adds more cowbell.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:10 AM
well if we talkin all piratey ta’day then go to vc.igg.com ye can be a pirate dere matey’s, rather fun once ya get tha there hang of it. An wha! No more rum! Imma walk me sea dog off the plank!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:10 AM
@ AWM Mars:
You shouldn’t book anything for a Wednesday, certainly not an update Wednesday.
It’s all announced in advance on the diary.
Enjoy your day off work, in the sun!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:11 AM
Well it is the lag that has been getting on me threpenny bits….. Lets hope that is sorted…
September 19th, 2007 at 6:11 AM
LMAO @ The XO. Good one mate!!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:11 AM
gets out the christmas decorations…… hope sl is back in time, and thinks, mmm , perhaps should take out the easter bunny , just in case..
September 19th, 2007 at 6:12 AM
Arrh! There be a circular link on the horizon! If ye point yer spyglass at the “talk like a pirate” website, there be an SL reference on their page of how people be celebratin’. Hopefully that’ll get the lubbers aboard HMS Second Life. So long, me buccos!
(Are all pirate movies rated Arrrrh?)
September 19th, 2007 at 6:13 AM
help
September 19th, 2007 at 6:13 AM
Maintenance days be every Wednesday ya whiney land lubbers! Ye should be expectin’ it! Aaarrr! Go walk the plank!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:13 AM
when is sl gonna support vista
September 19th, 2007 at 6:14 AM
just worried about what new marvelous things that will slow the grid even more. will i watch a screen for an hour trying to log in over and over again while Second life lies to me that my password is wrong or that the region i want is currently unavailable. i might be lucky and get my addiction back at the right time i suppose with nothing wrong with it…… am i kidding myself ?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:14 AM
humm pitty it couldnt be shorter fixes. but they are well needed and *sigh* i will wait.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:14 AM
equal teh fail.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:14 AM
Yay! I can finally sleep!!!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:14 AM
aye that damn lag… not good when you standing fighting for your life and come back to find a sword in your ass… bested by someone you wish to kick in all the wrong places, and he stands laughing over you.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:14 AM
well if someone give me some rum i go to sleep happy
O:O later all and pray for be online soon (i think before midnight GMT is not online yet
hope im wrong )
September 19th, 2007 at 6:15 AM
Just turn off the grid, beat on the servers with some nice sledgehammers and be done with it. Why does it always take you 6 hours to break things?
oh and F%CK age verification…
September 19th, 2007 at 6:16 AM
Vics stop being sinical.. everything will be perrrrfect me ole hearties…..LOL
September 19th, 2007 at 6:17 AM
*In the case of the grid not coming up on time*
I knew it. Unrealistic expectations of service period being done. It would be better to add 25% time to the time expected and then try to finish it well before the time hoped for. Grrrrrr!
*In the case of the grid coming up early or right on time*
Finally! Yay! Woohooo!… but does it work?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:17 AM
woot 4hours till gird opens then 10 hours for it to be fixed…..oo i know lets get a update for once that fixes sl… get rid of voice…..just a hint
i fuess they think if we all talk like pirates sl will fix it self
September 19th, 2007 at 6:17 AM
Well, time to watch silly videos on YouTube
Oh well, do a good job LL!
YAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg………
September 19th, 2007 at 6:17 AM
6 hours???? i read 4 hours???? are you telling us something we dont know? are you a spy in the camp? over the side ya go!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:17 AM
well good maybe u can fix me…………i have been a mess since SUNDAY
September 19th, 2007 at 6:18 AM
@Cathryn Kappler:
Arr, what this ye be spoutin, ya lilly livered land lubber? On a tall ship ye pull the sails up to the yard arms! But just in case this pirate be a little too rummy so as like to be memberin’ correcatically, I changed thar blaaaarg post to say “furlin’”, which be nice and neutral.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:18 AM
@51…. i think you’ll find 99% of the people here don’t care about filling out bug reports, reading google documents, reading diaries, reading blogs. I know I don’t…. i only found the blog through the login screen on the game.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:19 AM
oh.. umm.. yay.. lindens can learn pirate, but they can’t fixing the scurvy asset server, arrrrggh!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:19 AM
@27 lol Amanda.
MY first thought was “Uh oh, this doesn’t look good. Joshua’s been taking some ‘performance-enhancing medication’ and he’s just about to take down the whole damn grid for maintenance? Oh well, another week of turmoil in SL coming up!”
Glad to see it was just your freaky humour (erm,.. you’re NOT actually on any suspicious medication are you Joshua?).
Anyway good luck guys - hope to see a MUCH improved SL tomorrow morning (Australia-time). G’nite.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:19 AM
what do i do now…………..I have no idea what i did before sl….sleep maybe? i wonder what that feels like?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:19 AM
hmmmmmm strange it says that sl will go off at 1300 to 1700 gmt yet it has just gone off at 1600 does that mean its off only an hour or will it be back at 20.00 please it takes nothing to try and get the times of the outage correct we all have 1st lives too.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:19 AM
Why the worry about age verification? Do those against it like the idea of children being able to experience adult content? It’s a pedaphiles dream in SL without age verification. So many minors, male and female, running around acting like adults (some more successfully than actual adults).
There is no good reason for being against a measure that is mean to protect minors. I want age verification NOW.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:20 AM
@77 Guess that bug was more important then the 10 second freezes and random craches
<– its a wink - don’t ban me.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:20 AM
@40 Titzalina — Glad to see I am not the only one that caught that.
With all of the problems we have been experiencing the last couple of
weeks, I resent the condescending attitude of this post. It sort of says..If we talk like pirates, and treat them like 4 year olds they will be so entertained they wont notice all the troubles here…
Hey LL — It didn’t work –SAVVY ?!?!?!?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:21 AM
yes we do all have 1st lives so really SL being down for hours surely shouldnt make any difference…………………………..should it?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:22 AM
why do LL limit the number of comments ? maybe they would get a true vision of everyones feelings about outages lag maintenance schedule and avc
September 19th, 2007 at 6:23 AM
Ditto Mistoffelee66!!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:23 AM
does anyone know of a site like this that is all space orientated, like star trek, with the aliens and all. What do you , would it be fun?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:23 AM
Here we go on the time diffs again…sighs. Anyhoo…last time I saw my AV he has a shoe up his a** and his hair was on another sim. But I guess its a good excuse to do some RL work !!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:24 AM
WOW@ ALL THAT!!!! Nice….now not only do we have MUCH needed maintenance in progress, we get live entertainment too by real pirates???? WOooooHooooOO!
Gotta luv them lindens!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:25 AM
lol Koroz…… knows the feeling
September 19th, 2007 at 6:26 AM
Anyone want to make a bet if they keep the schedule this time (i have last downtime still as a terrible nightmare in my mind).
This one bet 5L that they run on overtime yet again
September 19th, 2007 at 6:26 AM
woohoo, hardware maintenance, maybe now my attachments wont ‘unable to rez’ now
September 19th, 2007 at 6:26 AM
At last! I can finally get some work done for my RL clients. Thank you Linden for helping me keep my practice alive.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:26 AM
If this is to do what I’ve heard your going to be doing and merging the Adult and Teen grids then I think I’m gunna leave because that will take away most of the places that I like. What’s going to happen to all the club sims and parcels if you do that? they’re mostly rated at mature so that means either shutting them down or making them keep stuff to a PG rating which sucks.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:27 AM
i dont have 1 life where i can download it ?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:27 AM
LMAO@ Vics!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:28 AM
hhahahhahahah always a moan somewhere !!! i would rather have down time and sl running correctly !!! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee anyway gl withe the hardware updates !!! and it will give some of the avis time to catch up with RL
sowwy
September 19th, 2007 at 6:28 AM
Ok…I know SL going down in your prime time to use it. (this is for the europe ppl) But come on already.
You keep thinking of yourself and not ppl at LL….they have lives outside work. They are doing work during “thier” work hours.
Go outside…walk on the beach…read a book. Hell….go talk with RL ppl.
I love being in SL also…but remember that there “is” a RL too. Go spend some time in it.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:28 AM
btw the URL to aquire a 1st life is : http://www.mysltookovermyfl3yrsago.com
Buahahhahahh!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:29 AM
There is no need to swear hura , it disrespects you and me. but i do know what you mean and how you feel. i have rammed right into people without meaning to. my charactor is like me so having her rammed into hurts me like it would have if it had happend in real life. they should try to fix something like this, we souldnt have to be slow because many people are in the same place as us. 40 people in one place is alot of people because of how slow it gets, 100 people in one place would be better.
i also wish second life would care more about helping people that are having trouble in second life. many people i meet sound sad or bitter and then getting treated badly and no one cares in this game, just adds to there feelings when we can take away from the sad feelings and make things better in a game life this. people’s lives really change in here, even my own. i only wish linden understood what kind of differince they could make for everyone if they cared about everyone enough to try.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:29 AM
Suppose you just keep the grid off-line until you get it working.. wait a minute.. EXCUSE Silly ME!! … For a moment I actually have he notion that you might CARE about fixing things.. ir is that you really DO CARE but you have no clue how? .. You could listen to the members that “own” Intellectual property and “virtual dirt” in this thing..
No, never Mind, there I go being Practical and smart..
Which means that Yo are wrong again when you say “You could be a Linden”.. Sorry, but I answer to a Higher Source.
R P
September 19th, 2007 at 6:29 AM
Let’s hope you actually are working on improving the stability and quality of SL. It has been almost a year now, and lag and crashes are getting worse, not better. Please stop adding new features, especially lag creating garbage like voice, until you fix the current underlying architecture.
I’m tired of crashing at least once an hour, if not every 5-10 minutes and sims I am in crashing at least 2-3 times a day. There is no excuse for that. Start taking the problems seriously. Like the complete failure of the current traffic system. Here’s an idea, if you don’t know how to fix that one, just shut it off. That can only help the lag issues.
SL is losing the content creators that made it a place to look forward to coming to, because you are not paying attention to the problems you have, not giving them the kind of attention you should. After all, we are all paying you to provide a stable environment to play in, so how about taking your responsibility to us seriously for a change?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:29 AM
wqaves@rowannda Heyyyyy girl!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:29 AM
second that #95 - and my partner is still at work so can’t even skype
Good luck LL
September 19th, 2007 at 6:31 AM
@80 ….. ummm check http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ you’ll find it’s currently 1:30 gmt
September 19th, 2007 at 6:31 AM
LOL “where do i download it”….if you find out please let me know too…..
RL is just an illuision…..or is SL???
…im lost!!!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:31 AM
How nice, hope all will work better then.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:31 AM
hopfully this wil clear the lag issues tha seems to be cropping up everywhere
September 19th, 2007 at 6:32 AM
Wait, Plan B. I can read the SL manual now. I never can stop SL long enough to do that but now is my chance.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:32 AM
Good luck! I look forward to a great update! I am being optimistic!
I love SL to much!
Elvis
September 19th, 2007 at 6:32 AM
Im japanese.I cannot endure it until 10:00. Give speed! Row an oar!.yo ho!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:35 AM
Avast ye lundlubbers…that there Jacob be doin his best to keep the ship..er..shipshape. That there flag up to landing was welcome news to us hearties….cos we’d all forgot it was a happening im a thinking. We’s not too keen on the savvy stuff…an I reckons others feels the same…so im a thinkin somethin a bit more landlubberish would suit..like er….shiver me timbers? While im a whileing me time glugging me rummm ill be a hoping that me matey wont be coming back as a buxsome maiden…like he usually do…very disconcertin that..speshly as hes a bloke lol. (takes off pirate costume and puts on D’arth Vader outfit in preparation for sl relaunch)
September 19th, 2007 at 6:36 AM
I was going to make a comment but I think the rum hit too soon
September 19th, 2007 at 6:37 AM
remember we are down here in the us too, got to get over this little war euro’s
September 19th, 2007 at 6:38 AM
Suppose you just keep the grid off-line until LL gets it working.. wait a minute.. EXCUSE Silly ME!! … For a moment I actually had the notion that LL might CARE about fixing things.. OR is that LL really DOES CARE but has no clue how? .. Well, the residents are important since we are the ones imagining and designing this word.. right? Oh there I go again, Why listen to the residents that “own” Intellectual property and “virtual dirt” here or is that being too Practical. I keep forgetting this is a Dictatorship masquerading as a Chinese Fire Drill. So LL is wrong once again when they say “You could be a Linden”.. Sorry, I answer to a Higher Source, i.e. common sense. and common sense says I should just wave goodbye.
.. sorry if this is a repost.. but then again, I’m not sorry one bit!
Waves
R P
September 19th, 2007 at 6:39 AM
Mistoffelees66 Fimicoloud: They are afrade of identity theft and they’ve already said as much over and over again. It dosen’t protect children (who shouldn’t be on the adult grid in the first place thus wouldn’t have access to mature content) but it dose protect us from kids who are so very much acting there age and not even remotely approching the maturity of the adults they pretend to be. It has other advantages as well. Reading the matereal it dose sound like Linden Labs will be using information that won’t be of any use for identity theft so I think the fears are unfounded and I’m getting sick of the childish griefers.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:40 AM
/me is in Australia so stays on the sidelines reading out of boredom anyway
September 19th, 2007 at 6:41 AM
Who are these people around me? They are strange looking. None of them have a name over their head. I checked my settings and I have Always Show Names turned on. They keep talking to me and I can’t mute them. If only I could get their names I could AR them. I’m sure none of these people are on my friends list, so how did they map my location? Why do their have to be so many griefers in RL?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:41 AM
LOL
What a fun way to tell us that SL is down for maintenance! hehe I actually look forward to more updates from you, Joshua!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:44 AM
Why are some of you complaining that it’s shutdown? You should be happy they are fixing the problems. I know I am. I can’t tell you how many times my screen has frozen up on me and had to restart my computer. And the lag has been terrible…so sit back, read a book or something and let these people do what they need to do. It’s not the end of the world you know lol
Thank you
Affected citizen of the US <(that was for the ones who say the US is not affected by this shutdown lol)
September 19th, 2007 at 6:44 AM
I’m sick to death of maintenance that NEVER fixes the near constant lockups we hardcore addicts experience . Oh and now you’re talking like stereotyped pirates , so that soothes my angst . . . not . Oh and by the way , the usual sycophants will quickly shoot me down , but I’m not reading any more blogs tonight . Ciao snookums
September 19th, 2007 at 6:45 AM
hahaha very funny love it. may you all sail in fare winds
September 19th, 2007 at 6:46 AM
I hope all the fixes help to improve our second lifes. I dream with no so much lag, no inventory lost. Maybe I need to cut off my pills before go bed.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:46 AM
Well here we are, another Wednesday and we have down time for maintanance… as for me, I always expect it on Wednesday weather it’s down or not… then when I log in and it’s up I’m happy as a clam on the beach… but I do wish the grid would be up at the scheduled time and rarely ever is… I’ll bet 20 L it will be late… ooopps.. no gambling in SL… forget that bet : )) Peace all.. see ya in world soon
September 19th, 2007 at 6:47 AM
Avast ye my spacey mates, tis time to take and watch some YouTube videos like the one regarding NASA’s utilization of SL for the future. On YouTube search for “Colab NASA” and you will find it.
Also, at Explorer island, a historic first, 625 sculpti prims made from real elevation data, and image data from the real MRO spacecraft around Mars of the real Victoria Crater. The build is 625 meters up, set your distance to 250 to see the whole crater, and have a flight feather thingy.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:49 AM
MMM…just a