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YAYZERAMA! Back by popular demand, it could only be a matter of time before another round of QUICKTIPS arrived. This series is warmly treasured by Second Life Residents for delivering the goods — not counting intro/outro, each tip is 2 minutes or less, so even if you don’t have a lot of time, you [...]
Update 2007-07-22 12:30 PM : The reversion is done. The investigation begins.
Update 2007-07-22 11:56 AM : The reversion is 80% complete and should finish soon. Also, thanks for the reports (via JIRA and comments) about performance issues with sims running 1.23. We have a hypothesis that the server build erroneously included additional debug information, which [...]
[UPDATE – 2008-07-20 @ 5:55 PM PDT] Video tutorial downloads, previously broken due to Amazon S3 service issues, are back now.
Second Life scripting goes from elementary to extremely advanced. I know firsthand that many of us are curious, but fear getting started. I’m here to shine a light on [...]
The Department of Public Works is busy building highway Route 2, and will begin Route 7 very soon.
The route will include some sections above the water, and some coastal waterway sections.
Also we have taken some sneaky snaps of whole-island-size builds we’ve constructed to add around the Mainland. One is a Space Base:
Since our previous post and our suspending of whole region auctions, we have been watching the market closely. For the last 3 weeks the previous decline in average Mainland price per meter has halted and the price is now holding steady at an average of L$7.25 (averaged over the last seven days).
After [...]
Back in early May, we blogged to let you know that we were seriously considering whether Linden Lab should continue supporting Mac OS X 10.3, “Panther,” which was first released by Apple back in 2003.
As we wrote then, our tracking shows that very few of you, about 1/4 of 1 percent of all of you, [...]
That sound you hear is the sound of another Knowledge Base Article of the Week being unveiled! This one’s about appealing account suspensions, which is something we’re noticing some curiosity around. Point your browsers to the following article, titled My account has been unfairly or incorrectly suspended or permanently closed by Linden Lab [...]
Today we are releasing a new Release Candidate, 1.20 RC14. If you have already been using the Release Candidate (RC13), you will be required to update to RC14 with the latest bug fixes. But, the Release Candidate is always an optional series of viewers that you may choose not to use — or use side [...]
Update 2008-07-16 05:40am : We have reverted the ~1000 hosts on 1.23.1 to 1.22.4.
Update 2008-07-15 05:28pm : An issue with names showing up as “(???) (???)” in estate ban lists is showing up on the regions which have been updated to 1.23.1. We tentatively plan to revert those regions back to 1.22 by tomorrow morning, [...]
I get lots of requests to do more content creation tutorials — how to make stuff you can show off, share with friends, and sell. I know there’s common worries that getting from point A to B seems harder than it actually is, so I’m here to help you squash those fears flat.
In today’s tutorial, [...]
