Posts Tagged ‘lag’
Worried about lag? Don’t be…
My friend Ana Lutetia has invited me to write something about lag on her blog. Since lag was what we mostly got this weekend, I hope you’ll appreciate an update on what I had written about the subject over a year ago.
Half the Grid is Gone!
Here’s something I haven’t seen in many, many years. Yesterday, with Hair Fair hitting the grid as one of the most desired places to visit, and hundreds of exhibitors working hard to get their builds finished for SL6B, the grid suddenly started to misbehave, in a quite serious way (note: probably there is no correlation): logins failing, unusual high sim time dilation, and textures utterly failing to rez, to say…
Hair Fair 2008
Second Life’s Annual Hair Fair has launched a few days ago, and naturally enough, I couldn’t resist to drop by and have a look at it. After all, it’s just once per year that Six Kennedy and my good friends Washu Zebrastripe, Paisley Poindexter, Mikayla Kohl, among many others, put up this amazing (and rather unique!) fair up and running, showing off the best of the best of what has been…
No More Limits!
Quite a few residents of the Second Life® virtual world tend to comment that a lot of restrictions in SL are, in fact, artificial, to create a false sense of limited resources. They are usually talking about things related to land, namely, how Linden Lab can artificially flood the market with more regions to drive the prices down (or do the reverse, when the prices are too low). There is…
Lag Myths Dispelled
Fashion shows have always been popular in Second Life, and with the current generation of highly talented fashion designers bringing a unique — and very realistic! — touch to high-quality clothes in SL, it’s interesting to see how, in a little less than a week, people have been talking about “rules of conduct” on a fashion show. In fact, they’re much less “rules of conduct” but guidelines of what you’re…









