Monthly Archives: August 2008

Mono servers causing severe delays in old LSL scripts

2008/08/30 – 4:41 pm

 
I’ve complained about the symptoms, but now we may know the cause.  Thanks to some sleuthing by Makkiavelli Toland and my own experiences in trying to create a halfway decent workaround, it seems extremely likely that the cause is in the state_exit event being delayed.
Tip of the samurai helmet to Escort DeFarge, who notified [...]

By Takuan | Posted in Bug Reports, C:SI, JIRA, Mono | Comments (35)

Mono is teh suxxors

2008/08/30 – 9:29 am

Yup, that’s right, I said it : The Mono rollout blows goats.
The plan, as given by Linden Lab™, was that existing scripts would not need to be recompiled to Mono, and could continue to run as they always have :
Unless scripts are explicitly converted to run on Mono they will continue to run on [...]

By Takuan | Posted in Bug Reports, C:SI, Epic Fail, Mono, WTF | Comments (19)

Off Topic – 1100 Barrel Paintball Gun

2008/08/29 – 6:48 pm

What an amazing way to illustrate the different between serial and parallel processing, which is what makes video cards such a powerful general computing platform (for certain classes of problems, at least) in addition to being great at graphics.
I think they did an excellent job on this

By Takuan | Posted in Cool Tech, off topic, teh funny | Comments Off

Tentative plans for Taketori Update

2008/08/29 – 10:51 am

I figured I’d present my tentative plan for an update to the Taketori, and give people a chance to provide feedback on it here before I release it.
What I’m thinking is that I’ll do some tweaks to the timing, since that’s been the hot-button topic of the instant messages I’ve been getting in-world, as [...]

By Takuan | Posted in Bug Reports, C:SI, Mono, Taketori Katana, Testing, Updates | Comments (6)

What in the world is wrong with Second Life now?

2008/08/28 – 12:56 pm

I got an interesting IM this morning :
[07:00] Silver Csak:  Dear Robby, The wave and the taketory dont work right in the Shadow sim,,,,,, starting in block position then to kick, then back to block,, takes about 7 seconds if it works at all,,,, pretty serious problem on this sim,,,, but it works [...]

By Takuan | Posted in Bug Reports, C:SI, Epic Fail, Havok 4, Kick a Linden in the junk, WTF | Comments (18)

Find Second Life profiles easily with Ubiquity

2008/08/27 – 11:31 am

I’m such a geek
Early this morning, as I do pretty much every morning, I was sitting here with the day’s first cup of coffee and reading over my RSS feeds, and found an intriguing article on Ajaxian about a new Firefox plugin from Mozilla.
Ubiquity is a Firefox plugin that adds a very slick [...]

By Takuan | Posted in Cool Tech, Software Development, off topic | Comments (6)

Off Topic : Room 641A

2008/08/22 – 4:49 pm
By Takuan | Posted in Opinion, off topic | Comments (1)

Taketori V1.0.7 is teh suxxorz?

2008/08/17 – 12:08 pm

Some people seem to think so, at any rate.  I’ve gotten a few comments to that effect, though to be honest they didn’t make as much sense to me as I’d like, due to the fact that at least one of them was sent by a person that does not speak English natively, and I [...]

By Takuan | Posted in Bug Reports, C:SI, Testing | Comments (45)

I R Not A Laptop Teknishunz

2008/08/13 – 7:06 am

Wouldn’t you know it…  Pretty much as soon as I was ready to get back into SL and start updating stuff, my laptop dies.  This weekend the fan on my main laptop starting making the most horrible racket you ever want to hear from a computer, and within hours the fan stopped rotating altogether.  [...]

By Takuan | Posted in WTF, off topic | Comments (6)