Do you remember "Update Wednesdays"?
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LittleMe Jewell
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01-03-2010 09:21
If so, you will get to relive some of it. If not, you will get to experience what some of us are too familiar with. From the Grid Status page: From: someone Logins and In World Services Down for Maintenance Wednesday a.m
Posted by Status Desk on January 2nd, 2010 at 12:30 pm PST
Wednesday January 6 2010 at 5:00 a.m. Pacific, we’ll be closing logins and disabling major in world services for ninety minutes of upgrade work on our databases.
During the maintenance, logins and account registrations will be unavailable.
Residents who are in world when maintenance begins will lose access to services such as
* mapping,
* teleport,
* inventory,
* object and L$ transfers, and
* LindeX.
We’ll warn in world several minutes before the outage begins, and we’ll post any changes to the scope and schedule of the work here as they develop.
We appreciate that this will inconvenience a number of our Residents. The maintenance work is to enhance the stability and performance of our database-backed services. /me wonders what SL will be like that day after returning home from work in the late afternoon.
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Brenda Connolly
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01-03-2010 09:24
So if things go true to Maintenance Wednesday form, SL will be probably be shut don most of Wednesday as that 90 minutes will become several hours, and SL will be wobbly for the entire weekend afterward.
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Kitty Barnett
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01-03-2010 09:29
Time for a beta grid "Update Wednesday" party!  |
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Innula Zenovka
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01-03-2010 09:34
For all those feeling nostalgic ... http://tinyurl.com/ylydll2 (sorry.. can't get the IMG and ? thing to work with that tinyurl, for some reason) |
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LittleMe Jewell
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01-03-2010 09:35
From: Innula Zenovka For all those feeling nostalgic ... http://tinyurl.com/ylydll2 (sorry.. can't get the IMG and ? thing to work with that tinyurl, for some reason) LOL - I remember seeing that picture posted in the forums a few times in my first year.
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
~Mark Twain~
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
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Lil's Yard Sale / Inventory Cleanout: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Triggerfish/52/27/22
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LittleMe Jewell
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01-03-2010 09:36
From: Kitty Barnett Time for a beta grid "Update Wednesday" party! I really wish there was an easy way to take what I do there and migrate it back to the regular grid. Hmmm, I wonder if Emerald's object backup ability will work for that?
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
~Mark Twain~
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
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Lil's Yard Sale / Inventory Cleanout: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Triggerfish/52/27/22
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Isablan Neva
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01-03-2010 09:38
The fun thing about Maintenance Wednesday used to be the forums because everyone would turn to the forums for their SL fix waiting for the magic word that logins were open. The forums would become a huge chat room full of levity along with the whining about how long it was taking.
Then someone would post the awaited thread "I'm In!" and the rush would be on.
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LittleMe Jewell
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01-03-2010 09:45
From: Isablan Neva The fun thing about Maintenance Wednesday used to be the forums because everyone would turn to the forums for their SL fix waiting for the magic word that logins were open. The forums would become a huge chat room full of levity along with the whining about how long it was taking.
Then someone would post the awaited thread "I'm In!" and the rush would be on. This time, I won't be able to play forum games during the outage since work has gotten very good at blocking my every access attempt. 
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
~Mark Twain~
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
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Lil's Yard Sale / Inventory Cleanout: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Triggerfish/52/27/22
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/littleme_jewell
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Brenda Connolly
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01-03-2010 09:52
From: Isablan Neva The fun thing about Maintenance Wednesday used to be the forums because everyone would turn to the forums for their SL fix waiting for the magic word that logins were open. The forums would become a huge chat room full of levity along with the whining about how long it was taking.
Then someone would post the awaited thread "I'm In!" and the rush would be on. It's just too bad a lot of the people who added so much to that fun, Raymond, Collette, Conan, etc are gone.
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Nika Talaj
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01-03-2010 10:01
Warning, Will Robinson! Being inworld when loss of these things starts happening used to lead to inventory loss:
* mapping,
* teleport,
* inventory,
* object and L$ transfers, and
* LindeX
Without a rock solid handshake on any interaction that alters inventory, it is easy for timing windows to occur that result in small - or large - inventory corruption. I think LL has closed many of these holes, but I wouldn't bet on it.
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Desmond Shang
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01-03-2010 10:06
It was kind of cool if you managed to stay in, though.
Like wandering a bleak wasteland with only a few rare strangers in it; no ability to teleport, kinda post apocalyptic...
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Patasha Marikh
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01-03-2010 10:13
Does Lusk Woods still exist in Beta or has it been wiped. I spent many an update Wednesday hanging out there. This time I think I'll hang out on OpenGrid and see if the population jumps any.
pfft, Saturday is going to suck.
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Yumi Murakami
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01-03-2010 10:25
I still run Show and Tells on Wednesday afternoon. I was the first event run on the updated version most weeks. And, yea, we found the bugs...
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Brann Georgia
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01-03-2010 10:26
From: Desmond Shang
Like wandering a bleak wasteland with only a few rare strangers in it; no ability to teleport, kinda post apocalyptic...
Oh, you mean like any other time when you're the only one wandering around in some fantastic sim, painstakingly built by someone hugely talented who then, depressed and frustrated by the lack of visitors who'd congregate elsewhere to buy ballgowns and sex beds, packs it in after a few months.
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Innula Zenovka
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01-03-2010 10:38
From: Desmond Shang It was kind of cool if you managed to stay in, though.
Like wandering a bleak wasteland with only a few rare strangers in it; no ability to teleport, kinda post apocalyptic... There's plenty of parts of London like that.. don't need it in SL too. |
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Anya Ristow
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01-03-2010 10:53
Yeah, when I saw that I thought, "Ahh, the good old days."
I do hope they use the "bang on things" image.
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Osprey Therian
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01-03-2010 11:04
From: LittleMe Jewell I really wish there was an easy way to take what I do there and migrate it back to the regular grid.
Hmmm, I wonder if Emerald's object backup ability will work for that? I use Meerkat. I almost always build there these days. |
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Robin vogel
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01-03-2010 11:04
From what I remember, the day before maintenance day, things started to get a little wobbly and unstable. Almost like they were trying things out beforehand. And yes, forums were were the place to meet up with others to get your SL fix. Guess the saying is true (to some extent) "what's old is new again"?!
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Ciera Spyker
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01-03-2010 11:17
From: Anya Ristow Yeah, when I saw that I thought, "Ahh, the good old days."
I do hope they use the "bang on things" image. I liked those monkeys and the 2001 referral. |
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LittleMe Jewell
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01-03-2010 11:52
From: Osprey Therian I use Meerkat. I almost always build there these days. I think I will spend part of today playing with the backup/restore abilities of Meerkat, Imprudence and Emerald.
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
~Mark Twain~
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
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Lil's Yard Sale / Inventory Cleanout: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Triggerfish/52/27/22
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Isablan Neva
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01-03-2010 18:00
From: Anya Ristow
I do hope they use the "bang on things" image.
Ahh, that takes me back. The monkeys and the blue dialog box in the top right of the screen saying "Ok, everybody out of the pool!"
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Daniel Voyager
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01-04-2010 03:54
I remember Downtime Wednesdays. The grid is more stable today then it was back then and we are more informed on what's going on these days via twitter, sl forums, sl status reports and plurk. I love the monkey message "The grid is down while we bang on things" http://www.blogcdn.com/www.secondlifeinsider.com/media/2007/05/bang_on_things.jpg |
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Ann Otoole
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01-04-2010 03:58
Might have to dust it off and put the free Grid Wrench back out.
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