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Phoenix Beeks
Registered User
Join date: 21 Mar 2006
Posts: 2
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04-15-2006 18:19
Its been about 2 + 1/2 hours and we still cant get in... Cmon.. it doesnt take that long to bring the grid back up. LET US IN!
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jrrdraco Oe
Insanity Fair
Join date: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 372
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04-15-2006 18:53
Tip #1: Always have a DVD at hand at weekends
Tip #2: Always have more than one DVD at hand
Tip #3: Dinner outside is an option
Tip #4: By the way cooking is fun
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Fenrir Reitveld
Crazy? Don't mind if I do
Join date: 20 Apr 2005
Posts: 459
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04-15-2006 19:09
I believe you are underestimating the amount of work it takes to remove a self-replicating viral device from SL's grid. It's not a matter of just bringing the grid back up.
For each and every sim, LL has to...
1) Shut the sim down.
2) Go through its database and remove all references to this viral object.
3) Probably do some kind of database integrity check.
4) Restart the sim.
All of these steps can be automated, but I can't even guess how many hundreds of sims there must be out there now. (200?) And, I'm just guessing here, there could be even more steps involved. (ie: Step 2a, run FUBAR to rebuild database index keys or something.)
Then, once all of those steps are done for each sim, LL has to verify the whole grid is operational and its support services are working properly. And if they miss just one of these scripts (say, our friend had an alt that also was launching these devices), they have to do the whole mess over again...
This is going to take a while. I'm not trying to be snarky here, just trying to demonstrate how this might leave SL down for a number of hours.
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Ghost Tokhes
Registered User
Join date: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 5
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04-15-2006 19:09
You forgot:
Tip #5: The Interweb has many amusing things on it
Tip #6: Including many places that are NOT related to yelling at the Lindens on these forums.
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Digital Enigma
Nutter
Join date: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 47
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04-15-2006 19:10
They're not just bringing the grid back online. They have to clean up the mess left by the grid-wide prim/script attack. There are only 600+ Lindens and a whole lot of sims and prims to clean.
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ZsuZsanna Raven
~:+: Supah Kitteh :+:~
Join date: 19 Dec 2004
Posts: 2,361
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04-15-2006 19:12
What I would like to know is if this is all such a big deal, why some people are allowed to remain on SL. Seems to me the logical choice would be to shut it down to everyone but LL...
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Phoenix Beeks
Registered User
Join date: 21 Mar 2006
Posts: 2
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04-15-2006 19:17
yeah well the lindens dont even give an explanation as to what the HELL is going on.
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Tigerlady Jacobs
Ms. Tiger
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 86
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04-15-2006 19:17
From: ZsuZsanna Raven What I would like to know is if this is all such a big deal, why some people are allowed to remain on SL. Seems to me the logical choice would be to shut it down to everyone but LL... i didnt think they let anyone but lindens in.. but on my friends online i see two friends on there... *waves to them from the outside world*  |
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Ranma Tardis
沖縄弛緩の明確で青い水
Join date: 8 Nov 2005
Posts: 1,415
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04-15-2006 19:20
I am online still, not much going on. pretty boring
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Zephria Zapata
Anit-Gorean & Slave
Join date: 7 Apr 2004
Posts: 299
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04-15-2006 19:20
Just let the lindens do there job this guy ... that attacked got to a lot of sims ect before this was a problem ... there a lot that needs to be done ....
they will get it up and running ASAP!!!
this guy even got mine and my loves place ... there a lot to do and maybe some preventative measure to take place ...
So .. its not the end of the world ..
Zephria
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