Second Life Forums Archive - Reward: Most plausible lie for what the space server is

Strife Onizuka

Moonchild

Join date: 3 Mar 2004

Posts: 5,887

10-24-2005 00:01

I will be rewarding who ever can come up with the most plausible lie as to the purpose of the space server (it's the one that crashed yesterday) with 1L$.

Please post your entries below

EDIT: reward is now 11L$

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- Cyril Connolly

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- James Nachtwey

Mulch Ennui

15 Minutes are Over

Join date: 22 May 2005

Posts: 2,607

10-24-2005 00:02

From: Strife Onizuka

I will be rewarding who ever can come up with the most plausible lie as to the purpose of the space server (it's the one that crashed yesterday) with 1L$.

can i contribute L$10 to that fund ?

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Natasha Sholokhov

Junior Member

Join date: 20 Oct 2005

Posts: 13

10-24-2005 00:02

*edited*

Jeffrey Gomez

Cubed™

Join date: 11 Jun 2004

Posts: 3,522

10-24-2005 00:08

From: Strife Onizuka

I will be rewarding who ever can come up with the most plausible lie as to the purpose of the space server (it's the one that crashed yesterday) with 1L$.

Hello, Dave.

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Really Fetid

Registered User

Join date: 23 Oct 2005

Posts: 6

10-24-2005 00:12

one of the lindens in the irc channel said something to the effect of "it's the glue that holds the grid together"

Strife Onizuka

Moonchild

Join date: 3 Mar 2004

Posts: 5,887

10-24-2005 00:19

ohhh i bet i know what it does, it handles a look up table for all the sims, so a sim knows what sim is next to it, when an object transfers sims i guess it contacts that server. When all the spawning object crossed sim boundries it must of been cooked.

hmm thats too plausible to be a lie...

_____________________

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly

Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey

Chosen Few

Alpha Channel Slave

Join date: 16 Jan 2004

Posts: 7,496

10-24-2005 00:29

Well, he's a server (of drinks) in space (his bar is on a space station). I'd say that makes him a space server. Oh, and just like SL's space server, he has crashed at least once.

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Stephane Zugzwang

Brat

Join date: 26 Jun 2004

Posts: 192

10-24-2005 01:54

Well it should be obvious, no need to lie. The space server pushes the walls in the server farm to make way for more sims when LL grows. Hence the name : The space server serves space.

It broke yesterday, so as new Sims kept on arriving for you favourite land barons and club owners, the server farm got more and more crowded. In the end, the heat and tangled cables were just too much. LL's crew had to push the walls with spoons and their bare hands, and understandably, that's much slower.

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Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour

Laukosargas Svarog

Angel ?

Join date: 18 Aug 2004

Posts: 1,304

10-24-2005 02:01

It's the one that handles all those little gaps between sims. You know, those interdimensional voids that things fall into never to be seen again...

Jesrad Seraph

Nonsense

Join date: 11 Dec 2004

Posts: 1,463

10-24-2005 02:38

From: Strife Onizuka

ohhh i bet i know what it does, it handles a look up table for all the sims, so a sim knows what sim is next to it, when an object transfers sims i guess it contacts that server. When all the spawning object crossed sim boundries it must of been cooked.

hmm thats too plausible to be a lie...

Makes one wonder why this function wasn't decentralised months ago

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Ben Bacon

Registered User

Join date: 14 Jul 2005

Posts: 809

10-24-2005 09:03

From: Jesrad Seraph

Makes one wonder why this function wasn't decentralised months ago

It was - during the 1.5 release this function was shifted over to the Sim Periphery servers, which run on a peer-to-peer-like server farm in a completely decentralised manner. All sims have access to these servers to mediate the 10m overlaps between them and their neighbour sims. This access is secured through access rights stored on the S.P. Access Control Engine, which stores the mapping of sim ID to S.P. server IP addresss in a database running on the S.P.A.C.E. server, which went down earlier today.

Travis Lambert

White dog, red collar

Join date: 3 Jun 2004

Posts: 2,819

10-24-2005 09:09

Ok, I'll spill it:

Ever wonder why Linden is so tight-lipped about Abuse Reports? Why the Police Blotter frequently has dates from the year 2020?

The Space Server is really a prison. Just like that flat space in Superman where General Zod & his minions were imprisioned - The Space Server is where all the folks who are permabanned are sent. It does bend time and space - which is why the Police Blotter is often skewed.

W-Hat was simply trying to 'break out' their pals by shattering the space server.

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Savonah Madonna

Registered User

Join date: 21 Sep 2005

Posts: 168

What the Space Server Is...

10-24-2005 09:09

The space server:

This is the server they place all the people with blonde hair on. If your AV has blonde hair, it's on that server. And it the glue that holds SL together cause, OMG the hair spray!

*giggles*
Sav

Ingrid Ingersoll

Archived

Join date: 10 Aug 2004

Posts: 4,601

10-24-2005 09:15

You guys are all wrong, the space server is the large cardboard box where the hamsters run on the hamster wheels. The entire grid is powered by the toil of 347 hamsters.

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Escort DeFarge

Together

Join date: 18 Nov 2004

Posts: 681

10-24-2005 09:33

For the geeks:

Saying SL is "grid computing" is a bit like the mantra "DNS is a distributed database" (which all net geeks learn to speak early).

With DNS we are actually dependent on 6 root name servers on the West Coast.

With SL we are actually dependent on the "space server".

There is truth in both statements, but it is not unlimited truth.

If you have experience with how real-world systems actually get built, you have got to be impressed at how far the SL "mantra" actually IS true.

The work of OGSi, ESB, and arriving at genuine 100% full-on "grid computing" will not always be a theoretical real-life goal.

My 2 cents.

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Zapoteth Zaius

Is back

Join date: 14 Feb 2004

Posts: 5,634

10-24-2005 09:37

It generates questions to keep Live Help busy.. Last night it was stuck on.. "WTF are all these friggin balls?!!?"

So it was broke..

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Khamon Fate

fategardens.net

Join date: 21 Nov 2003

Posts: 4,177

10-24-2005 09:37

From: Ingrid Ingersoll

You guys are all wrong, the space server is the large cardboard box where the hamsters run on the hamster wheels. The entire grid is powered by the toil of 347 hamsters.

346, poor old Shequetia gave out yesterday and died. The poor things all wanteded to attend the removal ceremony, which was fine, except that they didn't return to their posts before the battery backups ran out of power. I understand that Adam Linden, Vice-President of Rodent Relations is working with a small subcommittee to establish a removal timing policy to ensure that this situation is nonrecurrent.

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Dygash Talamasca

Development is the Key

Join date: 20 Sep 2005

Posts: 20

10-24-2005 09:44

You wanna know what the space server is huh? You sure you can handle it?

Okay...

In the year of the Dung Linden there was a cosmic storm in the metaverse, a new world was born, legend had it as the underworld, the place to live again, most called it Second Life. The Linden Gods knew that science was the future, the metaverse was cramped with fantasy gimics such as WoW and Everquest, these worlds repeated a theme, but Second Life was something more, a place where almost anything could happen. How did the great almighty Linden Gods create this world you say? They made the Space Server...the most fiendish of all meta devices, a device that controlled the very fabric of the metaverse and made all of Second Life's miracles possible. Now some say space is flat and that the space server is a metaversal chess board upon which the Linden Gods & Goddesses play a form of ancient chess. The board as you can imagine is infinite and the pieces are little carvings of Second Life players made out of green moon cheese (the manky kind that crusts at the top). Well they say that the Gods control us through this 'space server' and that it's a portal for them to see through down to their subjects...however most of us simple consider the space server to be an 18th century privee in Linden Labs backyard.

But may ye never forget, for there tis a curse upon this privee...space server, for should one try to blast apart our world with 5.4 billion physical balls of steel, thy gods will smite thee down into the dungeons of 10 month old cheese. Ye 'av been warned, beware the privee!!!!

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Jeska Linden

Administrator

Join date: 26 Jul 2004

Posts: 2,388

10-24-2005 10:55

Moved to Off-Topic.

Ben Bacon

Registered User

Join date: 14 Jul 2005

Posts: 809

10-25-2005 00:55

The space server, codenamed Jeska, makes sure that all thing are the right space for them.

Neehai Zapata

Unofficial Parent

Join date: 8 Apr 2004

Posts: 1,970

10-25-2005 02:59

It's scarier than you think!

http://www.smdc.army.mil/FactSheets/spaceServer.pdf

Future Warfare Center?!?!? Holy Fuck!

What kind of "game" is this? Who the hell is Philip Rosedale? Where is Matthew Broderick?

Number of players zero! Number of players zero! Number of players zero!

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Reward: Most plausible lie for what the space server is
Strife Onizuka Moonchild Join date: 3 Mar 2004 Posts: 5,887	10-24-2005 00:01 I will be rewarding who ever can come up with the most plausible lie as to the purpose of the space server (it's the one that crashed yesterday) with 1L$. Please post your entries below EDIT: reward is now 11L$ _____________________ Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence. - James Nachtwey
Mulch Ennui 15 Minutes are Over Join date: 22 May 2005 Posts: 2,607	10-24-2005 00:02 From: Strife Onizuka I will be rewarding who ever can come up with the most plausible lie as to the purpose of the space server (it's the one that crashed yesterday) with 1L$. can i contribute L$10 to that fund ? _____________________ I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. http://forums.secondcitizen.com/
Natasha Sholokhov Junior Member Join date: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 13	10-24-2005 00:02 edited
Jeffrey Gomez Cubed™ Join date: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 3,522	10-24-2005 00:08 From: Strife Onizuka I will be rewarding who ever can come up with the most plausible lie as to the purpose of the space server (it's the one that crashed yesterday) with 1L$. Hello, Dave. _____________________ ---
Really Fetid Registered User Join date: 23 Oct 2005 Posts: 6	10-24-2005 00:12 one of the lindens in the irc channel said something to the effect of "it's the glue that holds the grid together"
Strife Onizuka Moonchild Join date: 3 Mar 2004 Posts: 5,887	10-24-2005 00:19 ohhh i bet i know what it does, it handles a look up table for all the sims, so a sim knows what sim is next to it, when an object transfers sims i guess it contacts that server. When all the spawning object crossed sim boundries it must of been cooked. hmm thats too plausible to be a lie... _____________________ Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. - Cyril Connolly Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence. - James Nachtwey
Chosen Few Alpha Channel Slave Join date: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 7,496	10-24-2005 00:29 Well, he's a server (of drinks) in space (his bar is on a space station). I'd say that makes him a space server. Oh, and just like SL's space server, he has crashed at least once. _____________________ . Land now available for rent in Indigo. Low rates. Quiet, low-lag mainland sim with good neighbors. IM me in-world if you're interested.
Stephane Zugzwang Brat Join date: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 192	10-24-2005 01:54 Well it should be obvious, no need to lie. The space server pushes the walls in the server farm to make way for more sims when LL grows. Hence the name : The space server serves space. It broke yesterday, so as new Sims kept on arriving for you favourite land barons and club owners, the server farm got more and more crowded. In the end, the heat and tangled cables were just too much. LL's crew had to push the walls with spoons and their bare hands, and understandably, that's much slower. _____________________ Stephane Zugzwang -- To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour
Laukosargas Svarog Angel ? Join date: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 1,304	10-24-2005 02:01 It's the one that handles all those little gaps between sims. You know, those interdimensional voids that things fall into never to be seen again...
Jesrad Seraph Nonsense Join date: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 1,463	10-24-2005 02:38 From: Strife Onizuka ohhh i bet i know what it does, it handles a look up table for all the sims, so a sim knows what sim is next to it, when an object transfers sims i guess it contacts that server. When all the spawning object crossed sim boundries it must of been cooked. hmm thats too plausible to be a lie... Makes one wonder why this function wasn't decentralised months ago _____________________ Either Man can enjoy universal freedom, or Man cannot. If it is possible then everyone can act freely if they don't stop anyone else from doing same. If it is not possible, then conflict will arise anyway so punch those that try to stop you. In conclusion the only strategy that wins in all cases is that of doing what you want against all adversity, as long as you respect that right in others.
Ben Bacon Registered User Join date: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 809	10-24-2005 09:03 From: Jesrad Seraph Makes one wonder why this function wasn't decentralised months ago It was - during the 1.5 release this function was shifted over to the Sim Periphery servers, which run on a peer-to-peer-like server farm in a completely decentralised manner. All sims have access to these servers to mediate the 10m overlaps between them and their neighbour sims. This access is secured through access rights stored on the S.P. Access Control Engine, which stores the mapping of sim ID to S.P. server IP addresss in a database running on the S.P.A.C.E. server, which went down earlier today.
Travis Lambert White dog, red collar Join date: 3 Jun 2004 Posts: 2,819	10-24-2005 09:09 Ok, I'll spill it: Ever wonder why Linden is so tight-lipped about Abuse Reports? Why the Police Blotter frequently has dates from the year 2020? The Space Server is really a prison. Just like that flat space in Superman where General Zod & his minions were imprisioned - The Space Server is where all the folks who are permabanned are sent. It does bend time and space - which is why the Police Blotter is often skewed. W-Hat was simply trying to 'break out' their pals by shattering the space server. _____________________ ------------------ The Shelter The Shelter is a non-profit recreation center for new residents, and supporters of new residents. Our goal is to provide a positive & supportive social environment for those looking for one in our overwhelming world.
Savonah Madonna Registered User Join date: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 168	What the Space Server Is... 10-24-2005 09:09 The space server: This is the server they place all the people with blonde hair on. If your AV has blonde hair, it's on that server. And it the glue that holds SL together cause, OMG the hair spray! giggles Sav
Ingrid Ingersoll Archived Join date: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 4,601	10-24-2005 09:15 You guys are all wrong, the space server is the large cardboard box where the hamsters run on the hamster wheels. The entire grid is powered by the toil of 347 hamsters. _____________________ http://www.ingrid.0catch.com/1.html
Escort DeFarge Together Join date: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 681	10-24-2005 09:33 For the geeks: Saying SL is "grid computing" is a bit like the mantra "DNS is a distributed database" (which all net geeks learn to speak early). With DNS we are actually dependent on 6 root name servers on the West Coast. With SL we are actually dependent on the "space server". There is truth in both statements, but it is not unlimited truth. If you have experience with how real-world systems actually get built, you have got to be impressed at how far the SL "mantra" actually IS true. The work of OGSi, ESB, and arriving at genuine 100% full-on "grid computing" will not always be a theoretical real-life goal. My 2 cents. _____________________ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Together
Zapoteth Zaius Is back Join date: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 5,634	10-24-2005 09:37 It generates questions to keep Live Help busy.. Last night it was stuck on.. "WTF are all these friggin balls?!!?" So it was broke.. _____________________ I have the right to remain silent. Anything I say will be misquoted and used against me. --------------- Zapoteth Designs, Temotu (100,50) ---------------
Khamon Fate fategardens.net Join date: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 4,177	10-24-2005 09:37 From: Ingrid Ingersoll You guys are all wrong, the space server is the large cardboard box where the hamsters run on the hamster wheels. The entire grid is powered by the toil of 347 hamsters. 346, poor old Shequetia gave out yesterday and died. The poor things all wanteded to attend the removal ceremony, which was fine, except that they didn't return to their posts before the battery backups ran out of power. I understand that Adam Linden, Vice-President of Rodent Relations is working with a small subcommittee to establish a removal timing policy to ensure that this situation is nonrecurrent. _____________________ Visit the Fate Gardens Website @ fategardens.net
Dygash Talamasca Development is the Key Join date: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 20	10-24-2005 09:44 You wanna know what the space server is huh? You sure you can handle it? Okay... In the year of the Dung Linden there was a cosmic storm in the metaverse, a new world was born, legend had it as the underworld, the place to live again, most called it Second Life. The Linden Gods knew that science was the future, the metaverse was cramped with fantasy gimics such as WoW and Everquest, these worlds repeated a theme, but Second Life was something more, a place where almost anything could happen. How did the great almighty Linden Gods create this world you say? They made the Space Server...the most fiendish of all meta devices, a device that controlled the very fabric of the metaverse and made all of Second Life's miracles possible. Now some say space is flat and that the space server is a metaversal chess board upon which the Linden Gods & Goddesses play a form of ancient chess. The board as you can imagine is infinite and the pieces are little carvings of Second Life players made out of green moon cheese (the manky kind that crusts at the top). Well they say that the Gods control us through this 'space server' and that it's a portal for them to see through down to their subjects...however most of us simple consider the space server to be an 18th century privee in Linden Labs backyard. But may ye never forget, for there tis a curse upon this privee...space server, for should one try to blast apart our world with 5.4 billion physical balls of steel, thy gods will smite thee down into the dungeons of 10 month old cheese. Ye 'av been warned, beware the privee!!!! _____________________ ~Always Watching~
Jeska Linden Administrator Join date: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 2,388	10-24-2005 10:55 Moved to Off-Topic.
Ben Bacon Registered User Join date: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 809	10-25-2005 00:55 The space server, codenamed Jeska, makes sure that all thing are the right space for them.
Neehai Zapata Unofficial Parent Join date: 8 Apr 2004 Posts: 1,970	10-25-2005 02:59 It's scarier than you think! http://www.smdc.army.mil/FactSheets/spaceServer.pdf Future Warfare Center?!?!? Holy Fuck! What kind of "game" is this? Who the hell is Philip Rosedale? Where is Matthew Broderick? Number of players zero! Number of players zero! Number of players zero! _____________________ Unofficial moderator and proud dysfunctional parent to over 1000 bastard children.

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