Jaylinbridges

The Map is Finally Fixed Seems worth another bump. Given all the complaining about no Big Map for the last 6 months, I'm surprised not more hurrah's are here. But that's the SL forums for you - Bad New Sells, good news, blah... And not everyone reads the Technology Forum, Solar.

There are mulitple videos going back to the start of the new Linden Homes in Bellisseria, but they were professionally made by SL Residents, NOT LL marketing amateurs, and of course paid nothing by LL for their many weeks of effort. Here is a 26 min Bellli Linden Home review celebrating Bellisseria's Two Year Anniversary on April 15, 2021, made by some friends of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Vs4QnZ0v0 Note Patch Linden, VP of LL, introduced the video. Why is this hidden from new and potential SL members? Credits: Pring Productions Video Production by Sceneris Prudence Anton Cian Wycliffe Music Mix by Alex Zelin Also see other Belli videos made by the Residents: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzaVJeEQOzUWgeS4ToENLOA/videos LL marketing for the best SL can offer is certainly ass-backwards. No excuse if their goal is to attract more Premium paying members.

Famous last words. 2FA would have to be optional or several accounts I use would need to quit SL. This is not a simple issue when you consider the exceptions based on disability, travel (computers/offices in different states), and simply helping a partner out of an impossible technical situation. I am already thinking of the workarounds needed if they make it mandatory. Most of my financial RL accounts have 2FA and are NOT optional, btw. If the batteries on my smartphone have run down, I need to wait long enough for the batteries to charge up to access the wireless network. Pain in the azz, when I live home alone with an already strong password, and need to login quickly. Impossible if I have my accounts installed on several computers at different locations.

You can always use WinAmp which is free, with the free Shoutcast plugin you can download. Despite Winamp not being supported for 4 years, it still all works. These are the step by step instructions for Winamp shoutcast music streaming from your computer. You still need to buy a stream. The cheapest ones are 10 listeners at 128 kbps stereo, for around 100 $L/month. http://www.kickazz.com/WINAMP SETUP PAGE.htm Kickazz also has the steps to use with other modern music/DJ systems, but for just playing music winamp will work. And no it's not obsolete, as I am sure somebody will claim - just never upgraded or supported by the company that bought them. Winamp Lite also works if you don't need all the bells and whistles. I assumed you are using Windows. If you are on a Mac and don't use a Windows simulator, look for IceCast solutions.

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I have a stream on my land, but it only goes ripple, ripple. So I found a free radio for music.

I was only repeating what the former VP of Engineering at Linden Lab (Oz) said his last day of work at LL. The bottom line was that at the present time AWS was costing LL more than the costs for their aging farm in Arizona. With your qualifications, you might apply for his job, as they are looking for a new VP.

Inara Pey's web blog has an interesting discussion of the AWS servers when SL was moving to the AWS cloud back in November. https://modemworld.me/2020/11/19/ll-confirms-second-life-regions-now-all-on-aws/ They are all located in Oregon at the present time. (We have banned all up to date Big Maps here for security reasons - the real reason the Big Map doesn't work.) * * or not.

Just doing my part to keep the thread active

It's a small hit to the middle class, just like RL taxes. Mainand tier is not charged any fee with a connected paypal or credit card with a balance available. Private island land (rent from land companies) is often charged in lindens though, so that will increase land costs somewhat. But larger land barons also will accept dollars from your paypal directly, so you can avoid the linden purchase fee that way.

Your membership is charged in dollars, not Lindens, so this Linden purchase fee should not affect you. Unless you buy Lindens of course.

I am waiting for the next shoe to drop: The elimination of the Basic free account entirely, after the usual "one month free trial" offer. PIOF will be required to pay dollars or currency equivalent to SL to log into SL. A fee less than Premium hopefully, with a reduced or no stipend payback. This should cut SL active membership to at least half of present as most of the Alts drop out. But that won't look good when claiming millions of members - just count prior accounts as potential pay accounts even if 3/4 of the inactive accounts are the same people, or dead people.

The old LL data center in Arizona had expenses of electric power, and a small staff to maintain the server farm. There was no per server fee, since all the servers purchased in the past had been fully depreciated. At least this is what Oz Linden, VP of Engineering said before he retired in February this year. AWS charges per use which he said was greater than LL's prior costs when in house by quite a lot. AWS did not save LL money, and will only be more economical if SL expands capacity and membership. The savings occur when new capacity is needed, since there is no more need for capital investment in the hardware. But at least for now, AWS is costing LL more than their aging in house servers. This is ignoring all the things AWS has broken, and is costing more LL engineering ($$) time to solve.

And nothing has changed since then. Are you looking at Q-anon websites? Bill Gates and George Soros are watching you ! If anything it's harder to even figure out your correct city now, than it was "back then".

Oh I know, am waiting until after the roll to submit my complaint to Zoha. The new breedable farm group also has 4 avatars using 1000 scripts total and consuming about 20 times the CPU time as anyone else, and they are there 24/7.

My region's been zapped by some new breeding farm moving in, and taking advantage of the 30K LI limit. Will see if the SLS roll can help this mess:

They are just distractions and gimmicks, same as sploders, guess the answer balls, contests, and flashing lights. Some club owners think they are running a carnival instead of a music club. The music and DJ are usually secondary at those clubs.

Yes, they fired the painter recently. And painted the stilt trim in the rain. No wonder it's already peeling.

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Not so. The LAST person to work on the Big Map code was Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden, founder of Second Life). Philip stopped his technical (programming) work in SL around 2007. Philip is still around, building new worlds, and I doubt even he remembers what he coded 14 years ago. The problem was since the Map continued to work, more or less, that SL management never assigned anyone to maintain the code, much less prepare it for the AWS liftoff.

Oh! I thought it stood for Very Insignificant Peon. No wonder we don't agree

What?! Do you even know what VIP means? It's just a group tag for the club - you come in, ask for a tag so you can follow our events, and you get a group tag, You don't have to wear it, and it does not say VIP. There is only ONE category for group tags. Most of our regular patrons (VIP's by definition) never wear the tags. Your comment about drama and our club members meaning "drama ahead" makes zero sense. But then you don't DJ in SL because the pay is too low compared to RL. You people are funny.

You use a male avatar? I always cam the avatar before I greet, since the gender is not always obvious from the name

Just a difference in club owners I guess. Hostess or not, the DJ's are expected to greet and interact with the guests at our club. I think the reason our club was started was because one of the owners, the manager, felt other clubs were not personal enough with the VIPs, and the DJ's were too aloof or distant. So she quit as manager of those clubs and started her own with an owner who could afford the region. We've been going for 14 years now, same owner and manager and location, so we must be doing something right.

I do everything you suggest, and more. and I still find the time to greet everyone, VIP or first time visitor. I always make a playlist, as a backup. By the time I have played 3 or 4 songs, I have adapted to the crowd and requests, and throw the playlist out, more or less. Not everyone can do that - they need pre arranged order. If I have 100 songs on my QUE list, I probably play 30 of them - the rest are from reacting to the crowd and integrating their requests into my theme. I also know enough about every song/artist I play to at least pronounce their names correctly and know what country/state they are from. Yes, I am busy all the time working that way - and sometimes I am 5 mins late greeting someone, since I am not the hostess. I don't work in the pop/electronic music clubs - we have older more "classic" patrons. The hardest part is playing new songs and artists for them, since it activates new brain cells, but I still try.