A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that Linden Lab’s Terms of Service for Second Life residents are not legally binding, according to court papers filed on Wednesday.
May 2007
Monthly Archive
Thu 31 May 2007
Thu 31 May 2007
Filed under: Building, Great Builds
Unfortunately for most of you, Imogen is invitation-only, so you won’t be able to check this out for yourselves, but that’s why this blog exists! This wonderful build is based on the Golden Gate Bridge in RL San Francisco, and was constructed by On the Inside collaborator Saeya Nyanda.
Seeing this bridge in SL made me feel the same way I did when I saw it for the first time in RL; I couldn’t believe I was seeing it. It’s majestic, detailed, and wonderful, and I appreciate the skill involved in building it. To come: more Imogenian builds!
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Thu 31 May 2007
Good news to start the workday (at least in this timezone): we know many Residents have found it difficult to login and vote, comment, and otherwise interact on our Issue Tracker, aka Public JIRA (sometimes shortened to “PJIRA”). This was in large part due to a bug titled WEB-47 — check that link for more info.
Trivia: Googling for “jira” shows our Issue Tracker as the #6 result!
In a sea of synchronicity, I was reading a related article on New World Notes about lack of votes for issues, and then, I just learned from Rob Linden, that through his enduring work and getting help from Cascadeo (who hosts PJIRA for us) and Atlassian (inventors of JIRA), that the bug is now fixed.
So, please login directly to an issue you care about and vote for it — and even add a comment with further info to help us make progress. You can vote for as many as are important to you, just look on the left side for options. Confused by all the issues? Don’t worry, use some filters (shown on the right side of the front page), such as “All unresolved bugs by # of votes“. Or related to the launch of our new First Look WindLight viewer, see ”WindLight issues, sorted by votes“.
In case of further bugs, you can, of course, report them directly on the Issue Tracker. Refer to our instructions. They may seem heady at first glance, but through familarity and use of this tool, you’ll become more confident, and be helping us — both Lindens and your fellow Residents — advance Second Life. Solid repros so we can recreate the problems in order to effectively fix them, are of course superbly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for showing us what’s important to you!
Thu 31 May 2007
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, in conjunction with the Illusion Factory and Bullpen Advertising, is holding an event from June 10th to the 17th called the MS Fly, which will be a multi-sim scavenger hunt in which users don a cape which grants them greater flying ability than normal.
Sponsors Scion and movietickets.com help bring this event to SL, which will help bring more awareness to the horrors of MS, a debilitating disease that affects the body’s ability to move. On the MS Fly tour will be such noteworthy builds as Svarga, Dublin Island, and the International Space Station, among others. You can register for the event at themsfly.org right up until the 17th.
Let’s hope the sim crossings don’t interfere with the flights too badly!
(Via prnewswire.com)
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Thu 31 May 2007
The interview with eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman has been rescheduled for tomorrow, Friday June 1, at 0830 am PST (1130 AM EST). We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please email questions you have for the Whitman interview, as well as the Desmond Tutu and Bill Keller interviews, to adamreuters@gmail.com as soon as possible.
Thu 31 May 2007
Filed under: Linden Lab, Updates
The public JIRA issue tracker used by Linden Lab has its share of difficulties. While most residents haven’t ever heard of it, even fewer find it usable, though the folks who do have really been putting it through its paces. Aside from complaints about it’s usability, the biggest issue with it has been actually logging in.
Logging in to the JIRA system failed from every part of it, except the top page, where it worked unreliably. That seems to be over. Issue WEB-47 has been fixed and JIRA logins are fast and snappy now, from any part of the JIRA system. So those of you who know how to use the system can get right on with things.
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