Tarp Covers IBM Theatres in Second Life

Posted by Marshall on December 19, 2006 | Link It

A colleage sent me this article the other day about SHOCK! Banned Griefer's Tarp Covers IBM Theatres.

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 "..The problems appear to have started with an overloaded server room at the Linden Lab colocation facilities - resulting in serious overheating and power problems. After consulting the Love Machine project management system, Linden Lab technicians decided to move the database machine for the entire metaverse outdoors onto the lawn - without even a tent to protect it from the elements! I went to investigate these outrageous claims and confirmed that there is a mainframe on the lawn in the IBM islands - and a surprise over the theaters."

The assert/database server - an aging IBM System 360 with several tape drives - was moved onto the lawn in the IBM islands where Unverified Linden had promised to cover it with a tarp. However, it was found that the bulky mainframe was far too large to cover with a 10 x 10 flexi prim, so Unverified turned to a clever hack on the metaverse - Gene Replacement’s megaprims - which exceed the official Linden-blessed object size limits but are somehow still OK to use anyway. Herald readers may recall Gene as one of those involved in covering Satyr sim with something awful - skywriting of questionable taste.

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I'm not even able to get into Second Life using my Thinkpad since the Video Card is not supported by the software. 

One of these days….I'll get to spend some time (maybe on another laptop). 



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