Linden Lab have finally announced that they are bringing voice to Second Life, to much enthusiastic cheering, and a roughly equal amount of screaming about how horrible and evil this is. You just can’t please everyone.
My personal opinion is against this, for the same reason that I dislike Skype (and every other VoIP solution) – I can’t speak, so I’m left out. Not as left out as I would be if I was deaf, but left out none-the-less. LL has orginally planned to have text-to-speech and speech-to-text support in this, which I would have been fine with. TTS systems for all intents and purpose are my voice, given that they’re the only things I use when I wish to say something.
Unfortunately, I can find no mention of this in their announcement, implying that there will not be a system in place. As this is the case, when the system rolls out I will be disabling across Foobar Salad, regardless of what anyone else there might think about it. This may be selfish, but I’m the one paying for the land, and I say no. Although if anyone can find something in that post that I missed about TTS support, please tell me. >.>
Also, SL is down until 7PM. Bleh.
[5:27 GMT ] And SL is already back up. Something is changing at LL, for the better.
This is a brief update just to make sure this site doesn’t die like I predicted it would when I started it.
I haven’t posted anything recently, largely due to depression. And I’m not doing much better now, but at least I can actually work on things, which is a significant improvement over the state I was in last week. Which is good, I suppose. I’ll start posting here properly when my lives sort themselves out.
So, things I’ve done since my last post:
- Cried a lot.
- Started a new project-type-thing, phpsimcaps. It’s a library that allows you to interact with sim-caps using PHP. So far it can only request map layer data and upload sounds and textures. I’m having difficulty getting ImageMagick to convert to JPC at a decent quality though – any ideas? Also, animation upload isn’t going to work until I’m in the mood for working out what LL are doing to the animation to make it play properly. (Currently you can upload animations, but they won’t play back). I might make a separate post about this some other time. Maybe.
- Upgraded my server with the extra RAM and HD space it needs (no more random segfaults or disk space errors, woot!
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- Improved my stats site in order to make pages load much faster without putting any real load on the server. (Compared to having to locate and average tens of thousands of numbers every visit)
- Thought about life, got depressed, and sat in a corner doing nothing. And I went to school sometimes too, where I sat slumped over my desk doing nothing.
So that’s my update for however long. I’ll post again when I feel better.
Second Life was fixed. Then it broke for the rest of the day. Then they replaced some broken hardware and it’s fixed again. So that was annoying.
This has been true for a couple of days, but I thought I’d point out that my new house, Aurora, is finished – you can see some pictures of it on Flickr.
I’ve also re-designed my statistics website to make it look more like secondlife.com. Please tell me which design you prefer – I think the newer one looks cleaner, personally.
Also, does anyone else think that Tahoe needs sorting out? Look at this:
At least as of me writing this, as well as the whole of the preceeding week, performance for this sim has been unacceptably low. (And as of this edit it’s been fixed)
Now, I’m going to add some more numbers to the individual sim pages on stats.katharineberry.co.uk, after which I shall be dragged away for lunch and bowling or something. Which I’m not hugely keen on, less so with my sister’s friend hanging around.
On a side note, I’m really glad that my parents don’t know this site exists. >.>
Second Life is broken. Again. As such, my fancy online thingies are taking forever to load, and my sim status tracker has declared every sim to be offline. Which is wrong.
Additionally, my parents keep yelling at me. And other things are going badly too.
So I’m frustrated. And bored. And depressed.
Today my MySQL server collapsed with errors about being too busy, while everything else was really slow. I redid some code to work differently and restructured, so it’s happier now. I’m also now collecting a few other SL related numbers. I guess I’ll do something with them some day.
I collapsed too, after what was supposed to be a harmless comment from Cirr. I don’t feel like doing anything and I can’t think.. I’ll be absent for a while now. Meh.
Published on 9th of February, 2007
in Server.
[22:30 GMT] I have disabled Apache’s logs and removed MySQL’s logs, freeing up a significant amount of disk space. Still planning on upgrading.
The server running this blog, stats.katharineberry.co.uk, services.katharineberry.co.uk, katharineberry.co.uk, vps.tslemporium.com, tslurl.com, and various others, collapsed earlier, with messages like sed: couldn't write 1 item to stdout: No space left on device.
I have deleted 100MB of files, which will serve as a short-term temporary solution. The stats gathering and online status will have been nonfunctional during the downtime.
I will be adding more hard drive space ASAP. And more RAM too, since there are a few memory issues.
I have made a system for showing your online status on the web, which can be accessed in a few ways. In all of the below examples, replace “your_name” with your first name, then an underscore, then your second name. For example, I would be “katharine_berry”.
If that doesn’t work, replace “your_name” with your key instead.
Continue reading ‘Online Status on the Web’
I have finished several parts of my online status indicator. Woo. I’ll post details on how to use it once I have the rest of it done. In the meantime, I’ve placed what I have working into this blog’s sidebar.
Published on 8th of February, 2007
in Life and School.
Woot. (For the first time in five years)
