Archive for December, 2007

[FINISHED] AjaxLife load test

This test has now finished. More details will be given later.

I’m making some significant changes in the way AjaxLife is run. As such I request that people log into http://67.202.38.80/. Don’t worry about the lack of SSL – your login details are still encrypted before being sent (feel free to check network traffic as you log in, if you want to be sure).

You can see the count of logged in people by clicking the “Stats” button, if you aren’t using Internet Explorer.

Explanation will follow soon. Also note that this one does not support viewing textures yet.

TSLP Fixes

I’ve added an admin function to TSL Profiles that fixes up people appearing as having joined SL in 1/1/1970. Here’s the output:

Accounts needing repair: 10

Repairing #120 (scott Zucker)... 2006-09-11          [OK]
Repairing #124 (Ezekiel Lach)... 2006-08-02          [OK]
Repairing #123 (Evan Beattie)... 2007-03-27          [OK]
Repairing #125 (Snipe Benford)... 2006-06-17         [OK]
Repairing #136 (Blue Backbite)... 2005-07-07         [OK]
Repairing #172 (Ysirian Marama)... 2006-09-21        [OK]
Repairing #186 (Roxi Katsu)... 2006-06-18            [OK]
Repairing #191 (Jonny Cardiff)... 2006-12-18         [OK]
Repairing #190 (Bazel Viking)... 2006-11-04          [OK]
Repairing #192 (Andy Korda)... 2007-01-14            [OK]

Finished. 10 succeeded, 0 failed.

Following this, I am reasonably confident that all TSLP accounts now contain accurate data. Yay.

Blog stats

Here’s a nice graph of weekly views, courtesy of WordPress’ stats:
Weekly Views

The blog is clearly dying off. :P

Points of interest: The first spike is a few days after I announced AjaxLife, when it was picked up on the SLED list. The second is AjaxLife being picked up on Reddit. The rest is me failing to do anything of interest. :P

On another note: I just put up a bunch of real pictures on Flickr. They took hours to put up on the 1KB/s (4KB/s at peak) internet connection on this boat, so enjoy them! (Even though they were all shot with the somewhat dubious iPhone camera)

Birthday

Forgot about this in my last post:

It’s my birthday today. I’m 16 now. Yay!

On an unrelated note, I’m looking set for a £100 phone bill without having made any calls. Boo.

Somewhat less internetless

It appears that I can get an Internet connection – provided I pay either £10/MB for roaming GPRS on my iPhone, or £10.10/hour for a wifi connection on the boat I’m on. At 4kB/s, at best.

That said, I’m hanging around on MSN. MSN katharine@katharineberry.co.uk if you want to talk to me.

Oh, and if you’re wondering, I wrote this on my iPhone – WPhone doesn’t use much bandwidth, but writing posts takes time. And GPRS is faster.

Internetless for a week.

Bye! See you in a week’s time! :P

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TSL Profiles Blog theme updated

The theme used by TSLP blog by default has been changed to more closely match that of TSLP itself. This means that all blogs using the default theme will now resemble TSLP. This change does not affect blogs that have changed their theme.

The difference is best shown by the thumbnails.

Old theme:

New theme:

TSL Profiles – now with blogs!

As part of the continuing useless additions to the TSL Profiles service, every user now automatically gets a free blog when they sign up – this has been applied retroactively.

The format for URLs is yourname.tslblogs.com – for example, mine is at katharineberry.tslblogs.com (which is by and large a copy of this blog, thanks to WordPress’ import/export function). These blogs are running on WordPress, and carry over many of the features thereof (no plugin/theme installation for security reasons, however).

Logins are (well, should be) unified with TSL Profiles’ – logging into one logs you into the other, although logging out can be done independently. There is still much work to be done in terms of integrating the two, but I’m working on it. :P

Also coming soon: Automated posting to Flickr from µBlog postcards (you can enable/disable Flickr already, but nothing happens when you do).

And no, I don’t expect anybody to actually use the thing. But there you go.

Region Performance

It’s always fun to watch performance graphs for the sandboxes – especially combat sandboxes. Here are a few:

Here are two combat sims – Bannockburn is actually a resident-owned combat sim, but is incredibly unpopular.

A standard sandbox:

By comparison, here’s the one I have my chunk of land in:

It’s not really as suitable for servers as my PI was. Since my PI no longer exists, that’s largely besides the point.

Note that all of these graphs are live-updating, so they’re going to change. If they happen to be stable when you read this, trust me that it’s an anomaly. :P