I’ve noted on several occassions that I only ever get to upgrade my computer when something very bad happens to it and I have to replace parts. This tends to happen once or twice a year, in my experience. As such, my desktop has now made the jump to PCI Express video — to my […]
Monthly Archives:: August 2006
Updates pending
I’ll be back among the land of the functional-computer-owning late tomorrow evening. In the meantime, I’d like to note that my traffic stats indicate that the number of visits this blog gets really don’t appear to vary at all. Including when I don’t post. I probably will anyway, but still…
Exploit reporting stats
On the Linden Blog, Brent Linden discusses the experimental exploit-reporting system launched in the wake of Cristiano Midnight’s discovery of (and subsequent suspension for publicizing) an exploit in which it was possible for any user to do Very Bad Things. Under the experimental system, Brent is now paged every time someone used the SL bug […]
That’s not a good prize!
Sadly, my computer’s not doing as awesomely as one might hope. Light blogging to follow…
Sally Linden on the “Residents” statistic
On the Linden Blog today, Sally Linden writes: There has lately been much confusion and speculation surrounding the “Residents†statistic on the home page of http://secondlife.com. This post is an effort to clear that up. She goes on to say: …there was an internal conversation about the number we were reporting, what the Residents thought it represented, […]
NY Times on AOL search log leak
The New York Times describes how they identified a woman from Lilburn, Georgia based on her sort-of/maybe/accidentally leaked-on-purpose-but-it’s-for-researchers– and-also-those-responsible-have-been-sacked AOL search data. They imply that this was due to clever legwork and don’t actually say that she typed in her Social Security number, but there are certainly plenty of examples of searchers who did. And finally, […]
Miguel de Icaza on the LSL-to-Mono port
Mono project founder Miguel de Icaza writes about Linden Lab’s presentation at Lang.NET 2006 in which Cory and Babbage Linden described the upcoming move to the Mono CLI. The challenge is to stop and save a running script. This is something that is relatively easy done with their scripting language, but it becomes trickier with […]
Verified Accounts and Trust Metrics — Part 1
Part 1: International Users Two months ago, Second Life creator Linden Lab removed the credit card requirement from the account creation process, allowing users without a credit card to join SL for the first time. While the move was met with alarm and opposition among many members of the SL community, it was part of […]
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Welcome to Omega Point, a pretentiously-named blog about virtual worlds, the evolution of the metaverse, and the Singularity. I’m Catherine Omega – and yes, that’s a pseudonym. It’s not much of a pseudonym though, if that helps. If you’re a user of Second Life, you might have heard my name, perhaps even favourably. If you’ve […]