˝We have enabled some special debugging checks during the Release Candidate cycle. These have a short term effect of causing the viewer to crash more when something goes wrong, but it assists Linden Lab to improve stability by identifying those failure cases. We appreciate that you send us crash reports that occur!

These extra checks WILL be removed in a later iteration of the Release Candidate. But these can be turned off by a Resident at any time:

• Turned on Thread monitoring (Watchdog) during the Release Candidate cycle
  • Thread monitor will detect when the application is frozen for a period greater than 20 seconds and possibly force a crash with detailed logs
  • Thread monitor can be disabled by choosing to never report crashes, or with a command line setting “–set WatchdogEnabled 0″
  • The threshold timing of the thread monitor is set in the file \SecondLifeReleaseCandidate\app_settings\settings.xml under the key “MainloopTimeoutDefault” ˝

Today SecondSolutions released our first machinima video in Second Life, it’s a very simple video demostrating machinima made in MacOS X, and featuring some atmospheric effects in WindLight™. We also do some panoramics of Ener Hesperus and Enerkay WestKay, in the iliveisl estate. In the next weeks we may be working in some video tutorials aswell and in other machinima project so we can show all the great potential of the Second Life virtual platform.

You can buy it through SLX ( Second Life Exchange )

Go to SLX

PhotoContest Board 1.0

This board, features a simple high-quality graphics interface, with clean silver themed buttons for manage it, and the options are set into a menu for user friendly manage.

Compleatly menu driven

Using the latest features available at Second Life to make your experience rich, and keep it simple and powerful. Including light effects for night viewing, safety controls, that prevent any cheating in the contests, and completely secure money transactions.

PhotoContest Board lights at night

Here at SecondSolutions we think that the simple things are the best of, that’s why we implemented a complete new concept, with few options, and keeping what matters more sophisticated so that you can do your work easily and with the minimum amount of time. Because your time is your money so we help your business achieve a high level of automation.

Simple configuration, fewer options... more efficiency

 Ready to go: PhotoContest Board was designed for being ready to go in the minimum time possible, and we did it, just as easy as rezz it, drop your pictures in, and a info card as easy as that.

Setting up is easier than what you can imagine

But we also think in the people that may also want custom features, we already implemented a custom configuration notecard in the board, allowing features such as pay to vote, and pay voters. And more to come.

As we offer a custom functionality service, we can tune it to fit your needs, so you can have exactly what you want. If you have a special request, you can tell us by IM us in-word, or just send an email to secondsolutions@gmail.com because your success is our goal.

With the launch of Second Life® in 2003 we got a new and exciting chance to an opportunity for starting business, offer our services across this virtual environment. I just discovered it go impressed with the rich content, the great chance to get my ideas go worldwide. As everybody in Second Life I started having no idea of where to go, what to do and what the possibilities were. Then exploring I saw some amazing buildings, landscapes and other user-made content. And the truth is that the community is who made Second Life what it is today; and after looking at all of these things I decided that I had to participate in this, and as I work as graphical designer in real life and I’m programmer as hobby, after some training I decided to found SecondSolutions. This is my business in Second Life, the meaning of it it’s providing design or scripting solutions to people who wants to create a rich environment, for enjoying this virtual world, or for other persons that want to offer their own services, like opening a store or a club.

Like for opening any real life business in Second Life you need to make market research, do some inversions, and get ready for the hard work, nobody will give you it done. The start point must always be a good idea, and then thinking in the way to make it move; probably the first thing you may want to do is get a brand name, something easy to remember that will be the center of your business, and after that register it starting by get a new group in Second Life, have in mind that a new group price is L$100 and that at least 2 persons must join the group within 24 hours. Once this step is done you have your business name into the wheel, now is time to get all the common related stuff you will probably use, a good idea is to get a Gmail account for the business name, you can use that account for using Google Docs, Google Calendar, Picasa, YouTube now, and so on, so that would be good idea. Now probably you would like to have a blog so you can make announcements, and keep people informed about progress of products, and general stuff so you should get a free blog at http://www.wordpress.com/ these are highly customizable blogs and the option to link it to your own domain, that offer you the option to get; you may also take benefit of a Flickr account for storing high quality pictures of the content you create or any other thing. Getting a Twitter account is also a good option to make lots of people know about your business and keep track of it. You will also need a good logo, designed for the web because even if you plan to do everything in-world the most of the time you’re logo will appear in web-like environments and pages.

Marketing the big bad word, but you will need to take a lot of use of it, if you want to make progress among your Second Life experience. The best and most important thing is to be known and that people talks about you, your business and your services/products. So start by blogging and telling to friends, etc. is the best starting options, you can also add it to classifieds in Second Life search, or rent an add place. All you need is to never stop and keep working, you will get results if you do so.

Good luck to all people that wants to make virtual worlds a better place.

Lucian Seriman – SecondSolutions CEO
http://secondsolutions.wordpress.com/
secondsolutions@gmail.com

Due to this limitations the only way to implement the inter-sim communication is through a little tricky workaround. And one of the other problems we are facing is the lack of a system to know the uuid of a object at a given time, we have to build our own kind of “dns” system for knowing what is the uuid of any given object in any sim, and doing this with the minimum user interaction.

Some progress has already been made with this dns system, but it will still take some time until it’s fully implemented because it will also handle all the inter-sim communications and will implement an API for other projects to use this systems.

The other problem we faced is even more tricky to make a workaround, this problem is the imposibility for LSL to write to a notecard, so if you want to save any configuration data in real time… unless you use a external server there is currently no way for doing this. The way w use to go throught this, well basicly we will implement a PHP/MySQL interface that interacts with the scripts, and that stores, prepares, and delivers all the configuration and all the data we need. We are also creating a system to by pass this problem without the PHP interface but this isn’t very clear for now.

SecondSolutions Logo

If you wanna check it out, just get on you’re way you can see here some of our creations, and probably our CEO Lucian Seriman will be around, working as always but probably will be around.

There was a need of such a product that helps owners to manage their sims/lands in a way they don’t need to be keeping track of each one individually, or even per simulator individually. So our goal will be to provide the tools they need, with a easy to handle interface for buyer and owner. Once we acomplish this, we will be adding more features. This way it won’t happen like with similar products that attempted to get all at once, and they failed because of their lack to focus on each task, and this results on each feature appear to be incomplete or not well implemented.

If you are estate owner or sim owner, and you are interested in such product you can subscribe to our RSS channel to recive the lastest updates for this product. We will be posting progress in this site as it goes developed.