The Second Life grid, as previously reported, is shutting down for a server-side update tomorrow. "Server side" means that there won't be a new viewer update required to get in afterwards, though an updated viewer is coming soon, anyway.Jean Linden reports at midafternoon today that Linden Lab needs extra time on this update, so the Second Life grid is not going to be down in the usual 7am-12noon timeslot (times in US PT, aka SLT), but will instead be shutting down an hour earlier at 6am. I don't know about you, but I wish I'd know this about a day earlier, before I'd booked a meeting that would run over the new 6am deadline.
1. I'd be intrigued to know why they added the hour on to the start of the downtime instead of the end. Most of us allow for additional downtime beyond the scheduled return, so the impact of extending it in that direction ought to have been lower to us. Given the international nature of the user base, I am not sure how an earlier start helps, but I am sure there are (probably financial) good reasons for it from Linden's perspective. Agreed that more notice would have been good though!
Posted at 9:07AM on Mar 14th 2007 by Wolf Hartnell