Just Askin': Patterns of outage - What's this?

Posted Aug 1st 2007 1:00AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Just Askin'

Well, it's hardly a secret that we've been seeing a lot of simulator outages in the last 48 hours. This one - well, this set of them caught the eye of the sharp-eyed Carl Metropolitan.

Is it a fire-break against a goo attack? Is it a crash caused by some common factor that's tickling a bug in all these sims? Are they all in the same rack and there's something affecting the equipment there?

Heck, maybe someone's trying sky-writing with sim-crashers. What do you think?

Tags: crash, goo attack, GooAttack, Second Life, SecondLife, sim crashers, SimCrashers

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1. Just to be clear, you meant 'Crop' right? With an 'O'?

Posted at 1:49AM on Aug 1st 2007 by Tateru Nino

2. Its SL's version of Crop Circles forming

Posted at 1:57AM on Aug 1st 2007 by Doubledown Tandino

3. I call shenanigans on this one, Tateru. Whatever it is, it sounds far from good to me to have regions taken down in any particularly obvious patterns.

\Will start freaking out totally when regions go in an uzumaki (spiral) shape. Then stick onto the wall and turn into a giant catsnail.

Posted at 2:36AM on Aug 1st 2007 by Patchouli Woollahra

4. for stuff liek this is why I wanted to have access to a map of the whole grid with near realtime display of each sim status......

Posted at 3:12AM on Aug 1st 2007 by TigroSpottystripes Katsu

5. Sky writing with sim crashes? Have you read "Omega" by Jack McDevitt? If not, it's worth a read.

Posted at 7:34AM on Aug 1st 2007 by Peter Stindberg

6. Well you can just make out a P if you take out just one more sim.

Of course, that message could still be anything from "PN" to "PLEASE FIX SL"

Posted at 10:50AM on Aug 1st 2007 by KirbyMeister

7. @KirbyMeister:

haha, brilliant, mate

Posted at 12:54PM on Aug 1st 2007 by brotherscrim

8. Great ideas guys, we'll keep them in mind.

Posted at 10:04PM on Aug 1st 2007 by N3X15

9. Some of the PN griefers are known for writing things like "LOL" and "PN" on the world map using a few dozen downed regions in the same area.
Here's an example, taken from when they were writing "PN" :
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/1066/pnworldmappo8.jpg

Posted at 7:19AM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Oyyk

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