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

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?

Goo attack - lolcubes - Baba sucks?

In among the gooAt approximately 7am SLT, a 'goo attack' hit portions of the Second Life grid. A goo attack is a self-replicating object attack. In this case the object was called a 'lolcube' and consisted of fast moving cubes, changing color very rapidly (some residents have reported feeling nauseous and dizzy as a result of the rapid motions and color changes).

They make a 'kissing' noise and have been sighted in at least 10 different sims, though by the time of writing, the attack seems to have been contained with very little impact to the function of the Second Life grid itself. The owner of the offending objects is reported to be Baba Yamamoto, indicated by numerous eyewitness accounts of the objects.

Login concurrency at the time of the attack was approximately 23,000 and continued to climb steadily throughout, at approximately 24 per minute.

Goo attack - Wired Magazine attacks Dreamlands plush sims with Web2.0

Wired Magazine, February 2007 issue.Well, at least it's not ... well, you know what. At approximately 5AM SLT today, the 'Plush' sims of the Dreamlands continent (owned and operated by Anshe Chung Studios Ltd) were hit with a self-replicating object attack.

The object (owned by Shoop Dabu) was modeled after the February 2007 edition of Wired Magazine, and had physics enabled and a low quantity of thrust applied. They spread out, replicating through the Dreamland Plush sims shouting Web2.0 buzzwords (all in caps) to anyone within 100 metres. (eg: YOUTUBE, FLICKR, WIKI, METAVERSE, AVATAR, RUBY ON RAILS, and so forth)

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Christmas Day Goo attack

Goo invades the Volunteer HQ in Tenera - photo by Carl Metropolitan

At 21:00 (9pm) SLT, yet another in a series of goo attacks started to hit the grid. Essentially identical to all the others, except the name and the message. The object this time is called Christmas Present and spams the message "FELIZ NAVIDAD MOTHERF***ERS" [elided] while sending copies of itself out at random to passers-by.

The objects themselves are physics enabled, slowing sims to a crawl, and make a sound that might be laughing, but sounds like sobbing. They're hollow green penises, with jaunty Santa-style stocking caps. The several hundred that I saw were all owned by an avatar named llMakeExplosion Toll.

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Goo Attack - Attack of the fast, hard to see ... cube thing

Not much to look at.At 5pm Wednesday Tuesday (what was I thinking?) SLT, sim Luskwood got hit with a self-replicating cube. In various regions around Second Life over the next 3-4 hours, several other regions (eg: Kuula, Fairchang Island, and Epilais to name a few) have reported sightings and contacted Live Help.

While not very widespread or impressive visually, the replicating cubes moved very, very quickly, and were not always visible. They were all owned by an avatar named "The Gymnast", now missing from Second Life's directory -- Linden Lab is notoriously swift with the ban-stick when a goo attack takes place.

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Goo attack - Griefornament

The self-replicating object - griefornamentAt approximately 16:50 SLT (Second Life Time) today, another goo attack commenced on the Second Life main grid with the first outbreaks being reported in the vicinity of the Cloudmont sim (as have others before). Alas goo attacks of this nature are not as uncommon as they could be - but freedom rather cuts both ways.

Linden Staffers and Liaisons began acknowledging reports at approximately 17:05 (although it's clear that they were already on the job), and Torley Linden posted a notice to the official linden blog about the attack at 17:15, approximately 25 minutes after the first reports.

Response from landowners and Linden Lab were relatively swift however, even this reaction is not without consequences. Sites such as the Shelter In Exile had large chunks returned to object owners due to panic and haste on the part of one or more land-officers trying to limit the spread of the self-replicating nuisances.


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