User:Benjamin Linden/Office Hours/2007 May 01
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[10:04] You: hi Christian [10:04] You: welcome [10:04] Christian Colville: hello Benjamin [10:05] Christian Colville: nice office! my first visit to an office hour... [10:05] You: thanks! [10:05] You: let's take a seat [10:05] Christian Colville: sure [10:06] Christian Colville: my interest is land search [10:07] You: ok great [10:07] You: what's on your mind? [10:07] Christian Colville: I've set up a website that pulls land sales information off the servers using libsecondlife [10:07] You: oh cool [10:08] Christian Colville: its a free facility.. it lets people do more detailed searches than the in-world tool [10:08] You: can I see it? [10:09] Christian Colville: sure its at http://www.sllandlist.com [10:09] You: so this is in flahs [10:09] You: flash [10:09] Christian Colville: yep it actually uses a development system called OpenLaszlo [10:10] Christian Colville: which compiles to a flash object [10:10] Christian Colville: so I wanted to let you guys know what I was up to [10:11] Adrian Linden is Online [10:11] Christian Colville: plus it occurred to me that you might well decide yourselves at some point to put land search on an external site [10:11] You: there's been a lot of discussion lately about what to do with Search [10:11] You: since what we have right now isn't that great [10:11] You: let me play with this for a sec [10:11] Christian Colville: sure [10:12] Christian Colville: it updates every 2 hours [10:12] Christian Colville: plus the technology is unscrapable [10:12] You: because it's flash? [10:12] PierreLuc Linden is Offline [10:13] Christian Colville: well yes there are flash decompilers but I think this OpenLaszlo system produces flash objects that are difficult to decompile [10:13] You: I see, cool [10:13] You: wow this is impressive [10:13] Christian Colville: thanks [10:13] You: does it include land auctions as well? [10:14] Christian Colville: no [10:14] Christian Colville: I'm thinking of putting land rentals on it next [10:14] Christian Colville: auctions would require me to write an HTML scraper to get the info off your site [10:14] You: ah I see [10:15] You: I like the way when you click a link it jumps straight to that spot on the map [10:15] You: that's really cool [10:15] Christian Colville: great [10:15] Adrian Linden is Offline [10:15] You: it would be nice to see the preview image that you can see when you do land searches in-world [10:16] You: hey Christian I have to take a phone call real quick, can you hang on? [10:16] Christian Colville: yes that was a little technically demanding and would use a lot of server space [10:16] Christian Colville: sure [10:16] You: thanks brb [10:21] You: ok sorry about that [10:21] Christian Colville: np [10:21] You: so when you said it would take a lot of server space, did you mean space on your webserver? [10:21] Christian Colville: yeah [10:22] You: I see [10:22] You: there's no way to directly link to the image that's on our servers? [10:22] Christian Colville: plus I'd have to work out how to translate the data in a packet into a jpg [10:22] You: oh I see [10:22] You: so theoretically it could be done dynamically [10:22] Christian Colville: I don't know if a direct link is possible [10:22] Christian Colville: that would be ideal [10:23] Christian Colville: but no idea how to get a url from an image LLUUID [10:23] You: yes, I'm not sure if that's possible [10:23] You: I could ask some folks for you [10:23] Christian Colville: in my experience most images are missing or standard landowner ones [10:23] Christian Colville: that would be great [10:24] Bridie Linden is Online [10:24] Christian Colville: yeah so partly I wanted to talk to you out of concern that you might sometime soon put the land search on an external website which would of course make my site superfluous really [10:25] Christian Colville: I mean of course you will do what you will do but maybe what I've done could help you in that circumstance [10:25] You: well I can't speak to specific initiatives that we have underway of course but there is an effort to make across-the-board improvements in search [10:26] Christian Colville: sure [10:27] You: I will definitely show your site to the relevant people. it's possible there's something we could leverage in our new search tools [10:27] Jesse Linden is Online [10:27] Jard Comet is Offline [10:27] You: tell me more about your development group [10:27] Christian Colville: good that would be great [10:27] Christian Colville: oh its just me lol [10:27] Gulliver Linden is Online [10:28] Christian Colville: In r/l I'm a programmer I do a lot of projects for small businesses [10:28] You: cool. what type of programming? [10:29] Christian Colville: I do asp.net c# javascript mysql this openlaszlo tool etc [10:29] You: great! where are you located? [10:29] Christian Colville: I'm in London UK [10:30] You: cool. Linden Lab is opening office in Brighton. [10:30] Christian Colville: oh that's a great place [10:30] Revolution Perenti: hi ben :) [10:30] Christian Colville: very funky and alternative, by the sea. no beach though [10:30] You: hi Revolution [10:30] You: welcome! [10:30] Durl Linden is Online [10:31] Christian Colville: hello Revolution [10:31] Revolution Perenti: how are you today, not working too hard i hope :) [10:31] Revolution Perenti: hi chris [10:31] You: nah, just chillin as you can see :-) [10:31] Christian Colville: grins [10:31] Revolution Perenti: dont blame you, thought i come over for a bit now i chillin instead of coding [10:31] Revolution Perenti: met most of the lindens :) [10:31] You: is that c++ code I see scrolling on your screen :-) [10:31] Revolution Perenti: hehe yea [10:31] You: cool [10:32] Revolution Perenti: im a c++ and php coder myself [10:32] You: are you a developer too? [10:32] You: nice [10:32] You: do you know Christian? [10:32] Christian Colville: its developer corner! [10:32] You: haha yeah, this is great [10:32] Revolution Perenti: no never met him, also i really big opensource fan, everything i do goes out to the public [10:32] Revolution Perenti: yopu mind if i sit down [10:32] You: excellent! [10:33] You: you may have seen my mail a few weeks ago to sldev [10:33] You: we'd love to get more people working on UI issues [10:33] Christian Colville: ok [10:33] Revolution Perenti: before i found sl , i use to develope alot of game toolkits [10:33] Christian Colville: what's sldev? [10:33] Revolution Perenti: from game engines, graphics libs, matrix and math engines [10:33] You: Christian, sldev is a mailing list for people interested in the open source project [10:34] You: you should sign up! [10:34] Christian Colville: ok! [10:34] Revolution Perenti: oh incase you cant tell im not a woman hehe just my av is :) [10:34] You: there's lots of general discussion about developing for SL [10:34] Christian Colville: right [10:34] You: ok thanks for clarifying Revolution :-) [10:34] Revolution Perenti: guys like to play female charactors :P [10:34] Christian Colville: I've not done too much C++ tho [10:34] You: I've noticed that [10:35] Revolution Perenti: even the lindins like torley [10:35] You: well if you know c# you should be able to pick it up Christian [10:35] Christian Colville: is that so Ben? [10:35] Lower Deck Doors: Jeanluc Despres is at the door. [10:35] Christian Colville: sure [10:35] You: actually Torley will probably be by later [10:35] You: we have a meeting at 11am [10:35] Revolution Perenti: was digging around the viewer source last night , see if i can sort some the bugs myself, also been thinking of the idear of porting it to xbox [10:36] Christian Colville: ok [10:36] Security Panel: Jeanluc Despres, you are not authorized to use this console. [10:36] Christian Colville: you'd get hoards of users from that.. [10:36] Revolution Perenti: there still alot to be done by the devs but i love how far you guys have come sofar [10:36] Security Panel: Jeanluc Despres, you are not authorized to use this console. [10:37] You: thanks Revolution [10:37] Revolution Perenti: filled out job app otherday with there Uk office [10:37] You: wow, an xbox port would be awesome! [10:37] You: oh cool are you in the UK too? [10:37] Revolution Perenti: yea using the openxbox sdk [10:37] You: I was just telling Christian about the Brighton office [10:37] Camber Front Door: Jeanluc Despres is at the door. [10:37] You: should be a fun place to work [10:37] Revolution Perenti: ported many things to the xbox [10:37] Camber Front Door: Jeanluc Despres is at the door. [10:37] Christian Colville: yeah Im in London Revolution [10:37] Revolution Perenti: as long its opensource i dont mind porting it [10:37] Revolution Perenti: i live next to the beach :) [10:38] You: do you think it's doable? [10:38] Revolution Perenti: broadstairs, kent [10:38] Christian Colville: nice.. [10:38] You: I worked in Richmond for several months back in 2001 [10:38] You: cute town [10:38] Christian Colville: yeah [10:38] You: but I had to move into the city, so I lived in Earls Court [10:38] Christian Colville: its quite prety Richmond [10:38] Christian Colville: Earls Court has toomuch traffic tho [10:39] Revolution Perenti: you living in the UK now bed or lindens moved you out to the states [10:39] Revolution Perenti: *ben [10:39] Revolution Perenti: i was living in london for a while, but live away from london now most of my work comes from the internet [10:39] You: actually I live in Seattle [10:39] Betsy Linden is Online [10:39] Revolution Perenti: no need for an office, even i do get shipped out ot LA and NY alot [10:39] You: I was living here when i started working for LL [10:40] Christian Colville: ok [10:40] Christian Colville: there's a lot of Microsoft offices round there I've heard [10:40] You: haha yes [10:40] You: that was actually my previous employer :-) [10:40] Revolution Perenti: lo ldont tell me about m$ im a linux user :P [10:40] Christian Colville: ok grins [10:41] You: haha I was just up at LinuxfestNorthwest, north of Seattle last weekend [10:41] You: very different crowd than at my last job :-) [10:41] Revolution Perenti: got sick of windows in the end, never really needed it for coding [10:41] Christian Colville: yeah? [10:41] You: I worked on Visual Studio at Microsoft. it's a pretty good IDE [10:41] Revolution Perenti: linux more sutiable [10:41] Christian Colville: I love the VS IDE [10:41] Revolution Perenti: yes i have that too , but rarely touch it now days [10:42] You: that's good to hear, Christian [10:42] Revolution Perenti: only log into windows for games or when im doing windows ports and testing [10:42] Christian Colville: lets you do immensely complex operations very easily [10:42] You: what do you code in Revolution? [10:42] Revolution Perenti: c++ and php [10:42] You: I meant which IDE, sorry [10:42] Revolution Perenti: started in basic , then got qulificed in c++ [10:42] Christian Colville: have you heard of OpenLaszlo Revolution? [10:42] Revolution Perenti: oh vs 2003 in windows [10:43] Revolution Perenti: but mostly coding php now days [10:43] Revolution Perenti: using linux and zend [10:43] Suzanne Zeluco: hi there [10:43] You: hi Suzanne, welcome! [10:43] Suzanne Zeluco: thank you =) [10:43] Christian Colville: Hi Suzanne [10:43] Suzanne Zeluco: hi Christian, Revolution [10:43] You: I'm super excited you guys are potentially interested in open source [10:43] Revolution Perenti: hi suzanne [10:43] Revolution Perenti: i saw rob yesterday at his meeting [10:44] You: did you come for office hours Suzanne or are you just stopping by? [10:44] You: oh yeah, Rob sits right next to me [10:44] Revolution Perenti: trying to see how sl involving community wise before i dig into opensource work for sl [10:44] Suzanne Zeluco: i came for office hours yes ... i hope not with an inappropriate question [10:44] You: there are no inappropriate questions! [10:44] You: have a seat [10:44] Suzanne Zeluco: ok thank you =) [10:45] Revolution Perenti: are many community contribs going in sl atm Ben [10:45] You: yes, actually I have some stats right here, hang on [10:46] Revolution Perenti: becuase its going to be prety big project making sl opensource [10:46] You: 34 patches by 18 unique authors have been accepted into the Viewer code [10:46] You: hi wishmaster [10:46] You: welcome! [10:46] Christian Colville: that's cool [10:46] Revolution Perenti: prety much what i do now with phpnuke and phpbb [10:46] Suzanne Zeluco: hi wishmaster [10:47] Wishmaster Delcon: hi [10:47] Revolution Perenti: becuase fixed, new features etc can be done by the community in code merged by the dev team [10:47] Revolution Perenti: hi wish [10:47] Wishmaster Delcon: hi rev [10:47] Christian Colville: I think open source is the way to produce reliable projects with the kind of scale of SL [10:47] Suzanne Zeluco: i didn't know where else to go ask, with the recent changes ... and i am sorry if this is not the right forum, Benjamin ... but i cannot get any feedback on any other channels at the moment [10:47] Revolution Perenti: this is my friend Ben :) support of my work [10:47] You: nice bling Wishmaster :-) [10:48] Wishmaster Delcon: and help when i can [10:48] Suzanne Zeluco: have been living now almost 4 days in a sim with time dilation averaging 0.55, and there seems to be no cure to this, and can't get hold of anyone who can help [10:48] Christian Colville: hi Wishmaster [10:48] Wishmaster Delcon: thanks Ben [10:48] You: are you a developer too Wish? [10:48] Wishmaster Delcon: hi christian [10:48] You: Suzanne, can you tell me what you mean by time dilation? [10:48] Zero Linden is Offline [10:48] Revolution Perenti: last year ben i was involved as lead developer of phpnuke , was involved making the first release of 8.x branch [10:49] Wishmaster Delcon: very nice [10:49] Revolution Perenti: but after that i had alot of commercial work ended up in america [10:49] Suzanne Zeluco: sim time dilation .. varying between something like 0.4 - 0.6 .. averaging at about 0.55 [10:49] Christian Colville: cool [10:49] Revolution Perenti: but trying to get more involved again opensource wise [10:49] Bridie Linden is Offline [10:49] Revolution Perenti: and being a big c++ user and sl user love to start using the code thats available [10:50] Revolution Perenti: and fix or improve in anyway i can [10:50] Wishmaster Delcon: i have just been helping rev with testing of a couple of projects [10:50] Revolution Perenti: take a seat wish, making the place look crowed hehe [10:50] Betsy Linden is Offline [10:50] Wishmaster Delcon: i wouldnt call myself a developer as such [10:50] You: lol [10:50] Christian Colville: have to say I had a look at the open source setup instructions it was a bit daunting [10:51] You: Suzanne, can you explain what you mean by time dilation, I haven't heard that term before [10:51] Revolution Perenti: so how would someone like me Bed submit code to SL devs [10:51] Revolution Perenti: ben [10:51] You: does someone else know what Suzanne is talking about [10:51] Revolution Perenti: i should stop with the typos [10:51] You: lol np Revolution [10:51] Suzanne Zeluco: time dilation means roughly how fast the sim is running or processing things, that is how i understood it [10:52] Suzanne Zeluco: time dilation 0.55 means the sim is kind of running about half speed [10:52] You: hi Vent, welcome [10:52] Vent Sinatra: (hello there) [10:52] Christian Colville: I think time dilation is what happens when a sim cant make the standard FPS [10:52] You: oh I see, Suzanne, so your sim is running slowly. are you experiencing a lot of lag? [10:52] Suzanne Zeluco: well yes, constantly and is the fourth day with no change [10:52] Revolution Perenti: i noticed ever since 1.15.0 release there been alot of bw usage too like there memory leaks in the kernal , but its coming from the viewer [10:53] Revolution Perenti: sometimes 70 - 80% cpu usage and im on dual core [10:53] Vent Sinatra: Hmmm, I have a similar, related issue [10:53] Vent Sinatra: not really related... [10:53] Revolution Perenti: cant even run more then one viewer anymore [10:53] Revolution Perenti: use to be able to log 2 accounts on my pc [10:53] Vent Sinatra: There is something happened with memory [10:53] Revolution Perenti: using dual core by giving each sl viewer its own cpu core [10:54] Christian Colville: the viewer is single-threaded isn't it? [10:54] Revolution Perenti: now if i run 2 its like a slide show [10:54] Vent Sinatra: no no, that isnt it, i tried it.... MY guess would be something in the grpahics [10:54] You: interesting. I'll have to check with some people to see if there are any known memory issues [10:54] Vent Sinatra: graphics [10:54] Vent Sinatra: everything becomes slow, but not so much swapping.... [10:54] Revolution Perenti: well graphics are prety hi end, im using 2x sli nvidia 7900 [10:54] Revolution Perenti: there more then enough power [10:55] Wishmaster Delcon: the only issue regarding memory i have found is that it call for more virtual memory but that has only happened once [10:55] Vent Sinatra: Its fine when you start, but after a couple of hours [10:55] Vent Sinatra: whichis nothing in SL :) everything becomes slow [10:55] Revolution Perenti: only thing i can think of is start back tracing some of these issues in the viewer itself [10:55] Christian Colville: 1.15 runs ok on my system but SL has always been slow for me it taxes my little laptop too much [10:56] Suzanne Zeluco: i would appreciate, Benjamin, if you could get a grid monkey to restart Cass region ... if that could be possible ... it seems to not be fixing itself on it's own [10:56] Jard Comet is Online [10:56] Vent Sinatra: Benjamin, who is your network specialist, there is this one issue on jira which is bugging us for two weeks, and we are having such a hard time. SOmetimes Torley Linden is saying something [10:56] Vent Sinatra: but we hear so little.... [10:57] You: I'll see if I can make that happen Suzanne. [10:57] Vent Sinatra: its related to internet routing issues.....ISPs.... [10:57] Suzanne Zeluco: ok, thank you very much .. i do appreciate =) [10:57] Vent Sinatra: Basically it is making SL impossible to use on all Californian SIms [10:58] Revolution Perenti gave you Revolution Perenti Bear. [10:58] Revolution Perenti accepted your inventory offer. [10:58] Revolution Perenti: thanks Ben :) [10:58] You: Vent, which Jira issue are you referring to [10:58] Revolution Perenti: building up quite a collection of linden bears [10:58] Vent Sinatra: SVC-124 [10:58] Wishmaster Delcon accepted your inventory offer. [10:58] Christian Colville accepted your inventory offer. [10:59] Torley Linden: Wheeeeeee [10:59] Torley Linden: Hello!!! [10:59] Christian Colville accepted your inventory offer. [10:59] Wishmaster Delcon: thanks Benjamin [10:59] Suzanne Zeluco: hi Torley [10:59] You: hey Torley! [10:59] Christian Colville: thanks Ben! [10:59] Vent Sinatra: HEy! Torley :))) Just talking about you! [10:59] Christian Colville: hello Torley [10:59] Torley Linden: Hey Benjamin, Suzanne, Christian, Wishmaster, Vent, Revolution! [10:59] Torley Linden: Nice to see you all here. [10:59] Torley Linden: Oh kewl beans. [10:59] Vent Sinatra: Hmmm didnt expect you to look like that [10:59] Revolution Perenti: hi Torley [10:59] Wishmaster Delcon: hi torly [10:59] Torley Linden: I change shape a lot... [10:59] Torley Linden: I'm a metamorph. [10:59] Vent Sinatra: cool [11:00] Revolution Perenti: hehe everytime i see you , your different [11:00] Suzanne Zeluco: well i won't disturb any further now, thank you Ben if you can help ... take care all [11:00] Torley Linden: :D [11:00] Revolution Perenti: always colorfull :P [11:00] Christian Colville: bye Suzanne [11:00] Vent Sinatra: You must be having a great time over there! :) [11:00] Blue Linden is Offline [11:00] Vent Sinatra: Mmm, maybe i'll sit done then :) [11:01] Vent Sinatra: down [11:01] Revolution Perenti: my bear torley [11:01] You: Vent, Torley said we're working with our network partners to fix address the issues in that Jira [11:01] Christian Colville: that's a great panda av Torley (assuming it IS a panda) [11:01] Revolution Perenti is Online [11:01] Torley Linden: Yes it is. [11:01] Torley Linden: PANDA STYLE! [11:01] Vent Sinatra: Ok , thats good to hair. If there is anything I can do for you guys. I'm online A LOT [11:02] Christian Colville: lol [11:02] Revolution Perenti: Torley there still seems to be issue with logins in some cases and high memory issues when sl been on for a while [11:02] Char Linden is Offline [11:02] Char Linden is Online [11:02] Torley Linden: Vent, I'm going to keep posting updates to that issue as I get them. [11:02] Vent Sinatra: Happy to test, trace routes whatever [11:02] Revolution Perenti: im going to start backtracing some issues tonight nad bring these up with Rob [11:02] Torley Linden: Revolution: Any specific Issue Tracker #s you can point me to, or ones you reported? [11:02] Torley Linden: Specific causes should be determined. :) [11:02] Revolution Perenti: well right now seems to be related to x586 [11:02] Vent Sinatra: Torley, I understand, Just wanted to say, a lot is posted on jira and the forum... and not everyone understands how internet works. [11:03] Revolution Perenti: with dual cores , memory dumps are really cryitical since 1.15.0 release [11:03] Torley Linden: *nod* Always good to learn more. [11:03] Revolution Perenti: i not had a chance to look at bugs and reports , as that website kinda slow to naviagte [11:03] Torley Linden: Revolution: I'm on a dual-core system, what do you mean by "memory dump"? [11:03] Torley Linden: If it's a paging file (virtual memory) getting bloated... [11:03] Torley Linden: Oh I know that one, that's in PJIRA. [11:03] Torley Linden: Sec... [11:03] Revolution Perenti: like its leaking [11:04] Torley Linden: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-364 [11:04] Torley Linden: ^ look at that [11:04] Revolution Perenti: more memory being used and putting alot of strain on the cpu [11:04] Torley Linden: Is that the one? [11:04] Revolution Perenti: yes [11:04] Torley Linden: Whenever possible, it's a good idea to search the Issue Tracker and file new issues if they're not already reported so at least there's a record out there. [11:05] Revolution Perenti: that looks like it [11:05] Revolution Perenti: i had the problem since this release, im going to backtrace this tonight and submit some fixes if i can [11:05] Torley Linden: Cool, thanks! [11:06] Revolution Perenti: also torley [11:06] Revolution Perenti: ever since 1.15 [11:06] Revolution Perenti: there issue with cache [11:06] Revolution Perenti: i having to delete it manually [11:06] Revolution Perenti: seems inventry issues, also friends list issues [11:06] Revolution Perenti: who online etc [11:06] Torley Linden: Hrmmm some of those may already be in the Issue Tracker -- Friends List is for sure [11:06] Torley Linden: that's SVC-85 :) [11:06] Torley Linden: Top priority for us to fix soon. [11:07] Gulliver Linden is Offline [11:07] Revolution Perenti: also big issue with groups, when you close a group masses of messages still coming in reguarless [11:07] Christian Colville: so is that Rolling Stone article right about there being database scaling issues above 40K concurrent users? [11:07] Torley Linden: Yup that's also on there. :) [11:07] Wishmaster Delcon: yes i have noticed that too rev [11:07] Torley Linden: Feel free to search! [11:08] Revolution Perenti: well i have a nice browe tonight, maybe start contributing to sl [11:08] Torley Linden: Group IMs not working right - https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-513 [11:08] Revolution Perenti: prety much contrib everywhere else [11:08] Torley Linden: That would be lovely... thanks. [11:08] Christian Colville: hi Armin [11:09] Revolution Perenti: oh torley im a guy by the way, just to clear things up :P [11:09] You: hi Armin. welcome [11:09] Torley Linden: =) [11:09] Torley Linden: Heya Armin! [11:09] Revolution Perenti: even alot of guys have crushes on me [11:09] You: well guys, Torley and I have a meeting to go to so we need to wrap this up [11:09] Armin Karas: Hy Tordley [11:09] Revolution Perenti: was even offered everything you can imagine once , so i prefer to tell people now [11:09] Vent Sinatra: yeah, guess you must be pretty busy..... :)) [11:10] Vent Sinatra: dont have too many meetings!:) [11:10] Torley Linden: Hehe. [11:10] Christian Colville: ok have a good meeting guys pleasure to meet you [11:10] Torley Linden: Have a good day! [11:10] Revolution Perenti: you off hun ... [11:10] Wishmaster Delcon: yes have a good meeting pleased to meet you [11:10] You: thanks for coming everyone! [11:10] Vent Sinatra: you too torley and Benjamin. ! [11:10] Torley Linden: Take care everyone, good to see you. [11:10] Christian Colville: oh btw how do I get onto sldev? [11:10] You: feel free to stop by again, every Tues and Thurs [11:10] Revolution Perenti: take care *hugs* [11:10] You: there are instructions on the open source site, Christian [11:10] Karen Linden is Offline [11:10] You: or I'm sure Revolution can help you [11:11] Christian Colville: great thanks Ben