Monkey Karate

MySql 5.1

MySql is the database system that is used for all Second Life's databases, which have been the main cause of most of the problems that have been occurring the past few months. The release of MySql 5.1 is coming next week, and according to Sun it "should help MySQL compete in environments where performance and the ability to scale are critical." That seems to describe Second Life perfectly. Also, "5.1 has not only greater reliability, but a performance increase of 20 percent. It will be more in some cases and less in others, but there's a significant performance boost and scalability enhancements." So let's hope this update does something to improve the current conditions, and that it doesn't take LL two years to update to this new version.

Moving in SL using body motions

SVC-1862 Fixed

There was an update to the Mono beta regions today that claims to have fixed SVC-1862, the issue I reported about listener performance. I just ran my tests again and confirmed that it is indeed fixed. And it was fixed by improving the performance of listen events under Mono, not by crippling the performance of them without Mono :P

My Little Pony Troll

I have been laughing at this so hard. It's a (pic of a) thread showing someone trolling a My Little Pony forum. Most of the troller's posts have been deleted by the moderator, but there are some priceless responses that are still there.

"How could you possibly know that Osama Bin Laden collects My Little Ponies? I think you're just making that up."

"...and your picture of Stalin riding a Year3 Limited Edition Starflower inside a German concentration camp was both upsetting and historically inaccurate."

"I don't know where you get your facts. The first generation of MLP's were made by Hasbro, not the Khmer Rouge. And Hasbro hasn't made toys out of human skulls since the 1960s."

Update: Well, I found a link to the Stalin pic...it's actually pretty gruesome, so much so that I wasn't going to link to it, but then I decided you can all make that decision for yourselves. But anyway, you have been warned. Link

C:SI Now Using Monthly Payments!?

This has just been posted on the C:SI website. April Fools', right? That's what I thought, until my sword requested permission to take Lindens from my account. I choose "Deny" and it disappeared from my inventory! WTF? I hope the devs realize how many customers they are going to lose because of this.

Mono Listener Performance Update

Time for some updates about SVC-1862, which is the bug I reported concerning listeners performing worse in Mono compiled scripts.

• It has been marked as relating to SVC-1398, which is about link messages in Mono being 2 times slower. Link messages were something I was going to test myself until I saw that this bug had already been reported.
• Lee Ludd commented that it might be related to Mono using 16-bit characters instead of 8-bit characters. I ran the tests again using different string lengths to test this theory, and there wasn't any noticeable change.
• Gordon Wendt says he mentioned it during Linden Office Hours, so hopefully this is something they will look into soon. Still no comments from any Lindens on the Jira page, though.