Web of Berzerk Squids Guard SL
by Pixeleen Mistral on 28/07/07 at 2:04 pm
LL does not not study history – prefers to repeat it
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Unruly squids have created problems for Linden Lab in the past, and the beasts from the deep seem to have surfaced once again – inside the Second Life client. This morning attempts at entry to Linden Lab’s alleged 3D metaverse service summoned up this message:
After pondering the customer-friendly dispatch from the depths – apparently rendered in black squid ink by an avatar named “squid/2.6.STABLE12” – I decided that the blue “webmaster” link looked promising, and clicked. This opened up an e-mail, with the recipient thoughtfully pre-filled as “webmaster,”. I’m not completely sure, but aren’t e-mail addresses supposed to have an @ in them – or have the the Lindens found a better way?
Putting aside the question of how “webmaster,” is going to ever get a message without a working e-mail address, I considered the implications of trying to log in to Second Life – am I gambling when I do this? I do have a premium account – am I wagering that money when I attempt to access a the world governed by some sort of random process?
I hope Mr. “webmaster,” can convince whomever is role-playing a squid from AOL to release the Second Life client from it’s slimy tentacles. Perhaps a short history lesson from last February’s squid attack is in order?
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Jul 28th, 2007
Lolwut
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Jul 28th, 2007
Seriously though, it’s just downtime. With something as big as SecondLife, you have to expect these things.
Economic Mip
Jul 28th, 2007
What you are seeing here simply means they made some technological blunder on the page that serves as the login backdrop. It does not affect game play. (Actually it helps game play in that people are not logging on, so Second Life has been a pleasant lag free experience today.)
Reg Baxter
Jul 28th, 2007
Hmmm. Well there are 40,000 plus in SL right now – maybe this Mr “squid” is the new guy they hired to enforce the login “limit” that LL was taking about a while ago then “seemed” to drop.
This does seem to me effective and also keeps them from having to tell the difference between verified and unverified accounts which saves them extra computing time.
In this case it also gives them plausible dependability of any wrong doing on their part which would cut down on direct blame for any HTTP/1.0 proxy issues on their part.
No way to prove any of this of course but I would suggest the all keep an outlook for a “squid linden” in the future as his presence could spell upcoming doom.
Bobby Troughton
Jul 28th, 2007
< "No way to prove any of this of course but I would suggest the all keep an outlook for a "squid linden" in the future as his presence could spell upcoming doom.">
That reminded me, the article “‘Broadly Offensive’ Raid in Blister” said:
< "Michael Linden's avatar is described by eyewitnesses as a small, "violently pink chibi squid," in wierd "Flying Spaghetti Monster" mode. He could have been mistaken for an underwater creature in the sea of Blister">
Bobby Troughton
Jul 28th, 2007
Oops my comment got cut up here’s what was missing:
‘Michael Linden’s avatar is described by eyewitnesses as a small, “violently pink chibi squid,” in wierd “Flying Spaghetti Monster” mode. He could have been mistaken for an underwater creature in the sea of Blister.’
Lisae Boucher
Jul 30th, 2007
Lol. That’s the fun part when you use Linux instead of Windows. All those references to animal names and other funny names. Second Life runs on lots of Linux servers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_cache is an open-source web cache and proxy server.
It’s funnier to think of squid as some person with dozens of tentacles touching all the connections to Second Life. Which is actually what it does. 
But you’re right.
Nicholaz Beresford
Jul 30th, 2007
The interesting thing is that over the weekend (without a word on the blog) it was impossible for hours to login to the grid or reach the support site through Germany’s largest phone and internet carrier (of course that could also be the backlash for the ageplay TV debacle).
Probably Mr. Squid unplugged a routing device in order to plug his bubble bath into the socket
Anonymous
Jul 30th, 2007
I had the same error screen over the weekend… but only when i tried to access SL on my laptop (running windows vista). my desktop (running winxp) showed the normal login backdrop.
…the plot thickens…
Gia Mertel
Jul 31st, 2007
I am in Canada, Mountain time, at about 11:30 I was not allowed on. Which seriously worries me because I am totally addicted to SL now. I was wondering if this happened to anyone else?