Live Music Tonight and 404, WTF!
LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT! WOOT!
We have Cylindrian Rutabaga headlining at 6:30 and Nikko Petty making his first Shelter in Swinside appearance opening at 5:30.
Live Music: Cylindrian Rutabaga @ The Shelter in Swinside
Thursdays starting at 5:30PM SLT we bring live music to The Shelter in Swinside. After you TP in sit on the elevator seats by the purple sign or click the SLURL at the bottom of this description. Join us for your very own sky high serenade!
This week it's Nikko Petty for the first hour (5:30-6:30 SLT) followed by Cylindrian Rutabaga for the final hour. (6:30-7:30 SLT)
Please remember to tip the musicians - their tip jars will be on stage near their swaying and playing avatars. If you enjoy attending these events at The Shelter please also consider donating to the venue - there are blue pillars in the Sky Stage for just such generosity.
You can use this direct SLURL to join us in the sky stage: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lingmell/248/242/351/ or http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bassenthwaite/14/241/351/
OK, I'm now rightfully pissed. Tonight will be the second live show, two weeks, without an event listing posted. This is because I'm getting a 404 error message when I try to submit events! I have tried it from Safari and Firefox on one machine with no luck. I've tried it from Safari on a completely different machine - no luck. What is going on here?
I really wish I had an idea of what the problem is. It can't be my local network either since I've had this problem in both browsers from hotel rooms as well. Argh!
FireEyes Fauna stepped up to come through here by posting the event for me. Thanks FireEyes! However, when he went to post the event guess what happened to him? Guess!
That's right - a fuckin' 404 error. He got a 404 error message. I'm NOT the only one. I have contacted live help twice and they sent me off to email support@ll. I did - and I got a form letter response saying something like "in an effort to meet a 24 hour response time here's a bunch of crappy links that have nothing to do with your issue". I searched the links. Irrelevant. I have replied to the form letter, as advised if the issue were to persist, twice now. One more time: Argh.
[UPDATE]
I contacted live help for a third time about this issue. This time instead of suggesting I email via support Sejong (who had been the one to reply earlier, btw) noted that they're now aware of it as an issue.
[13:50] Sejong Linden: Greetings
[13:50] Sejong Linden: We are aware of the problem at this time
[13:50] Dolmere Talamasca: greetings again Sejong
[13:50] Sejong Linden: we apologize for the inconvenience
[13:50] Sejong Linden: are you on 1.14 client version now?
[13:50] Dolmere Talamasca: excellent, thanks
[13:50] Dolmere Talamasca: I have not upgraded my client, no
[13:50] Sejong Linden: alright..
[13:51] Sejong Linden: the webmaster has been notified
[13:51] Sejong Linden: and it is being fixed
[13:51] Dolmere Talamasca: Another fella having the same issue HAS upgraded his client
[13:51] Sejong Linden: please bear with us as we are trying hard to fix the problem that is causing some of our resident
[13:51] Dolmere Talamasca: he's on a PC, I'm on Mac
[13:51] Dolmere Talamasca: so IE/Firefox/Safari - all the same problem
[13:51] Sejong Linden: alright, i will tell the webmaster to update with the issue as soon as possible
[13:52] Sejong Linden: thank you for your patience
[13:52] Dolmere Talamasca: thanks. May I post this information on my latest blog post referencing this issue?
[13:52] Sejong Linden: sure.. just be noted that not all residents are having this issue :)
[13:53] Dolmere Talamasca: duly noted :) Thanks.
[13:53] Sejong Linden: thank you and have a great day!
I first reported this problem over a week ago as noted in an earlier entry.
BTW - as with earlier optional updates I have chosen not to download and install. We're back to the Universal versus platform specific builds argument. Having seen the source code for the Mac OS X viewer it's clear that they CAN build PPC/Intel specific builds but choose not to. So I choose not to download every single double sized download offered :)
[Update 2]
Mera Pixel just found the problem! In trying to post the same event she ALSO got a 404 error. However, she tinkered and found the problem. I was including an anchor HTML tag to make the SLURLs clickable. She removed the HTML and posted the URLs only and the event posted!
So, trying to make it simple for someone to telelport directly to the Sky Stage instead of hunting around for the elevator while it rezzes was what introduced the problem. Yikes. Tonight's event is now posted thanks to Mera and work arounds for really, really bad form validation on LL's part.