So, after a while I had used a pretty low-featured Sony Ericsson phone (Hey, my previous phone burnt it’s circuits and by the time it “recovered”, I needed a new phone. It was too old :-P), I started looking for a newer phone. We got an awesome deal in which each would exchange his old Motorola phone (I could trade my old one in) and would pay nothing for a phone if he talked for 100NIS a month and over. However, when I upgraded my phone, the Orange representative saw on the computer my dad’s old Motorola V3 was registered on my account. So, instead of that “if I talk in 100 NIS or over”, it became “if I take in 50 NIS or over”! Yes! 50 NIS! 20 NIS off the phone’s price! 
So now, I have the excellent “Nokia E65″ with Symbian 9.1 which fits me pretty nicely. It has a graphics processor with the same power like in the original PlayStation, so, I can (theoretically) run PS1 games on it as well. It has pretty awesome multi-tasking features, and a desktop mode with up to 6 program shortcuts and includes statuses regarding tasks, missed calls, messages, etc.. In addition, it is one of the only 3 phones by Nokia available in Israel which have WiFi. So, I have WiFi on my phone too! YIPEEE!! I also installed the adapted-to-Nokia-N95 game called “Snakes”, which has 42 levels set in PlayStation quality and superb sounds. (3D retro gaming! ) The only thing I don’t like about it, is the fact it takes a while to load programs sometimes, and it takes a while to load the menu every time. But, it’s a sweet phone I got for free. (50 NIS monthly = 30 NIS complete warranty which includes replacement phone + 20 NIS UMTS internet basic package (100MB in Obox Live and 100MB in all other sites) )
The result? Smiley + Nokia E65 = <3.
When I say “Spam in Second Life”, I don’t mean spam-related IMs from people I don’t like that can be muted in a second, I mean periodic inventory transfers originating from an object somewhere in the world, which never stays in one location and uses a specifically-set list of UUIDs. I blame the teen grid’s “Roman Empire” for this, as they’re the ones who sent me, what i’d like to call, a “Second Life armageddon virus”. Here’s the story:
In the first time I received an object from them, it was labelled “time stopper”. I, like the other “smart residents”, knew it was impossible as the object can’t stop the server or control it, but, I still wandered off to a deserted “Weapons Testing Sandbox”. I rezzed the machine, which was a tall, black tower with several buttons and floating text items on it, and looked like one of the “doomsday” machines in futuristic or present-day action films. I clicked on the machine, which responded with a noobish-like text message saying “BOOTING UP…”. I had the “Statistics Bar” open, as usual, and to my very enormous surprise, Time Dilation was at 0.00, Physics FPS at 0.01 and FPS at 0. The machine, apparently, took advantage of an exploit on Havok (was 1 at the time, but I believe it could work on Havok4 too if the objects number will be changed from 10 to 600+) ) which caused the server to get stuck on an infinite loop and finally, crash. The server has not come online for approximately 50 minutes after the case, and after that, barely moved as well. For some unknown reason it has caused the weapons testing sandbox simulator to experience fatal software errors, and perhaps permanent hardware or software file corruption errors. It has worked in ~90% for some time, then restored after what had appeared to be a server change.
So, as you can see, they send me crap which I don’t need, and even may cause harm. So, I blame Second Life’s stupid muting system, which doesn’t use a fixed algorithm to see if an object is the same as ones i’ve already muted. (It could just compare scripts and geometrical structure of prims to do that.)So… That’s all! :roll:
