And It’s Reached the Point of Absurdity

So I can’t stand it anymore.  Something has to be done about this internet connection problem.  This is ridiculous…no matter when I try and sign on to Second Life, the connection is never fast enough to work at school.  It’s currently 10:59pm on Tuesday night, and I’ve tried both my Westmoreland connection on my laptop and the Trinkle connection on a lab computer, and neither can get onto Second Life properly.  All the objects in the room aren’t downloaded, my character can’t interact with anything, and I can’t even move.  My clothes won’t even load correctly!

I really have no clue what to do at this point.  I know that sometimes I’ve put off the project for homework in regular classes, but I’ve never gotten this far behind just because I can’t sign into Second Life.  In roughly two weeks, the only major amount of time I’ve been able to spend on this project is when I was at home over Fall Break.  That obviously won’t work now that I’m back on the school internet connection instead of my own.

What I did accomplish, however, was to make the final version of the lab table (mostly fixed size problems), started to lay out the room as to how I’d want it, and the big thing I did was work on the script to make people appear.  If you click on the rightmost white guy, he’ll replicate himself, or if you type “/201 n” where n=1,2,3,…, then you’ll have n copies of the white guy 1 meter next to each other (don’t do more than 4 though, or the extra copies will go out of the room and clog the server).  Thus, all I need now is the data for each type of person, and I can easily hard code the numbers into to make a certain number of replications (i think i want rows of 5 people, thus 19 would be 3 rows of 5 and 1 back row of 4).  Since there is a slightly delay within replication, for the white person (who will obviously have the largest statistics), I might have the first 5 be invisible instead of pop up on the fly.   I’d have photographs for everyone, but I can’t get into Second Life to take pictures…

But yeah, the major problem is that I don’t really know what to do right now about the internet…there’s no way I can stay up until 3-5am every night to work on this project when the internet cools down.  I’m not sure it’s really feasible for me to hike to McDonald’s or Hyperion every time I want to use Second Life (and what guarantees that they have a fast enough connection anyway?).  I seriously doubt the IT could either give me/the other Second Life people/the Trinkle lab extra bandwidth so we can run Second Life…does anyone have any ideas? (especially everyone else using Second Life).  I’m currently at a huge loss right now, and I don’t know what to do before this project gets really backlogged.