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Vol. 1, Issue 2-- August 1996 | Vol. 1, Issue 2-- August 1996 | ||
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The Wish Box | The Wish Box | ||
Dream Jobs | Dream Jobs | ||
* New Name for our New Newsletter! | * New Name for our New Newsletter! | ||
Many thanks for your responses to our premiere issue of this newsletter. In addition to your comments and suggestions for later editions, we received over thirty entries to the Newsletter Naming Contest. A few of the many creative entries we received: | Many thanks for your responses to our premiere issue of this newsletter. In addition to your comments and suggestions for later editions, we received over thirty entries to the Newsletter Naming Contest. A few of the many creative entries we received: | ||
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***The Resource Update*** | ***The Resource Update*** | ||
The winning name was submitted by Huck. Huck will receive a Pencil head, a fabulous virtual certificate, and the undying admiration of the Dreamscape Team. Congratulations, Huck, and thanks to all contest participants. | The winning name was submitted by Huck. Huck will receive a Pencil head, a fabulous virtual certificate, and the undying admiration of the Dreamscape Team. Congratulations, Huck, and thanks to all contest participants. | ||
* What's Up with the Server? | * What's Up with the Server? | ||
During the first week of August we made some changes to the main server that supports the Dreamscape in an attempt to provide you with a faster and more stable service. In response to the increased usage of the Dreamscape, we switched to a faster server and a new version of Solaris, the Sun Operating System (OS) that we use to run the world. The new server is indeed faster, as you may have noticed as you walk through Kymer, but an increase in server speed often results in new timing bugs. Throw in a new OS and there is a very good chance for problems. In addition to these internal problems, the week after our server switch was punctuated by a few crashes due to problems on CompuServes side of our connection, and a power outage that hit the entire West Coast of the US and made international headlines. Not the best way to debut our new setup. | During the first week of August we made some changes to the main server that supports the Dreamscape in an attempt to provide you with a faster and more stable service. In response to the increased usage of the Dreamscape, we switched to a faster server and a new version of Solaris, the Sun Operating System (OS) that we use to run the world. The new server is indeed faster, as you may have noticed as you walk through Kymer, but an increase in server speed often results in new timing bugs. Throw in a new OS and there is a very good chance for problems. In addition to these internal problems, the week after our server switch was punctuated by a few crashes due to problems on CompuServes side of our connection, and a power outage that hit the entire West Coast of the US and made international headlines. Not the best way to debut our new setup. | ||
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* Art Department Works Overtime | * Art Department Works Overtime | ||
This dispatch arrived at the Resource Update Newsdesk from the dark, toy-filled cave we call Art: | This dispatch arrived at the Resource Update Newsdesk from the dark, toy-filled cave we call Art: | ||
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* Dreaming of *You* | * Dreaming of *You* | ||
In addition to the many suggestions we receive from you, there are many issues on which we'd like your feedback. Every month, the Dreamscape Team asks you a question in "Dreaming of You. The following month we post information on the answers received. | In addition to the many suggestions we receive from you, there are many issues on which we'd like your feedback. Every month, the Dreamscape Team asks you a question in "Dreaming of You. The following month we post information on the answers received. | ||
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* The Wish Box | * The Wish Box | ||
Each time you dream of or wish for something in the WorldsAway Dreamscape, we'd like to hear about it. The Dreamscape and WorldsAway staff are committed to continuous improvement and we need your feedback to make that possible. Please help us serve you better by sending us your suggestions of how we can better support you with the technology we currently have. We've created a read-only mailing list to which you can post your suggestions: dream@worldsaway.com. This mailbox will forward your suggestions to the Dreamscape Production Team and archive a copy for others to read. Though we cannot assure you that all of your suggestions will be implemented, we will strive to take your concerns into consideration for future Dreamscape plans. | Each time you dream of or wish for something in the WorldsAway Dreamscape, we'd like to hear about it. The Dreamscape and WorldsAway staff are committed to continuous improvement and we need your feedback to make that possible. Please help us serve you better by sending us your suggestions of how we can better support you with the technology we currently have. We've created a read-only mailing list to which you can post your suggestions: dream@worldsaway.com. This mailbox will forward your suggestions to the Dreamscape Production Team and archive a copy for others to read. Though we cannot assure you that all of your suggestions will be implemented, we will strive to take your concerns into consideration for future Dreamscape plans. | ||
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* Dream Jobs | * Dream Jobs | ||
Come work with us! The FSC Human Resources site has listings of available positions for Fujitsu Software Corporation of San Jose, CA, the owners and operators of WorldsAway services. Visit the site at: | Come work with us! The FSC Human Resources site has listings of available positions for Fujitsu Software Corporation of San Jose, CA, the owners and operators of WorldsAway services. Visit the site at: | ||
www.fsc.fujitsu.com/fsc/fschr/employmt.htm | www.fsc.fujitsu.com/fsc/fschr/employmt.htm | ||
* How to Reach Us | * How to Reach Us | ||
Once again, we consider your participation and suggestions vital to the growth of the Dreamscape. The strength of the Dreamscape lies in its community of members, and we need your input to produce a world that best facilitates and enhances that community. The purpose of this newsletter is to serve as another connecting point between us, the Dreamscape team, and you, the members. You can respond to this newsletter or offer your suggestions to us by: | Once again, we consider your participation and suggestions vital to the growth of the Dreamscape. The strength of the Dreamscape lies in its community of members, and we need your input to produce a world that best facilitates and enhances that community. The purpose of this newsletter is to serve as another connecting point between us, the Dreamscape team, and you, the members. You can respond to this newsletter or offer your suggestions to us by: | ||
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1996
August
The Dreamscape Team Newsletter - Vol. 1, Issue 2-- August 1996
The Dreamscape Team Newsletter Vol. 1, Issue 2-- August 1996 In this issue: New Name for our New Newsletter Whats Up with the Server? Art Department Works Overtime Member survey: Guaranteed e-mail! The Wish Box Dream Jobs * New Name for our New Newsletter! Many thanks for your responses to our premiere issue of this newsletter. In addition to your comments and suggestions for later editions, we received over thirty entries to the Newsletter Naming Contest. A few of the many creative entries we received: The Speech Balloon..............The Oracle......................Sacred Sends The Temple Tabloid..............Morpheus Messenger..............Dreamscape Visions Head_Lines......................DreamNews.......................NewsDream (these last two were submitted by different people, one right after the other! Great minds think alike...) Choosing from all of these entries was tough, but eventually one singular entry won out. The winner of the Newsletter Naming Contest, and the new name for this publication, is: ***The Resource Update*** The winning name was submitted by Huck. Huck will receive a Pencil head, a fabulous virtual certificate, and the undying admiration of the Dreamscape Team. Congratulations, Huck, and thanks to all contest participants. * What's Up with the Server? During the first week of August we made some changes to the main server that supports the Dreamscape in an attempt to provide you with a faster and more stable service. In response to the increased usage of the Dreamscape, we switched to a faster server and a new version of Solaris, the Sun Operating System (OS) that we use to run the world. The new server is indeed faster, as you may have noticed as you walk through Kymer, but an increase in server speed often results in new timing bugs. Throw in a new OS and there is a very good chance for problems. In addition to these internal problems, the week after our server switch was punctuated by a few crashes due to problems on CompuServes side of our connection, and a power outage that hit the entire West Coast of the US and made international headlines. Not the best way to debut our new setup. While we could not have predicted the external circumstances that caused many of this weeks crashes, we have to expect internal problems to arise when we are using a cutting-edge operating system and new hardware. Sun is constantly fixing bugs in its code, and this always seems to translate into new bugs in our application code. Stability is only achieved through constant testing and solving the problems as they appear. Our engineers have spent a sleepless week doing just that: creating solutions to the problems that kept our new server from running as it should. On Wednesday the fourteenth, the server was switched yet again, this time to a more stable version of the system. The day after, another bug in Solaris caused a server crash, forcing the much-anticipated Ode-to-Your-Head poetry contest to be rescheduled. This problem was resolved, and we will continue to search for and correct these bugs as we find them. In the meantime, we thank you for your continuing patience during this time of transition. We continue to work toward to a crash-free future in which we will all be able to enjoy the fruits of our new system! * Art Department Works Overtime This dispatch arrived at the Resource Update Newsdesk from the dark, toy-filled cave we call Art: So what has the Art Department been up to? Well, the word plenty comes to mind, but that may be grossly understated. Weve been involved in a million things over the last 6-10 months. To help deal with our tremendous load of projects, weve hired two new employees to our staff. We in the art department continue to try and find ways to improve on the art itself and make it more visually appealing. We have many new heads and accessories on the way that we think will surely become classics, and we are constantly working to add more. Accessories are something that we are working on producing and improving. We have a lot of accessories ready now that will be implemented into the world soon. Another project we are currently working on is finishing Meditation Park. That, right now, is the main focus of the department. I believe that when the new park artwork debuts, it will be a hit right away, not just because its new, but because the style and variety of the art will be very pleasing to the eye. Also, our lead animator is working on a couple of new avatars; when they make their debut, we think theyll literally knock your socks off! That is just a little bit of what were trying to accomplish here. See you in the Dreamscape! * Dreaming of *You* In addition to the many suggestions we receive from you, there are many issues on which we'd like your feedback. Every month, the Dreamscape Team asks you a question in "Dreaming of You. The following month we post information on the answers received. Last month we asked if you would be interested in subscribing to a mailing list and automatically receiving this newsletter every month. Here is one response we received in our dream@worldsaway.com mailbox, this one from JeanJean: It would be great to receive this newsletter by e-mail. I dont regularly check the forum library so receiving it would be helpful. Well, JeanJean, we hear you! We are working on setting up a mailing list to which we will e-mail this newsletter every month. W will include more information and instructions for getting your name on the list in next months Update. This month's question: When our server crashes, we try to make sure that a member of the WorldsAway Community Forum staff is in the forum, giving members updates in the Help Desk and posting update messages as new information becomes available. Are there other ways that we can keep you posted during a server crash? Send your suggestions to: dream@worldsaway.com. * The Wish Box Each time you dream of or wish for something in the WorldsAway Dreamscape, we'd like to hear about it. The Dreamscape and WorldsAway staff are committed to continuous improvement and we need your feedback to make that possible. Please help us serve you better by sending us your suggestions of how we can better support you with the technology we currently have. We've created a read-only mailing list to which you can post your suggestions: dream@worldsaway.com. This mailbox will forward your suggestions to the Dreamscape Production Team and archive a copy for others to read. Though we cannot assure you that all of your suggestions will be implemented, we will strive to take your concerns into consideration for future Dreamscape plans. In order to make your postings to dream@worldsaway.com more effective, please make your subject line as intuitive to the content as possible. For example: Service Improvements Dreamscape (or Kymer, inWorld, etc.); Service Improvements Community Forum (Waking World, Forum); Service Improvements Web (or Web Page Suggestion) Dreamscape Newsletter Discussion or Dreamscape Newsletter Topics You can also send messages to our CompuServe WATEAM account (76710,162). These suggestions will be forwarded to the Dream mailing list, so the most comprehensive listing of your messages will be in the Dream mailings.Messages sent to dream@worldsaway.com will not receive a direct response. * Dream Jobs Come work with us! The FSC Human Resources site has listings of available positions for Fujitsu Software Corporation of San Jose, CA, the owners and operators of WorldsAway services. Visit the site at: www.fsc.fujitsu.com/fsc/fschr/employmt.htm * How to Reach Us Once again, we consider your participation and suggestions vital to the growth of the Dreamscape. The strength of the Dreamscape lies in its community of members, and we need your input to produce a world that best facilitates and enhances that community. The purpose of this newsletter is to serve as another connecting point between us, the Dreamscape team, and you, the members. You can respond to this newsletter or offer your suggestions to us by: --Sending messages to our read-only message archive, dream@worldsaway.com; --Posting messages in the WorldsAway Community Forum (GO AWAYFORUM); --or Sending messages to our WATEAM account (76710,162) We hope you like the ideas and information contained in this newsletter, and that you'll find it a useful place to connect with us. Thanks for your continued contributions to the Dreamscape community, and we'll see you inWorld!