In-world message forwarded to mail

We have set up mail forwarding of offline messages sent to users of Speculoos grid. Check your mail address in the web profile page (“Edit” tab); Check the option “Send IM to mail” in your viewer preferences (could be in “Chat” or...

A funny manifest for your right to use a pseudonym… RT@iliveisl

Who is behind the keyboard?… Who cares? NPC mania or “and you thought i was fake?” http://iliveisl.com/npc-mania-or-and-you-thought-i-was-fake/ I love how she talks about NPC. Maybe because I use a lot of them in Speculoos. I even like to have a puppet which...

“in-world time” does not exist. Update: it will, eventually

[Update] We worked on a fix, with the help of Justin to make it as suitable as it could for everybody (git cccef2e). This is a first step: allowing a real unified time. Next step: allowing a real custom time. But that is another story.
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Draft proposal for a blacklist service – Appeal for a meeting

In the whole internet OpenSim is not exempt to hackers and griefers. As a young technology, it’s even more exposed.

We have some tools included in the server and the viewer to protect our grids against them. However, to achieve an efficient protection, it would be good to have a centralized service, like the ones existing for smap control, for example.

We feel there is a need to combine our efforts, between grid owners, as wel as server and viewer developers, to set up an efficient solution, which could be easily adopted by standalone or grid maintainer.

State of the Union in OpenSim (RT @MariaKorolov)

Speculoos is now in the ten most active grids. Wow. But that’s not the main concern of Maria Korolov’s article. Here is some kind of “state of the union”, an interesting analysis, not only of the number of grids evolution. It also covers some...

Dummy griefer hits again

I stopped by the great FleepGrid today, and found giant balls from this dummy ass* Jack Marioline. It’s been years this guy seems having nothing better to do than griefing and trying to ruin others work. The guy tried also to register to our grid recently, but was dropped immediately. I guess he’s trying everywhere he can.

Freebie market updated in Agora

We updated the freebie market, with some more comprehensive sorting, NPC model chooser to preview outfits available, and an indication of the wonderful creators for external content. There is no room for new content. Enjoy! Local link Hypergrid link

Database maintenance

Speculoos servers are down for a database maintenance. See you after the restart.

OpenSim core functions

We are working on OpenSim core scripting API to add some exciting functions to in-world scripting. This is devel work, may and may not be include in devel branch, and may or may not be included in the next release. osGetInventoryLandmarkParams: read more parameters...

Why we (also) use dedicated servers

Snoopy Pfeffer gives an excellent explanation on why one should not use virtual servers or cloud to host OpenSim. We thought about it before setting up our gird, and came exactly to the same conclusion. She just gives a really good explanation on this....
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