New 8 core i7 server. This rocks!

[Update] Regions have been moved succesfully. We have been quiet last days, we must tell you why: we were waiting for our new server. Now it is up and running: an 8 core i7 backed with 24GB RAM and 2TB HD, all this in a cutting-edge datacenter, on an outstanding...

Testers needed (5 minutes) for pre-configured viewer

We are testing preconfigured viewer. We would greatly appreciate anyone taking 5 minutes to test it. Particularly users who have no account yet on Speculoos grid. No need to create an account, you can use the test account created for this purpose (of course you can...

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...

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...