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Comment on Bad Ubuntu! by Timothy Rogers

Timothy Rogers — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:22:09 +0000

I can’t say that I have seen this happen on debain, it pretty much leaves it with just the local host and external ip unless you manually set it other wise. So I have never had any issues using debain. In fact it is my favorite distro ;3

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Diva Canto

Diva Canto — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:43:34 +0000

@Austin, the existing My Suitcase folder that’s outside the main tree, if it exists, will be moved to inside the inventory tree on the first run through the HG2.0 inventory service. It will be automatic. (you may need to relog once to see it in its new place)

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Susannah Avonside

Susannah Avonside — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:05:49 +0000

Thanks Diva for clearing up my misunderstanding. I don’t run my own OpenSim world as yet, as I’m still struggling with actually connecting from a home connection, which is not a pleasant experience with a less than average speed UK broadband connection on copper. I’m also still scratching my head over the loopback issue, but hope to have sorted things out enough to have both a static IP address and decent FTTC connection by the end of the year when I shall connect my standalone with Hypergrid

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Ai Austin

Ai Austin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:06:03 +0000

Souindign very good Diva. I wonder if there can be a transition facility that tidies up any current “My Suitcase” folder that it finds that outside the normal My Inventory root? As some systems like OSGrid don’t have the Diva Wifi front end to allow for such a tidying up.

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Thirza

Thirza — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:35:16 +0000

Wonderful news, Diva, thank you so much for all your hard work! The user-level policy specs are a great way to address the many and varied levels of paranoia and genuine concern out there. Thank you too for explaining it all in a way even I can understand!

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Per Eriksson

Per Eriksson — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:14:10 +0000

Thank you Diva
Sounds like a very powerful tool. Having the “ability to” does not necessarily mean you have to.
For the 3D web to work we need Hypergrid we also need to play together. I understand we all want to protect our creations but we also need to share. I think the 2.0 Hypergrid as you have outlined here should reassure a lot of people. I emphasise because you can put restrictions does not mean you have to. We all know what happens to walled websites, so lets learn from that.

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Diva Canto

Diva Canto — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:38:56 +0000

@Han, policies are specified by whoever runs these worlds. The specification language is as expressive as can be — “all, except…” and “none, except…”. Grid operators have all the freedom in the world to decide what the right policy is for their specific grids. For large grids, I would imagine that the operators would pay attention to what their users want. But that’s not a discussion to have here.

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Han Held

Han Held — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:03:06 +0000

I’m very concerned about the user access control feature -and I think that will end up being used by grids to herd their users away from competing grids (“you can go see bob’s 4-sim grid on a stick, but we don’t want you seeing avination and gettin ideas in your head of moving over there”).

I think that anything that needlessly censors what adult hypergridders are exposed to is bad for the metaverse. Potentially, the free market would route around rouge grids that try to misuse that feature because people would simply choose to avoid grids that engage in that behavoir, I think instead they would hide behind hysterical PR instead (“but-but-but avination is full of copybotters! ooooo” [when clearly it's not]).

Time will tell how this will all play out, and hopefully my concerns will be for naught. I read on hypergrid business that people will be able to communicate/hop between 1.5 and 2.0 enabled grids so hopefully people like me who are uncomfortable will be able to stick w/ 1.5 for a while.

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Diva Canto

Diva Canto — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:21:22 +0000

@Susannah See the Update note under HG Inventory. Go ahead and put your inventory on the Internet if you want. The restriction is not on the grids you are visiting, it’s on whoever hosts your inventory. If you host your own OpenSim world, you can do whatever you want.

Comment on How HG 2.0 is coming along by Gaga

Gaga — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:04:37 +0000

Thank you Diva. This is looking good. It would have been nice to have creator perms in HG2 as it would have been a strong message to send to merchants and content creators but I understand the problems with the viewers. Hopefully, now Linden Labs are effectively going to force that hand of TPV developers we might get some of them turning their attention to Opensim’s needs. I hope so. Anyway, I am glad you mentioned HG2.5 for creator perms.

Thank you for all your hard work!