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Hello this is your friendly OSgrid Folf (fox/wolf) who loves to explore the grid and help out those who I can. I want to start off by saying this blog has no official connection to OSgrid nor its operations. I am just here righting about my experiences in OSgrid and how much I enjoy it and helping people out in it.
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I would first off like to think two special people off the back Lila and Vincient for all the hospitality they have shown me on OSgrid. Lila has provided me with land and Vincient has built the Gay Furries an amazing club (and I mean amazing). I have been getting to know them more and more, and recently I have been promoted to help Lila give out land, so if your looking for land and Lila is not online or your just looking for a plot of free land for a home ect. Just hit me up in OSgrid, I would love to help you guys out. Thank you and have a great amazingly awesome day!
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I would first off like to think two special people off the back Lila and Vincient for all the hospitality they have shown me on OSgrid. Lila has provided me with land and Vincient has built the Gay Furries an amazing club (and I mean amazing). I have been getting to know them more and more, and recently I have been promoted to help Lila give out land, so if you're looking for land and Lila is not online or your just looking for a plot of free land for a home ect. Just hit me up in OSgrid, I would love to help you guys out. Thank you and have a great amazingly awesome day!
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It is starting to sadden me, I have slowly become aware of things, that I rather not have come into knowing. Now I have learned that one of the most famous content creators of virtual worlds named Linda Kellie might be pulling out of virtual worlds all together. I am sorry to hear that, but I do respect and understand her reasoning. It is very difficult for grid owners such as myself to regulate the flow of content over the metaverse, reason why my grid doesn’t just allow anyone to connect their regions. I urge her to keep creating and just go standalone. Saying that makes me want to go into a conversation I had with my developer not to long ago.
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Me and my developer on Cyber Wrld were discussing the future of the metaverse. We think that in the future, grids that offer the ability to HyperGrid will eventually just all become HUBs. I kinda like her idea, even though yes it changes what grids will be. She wants to see everyone as in logging in via their own system, everyone on their own standalone, grids mainly for just community projects. I mean when you think about it, it seems like a very nice and interesting future. Now after saying that, I how I see the metaverse idea is a little different.
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Me and my developer on Cyber Wrld we're discussing the future of the metaverse. We think that in the future, grids that offer the ability to HyperGrid will eventually just all become HUBs. I kinda like her idea, even though yes it changes what grids will be. She wants to see everyone as in logging in via their own system, everyone on their own standalone, grids mainly for just community projects. I mean when you think about it, it seems like a very nice and interesting future. Now after saying that, I how I see the metaverse idea is a little different.
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The metaverse is this large collection of all these virtual worlds, I see more and more content creators day after day pop up places, I have even had a few feel out a survey for me and tell me they don’t wana connect to a grid. A lot of them want to work from a standalone, that said what can we do to start pushing this into a new direction of creativity and really push the Hyper Grid too its full length of operations. So let’s consider this for now, say you are a content creator, you make a lot of stuff, but you are worried about losing content or you are on disappearing, or you just don’t feel like picking a grid, but you want to share your content with all the other grids out there. You could start a standalone grid, this would allow you to have full control over you content, you can connect up to the hypergrid and regulate your traffic and content in and out of your grid. This makes the store owners have a front on not just one grid, but several grids. Now how about for those that sale stuff? Just plug their regions into the VirWox OMC system module, it allows visitors to purchase things in your grid with paypal, credit card, paysafe, etc. if they don’t already have an OMC account from the grid they are coming from. This helps make it easier for people to go shopping over the metaverse.
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The metaverse is this large collection of all these virtual worlds, I see more and more content creators day after day pop up places, I have even had a few feel out a survey for me and tell me they don’t wana connect to a grid. A lot of them want to work from a standalone, that said what can we do to start pushing this into a new direction of creativity and really push the Hyper Grid to its full length of operations. So let’s consider this for now, say you are a content creator, you make a lot of stuff, but you are worried about losing content or you are on disappearing, or you just don’t feel like picking a grid, but you want to share your content with all the other grids out there. You could start a standalone grid, this would allow you to have full control over you content, you can connect up to the hypergrid and regulate your traffic and content in and out of your grid. This makes the store owners have a front on not just one grid, but several grids. Now how about for those that sale stuff? Just plug their regions into the VirWox OMC system module, it allows visitors to purchase things in your grid with paypal, credit card, paysafe, etc. if they don’t already have an OMC account from the grid they are coming from. This helps make it easier for people to go shopping over the metaverse.
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I can see it now, pulling up a hypergrid directory and treating it as the local classifieds as to where I can go to shop today. We should consider this, many shops do want to increase sales, or just have more people access their stuff to buy it. If the owners want the ultimate in security, let them start up their own standalone and connect it to the HyperGrid Network. This allows them to increase sales and make a bigger name and presence for themselves without the cost and trouble of uploading their content to several grids, or having to pick which grid is best for them. Let us all consider this.
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I have to admit lately, I have been quite depressed about a lot of things in RL. I have not let effect my work, but it has made it harder to stay focused on work. I am kinda glad Cyber Wrld has not yet worked its way back into any grid list anywhere, as well it hasn't been doing too well at all. Well hasn't been doing anything at all, I have added several features and got a ton of work done to it, and it is ready for production use, minus currency and a few other small things.</p>
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I have to admit lately, I have been quite depressed about a lot of things in RL. I have not let effect my work, but it has made it harder to stay focused on work. I am kinda glad Cyber Wrld has not yet worked its way back into any grid list anywhere, as well it hasn't been doing too well at all. Well hasn't been doing anything at all, I have added several features and got a ton of work done to it, and it is ready for production use, minus currency and a few other small things.
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I am just unsure if I can run Cyber Wrld, it is has been creating a lot of stress for me managing everything. So instead I am most likely looking to merge, break away from opensim all together, or join the team of another grid that has the same vision in mind. So with my mind not made up, I am going to voice all my views, ideals, and what I have planned for Cyber Wrld.
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First off you might be asking why the hell am I putting a Nicki Minaj music video on my blog? Well although I am hypocritical, I have accepted the fact that the lyrics of this song is what I have done to move forward with my life. My good friend Linda Kellie, I have come to view her as life hero, someone who knows what it is to live with the same things I deal with. I have ADHD, and I am sick and tired of people saying it is not a real dissorder, because you try being me. It is really like the joke people make, ADH-oooo look shiny thing! I get off track so much I have to use my computer to keep my mind focused, it is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Because of this disorder, I am unable to complete many tasks that are set before me in timely fashions reasons I have a smart phone and computer with timers and locks to remind me what I am doing. It is much worse than people make it out to be, and because of this, I had developed depression, why because when I am not working on things, I am working my mind and it tends to wonder to extremes with questions that cannot be answered and that drives me crazy and gets me depressed.
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First off you might be asking why the hell am I putting a Nicki Minaj music video on my blog? Well although I am hypocritical, I have accepted the fact that the lyrics of this song is what I have done to move forward with my life. My good friend Linda Kellie, I have come to view her as life hero, someone who knows what it is to live with the same things I deal with. I have ADHD, and I am sick and tired of people saying it is not a real disorder, because you try being me. It is really like the joke people make, ADH-oooo look shiny thing! I get off track so much I have to use my computer to keep my mind focused, it is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Because of this disorder, I am unable to complete many tasks that are set before me in timely fashions reasons I have a smart phone and computer with timers and locks to remind me what I am doing. It is much worse than people make it out to be, and because of this, I had developed depression, why because when I am not working on things, I am working my mind and it tends to wonder to extremes with questions that cannot be answered and that drives me crazy and gets me depressed.
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Below is a video that pissed me off today, I have had it with people saying it is not read and it is all a lie. Yes, I think sometimes it is miss labed on children a lot, but there are people like me who DO HAVE IT, IT IS NOT MADE UP!!! Please watch to see what these people say, it is something that can be treated with medication(which I can't afford because I don't have insurance), and can be kept in check. So honestly, I feel for some of these children, I really honestly do!
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Alright lately I have been getting overwhelmed with all the drama of the oldest argument in the world of internet technologies. So who should win? Big business or opensource projects? Well the answer is simple, THE ARE NOT AT WAR!!!!</p>
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Alright lately I have been getting overwhelmed with all the drama of the oldest argument in the world of internet technologies. So who should win? Big business or opensource projects? Well the answer is simple, THE ARE NOT AT WAR!!!!
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So let us start off with the ATTACK against an innocent content contribute to the opensim community. Linda Kellie, is a large fan girl of opensim, and that is all she is. She is just like everyone else who uses opensim, she just so happens to release all her stuff completely free on a website. She does this because she likes to see people use her stuff. She doesn't want any sort of credit, in fact all of her stuff is completely royalty free. The only reason people are upset with her is because she has influence in the opensim community, how? Because she just gives away stuff, that doesn't mean she is a representative of the opensim community.
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Next onto the SpotOn3D, I am sick and tired of people upset with this grid obtaining patents on OpenSimulator. Hell did you know that most of your human body organs is patented by medical companies, I am not lying it is!!! Now, why I am not throwing a fit about all the patents they have. Well my answer is super simple: I MUCH RATHER HAVE SPOTON3D HAVE THE PATENTS THAN A COMPANY WHO IS SUE HAPPY LIKE WORLDS INC. I know Tessa from a while back, and well I am pretty sure she is not going to use these to stop opensource development? Why because she needs it too, just like any company using opensource. She has her grid upgraded with each opensim release, so honestly, yeah I don't think she is a threat, I think of her as a protector of the development since they are not contributing back code wise, but as long as she doesn't abuse the power of these patents she is protected the sourcecode from companies like Worlds Inc.
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Now onto SecondLife with its latest changes to the viewer, now I am upset like the rest of you. But we need to realize that, OPENSIM NEEDED TO BREAK AWAYWAYS, this is good in my opinion. This opens so many new doors, let us make our own changes viewer side as well as server side, we will no longer have to rely on mimicing SecondLife's new features to make our own versions of them. Let us start going a bit more original, come up with features that will be kinda like a slap in the face and make SecondLife really upset that they dropped us, by introducing features they haven't even thought of yet. I know we can do it, we are a strong and large community, so why don't we push to make it happen.
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Now onto SecondLife with its latest changes to the viewer, now I am upset like the rest of you. But we need to realize that, OPENSIM NEEDED TO BREAK AWAY, this is good in my opinion. This opens so many new doors, let us make our own changes viewer side as well as server side, we will no longer have to rely on mimicking SecondLife's new features to make our own versions of them. Let us start going a bit more original, come up with features that will be kinda like a slap in the face and make SecondLife really upset that they dropped us, by introducing features they haven't even thought of yet. I know we can do it, we are a strong and large community, so why don't we push to make it happen.
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Side not on viewers: I read that people are upset with Firestorm Team about the whole thing with them getting Armin and that they attacked the angstrom viewer dev. I was in the Aurora-Dev channel when it all went down, they were just upset and asked why the credits of firestorm were removed? They felt really upset that all their work would go un-credited. I would be sad and upset too, but it wasn't really an attack, but while they were there, I spoke with them and was able to show them how many people use their viewer on OSgrid thanks to key's blog. So yeah, just wanted to get that out there, GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
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Quit with procrastination. I get off track so much, mostly due to my ADHD, but I have to tighten down and make sure I stay focused and get my work done. Time is money, and money is not everything, but it pays the bills, and helps secure my future.
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Work on my relationship. I live in a very interesting relationship, I have two partners. We all live together, and we are all happy together. I know it sounds different, but we are happy and completely settled together. Working on year 3 of being together, and I just want to work on actually being their, because too often I was all busy, no play. So I am going to work on that a bit more this year.
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Work on my relationship. I live in a very interesting relationship, I have two partners. We all live together, and we are all happy together. I know it sounds different, but we are happy and completely settled together. Working on year 3 of being together, and I just want to work on actually being there, because too often I was all busy, no play. So I am going to work on that a bit more this year.
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On the whole thing of focusing more on work, well I have already started some major work on the stuff I do for a living. Get ready for a big surprise, because I can't believe I am going to be doing this myself.
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So I logged in and dressed up in the most prim clothing I have which is some rave gear I made a long time ago. You can see below, and I walked around a bit and open closed a few doors and stuff and we are still only topping out at about 169.0mb. So I figured that means like what 1-3mb per avatar on the region depending on scripts and prims, so not bad. But I am not done, we are going to load Linda Kellie's freebie mall #2 that has 23,620 prims which is about what I see most people top out at building wise. So lets go see what happens.
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So I logged in and dressed up in the most prim clothing I have which is some rave gear I made a long time ago. You can see below, and I walked around a bit and open closed a few doors and stuff and we are still only topping out at about 169.0mb. So I figured that means like what 1-3mb per avatar on the region depending on scripts and prims, so not bad. But I am not done, we are going to load Linda Kellie's freebie mall #2 that has 23,620 prims which is about what I see most people top out at building wise. So let's go see what happens.
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Wow same region, just with scripts turned off. Wow major difference huh, well see how much scripts impact sims, however you have to keep in mind that Freebie Mall #2 has about 6 scripts in almost all the furniture where there is tons of that, and several scripts in doors and other things. Way more than even a standard fully built up region, this is a store sim, tons of stuff. But we can see a region after all that 23,620 prims don't use much at all.
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Now I am not sure how many people know that you can hook more than one region per simulator instance, to add another region you just type create region Regions.ini and answer the questions like you did for the first region. So lets put up another region on this same instance while scripts are still disabled and load Linda Kellie's Country Cabin OAR.
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Now I am not sure how many people know that you can hook more than one region per simulator instance, to add another region you just type create region Regions.ini and answer the questions like you did for the first region. So let's put up another region on this same instance while scripts are still disabled and load Linda Kellie's Country Cabin OAR.
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That was a lot of information in one paragraph, well I am still wanting to clear up some damage I feel that has been done on the opensim/aurorasim community with BDSM people. Yes there are some people who are in BDSM that take it way to far, and that is just crazy when that happens. I know that it easy for some to be brain washed, that it is physically possible. I am not into the full BDSM but more the S&M part, and still there you have to be careful. I should know, being a sub myself. I just hate saying it, but not long after the osgrid thing started, I saw a lot of kinda like very short, and small responses like they had to post it. I mean if I like something I am going to say more than I like, thank you! at least a sentence or two. But that wasn't the only part it was also all the same with tiny changes to the text, but all the same like robots.
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I am on my personal account Timothy Vyper, on AuroraScape trying to start up a furry S&M community on Furry Mansion. I can't go into to much detail here, because well this is a PG blog, and want to play it safe. I believe I am already pushing the envolope by talking about BDSM on my blog. I just don't want people to think it is all bad, it provides an out let for people like me. There are people out there who have instictive urges to do things, and as long as everyone is responsible and plays safe it is a good outlet. But then again I am one of the most open people I know, :p have two partners in RL that I live with and all.
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I am on my personal account Timothy Vyper, on AuroraScape trying to start up a furry S&M community on Furry Mansion. I can't go into to much detail here, because well this is a PG blog, and want to play it safe. I believe I am already pushing the envelope by talking about BDSM on my blog. I just don't want people to think it is all bad, it provides an out let for people like me. There are people out there who have instinctive urges to do things, and as long as everyone is responsible and plays safe it is a good outlet. But then again I am one of the most open people I know, :p have two partners in RL that I live with and all.
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Anyways, that is all I had to say.
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I have been hearing and seeing people damage grids reputations for charging for regions, making you pay for services and what not. Well honestly, you are paying them so they can turn around and use that money to do the following things:
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1. Pay the server costs (FYI, servers are not cheap, nor is the bandwidth costs normally used to operate them)
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2. Their time, these people are managing your entire back end FOR YOU, they deserve your money if your using thier services.
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2. Their time, these people are managing your entire back end FOR YOU, they deserve your money if you're using thier services.
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What you need to see, the back end of things of how open and closed grids work.
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**Closed Grids:** Why do these grids charge a bit more? Well it is actually the added security, the hands on support, you most likely have in world money investments, etc. These grids charge more because they have a bigger job to worry about. These guys are being PAID to fix your bugs, give your more direct support, manage RL money investment, people go to closed grids to make money. The backend of a grid like InWorldz, Avinations, etc have to be FAR more secure than your standard opensim grid. They gotta have firewalls, bugs fixed that allow you to steal items, etc. People have real investment in these grids.
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Now onto the people getting upset with others for wanting to make money in personal grids, well dammit these people have every right to do this. The reason many people go closed is because these grid owners take care of their content, it is much easier for InWorldz to dispute and catch a content theif than it is for a grid like OSgrid or Metropolis. Because they can look and see the whole backend, and yes I know theives are in the real world and theft is always going to happen, but does that mean we should let it go.
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Now onto the people getting upset with others for wanting to make money in personal grids, well dammit these people have every right to do this. The reason many people go closed is because these grid owners take care of their content, it is much easier for InWorldz to dispute and catch a content thief than it is for a grid like OSgrid or Metropolis. Because they can look and see the whole backend, and yes I know thieves are in the real world and theft is always going to happen, but does that mean we should let it go.
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EXAMPLE: If we should let someone steal a complete line of clothing someone makes in InWorldz and Avination, and start giving it way for free on other grids. What do you think this does to their profits, their ability to make ends meet? then you might say "but that is virtual! well it is no different than going and robbing a Real Life clothing store, now they just went out several thousand dollars, gotta replace the door you broke, windows, clothes, etc. IT IS NOT RIGHT NO MATTER HOW SMALL THE CRIME!!!
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So to all the people getting upset with content creators who make things for both closed and open grids, DON'T YOU DARE GET MAD AT THEM. They are honest people trying to make a living, that is what the internet is, a ecosystem like RL. I place for people to have fun, mingle and do things for free, but also a place for people to make money too. I mean if you think someone is overcharging for something, go to the competitor and buy the cheaper one, don't steal it. You do that in RL you end up in Jail, just cause it is easier to get away with it online, do you think it is right? No!
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Grow up! This is reality, shut up or go home! Cause you know what? If you live in the USA, ISPs have a new contract to catch online thevies like you, so they just made it harder for you to get away with because no matter how you look at it, it is still THEFT! Let content creators put their content where they feel it is safe, just like in real life, a designer store is not going to setup in the ghetto, because chances are higher they are going to get robbed, some still do it and that is their choice, so let the content creator choose, don't demonize them for making the choose that makes them comfortable and not you. Grow up this isn't high school anymore!
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Grow up! This is reality, shut up or go home! Cause you know what? If you live in the USA, ISPs have a new contract to catch online thieves like you, so they just made it harder for you to get away with because no matter how you look at it, it is still THEFT! Let content creators put their content where they feel it is safe, just like in real life, a designer store is not going to setup in the ghetto, because chances are higher they are going to get robbed, some still do it and that is their choice, so let the content creator choose, don't demonize them for making the choose that makes them comfortable and not you. Grow up this isn't high school anymore!
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I am not hating open or closed grids, I believe each serves it's own purpose. I live in both open and closed grids, I feel both are comfortable places to live and be in. I do love all of you, and I hope you understand why I am so harsh in this blog, it is because it needs to be said, so I said it.
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It has been one hell of a past month, I have had to deal with a lot of drama in my real personal life. Sometimes I wish we could all just live in virtual worlds, but drama would just pile up their too... so what else is new on that. But besides that point, I have been doing some plotting and planning with Zetamex these past few days so going to be talking a bit about that in this blog. I am also going to gloat about my new boy friend, because I can tell you right now, without him this past month would have just been me crying my heart out.
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Up first is Zetamex, I am been doing some extensive research and testing into finding a way to provide cloud hosting to my customers. I been seeing that people really enjoy being able to control having the ability to render worlds on demand and have almost limitless possiblities. My boyfriend even turned to me and said something I don't think anyone is ready for, but I think I might know how to do it. Virtually Unlimited Prims, that is right, I will be calling it VU Prims and well they will scale depending on weights and what not but the limitation will just not be there. You will be able to build, and build, and build till you just can't move cause your viewer gone and locked up on ya.
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Up first is Zetamex, I am been doing some extensive research and testing into finding a way to provide cloud hosting to my customers. I been seeing that people really enjoy being able to control having the ability to render worlds on demand and have almost limitless possibilities. My boyfriend even turned to me and said something I don't think anyone is ready for, but I think I might know how to do it. Virtually Unlimited Prims, that is right, I will be calling it VU Prims and well they will scale depending on weights and what not but the limitation will just not be there. You will be able to build, and build, and build till you just can't move cause your viewer gone and locked up on ya.
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I am still looking into creating a way to give my customers the ability to have a control panel like other hosting companies, where you can upload OARs and IARs with just clicks on a web page. I have been getting a bit closer, but then upgraded to the latest version of opensim and well then shit broke... so starting all over again. I am thinking about going out and hiring someone to professionally build a control panel. I know that this is one of the biggest and most requested features I have been getting from people, so it is on my list.
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Now about why and how I have a new boy friend. Well because my life is an open book I am just going to tell you. Me and my ex who had been together for 2 years in real life, just grew distant from each other. We both realized we have different goals and things we want to achieve in life. I then ran into some issues where I was living and had to move out, so that has been a bit rough but everything is still fine. I made sure to have everything planned out and setup, downtime is not an option with Zetamex. I am dedicated to my clients. I ran into my new sweet foxy lover while I was doing my standard gaming I like to par-take in on SecondLife, it is like the only virtual world I can go to get away from work. Just something clicked, when we bumped into each other, it was like a light bulb went off and things have just been going good ever since. I have to say that is about it, we can't explain it we just fit together like to pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Best of all he actually plans on coming with me to other virtual worlds with me! So all of you will get a chance to meet my wonderful boy friend.
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That is about it from me for this blog update, stay focused at Zetamex for some really awesome news with some brand new plans rolling out and new features. I tell you all this right now, I thank everyone in the OpenSim community for giving me this carreer without you guys, I don't believe I would have ever been able to do the things I do. We have virtual worlds because of you. You build everything, and make the developers want to keep going, and then make me want to keep going by providing you service at affordable pricing without fear of delayed customer support. You guys by just being in virtual worlds, have help me found my business and for that I thank you all!
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That is about it from me for this blog update, stay focused at Zetamex for some really awesome news with some brand new plans rolling out and new features. I tell you all this right now, I thank everyone in the OpenSim community for giving me this career without you guys, I don't believe I would have ever been able to do the things I do. We have virtual worlds because of you. You build everything, and make the developers want to keep going, and then make me want to keep going by providing you service at affordable pricing without fear of delayed customer support. You guys by just being in virtual worlds, have help me found my business and for that I thank you all!
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Why am I venting about all this is because I really found someone I truly care about, and I want to be with them. He is someone who doesn't get upset with me when I just randomly hang up on him or close out of a world with him to go help a client that is upset. He claims he understands and says work is first, but I feel so bad about it though. I say that because he is someone I care about, and much like a business a relationship has to be two people working together too. But a relationship we work for each others happiness and not me for just the client's happiness. Now do not worry I am not going anywhere, but I am working on finishing up some work so all my clients don't have to worry about so much stuff anymore.
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Another thing that has been bothering me is that I took so many writing classes in school, even took a creative writing class. That creative writing class I wasn't supposed to get into it because I wasn't an honours English student but my creative poetry and short stories got me in. I mean it made me so happy when I made it, but then half way through I had to quit because real life got really crazy for me, and well that is another story for another day. But the fact I used to be so passionate about writing and now look at me I am stressing, working hard, and pushing my real life away because of my work. However all this may be, I am going to try and push for that balance back in my life. But still keeping my work top priority because well it is my baby, and I am not letting that tank.
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Another thing that has been bothering me is that I took so many writing classes in school, even took a creative writing class. That creative writing class I wasn't supposed to get into it because I wasn't an honors English student but my creative poetry and short stories got me in. I mean it made me so happy when I made it, but then half way through I had to quit because real life got really crazy for me, and well that is another story for another day. But the fact I used to be so passionate about writing and now look at me I am stressing, working hard, and pushing my real life away because of my work. However all this may be, I am going to try and push for that balance back in my life. But still keeping my work top priority because well it is my baby, and I am not letting that tank.
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I love and thank all of you who help me out each and every day, the ones who thank me for what I try and do for the community. If you knew half the shit I go through in real life to keep you guys all up and happy you guys might think I am crazy, but who knows maybe I am.
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As some of you may know, I have been promoting Zetamex's latest project that has been being worked on for months now. It is finally done, and released, Metajabber. This is a social network/forum hybrid. This software it runs on pulls your twitter, lets you fallow and do statuses and have your own user galleries to share photos and more with other fellow OpenSim goers. Now I know that forums for some people are a dying nature, however for others they are still a great place for support, community, and hanging out. I mean I personally prefer forums over social networks, they get confusing. Forums I can go right down to the post, but I wanted the features you get out of social networks and merge them together. That is what Metajabber is, anyways I am getting off topic here.
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I was informed by an administrator of a large group on Google+ that I did not directly ask her permission to promote on her group. That being said, they deleted my post, and said though I didn't directly violate it, they regret to tell me they deleted my post because it is competition to their group. I feel like this goes back to exactly what we keep fighting all the time, and it bothers me when people stiffle innovation. If something is going to tank, and it is not spamming, why not let it be.
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I was informed by an administrator of a large group on Google+ that I did not directly ask her permission to promote on her group. That being said, they deleted my post, and said though I didn't directly violate it, they regret to tell me they deleted my post because it is competition to their group. I feel like this goes back to exactly what we keep fighting all the time, and it bothers me when people stifle innovation. If something is going to tank, and it is not spamming, why not let it be.
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I feel a good example here is Zetamex, which has just released an amazing product that the big companies been keeping from all of your! Heck I couldn't even get anyone to directly work with me on creating a panel unless I paid them upfront, and well lets face it, I am not rich. I run Zetamex at a profitable company, with FAIR pricing, which means I make just enough to live and buy a few tiny small things like a nice 80usd prepaid phone, because the monthly bill is cheaper pre-paid. Now, that being said where I am getting off topic again. Zetamex is NOT keeping out panel CLOSED SOURCE, not saying it is PROPRIETARY! We are releasing it 100% OPEN SOURCE 100% FREE and yes it will be on GitHub where anyone is 100% FREE to fork it and will be released as promised under PUBLIC DOMAIN, for anyone to use and play with or use to COMPETE with us. Why? WE PROMOTE COMPETITION!!
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My father always told me growing up, there is nothing wrong with competition. That we can learn from competition, if it grows or if it fails, we learn and grow and adapt. Yes people make take and abuse what we have created to use it for their own personal uses and go close the source of their dirivitive and sell it for tons of money. But you know what? Karma is real, and I am not saying it is bad to go and build a business off of our free public domain stuff. I want people to grow, add, create, and make more of this. I mean look at SecondLife, a lot of people go EWW that big evil giant. Well before the new CEO, they gave us OpenSim working with IBM. Why? Because we make something, free and for the community, see tons of us like it in our community, take it back change it a bit, BOOM! Free ideas to learn and grow from, and we do the same from them too.
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My father always told me growing up, there is nothing wrong with competition. That we can learn from competition, if it grows or if it fails, we learn and grow and adapt. Yes people make take and abuse what we have created to use it for their own personal uses and go close the source of their derivative and sell it for tons of money. But you know what? Karma is real, and I am not saying it is bad to go and build a business off of our free public domain stuff. I want people to grow, add, create, and make more of this. I mean look at SecondLife, a lot of people go EWW that big evil giant. Well before the new CEO, they gave us OpenSim working with IBM. Why? Because we make something, free and for the community, see tons of us like it in our community, take it back change it a bit, BOOM! Free ideas to learn and grow from, and we do the same from them too.
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LightShare is a great example of all of this, it was made by Meta7 then the phoenix team made parcel windlight with little viewer code, then SecondLife finally saw we all loved being able to set these user experiences so they made "Region Windlight Settings" which is their new default in all their viewers instead of time based worlds. I feel sharing code is what makes the world go round, makes things keep ticking, create new ideas, and innovation can only occur by people sharing.
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Why you should – As a content creator seeking to make profit or just get your item sold across the massive metaverse, this is one of your big chances to do so as it has a lot of attention and has the biggest potential to provide you with the ability to sell to virtually any grid.
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Why you shouldn't – If you are a merchant who cares about the security of your items then this may not be the best solution, but still a decient solution. If you allow your creations to be set as exportable, that means once you are in a new grid, or move it to any grid you or someone else you don't know has access to, that item can now be downloaded, exported again, loaded up and changed owner and permission then given back out 1,000,000 of times. Something that should be explained in BOLD detail to anyone who enables such option.
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Why you shouldn't – If you are a merchant who cares about the security of your items then this may not be the best solution, but still a decent solution. If you allow your creations to be set as exportable, that means once you are in a new grid, or move it to any grid you or someone else you don't know has access to, that item can now be downloaded, exported again, loaded up and changed owner and permission then given back out 1,000,000 of times. Something that should be explained in BOLD detail to anyone who enables such option.
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**Doesn't this kill stores and malls from getting rented out in other grids?**
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Am I trying to put down Kitely or other grids? ABSOLUTELY NOT! What I am trying to do is just express my opinion as a person who knows what I am talking about. Let me tell you right now Kitely is an amazing invention; they have created one of the best work around for getting around the issues opensim has when it has a lot of prims and people on it by using cloud to affordably provide regions temporarily run when they are needed. This really is amazing, plus automating region creation that is something I don’t see every day done successfully, and they have done it. They do contribute a lot of code back, not saying they haven’t. I just don’t like that they flash that opensim can’t scale, when it can with just the little of effort.
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I do publically apologize for the comment I made about the attachment fix, I miss read the mantis. I also want to point out that it was my fault and I let my anger of Illan’s attitude towards me effect my calm. That was bad of me, and I apologize for that. That is honestly what I want to say, this is the same issue viewer developers are having right now in SecondLife. They can’t work together, because everyone keeps saying he is better or she is better, and many of the developers just want it to stop. Just like the viewer developers, grid owners are the same. We all run worlds for different reasons, for different people, for different communities. But it should not be a competition, especially with hypergrid, there is now need for it anymore. I know it is like asking for world peace here, but we should all work together where we can, and respect grids choices to keep some code to themselves and what to give back. That is there right, as it is their code, but people need to respect that right. I mean if I spent months working on something for a grid, and then asked to port it into opensim, that gives me a tactical advantage over the others, I might and I might not, it all depends. I mean we all got to eat, and many of us, like myself it is my sole job to run Zetamex, it is my sole source of income. I will do my best to submit back as much code as I can, but most of my changes are not things that would improve most users experiences, like Display Names, I been told not to even bother finishing my merge of it because no one wants it. But I did so since they don’t I might just push it out for someone else to use in its own repo. Again I am not a developer so it might not even be accepted in, in the first place.
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I do publically apologize for the comment I made about the attachment fix, I miss read the mantis. I also want to point out that it was my fault and I let my anger of Illan’s attitude towards me effect my calm. That was bad of me, and I apologize for that. That is honestly what I want to say, this is the same issue viewer developers are having right now in SecondLife. They can’t work together, because everyone keeps saying he is better or she is better, and many of the developers just want it to stop. Just like the viewer developers, grid owners are the same. We all run worlds for different reasons, for different people, for different communities. But it should not be a competition, especially with hypergrid, there is now need for it anymore. I know it is like asking for world peace here, but we should all work together where we can, and respect grids choices to keep some code to themselves and what to give back. That is their right, as it is their code, but people need to respect that right. I mean if I spent months working on something for a grid, and then asked to port it into opensim, that gives me a tactical advantage over the others, I might and I might not, it all depends. I mean we all got to eat, and many of us, like myself it is my sole job to run Zetamex, it is my sole source of income. I will do my best to submit back as much code as I can, but most of my changes are not things that would improve most users experiences, like Display Names, I been told not to even bother finishing my merge of it because no one wants it. But I did so since they don’t I might just push it out for someone else to use in its own repo. Again I am not a developer so it might not even be accepted in, in the first place.
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I have been asked a couple times why I don't want to build Zetamex off the cloud, and well the biggest answer is that the cloud is not really right for the old fashioned and classic usage of opensimulator. The second reason is that it is much more cost efficient to avoid using the cloud, and using dedicated hardware.</p>
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I have been asked a couple times why I don't want to build Zetamex off the cloud, and well the biggest answer is that the cloud is not really right for the old fashioned and classic usage of opensimulator. The second reason is that it is much more cost efficient to avoid using the cloud, and using dedicated hardware.
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So to break this down, I went in search of numbers and these numbers may differ for some people, but this is based off Zetamex's usage statistics of our clients averaged out. So this should give you an idea of the difference.
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So all together that is about $48.20 per instance per month, if you ran it all month long. Now if we took advantage of the market price which does change and flux every 5 minutes, but using the average market price would be about $12.20 per instance per month. But market pricing is not accurate and your instance gets lower priority, as it is service not being used at the moment so they rent it out cheaper at market based pricing.
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So now let us look at a common server, and since we are only wanting to do for this sake of arguement 1 instance just like the one above, since it is not common to find a server with less than 4gb of ram on the market. We are going to go with the average dedicated server price for 4gb ram and 1tb diskspace and 1tb of bandwidth. That is about 40 usd, now that is about enough to fit 3-4 instances, and plenty of space.
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So now let us look at a common server, and since we are only wanting to do for this sake of argument 1 instance just like the one above, since it is not common to find a server with less than 4gb of ram on the market. We are going to go with the average dedicated server price for 4gb ram and 1tb disk-space and 1tb of bandwidth. That is about 40 usd, now that is about enough to fit 3-4 instances, and plenty of space.
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So now we just put the instance on there, and well... now we are done. 40 bucks... plus add 3 more... still 40 bucks.
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Scaling, is the next thing people are going to bring up, and while people believe the cloud is the easiest place to scale, well I disagree. I am going to be using the technology I am been working with Postgres but this can also be done working with MySQL instead of Postgres.
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We can do what is called pooling, and load balancing, so unlike MySQL, Postgres uses less overhead even on heavy usage as it is designed for Enterprise class data. We take advantage of the earlier spoke about 1TB storage and lets add 10 bucks more for RAID storage so if one drive fails we have a secondary drive so acts like nothing ever happened. So now 50 bucks, and that can take a very big hit, but then we realize that we want assets to be more robust and faster for people across the world, in other geographical locations, we can just order another 50 buck server with the 1TB of storage and setup a pool.
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We can do what is called pooling, and load balancing, so unlike MySQL, Postgres uses less overhead even on heavy usage as it is designed for Enterprise class data. We take advantage of the earlier spoke about 1TB storage and let's add 10 bucks more for RAID storage so if one drive fails we have a secondary drive so acts like nothing ever happened. So now 50 bucks, and that can take a very big hit, but then we realize that we want assets to be more robust and faster for people across the world, in other geographical locations, we can just order another 50 buck server with the 1TB of storage and setup a pool.
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What a pool will do is clone all the data and keep it syncronized between both locations, and on top of that can both load balance and/or query together to find data quicker. Then the worry of growing storage cost is not so much of a problem as most people think, especially with NAS(Network Accessed Storage) to expand the size storage. Postgres can allow us to do this and on top of that, we can start telling Postgres to cache assets that are used more often then others because we know NAS is a bit slower than locally stored data but if it is cached and on hand it is not a problem.
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What a pool will do is clone all the data and keep it synchronized between both locations, and on top of that can both load balance and/or query together to find data quicker. Then the worry of growing storage cost is not so much of a problem as most people think, especially with NAS(Network Accessed Storage) to expand the size storage. Postgres can allow us to do this and on top of that, we can start telling Postgres to cache assets that are used more often than others because we know NAS is a bit slower than locally stored data but if it is cached and on hand it is not a problem.
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So total estimated cost of up to say 2 TB of storage in 2 locations pooling, is only about 175usd/month
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Now lets look at the cloud, and say we use one small instance on EC2 to mount S3 as a drive so that we don't have to pay the higher EBS storage costs. That is 0.095/per gb per month so that is not to awefull bad, seems pretty cheap. but then we got to keep in mind we need a instance that has a bit more power than the small so lets go with the medium which lets say since you know your going to use a lot of data going to go with a reserved instance for cheaper price to 227 deposit that cost would be $30.24/month still not to bad if your willing to make that deposit, if not $86.40/month for standard instance. But lets not forget you need two of those instances, so we can play fair and give the same results. But for sake of argument i will do both one or two depending on use case.
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Now let's look at the cloud, and say we use one small instance on EC2 to mount S3 as a drive so that we don't have to pay the higher EBS storage costs. That is 0.095/per gb per month so that is not to awful bad, seems pretty cheap. but then we got to keep in mind we need a instance that has a bit more power than the small so lets go with the medium which lets say since you know your going to use a lot of data going to go with a reserved instance for cheaper price to 227 deposit that cost would be $30.24/month still not to bad if your willing to make that deposit, if not $86.40/month for standard instance. But let's not forget you need two of those instances, so we can play fair and give the same results. But for sake of argument i will do both one or two depending on use case.
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So now the cost of the storage lets go up to the 2 tb we were talking about before, now that is cheaper because more than 1 tb making it 0.080/per gb so now we are at 160usd/month just for the storage.
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I just really want to take a step back and say I was really happy to see the new site by InWorldz. It looks very nice, however I only have one complaint... When launching a new theme, I would really like to see it implimented throughout before released to the public... Because the second you login, you are redirected to a part of the site of the old design. From what I saw only the home page contains the new theme.
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