Halloween Dance 2013 in OSgrid

The annual halloween party OSgrid throws was just announced on OSg forums Halloween Dance for 2013!!
Region : All Hallows Plaza
Date  : Saturday the 26th of october
Time: 19:30 UTC - 7:30pm GMT - 12:30 pm PDT


Any people that would like to perform as a guest DJ can reply on the forum topic or contact Dan Banner inworld for the schedule. Last years party was a big success, pictures of it can be found at  OSG's Halloween Gallery . There is still plenty of time left to gather your spooky outfit and free time in your tight building schedules as this is one of those party's  you don't want to miss. LBSA plaza already transformed to a spooky graveyard like gloomy place. We will put up some halloween stuff only on Red Dragon club X region. (too much cleaning afterwards if we put it everywhere)  Happy hunting the grid for all the cool Halloween treats, and hope to see all you zombies at the party !

If you want to party Tonight (13-10-2013) :
Sunday night live in The Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSGrid at 2pm PST 10pm GMT we feature Trulie Ellen live from her Nashville studio playing her all original country-punk / folk-noir ballads followed by DJ Stiofain X

Join in at :
hg.osgrid.org:80:Maritime%20Club%20Belfast/16/105/33
hop within osgrid
hop://login.osgrid.org/Maritime%20Club%20Belfast/15/101/30

Version 0.8

All  Red Dragon Regions have been updated to version 0.8.0 of Opensimulator. If you are still running your regions on a 0.7.x build, my advice is to upgrade immediately. We have setup all ini files from scratch as we were running a pretty dated configuration. The performance increase is noticeable. All servers and regions are tested and working fine. This week we will test some of the opensim.ini options, like the ability to see 3 regions further rather than 1. I don't know if and how this will work, because of the 34K prims on a single region, but we will find out soon enough.

All Red Dragon Regions have also been moved to a new domain, simulator.madfoxx.net
This as my 10 year old Madfoxx.kicks-ass.net DynDNS account caught an error ( Dyn changed a security certificate which my firewall didn't trust, so it terminated the connection). Since the account was grandfathered from Dyns "free" service, it expired as i "forgot" to login and reactivate it within a month. The client in my firewall normally did this automatically and i didn't notice it going down due to the certificate issue
Anyways, no more free DNS, just a FQDN from now on. Also we moved some regions to their own simulator, to offload the Red Dragon Nite Club and Red Dragon Club X regions, and re-mapped all the port assignments.

I''m also working on a shiny new linux box, and hope to get a Diva standalone running on that machine, which can be on 24/7. Likely it will launch somewhere next year. On that server, we will possibly offer some space for Residents to live on. If you are interested in a plot, feel free to contact Foxx Bode inworld.

As i was browsing through my popular search terms in here, i find people looking for private parts on OSgrid. Good one, as you don't get these at the welcome center.....  The freebie HQ on wright plaza has a ton of  free stuff and shops, but due to its G rating, no private parts are allowed there. So for the cool scripted goodies, you will really need to make some friends and ask around. If you look for private parts in OSgrid, a good place to start is by asking around at LBSA plaza. ( and yes, people WILL have an opinion on that ). But no worries, don't feel ashame. we all came here as Ruth, so we know your feeling. Even if you never use it, you still pack one.

 -- Update :( I asked around at LBSA ) : some very helpful people notified me that you can find PG rated items and the appropriate attachments at  Susukino Region ( find it on map). Mind these are Adult regions etc.
NB: * ( Also, you can quit sending me your private parts, i'm good.....Really....Stop it.... unless you built it yourself and its some awesome scripted mesh one, of which i need to own a copy, else please no more....)* .

Updated Red Dragon Club

All Red Dragon regions have been updated to 0.7.6.dev.53de6d9 build of OSG. All is up and running very stable & smoothly so far. The picture on the left is the beginning of the bowling thingy i started building in this topic. Its located on the 1st floor in the back of Red Dragon Nite Club Region.

As you might have already noticed, I slightly modified the layout of this page. You will possibly see more changes occur in the future. For now I have changed the width of the page and added a top menu, which will (eventually) lead you to new content.
Also i removed some elements from the frontpage and placed those on separate pages, like IRC, the (very nice) Hexxagon game, and the chatbot. I added an extra column to the links section, so it appears less massive, and you can find all the goodies faster. The tag cloud will take you to random pages on my blog. Furthermore some clubs and links were added, and dead / inactive Blogs were removed. Checked 2170 web pages, found 25 broken links. Meaning most the goodies are still where they belong. Go grab some.

Bugfix new release and Crazy Diamond club

As you might have read on twitter, OSG forums or Hypergridbusiness the 4096 bug that's been there since forever has been fixed. A developer from Singularity named "Latif Khalifa" fixed it. Test results of various OSG residents confirm. Another limitation squashed. Hurray for Latif. No more teleport problems.

Since the Opensim conference it appears things work more smoothly between various party's involved with opensimulator, and hopefully it will bring more good things. I read in some chatlogs there are people working on the scalable regions again, so who knows what the future will bring. A little downtime last week seems to have improved the performance of the asset server. stats  Also new version of OSgrid Simulator was released, you can grab it here . If you really like OSgrid you should use this link.


Whilst hopping around the map looking for hidden gems, my eye got caught by a guitar on the map. I popped over and found a club, called The Crazy Diamond Club. Nice rock music there, but since there was no party, i took the liberty to sit down and write this magnificent piece of Blog.


If you want to visit this region yourself, find "SoundChaser" on the OSgrid map. You land at 500 mtr in the club, have to pop down if you want to see the Guitar. Can't wait to party here someday.