Kokua Viewer issues new Experimental build

What's this kokua doing on a weblog with aurora and opensim as main subjects ? Well, you need a viewer to visit either of those grids. And Kokua  (former Imprudence) is our preferred one. Here the Pastebin with changelog for the Nerds interested people. Its been a while since they updated, so enjoy the new fixxes, features, shiny buttons, and working media to play with.

As for OSG, the dev's issued a new version on 3/3/11, to which we haven't gotten around updating to as yet.  The 16/2/11 one seems to work "best" out of last 3 updates we've tested, but the Red Dragon regions will be updated to the latest version somewhere soon. For news on exiting new stuff in OSG, check this forum topic about the new Myst Regions in OSG. Also  the "Friday Party" at D&J's is back up, and there are speedbuilding contests again. More info on OSG's forums.

Aurora finished it's logo contest. More info on the latest news section in their Blog.To be fair we havent been at it's grid a lot lately, as it doesnt really have a box of LM's at their landing zone yet. Also we lost our sims there at a purge waaaay back (it's a test grid, and thus purged if needed), but the scalable regions and other cool features are too good to be ignored. More on this soon.

You might have noticed the frequency of posts on this Blog is down a bit, but don't worry, if there is spectaculair stuff happening, we will notify you of it (eventually). Really ! For now, play around with your new favorite "screenie" tool after Snagit. ( 3Dvia  captures 3D environment screenies... how nice is that ?.... Enjoy !)

Aurora brings Scalable Regions, OSG issues update

It's been a while since the latest update. This due to the fact that after the couple of days of outage due to the upgrades, our regions appeared to suffer from random crashes. Since than, OSG issued 3 newer releases, and the last one seems ok so far, qua stability. The Dev's keep pushing it forward, hammering out the bugs. Some new OSG admins have been assigned (Key & Rev), and loads of stuff is happening again. Spring is in the air.....  


Also the aurora team comes with new stuff. After Aurora-Sim being the first to use CAPS communication, and extended OpenRegionSetting - which supports vertical parcelling and many more extra features - now team Aurora is proud to announce the release of the first fully functional variable sized regions. The variable sized regions are based on multiples of 16, currently ranging from 64 meters up to 256 standard SL regions combined. for more info, click the Full Article on their site. 


For the region showcase ( have been lazy and not roaming around the grid too much ) please refer to the last pages in the Februari release of the OS Gazette newspaper. You can find those at the kiosks in the OSG plaza's.  With the map being clean now, teleporting will be better. (4500+ dead regions purged, and a bi-weekly check will keep it nicely accessible). This does mean that when your sim is offline for over a week, the map spot will be released. (start the sim and its back, unless someone took "your" spot). Thats all for now, please check back soon. 

OSGrid Downtime scheduled

OSG scheduled some downtime to work on their backend databases. With the Grid migration to 0.7 they didnt manage to convert all databases without several days of downtime, so the part wasn't done back than, is being handled now.  Also a new release was issued on the OSG website. Read all about it on the OSgrid News page and especially if you run a sim, as the update also contains some useful information regarding changes to the Opensim.ini. All of the above should improve overall performance of the simulators & the grid.

 Yesterday there was one of LBSA's infamous spontanious party's again, and typically, just before the downtime kicks in, it will likely be loaded again. (For some strange reason, when downtime is announced it is busy around LBSA).
Mind that the upgrade will involve an estimated downtime of 24 hours, so don't get anxious if you can't login. OSG will keep you informed via twitter and their news pages about the status. If you really want to keep a close eye on the progress, you could try IRC.

You have only 2 days left to submit your Logo to the Aurora Logo Contest. 48 hours should be enough to still create something awesome, and earn eternal glory. This weeks region showcase will be posted after the grid upgrade.

OSG issues new release, Map purged

It's been a while since our last update as we haven't spent to much time on the grid lately The dev team, however did tons of good stuff in the background. The 17th of januari they issued a new version, and today the 19th, the region map was purged, leaving a 4600+ regions online, that all run 5 januari's version or later. This means that the grid is a lot more usable now, as the map is more reliable. We hope it's a reoccuring event. Also another reminder that you can empty your trash via the website. No need to walk around with more trash than inventory anymore. Just login to the osgrid website, click account, delete AV trash, wait 5 minutes, relog your viewer, and your good. We eagerly await website upgrades, as the wire and who's online pages were very nice additions to the social part of the grid.

Imprudence or as renamed Kokua is still working on version 1.4 of their viewer, and you still have 10 days left fo help the "brand" the Aurora server and provide them with a great logo.(see previous topic). For the rest little major news, were still thinking on the new sim design. Other interesting news,  SecondLife has a EA dude working for them, and he solved all their problems by raising the groups to 42, the answer to life, the universe and everything. Nintendo brings it's 3D gameboy, and if you like to play with 3D, and build meshes, try http://beta.ourbricks.com/ and show us your awesome stuff. Back to a busy LBSA plaza, with loads of new faces.

Today's region spotlight is a new Freebie Area called Freebies from Corny. Its on the map, Freebie Cornflakes (132, 133, 24).
You will find several items from various builders in OSG there. Check it out, grab some nice new goodies, and have fun. If you visit, make sure to find the owner of this sim and say Hi.