Happy new Year

2015 the Chinese year of the Sheep  羊

Be careful with the fireworks, and all the best for 2015 !

Links

Thanks for the Birthday wishes. I just need to confess, it's not my actual B-day on the 25th of December though. It was my "Rezday" in Secondlife, almost a decade ago....  ( Huh, 10 years passed ? ).

Like stated in the last post, i moved some domains around and reconfigured some services. More will be added in the future, but for now the essential stuff i need to support Red Dragon users and groups has been setup, and is available 24/7.

Here's a shortlist of services that are currently live and available :

http://www.reddragonclub.nl/                 Main (Nothing here yet, just a temp landing page ).

http://teamspeak.reddragonclub.nl/        Teamspeak server 

http://stream.reddragonclub.nl:8000/      Shoutcast sever 

ftp://ftp.reddragonclub.nl/                      FTP server (Members only)

Other links are available on http://www.madfoxx.net/ which is the main domain linking to all these pages. That page is a work in progress, and is likely to change a lot in the next few weeks / months. For now it links to all "Red Dragon" pages & services, and has a live chatbox.  

Pretty soon all DNS forwarders pointing towards the Madfoxx.nl domain will become obsolete. If you use any of those old URL's you will end up at MadFoxx.net, which likely lists what you needed in the first place. '

Once OSG is back, i will likely start to build "Red Dragon Club XI". After not actively having ran events in the past 4 years, 2015 might be the year DJ Foxx returns to teach you what those speakers on your desk were used for again.  But those are just good intentions for 2015. 

For now, and on behalf of Red Dragon Nite Club and its members : 

"All the best for 2015 to you, and all those you love". 

Seasons Greetings

Since OSG is still down, i have taken the time to move all my domains to a different host. Various services for Red Dragon members will become available in 2015, like Mail, FTP, Teamspeak, Streaming media and some other stuff. These will become available on http://www.reddragonclub.nl  and some of it's subdomains. Also this Blog will change URL's, but it will remain available on it's current address as well.

Once upon a time

Once upon a time some guy got his hands on the opensource version of lindenlalalands SL engine. Together with some friends and like minded people who were intrigued by the software, they decided to start a grid. They named it TSgrid. It's purpose was to be a test grid for development on the engine, which was named Opensimulator,

More and more people showed interest in exploring this mysterious open source grid, and playing with the engine and its modules. So the group of friends chose to open their gridservers to all people interested. Free of charge, as after all, it was a test grid with a clear goal. Development of the opensimulator engine.

The volunteers worked hard to improve the engine and make it live up to the expectations of the users flocking into the grid. Secondlife limitations where shattered, and cutting edge technology was implemented before Lindenlab had a chance to so so. The TSgrid had grown to a massive userbase, each avatar calling TSgrid home for his/her own reasons. Some had homes, other had testlabs, people studied on how to run their own grid, script, or build their creations in TSgrid to later export them to commercial grids and own a buck. Even clubs and hosting providers started to notice the grid.

But the grid is still the TSgrid, started by some guy and his friends, with as purpose of testing and developing Opensimulator. Since the grid got real big, the costs to run it went up exponentially and with help of the donations of its users, and hard work of various volunteers it was kept running.

One day the grid went down... A plane had crashed into the datacenter where it was hosted, and both the TSgrid servers and all of its backups in the rack on the other wing of the datacenter were destroyed in the flames. The inferno left noting but piles of smoking ashes, not a single prim survived.
Obviously the users got very, very upset with the admin volunteers as they "should have had the backups outside the building". Some even furiously criticized the chosen location of a datacenter near a busy flight route....Idiots...All their precious prims and pixels, all gone. Stupid volunteers.
Nobody ever told them to make a backup for themselves, or that they were in a test grid. So they spammed their invaluable advice on how things should have been done in to the community's forums, and they left the TSgrid to rot, to go on with the rest of their digital lives and vent their superior opinion elsewhere. People welcomed them everywhere, and this time they were properly informed, so life was great once again !

The TSgrid volunteers however, never gave up on their beloved grid, and rebuilt it from scratch. The non commercial grid would rise once again. A lot of TSgrids users loved their grid, and went back to the testgrid they called home since many years.
Their world, their freedom still applied. No greed, no drama. And it was a much nicer place now all the people with their "relevant opinion" on how things should work in "their grid" decided to go elsewhere. Perhaps they even build their own grid. And all are welcome to go live there and tell them how they should run their grid and operate things. All others are welcome to come test life in the TSgrid. This chapter should explain how great it really is, and how awesome the people inhabiting and running it are, but that would be part of another story.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.