Rogue Galaxy^✦ @RogueGalaxy

This AviTron Shop Is Great--If You Want To Pay For Stuff That Should Be Free.
CopyKat Grid is home to Grimm, where you can get the pictured outfit, and many more, free and full perm. Or you can go to this AviTron shop and pay TR$10 for the item (changed to no transfer). You can see Jimmy, owner of Grimm, still listed as the creator of the item. (Oops). The shop owner got this--free--at Grimm.

To be fair, I think about everyone has made the mistake of setting an item for sale and forgetting to change the default price of $10 to zero. But a full perm item someone else created, with the sale price already set--to $0 (https://gyazo.com/1cecf29be200eb98b2d1e2ba4f85336d)--doesn't change to a no transfer item sold for $10--unless the new owner changes it on purpose. This was no accident. And this "not an accident" happened to items from Grimm at least 20-30 times at this AviTron shop.

You will see many residents from the great grid of AviTron shopping at Grimm and the countless other quality freebe shops on the CopyKat Grid. Now I know at least one reason why. You never know what you will find on the CopyKat Grid--but one thing is sure. It's gonna be free.

Visit Grimm for your free stuff. Special sale for AviTron members--100% off of Grimm's already low low price of $0. grid.copykat.ovh:12000:Grimm

LATE EDIT: I have now looked at a random selection of other AviTron shops and find they are not charging for items. If you find any, let me know. But for now I'm changing the post to target just this one shop.

Its Mothers Day, So here is my Ha'Tak Motheship its 256 meters in length and built with Prims and some mesh.
Interior is complete, This ship is part of the Star Gate region in Galaxy Warz Grid. More ships and builds coming soon.

Sunday, April 17th,
-The Lucky Dragon Casino @ Wolf Territories-
11:00am-12:00pm DJ Illusions
12:00-2:00pm-First time Remy Farman & Zoree Jupiter:
Live, Solo and Dual Stream Performances
All casino games operate with Gloebits! - Formal Attire!
Come join us for the music, try your luck and explore this beautiful new sim!!
hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/grid.wolfterritories.o...

Yesterday, April 3rd, Kelso and I (Dabici) were Mal Burn invitees at Inworld News
It was a nice opportunity to showcase the four seasons of Novale
You can see it here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyxiqIalaRM

Muck What They Think
A new and quality assured 100% cool outfit at oh HELLO. Proper pigtails. Puddle boots. Overalls with a "muck what they think" patch. (Takes a closer look) Oh my! Somebody mucked up that patch! But there is also a way cool skull patch and a skull design on the puddle boots. Why? I don't know. But it's way cool! As always, you get all fat pack items and a preset body alpha hud.
fireandicegrid.net:8002:Xinashi

A reminder. Outfits without the "quality assured" label may be missing items due to asset loss following a grid attack. I'm working to fix the missing asset issue, and you can help. Each outfit vendor has an "oh HELLO Outfit Status Report" note card. DELETE the sentence on the note card that does NOT apply:
* OK (All assets found and all textures present)
* NOT OK (Assets and/or textures missing)
Then drop the report note card into the mailbox next to the oh HELLO shop sign.

Thanks!

Last update: OSG is back on line.

As you may be aware OSG is off line.

Let me preface this by saying that your data is ok. This is not a crash.

This is a needed house-cleaning procedure that's the product of taking up to four times the space in the server that it's needed for the assets files. So they are re-organising the way the data is stored and adding essentially more space in the server.

In your personal computer that would take about 2 or 3 hours tops, given the size and complexity of the setup of OSGrid that will take about 48 hours. Think that the current ingest of assets of the old server is rounding a quarter of a billion assets... in tiny tiny files.

Think your hard drive, it's like a huge stack of tiny boxes, you can put inside just one piece of information, if you put something that is bigger than one box then you fill as many boxes as necessary until the thing is completely there, that's how it works.

However if you have a bunch of things that are smaller than the box that contains it you waste a TON of space. That's why it's needed to reorganise the data and that's what they're doing right now. So that's the reason why it'll take so long, but as I said before, this is not a crash, just housekeeping, your data is fine.

If I have more updates I'll keep you informed.

https://twitter.com/osgrid/status/1505682546927050761


Aaaand we need another 48 hours. https://twitter.com/osgrid/status/1506385035120844804

Sadly that's what happens when so much data is involved. When I learn more I'll tell you about it.

https://twitter.com/osgrid/status/1507142134184427529

Update: sunday seems to be the day, hopefully.

Update: https://twitter.com/osgrid/status/1507502473417834507

read the reply where I explain it a bit.

Last upate: https://twitter.com/osgrid/status/1507925350415847428?cxt=...

Wednesday seems to be the day!

Update: https://twitter.com/osgrid/status/1508966793032966150

If everything goes as planned Thursday seems to be the re-opening day!

The Art Factory is about art and artists. At The Art Factory, we display art; we appreciate art; we learn about art; and, we promote art. We have over a dozen galleries dedicated to in-world artists, where they show their innovative creations. As such, we are beginning a feature called Meet the Artist.

This week we want to introduce to you, the very talented Nice Minik.

Ms. Minik, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your art?
My interest for VL-Photography started back in InworldZ with some photos of dancing Avis.
In 2017 the "Nice Minik" on OSG was created to try out "hypergriding" and to build a photo-studio with backdrops and "flat" lighting for Avi photo sessions.A visit of Ellen and Ernest in my first little gallery changed my virtual life.
Since that day I explored the photo-features of Firestrom and tried a lot of light-effects to make my inworld-photos more interesting. It comes in handy to be a prim builder (for certain backgrounds) and I also learned to create poses in the meantime.

And what are you doing artistically now?
Nowadays I can display model-sessions and themed series at "the Art Factory". And I was able to create some issues of the Stark Magazine.

So, what's the motivation behind your work?
Some of my work just tries to show beauty. Some may be a bit provocative. But I always try to find the mood, lighting and angle to take photos, that "tell a story". And sometimes I can even achieve that goal.
One thing stayed consistently through my development as an inworld-photographer: what you see is what I saw. That means, that I never do after-works on my photos.

What do you enjoy most about creating art in virtual worlds?
Besides that, I very much like to show virtual life in a way, that makes viewers enjoy what I enjoyed or maybe get an impulse to think about certain aspects.

Thank you for the interview, Ms. Minik!

Please stop by The Art Factory Reloaded and check out Nice Minik's art! It won't disappoint!

DJ LadyB heats up your Thursday at GasWorks! 5PM

Join our newest DJ at GasWorks for a two hour set of pure awesome! Lady B blends Blues with smooth R&B seamlessly and leaves us all with silly grins on our faces! Truly great music to listen to and dance, Lady B sets the stage for a terrific night! Come find out all about her! Join us tonight at GasWorks for Lady B! As always, Blues Done Right!

7-9 AM DJ Phoenix Brings You - Little Black Dress ! @ Gasworks!
March 5th
Join DJ Phoenix as he brings you fun and frivolity with The Little Black Dress! This is a Classic at Gasworks ! This mini event is a great combination of Phoenix's wit and sense of humor, not to mention the awesome Blues he brings along many great moments of tongue in cheek humor. Show us your legs and fashion sense.. yep men and women alike are encouraged to come in a Little Black Dress! Participation while desired is not required .. see you Friday login.aviworlds.com:8002:GasWorks

◂◄◀ Ok Folks! You're Invited! Come join us! :) ▶►▸
◂◄◀ Sunday Mornings at The Lodge▶►▸
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» Шho: DJ Viktor
» Шhere: ✫ THE LODGE ✫
» Шhat: •Sunday Morning Social Happy Hour•
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴ 10:00a - 12:00p∵∴ ❈
◂◄◀ catch your ride here ▶►▸
MAP: 1vmelody1.outworldz.net:8002:The Lodge

Protest!! full day of entertainment! GasWorks 9-2 pm
◂◄◀ Ok Folks! You're Invited! Come join us! ? ▶►▸
◂◄◀ FREE THE HOSTAGES ▶►▸
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» Шho: Speakers, Dj, & Live Musicians!
» Шhere: ✫ GASWORKS✫
» Шhat: •Protest Against Grid Owner Abuse of Power•
» Шhen: ❈ ∵∴ 9:00a - 2:00p∵∴ ❈
◂◄◀ catch your ride here ▶►▸
login.aviworlds.com:8002:GasWorks

Well usually the signs are obvious. Missing items, White items, even possibly 100's of scripts missing. How do they do it? Simple. Viewers like hydrastorm and darkstorm have options such as God mode override hack, which let's the user become a god on your land. The viewers also can let someone delete items from your sim, clone items, and even take the scripts. Well that's fine, you say, my opensim blocks hydrastorm and darkstorm. Except these viewers have a feature that lets them masquerade as regular firestorm, singularity, hippo, and others... It tricks your simulator into thinking the person is not using hydrastorm, but is instead using firestorm. But there are other hacks as well, the reverse friend permissions hack, sim crashers, and more. So what's a good defense? Some packages like dreamgrid, include an option to autobackup when you like. And keep N number of backups before recycling them. Dreamgrid also makes it easy to back up your inventory to an IAR. I suggest you use features such as these, or if you're on linux, learn to save your oars from the command line, as well as your iar's. While hackers can and often do use a vpn to gain access to a sim they plan to attack so their ip cannot be traced. For example PIA (private internet access) gives their users thousands of servers to choose from, with many different IP addresses. So blocking by ip address is nothing more than a temporary snafoo for hackers. If you block by name, they come back with an alt. Also there's a setting in opensim that allows a grid owner to edit the attachments of people that come to their grid, and it's trivial to turn this feature on. To sum it up, some people are just jerks, and all you can do is backup, backup, backuppppp.

I gave it a good go but the rigging of the jewelry caused the avatar cost to go up too much. I have decided to pull some of the bento because of complaints about the avatar cost. Before rigging the jewelry is decimated until it loses it's detail, so I am decimating as much as possible. I will keep playing with it until I can get the cost down. Thank you Typhaine.Artez for taking the time to help me perfect the jewelry. It has been a battle because it is such fine details which cost huge on some pieces no matter how much I decimate, or clean up. The other issue is, when clients wear mesh shoes, hair, clothing their avatar cost is up there, then by wearing my jewelry it goes up let's say the same as a pair of shoes, but because the jewelry is usually added last, the jewelry is to blame!! It is all adding to the avatar cost. Back to the drawing board. Thank you for all the support!!

Halftime!!! Kathena Mavenverse Birthday!!! The opening of the Rusty Nail has moved to the Black Opal due to a problem with Kathena's Region! But it's her birthday! So the Party goes on at the Black Opal! Join us for DJ Viktor is pumping the party tunes! Come say Happy Birthday to Kathena! Join us! HOP login.aviworlds.com:8002:GasWorks

openSimWorld
Manic Monday Live Vocal Performance with Zoree Jupiter! -
Zoree Jupiter Singing Live @ Foundation Grid - New Adachi Coffee Club 5.30 Grid Time !!
Hop is grid.grid-foundation.ovh:8002:Adachi Clubs
https://opensimworld.com/post/65634

****Special Invitation!!*****

GasWorks wants to invite you to our First Annual "Big 'OL Christmas Ugly Sweater Skating Party" !!

There will be prizes for everyone who attends, and Santa will be here in person and live! Find out if you're on the naughty or nice list and have your photo taken with him!

Saturday night will run 4-8 PM and starts off with DJ Cheryl Rose with more Christmas Blues and Cheer! Then Live entertainer Rogue Galaxy with a special Christmas set, followed by DaBluez Preacher with his guitar Wilma for his special Rockin' Christmas show!

Everything happens outdoors in the city park which has been converted into a huge Ice skating rink! Dance, Skate, and rock your ugly Xmas Sweaters! Expect Prizes and surprises for all! Paste this HOP into your map: login.aviworlds.com:8002:GasWorks

Come for the freebies. Stay for the sites! Take your time exploring this beautiful sim, filled with picturesque views, large forests, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, and beaches. Don't forget to visit Santa along the way.