Jupiter Rowland @JupiterRowland

Germany (Real Reality™), Dorenas World (virtual reality), OSgrid (secondary virtual reality) Offline

Far-travelled on the Hypergrid and convinced of Roth2 v2.


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Taarna Welles makes original clothes for free in opensim. Her grid was offline for a bit, but it's back up now, and Taarna is in creative mode - so expect some more fashion and other goodies in the next months. bubblesz.nl:8002:Savvy

thedeeferry: Love bubblez! Yay! Welcome back! 5 months ago

Lyr Lobo talking about Shopping and Content in Opensim, on Inworld Review. Do you agree with her suggestions and opinions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3mnUpxoTi8


Arielle: What specific suggestions and opinions are you meaning @Thirza Ember? Can you point to the time of the show you are referring to? 6 months ago
Freitag 17.11.2023
Rock-House (498)
mit DJ Anachron
Beginn 19:00 Uhr
Nach einer
Aufwärmphase
bis ca. 20:00 Uhr,
präsentiert DJ Anachron wiedermal
Triples
Ende wie immer um Mitternacht
Hypergrid : dorenas-world.de:8002:Nihilon

Black and white. :-)

Post Your Wish List
The new "What Are You Looking For?" group is a place to post about items you are, well, looking for, for your outfits, builds, shops, and so on. What Are You Looking For?: https://opensimworld.com/groups/1060
Rock-House (Special)
Freitag, 10.11.2023
Rock-House (497)
mit DJ Anachron

Beginn 19:00 Uhr

Das Motto des Abends:
Von Gottes Gnaden
(Religion & Macht)

Ende wie immer um 0:00
Hypergrid : dorenas-world.de:8002:Nihilon

Exclusive Designs-virtual-hg.com:8002:Monentes Jewelry

On Saturday, the Hypergrid International Conference hosted more than 60 visitors who came to hear talks in German and Italian - with subtitles!
Lampithaler Artist and CapCat ragu performed spectacular art, and Marlon Wayne, Dings Digital, Lorenza Colicigno and Gianni Spada presented talks about life and creativity in Opensim! Read about the event here
https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2023/10/saturday-at-hie-20...
https://hieopensim.blogspot.com/2023/10/saturday-at-hie-20...

Dorena Verne: Don't let any troll badmouth your great event. 7 months ago

New Home for Clutterfly Warehouse!
For those who prefer legacy avatars, I have recovered the Clutterfly Warehouse from Uzuri. It is now in Opengrid World Shopping Centre.


Jupiter Rowland: Always nice to have another Clutterfly backup. And by the way, some mesh bodies can wear some of the Clutterfly clothes pretty well. For Ruth2 v4, I recommend the circle skirt, the straight miniskirt,... 7 months ago

https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/09/luna-see.html


Jupiter Rowland: To paraphrase what I've said elsewhere: I dare Meta Horizons, Decentraland & Co. to try and look like this. 7 months ago

Chillin at Luxor


ToyBoy: Nicely build! 7 months ago
Small change to OSW home page possible?
Opensimworld is such a great resource for opensim - love it! The home page has so much useful info on it.
My request - could The Box be moved further down the page? Maybe swap with Events or Bookmarks? Just because more often than not The Box is so depressingly infantile and completely useless to anyone looking for information.
HG Safari -out there exploring opensim! The past couple of weeks have taken us to a re-creation of dreams, a community in the tropics, an African sanctuary, and an audience with a famous grid owner. Lots to learn and to laugh at ! If you missed our trips, here are the words and pictures
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-spirited-safari.ht...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/09/safari-goes-tropican...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/09/safari-in-den.html
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/09/kitelys-fifteenth.ht...

Thirza Ember: I forgot to add this link. If you have never been on the Safari trips, and would like to see what it looks like, Jessica Pixel livestreamed the last event, here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/wa... 8 months ago
Below is a reposting of a comment I made in response to Openlife’s pathetic and wrongheaded rebuff to my initial post. I promised to repost my comment if it was deleted from the thread. Not only did my comment get deleted, but I have been blocked, but through the wonderful technology of alts I am able to access Onellife’s diatribe and also what others who have blocked me are posting. No surprises, it has allowed Onelife to distort and manupulate in order to put across his (wrongheaded) point of view, even to the point of contradicitng themselves on a few occasions.

Seriously, 4chan and 8chan could learn stuff from this lot! Indeed, the more I think about it there is an element in Opensim that seems to want to promote some kind of conspiracy theory. Inadvertantly I seem to have provided fodder, though I cannot for the life of me see how my few comments, none of them at all outrageous, unless you’re one of the EIOSSBF cartel, have created such a furore From that they seem to have taken on a life of their own, becoming ever more grossly distorted according to the viewpoint people like Onelife want to project. Good luck to them, my original piece is there to refute their accusations.

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Good to see that there is at least a fewwho have a balanced view of the software industry. In the interests of full disclosure I am the person who wrote the article for which Openlife’s article is, I suppose, a attempted rebuff .

For clarity's sake, my piece is still up and there to read. Several people have rather bizarrely taken what I wrote and assumed that it is an endorsement of the EchoVoice project. It is not. It is, however, an opinion piece suggesting that if we want the nice things in Opensim, then it's likely we'll have to pay for them, or do without - it really is that simple. EchoVoice was used as an exemplary, nothing else.

I was also accused by Openlife of more or less demanding money with menaces, and by another suggesitng that I was calling people ‘cheap’*.when all I did was to suggest that most people could afford small contributions: not that they had to, and nowhere did I even hint that people should donate, merely that they more than likely could. Of course there will be a very small number of people who won’t be able to afford to contribute to anything, but I hardly think they will exist in any significant number in virtual worlds as they will be destitute, not inworld, and have far more to worry about than the people on here who are triggered at any suggestion that they could, shock, horror, pay some money for something for once in Opensim.

One of Harper Held’s comments was so abusive and intemperate that I not only deleted all their comments, but also blocked them. Both Openlife and GlennXpletive had some of their comments deleted due to them being either needless repetition, or irrelevant rants that had no place and only served to interrupt the flow of the thread. Because of this Xpletive then felt it okay to make xenophobic comments about my ethnicity. A complaint has been made about that.

Any pertinent comments were left. And yet I have been accused by Xpletive of restrictung their free speech, which is ludircrous. If they want to rant about me there are plenty of places where they could do that, and heck, they could even set up a website to do that - but of course, to do that properly, it would cost them money, and presumably these people are the core of the ‘Everything in Opensim should be free’ cult.

Sure, it's possible that someone could come along and do it for 'free', but it's unlikely. The eagle-eyed will also have spotted that my piece, whilst focusing on a voice module, was somewhat wider in scope, and was presenting an argument that maybe we should be prepared to cough up a small amount of money, if we want nice things in Opensim. There is a precedent, though it’s from 2015 (before the EIOSSBF nonsense started) https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2015/02/dahlia-trimbles-...

And if that wasn’t enough, there is this one so we could have decent vehicles in Opensim:https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2015/01/opensim-users-pl...

And... Related to what trggered the OP into writing their piece: https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2014/01/zetamex-announce...

However, that one didn’t succeed, probably because of the avaialbility of Vivox, which, to a degree is understandable, but hardly an ideal solution.

The notion that Red Hat Linux is free of cost because Fedora is free is also a bit of a dishonest claim. Red Hat does have a cost: https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms

EDIT: IBM through Red Hat largely finances both Fedora and CentOS Stream, and development is by both the community and paid professionals employed by Red Hat. A symbiotic relationship common to many opensource projects.

And, as Mike Chase says in his comment, there is a heck of a lot of paid-for work in GNU/Linux and the ‘free’ is more about freedom than free of cost, and, to be fair, most distros don’t make a charge for, but many (if not most) do ask for a contribution to cover their costs, such as this, from Ubuntu MATE: https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/amd64/jammy/thanks/?metho...

I certainly didn’t intend to stir up a hornets (or is it a vipers?) nest over this, all I wanted to do in essence was show how the power of numbers could work hugely to our collective advantage. Anyone might think I’d suggested that people should donate their life savings, or steal the bread from their childern’s mouths! Seriously, some of you would do well to go back to school and learn English comprehension.

*Come to think about it, I do think that most of those bitterly complaining and using the poverty of others as a weapon with which to beat me are indeed ‘cheap’. Not just because they don’t want to contribute towards Opensim project, but because they are cynically and despicably exploiting poor people to bolster their arguments rather than going off and berating exploitative employers for not paying their workers enough to live a comfortable life, or petitioning the government to ensure that adequate unemployment benefits are paid to workers unable to find work.

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Ready for export.....


Jupiter Rowland: Doesn't make you want to nope away like some of Arcadia's or Vbinnia's barrels. 8 months ago

Fotos vom Blue Monday aus dem KlaJaKlu.
Wie immer, einfach auf den Link klicken, um zur Diashow zu gelangen. ;)
https://klaxen.de/fotos-vom-blue-monday-aus-dem-klajaklu-5

Today I made a curved stair. It is constructed of traditional prims. 22 land impact. I hope you are impressed! :P


RemmyRavenhurst: I for one am impressed!! 9 months ago

I love this jumpsuit from Loru! see you at the Klajaklu tonight! hg.osgrid.org:80:Xenotown


KikiBaily: @ thedeeferry ...... Schau mal hier, artdestiny.de:8002:Glede (letzte Info von mir), wenn es die Region noch gibt, ansonsten ins Grid hüpfen und Loru anschreiben :-) 9 months ago
For Those who think they can attack Caribou Grid and control the owners
Hi all i find i have to mention that a certain Grid is trying to destroy Caribou Grid by attacking one of the owners making her crash and making her time painfull but they have reconed without me and the Caribou Grid owner who is a lawyer and will be taking legal action

Pagane: Again same peoples... They use different names/grids but is same. Now with next fake account try to join us with her "webs". Always is same scraps from Sac* and nex Avi* About attacks, read this: htt... 9 months ago
I have rebranded the grid to Three Hills Grid. When we first named the grid we thought to name it after the magazine and since then, I have seen another grid named Virtual Grid, so as to eliminate any confusion I thought it would be best to rename it. I have always thought of Black Hills Gold as Three Hills Gold (the trio color of the gold) so naming it Three Hills Grid seemed right. The virtual-hg.com address is the same, I may also change that in the future. https://virtual-hg.com/JOpensim/index.php

While the heart and soul of Virtual-HG magazine remain unchanged, this rebranding is a testament to my profound passion for crafting intricate jewelry pieces.

Lone Wolf: I like the name. :-) 9 months ago
New Release: Sol et Luna, a steampunk watch.

This time I made a simple wrist watch, it obviously shows the time but also the date in an unconventional way.

The wrist band can be either brown or black, it's controlled by a menu that appears on click and it comes for system avatars and ruth v2/4.

You can resize it to make it fit properly on your avatar and as always all the textures are included for your customisation needs.

Don't forget to read the manual.


Happy Saturday!

CyberGlo CyberStar: That watch is absolutely beautiful! A gorgeous masterpiece, I love it! A true work of art. Sadly I cannot come and get one as I am banned from osgrid, however, if you ever create your own grid, let... 9 months ago
What's New on Opengrid World?

As you may know, Opengrid World is the new name for Bernicia Prime. But it has changed!

I've tried to keep most of the good stuff where possible but thought it was time for a bit of a change. I've made more use of the centre of the sim (where the old town was) and turned it into a park and maze. I've also added a small Satyr Farm.

The Quick Shopping area has been given a good makeover with new layout and shops. I've added more Ruth2 and Roth2 stuff that I haven't seen anywhere else on Opensim. A new store called "Odds and Ends", which has lots of goodies from Arcadia (pirate buindings) and Paramour (dance balls etc.) and also goodies for Tinies. The old favourites are all still there - Selea Core, Athena, Athena Petite, Decadence, For Men, Synclair Designs (I must get around to making more for that store), Adult Store etc.

As always, everything is free.

FallenAngel Absent: Very nicely designed sim!!!!! In the store perhaps still pay attention to offer only things that are in the content also copy. Could some unfortunately not take. 10 months ago
I love challenges, but my recent review mentioned that my belly button rings are not rigged for Athena. Athena is not a standard avatar shape so when rigging with Avastar it isn't quite right. My belly button rings are meant to attach to the belly for standard shapes. I just added a new Peace sign belly button ring that attaches to the standard avatar belly. I never say never, but this time I am - I don't want to take a ripped rig into blender to please my critics.

Jerralyn Franzic: It does take a bit more effort to install stuff for bodies outside of standard and Ruth2. That said, it's not impossible to install standard rigged earrings or other jewelry onto the more advanced bod... 10 months ago
Am 1. Juli um 20 Uhr machen wir die Nagelprobe ...
Helft uns die Belastbarkeit der neuen Grid-Installation zu testen Exclamation
HG: dwserver.de:8002:dorenas world

Wir machen eine Party im Dancing Desire und quälen den Server bis er qualmt ...
DJ Anachron macht Musik

Kommt und bringt ein paar Freunde mit

Dorena Verne: Achtung, das Event wie auch der Umzug werden gecancelt. Näheres zu den Umständen möchte ich hier nicht öffentlich äußern! 10 months ago

Do you know anyone who suffers from this common hypergrid misconception ?
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/06/patty-paranoid-and-f...


Arielle: Some of the early iterations of the ToS's some Grids put up for authorization, sounded like they collected and held on to all information about visitors for 7 years, not just IP. 10 months ago
Choose kindness, always.

Different reasons bring all of us here to this online hobby that we all love. All of those reasons are valid.

And everyone has different skill sets. That's ok too.

It's disheartening to hear about people being unkind to folks in this hobby that are trying to help others with the technical side of it, finding things or even viewer help. Those helpers are volunteering their own time. Giving it freely with one expectation, that you treat them with respect and kindness. Anything else is not acceptable.

The same goes for completely trashing someone's region creation on here. Not everything will be to everyone's tastes. How about we celebrate and amplify the ones we love instead?

You never know what someone's challenges are behind the keyboard. Everyone struggles. Remember we are all human and vulnerable.

And always be kind. It will come back to you too:)

Harper Held: Well said -very well said. 😻 10 months ago

Partyyyyy:-)
dorenas-world.de:8002:Astyanax

Blauer Montag im LGBTQ+ Nightclub „Palace of the Republic“ auf der schönen Partyinsel Astyanax.
Den Anfang macht DJ Sleimer am 26. Juni, er schaut, was seine Musikkiste hergibt, also lasst euch überraschen. Wink

20 Uhr Vorprogramm in der Lounge

21 Uhr Hauptprogramm in der Discothèque

dorenas-world.de:8002:Astyanax
Unser Grid geht neue Wege. :-)
Noch läuft die Config auf dem beta-Grid, aber wird in den nächsten tagen zum Maingrid.
Was ist NEU!

Wechsel von OpenSim 0.9.2.0 Yeti Release zu OpenSim 0.9.2.2 Yeti Release
Debian Linux 12 mit aktuellen 6er Kernel
MariaDB in Version 10.11.3 mit Speziellen Modifikationen für OpenSim
OpenSim AutoBackup System, Tägliche OAR Backups, es bleiben immer die letzten 7 Tage gespeichert.
Plesk Control Panel für den Webserver hier läuft auch der Robust.
MariaDB Replikation Slave v10.11.3 (Backup Server)
Externes Cloud Backup System (Ionos & Amazon S3)
Alle Sims verfügen über Vivox Voice
Alle Sims haben eine Zentralisierte Konfiguration erhalten.
Robust Datenbank wurde von der Tabellen schreibweise an die 0.9.2.2 angepasst
OpenSim Datenbank wurde aufgeräumt, es ist jetzt nur noch die Struktur vorhanden die OpenSim auch bei frischen Grid anlegt.
Regionen laufen auf einer extra MariaDB um die Performance zu bessern
Das ganze Grid hat eine Dynamische Zuweisung des Arbeitsspeichers bekommen, aktuelle Auslastung bei 21 GB und einer CPU Auslastung von durchschnittlich 11% bei 32 Kernen
Fotos vom Blue Monday aus der Zappelbude
Welch geniale Party, danke Leute. 🙂
Sorry, wenn ich nicht alle auf die Fotos bekommen habe, oder sie in der Moderation nicht begrüßte.
Irgendwann habe ich den Überblick verloren. 😉
Turnusmäßig sehen wir uns nächsten Montag am selben Ort, aber dann aus dem KlaJaKlu.
Um zur Diahow der Partyfotos zu gelangen, einfach dem Link folgen.
https://klaxen.de/fotos-vom-blue-monday-aus-der-zappelbude...

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Photos from Blue Monday from the Zappelbude
What a brilliant party, thanks guys 🙂 .
Sorry if I didn't get everyone in the photos or welcome them in the moderation.
I lost track at some point 😉 .
On a rotational basis, I'll see you next Monday in the same place, but then from KlaJaKlu.
To get to the diahow of party photos, just follow the link.
https://klaxen.de/fotos-vom-blue-monday-aus-der-zappelbude...
This took me a little while to make, it's not a new product but the consolidation of the look of the shop and related items.
I re-made the whole shop, with the familiar look it had before but a little bit more steampunkish, modern materials and I got it ready for future technologies like PBR materials.
It features an elevator now instead of the good ol' ramps and while it looks more or less the same size than before it holds a ton more space than before so my perpetual issue with space is over.
The beacon now is inside the shop for whom comes to the sim to choose another destination.
Also I made a new boxand refreshed every single product in the shop.
I'll release a new product soon now that this project that started in 2019 is finally complete.

Happy Sunday!

Lone Wolf: Lone *LOVES* his new hat. 11 months ago

I was hoping I'd get this ready to share before the end of June and by all miracles I did! Birch Grove in spring. Gardens, flowers, and Pride! Woo hoo!


Jerralyn Franzic: Great to come back and revisit Birch Grove. I missed seeing the family in the neighborhood... are they on vacation? LOL 11 months ago
Three new posts on the Safari blog, talking about shopping, a monastery, and a German language forum for opensim...
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/06/poppy-shoppe.html
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/06/amazing-mount-grace....
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/06/bogus-currys-grid-ta...
Thanks to @Poppy_Fields Bogus Curry and @Christi
Whether you're looking for an educational build, some real world art, or just want to meet Arnie on vacation, nothing could be finer than Tosha Tyran's Angkor Wat. The Safari visited the temple and environs, and learned some curious things about the builder...https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2023/06/toshas-towers.html

Luna Lunaria: I love large detailed architectural builds like this one, done with great textures and environment settings. I wasn't able to make the Safari tour due to RL work obligations, but I'm placing this reg... 11 months ago
Hey, all you people with labs needing brains in Jars-I found the perfect prop for your lab. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/brains-in-a-jar-346b9d1d72... You can find this in the Monentes Jewelry store foyer. You might be asking wtf how does brains go with jewelry, who f#$king knows??

Luna Lunaria: Her name was Abby...Abby Normal 11 months ago
Skyrealm Observatory...Deep in the heart of a majestic mountain wilderness lies a floating mountain that defies all known laws of gravity and physics. It hovers above the rugged terrain, seemingly suspended in mid-air, and captivates the imagination of all who lay eyes upon it.

As you approach the floating mountain, you can feel the energy pulsing around it. It seems to draw you in, beckoning you to come closer and explore its secrets. The mountain itself is rugged and imposing, with craggy peaks and deep valleys that stretch as far as the eye can see. Despite its daunting appearance, there is a sense of serenity and tranquility that permeates the air, and you feel at peace in its presence.

I invite you to come to experience this peace. Thank you ferd frederix for making dreams come true.

https://virtual-hg.com/JOpensim/index.php?option=com_conte...
Please add this to your map: virtual-hg.com:8002:SkyRealm

Araminta Hexx: Hi. I'm getting a time-out when trying to access the link, and I can't find the region... is it me?!? 11 months ago

At long last, Avalon Reborn is back up!

I decided that I wanted a custom manicure, but was disappointed to discover that the UV mapping for the fingernails and toenails only allowed for a single color (or texture) to be applied. So. . . I remapped the UVs and now each nail can be unique. I've only made one "polish" so far but have saved all of my working files (blender, photoshop, etc) out on GitHub if anyone else wants to play around with it or make their own. I didn't modify the meshes at all, but since I changed the UVMapping for the nails, I rigged and re-exported those as .dae files that will work with the universal texture. The fingernail texture is on Aux1, and the toenail texture is on Aux2. I also put them in a box in the welcome area of my region.

My GitHub: https://github.com/Araminta/araminta.github.io

NilaShavaress: got them, thank you :) 12 months ago
Peace & Love, Brothers, and Sisters. It is the dawning of the Age of Pangea!
It will be time to Keep on Trucking at this Groovy event with Zowie Maui and Wavey Gravey as we Boogie to the jams of the '60s. Psychedelics provided by Nyx Breen that Cool Head is righteous and bodacious. Don't be Bummed Out Man and miss this Shindig.
Coming Soon!

Jupiter Rowland: Far out, man! 1 years ago
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