Spax Orion^✔ @SpaxOrion

Good question. The reason I turn off the FLY option is because some of my regions are heavily themed. Having avatars fly around breaks immersion or established lore in your sim. Disabling flight is OPTIONAL and does not provide any security, moreover some legal viewers can override this setting. I have seen sim owners in SL and OS banish users for flying where it is not permitted.

From the OPENSIM wiki: Actively Malicious Hosts
The new security threat introduced by openness, one that does not exist in closed grids, is the possibility of a user to visit a region that is running malicious code. In the current state of opensim, a malicious host can do serious damage to the user's assets. Let's see how.

Assume you have your assets in your hypergrided-standalone opensim, and you go visit another opensim that happens to be running malicious code. Here is a non-exhaustive list of vulnerabilities that you are exposed to:

The host has your session id, so it can request your inventory items on your behalf and store copies in its local asset server. To add insult to injury, a malicious host could simply wipe out your inventory after having copied it.
Even if the malicious host doesn't access your items by itself, every time you access items in your inventory while you are in that region, those items are cached in the region's local cache, and can be stored persistently by the malicious host.
Malicious hosts can do a lot more damage, but those two are enough to illustrate this new kind of vulnerability affecting open grids. Note that this affects all open grids, i.e. those where arbitrary people can plug-in their opensims, and not just the hypergrid.

I encountered the same bug... some of my replies are not posting either... I have reported the problem.

The suitcase is a temporary storage folder where content is stored when traveling on foreign grids. Once you return home, you can move the content to your regular inventory folder. You only want items in your suitcase that you plan on using when traveling outside of your grid. The less items in there, the quicker those items will load when you attempt to use them.

Lets try this again, my response apparently vanished. I will report the error... I used to host regions on Zetaworlds and I was under the impression that they were still an open grid, I can confirm that is still possible. https://zetaworlds.com/host-your-own

I have not deleted any comments and WILL NOT delete comments. I DO NOT believe in censoring opposing views.

I am well versed in the creation of NPCs. I can tell you that the appearance notecards are INSECURE. If you are wearing your inventory in a prim when you are cloned, the owner of the generated appearance card has access to anything you are wearing and the CONTENTS within it.

A really fast server is essential for hosting. If you are not on Fiber and your upload is limited to 10% (I am looking at you, COMCAST) of your download speed, you will not be able to have many avatars at your party. That bandwidth goes FAST and your visitors will experience lag as scene elements are loading.

I am making a new profile post on "Getting the most out of OPENSIM: for hobbyists and hypergrid travelers." I will cover things you can do to protect your regions and things you can do to protect yourself when traveling abroad.

now that I am here, what should I do?

Using my spare time for the benefit of the community certainly isn't lost time. Cheers!

When the community contributes as a team, EVERYONE BENEFITS. This is a hallmark of Free and Open software movement. =D

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback on this topic. =D

What an EPIC answer! I should have said Opensim is free as in Freedom not free as in BEER. As far as running pirated MS software in WINE, there are plenty of BETTER alternatives you can run on Linux for FREE. I got rid of Windows right around the time that Shits-da (I mean Vista) came out and I have been better for it. I felt the need to share this article because I see naysayers pushing their views on how they think people should run their simulators and I could not resist the urge to set the record straight. PEACE!

It is my understanding that there is a small team of volunteers working on opensimulator, fixing the code is not a full-time job for them, they give their time freely to maintain the project. Kitely has taken the code and applied their own patches to it, because of the BSD licence, they are not required to share their fixes. @Pagane it could take more time for bugs to be found and patched but as you stated, anyone is free to look at the code and fix it for themselves.

In order to generate an IAR you would also need access to the simulator console which is only available to region operators. In generating an IAR the 'user name' and 'password' is used in the command string to generate the archive. You do not want to share this information with anyone.

Unfortunately, NO. Only REGION operators can use the console commands that generate oars. This is because OSgrid is not hosting all of the regions, individual users are. Instructions are given on osgrid.org showing you how to host your own region using a spare computer at home and then connecting it to osgrid.

You can transfer items to your Kitely avatar or any other HG alt; assuming you have the necessary permissions to do so. This may be the best option for someone in your situation. Good luck.

The latest version of Ruth 2 should have Bakes on Mesh support and therefore the avatar can wear system clothing and attachments. I have had great success with legacy clothing on mesh avatars. Sometimes finding proper fitting meshes can be a pain in the neck, this is where BOM can really shine and there are so many legal templates and textures to be found. Be sure to check out the outworldz OAR and IAR libraries. The one with the Creative Commons licenses are optimal. You can modify the clothing templates in your favorite photo editor for infinite options. Opensim is a playground for your imagination and there is no limit to what you can achieve with it using only legal content. Kudos to you!

That sounds like a fun recreation. Some NPC shows could be FUN, will Jimi Hendricks be there??? Watch out for the virtual drugs... Those candy corns will take you out of this world!

The best response to trolls is NO RESPONSE. You see, troublemakers get their kicks from causing others distress, they are like vampires feeding off of negative energy. When they come to taunt you and you act like they do not exist, THEY STARVE... they head to greener pastures where they can stir up mayhem. So, rev up your insufferably clever ban utilities, deny permissions to strangers and rest with some peace of mind....

Trolling the TROLLS, how poetic! Where's my popcorn?

ALWAYS LOOK FOR TROUBLE: Not to get into it, but to STAY OUT of it.