[Opensim-users] You Assholes lost our funding!

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Aldon Hynes wrote:
> I have not followed this discussion all that closely, but I do have a 
> few questions.
>  
> My install of OpenSim did not appear to be affected.  However, I don't 
> have a need for the bleeding edge version, so I don't download from 
> SVN.  The version I have is one that I downloaded back in September.  
> (Of 2007, maybe I should do a refresh soon!)
>  
> I went back into my version, and I couldn't find any easy way of 
> determining which version it was.  (I believe it was some branch of 0.4, 
> but I'm not positive)  Is there an easy way to do that?  Perhaps with 
> the new versions?

You could try the 'show version' command from the console, though your code might be so old that it doesn't have this!

>  
> If I connect to some OpenSim grid from the Second Life Client, is there 
> any way to determine which version of a grid or a region I'm connecting too?

You can also try going to Help->About in the Linden Lab client.  This will tell you the region version.  It isn't really 
possible to tell the versions of code running on grid services (though of course these must at least be compatible with 
the region being run).

>  
> I see that there plenty of versions out in the wild now, such as various 
> patched levels of 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.6.4 and the SVN version. Can someone 
> confirm for me which branches the prank was in?  Was it only in the SVN 
> version?  If I had pulled the perferred version, 06.4 Alpha with 
> post-release fixes, would I have encountered the prank?  What about the 
> 0.6.3 or the 0.6.2 versions?

Aldon, the prank/joke/easter egg was in none of the released branch code and the developers were very careful to make 
sure that it didn't get in any of these.  It did indeed only exist in the SVN/trunk line.

>  
> Personally, I want to thank everyone who has worked so hard on OpenSim.  
> It sure has come a long way since 0.4. 

 From my part, thanks very much :)

>  
> Aldon
>  
>  
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
>     [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de]*On Behalf Of *James
>     Stallings II
>     *Sent:* Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:13 AM
>     *To:* Frank W Sweet; opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>     *Subject:* Re: [Opensim-users] You Assholes lost our funding!
> 
>     Apparently, you don't agree completely.
> 
>     'Useless' is a terrific overstatement, as is the characterization
>     'malware'. I tend to think of the whole thing as more of an easter
>     egg, especially given that the 'logic bomb' fires for only 24 hours.
> 
>     The real tragedy here is that so few have gotten the message with
>     respect to deploying this alpha software in a production capacity:
>     Don't. And if you do, be prepared for a rough ride.
> 
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Frank W Sweet
>     <fwsweet at backintyme.com <mailto:fwsweet at backintyme.com>> wrote:
> 
>         James Stallings II wrote, "Bravo Ralf, well done," refering to a
>         message by Ralf Haifisch that ends with, "Don´t blame other for
>         a lack
>         of skills, prudence or you nervous customers."
> 
>         I agree completely. Here is a project where a developer (with the
>         avowed support of other developers) plants a time-bomb that
>         denotates
>         weeks later, rendering the software unusable in a way that cannot be
>         recovered by reverting to prior relases (which were aready secretly
>         contaminated). I agree with Ralf and Stallings. Anyone who continues
>         in such a project, knowing that this can happen again, is lacking in
>         prudence, skills, and will certainly have nervous customers.
> 
>         By the way, how much longer is this thread going to continue? It
>         seems
>         to me that everything that can be said has been said. Developers
>         (correctly) believe that they have the right to plant time bombs
>         that
>         render the software useless because everyone is warned that the
>         software is pre-release (bleeding edge, trunk, whatever). I agree.
>         They have that right, since they are volunteers and need to commit a
>         "prank" now and then. On the other hand, some users (including me)
>         believe that prudence requires us to shun such a project because,
>         while we can live with bugs, which can be reverted, we cannot live
>         with with deliberate malware, which cannot.
> 
>         FWS
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