[Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly of interest to grid operators/grid nauts

[Melanie]

Hi,

what does OSGrid have to do with WinGridProxy? These are two
completely different things.

- Melanie

On 20/11/2012 16:47, Snowcrash Short wrote:
> I have some bad news.
> 
> I believe I have found a way to determine if MyInventory is being proxied
> by WinGridProxy, but I cannot reliably test if my detection scheme has
> false positives.
> 
> I would appear that the OSGrid admins has decided to block MyInventory, at
> least that is the conclusion I have reached. I can log into OSGrid using
> e.g. Phoenix but when doing the same with with MyInventory I receive the
> message: "Logins are currently restricted. Please try again later". Login
> worked a few days ago, and works on every other grid I have used for
> testing.
> 
> It is a shame really, I would like to have included detection of
> WinGridProxy, and I simply refuse to resort to hacking methods in order to
> test this.
> 
> So, I'm afraid I cannot comply with your wish to detect and prevent the use
> of WinGridProxy.
> 
> Best regards
> Snowcrash
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Snowcrash Short
> <snowcrash.short at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> First of all, I'm not all that enthused about the BSD license, it does
>> grant some permissions I'm not completely at ease with.
>>
>> I am far from convinced that ordinary users would want to run and operate
>> their own regions, I might be persuaded to think otherwise, but at the
>> moment, I have the impression that believing all users should run an
>> instance of Robust and HG, is like believing that all problems are nail
>> just because a hammer is the tool I have at hand.
>>
>> But, oth. I could see some reasons why a very very very user friendly and
>> almost invisible personal user local region might be of some use in some
>> scenarios.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/19/2012 1:42 PM, Snowcrash Short wrote:
>>>
>>>> Using Robust as a basis for storing a users personal inventory and
>>>> assets (legally licensed naturally) is asking too much of the average user
>>>> in my personal opinion, it needs to be simpler.
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> I hope that clarifies why I have opted to stay away from writing code
>>>> for Robust.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You seem to want to design a collection of user services that run on a
>>> person's computer, wrapped up in a nice UI. Robust + HG user services gives
>>> you that, without the UI. You have technical choices that affect how the
>>> community will perceive your work. If you prefer to redesign/reimplement
>>> from scratch instead of using what's already been designed/implemented,
>>> that's your choice. If you prefer to use libomv, in order to force grids to
>>> open their resources to you, instead of giving grid operators options,
>>> that's also your choice.
>>>
>>> Feedback doesn't seem to be registering.
>>> One final time, good luck!
>>>
>>>
>>> Diva
>>>
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