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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437472813-02042009>I have
not followed this discussion all that closely, but I do have a few
questions.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437472813-02042009>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!)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=437472813-02042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437472813-02042009>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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=437472813-02042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437472813-02042009>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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=437472813-02042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437472813-02042009>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?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=437472813-02042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=437472813-02042009>Personally, I want to thank everyone who has worked so
hard on OpenSim. It sure has come a long way since 0.4.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=437472813-02042009>Aldon</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
opensim-users-bounces@lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-users-bounces@lists.berlios.de]<B>On Behalf Of </B>James
Stallings II<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:13 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Frank W Sweet; opensim-users@lists.berlios.de<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Opensim-users] You Assholes lost our funding!<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Apparently,
you don't agree completely.
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>'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.
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Frank W Sweet <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:fwsweet@backintyme.com">fwsweet@backintyme.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">James
Stallings II wrote, "Bravo Ralf, well done," refering to a<BR>message by
Ralf Haifisch that ends with, "Donīt blame other for a lack<BR>
<DIV class=im>of skills, prudence or you nervous customers."<BR><BR></DIV>I
agree completely. Here is a project where a developer (with the<BR>avowed
support of other developers) plants a time-bomb that denotates<BR>weeks
later, rendering the software unusable in a way that cannot be<BR>recovered
by reverting to prior relases (which were aready secretly<BR>contaminated).
I agree with Ralf and Stallings. Anyone who continues<BR>in such a project,
knowing that this can happen again, is lacking in<BR>prudence, skills, and
will certainly have nervous customers.<BR><BR>By the way, how much longer is
this thread going to continue? It seems<BR>to me that everything that can be
said has been said. Developers<BR>(correctly) believe that they have the
right to plant time bombs that<BR>render the software useless because
everyone is warned that the<BR>software is pre-release (bleeding edge,
trunk, whatever). I agree.<BR>They have that right, since they are
volunteers and need to commit a<BR>"prank" now and then. On the other hand,
some users (including me)<BR>believe that prudence requires us to shun such
a project because,<BR>while we can live with bugs, which can be reverted, we
cannot live<BR>with with deliberate malware, which cannot.<BR><FONT
color=#888888><BR>FWS<BR></FONT>
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