Archive for December, 2006

Setting up vendors

Thursday, 7 December 2006

Well, last night I bought myself a JEVN vendor system, I’ve long delayed in setting up vendors or turning my items into products for sale (with a few exceptions, namely the mirrors and Flexis on display in my “Flexi Fun” museum). So now I’m going through the repetitive task of rezzing, photographing, setting permissions (which I’m not very sure about but I’ll leave at mod/copy/no-trans for the most part) photoshopping, uploading the texture and adding to the server. Fun.

The JEVN system is a popular one, you need only tour a few of the big malls in Second Life and you’ll see plenty, which is funny as it’s possible to rebuild the vendor itself and retexture everything to the point where it wouldn’t be recognisable as a JEVN vendor and yet we see so many of them in the default state. The system works by storing the items, textures and notecard of settings in a server, multiple vendors can be placed anywhere throughout the grid/world and registered to this server such that any changes or additions to your server’s contents or notecards (i.e. updating prices) will result in these changes taking effect at your vendors thus removing the requirement to travel from vendor to vendor and make the changes manually at each.

JEVN vendors are available from SLExchange.

The last word on CopyBot

Saturday, 2 December 2006

Well, if you’ve read my rambling on CopyBot you’ll know I detested the speculation and rumours that surrounded it and turned the whole thing into a major drama show.

Thankfully I saw libsecondlife’s recent post Your World, Your Imagination, Your protocol.

In the post they link to three “fact vs. fiction” sites (which I’ll link here to pad this post out a bit):

http://www.libsecondlife.org/content/view/30/
http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/11/15/copybot/
http://www.sluniverse.com/forums/topic12759-1-1.aspx

Well, that should be the end of that. It should, but what is that I hear? “!quit” you say? aww crap! We’re now plagued by “simple copybot protection” and other such nonsense, this spam is possibly more of a problem than the CopyBot itself was (exageration perhaps). For more information see Spambot backlash… need help or search for !quit in a forum near you.