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Jan 9, 2003, 6:51pm

Broadband (mostly ADSL, some power line or cable, very few Sat DSL)
coverage in germany is about 27% I think. Some cannot get it because
of the region, some prefer cheaper ISDN flat rates.


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Jan 10, 2003, 5:38am

The "specific program" is freeware, it seems to be a stripped-down
lite version of 3DS Max : http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
I haven't played with it yet.

From how I read it they just offer a way to market your avatars
and 3D models like in ebay but I'm quite sure you can still make
them freeware or freesource.


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Jan 13, 2003, 5:53am

When you wrote this, you should already have had one ...


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Jan 13, 2003, 6:10am

Have you checked the Logfile that the world server writes?
The linux world server gives no error messages on the screen,
everything is written to the log file. I guess the windows
version works the same.

If you have been in the world, it must have noticed this and
must have written the information into the log file.


Can you connect the world server with the admin tool? It should
show the world running too, filling the INI file isn't enough.

If you couldn't connect with the admin tool, check the world
server logfile again if it reports an error or just didn't see
the connect attempt at all.


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Jan 13, 2003, 4:15pm

You should be able to make an atdump, make a backup copy of
atdump.txt, then modify those lines :

6 *
7 *
8 *
26 *
36 *
38 *

(have I forgotten one ?) and then atload the file.

This should allow anything to anyone so you should at least
be able to enter and maybe find out what's wrong. I am not
sure if that helps in any way - but it's at least a try.


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Jan 18, 2003, 9:02am

As long as it is weekend and as long as it covers at least
half a day, it should not be a problem for most to visit.
I think we shoud not bring VR stuff down to any national(istic)
discussion. In VR anything goes, why should it not be possible
to make it international?

In Andras' easter egg and christmas present hunt it worked,
avvys and cys didn't fail either. The fireworks of Jo, Nightraven
and Gobman have been very well visited by people from all over
the globe just lately.

This shows that time zones do not really matter too much.


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Jan 18, 2003, 1:35pm

Would be a point for choosing a "good" time for people using CET +/- 2 *g


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Jan 18, 2003, 8:47am

wb :)

Oh, and get rid of "coming soon", I was already about to use
the back arrow in the web browser because I didn't expect it
would send me to the awnews contents. "Coming soon" usually
means there is not anything there yet.

Well, maybe part of the dust *g


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Jan 18, 2003, 5:50pm

A little patience needed :)

The page sends you to http://www.awnews.org/html/
after 5 seconds.


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Jan 24, 2003, 2:37pm

:(

More and more worlds have tourist access - why leave completely?


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Jan 27, 2003, 4:26am

Andras has one for this purpose

news://andras.net/OffTopic.flames

but you could avoid the flames and trolling a little by choosing
the group related to your topic. Some of your latest posts would
have been more wishlist related - although I am not sure if Enzo
or someone else from AWC reads it frequently, but I don't know
that about Community either. At least sometimes they do though,
as there are some replies sometimes.

I am quite sure that nearly everyone who reads Community has
subscribed to Wishlist too, so posting wishes there will not reach
less readers, it will just make the picky ones less upset ;)


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Jan 28, 2003, 4:02pm

I am quite a newbie, relatively spoken, but I know that some
of the good "old" guys are still arround now and then.

Facter isn't gone either. Let's hope that Flagg will stay in
AW too.


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Jan 28, 2003, 4:12pm

*digs in 5.25" stacks* - wasn't that part of the SB-AWE32
software paket years back?


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Jan 29, 2003, 2:50pm

Afaik. this "stuff" is now your library ;)

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Feb 5, 2003, 2:56pm

What are Peter pans then? Pans you put under a Peter for ...


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Feb 6, 2003, 6:09pm

In mens bathrooms? Women do not wash their hands?


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Feb 7, 2003, 2:55pm

There are even more :)

Check http://mauz.info/awworlds.html (scroll down)
or http://oct31.de/aw/awstart/AwStartCfg.txt


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Mar 8, 2003, 6:54pm

Spellcheckers are for people who cannot write properly.

Otoh. I would be interested to know what a Norwegian spell
checker would do to an English text ...


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Mar 18, 2003, 6:55pm

Here's a good draft for US citizens, just fill in the actual color :

http://www.bvfp.org/BV4P%20pstcrds%201-03.doc

(found on http://www.bvfp.org/ through http://www.war-times.org/)


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Mar 19, 2003, 4:53am

Any reason and any method would be fine at this time. It's
already too late to change things but not too late to show
Bush how wrong it is what he is doing.

I have choosen those links because they have a few more
interesting things to say though.


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Apr 6, 2003, 7:19pm

allow 2 or more instances :)

Why don't you just use a hash from universe/host as the
window class? This would allow multiple browsers on the
same PC without tricks but inhibit multiple instances in
the same universe - well, IF you need to inhibit something.


2 instances work very well :
- 2.2 with 3.3
- 3.2 with 3.3
- 3.2 with 3.4
- 2.2 with 3.4
- 2.2 with 2.2
- 3.3 with 3.3


I never had any trouble with it, even on my slow P2/400
with software rendering. The background AW just updates
the 3D view very seldom - but that's fine.


And I think it would even be a necessary change - 3dee is
a different product than 3dnetz for example, so why does
3dnetz not start when 3dee is running ?


Maybe add "on your own risk" or something like that to the
manual, and "report no bugs when this fails".


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Apr 13, 2003, 4:49am

I don't have a credit card because I think CC companies rip
people off. Money order from Europe to the US is complicated
and expencive.

I hope they will allow PayPal payment soon. They take away
some % too but are easy to handle.

Even better would be if they had bank accounts in those
countries with many customers. Some companies have that.
An example are the makers of the old 3d explorer, they had
bank accounts in several European countries. Or they could
ask their distributors to handle it.


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Apr 13, 2003, 5:26am

I can only speak for me :

An AW citizenship would be a nice present for a friend who
does not have enough own money but the current payment
methods are not very friendly to "foreign" customers.


The problem I have with CC companies is that they rip of
those people who do _not_ have a CC, that's why I refuse
to get a credit card. They force shop owners to increase
the prices in order to avoid a credit card fee for their
customers who want to pay with CC. That's blackmail and
maffia methods :-(


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Apr 13, 2003, 12:58pm

PayPal only for new worlds I think, not for renewals.
I asked about it and they replied "maybe later"


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Apr 13, 2003, 4:51pm

Annual price paying with CC : $69.95

Annual price paying through PayByCash : $84.95

Plus the fee from PayPal to PayByCash

I think even money order would be cheaper than that.


When I asked for world renewal I received this answer :

<quote>
At this time we do not offer world purchase or renewals through PayPal. I
have asked out tech people to see if there is anything we can do to ad such
a service. I will let you know if they come up with anything positive.
</quote>

so there is a chance that they will support PayPal directly sometimes :)



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Apr 13, 2003, 6:27pm

2.9% is way cheaper than any other transfer method.

I wouldn't mind it AW would add 5% to the cit. price for
PayPal users but anything close to or even above 20% is
too much for just transporting the money.

It is even cheaper to physically send money with UPS,
including insurance, than most money transfer methods.



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Apr 18, 2003, 8:57pm

I'm not sure if you or me have misunderstood Hamster.

I think his idea is to have only ONE station that sends
different contents depending on your location. Similar to
those RDS car radios that always search for the closest
station.


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Apr 27, 2003, 6:35am

The new HTTP header fields help to protect.

They help to protect artwork on your own object path as well
as use of free web space that is against the terms of usage
of free web space providers. The idea for this HTTP referrer
information even came from wishlist, from people who wanted
more protection for their artwork, wanted to stop parasitic
use of their object path or just wanted to send different
informations depending on the world you're visiting.

It is just good manner to identify yourself when you download
stuff. Traffic causes costs.

If you want to blame someone, blame the web space providers
but AW did the correct thing by adding those informations.
They do what every web browser does and adapted to the common
standards.

From RFC2616 :

> The Referer[sic] request-header field allows the client to
> specify, for the server's benefit, the address (URI) of the
> resource from which the Request-URI was obtained

Further down (same RFC) you find :

> For example, a browser client could have a toggle switch for
> browsing openly/anonymously, which would respectively enable/
> disable the sending of Referer and From information.

but this recommendation refers to the protection of secure
documents and does not apply here, an AW world is not a secure
document. You still have the option to filter the referrer
yourself, using a local proxy.


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Apr 27, 2003, 10:00am

Nothing wrong about inventing an URI

It is a protocol identifier like http:, ftp:, telnet:, mailto:
gopher:, mk: and so on and as they invented the protocol they
can make an identifier for it too.

All companies create URI protocol prefixes for all kinds of web
browser plugins (especially the streaming ones). Why should AW
not do something similar?

What they now could add is a registry handler for this protocol,
that allows urlmon.dll to start the AW browser in the referenced
world. This is the last tweak that is needed to create a working
URI for the desired environment (windows).


And it allows the providers of free web space to take care for
their terms of usage, which cannot be wrong at all. If they
give away something for free they have any right to restrict
the usage. Most of them disallow using their ressources just
for storage, they pay for the traffic and the banners bring
this investments back. Free web space is a business and like
any other business they have to make money.

This is how it works.


The only thing that AW destroyed was the ability to do something
that should not have been done anyway.


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Apr 29, 2003, 7:11pm

I think hiding the online status is over-used. Why do
people go to a chat system just in order to hide there?

Especially the "hide" setting in the citizen options is
used way too much - often people are quite surprised
that they are hiding - it isn't clear to them that they
hide from everyone else and wonder why they do not meet
their friends anymore.

Some seem to think that the "hide" option does not affect
people they have on their contact list.

There should be an option to hide the own online status
for people who hide theirs. And there should be a warning
message that explains exactly what happens when someone
puts a checkmark into the "hide" option.

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