Darnk Yun

zzZZz.....*snort* HUH?!...........mmMmm........ZZZzzzzZZzz.

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Ahaha, such a simpleton. It'z so much fun playing jokez on you. I waz only here to see how she waz doing, but I had fun while I waz at it. So long, Sere, au revoir, mon ami! Pleaze dream of moi every night! Oui! ~ Harle

http://leechmouth.deviantart.com/

Tyabela

Ok you can pick at my ignorance if you like. I fully admit I am not a computer guru.

How did you guys know his world was hosted on a home pc and connection before he told you?

Struck me it might be important to be able to figure that out.

Sione

It's called a reverse DNS lookup. It resolves an IP address to a domain name.
In this case the domain was cable.teksavvy.com the cable part was a dead giveaway and also teksavvy.com is a Canadian ISP.

There are free tools online to do it, here is the first one that popped up in Google Reverse DNS Lookup

Beebo Brink

The OP may have had the best of intentions, but he presented an offer with all the legitimacy of a scammer. It's entirely possible this was done out of sheer naievte, but that is just another reason why no one took this vr seriously.

As eku pointed out, any creations loaded to this world could be easily copied by the computer owner. It's the equivalent of some random guy tacking an "ART GALLERY" sign on his front door and inviting people to bring in their original art to showcase in his livingroom.

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Noob: "okay.... im in a house with cages and people in gags and the door just locked and i cant get out :c"

Beebo Brink

A hive-mind of adults who know how the adult tech world works and who scold children who try to put a lemonade stand up in the business district rather than their front lawn. Start small -- invite your friends over to play in your house; don't put a notice in the paper inviting anyone and everyone to come into your bedroom. You come off as either a victim or a creepy guy trolling for visitors.

The offer was as risky for the OP as it was for any of us to take him up on it (remember the trolling he's already experienced). But go ahead, send money to that lovely Nigerian prince who needs your help.

Yoshiko Fazuku

i wrote a blog post on this kinda thing the other day because another small start up grid that was up for a month or two shut down.

http://blog.slackdog.com/article.php...serious_biznus

I mentioned in an earlier post on this thread i have lot of respect for those who do it, but i have even more respect for those who do it right. Unfortunately most people have no clue just what a can of worms they are opening if they dont.

And yes i finally made a blog of my own . If you wana coment on that post on the blog you have to create a real account on the cms, I don't have social networking logins enabled yet. I have to make a few auth modules useing the example code supplied by the various sites special for my cms, which takes a little time.

Adeon Writer

To those who see this as anything more than a phishing attempt, I'm envious of your charity.

Han Held

You can't log onto the hypergrid with your secondlife credentials. Also I don't think if he was a phisher he would have come back (twice) to yell at us.

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Drama is easy
with eyes closed
misunderstanding all you read

Siggy

I still have a working Amiga 2000

Maybe I should start a grid on it....

(my first computer was a challenger 1p Superboard... try googling it.. it didn't have a case, so for my 7th grade woodworking project I made one for it.. I literally did have a computer made out of wood)

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And as it was in the beginning, so too shall it be in the end. That bullshit is bullshit, it just goes by different names.

Arkady Arkright

Me too - KIM-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in a homemade plywood box, with a homemade 4K memory board (do they still make VeroBoard ?), and 16 char by 4 line text output to an oscilloscope via a resistor ladder.

Oh my, happy days...

Siggy

4k! hahah actually mine came with 4k .. but because when it was ordered they were out of stock of boards and my Dad had to wait 3 months, they shipped the EXPANDED version with 8k!

I remember several years later when I bought a Commodore 64 and thinking that the cassette player that plugged into it was the coolest thing EVER .. because I didn't have to hook it up to my boom box and fiddle with the record levels to save a program....

I wouldn't mind picking up an old 64 for shits n giggles at some point - I could port Second Life to it, in C= Basic!

10 REM *** c64 SECOND LIFE!
20 PRINT "You are in your sim - what would you like to do ?"
30 INPUT A$
40 PRINT "Sorry, we are experiencing technical difficulties at the moment... try again in 10 minutes"
50 GOTO 20


Hours of fun and just like the real thing!

Yoshiko Fazuku

Dont you mean 50 CLOAD OPENSIM

.....

Siggy

Same program only add a few random conditions for physics shitting itself.

Han Held

An interesting little footnote to this whole dramafest:
Shakeups on the hypergrid – Hypergrid Business

Marie Reynaud

I'm guessing next is trying to log into SL with the names and passwords of anyone stupid enough to log into DaseinWorld.