Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2015-10-11

15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good afternoon, Lindal
15:04 Lindal Kidd hello Word!
15:04 Gavan167 hi TeeLu
15:04 Lindal Kidd hi everyone
15:04 TeeLu Hello Everyone
15:04 Lindal Kidd looks around
15:04 JasperJag hello Dean Kidd
15:04 Lindal Kidd sees a serious Dean shortage
15:04 Gavan167 my name is Zak Beggans
15:05 JasperJag hello Elf
15:05 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen We have two at the moment, so I'll call a start.
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, everyone. This is our weekly Q&A.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Normally, there are more of us, but I know at least one is on travel.
15:07 Gavan167 hi Agatha
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Lindal, did you have anything new to mention? (or even something said before)
15:07 Lindal Kidd Last week I presented three offerings of Avatar Safety off campus. They were very well received, especially the ones at Virtual Ability. During one of them, I was made aware of a new exploit. Apparently it is possible for someone to stand outside your secured parcel, reach in, and actually take objects. We think this is done with an illegal viewer. LL is aware of it, and is trying to come up with a solution.
15:07 Gavan167 how are you
15:08 Lindal Kidd Until a fix is found, I suggest installing a visitor tracker on your lands
15:08 Gavan167 *thinks* is she ok?
15:09 Lindal Kidd I have also done some updating of the Avatar Safety class
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Would that actually catch someone off your parcel, Lindal?
15:10 Gavan167 looks down*
15:10 Lindal Kidd no, but it would catch them if they did get on your land. The person this happened to has instituted a "neighborhood watch" with his neighbors in the sim
15:10 Lindal Kidd that may not be practical for everyone :(
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hopefully, LL is able to squash that exploit before long. It does present a topic to look for discussion on in forums.
15:12 Gavan167 *thinks* wow she looks really pretty and cute and adorable
15:12 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) I'm sorry, what was that exploit?
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else from the info side?
15:13 Lindal Kidd A new German help area landmark was distributed to the staff by Phrynne. Kudos!
15:13 Lindal Kidd Virtual Spain hasn't moved...this week!
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen In a moderate region (German help area).
15:14 Lindal Kidd jawohl
15:14 JasperJag (lol)
15:14 Lindal Kidd that's all from my department, Word
15:14 Gavan167 hello
15:14 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) And, in other news, a gigantic EXPLOSION....in the price of lumber.
15:14 Lindal Kidd down, I hope. We're remodeling in RL
15:15 Gavan167 hi
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hannah, the exploit is supposedly using an illegal viewer to reach from one parcel into an adjoining one to take objects.
15:15 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) ty
15:15 Lindal Kidd not copybotting either...the actual objects are taken, even if they are Locked
15:15 JasperJag can they be taken off Avs, VC?
15:15 Lindal Kidd I don't believe so, Jasper
15:15 JasperJag hmm, serious
15:16 JasperJag oh! i misread
15:16 JasperJag ok
15:16 Gavan167 hi
15:16 JasperJag may i ask what is the difference in object on a sim to on an AV?
15:16 Gavan167 hi there
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nothing much from the education side, partly because I was down part of the week.
15:17 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) Hello
15:17 Lindal Kidd well...given the proper permissions, you can edit objects in world. But you cannot edit something another person is wearing.
15:17 Gavan167 what's your name
15:17 JasperJag ty
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm Florian is collecting class ideas and teacher ideas for new classes, including ones from people I've talked with before.
15:18 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) There is a class now, please do not bother us.
15:18 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) Thanks
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Aylaria had to announce last week that plans for a fall fund raiser have been postponed. She'd taken on the organization and then had RL toss unexpected things her way.
15:20 Lindal Kidd oh dear!
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Seems time to open things up for questions.
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anyone?
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen (Makes note to create a cricket clip)
15:23 Lindal Kidd darn it. I wanna make up some answers.
15:23 Jorge Serapis *raises hand*
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Jorge?
15:23 Jorge Serapis Will this be the fastest Q&A you've ever done?
15:23 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) raises her hand.
15:23 JasperJag Might it be an idea to sell some Oxbridge Uni merchandise to raise funds?
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Close to it.
15:24 JasperJag oops sorry i didn't raise my hand
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hannah?
15:24 Gavan167 raises my hand
15:24 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) I was thinking about getting a Solid State Drive (SSD) for my computer. Do you have any opinions on whether they work well with SL or whether they provide a significant benefit?
15:24 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) ty
15:25 Lindal Kidd I use an SSD, Hannah, for the program, and a RAID array for the cache. Everything works very well
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen They are significantly faster. Somewhat smaller than regular drives and more expensive per GB, but offer faster starts.
15:26 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) Yes that is what I heard.
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Jasperjag, we do have some merchandise for sale in the small store by the train station.
15:27 JasperJag yes, VC, i went to look, but not terribly much is available
15:27 JasperJag IMO the store may be under- utilised
15:27 JasperJag and made much more dynamic
15:28 JasperJag one cap with helicopter blades for instance
15:28 JasperJag i was thinking Oxbridge blazers, guernesye
15:28 Lindal Kidd proudly dons her propeller beanie
15:28 JasperJag caops stc
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Gavan, you had a question?
15:29 JasperJag u wear it with panache Dean Kidd ;)
15:29 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Someone was asking or Oxbridge uniform but I do not remember who it was...
15:29 JasperJag mayge a uniform would stifle appearance creativity
15:30 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) I think there used to be one
15:30 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) there are robes in the tutorial.
15:30 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) Yes, that is what I was thinking about
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen There have been tartan objects, but I don't recall there being a uniform as such.
15:31 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Greetings, Mr Florian
15:31 Samm Florian Mr? My dad's here?
15:31 Lindal Kidd I have a dress in the Oxbridge tartan pattern
15:31 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:31 JasperJag they'd be fun (academic robes) to wear about campus, thanks Andrea
15:31 Lindal Kidd I believe Martini made it
15:32 Samm Florian hides in th'back since she dunno if she can stay long.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm, did you have anything to add to an education report?
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen I mentioned your collecting class ideas.
15:32 Samm Florian Nope, other'n folks can send me Ideas fer classes and I'll add 'em to http://samm.nfshost.com/Oxbridge/. And if ya see a class there you'd like t'teach, talk t'Word or me.
15:33 Samm Florian Or even if ya wanna flesh out some sorta syllabus, like "this class really needs t'cover X, Y, and Z".
15:34 Lindal Kidd that's a nice compilation, Samm
15:34 Samm Florian Thanks. :)
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen We also accept ideas for seminars, something that isn't an every week class but might be taught or presented occasionally.
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions or comments?
15:38 Samm Florian agrees 'bout the seminars.
15:38 Samm Florian Some of those classes on th'site might work best as once-a-month or somethin'.
15:39 Samm Florian sneaks back t'RL.
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks for popping in.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen If nothing else, then we might as well adjourn.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Going once,
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen twice,
15:41 Lindal Kidd bewm!
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Bangs the gavel down. Adjourned
15:41 JasperJag :)
15:41 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Bedtime for me. then.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming.
15:41 Jorge Serapis thanks for the Q&A. :-) Laters!
15:41 Lindal Kidd see you all next week or even sooner
15:41 JasperJag nite elf
15:42 Hannah Bluemood Utherwurldly (hannah.bluemood) ty