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With SLX now charging for freebies (d-bags) I was thinking it would be
nice to give items right from the web.  The first problem was many web
pages limit the code you can put in to a page.  Next issue was keeping
it simple so anyone can use it, and this is what I came up with the Web
Freebie Giver. This is licensed under GPLv3,
please click the link for the details, but basically you are free to
use it as you wish, any changes need to be given back to the project. 
The code is available at google code, or in world at Fermi Sandbox. If you wish to contribute to this project please contact Arthur Fermi.

Sorry about the jump, but it was kind of a pain to post the original entry as it has copyable code and things like that.

Visit the Fermi Sandbox web site for the rest of the entry.

Arthur Fermi

I posted this as a JIRA, which was put as under advisement.  But the reality is I was told the tools are good enough to keep the casual griefer out, which is great, but what about the not so casual griefer.

IP and MAC bans are easy to get around.  A new system of system identification is needed that is much more difficult to get around.  

Ideally using the serial numbers of  the BIOS, MB and CPU or other components that are unlikely to change.  This data would then be converted to a string and a hash generated.  I have provided some rough code to get the data.  While I used WMI and VBScript to get the data you would want to make it so that it was not part of the main source, but a DLL or some other executable that is required for operation of the system.  I would query more data than what is needed to make reverse engineering more difficult

BIOS Information (Serial # + Manufacture)
' -- Bios Information
'-- VB Script
    strComputer = "."
    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
        & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
   
    Set colBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
        ("Select * from Win32_BIOS")
   
    For each objBIOS in colBIOS
        Wscript.Echo "Manufacturer: " & objBIOS.Manufacturer
        Wscript.Echo "Serial Number: " & objBIOS.SerialNumber
    Next
   

Mother Board Serial Number
' -- Motherboard Information
' -- VB Script
    On Error Resume Next
    
    Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10 { Read more }

We help create the builders, scripters, texture designers, business owners, shop owners, shoppers, escorts, and everything else.  Of course I’m not saying everyone is helped by an educator, but many are.  I am not going to talk about everyone else, cause I run Fermi Sandbox and University, and we partner with SL Learning Centre to get our classes out.  The partnership is new, in the past we did our own classes.  There are really two types of educators in SL, those who teach RL things using SL as a medium and those who teach SL things.  Most major schools, they teach RL things to their students, it’s also a marketing thing for them.  Now for the rest of us, we teach people how to get by in SL, let me list some of the classes that have been given by Fermi Sandbox and University.
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Griefer - grief·er

Noun

A griefer is a slang term used to describe a player in a multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Griefing is a malignant form of emergent gameplay.

What is a Griefer

Griefers, are really people that are generally out to have fun by refusing to play the game as it was designed and having fun the expense of others, now that is not true of all griefers, some have political agendas. I am not going to answer if it is right or wrong or the agendas are real, or correct, that is not the point of this article. Based on my observation there are several types of griefers that come to the sandbox, below is my description of them. These are very generalized observations. { Read more }

Kai and I are happy to announce that JeZeBeLe Dagger accepted the position of University Coordinator. She is currently developing a Leadership Council that will be detailed soon. Currently until things are all in place, things run as they have been however, questions should go through JeZ. Please take the time to welcome her. Kai and I are very grateful that Jez has taken on this responsibility.

This is from one of the Fermi University instructors, it is also posted on the fermidesigns.com web site.

For those who still having trouble to align a prim, it’s this weeks tip :)
1. Edit the prim (be sure Use Grid is selected as option)
2. Press your CTRL key
3. Click and hold the button on one of the axiles (red, green or blue circle)
4. Drag your cursor while still holding the mousebutton to the outer circle (with Up, Down, South and North on it)
5. As you notice the prim quickly aligns using the grid

I have attached an image allowing you to see these steps.

~ Happy Building ~
Cinderella Winkler

Arthur Fermi
Fermi Sandbox & University

This amazing build was in the sandbox today, and it is amazing to see in motion! I had a brief time to talk to Maklin Deckard today while he was packaging this up. The gears are all sculpties, and all mesh, the planets rotate at proportional speeds to each other. It is simply amazing to see in motion. There are pictures on the Fermi Designs web site. Once there if you mouse over the sandbox menu you will see cool builds, click on that for pictures.