http://xyzzyxyzzy.net ...you are in a grid of twisty, little links, all alike. there's a teleport gate here. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:54:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en daTwitch and nebadon, both infamous opensim developers did an interesting experiment over the weekend: they patched mono and rebuild it with the --with-large-heap configuration option and then load tested OpenSim --- result: you get way more bang for your buck! so, i've updated the mono-build script to include that patch and ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/06/30/tunafish-tune-a-mono/ similar to other virtual worlds opensim supports in-world chat (and instant messaging) so that two avatars can "talk" to one another. the code that implements that functionality is mostly contained in ChatModule, a region module. OpenSim also supports an IRC bridge: you can tie your OpenSim grid to an IRC channel ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/27/splitting-opensims-chat-module/ 47.308883299155255 8.544209003448486 since time immemorial (well, almost) i own a private epson 1260 scanner. a couple of weeks ago i --- foolishly, as it turns out now --- offered to my in-laws to copy all lake district articles out of our country walking collections. foolishly, because i realized that country walking must ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/18/we-have-buttons/ our lab "owns" an island on the LindenLab grid and we've created a "lab" avatar who is the estate owner. as the island is paid for by the lab, we need to have monthly account statements on file for the bean counters. so far, i had to remember to log ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/15/automatically-downloading-lindenlab%e2%84%a2-account-statements/ 47.308883299155255 8.544209003448486 we are currently trying to figure out what the best approach for a REST "API" for regions is and would like to solicit comments :-) currently the idea is to have a scheme as follows: http://opensim.foobar.org:9000/admin/regions --- GET returns an array of (UUID, name, x location, y location, region's REST URL) POST would ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/14/restful-regions/ 47.131074826701266 8.747992515563965 we are currently looking at adding REST support to the RemoteAdmin plugin (other stuff to follow) --- the idea being that we can get information about (as well as change state of) a running OpenSim instance not only via XmlRpc but also via REST. looking at the way we currently deal ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/14/serialization-format-for-opensim-rest-services/ 47.131074826701266 8.747992515563965 mucking around with trying to get mono to run on hardy heron (and my custom compiled kernel1) i ended up with a mutilated mono installation. just following my previous recipe didn't work out too well for the mono document browser...duh...:-( so, i took sean's shell script and gave that a spin. ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/08/updated-mono-build-script-for-hardy-heron-and-mono-191/ 47.308883299155255 8.544209003448486 ever since i switched to wordpress 2.5 (and 2.5.1) i was experiencing absurdly high CPU loads whenever i posted a new blog entry or changed a page --- culminating in loads of 124+ yesterday, effectively bringing our server to a standstill! :-( not good. not good at all. a ps ax ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/02/fixing-absurdly-high-wordpress-cpu-loads/ 49.592996386465515 11.018568277359009 having bitten the bullet and upgraded from feisty fawn to hardy heron i had to reinstall my amorok from svn to get proper support for artwork again...which requires an installation of libgpod from svn...which on hardy heron requires gdk-pixbuf... ...just installing libgdk-pixbuf2 and libgdk-pixbuf-dev didn't satisfy libgpod's configure script though. what ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/05/02/installing-libgpod-from-svn-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron/ 49.592996386465515 11.018568277359009 just thought i'd let you participate in today's adventure: triggered by ansgar commenting on ubuntu offering him to upgrade to ubuntu 8.04 "hardy heron" i though, "hmm, good idea, let's do a quick update"... ...well, a couple of hours later i seemed to be back in business, hardy heron was installed ... http://xyzzyxyzzy.net/2008/04/30/going-from-gutsy-gibbon-to-hardy-heronor-muawhaha-mono-is-hosed/ 49.592996386465515 11.018568277359009