guess what? today is OpenSim’s second birthday! that’s right it’s just two years old and already a pretty strong little (?) bugger. to quote the official OpenSim 2nd birthday page:
The consensus is that OpenSim was ‘born’ on Jan 29 2007, when Darren Guard (MW) made his prototypical …
the x200 i’m using has enough omph to power OpenGL on both the builtin display and the 1600x1200 external display. unfortunately whenever i moved that glxgears window on to the second screen it would just show…nothing. googling around for that showed that a number of people had the …
we currently are using LindenLabs’s SecondLife clients (and derivatives thereof) to login to and render our OpenSim based virtual worlds. as the SecondLife client is produced by LindenLabs for their SecondLife grid, it should come as no suprise that their client by default only talks to their grid(s …
a little while ago i posted a shell script to build mono 1.9.1 on ubuntu. since then mono 2.0.1 has been released and today i finally took some time to update the build script. have fun.
as much as i like kubuntu 08.04.01, there is one issue that’s a pain in the netherregions: printing from java — it just doesn’t work with the sun6-java package :-( and CUPS 1.3 (which is the default version on 08.04.01): java’s printing subsystem will …
as part of my job i need reasonably good graphics to be able to run virtual world clients (reasonable, i’m not too greedy). when i recently got an upgrade from my “old” thinkpad x60 to a fairly new x200 with an intel GM45 inside, i was really looking forward …
i was just reading Mo Hax’s post “caveat creatores: second inventory?” and got tickled enough by what he wrote to start a reply — which got a bit long in the end, so i’m posting my thoughts here…
what got me tickled were the following sentences:
Full permissions or …
while setting up a company internal trac wiki for a small project i wanted to include a link to a relevant youtube video and started looking for a YouTube trac macro — without finding one really.1 in typical top gear fashion i asked myself “how hard can it be” to …
for our Sametime3D build we have some rather script heavy regions (a brainstorming region, a scripted auditorium, and a fairly innocuous open space meeting area). having just installed sean dague’s excellent serverstats module for opensim i decided to compare the two OpenSim script engines, DotNetEngine and XEngine — we knew …
for a couple of months now i’ve been running my notebook from an encrypted filesystem (which works really well, i’ve to say). my external backup disk has, of course, also been converted to an encrypted filesystem.
what has been annoying me, though, is that everytime i plug the …
yesterday matthias schüssler and roger zedi from digitalk along with their technically well-versed dog visited us in rüschlikon to do a podcast about virtual worlds! having always been on the receiving end of podcasts (i just love listening to podcasts) it was a very interesting and exciting experience to be …
this morning i learnt that on monday afternoon my very good friend (and colleague) steve wright died after a motorbike accident in twyford.
to say that i’m devastated and sad is an understatement.
all day long pictures of steve keep coming up: our first project together for a UK …
incredible as it is, GNU turns 25! unless you’ve been hibernating behind a big rock in a remote area almost off our world you must have heard about GNU — in fact, i think it’s fair to say that without GNU, without richard stallman and his vision we’d …
…and we are live: IBM Takes Lotus Sametime into 3D with OpenSim nice to see everything coming together and going live :-) have a look yourself:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzuiEzTah5w
and all powered by opensim :-)
for our application testing we are most of our internal grids in stand-alone mode. until last week i had been using sqlite as the underlying databases for our grids. as we gathered more and more prims on some of our regions, i noticed that loading from the sqlite databases would …
following up on yesterday’s post about GridInfo i created a simple launcher for matrix: URIs which allows you to just click on something like matrix://osgrid.org:8002/ and have your SecondLife client come up ready to log in to osgrid.
the launcher is written in python, i’ve …
mana janus suggested last week on opensim-dev that it would be rather useful to have a grid info mechanism that would allow smart clients to obtain useful grid related parameters such as
-loginuri parameter for the SecondLife® client)-loginpage)-helperuri …working a lot these days on the exciting OpenSim project i end up generating a number of patches. even though i do have commit rights for the OpenSim subversion repository i tend to really use the distributed version control tool mercurial and work against the OpenSim mercurial repository as that …
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 …
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 …
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