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Entries Categorized as 'Operating System'

Photoblogging via iPhone to Flickr

Date August 8, 2008

Photoblogging via iPhone to Flickr

Originally uploaded by katherinecd

Well, this did not exactly go according to plan. When I emailed this photo to Flickr I’d included text that I thought would go into the post along with the picture, but the only thing that showed up in the post was the image itself. If you click [...]

New World Page

Date July 23, 2008

I’ve just added a permanent page to this site, featuring a link to my “room” in Google’s new Lively virtual world. Please link to my Lively room and let me know what you think. Oh, sorry, but so far only MS Windows XP/Vista users can actually do that for now, but Google promises [...]

iPhone 2.0

Date July 12, 2008

It hasn’t been easy to be cool about waiting for the upgrade so I can spend my money on little apps, but the end of the tunnel is in sight now. The software and firmware are installed now, and I’m just waiting for my data to be restored.

Virtual Progress

Date May 18, 2008

Since my last post here, a lot has been accomplished.
Last time I wrote, I was downloading the OpenSim server software to my external hard disk via SVN. That went well, but I have to admit that the instructions for compiling and running it on MacOS 1.5 were so daunting that I deferred that until after [...]

Wonderland Disappointment, but OpenSim Wonder

Date May 4, 2008

While I did get Wonderland’s client to load and run finally, I was not able to run the server software because of an undefined error, and when I logged into the server being run temporarily for this test at Drexel University, I was unable to see anything except text chat, and the other people online [...]

OpenSim blog

Date April 25, 2008

I’ve just added a link in my ‘blogroll’ (in the left sidebar) to justincc’s opensim blog. Thanks to Troy McConaghy for a pointer to that

Java6 At Last!

Date April 24, 2008

It’s required a lot of midnight oil and not a few grey hairs, but I finally got Java6 JDK, JRE and browser plugin installed. They’re not on Debian Linux, as I’d planned, but on a new installation of OpenSUSE Linux. That’s the distro Sun supports for Wonderland, so I finally gave in and reinstalled it [...]

Extending LSL

Date April 15, 2008

LSL, or Linden Scripting Language, was originated by Linden Lab, the creators and owners of SecondLife™. It is remarkably easy to use, and can allow “residents” of SecondLife and OpenSim based virtual worlds to do many marvelous things in these 3D environments. (OpenSim is the open source version of SecondLife’s server software.)
One of the things [...]

More VWs

Date April 12, 2008

After one of my friends in SecondLife, Opal Lei, asked me if I’d seen OpenLife and I had to say no, I decided to take a look. We at the ISM have been talking for years about finding if not an alternative, at least an adjunct to SecondLife, since having all our IP eggs in [...]

YAVW - Yet Another Virtual World

Date March 5, 2008

Troy McConaghy just posted a message to the Qwaq MICA group about a brand new Virtual World, Tomorrow Space from a company called Transmutable Networks.
I naturally immediately signed up for an account (katlemieux) and briefly explored this Web-based world, which only opened to the public this Monday. So far, they have two types of “rooms” [...]