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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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” [...]

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Today I finally got around to installing a new version of Debian Linux, this one the “testing” release code named Lenny, because it is supposed to include Java6 JDK, which I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get to work on the “Etch” release of Debian. Etch only has Java5 JDK, which won’t quite [...]

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Debian 4.0 (”Etch”) installed beautifully, and runs equally well! I’m very pleased. The desktop wallpaper isn’t quite as attractive as that in Ubuntu, but I’m sure I’ll figure out how to change that pretty soon. The important thing is that it works, and even better than that, I just found this in the Debian [...]

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I’ve given up trying to configure Ubuntu to use as anything but a desktop system. It’s very pretty, and would be an excellent end-user computer for someone to use for web surfing and email, and maybe running SecondLife, but at least as I installed it (important caveat), it doesn’t have the right packages to let [...]

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