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 [...]

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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

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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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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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