2006MAY151911
update
DAY 2 - reflections of day 2
DAY 2 - Making a dork of myself
DAY 2 - I explore walking...
DAY 2 - A busy area with tutorials
DAY 2 - Meeters & greeter - I dont get it?
DAY 1 - first contact
DAY 1 - Body mods
DAY 1 - Uninstall, configure, login
DAY 1. My virtual self
In this site you wont see many images of myself. Its not the focus of the site. Software, talking about the software development process in a startup doesn't require *me too* images.
But SL is different. I try to portray my virtual self pretty much an extension of my current life. I like this idea. Me walking around in shorts, shirts & kicking a footy in a virtual world. (now I've got to work out how?) Its not an original idea... see Cory Doctorow at his virtual book signing. I've just created a demo, test account to see if the experience is worth the money. Here's my virtual story.
DAY 1. Warning ... trying some alpha software
Been playing around with some alpha software, secondlife. The software works with Gnome GTK, KDE and is new enough so that theres not that many people using it. Most are Windows or Mac weenies. Lindens intent is to make the Linux client using open technologies with possible access to the source at some time in the future. I'd settle for software that just works.
Hello world
After reading the Businessweek article I decided have a closer look at this SL stuff. Its a OpenGL based virtual world. Sort of like an advanced version of Adventure I first played with back in the late '70s at school on the only computer in the school, a PET.
Verne inspired?
So I started to read the articles by Wagner James Au. Hired by Lindon, Wagner writes about second life as a real world journalist looking for stories filling in the gaps. It reads like a foreign country, though the natives are, well different. Like a alternate Science fiction location with a Jules Verne flavour.
Opportunity or threat?
So why have I chucked this into the startup lot? Well I remember back when I started on the Internet back in early '94. The Internet was all shiny & new. Not many people knew about it. I like getting in and having a look early. Well this might be the next development phase of the Internet. Where theres new tech, there is always a business opportunity. Software in particular. It may fizzle. But then again who knows.
Running on Ubuntu
The SL Linux client is about 33Mb for a download and is a simple tar zipped file.
'... dont even bother downloading the stuff unless your graphics hardware is supported. (mostly NVIDIA) ...'
You simply untar the file in non root in a local directory and run a shell script. The first install failed mainly due to some Gnome Ope
2006MAY151911
update
DAY 2 - reflections of day 2
DAY 2 - Making a dork of myself
DAY 2 - I explore walking...
DAY 2 - A busy area with tutorials
DAY 2 - Meeters & greeter - I dont get it?
DAY 1 - first contact
DAY 1 - Body mods
DAY 1 - Uninstall, configure, login
DAY 1. My virtual self
In this site you wont see many images of myself. Its not the focus of the site. Software, talking about the software development process in a startup doesn't require *me too* images.
But SL is different. I try to portray my virtual self pretty much an extension of my current life. I like this idea. Me walking around in shorts, shirts & kicking a footy in a virtual world. (now I've got to work out how?) Its not an original idea... see Cory Doctorow at his virtual book signing. I've just created a demo, test account to see if the experience is worth the money. Here's my virtual story.
DAY 1. Warning ... trying some alpha software
Been playing around with some alpha software, secondlife. The software works with Gnome GTK, KDE and is new enough so that theres not that many people using it. Most are Windows or Mac weenies. Lindens intent is to make the Linux client using open technologies with possible access to the source at some time in the future. I'd settle for software that just works.
Hello world
After reading the Businessweek article I decided have a closer look at this SL stuff. Its a OpenGL based virtual world. Sort of like an advanced version of Adventure I first played with back in the late '70s at school on the only computer in the school, a PET.
Verne inspired?
So I started to read the articles by Wagner James Au. Hired by Lindon, Wagner writes about second life as a real world journalist looking for stories filling in the gaps. It reads like a foreign country, though the natives are, well different. Like a alternate Science fiction location with a Jules Verne flavour.
Opportunity or threat?
So why have I chucked this into the startup lot? Well I remember back when I started on the Internet back in early '94. The Internet was all shiny & new. Not many people knew about it. I like getting in and having a look early. Well this might be the next development phase of the Internet. Where theres new tech, there is always a business opportunity. Software in particular. It may fizzle. But then again who knows.
Running on Ubuntu
The SL Linux client is about 33Mb for a download and is a simple tar zipped file.
'... dont even bother downloading the stuff unless your graphics hardware is supported. (mostly NVIDIA) ...'
You simply untar the file in non root in a local directory and run a shell script. The first install failed mainly due to some Gnome Ope