Monthly Archives: January 2010
Second Life on Old Laptops
As Linden Lab prepares the last round of bug-fixing before launching the brand new SL 2.0 viewer (will it run on Apple’s iPad? lol), I did a few movies showing off how good Snowglobe actually runs on way old laptops. This is pretty much a personal discussion I’ve got with NetAntwerp, who refuses to believe that LL’s viewer is able to get reasonable performance on old hardware. NetAntwerp remains unconvinced….
Digital People and Anonymous Avatars by Extropia DaSilva
This time, we get a short essay from Extropia DaSilva… but one that is quite close to my heart Enjoy! — Gwyn “Trussssst in me/ Jusssst in me”- Ka from Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’. When H+ Magazine published Stephen Cobb’s article ‘Real Discrimination Against Digital People’, someone wrote the following response: ‘I fully respect online personas, but expecting me to implicitly trust anonymous avatars is pushing it’. Many people seem to…
CR-Post2PingFM Plugin Tweaked for WordPress MU
Although this is not strictly related to Second Life itself, I need some place to put a tweaked version of Arief Bayu Purwanto’s CR Post2PingFM plugin, which required some tweaking to work well with WordPress MU. The problem has to do with setting and reading options properly in a multiblog environment. WordPress and WordPress MU handle this differently, thus the original, untweaked plugin didn’t work properly. Thanks to Marcus Cudd…










