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sounds like you are progressing nicely and it is a lot of trail and error

I can’t get any hypergrid functionality from my sim on a stick property. I go to the hypergrid address website and try places over and over, but nothing works.

I got tired of being a smoky cloud on OSGrid and finally stopped going there.

I have contacted two venders about renting land on their sites, either they did not get back to me, or I was not able to get to their site on the hypergrid, since no matter where I started, I seemed to be too far away. I found the website that directed me to approach a site via a string of closer sites, but that did not work for me.

However, the worst thing for ms so far is how ugly my avatar is on the HyperGrid. He has terrible posture and ugly hair (I have my own skins). I miss the artists in SL who have made the place so beautiful..including me.

Also check out twitter. There’s quite a few people using HyperGrid who are tweeting back and forth.

You don’t have to run your sim 24/7, btw, though lots of people do. You can have it unconnected to another grid and use hypergrid to travel.

And there is downloadable content out there. Linda Kellie’s site will come to mind for most people http://www.lindakellie.com/ and there’s also OpenSim Creations at http://opensim-creations.com/

Fleep Grid has a good collection of animations http://fleepgrid.com/store/

:-D

I have never operated a server and I don’t know what I would have to do to keep my Sim up and available. I have several old laptops, and i have heard that is one use for them.

So you can see here my noobiness. I appreciate your blog.

Joey

I love that SoaS it is a blank canvas as the students can then create their own personal sim the way they like it. Now that we have sorted multi-user the separate whole class sim will be modified to suit the project.

Cheers
Kate

“Portable OpenSim” “Easy OpenSim” “Simulator on USB” “Portable Simulator” don’t forget “Virtual Worlds on USB Stick” & “Portable Virtual World” then we have Simulation & Prototyping and various other permutable keywords & key strings…. Above is quite mixable but correct to use.

BTW: “All Rights Reserved” may have gone the path of the Dodo in the USA but not in many other countries. Although you may seriously want to consider (TM)or (c) for SOAS / Sim on a Stick. Maybe even dropping a licence on it (SOAS Components) which does not interfere with the BSD (OpenSim) GPL/LGPL/LGPLV2 etc (Viewers) Creative Commons 3 for SOAS would likely work, if not FLOSS should certainly cover it… Although Licenses give me a headache and I’m even getting complaints about my use of the WTFPL Licence for some things. We should start a new Licence, the “Poutine Licence: If you have had Poutine & like it, then you can use this as long as this licence & originator/creator & Contributor’s list remains” <>

Can SOAS be improved ? Bet your bippy it could and things could be further simplified for a user to setup and add functionality & features for it’s running & installation. (Local Only, Web Accessible, LAN Accessible (closed internal network), Hypergrid enabled [y/n], Scripting Permission levels, whole pile of stuff could be done.) not to mention some housekeeping functionality, as USB’s are far more limited than an HDD and good housekeeping of log files, caching system optimization etc should be facilitated transparently.

Fair do’s :)

Disclaimer: with apologies to who I am about to offend. I admit I could research this more but I will fire from the hip.

And fire from the hip hamlet did on that opensim/usb stick story. There is no pragmatic research. Its whatever is thrown accross his desk in a way that needs little research/rewriting. I wonder what the equivilent Virtal World term would be for “Hotel Journalism”?

I have stopped reading hamlet for now. The crowdsourcing stories really get my goat. It seems one a week, and I feel its getting close to being exploited.
Even the US government has a more pragmatic view to taxpayer funded data. IE they make available for free mapping, weather, and other data where many countries still close this off to their own people. Yet Linden Labs take benefit from donations to content creators who in turn enhance the content of Second Life. Its bordering on offensive.

Some good news, Hamlet is running a story today on David Millars efforts. So that provides some balance.

Thanks Sarg, for “Sim-on-a-Stick (SoaS) is a fully functional and modifiable instance of a virtual world using OpenSim open source software on a USB flash drive, or stick.”

on the copyright issue, luckily the date soas came online is it’s copyright date for all countries abidding by modern copyright standards (for example, the “all rights reserved” thing was abolished in 1938! yet people still use it)

your definition Sarge is awesome, and i’m gonna stick that in the description meta tag right now!

good idea Maria, now if people would only let me know they used it! i rely heavily on Google alerts for that

great observation Graham and it makes sense when you put it in context of his posts and history! maybe he’ll write a book! (i read his “Making of SL” which was pretty insightful to Linden Lab’s early days and their decisions

I notice when Googling for “OpenSim on a USB stick” a lot of sites come up that are writing about Sim-on-a-Stick — but Sim-on-a-Stick only comes up first when searching for “sim on a stick.”

– Maria

And may I suggest the following for the SoaS site?

“Sim-on-a-Stick (SoaS) is a fully functional and modifiable instance of a virtual world using OpenSim open source software on a USB flash drive, or stick.”

That should catch a ton of keywords :-D

The SoaS community is growing..it’s really popular. Maybe you should have users write articles – like guest bloggers – on how they’ve used it, offer their insights, even offer help in the comments or a forum, and post this at the SoaS site. Maybe ask Diva and Roger for a piece on their part in it, how they made it work, what they envision for it. Maybe a wiki page so those of us who use it can edit articles in there to create some central help documentation over time.

Heh, I think I mentioned a while back that you don’t seem to realize what an impact SoaS and your work here has had and how important it actually is and could be to the future of Virtual Worlds. You always seem surprised and I don’t really think you should be :)