the “installer” for Sim-on-a-Stick last week had only one negative in my mind but i just learned from the developer of Install Simple how to fix it. the problem had to do with the .NET sniffing. OpenSim needs .NET 3.5 to work and this is something i just learned thanks to WhiteStar, Sarge, and others. it [...]

the infamous Kate from down-under and my personal favourite Aussie (i dunno if she’s a banana bender though, but Commonwealth none the less!) asked about a blog widget for sim-on-a-stick and since her students are incredibly awesome (i love the video with “thanks eh-nah“) i made a couple for her and anyone else content on [...]

following up from yesterday’s post, i added a bit more info to the sim-on-a-stick site to help n00bs have a better chance of success. it’s easy to forget the excitement and stumbling blocks of first stepping foot into the virtual world, but first it has to be easy to get there! OpenSim offers so many possibilities [...]

as i update the OpenSim version in sim-on-a-stick plus roll in great additions like Breen’s port 9100 mod to reduce port conflicts and WhiteStar’s OS checker and initial region setup, i think i am omitting some of the basics. i can see that with the feedback from the community last month there were a number of [...]

i know sim-on-a-stick can run on a Mac but only from others telling me so. it’s one thing for me to say “hey, sim-on-a-stick will run with Parallels on a Mac” and a different thing to read directly about someone who actually does run sim-on-a-stick on a Mac enter Dot Macchi and an article about actually getting [...]

warning: this is truly a rambling post a few weeks ago Hamlet Au wrote an article about a guy doing store layouts with some version of sim-on-a-stick. i have no idea if it was the pseudo-official sim-on-a-stick (patent pending by SpotON3D – kidding!) or if he built it himself. i did not invent SoaS, i just [...]

the entire process is pretty straightforward and you can place the unzipped folders almost anywhere from a stick to a folder on your machine. it’s best not to use your desktop because of path names and length. this video shows the viewer as well, which could be placed up one folder level so that its [...]

as a result of comments on the sim-on-a-stick megaregion vs. standard regions post from the other day, Sarge’s idea of choosing from three region options is now a reality. WhiteStar Magic has expertly crafted a new SOAS_start.bat file that does two great things (1) it allows the user to initially select the type of grid they want to work [...]

in the Blender 3D community, there is a special sense of camaraderie that is perhaps unique to open source communities because the OpenSim community has this same feeling to me. i am grateful to those who make OpenSim possible – people like Justin Clark-Casey, Crista Lopes, and many others who create this wonderful tool. there are many others who also [...]

people have extended sim-on-a-stick like mad! from doing multi-user where several PCs can log into one stick to now being able to hypergrid from the stick! that’s right, go visit friends on OSGrid right from your stick! but . . . you have to be German Beacara, the innovative avatar that created a well received art [...]

i was looking at what the top 10 posts were for this year and the sim-on-a-stick posts’ links page was way out in first place for the most hits sim-on-a-stick has been a total hit and while i can take credit for snagging simonastick.com, i can’t take credit for the actual working sim-on-a-stick download. apart [...]

i am proud to be a part of the OpenSim community and happy to have found such a wonderfully creative multimedia platform. OpenSim is certainly many things to many people it’s a great social tool – if you’ve never been to a live music event then you are missing a perspective of virtual worlds – [...]

i had a few issues with the 0.7.2 download (the one without the viewer) when i ran it yesterday on my Windows 7 laptop. the MoWeS MySQL would not start which is vital to OpenSim. i don’t know why it started to act up but it did. the version of 0.7.2 with Imprudence is working [...]

the latest Diva Distro build went out last night on simonastick.com and the initial reports seem to be okay so far. by okay, i don’t mean any of Diva’s work, i mean the bat files, MoWeS, and Imprudence 1.3.2 a few people have had an issue with no avatar showing up, not even a cloud, [...]

when i typed out Xporter vs. Survivor a voice in my head announced it like it was some ultimate fight match up! now i have that deep-voiced announcer phrase stuck in my head for the rest of the day . .  great  =\ we saw in the benchmark speed test that the Corsair Survivor was [...]