last October i wrote about a creative use of sim-on-a-stick as an art catalogue. Beacara, the creator of the concept, was overwhelmed by requests and not only ran out of the OpenSim loaded USB sticks but the town hosting the art event did too! Beacara now has a video of her art catalogue on a stick (below) and [...]

this is highly specific but might help some people using sim-on-a-stick if you get the MoWeS error that Apache is not running, your OpenSim grid should still work fine. the thing that won’t work is Diva’s nifty Wifi admin panel. that panel let’s you create new user accounts (in case you don’t want to be Simona [...]

a really neat thing for OpenSim 0.7.2 is the addition of full on robot chubbies, oh wait . . . that means something nasty i believe (my humour never made it to sophomoric, it’s still pretty much middle school) =p non-player characters, or bots, open up some neat possibilities from university campus guides to zombies [...]

i was very excited to see Diva Canto’s new Diva Distro this morning! =) and that means a new version of sim-on-a-stick is coming soon, probably this week if you are even more eager than i am, you can use her nifty built-in update feature to update your current version of sim-on-a-stick – here’s a [...]

i’m leaning pretty heavily to claiming the Corsair Survivor as the official sim-on-a-stick stick because of its massive funk factor, decent price, and initial speed test results. however, it will need to see about a month’s worth of my own OpenSim activity to see how well it works day-to-day. so far it runs well and i can’t [...]

Maria does the OpenSim monthly count and graciously includes sim-on-a-stick numbers in her insightful stats posts sim-on-a-stick is a fairly approachable way to try OpenSim. it seems to work on most PCs with the occassional issue but overall seems pretty tight. the reason it works so well has nothing to do with me! it’s all [...]

on the last update (last week) of OpenSim on a USB stick there was no viewer and this was for two reasons. the first was for size – it saves 44 megs of download, and the second was because the last non-experimental Imprudence was from back in October now that Imprudence is updated and seems [...]

Dream Walker (DreamWalker McCallister inSL) is a dear SL friend who made the jump with me to OpenSim and is my personal scripting slave. well, i don’t think i am too demanding and she has converted my little follow bot called EnerBot over to work very well in OpenSim (thank you and he is so [...]

i have been looking into sim-on-a-stick a little for the Mac because Mac people deserve fun too! well actually, i would love to see a stick version for Mac types because an awful lot of educators use Macs and sim-on-a-stick offers some creative flexibility for educators how great would it be to be able to work on [...]

sheesh, i went off on a tangent trying to get a BAT file to launch the opensim.exe file . . . no luck on that front but success in remastering the sim-on-a-stick download! and instead of taking 4 minutes for it to run, it only takes about 45 seconds (on an old XP box) thank [...]

gee, i would have never thought i’d become that geeklette getting excited about a software release! i guess that’s not true, because in something like 2003 i downloaded the lastest Macromedia suite at midnight the day it was released at a blistering rate of 2.3 kbs. it took 29 hours to download the suite! today, [...]

Crista Lopes (@cristalopes) not only created the OpenSim package that runs on sim-on-a-stick, she also created the “Wifi” admin panel that comes with it the zipped version of sim-on-a-stick includes a fully functional Wifi that you simply launch after starting MOWES and OpenSim. just click the link (http://127.0.0.1:9000/wifi) and voila! even on one of my [...]

USB 3.0 has been out for over a year but prices have been slow to come down. i have been anxious to see how much faster a good USB 3.0 stick is. back in october i had read a lot on stick speeds and tried to make a recommendation of a good stick that was [...]

up in the northland it is not uncommon to have power failures from wet snow or freezing rain. last year we had three days without electricity or internet (yah, it’s as terrifying as it sounds) =p if you have a generator, you can run some stuff (depends on generator size) but you likely won’t have [...]

when i wrote about sim-on-a-stick i mentioned USB 3.0 – a new standard with 10 times the read and write speeds of 2.0 – it was october and wouldn’t you know it, some well-priced sticks were announced on October 29th from Super Talent when i looked at what stick i would use, and thus recommend, [...]