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, [...]

you probably know that i get geeky about web analytics and the same goes for the interest in sim-on-a-stick. i have been using it for a month or so and like it very much. subQuark uses it several times per week and is doing entire projects on it plus using it for workshops. one reason [...]

sim on a stick is great! it runs just as well as our dedicated server (which is blazingly fast) and has become subQuark’s preferred way to use OpenSim for his day job (he does eLearning stuff with it, doing video for branched learning interactions) i carry it around also but just for tinkering with (like [...]

as a tool to develop content and even terraform, OpenSim on a usb flash drive works quite well. i can happily build and then take those builds, either as exported objetcs (what i actually use my USB OpenSim for) or as OAR files (complete regions including scripts within objects) for example, say i am stuck [...]

since you can do a straight copy of your OpenSim on a USB stick, i thought i’d try it on an SD card. i had bought a two pack of PNY class 4 4 gig cards to use as ReadyBoost RAM for my laptop (it already has 4 gig RAM and i couldn’t tell any [...]