Ener asked me to write an article on how I have used Sim-on-a-Stick for commercial projects and to illustrate that a USB-based, standalone grid is applicable for usage previously only possible via a solution such as Second Life. In 2008 and 2009 I spoke at conferences and webinars about the use of Second Life for corporate eLearning as an [...]

art catalogues cost a good amount to have printed up and are a staple of virtually all art galleries. one of my first projects in Second Lifa was an art gallery for a wonderfully talented Deaf artist who worked in charcoal, watercolour, and oil. her work was pretty straightforward to bring into SL and i [...]

a great question was asked about changing terrain textures for sim-on-a-stick builds for the Diva Distro of OpenSim, which is what is on the stick, the main region (sim) is called the root region. if you have tried to change the terrain textures in the non-root regions you probably went nuts and gave up (i confess to [...]

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 [...]

i don’t have a testing lab (c’mon, i am not even real!) but i like doing the best i can for people using sim-on-a-stick (i figure i am acting as an unofficial ambassador to OpenSim and perhaps some decisions might be made based on the performance of sim-on-a-stick) *starts sweating* i am able to get my hands on four different [...]

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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 [...]

A US House bill looks to eliminate Ed Tech spending as they “trim the fat” from the Federal budget. Many Education Technology programs fund expensive endeavors and many of those endeavors are only realised at more privileged schools. Two challenges with the more expensive technologies often come in the form of on-going training for teachers [...]

call me mini-Maria (referring to her OpenSim stats) because now i am tracking downloads of simonastick.com. the accuracy of my tracking is open to wide interpretation but i feel pretty confident that it’s fairly close (within 10%) from april 15th to may 15th, it looks like 1046 unique downloads of sim-on-a-stick occurred (these are unique hits to [...]

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 [...]

i had someone ask me if the MOAP (media on a prim) post i did last night was not actually just a prim using the media setting on the land tab well here is a video showing two different YouTube pages playing on the same parcel! woohoo! and look at Simona Stick! she looks so [...]

if you start as a Ruth, ya might as well be a Simona! OpenSimulator 0.7.1 is out and Diva updated her D2 Distro and that means sim-on-a-stick has been updated! w00t! a few posts back i mentioned that you can run the update function Diva has incorporated into her build and you can certainly do [...]

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, [...]

i wanted to round out the sim-on-a-stick site with some formal instructions although it seems that it is pretty easy to understand. i do have a “Start_and_Login.txt” in the zip that is very condensed but i felt that being a bit more formal could help some out there. there are no troubleshooting tips, just basic steps [...]