from time to time, i get asked how many prims and scripts we have at Enclave Harbour currently a fresh boot uses about 4% CPU and 3.1 gig of RAM prims scripts regions 253 52 Abbatia DreamWalker 2750 14 Energon 2495 13 Enclave Harbour Transport 427 6 Enclave Sea 986 13 Namaste Nord 1295 14 [...]

A topic I have discussed in the past is in the use of virtual worlds for creating multimedia assets for eLearning and I have some old tutorials for doing this with Second Life. Creating video from Second Life or OpenSim is fairly easy to do and fairly inexpensive. However, virtual worlds are also an easy [...]

i am slightly (read: highly) biased toward DreamWalker – if it wasn’t for her, i would have dropped out of Second Life before i ever became a junior land baroness wannabe (gee, maybe that’s not such a good thing! that was a bout a $50K tangent!) =p anyway, it’s hard to hold on to friends [...]

Review of the relatively new, LL “approved” SINGULARITY viewer for Second Life (and Open Sim). Singularity looks a lot like the old familiar LL viewers, but has TONS of features from other viewers. Welcome back, pie wheel, and hello new cool stuff!

SoaS w/ moap, omg! sooo r0x! =p what does it all mean? it means Diva kicks big butt and that OpenSimulator 0.7.1 is a masterpiece! =) apart from Simona looking pretty crappy and having no hair, not too bad! this is using Second Life viewer 2.0.1 and enclaveharbour.com this was filmed with the open source [...]

i go batty about matching colours but sometimes that just takes messing around in when dealing with virtual worlds. if you are trying to match something that someone else made sometimes you can export the texture out but not always. now if it is stuff you are making, it becomes much easier. i have been on a [...]

one of the neat things about moving from Second Life to OpenSim is that typically you get more land. rather than buying parcels, you buy entire regions. with a dedicated server, we have 16 sims via SimHost for half the cost of one SL sim – quite a difference. if you are a school, not-for-profit, [...]

education is hugely responsible for the early development of the internet. HTML protocol was designed to share university research documents and was around for a while before “mainstream” adoption ever occurred. the internet flopped around for years as academics used it for very specific purposes. no hints of farmville or twitter way back then. it would take years [...]

It has been quite the year and Ener not only has chronicled the move from Second Life to OpenSim with over 500 posts in 2010, but also has built many wonderful field trip locations on our grid. Along the path, Ener has provided some great tips for making a move as easy as possible and [...]

that question “are you scared of having your own sim” really seemed very silly to me when i read it in another blog post today. i mean gee, i had 19 in Second Life and have 16 in OpenSim, so what kind of weenie is scared to have a sim? then i thought about it [...]

oil makes the western world go around. i guess it makes the entire world go ’round! in the US, oil is consumed at many times the rate of the rest of the world. however, things are changing and alternative fuels are becoming more serious and possibly will start displacing this thirst for oil even if [...]

yet another type of ener-gy turbine is one that sits in the water, like in a fast flowing river or one affected by the tides. even a river like the Mississippi flows with enough force that an in-stream water turbine :farm” could do very well (imagine the Gulf Stream current which flows up to 4 [...]

wind turbines are huge! the blades can be 130 feet long each! and the latest research shows that maybe they should be painted purple to decrease bat deaths big and purple = Barney! i love you and you love me but big purple wind turbines are a tough sell. people already don’t want the white ones near their homes so imagine [...]