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New year and researching Linux, money and OpenSUSE.

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Last year i started building an new server.

Now it is ready and it is working. But now i think about optimization.


My first thought was to use the RaspberryPI http://www.raspberrypi.org/ . But after some reading I found that it is really not up to run Opensim. I checked out cheap motherboards with processors. You can get them almost as cheap as a RaspberryPI.

Finally I got some old AMD 64bit motherboards and started building. OpenSUSE 12.2 and some switches and solder in some cool switches. It is noisy but it works. 

Now i want to se if i can build a very small Linux in OpenSUSE studio and run it under XEN. I also want to use MariaDB insteed of MySQL.

Right now it runs a grid of 4 islands and i run the rest on some new workstations. I want all of my developer grid island on the server. Next step must be some kind of server that optimize the network connections and it is not very good as it draws to much power. Not green at all.

If i can push down the cost for a sim to 100$ a Opensim grid starts to be good economics.

I need some extra software as i also use it as a renderfarm for 3D pictures but disk space is cheap these days.
As always the work continues.

Oh yes. I have solved my back problem with a new super chair.

More on http://www.annalorentzson.com

Free tool for your 3D needs.

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Right now i am testing a new tool for doing 3D pictures. DAZ Studio 4.5 . I am not that fond of the renderer but i have found several others on the net that i can use with some tweeking.

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The user interface is nice and you have thrre to select. One is very user friendly if you are just starting out with 3D images. You get some assets to start experimenting with and best of all it is free.

 

Go over to http://www.daz3d.com/ and check it out.

 

Free tool for your 3D needs.

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Right now i am testing a new tool for doing 3D pictures. DAZ Studio 4.5 . I am not that fond of the renderer but i have found several others on the net that i can use with some tweeking.

daz45

 

The user interface is nice and you have thrre to select. One is very user friendly if you are just starting out with 3D images. You get some assets to start experimenting with and best of all it is free.

 

Go over to http://www.daz3d.com/ and check it out.

 

Back in Second life or where did the boats go.

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After a nice vacation I am back in front of my computer and in Second life again. A big rebuild of my network and some hotting up my workstation, and I am ready for a new year in the virtual world business.

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I did some exploring. Seeing old places I like. One of them is this harbor. It used to be full of boats. There is a slow drain of people in SL or nobody have money in this economy.  I really hope the day comes when this place is full of boats again.

I am working on some kind of specification of what a virtual world needs and testing different software to see if it possible to build a world.

Opensim looks best but there are other ways to start at world. I can write software so maybe add to Opensim or maybe write something of my own.

The work continues and I feel that 2013 can be a very exciting year.

OAR files now on the website

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2worlds city and the airport are now ready for download. Finally. Please report bugs and other stuff to the gamemaster.

My plan was that they should pry my dead fingers from my last keyboard.

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But now I can see this will not happen. Maybe.

CyberinSLI have been to Barcelona for a few day looking at art, meeting friends and eating a lot of Tapas. The pain in my body slowly disappeared and came back when I got home again.

I have been working with computers for over 25 years and as a pro artist for almost 20. It really takes its toll on the body. Hands, arms, shoulders and neck and the worst one. The back.

I want to continue. This is what I do. But I have to find a totally new way of working. I have tried the usual stuff. Breaks, exercise, a desk that you can raise and lower, many different chairs. It just do not help anymore.

I can see 3 ways to do some change. Tech stuff that makes the work easy. But I have already tried that. I even tried the Kinect to work in SL as a 3d tool.

Do other stuff. Go back to photography. But being a pro means hauling endless amount of equipment.

Rearrange the workflow and create other products. Could be something.

My problem nr two is that I am a middle aged woman and I am not really the thing in the industry anymore. Not game, computer or art.

I am taking a break before I hurt my self really bad and have to stop working all together.

Is there a upside. Yes there is. I have always been working on the side as a problem solver and I think that is really my biggest talent. So now I really have to push that.

See you soon.

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  2. The new blog tools
  3. My notepad died. So now i try to blog from my iPad.
  4. The place where the magic happens.

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