Author Archives: Alan Kiesler

About Alan Kiesler

Uru advocate online, former Prologue player (Accounting Error group, entered 1/1/04). Second Life (SL) player since July 2004. Land at Tavarua island sim, NE quadrant. Until Uru player since Aug 2004. Honor Guard group. 'Home' Shard (for lack of a better term) is Guild of Greeters. Recent There.com player. Still checking it out. Search for me on irc://efnet/#secondlife IRC Channel, nick is Alan_K. Careful, I'm away most of the time...

Dexcon 9

Posted on July 12, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

I am currently sitting at the Hilton East Brunswick, awaiting the beginning of Dexcon’s opening ceremonies. Though I’ve been here many times now (and at several different hotels over the years), this year is slightly different. I’ve donated prizes both … Continue reading →

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Windows on a Mac?? From Apple??!?

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

Quick shout-out for the MystBlogs feed: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Intel-based Mac and your own WinXP SP2 CD required, but interesting nonetheless.

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Continuing Fun With a Slug – Gentoo Time…

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

For those first hearing about this little adventure, I wanted a little box to run irssi off of, that was inexpensive, low-power, and the flexibility of a Linux box. So I got a Linksys NSLU2 NAS, and re-flashed it with … Continue reading →

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A Busy March

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

My apologies for being so lax here, at least from a posting perspective. Never said I’d be updating this on regular basis. ;) Anyway, I really have been busy this month. Several things happening in rapid succession: – A new … Continue reading →

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Brief Interlude in SL

Posted on February 28, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

[Alan links into Second Life, arriving at Shipley sim, landing point of one Hamlet Linden. He looks around, finds the place empty, and realizes [he's late][Late]. Sighing, he sits down and writes]: Best of luck Hamlet. Hope things turn out … Continue reading →

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Second Sabbatical, Solidifying

Posted on February 22, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

I’ve learned last night that I am no longer a Resident Moderator for the Second Life forums. One less thing to worry about, though I thought it would be to the end of the week. I had been looking over … Continue reading →

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Second Sabbatical, Revisited

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

With the opening of D’mala, and a pending ‘meeting’ from DRC, I begin to wonder if its worth staying in Second Life as much as I do. As much as I like the environment, its been a bit of a … Continue reading →

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Taking a ‘Page’ from SL to Re-Scale Uru

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Alan Kiesler

A post I made at UO bears repeating here: ======== What I’ve heard of the server software (from UU’s perspective) would not require too much major rework for scalability I think. You’re connecting to only one ‘Age’ instance at any … Continue reading →

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