Well, purely by accident I’ve discovered a primary factor in my high-CPU usage. It was unbelievably simple - Dual Monitors.
Last Friday I caved in and bought a 24″ monitor as an upgrade to my two existing LCD workhorses - a Dell 20″ widescreen and a Dell 19″ - which were still doing OK but [...]
The Kind Healer
Second Life —
Items specifically related to the MMO ‘Platform/Metaverse’ Second Life (www.secondlife.com).
Category Archives: Second Life
Findings on Recent SL Issues (1.20 v 1.19 & earlier)
Popping my Head Up
I had no intent of not writing a RSS-able entry in the past two months; In fact I’ve been tweaking away at the site now and then, its just not in areas that will be noticed much by sites like MystBlogs. :p
Anyway, the obligatory ‘what’s been going on since April’ post:
-> The Slug (NSLU2-Debian), [...]
SL Forum Facelift - Hidden Comments, Part 2
Right, on to Part 2 (more detailed comments regarding Off-Topic Discussion, and Moderating) as posted in their forum. Not much discussion occurred between my first post and now, so will give it a few more days before summarizing.
Should an Off-Topic section be brought back? Heck Yes. But there are caveats that go with the [...]
SL Forum Facelift - Hidden Comments, Part 1
Linden Research’s Robin Harper posted on their official weblog that it’s time to re-work their internal forum. Link on the *weblog* here.
Since their forum currently is for ‘verified’ members only (you have to, at minimum, have credit card info on-file), I will be reposting my major comments here - and summary of responses, if [...]
Fun with Brandz (In Second Life(R) )
[Or how a writing project gets derailed before I even type the first character.]
I’m a bit late posting about this, mostly because 1) I don’t spend my time on this site talking much about SL since there are better places to do that, and 2) I contribute to those sites via commenting instead.
Anyway, Linden Research [...]
Three Years in Second Life
The evening of this past friday (6/29) marked exactly three years since I registered the ‘Alan Kiesler’ account in Second Life. Though officially I left the Orientation island today (7/2) due to a bad crash and RL stuff, I logged in that night to hop around my old haunts.
Upon reaching the ‘Myst Online’ island [...]
Update on the Site
I’ve been perusing my site logs to see who’s been hitting the place lately, and why. Brought up some interesting subjects, which I’ll begin to address now:
“Does Second Life work on an ATI Radeon Xpress?” - Last I checked with the notebook, yes, but slow. There is a ‘first look‘ version of their [...]
Certain Blogs Hate Me…
I’ve been trying to comment on Chucker’s blog (regarding JPEG-2000) for the last four days, and it just won’t let me. I give up…
Anyway, what I’ve been trying to say is that Second Life uses JPEG-2000 as its image storage medium in the backend. IIRC its because of both the streaming and image [...]
