Author: Alan Kiesler

Dexcon 9

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 to their opening ceremonies and to their prize pool (the latter will arrive on Friday morning). It’s also the first time in awhile that I could not get all the days off, so right after this I have to run off to work. Ah well…

It should be an interesting weekend, as I’ve decided to bring my HP notebook over here and actually use it, much like I did at State of Play last October.

Of course, there’s also that thing about work again. As I was leaving for here, there was a problem that may need my presence later on in the night. *sigh* Typical.

Wish me luck; I’ll send an update of sorts probably on Friday, as I will not make it back here on Thursday.

–TSK

EDIT – For the last (and most expensive) item I had donated, I was asked to come up to do the draw. Of course, it took three pulls before someone hit, since you have to be in the room when the number is called. Given this week, I was not entirely surprised. *rolling eyes*

Continuing Fun With a Slug – Gentoo Time…

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 a special Embedded Linux kernel (Google for OpenSlug).

Well, it worked, but irssi was horribly hobbled (in particular no Perl support), and several attempts to rectify the problem with my own cross-compiles failed miserably. But in the end, I always had something that worked at least; Just not the way I wanted it – I didn’t have the full Linux functionality to draw from.

So, today, I’m working on placing Gentoo on the Slug, as its affectionately known. Link is [here][GentooSlug].

So far, so good. I think. honestly, its a bit hard to tell currently. I do have emerge compiling and adding vim (from within the initial chroot – I’ve not rebooted yet), which is a heck of a lot better then the LAST time I tried this (The Sager notebook; see Comp Specs in sidebar for what it is). This may actually work, and give me a copy of irssi I finally need for my purposes.

Heh. It’s another form of Cautious Optimism I suppose. ;)

Anyway, looks like its also time for another catagory, as this is the third or fourth post on the subject. Stay tuned…

–TSK

[GentooSlug]: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Linksys_NSLU2

A Busy March

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 desktop PC, which I *think* is on my ‘Computer Specs’ page (see sidebar). There’s a pain I don’t want to consider again…

– The loss of access to D’mala shard, and its fix about 1.5 weeks later (granting a last-minute access to this year’s St Pats Parade).

– Said Parade (very enjoyable day), as well as the hurried week beforehand doing my only practice. Thank Goodness for dealing with this before, as well as keeping it up the past year as an Honor Guard.

– Helping out on some scripting issues regarding the InnerLife plot in Tavarua (SL). I still need to check on the status of that.

– And (finally!) getting to do the research work on the presentation in July. I’ll be sending my application for it this weekend I hope. Again, I have another page in the sidebar if anyone’s interested in following that.

Anyway, I also just made the mistake of getting Oblivion. Not installed it yet, but probably will soon…

Brief Interlude in SL

[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 well in the short-term, and in particular for the book.

With your pending disconnect from ‘official’ links with Linden Lab, perhaps you should look at the other aspects of this growing set of worlds, what I’ve tended to term (perhaps more accurately) as meta-world instead of metaverse.

SL is just one aspect of course. I’ve looked at There, and ActiveWorlds, and of course my ‘main’ home in the Caverns of D’ni, within the vast Uru. They all have their places I think, each their strengths and weaknesses, and its still anyone’s guess what shall happen in the near future.

After all, no ending can ever be written; We live within that moment, and from that a new beginning arises.

–Alan Kiesler / T. S. Kimball

[Alan then leaves the note, and a Relto book, at the site, before linking away…]

[Late]: http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2006/02/the_present_dea.html

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