Sean’s Mental Walkabout

Archinect : Features : ShowCase: LILYPAD
very cool architecture

sPaste
secure paste facility written by my friend sean oconor

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Review Board | News
This looks interesting for code review tools

BMW Leaving Second Life - The Network
Mention of OpenSim in a write up of BMW’s exit from Second Life

ZombieHarmony - One of the Best Free Dating Sites for Zombies
hah!

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The Font Sizes of the Planets | Orbiting Frog
Very nifty, might have to buy one of these shirts

Schneier on Security: The DNS Vulnerability
If you only read one article on the DNS issue, this is probably the one to read.

Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity
thank god this pendulum is finally swinging back in this direction.

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tecosystems » Organic vs Inorganic: Whatever Works
Good quick round up of this debate. I’m all with sogrady on this one.

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Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game
This is way too much fun

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opensim:viewer:development [MJM Labs Wiki]
Nice, and opensim retargetted secondlife viewer! It even defaults to osgrid for login.

Git, the Frugal Project’s Repository | Times New Rohan
Good setup instructions

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UgoTrade » Blog Archive » Realizing the Potential of Virtual Worlds: Why and How to Support OpenSim
Really good article on OpenSim and OSGrid. Tish does a great job of explaining a lot of different efforts that have been spun off of the base project.

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YouTube - Newtonian N Body OpenSim Demo
Really cool thing you can do with OpenSim by replacing the physics engine.

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I found that Liferea (my rss reader) was starting to get really slow. Hitting space bar to go to the next article was getting somewhat painful levels of delay.

The Fix

Liferea uses sqlite to store it’s information. Over time, when you delete from sqlite, the db gets pretty unoptimized (lots of tombstones). This can be fixed with the following command (make sure Liferea is NOT running before doing this):

sqlite3 ~/.liferea_1.4/liferea.db vacuum

(adjust the directory if running a different version of liferea.) It both made my liferea.db 1/2 as big, and now everything is snappy again.

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5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G - Free Software Foundation
Good things to highlight. I’ve never been an apple fan because of their really strong DRM push.

An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters
Really extensive write up on git-svn usage patterns

Git - SVN Crash Course
git for svn users

David Silverman - About Typo
Sent to me by a friend of a friend. I need to check out some of the excerpts this weekend.

Scramblings
doing C# bindings on Linux

KODAK Theatre HD Player Features and Benefits
This could be cool, except if they fully did away with an IR remote. I don’t care out innovative your remote is, if I can’t use my logitech harmony your device is useless to me.

BBC hires IBM guru for its foray into virtual worlds | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Roo has been a great pleasure to work with, the BBC is very luck to have snagged him from us.

Slashdot | RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named
Ah, it’s going to be a funny day on the internet

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