[Novalug] second life and ibm (and novalug?)

[DonJr]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:06 -0400, Doug Toppin wrote:
> during my eclipse presentation a few weeks ago we started talking
> about Second Life and someone mentioned that ibm had made a large
> commitment to it.
> here's some recent info on this:
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/virtualworlds/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001420
> 
> i would be interesting to try some novalug experiments with second
> life and novalug meetings. if anyone is interested i'm willing to give
> it a try (but i'm not sure what that involves yet).
> this seems like another one of those areas that has potential for all
> sorts of things (i remember saying that at raytheon e-systems about
> www/mosaic around 1996, too bad i didn't do something about it then).
> 
> doug

How where do you plan to run the software "client"?
 <http://www.multiverse.net/consumer/gettingstarted.jsp?cid=1&scid=0>
 |> Check the minimum system requirements:
 |>   Operating System: Windows XP or Vista

 This "minimum requirement" is a show stopper as far as I'm concern.

 All of my systems run Ubuntu {or better} and for some unknown reason
<GRIN> the developers of Multiverse don't seem to think that
Linux/Ubuntu is a Greater(better) Operating System, like I do.

And in fact even under Windows XP the demo "Multiverse World Browser"
has to be ran with "Run As Administrator" (ie) you might as well disable
your anti-virus and security software at the same time.

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  Don E. Groves, Jr.

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A young man goes into a computer games shop. He says to an assistant "I
want a challenging computer game with lots of graphics. It should be
difficult, confusing and have plenty of contradictions to keep me busy".

The assistant replies "Have you tried Windows XP?"