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

[Jay Hart]

> The Linux client for Second Life has (finally!) been moved to beta.  More
> information at http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php.
>
> Several companies, including IBM and Sun, use Second Life for
> conferencing.  there are also linux user groups within Second Life.
>
> I think it could be interesting to try having a virtual meeting, but
> remember - that means no pizza together afterwards ;)
>

Hardly anyone ever goes out for lunch afterwards, so don't let this stop us
from trying.

Don,  I don't understand your negative vibes against XP or Vista. They rock....

uh, I mean they are rock.  (there I fixed that)

Jay

> Great idea Doug - I'm all for it.
>
> Cliff
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> --
>>   Don E. Groves, Jr.
>>
>> ===============================================================
>> 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?"
>>
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