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sim-on-a-stick: USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0
USB 3.0 has been out for over a year but prices have been slow to come down. i have been anxious to see how much faster a good USB 3.0 stick is. back in october i had read a lot on stick speeds and...
View ArticleVirtual Center for the Science of Cyberspace
as part of SENDS (Science Enhanced Network Domains and Secure Social Places), the Virtual Center for the Science of Cyberspace is an erudite endeavor which is rooted in government agencies (like US...
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sim-on-a-stick account admin
Crista Lopes (@cristalopes) not only created the OpenSim package that runs on sim-on-a-stick, she also created the “Wifi” admin panel that comes with it the zipped version of sim-on-a-stick includes a...
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more sim-on-a-stick tests
last night i posted about terraforming and OAR uploading for sim-on-a-stick. this was in response to someone having a tough time with these two tasks and i was able to get both to work on the one...
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Starting sim-on-a-stick PDF instructions
i wanted to round out the sim-on-a-stick site with some formal instructions although it seems that it is pretty easy to understand. i do have a “Start_and_Login.txt” in the zip that is very condensed...
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get ready for 0.7.1 for sim on a stick
gee, i would have never thought i’d become that geeklette getting excited about a software release! i guess that’s not true, because in something like 2003 i downloaded the lastest Macromedia suite at...
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sim-on-a-stick 0.7.1
if you start as a Ruth, ya might as well be a Simona! OpenSimulator 0.7.1 is out and Diva updated her D2 Distro and that means sim-on-a-stick has been updated! w00t! a few posts back i mentioned that...
View Articlebarf, more sim-on-a-stick – dual MOAP
i had someone ask me if the MOAP (media on a prim) post i did last night was not actually just a prim using the media setting on the land tab well here is a video showing two different YouTube pages...
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looking for an altruistic techie Mac person
i have been looking into sim-on-a-stick a little for the Mac because Mac people deserve fun too! well actually, i would love to see a stick version for Mac types because an awful lot of educators use...
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batty for Sim-on-a-Stick – a Bat file startup?
Dream Walker (DreamWalker McCallister inSL) is a dear SL friend who made the jump with me to OpenSim and is my personal scripting slave. well, i don’t think i am too demanding and she has converted my...
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sim-on-a-stick downloads break 1000 per month
call me mini-Maria (referring to her OpenSim stats) because now i am tracking downloads of simonastick.com. the accuracy of my tracking is open to wide interpretation but i feel pretty confident that...
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OpenSim – Cheap and Easy Ed Tech
A US House bill looks to eliminate Ed Tech spending as they “trim the fat” from the Federal budget. Many Education Technology programs fund expensive endeavors and many of those endeavors are only...
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sim-on-a-stick with Imprudence
on the last update (last week) of OpenSim on a USB stick there was no viewer and this was for two reasons. the first was for size – it saves 44 megs of download, and the second was because the last...
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sim-on-a-stick 0.7.1.1 tested
i don’t have a testing lab (c’mon, i am not even real!) but i like doing the best i can for people using sim-on-a-stick (i figure i am acting as an unofficial ambassador to OpenSim and perhaps some...
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May-June sim-on-a-stick stats
Maria does the OpenSim monthly count and graciously includes sim-on-a-stick numbers in her insightful stats posts sim-on-a-stick is a fairly approachable way to try OpenSim. it seems to work on most...
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changing terrain textures for sim-on-a-stick
a great question was asked about changing terrain textures for sim-on-a-stick builds for the Diva Distro of OpenSim, which is what is on the stick, the main region (sim) is called the root region. if...
View Articleart catalogue on sim-on-a-stick
art catalogues cost a good amount to have printed up and are a staple of virtually all art galleries. one of my first projects in Second Lifa was an art gallery for a wonderfully talented Deaf artist...
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Commercial Sim-on-a-Stick example
Ener asked me to write an article on how I have used Sim-on-a-Stick for commercial projects and to illustrate that a USB-based, standalone grid is applicable for usage previously only possible via a...
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why the spike in Sim-on-a-Stick downloads
it’s been weird not writing everyday and even though i ended the 45 month daily-post-a-thon over a year ago (feb 17th, 2013), it still tugs at me. often i miss it quite a bit, but i guess doing...
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