metaverse

State of the blog 2023.

January 13, 2023January 8, 2023 by S-Config

Holy crap. It’s 2023.

This is the year where we should be running around in man-bikinis in the UK worshipping a God that vomits guns Zardoz style! Okay Zardoz, the penis may be evil. You MAY have a point. But we’re keeping it regardless of how many H&K fully automatics you try to give us.

Okay, we know Zardoz is set in 2293 because the movie tells you and thus the meme is wrong. Guess the internet is impatient and can’t wait another 270 years. The consolation prize is that anything that gets people to watch this hot mess of sci-fi is bonus points in our book!

Looking beyond that. We at S-Config wish you guys a happy new year. A look back on 2022. Perhaps what we hope to accomplish in 2023. Read on if you want to know more.

The SecondLife Photo Album (001)

March 14, 2023November 1, 2022 by S-Config

Interesting how time flies within a metaverse engine.

For those who have visited my metaverse section even, we would admit this area is a little anemic. But watching Mark Zuckerberg pour BILLIONS into facebook meta only to achieve results that a 2003 engine known as second life was able to accomplish. It kind of speaks volumes as to how much of a catastrophic failure his metaverse engine is. To add insult to injury. “The Zucc” had the balls to say that his metaverse is “The first of its kind.”

The arrogance of this man is just incredible. He has no idea how much barbeque sauce he could’ve put on his shelves with that kind of money!

However, time moves in the metaverse differently than it does in reality. Places come and go, and there’s never a “Mark” left behind. Well, this blog hopes to share some of that history.

Warnings and disclaimers:

Some of the places and pictures captured may contain adult imagery. It’s not hardcore porn. I would disclaimer-wall the fuck out of that. but it can qualify to be right on the border so if you’re freaked out by pixelated boobies and bulges promoting their sexual grit. You probably wouldn’t want to go through some of the galleries on this site. Also, note that because we spent most of our time in furry communities on SecondLife that is the aspect we will be focusing on and doesn’t represent the entire metaverse of SecondLife.

Anyhow. read on if you would like a tour of my life within SecondLife.

Web Isolation – State of the config – fonts and more

March 5, 2020December 8, 2015 by S-Config

Web Isolation, fonts, and the overall state of config that is “S”.

It’s been a while since I did an update on my website and I want to talk about Web Isolation. Work and being a responsible human being is a brutal thing. There isn’t a whole lot of personal blogging that goes on here because I don’t think there’s anything all that interesting to say about “S-Config” as a person. Instead, I just want to focus on the data instead. And I think everyone agrees it’s a way better move. I suppose lets talk about the first aspect of what I have been doing with this Blog which is:

OpenSim – libBulletSim.so and Raspberry Pi – SOLVED!

August 22, 2022March 31, 2015 by S-Config

Unable to compile libBulletSim.so under an ARM environment.

I figured I’ll leave this post out here in the hopes of seeing if the net has any ideas as to why libBulletSim.so does not work for OpenSim. I have tried compiling the newest BulletPhysics3 engine as well as OpenSims preferred 2.82 build as well. It has been tried with compiling with and without -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=”-fPIC” -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=”-fPIC. both have failed. Here is the screenshot of what the physics engine does when you enable OpenSim.exe with bullet unmanaged.

BananaPi’s OpenSim now has a home on OSGrid.

November 10, 2019March 26, 2015 by S-Config

Welcome Banana Pi to the OpenSim OSGrid:

I decided to open a public region on OSGrid with my Banana Pi. It has been a while since I first posted my article about a working OpenSim Grid on the Raspberry Pi. I figured it was time for a status update as to what is all going on.

Archived – Mono 3.x basic installation and the problems of 3.x

November 2, 2019February 20, 2014 by S-Config

Mono basic installation for older Linux kernels will now be archived.

This entry is apart of the OpenSim installation tutorial dealing with how to install a utility named MONO. It explains how to get the various programs required for running a virtual world within your arm based processor. These notes are only here for archival reasons and are stripped away from the primary tutorial to avoid version confusion for anyone new to installing OpenSim onto your Raspberry, Banana, Orange Pi ARM systems. Continue reading if you want to see more.

OpenSIM + Raspberry Pi + Rasbian Hard-Float= WORKs!

February 21, 2023July 11, 2013 by S-Config

OpenSim + Raspian hard-float = What was once broken now works!

A while ago we decided to go on a journey with OpenSim. For those who are new to metaverse software; OpenSim (Or OpenSimulator) is a program that emulates the back-end resources of a commercial metaverse known as “Second Life”. The client or front-end that connects to OpenSim are third-party clients such as firestorm and singularity. We liked working offline from SecondLife and keeping a backup of my stuff. What better way to do this than to keep it on something low-powered like a Raspberry Pi? Read on to learn more.

Bullet – physics installation for OpenSim

August 22, 2022July 25, 2011 by S-Config

Introduction to Bullet:

Bullet is the modern physics engine that the OpenSim development team is heading towards during the version 8.x builds of OpenSim. Although it’s only bullet version 3.x it provided a more robust collision detection for regions to make them feel more like the Second Life regions. It is uncertain of Bullet development will continue with the introduction of AviNations code-merge of their updated ODE Physics which allows for better prim sitting and vehicle crossing from region to region. Currently, although you can follow all of the steps and compile bullet onto your Arm-based Pi. Bullet simple does not run and you must run Bulletin XNA mode which isn’t optimal.

ODE Physics OpenSim Install

August 22, 2022July 25, 2011 by S-Config

ubODE / ODE physics installation for OpenSim:

Update 11/25/2015: ODE / OpenDyanamics engine instructions have been updated to reflect the following changes to OpenSim 9.0 after the merging of code. If you are still looking for the original instructions feel free to click here. as of 11/26/2015 a massive update to the ODE physics called ubODE was introduced to many of the OpenSim environments. Making it run better then bullet on slower machines such as the Pi.

Dead angels speak to me sometimes. From Secondlife

November 2, 2019February 2, 2010 by S-Config

Moments of clarity through bits of Secondlife

The vapor-lock of an empty club that you rez into can tell you megs upon megs of stories if you just sit quietly enough to look at the objects and the files within them. Who created them, and why. Most of it is a desperate cry for attention or a document to say that you were simply here. Often times I am gleefully misdirected to a source of information I do not like. I shall share a fragment of the data-stream the goes across the screen.