Great interview with Philip Rosedale of Linden Labs, gives us a good insight as to what they see the future of SL being (bigger than the Web apparently…)
So I am off to Notting Hill Carnival, I am just going for the Sunday (don’t want to be away from Niamh too long!). Looking forward to it, even if I have a slight man-flu.
So if anyone is going and wants to say Hi, I will probably be in the vicinity of the GoodTimes, though I might give Rampage a go this year. I will probably be wearing a geek t-shirt (Debian most likely)
We are considering a week or so in Brittany next year. It will be me, Julie and Niamh and we want a nice place with a pool, not to far from a beach (30 mins drive at most), and away from the madening crowds. Self-Catering probably but a nice small hotel would be nice too.
Anyone have any recommendations?
I have just come across the announcement of Ubuntu Landscape, which is apparently is a web-based system for managing large numbers of Ubuntu desktops.
Some of you may be aware that I helped to put together a large Ubuntu desktop deployment myself in a previous life, so Ubuntu (well most Debian based distro’s) are well suited to. So I would be interested to see how this compares.
A simple Google search also reveals that there is a client that presumably goes onto the desktops being managed, even if it’s an empty package!
Shame it’s for support subscription people only as I would love to have a play with it. Does anyone else know much about Landscape? I would love to see it in action and have a poke. How about a LUG tour people?
Does anyone know what Kernels were available for SLES8? I have a bunch of SLES8 machines, with Kernel 2.4.21, that I would like to move to a later Kernel (the more recent the better) but don’t want to have to go up to SLES9 or 10.
Thanks
I wrote this a few weeks ago intending to post it then, but life has moved on and its not really cutting news now. But still it might be of interest to some.
So I have been joining in the excitement of the developments over at Eolous One and the revolutionary work and development that they are doing with SL / RL integration (I even managed to become an extra in a Machinima by Suzi). Anyway myself along with others feel that this is great leap forward, and is the start of some real cool developments in SL and Virtual Worlds in general. Though talking to other people I get the feeling that they don’t truly grasp the significance of the development, and so I have been thinking of some parallels to illustrate the point.
The easiest one for me to grasp is likening it to the Web, back in the early 90′s when the web was in it’s infancy, most websites were html based affairs. A few sites had some cgi-bin scripting (usually in Perl) that allowed people to submit forms, etc. And while it still provided for a leap forward from Gopher and the BBS systems people were used to, looking back on our perspective now with Web 2.0 and everything it was pretty basic and un-exiting. Then a few sites started linking websites to backed databases with scripting languages such as PHP, ASP, Perl etc. This greatly revolutionized the web with sophisticated websites that could change content dynamically based on what the database has on you. They then progressed to becoming front ends for various tools such as E-Mail systems, Network Monitoring, Business Intelligence, and with the advent of Web 2.0 productivity apps like Spreadsheets and Wordprocesors. This was a evolution from the old world where websites were websites, client – server apps were client – server apps, and men were men.
This is what the next generation of SL build will take us, the maturing of the 3d internet. I remember reading William Gibsons cyberpunk books years ago and remember imagining what it would be like. I think SL is the closest thing we have to that vision.
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