By Avatar JayR Cela
Bless the heavens I was gifted with a full head of hair! The past week or so i have been installing / and rebuilding various versions of my Alpha_CMS project, and I am literally pulling what hair I still possess out by the roots. Recent upgrades in Sabayon have made the Cinnamon Desktop environment unusable, Mate on the other hand still works fantastic, in fact it seems to be better than ever. And I find that rather odd when you consider Sabayon has dropped official support for the Mate Desktop environment, they are supporting Cinnamon, but not officially yet, the same can be said for the Gnome 3.10.x UI.
So at this point I am completely baffled, I just tried Mint 16, but I found it way to buggy to even consider until version 17, and Debian unofficially support's Mate, but not Cinnamon.
OMG :(
I'll figure all of this out eventually. Damm I was getting so close / LOL :_)
JayR Cela :_)
Monday, January 27, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
SecondLife : Rod Humble : Depart's Unexpectedly : *Bigg Huggs* :_) : What Happens Now ?
By Avatar JayR Cela
First let me say that this took me by complete surprise, best wish's to Rod. Now what the hell's gonna happen, LOL :_)
I would say...
#1, Don't panic ! / #2 We've been through this before / #3 Things Change.
Haaa, haaa, I am sure numerous rumors as to why he left will be floating around for a while and, I have plenty of my own idea's, but nothing of interest to anyone but myself. Man I did enough complaining over the years, at this point I want to see the platform survive.
Anyone can sit back and criticize, I choose "Long Live SecondLife"
JayR Cela :_)
P.S. hmmmmm... forgot what else I was gonna say, LOL :_)))
First let me say that this took me by complete surprise, best wish's to Rod. Now what the hell's gonna happen, LOL :_)
I would say...
#1, Don't panic ! / #2 We've been through this before / #3 Things Change.
Haaa, haaa, I am sure numerous rumors as to why he left will be floating around for a while and, I have plenty of my own idea's, but nothing of interest to anyone but myself. Man I did enough complaining over the years, at this point I want to see the platform survive.
Anyone can sit back and criticize, I choose "Long Live SecondLife"
JayR Cela :_)
P.S. hmmmmm... forgot what else I was gonna say, LOL :_)))
Thursday, January 23, 2014
SecondLife : Virtual Worlds : A New Video Card : Now Is A Great Time To Buy !!
By Avatar JayR Cela
Hey, now is the time to make a great buy on a close-out discontinued and Brand New, Brand Name, Video Card for your desktop computer. This is especially true is you are a SecondLife or other Virtual World user. The time to buy is now !!
There are some really great clearance deals going on. A lot of this stuff is discontinued, but still new in the box.
Now, after the Holiday Madness, is the time to buy.
Go For It :)
I just picked up a PNY GT620 1024mb ddr3 Nvidia card for 35$ US
What A Life :_)
LOL
JayR Cela :_)
Hey, now is the time to make a great buy on a close-out discontinued and Brand New, Brand Name, Video Card for your desktop computer. This is especially true is you are a SecondLife or other Virtual World user. The time to buy is now !!
There are some really great clearance deals going on. A lot of this stuff is discontinued, but still new in the box.
Now, after the Holiday Madness, is the time to buy.
Go For It :)
I just picked up a PNY GT620 1024mb ddr3 Nvidia card for 35$ US
What A Life :_)
LOL
JayR Cela :_)
Monday, January 20, 2014
RealLife : The Dumb Phone : Smart Phone's Killing Our Kid's Ability To Interact !
By Avatar JayR Cela
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but the so-called Smart Phone is dumb-ing down our kid's into a state of mindless jelly. How many young people have you seen lately wandering around aimlessly with a pair of ear-bud's blasting their eardrums to a point of being completely worthless by the time they reach about 50 years of age.
Stepping blindly out into traffic is a common scene i see on a regular basis here in Detroit.
An increasingly large number of young folks I meet are completely oblivious to anything but their FaceBook account, or Twitter, or whatever the current trend is. It goes on and on.....
Just a random thought.
JayR Cela
I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but the so-called Smart Phone is dumb-ing down our kid's into a state of mindless jelly. How many young people have you seen lately wandering around aimlessly with a pair of ear-bud's blasting their eardrums to a point of being completely worthless by the time they reach about 50 years of age.
Stepping blindly out into traffic is a common scene i see on a regular basis here in Detroit.
An increasingly large number of young folks I meet are completely oblivious to anything but their FaceBook account, or Twitter, or whatever the current trend is. It goes on and on.....
Just a random thought.
JayR Cela
Real Life : Looking Back : Martin Luther King Day : A Dream Not A Reality :(
By Avatar JayR Cela
If you look at my SecondLife Profile, one of the the first thing's you will see is my statement that : Race ~ Gender ~ Species Have No Meaning Here. And has been something I have been saying since my first day alive in SL, and I came to realize that Slavery was Alive in Well here on the SecondLife platform.
As I sit here and look deeply into the odd ball world of SL, I have to say the platform itself is a great equalizer towards achieving racial, and gender equality. And in the case of SL Furries, they are individual people as well. Now I am defiantly not a religious person, but I would like to quote a phrase from the Bible.
John 8:7
If you look at my SecondLife Profile, one of the the first thing's you will see is my statement that : Race ~ Gender ~ Species Have No Meaning Here. And has been something I have been saying since my first day alive in SL, and I came to realize that Slavery was Alive in Well here on the SecondLife platform.
As I sit here and look deeply into the odd ball world of SL, I have to say the platform itself is a great equalizer towards achieving racial, and gender equality. And in the case of SL Furries, they are individual people as well. Now I am defiantly not a religious person, but I would like to quote a phrase from the Bible.
John 8:7
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone....
Something to think about every day of your life.
It is really a sad state affairs when the U.S. is awash in poverty and inequality for people of all color's.
Did M.L.K.J. make a difference in our society, Yes, was it significant, Yes. Do Up Tight White Lunatic Fringe people still pose a threat, Yes.
JayR Cela
Sunday, January 19, 2014
CinnaMateStudio : Backup's : My Recommendation : UBCD and CloneZilla
By Avatar JayR Cela
I was just sitting here thinking about CMS and backing it up while progressing, Ultimate Boot CD is a great tool, everyone should have, regardless of OS. I'll list the link, but as far as backing up your Linux test runs, CloneZilla is a fantastic tool. I use it on a daily basis to create ongoing disk images while testing.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
http://clonezilla.org/
JayR Cela :_)
I was just sitting here thinking about CMS and backing it up while progressing, Ultimate Boot CD is a great tool, everyone should have, regardless of OS. I'll list the link, but as far as backing up your Linux test runs, CloneZilla is a fantastic tool. I use it on a daily basis to create ongoing disk images while testing.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
http://clonezilla.org/
JayR Cela :_)
Saturday, January 18, 2014
SecondLife : and Linux : MONO ~ .NET : How Important Are They ?
By Avatar JayR Cela
Very important, there is a ton of recent web development going on within the .NET & Mono communities. It is something ya wanna keep up with on the Linux front.
Personally I have been experiencing all sort's of odd ball problems the past month or so. After some digging around various blogs, forums and such I ran across several references to a Complete MONO install.
What it's going to be called is going to depend on your distro, how this package may or may not be labeled, just. find it !
Then Install It !
LOL / I'm telling ya, all my crashing problems went right out the window.
JayR Cela :_)
P.S. FireStorm 4.4.2.x no longer crashes, in either Mate or Cinnamon : WOW ! / LOL :_)
EDIT : 1-19-2014 : I was a little premature with my claim of FireStorm 4.4.2.x no longer crashing. It should be : no longer crashes as much : LOL :_)
I am also happy to say that FS 4.5.1.x is working crash free / Very Kool :_)
Very important, there is a ton of recent web development going on within the .NET & Mono communities. It is something ya wanna keep up with on the Linux front.
Personally I have been experiencing all sort's of odd ball problems the past month or so. After some digging around various blogs, forums and such I ran across several references to a Complete MONO install.
What it's going to be called is going to depend on your distro, how this package may or may not be labeled, just. find it !
Then Install It !
LOL / I'm telling ya, all my crashing problems went right out the window.
JayR Cela :_)
P.S. FireStorm 4.4.2.x no longer crashes, in either Mate or Cinnamon : WOW ! / LOL :_)
EDIT : 1-19-2014 : I was a little premature with my claim of FireStorm 4.4.2.x no longer crashing. It should be : no longer crashes as much : LOL :_)
I am also happy to say that FS 4.5.1.x is working crash free / Very Kool :_)
SecondLife : Boy I Sure Would Like Some Tear Off Menu's
By Avatar JayR Cela
Ok, I'm back ranting on this idea again, however I feel it's a subject worth bringing up over and over.
Tear off menu's in a multi screen environment, for the SL Viewer, or one of the still remaining TPV's.
JayR Cela :_)
Ok, I'm back ranting on this idea again, however I feel it's a subject worth bringing up over and over.
Tear off menu's in a multi screen environment, for the SL Viewer, or one of the still remaining TPV's.
JayR Cela :_)
CinnaMateStudio Linux : Building Your Own : Part 4 : Sabayon Version
By Avatar JayR Cela
I'm finally back on track with this series of post's delving into building your own working version of CinnaMateStudio, the past few days I have been toying around with Mint Linux 16, I'm defiantly planning on waiting until Mint 17 is released, but I can say this much putting together this platform on Mint is a whole lot easier than doing it on Sabayon. / LOL :_)
So if ya still got the stomach for it, and have figured your way around Sabayon Linux, you have probably installed Cinnamon, booted into it and said, WHOO-Nelly !! what and the hell is this piece of crap, haa-haaa, the jokes on both of us, Cinnamon is a very user customization oriented desktop environment. Ya just gotta know where to find stuff, and be willing to play around with it. You are also going to want to install Cairo Dock, and the complete version of Mono. For those of you that may not know Mono is a Linux cross platform equivalent version of Microsoft's .NET platform, sort of. Anyways your definitely gonna need to install that too. Open Rigo and in the search bar type in Mono
and install Mono2.10.x.x, Mono Basic 2.10, Mono Addins 0.x.x, Libgdiplus 2.10.x.x, and that ought to do it.
Now you need to start playing around with the settings, here are some pictures of what you can expect to see. The ugly opening screen, ( seriously I don't know why this is the default, it's just plain ugly )
So ya dress it up a bit by opening the Control Center. Select Themes, Get more online, then Other settings
Myself I chose the Dark Cold theme, and for Other settings BlackMATE for the Controls, Fog for my Icon choice, and Menta-Black as my Window borders preference. This results in a nice Black, Blue, Grey combination I find quite easy on my aging eyesight capability to read things clearly, and it looks really Kool too. / LOL :_)
I'm kinda loosing track here of what I am doing, eventually you should end up with a very customized desktop. Something like what I have shown in the past. It's just up to you. All this stuff is just cosmetic anyways, the real question is does it work ? Yes and No, as far a being very stable for an everyday desktop environment, I am using it daily, and slowly weening myself off of Windows 7, there are however a lot of back end plumbing issues I have yet to resolve dealing with Jack & QjackCTL. And that is just going to take time on my part trying to patch all this stuff together into a coherent User Interface. My original plans of a December 2013 alpha release were greeted with a number of unexpected setback's, but I'm still hanging in there, a more realistic attitude for this endeavor say's late 2014. Right now I need to update the official application bookmark html file, and start writing some coherent documentation, describing all this stuff and not only how it works, but how to use it, and I'm a bit overwhelmed. Haa-Haaa
Thanks for reading.
JayR Cela :_)
I'm finally back on track with this series of post's delving into building your own working version of CinnaMateStudio, the past few days I have been toying around with Mint Linux 16, I'm defiantly planning on waiting until Mint 17 is released, but I can say this much putting together this platform on Mint is a whole lot easier than doing it on Sabayon. / LOL :_)
So if ya still got the stomach for it, and have figured your way around Sabayon Linux, you have probably installed Cinnamon, booted into it and said, WHOO-Nelly !! what and the hell is this piece of crap, haa-haaa, the jokes on both of us, Cinnamon is a very user customization oriented desktop environment. Ya just gotta know where to find stuff, and be willing to play around with it. You are also going to want to install Cairo Dock, and the complete version of Mono. For those of you that may not know Mono is a Linux cross platform equivalent version of Microsoft's .NET platform, sort of. Anyways your definitely gonna need to install that too. Open Rigo and in the search bar type in Mono
and install Mono2.10.x.x, Mono Basic 2.10, Mono Addins 0.x.x, Libgdiplus 2.10.x.x, and that ought to do it.
Now you need to start playing around with the settings, here are some pictures of what you can expect to see. The ugly opening screen, ( seriously I don't know why this is the default, it's just plain ugly )
So ya dress it up a bit by opening the Control Center. Select Themes, Get more online, then Other settings
Myself I chose the Dark Cold theme, and for Other settings BlackMATE for the Controls, Fog for my Icon choice, and Menta-Black as my Window borders preference. This results in a nice Black, Blue, Grey combination I find quite easy on my aging eyesight capability to read things clearly, and it looks really Kool too. / LOL :_)
I'm kinda loosing track here of what I am doing, eventually you should end up with a very customized desktop. Something like what I have shown in the past. It's just up to you. All this stuff is just cosmetic anyways, the real question is does it work ? Yes and No, as far a being very stable for an everyday desktop environment, I am using it daily, and slowly weening myself off of Windows 7, there are however a lot of back end plumbing issues I have yet to resolve dealing with Jack & QjackCTL. And that is just going to take time on my part trying to patch all this stuff together into a coherent User Interface. My original plans of a December 2013 alpha release were greeted with a number of unexpected setback's, but I'm still hanging in there, a more realistic attitude for this endeavor say's late 2014. Right now I need to update the official application bookmark html file, and start writing some coherent documentation, describing all this stuff and not only how it works, but how to use it, and I'm a bit overwhelmed. Haa-Haaa
Thanks for reading.
JayR Cela :_)
Friday, January 17, 2014
SecondLife : Linux and Older Computers : Performance Issues Explained
By Avatar JayR Cela
If you are an avid Linux and SecondLife user, you fall into a relatively small and unique category. You should also be aware of the fact that the most recent Linux kernels have dropped support of older MB integrated graphic chipsets, and older video cards, AGP ? forget about it ! More and likely your S.O.L. it's just not going to work !! The dedicated kernels. headers and non-free propitiatory manufacturer driver support has been dropped in favor of the new Generic Linux Video Driver.
I am a firm believer in recycling older computers that still have some life left in them, but eventually you get to a point of diminishing return. So what are you going to do ? Hopefully your not stuck with using a Lap-Top ( I refuse to own another one, ya can't fix em in most cases ) If however you have a desktop design with a dedicated PCIe video adapter slot, do yourself a favor and pony up a few buck's for a new Video Card, there are quite a few sub $100 U.S. ones available. Personally I am a die hard Nvidia person, but a lot of really decent cards from both AMD/ATI and Nvidia below the $100 price point are readily available.
Example : Nvidia ( based 620 ) about 70$ give or take a bit.
Oh Well / Life moves on.
The bottom line is this, the generic Linux video driver, is still a work in progress, and so far the results are very mixed, they work great on Android tablets and smartphones, but really leave a lot to be desired in a graphic's intensive desktop environment platform such as SecondLife.
JayR Cela
If you are an avid Linux and SecondLife user, you fall into a relatively small and unique category. You should also be aware of the fact that the most recent Linux kernels have dropped support of older MB integrated graphic chipsets, and older video cards, AGP ? forget about it ! More and likely your S.O.L. it's just not going to work !! The dedicated kernels. headers and non-free propitiatory manufacturer driver support has been dropped in favor of the new Generic Linux Video Driver.
I am a firm believer in recycling older computers that still have some life left in them, but eventually you get to a point of diminishing return. So what are you going to do ? Hopefully your not stuck with using a Lap-Top ( I refuse to own another one, ya can't fix em in most cases ) If however you have a desktop design with a dedicated PCIe video adapter slot, do yourself a favor and pony up a few buck's for a new Video Card, there are quite a few sub $100 U.S. ones available. Personally I am a die hard Nvidia person, but a lot of really decent cards from both AMD/ATI and Nvidia below the $100 price point are readily available.
Example : Nvidia ( based 620 ) about 70$ give or take a bit.
Oh Well / Life moves on.
The bottom line is this, the generic Linux video driver, is still a work in progress, and so far the results are very mixed, they work great on Android tablets and smartphones, but really leave a lot to be desired in a graphic's intensive desktop environment platform such as SecondLife.
JayR Cela
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