By Avatar JayR Cela
This is a really good question, since Linux is kinda the wild open west sort of an environment, it's really difficult to pin it down. All of the Current Desktop User Interfaces are pretty good. Some more so than others. It boils down too your personal preferences, myself I really enjoy using the MATE Desktop and Cinnamon, that does not mean they are the best.
I think a lot of folks are just plain scared of Linux, and probably for good reason, if ya don't know what your doing, it is incredibly easy to screw things up !
If your Win XP machine is still up and running, you may want to explore the site
http://distrowatch.com/
And once ya get done with doing whatever. Please disconnect your Win XP from the internet.
Good Luck : I rescue old outdated computers regularly, simply by installing a properly suited distribution to the hardware. If you have any questions, or need some assistance, I can be reached at cinnamatestudios@gmail.com
I will do anything I possibly can to help you out.
JayR Cela :_)
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
SecondLife : Ebbie Linden : Are You Listening ? : It's All About The Creatives : Fix The TOS
By Avatar JayR Cela
I seriously doubt if Ebbe reads this blog, a few Lindens and former employee's do, but it makes no difference, I have all but abandoned SL in wake of the TOS, ' stating that ' ( LL owns everything lock stock and barrel what any ( we the creative ) people bring here )
SL is a NICHE, the fact that it still exist's is beyond belief. And I truly feel the only reason it is still here is not because of LL or the well known inconsistent attitudes towards creative's.It is because at, one time, a hell of a lot of people that truly believed in the platform, and through out all the seemingly odd ball changes, quite a few of them ( including myself ) remained.
The Lab originally developed SL as an experiment devoted towards offering the ultimate creative 3D environment that had ever been not only conceived. it was actually implemented in real life as well. ( And it's still here ! )
Time to get back to it's root's is what I say !! ' However ' until the TOS wording proclaiming ( the out-right theft of IP rights by LL is addressed ) we own everything, including your soul, is reworded. / LOL / you folk's are truly unbelievable. / HAAA-Haaa.
We are all fool's until we learn.
I guess. In the mean time.
No thanks
JayR Cela
I seriously doubt if Ebbe reads this blog, a few Lindens and former employee's do, but it makes no difference, I have all but abandoned SL in wake of the TOS, ' stating that ' ( LL owns everything lock stock and barrel what any ( we the creative ) people bring here )
SL is a NICHE, the fact that it still exist's is beyond belief. And I truly feel the only reason it is still here is not because of LL or the well known inconsistent attitudes towards creative's.It is because at, one time, a hell of a lot of people that truly believed in the platform, and through out all the seemingly odd ball changes, quite a few of them ( including myself ) remained.
The Lab originally developed SL as an experiment devoted towards offering the ultimate creative 3D environment that had ever been not only conceived. it was actually implemented in real life as well. ( And it's still here ! )
Time to get back to it's root's is what I say !! ' However ' until the TOS wording proclaiming ( the out-right theft of IP rights by LL is addressed ) we own everything, including your soul, is reworded. / LOL / you folk's are truly unbelievable. / HAAA-Haaa.
We are all fool's until we learn.
I guess. In the mean time.
No thanks
JayR Cela
ComputerLife : The Importance of Open Source Video Drivers
By Avatar JayR Cela
This aspect of ComputerLife cannot be ignored, Open Source alternative video drivers, are making leaps and bounds, in some cases surpassing their propriety counterparts.
Gaming on Linux is a major driving force behind this trend. I am a MS Windows User since version 3.0, and although I love Mac's I can not justify the extra price, PC's are it for me, I can work on them, I can repair them, and I can install all sorts of software that in my mind is just as good as the priority stuff.
The biggest bottleneck so far has been VD's ( video drivers )
I can't wait until next year, and purchasing my first tablet computer. And I promise I won't complain when I realize 2 or 3 years down the road it's broken, and I will customarily dispose of it, because there is nothing inside of it you can fix. So I'll buy a new one, and the OS video driver performance will have improved ( by then I'm perdicting 5 fold ) and then I am planning a trip to Mars, and a short hop skip and jump to the Star Trek Federation Headquarters.
LOL :_)
Tri-Corders here I come!
JayR Cela :_)
This aspect of ComputerLife cannot be ignored, Open Source alternative video drivers, are making leaps and bounds, in some cases surpassing their propriety counterparts.
Gaming on Linux is a major driving force behind this trend. I am a MS Windows User since version 3.0, and although I love Mac's I can not justify the extra price, PC's are it for me, I can work on them, I can repair them, and I can install all sorts of software that in my mind is just as good as the priority stuff.
The biggest bottleneck so far has been VD's ( video drivers )
I can't wait until next year, and purchasing my first tablet computer. And I promise I won't complain when I realize 2 or 3 years down the road it's broken, and I will customarily dispose of it, because there is nothing inside of it you can fix. So I'll buy a new one, and the OS video driver performance will have improved ( by then I'm perdicting 5 fold ) and then I am planning a trip to Mars, and a short hop skip and jump to the Star Trek Federation Headquarters.
LOL :_)
Tri-Corders here I come!
JayR Cela :_)
SecondLife : Will GO Go Over ?
By Avatar JayR Cela
Yeah !! Big Time !!
I don't care much for fancy phones or tablets, hell I'm getting old, and the bigger the better as far as I am concerned. I love taking things apart, figuring out stuff, how can I make it better.
But that's old school, and I find myself being left out in the abysmal cold. I recently ran into a n old acquaintance who with a Tablet kindly demonstrated the SL GO platform to me.
WOW ! This is very Kool Stuff.
Damm, now I guess I'll just have to start looking for a tablet computer / LOL
JayR Cela :_)
Yeah !! Big Time !!
I don't care much for fancy phones or tablets, hell I'm getting old, and the bigger the better as far as I am concerned. I love taking things apart, figuring out stuff, how can I make it better.
But that's old school, and I find myself being left out in the abysmal cold. I recently ran into a n old acquaintance who with a Tablet kindly demonstrated the SL GO platform to me.
WOW ! This is very Kool Stuff.
Damm, now I guess I'll just have to start looking for a tablet computer / LOL
JayR Cela :_)
RealLife : ComputerLife : Getting Rid of Wall-Warts : External Power Adapters for Electronic Goods
By Avatar JayR Cela
Years ago anything electronic that you purchased had an internal power supply, you turned it on and off, when it was on it was consuming electricity, when you turned it of it was not, except in limited cases, the unit was still drawing some sort of extremely low amount of current.
Today we are angrily greeted by everything we buy having some sort of AC adapter with all sorts of odd-ball voltage-current outputs, and to top it off none of them are labeled ( readily ) as to which device they belong to. I can't tell ya how many times I have watched hapless musician's plug in the wrong power adapter to a device that although it had the proper connector type, the voltage-current etc.. was incorrect.
Anyways to make a long story short, Wall-Warts ( AC Power Adapters ) draw electricity 24/7, electronic component's with built in power supplies do not.
It's time to outlaw these things.
JayR Cela
Years ago anything electronic that you purchased had an internal power supply, you turned it on and off, when it was on it was consuming electricity, when you turned it of it was not, except in limited cases, the unit was still drawing some sort of extremely low amount of current.
Today we are angrily greeted by everything we buy having some sort of AC adapter with all sorts of odd-ball voltage-current outputs, and to top it off none of them are labeled ( readily ) as to which device they belong to. I can't tell ya how many times I have watched hapless musician's plug in the wrong power adapter to a device that although it had the proper connector type, the voltage-current etc.. was incorrect.
Anyways to make a long story short, Wall-Warts ( AC Power Adapters ) draw electricity 24/7, electronic component's with built in power supplies do not.
It's time to outlaw these things.
JayR Cela
SecondLife : A History of, from My Point of View : Can Ebbe Linden Save SecondLife ? : Amend The TOS !!
By Avatar JayR Cela
Back into the Way-Back-Machine, I first arrived into the virtual world SecondLife back in September of 2005, and Wow, was it ever Kool ! ( at least back then it was ) I had just started my recovery from a small stroke and severe closed head injury, so I felt the ability to get out beyond my physical confines was truly a tremendous feeling. I started joining different groups and meeting people. I attended numerous LL-SL related meetings in-world. And everything was good, and then suddenly Phillip Linden ( Rosedale ) decided to depart as CEO, and turn over the reigns to M. Linden ( Mark Kingdon ) Boy that was a Fiasco of Major Proportion's, the company seemed to split off into 2 separate entity's, corporate and artistic, with an emphasis on the potential possible windfall of $$$ to be had by the Big Wig Corporate influx of new paying users. SecondLife was no longer a fantasy land. During his tenure M. Linden rushed into place what is now referred to as Viewer 2. UGH!! I think just about all the Old Farts still left here in SL can remember that Black Hole.
Luckily V2 evolved intoV3, as Phillip Linden stepped back into the CEO shoes temporarily and all was well again. Or so we thought. Rod Linden former CEO of Electronic Art's was appointed as the new captain of the ship. It was at this point that SL suddenly started to become dark and cold as numerous LL in-world meetings were shuttered, the JIRA was gutted of proper utilization ( basically communications lines from the community to LL were severed ) as the SL team of developers went upon their merry way with introducing all sort's of neat, nifty new features no one within the community was really asking for ( Does Linden Homes Ring A Bell - Large swathes of land with abandoned and mostly empty 512m parcels with bizarre looking prefab homes ) Path-finding also another flop, managed to sneak in. Mesh, still a disaster in waiting as far as apparel is concerned. I really figured Rod could pull it off, but a certain air of aloofness, seemed to be permeating the LL staff, as numerous Lindens were either let go or simply resigned. I think the final straw ( or last nail in the coffin for Rodvik ) was the C.H.U.I. interface, no one in the development team or the alpha-beta tester's liked it. But it not only was eventually pushed through. ( after holding up other of much more pressing problems that needed solving ). And to much dismay it has turned out to be a complete flop as well. However time moves on, and Rodvick decided it was a good idea to start throwing as much crap against the wall as possible in order to defeat the Evil Third Party Viewer Developers, whom by the way were making the official LL-SL viewer developers look like a bunch of totally out of touch with reality people. ( Subsequently Viewer Name Tags were banned, too many people were using TPV's and making the Lab look bad ) Burning Man was no longer going to be supported by LL. neither was the yearly SL Birthday bash, Educational Institute subsidies were discontinued. Desura the indie game distro entity was gobbled up ( and soon to be spit back out, maybe ) some odd ball indie games were purchased and shortly thereafter shelved. The TOS was amended effectively screwing all of the independent content-creators of retaining their individual IP right's. Major private Sim's started closing, Mainland parcels were being abandoned at a rapid pace as well.
That's all I can remember right about now, the Big Konk on the head I got back in 2005 still affect's my abilities to think clearly sometimes.
So now we have Ebbe Linden, and from what I have been reading so far, this guy may be just the right fit into SL's odd-ball niche culture. By that I mean, as I see it SL is an artistic community involved within the RL worlds largest Virtual Reality sandbox. Ebbe seems to be a real person, he has been seen attending numerous SL event's, meeting together with prominent SL bloggers, and doing just about everything right that anyone could expect from someone with such an important position. I wish him all the best, I think he can pull it off.
I would like to offer a few suggestion's.
#1 There is a crap load of abandoned Main Land in SL, how about restarting the SL Moles team of landscape developers.
#2 Bring back as many LL employee in-world meetings as possible.
#3 Bring back the Educational Institute discount's ( In fact, how about donating entire parcels (sims) free of charge )
#4 Return Homestead limited use parcels (sims)
#5 Close Linden Homes ( no one uses them anyways )
#6 Embrace Hyper Grid and start contributing to the project again ( Hell Linden Lab & IBM created it )
#7 Get off your False Soap Box proclaiming individual IP rights will be protected in SL, while the company two-facedly and blatantly steals ours.
I am all about the TOS thing right now, I don't trust LL, if you do, that's your right to do so.
Myself I won't trust them as far as I can spit into a swift wind anymore. An example, I am currently working on a truly massive database of GPL sound effect's, at this point in time I have no intentions of devoting any time, energy, or support to the SL platform.
JayR Cela :(
Back into the Way-Back-Machine, I first arrived into the virtual world SecondLife back in September of 2005, and Wow, was it ever Kool ! ( at least back then it was ) I had just started my recovery from a small stroke and severe closed head injury, so I felt the ability to get out beyond my physical confines was truly a tremendous feeling. I started joining different groups and meeting people. I attended numerous LL-SL related meetings in-world. And everything was good, and then suddenly Phillip Linden ( Rosedale ) decided to depart as CEO, and turn over the reigns to M. Linden ( Mark Kingdon ) Boy that was a Fiasco of Major Proportion's, the company seemed to split off into 2 separate entity's, corporate and artistic, with an emphasis on the potential possible windfall of $$$ to be had by the Big Wig Corporate influx of new paying users. SecondLife was no longer a fantasy land. During his tenure M. Linden rushed into place what is now referred to as Viewer 2. UGH!! I think just about all the Old Farts still left here in SL can remember that Black Hole.
Luckily V2 evolved intoV3, as Phillip Linden stepped back into the CEO shoes temporarily and all was well again. Or so we thought. Rod Linden former CEO of Electronic Art's was appointed as the new captain of the ship. It was at this point that SL suddenly started to become dark and cold as numerous LL in-world meetings were shuttered, the JIRA was gutted of proper utilization ( basically communications lines from the community to LL were severed ) as the SL team of developers went upon their merry way with introducing all sort's of neat, nifty new features no one within the community was really asking for ( Does Linden Homes Ring A Bell - Large swathes of land with abandoned and mostly empty 512m parcels with bizarre looking prefab homes ) Path-finding also another flop, managed to sneak in. Mesh, still a disaster in waiting as far as apparel is concerned. I really figured Rod could pull it off, but a certain air of aloofness, seemed to be permeating the LL staff, as numerous Lindens were either let go or simply resigned. I think the final straw ( or last nail in the coffin for Rodvik ) was the C.H.U.I. interface, no one in the development team or the alpha-beta tester's liked it. But it not only was eventually pushed through. ( after holding up other of much more pressing problems that needed solving ). And to much dismay it has turned out to be a complete flop as well. However time moves on, and Rodvick decided it was a good idea to start throwing as much crap against the wall as possible in order to defeat the Evil Third Party Viewer Developers, whom by the way were making the official LL-SL viewer developers look like a bunch of totally out of touch with reality people. ( Subsequently Viewer Name Tags were banned, too many people were using TPV's and making the Lab look bad ) Burning Man was no longer going to be supported by LL. neither was the yearly SL Birthday bash, Educational Institute subsidies were discontinued. Desura the indie game distro entity was gobbled up ( and soon to be spit back out, maybe ) some odd ball indie games were purchased and shortly thereafter shelved. The TOS was amended effectively screwing all of the independent content-creators of retaining their individual IP right's. Major private Sim's started closing, Mainland parcels were being abandoned at a rapid pace as well.
That's all I can remember right about now, the Big Konk on the head I got back in 2005 still affect's my abilities to think clearly sometimes.
So now we have Ebbe Linden, and from what I have been reading so far, this guy may be just the right fit into SL's odd-ball niche culture. By that I mean, as I see it SL is an artistic community involved within the RL worlds largest Virtual Reality sandbox. Ebbe seems to be a real person, he has been seen attending numerous SL event's, meeting together with prominent SL bloggers, and doing just about everything right that anyone could expect from someone with such an important position. I wish him all the best, I think he can pull it off.
I would like to offer a few suggestion's.
#1 There is a crap load of abandoned Main Land in SL, how about restarting the SL Moles team of landscape developers.
#2 Bring back as many LL employee in-world meetings as possible.
#3 Bring back the Educational Institute discount's ( In fact, how about donating entire parcels (sims) free of charge )
#4 Return Homestead limited use parcels (sims)
#5 Close Linden Homes ( no one uses them anyways )
#6 Embrace Hyper Grid and start contributing to the project again ( Hell Linden Lab & IBM created it )
#7 Get off your False Soap Box proclaiming individual IP rights will be protected in SL, while the company two-facedly and blatantly steals ours.
I am all about the TOS thing right now, I don't trust LL, if you do, that's your right to do so.
Myself I won't trust them as far as I can spit into a swift wind anymore. An example, I am currently working on a truly massive database of GPL sound effect's, at this point in time I have no intentions of devoting any time, energy, or support to the SL platform.
JayR Cela :(
Virtual Worlds : Open Source Video Drivers Taking Hold : Finally :_)
By Avatar JayR Cela
Well most of this news is gonna be on the Linux front, open source drivers for AMD/ATI : NVIDIA chip-sets are gaining ground at a rapid pace.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=AMD
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYxNDc
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_gallium3d_tf2css&num=1
http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/newsroom#latest-news-blogs
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/nvidia-seeks-peace-with-linux-pledges-help-on-open-source-driver/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_device_driver
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/drivers
http://linux-beta.slashdot.org/story/13/06/26/1746224/amd-overhauls-open-source-linux-driver
It's great news for anyone and everyone !
JayR Cela
Well most of this news is gonna be on the Linux front, open source drivers for AMD/ATI : NVIDIA chip-sets are gaining ground at a rapid pace.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=AMD
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYxNDc
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_gallium3d_tf2css&num=1
http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/newsroom#latest-news-blogs
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/nvidia-seeks-peace-with-linux-pledges-help-on-open-source-driver/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_device_driver
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/drivers
http://linux-beta.slashdot.org/story/13/06/26/1746224/amd-overhauls-open-source-linux-driver
It's great news for anyone and everyone !
JayR Cela
Friday, April 4, 2014
FireStorm Viewer : SecondLife : Tear Off Windows : Very Kool :_)
By Avatar JayR Cela
Within the past few days Jessica Lyon of the FS virtual world viewer team announced that in fact tear off menu's are finally going to become a reality. This is fantastic news, now if someone would please figure out how to switch hiding my hud's in a Linux environment are not the CTRL+ALT+F1 key combo to something more sensible, ( I know someone has figured it out, UKanDO or CtrlAltStudio, one of them has it, don't remember which one though. )
I applaud the tear of menu feature finally being explored again, it was originally intended for the SnowGlobe viewer, and for one reason or another never saw the light of day until now.
The next very kool step is to migrate CTRL+ALT+F1 to another key stroke combination officially to all Viewers, then I will be very happy.
JayR Cela :_)
Within the past few days Jessica Lyon of the FS virtual world viewer team announced that in fact tear off menu's are finally going to become a reality. This is fantastic news, now if someone would please figure out how to switch hiding my hud's in a Linux environment are not the CTRL+ALT+F1 key combo to something more sensible, ( I know someone has figured it out, UKanDO or CtrlAltStudio, one of them has it, don't remember which one though. )
I applaud the tear of menu feature finally being explored again, it was originally intended for the SnowGlobe viewer, and for one reason or another never saw the light of day until now.
The next very kool step is to migrate CTRL+ALT+F1 to another key stroke combination officially to all Viewers, then I will be very happy.
JayR Cela :_)
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
CinnaMateStudio : Current Outlook : Open Source FX Library Download
By Avatar JayR Cela
As I sit here, trying to sort things out, and my recent decision to migrate back to the Debian platform continues.
I have decided to devote the next month or two, towards my ( FX ) project, a freely available library of various sound effects, categorized in the .wav / .ogg / .mp3 formats.
I am burning out, and sadly I am unable to remain awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week, haa-haa. I'm considering a PHYSC-Brain transfer into a Virtual World Intelligence Platform Environment. / LOL :_)
I wish I could, but seriously, I am toast right now, so it's time to take a break.
My current plans are to finish the sound effects library, and release that into the public domain first, and then get back to whatever the heck I was doing before.
JayR Cela :_)
As I sit here, trying to sort things out, and my recent decision to migrate back to the Debian platform continues.
I have decided to devote the next month or two, towards my ( FX ) project, a freely available library of various sound effects, categorized in the .wav / .ogg / .mp3 formats.
I am burning out, and sadly I am unable to remain awake 24 hours a day 7 days a week, haa-haa. I'm considering a PHYSC-Brain transfer into a Virtual World Intelligence Platform Environment. / LOL :_)
I wish I could, but seriously, I am toast right now, so it's time to take a break.
My current plans are to finish the sound effects library, and release that into the public domain first, and then get back to whatever the heck I was doing before.
JayR Cela :_)
CinnaMateStudio : I am Migrating Back To Debian
By Avatar JayR Cela
This decision is somewhat tongue in cheek, for the time being. ( I know, I tend to rant and rave from time to time ) However in my time spent, and weighing all of the potential advancement's being made within the Linux Gaming World. I have decided to run several experiments with Debian, and LinuxMint (once v.17 is available)
Sabayon Linux has been put temporarily on the back burner.
JayR Cela
This decision is somewhat tongue in cheek, for the time being. ( I know, I tend to rant and rave from time to time ) However in my time spent, and weighing all of the potential advancement's being made within the Linux Gaming World. I have decided to run several experiments with Debian, and LinuxMint (once v.17 is available)
Sabayon Linux has been put temporarily on the back burner.
JayR Cela
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