By Avatar JayR Cela
Good question to ponder, until the next time you go to fill up your gas tank. Hey folk's let's get real here, do you actually believe that you are in control ?
30 years ago I would have said yes, today however it's all about money $$$$ Whom Ever Has The Most Money Win's.
Oil, Oil, Oil, Drill baby Drill, More, More, More !!! The top 1% control everything, private gated, and Alternate Reality's can cloud the mind with something called GREED !!
How much money does it take to feed a hungry child ? For that mater how much $$ does it take to raise a family ???
Both questions are easily answered with, half baked false ( so called NEW'S ) and totally un-credible, outright lies and fabrication by the solely owned and purchased media.
I was just reading an article recently about nuclear power and how it will somehow miraculously solve all of our problems. Yeah tell that to the folk's living near Fukushima Japan.
So anyways the latest news is well we can just bury the stuff deep enough it won't bother anyone ( at least for several thousand years ) and by the whey, while we are at it let's just dig a really big hole somewhere's, preferably near an aquifer or beneath a major lake.
I am not a religious person ( so to speak ) But does not someone up there with all the $$$$$$$$$$$$ not remember ???
God or what ever you choose to call the Great Spirit, gave mankind something no other animal on the face of this planet has. The ability to reason, and make sound judgement.
The only problem that seem's to be getting in the way is GREED
For crying out load how much money can ya have until you are satisfied ???
JayR Cela :(
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
SecondLife : Dwindling CEO : Potential Positions : Abound
By AVatar JayR Cela
Ok, Ya can Hate Me, Ya Can Spit on Me, Ya can do anything that is within-in your virtual power to do so, this new guy we got at the captains helm. I have not met him yet, and I doubt if I will, but that ain't gonna stop me from expressing my opinions.
Ebbe Linden, I hope you actually, Get It !!
And realize what..
SecondLife...
really is!!!
It is a place for creative art's
Jayr Cela :_)
And don't steal our idea's, work, and beliefs.
"nuff said" *quote from Stan Lee*:_)
Ok, Ya can Hate Me, Ya Can Spit on Me, Ya can do anything that is within-in your virtual power to do so, this new guy we got at the captains helm. I have not met him yet, and I doubt if I will, but that ain't gonna stop me from expressing my opinions.
Ebbe Linden, I hope you actually, Get It !!
And realize what..
SecondLife...
really is!!!
It is a place for creative art's
Jayr Cela :_)
And don't steal our idea's, work, and beliefs.
"nuff said" *quote from Stan Lee*:_)
SecondLife : Real Friends : People Ya Meet : Virtual Word Un-Reality : A False Hope
By Avatar JayR Cela
Ok I'm frothing at the mouth right now, and I am also babbling about, friendships, fragile relationships based upon the fact that there is no actual physical eye to eye and body movement, tell tel sign's of what the other persons may actually be thinking.
No I ask you to think about this for a moment, there is a lot of excitement going on in the GEEK World about / 3D / and this Oculous - 3d stuff. OK let's lookat 3d TV / Total flop !!!!!
Oculous What ever ya call that thing, it's been done before, and I am sure it will be done again, in my opinion Sony is going to bury Oculous well into the pit they so well deserve, along with the seemingly unstoppable FaceBook.
Man I'll tell ya I canceled my RL ~ FB account several years ago. "FB" " Creeps Me Out" I want nothing to do with them, on the other hand I am perfectly comfortable with G+, why is that ?
It's a really strong question, the people I have been starting to meet on G+ as opposed to those I formally had on FB, my RL account ( that I killed years ago ) seem to be different to me as far as intellectually.
I'm not about to apologize to anyone for my thought's or opinions ( until I am force'd into a world of constant surveillance and direct tracking of all my thought's or movements )
I am burned out on Virtual World Relationships, and phony people with screw ball story's about their real lives.
Oculous Rift is ?????????????????????
What U tell me ??
Do you actually want to live in an alternate reality, or would you rather live in a Real Life ?
It's a difficult question, and depends upon who you are.
JayR Cela
Ok I'm frothing at the mouth right now, and I am also babbling about, friendships, fragile relationships based upon the fact that there is no actual physical eye to eye and body movement, tell tel sign's of what the other persons may actually be thinking.
No I ask you to think about this for a moment, there is a lot of excitement going on in the GEEK World about / 3D / and this Oculous - 3d stuff. OK let's lookat 3d TV / Total flop !!!!!
Oculous What ever ya call that thing, it's been done before, and I am sure it will be done again, in my opinion Sony is going to bury Oculous well into the pit they so well deserve, along with the seemingly unstoppable FaceBook.
Man I'll tell ya I canceled my RL ~ FB account several years ago. "FB" " Creeps Me Out" I want nothing to do with them, on the other hand I am perfectly comfortable with G+, why is that ?
It's a really strong question, the people I have been starting to meet on G+ as opposed to those I formally had on FB, my RL account ( that I killed years ago ) seem to be different to me as far as intellectually.
I'm not about to apologize to anyone for my thought's or opinions ( until I am force'd into a world of constant surveillance and direct tracking of all my thought's or movements )
I am burned out on Virtual World Relationships, and phony people with screw ball story's about their real lives.
Oculous Rift is ?????????????????????
What U tell me ??
Do you actually want to live in an alternate reality, or would you rather live in a Real Life ?
It's a difficult question, and depends upon who you are.
JayR Cela
FireStorm Viewer for Virtual Worlds : FireStorm Viewer : Deep Flaw With Various Linux Distro's
By Avatar JayR Cela
This is gonna be a stickler, unfortunately.
I gotta say this much is not a fault with the FS team, the fault is Linux is a bit more complex than MS-Win - or -OSX :
So if ya got plans on running FS on your platform, ya best run a bunch of trial runs first, my results have been sporadic, erratically sporadic, I cant seem to make no rhyme or reason of the problem, the FS installer sucks, I'll tell ya that right now. Don't even go there, but I have always been able to run it as a stand a-lone in a term.
Now all it does is / flash the screen / and that's on Ubuntu 14.04
Debian 7.4 the same result
I can not log in on either, or for that mater even get the client to run.
Here's the kicker / it runs fine on Gentue.
I don't get it :(
JayR Cela :(
This is gonna be a stickler, unfortunately.
I gotta say this much is not a fault with the FS team, the fault is Linux is a bit more complex than MS-Win - or -OSX :
So if ya got plans on running FS on your platform, ya best run a bunch of trial runs first, my results have been sporadic, erratically sporadic, I cant seem to make no rhyme or reason of the problem, the FS installer sucks, I'll tell ya that right now. Don't even go there, but I have always been able to run it as a stand a-lone in a term.
Now all it does is / flash the screen / and that's on Ubuntu 14.04
Debian 7.4 the same result
I can not log in on either, or for that mater even get the client to run.
Here's the kicker / it runs fine on Gentue.
I don't get it :(
JayR Cela :(
SecondLife : FireStorm Viewer : Linux Support : Trouble's
By Avatar JayR Cela
I don't spend a lot of time in SL any longer, or deal with testing various viewers for the platform, but damm, the past few week's I just can not seem to get FS running on various Linux Box's with various Distro's, I am completely stumped here. I guess it's time I start looking through the FS wiki.
I do find it odd though that Singularity and Cool Viewer run just fine, and I will admit to not trying the official LL - SL viewers yet. I would like to be able to find the time to file Jira's but, quite frankly I do not have the spare time available.
JayR Cela :_(
I don't spend a lot of time in SL any longer, or deal with testing various viewers for the platform, but damm, the past few week's I just can not seem to get FS running on various Linux Box's with various Distro's, I am completely stumped here. I guess it's time I start looking through the FS wiki.
I do find it odd though that Singularity and Cool Viewer run just fine, and I will admit to not trying the official LL - SL viewers yet. I would like to be able to find the time to file Jira's but, quite frankly I do not have the spare time available.
JayR Cela :_(
ComputerLife : Tablet Phones R Great : Are They Productive ? : OR ??
By Avatar JayR Cela
I just have to say this, I know I am considered to be an old fart, 57 or 58 this year in December / LOL I forget / regardless, just about everyone I know has some sort of Smart Phone or Tablet.
So I been watching my friends use theirs, and wow are they kool, however a large number of folks I know, at least on the Android System, can flick there thumbs and fingers around till they are blue in the face and still can not seem to find things, that are truly important. The I-phone and Pad, defiantly way more impressive, but ??? / You tell me.
It's like an ad-lib comedy show in progress, and my question to them is, WOW !! , can you actually be productive on that thing or is it just a $500 toy ?
I think I would rather spend $500 or more on something actually useful.
JayR Cela
I just have to say this, I know I am considered to be an old fart, 57 or 58 this year in December / LOL I forget / regardless, just about everyone I know has some sort of Smart Phone or Tablet.
So I been watching my friends use theirs, and wow are they kool, however a large number of folks I know, at least on the Android System, can flick there thumbs and fingers around till they are blue in the face and still can not seem to find things, that are truly important. The I-phone and Pad, defiantly way more impressive, but ??? / You tell me.
It's like an ad-lib comedy show in progress, and my question to them is, WOW !! , can you actually be productive on that thing or is it just a $500 toy ?
I think I would rather spend $500 or more on something actually useful.
JayR Cela
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
ComputerLife : Saving an Old Hard Drive : Re-Mapping Bad Sector's : The Easy Way : VivaRD
By Avatar JayR Cela
As everyone know's, hard disk drives eventually fail. It is usually obvious when your system starts to hang for one reason or another, with no real rhyme or reason, and some odd ball error messages that make absolutely no sense at all start popping up.
Now, I have had good and bad experiences with both Western Digital and Seagate, the two most common currently available mechanical ( spinning disk type ) brands, and in the case of WD, superb warranty support. It makes no difference though and let's face it most HD's if they are defective will fail either immediately or shortly there after, however they do wear out over time, and certain portions of the magnetic substrate ( sectors ) can suffer from deterioration, subsequently the result is the above mentioned symptoms.
In the past it has been difficult for the average person to try and salvage a dying hard disk, please remember depending upon how much deterioration has already taken place will determine wither or not you can save the device.
Let's say for instance you have a 500gb device with aprx.. 980000000 sectors and 39 to 200 of them are bad, your chances of a successful remapping of the bad clusters to good ones are pretty good, this will inform the drive(s) built in firmware ( S.M.A.R.T. Drive ) where these bad sectors are located and to avoid them in the future. ( SMART Drive is typically turned On by'default' or Off in the computers BIOS Settings )
There are programs you can purchase to do this for you automatically, Gibson Research - SpinRite comes to my mind. You can however use a free software tool called VivaRD, and it is available on a product I have mentioned before in my other blog, "The Virtual World Technologist" Ultimate Boot CD. UBCD is an .ISO file that contains numerous tools for computer professionals and novice users alike. It is available here http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
I will warn you though the web page has a lot of click on here advertising crap, so be forewarned ! This link is a safer bet http://ubcd.linuxfreedom.com/
The one you will be looking for is, ViVARD, a very basic low-level program with a minimal DOS style UI, it's not scary at all. You Just Have To Read, Before You Proceed. / LOL :_) I just had to say that :_)
And it is a 2 step process as well as time consuming, find it in the UBCD menu under the UBCD CD Applications- HDD Diagnosis - Menu. Open the program and select the HD you wish to test. and first run a scan, this will take a long time, depending upon your equipment 2 to 4 hours or more, next step is, ( Do Not Exit the Program ), re-run scan with the remap option. Fortunately the second scan already has the info it needs in order to do a scan and remap, in about half the time of the original.
That should get ya back in order, one thing to remember though is, if you data was already really screwed up in the first place, this is no guarantee you will be able to recover it successfully.
VivaRD does seem to have a home page of sorts offering a download ZIP file containing file vivard.exe / I have not tried that / but here is the page I found
http://www.copyrsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53&lang=en
Anyways, the version included with UBCD worked for me, I like the fact that when using UBCD, by default you have not mounted any partitions or file systems, except those on the actual CD or TD ( thumb drive ).
JayR :_)
As everyone know's, hard disk drives eventually fail. It is usually obvious when your system starts to hang for one reason or another, with no real rhyme or reason, and some odd ball error messages that make absolutely no sense at all start popping up.
Now, I have had good and bad experiences with both Western Digital and Seagate, the two most common currently available mechanical ( spinning disk type ) brands, and in the case of WD, superb warranty support. It makes no difference though and let's face it most HD's if they are defective will fail either immediately or shortly there after, however they do wear out over time, and certain portions of the magnetic substrate ( sectors ) can suffer from deterioration, subsequently the result is the above mentioned symptoms.
In the past it has been difficult for the average person to try and salvage a dying hard disk, please remember depending upon how much deterioration has already taken place will determine wither or not you can save the device.
Let's say for instance you have a 500gb device with aprx.. 980000000 sectors and 39 to 200 of them are bad, your chances of a successful remapping of the bad clusters to good ones are pretty good, this will inform the drive(s) built in firmware ( S.M.A.R.T. Drive ) where these bad sectors are located and to avoid them in the future. ( SMART Drive is typically turned On by'default' or Off in the computers BIOS Settings )
There are programs you can purchase to do this for you automatically, Gibson Research - SpinRite comes to my mind. You can however use a free software tool called VivaRD, and it is available on a product I have mentioned before in my other blog, "The Virtual World Technologist" Ultimate Boot CD. UBCD is an .ISO file that contains numerous tools for computer professionals and novice users alike. It is available here http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
I will warn you though the web page has a lot of click on here advertising crap, so be forewarned ! This link is a safer bet http://ubcd.linuxfreedom.com/
The one you will be looking for is, ViVARD, a very basic low-level program with a minimal DOS style UI, it's not scary at all. You Just Have To Read, Before You Proceed. / LOL :_) I just had to say that :_)
And it is a 2 step process as well as time consuming, find it in the UBCD menu under the UBCD CD Applications- HDD Diagnosis - Menu. Open the program and select the HD you wish to test. and first run a scan, this will take a long time, depending upon your equipment 2 to 4 hours or more, next step is, ( Do Not Exit the Program ), re-run scan with the remap option. Fortunately the second scan already has the info it needs in order to do a scan and remap, in about half the time of the original.
That should get ya back in order, one thing to remember though is, if you data was already really screwed up in the first place, this is no guarantee you will be able to recover it successfully.
VivaRD does seem to have a home page of sorts offering a download ZIP file containing file vivard.exe / I have not tried that / but here is the page I found
http://www.copyrsoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=53&lang=en
Anyways, the version included with UBCD worked for me, I like the fact that when using UBCD, by default you have not mounted any partitions or file systems, except those on the actual CD or TD ( thumb drive ).
JayR :_)
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
SecondLife : The TOS : and : Best Di-section I've Read So Far is Nalates Things & Stuff : April 14 2014
By Avatar JayR Cela
If you have any inkling of what a small and currently growing amount of folk's in SL actually know about the TOS changes made last year, and you are a content creator in SL then you really owe it to yourself to read Nalates Things & Stuff blog from yesterday.
She does a wonderful job of breaking in down, and wording various aspect's in such a way as to be easily understandable. Link is here
http://blog.nalates.net/2014/04/14/linden-lab-tos-and-creative-commons/#more-12590
Believe it or not, there are still a number of people, that are completely in the dark on this issue. STILL !!
Read this post, and it should clear up any question you may have.
Then read LL's and Ebbe Linden's comments posted on various other blogs, as to: Well we have no ill intention 's. That's just Bull Crap !
It's like saying to me, well you don't think we ( I ) would actually ever do such a thing, do you? And you answering to them sheepishly, No.
Then in the next breath ( sentence ) their reply to you is. Good just keep thinking that.
Have you ever watched the Television Show ? : The Big Bang Theory ? Where Sheldon is occasionally confronted by his arch nemesis, Will Wheaton ( Wesley Crusher from StarTrek TNG ) / Way to funny / LOL :_) continuing.....
The way the current contract is worded, your screwed !! Plain and simple ! The lawyers in the LL legal division, have admonished themselves ( LL ) from any sort of responsibility whatsoever.
You can do what ever you like, I have no desire or reason to dissuade you from anything, however I do feel a strong enough bond between all of the Graphics, Video, Audio creative type's out there enough to state my opinion's.
Now I'm not a creative person as far as graphic's are concerned. my skills lye strictly within the realm of audio creation, I have worked together with people most of my adult life in the Audio Industry, anytime I hear a phrase such as ( We Have No Intentions Of..... ????. ) ( Your about to get screwed and, You are in trouble !! ) Hell People Wake UP !!!!! IT's In the Freaking Contract you digitally signed !!!!!
And I can tell ya from numerous years in that industry.
If you ever, for what ever reason end up in court over this, the way the TOS is currently worded, your gonna loose, in a heartbeat. I am not a lawyer, nor claim to be. I'm just telling ya from past experience, you will not have a leg to stand on in court, you will also be stuck with all the expenses involved !
In closing, I will just reiterate what I have said before about this BLOG. It is not a New's Blog !! It is an Opinion Blog ! My Opinion's, and perhaps from time to time a guest writer's.
JayR Cela
If you have any inkling of what a small and currently growing amount of folk's in SL actually know about the TOS changes made last year, and you are a content creator in SL then you really owe it to yourself to read Nalates Things & Stuff blog from yesterday.
She does a wonderful job of breaking in down, and wording various aspect's in such a way as to be easily understandable. Link is here
http://blog.nalates.net/2014/04/14/linden-lab-tos-and-creative-commons/#more-12590
Believe it or not, there are still a number of people, that are completely in the dark on this issue. STILL !!
Read this post, and it should clear up any question you may have.
Then read LL's and Ebbe Linden's comments posted on various other blogs, as to: Well we have no ill intention 's. That's just Bull Crap !
It's like saying to me, well you don't think we ( I ) would actually ever do such a thing, do you? And you answering to them sheepishly, No.
Then in the next breath ( sentence ) their reply to you is. Good just keep thinking that.
Have you ever watched the Television Show ? : The Big Bang Theory ? Where Sheldon is occasionally confronted by his arch nemesis, Will Wheaton ( Wesley Crusher from StarTrek TNG ) / Way to funny / LOL :_) continuing.....
The way the current contract is worded, your screwed !! Plain and simple ! The lawyers in the LL legal division, have admonished themselves ( LL ) from any sort of responsibility whatsoever.
You can do what ever you like, I have no desire or reason to dissuade you from anything, however I do feel a strong enough bond between all of the Graphics, Video, Audio creative type's out there enough to state my opinion's.
Now I'm not a creative person as far as graphic's are concerned. my skills lye strictly within the realm of audio creation, I have worked together with people most of my adult life in the Audio Industry, anytime I hear a phrase such as ( We Have No Intentions Of..... ????. ) ( Your about to get screwed and, You are in trouble !! ) Hell People Wake UP !!!!! IT's In the Freaking Contract you digitally signed !!!!!
And I can tell ya from numerous years in that industry.
If you ever, for what ever reason end up in court over this, the way the TOS is currently worded, your gonna loose, in a heartbeat. I am not a lawyer, nor claim to be. I'm just telling ya from past experience, you will not have a leg to stand on in court, you will also be stuck with all the expenses involved !
In closing, I will just reiterate what I have said before about this BLOG. It is not a New's Blog !! It is an Opinion Blog ! My Opinion's, and perhaps from time to time a guest writer's.
JayR Cela
Sunday, April 13, 2014
SecondLife : Looks Interesting Again : Is Ebbe Linden The Real Deal ? : Still No TOS Changes Announced.
By Avatar JayR Cela
So far I have not met anyone with a negative opinion of the new SL CEO, this is fantastic news to myself and I would imagine a whole lot of folk's.
He is however still gracefully skirting around the TOS changes made in August 2013. That is disappointing me greatly. I mean crap or get off the pot, ya can say all the nice stuff ya like about we ( LL ) have no intention of stealing your creative content ( outright, theft in my personal opinion ).
But until this issue is addressed properly.
Still A No Thank's
JayR Cela :(
So far I have not met anyone with a negative opinion of the new SL CEO, this is fantastic news to myself and I would imagine a whole lot of folk's.
He is however still gracefully skirting around the TOS changes made in August 2013. That is disappointing me greatly. I mean crap or get off the pot, ya can say all the nice stuff ya like about we ( LL ) have no intention of stealing your creative content ( outright, theft in my personal opinion ).
But until this issue is addressed properly.
Still A No Thank's
JayR Cela :(
Saturday, April 12, 2014
SecondLife : New FireStorm Viewer With Tear Off Menu's Coming Soon
By Avatar JayR Cela
I had a hard time finding this place from the official announcement / so here is a direct TP link once you are in-world open your Map. And in the find box type in Phoenix Firestorm and set you location to 147,129,4002
That should get ya there, apparently something is going screwy with the LL SLUR thingy, so until that is fixed your maybe or maybe not gonna get here. If ya need a TP, just IM me, I am very excited about the Tear Off Menu stuff the FS team is about to implement.
JayR Cela :_)
I had a hard time finding this place from the official announcement / so here is a direct TP link once you are in-world open your Map. And in the find box type in Phoenix Firestorm and set you location to 147,129,4002
That should get ya there, apparently something is going screwy with the LL SLUR thingy, so until that is fixed your maybe or maybe not gonna get here. If ya need a TP, just IM me, I am very excited about the Tear Off Menu stuff the FS team is about to implement.
JayR Cela :_)
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