It’s been over a year since my last post. In that time, I built a 32 region OpenSim grid for a client, doing everything from creating the terrain in L3DT, building and obtaining content, and administering the server, including writing the PHP and Powershell scripts that ran the grid. Sadly, just when it was ready…
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Adding regions in Diva Distro
It looks like I’ll be returning to Diva Distro for my little experimental virtual world after a year of using regular OpenSim, now that I’ve found that it’s ridiculously easy to add regions to Diva. When I first created a little four region test grid in 2011, I used Diva on a Windows 7 machine…
Diva Wifi 7.4 released
Diva Canto has just released Wifi 7.4. This means that those of us who have been waiting since OpenSim 7.4’s release last week can now upgrade. Diva’s Wifi provides a convenient user interface for managing OpenSim logins. To download Wifi 7.4, go to https://github.com/diva/d2/downloads and download wifi-0-7-4.zip. You can download OpenSim 7.4 at http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Download. If…
Exploring alternatives to Second Life
With Second Life® undergoing profound changes, many of us who love it have been left wondering how we should react to the changes. Some people have been exploring other virtual worlds and a few of us have been experimenting with building our own. In future posts, I’ll be writing about both. In particular, I’ll be…
You can have your own virtual world
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your own virtual world? It might be for your business or university, or maybe just for you and your friends to hang out in without having to deal with griefers. Or maybe you’ve wished you could experience other virtual worlds without having to create…
Kitely, finally
After two days of trying, I managed to login to Kitely. It turned out that there was a bug in their software preventing me from getting in. I was impressed with their quickness in finding a workaround. Here’s my new world: In case you haven’t heard, Kitely is way to host an OpenSim world in…
Other virtual worlds to visit besides Second Life
Second Life may be the 8000 pound gorilla in the virtual worlds universe, but it’s not the only one. There are several dozen worlds for you to choose from, though most are still small and even the largest doesn’t yet come close to matching Second Life’s massive user base. Comparing worlds by population size is…