Mudslinger's Corner

The original multi-seat Hover Car that I have made – has been popular on the basis you can carry a few friends with it!

#### What is it? ####
It’s a rezzer – which detects if the taxi or car is present – if there isn’t then it will generate another – keeping one handy for anyone to use.

#### How to use it ####
Put out a Rezzer of your choice – position it where you want it to go (the arrow/indent on one side of the prim will indicate which way the hover car will face when rezzed)

If you want to – the rezzer can be modified so that you can put a different texture on it or make as a transparent to hide it.

Under normal operation – a temp-rez hover car will appear – when it dies or someone takes off with it – a new one should appear in it’s place.

The basics of the hover car – sit in it and type “start” in open chat – this will start the engines and enable the hovercar to move.

How to get it? – Check my “Contact Me” page for SecondLife in-world shop locations.

First product online since the beginning of my major website & secondlife revamp. This is the single seater model based on my larger popular Hover Taxi models.

#### What is it? ####
It’s a rezzer – which detects if the taxi is present – if there isn’t then it will generate another – keeping one handy for anyone to use.

#### How to use it ####
Put out a Rezzer of your choice – position it where you want it to go (the arrow/indent on one side of the prim will indicate which way the hover car will face when rezzed)

If you want to – the rezzer can be modified so that you can put a different texture on it or make as a transparent to hide it.

Under normal operation – a temp-rez hover car will appear – when it dies or someone takes off with it – an new one should appear in it’s place.

The basics of the hover car – sit in it and type “start” in open chat – this will start the engines and enable the hovercar to move.

How to get it? – Check my “Contact Me” page for SecondLife in-world shop locations.

Once upon a time I had a virtual shop within Second Life selling a range of mixed items – it didn’t sell a lot but at least got some promising attention from the public. Anyway I ended up taking it all offline for a few reasons (technical issues that needed sorting out). And now I’m finally getting around to re-publishing my previous creations (with some minor adjustments/enhancements to knock out a few script related issues and so forth) as well as begin developing new products.

I’ve set myself a rule – no product will be above L$100 credits. Also while I may have most my items listed on XStreetSL – there may be some items offered exclusively at my in-world shop locations. Listed below are my current locations – though at time of posting this they are in a mixed state of setting up. As I release each product I’ll add a post about the product on my blog here so that people can keep track of what my latest and greatest offerings are. So stay tuned to further related activities!

Mudslinger’s Shop @ Trendone

Mudslinger’s Shop @ Australia

XStreetSL item listings

I’ve been posting things on and off here and there. Simply because it was fairly easy to do and I felt the need to share the cool things I find on the internet.

Well I still like to share cool links and videos – However due to new arrangements I have with my home computer as well as recent changes I’ve done via some social networking websites. I’m now deciding to share my links and videos more directly to my Facebook and Twitter accounts.

I have adjusted my youtube, facebook and twitter so that whenever I Select “Like” on a youtube video – both Facebook and Twitter link to it (thus saving me time in reposting the link).

As for random non-video websites – these will be primarily shared on Facebook but may sometimes go to Twitter as well. I’m still looking for a way to at least sync my status messages between facebook and twitter (so far it’s failing due to technical issues).

All previous random posts will remain on my blog for some time (undetermined) until I do a major revamp or restructure on how my site works.

So for those that want to follow the randomness:

• My Facebook Profile

• My Twitter Profile

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My little zippy Toyota Echo suffered an electrical fault recently, almost caught fire in the dashboard/steering column. As such I have acquired a rental car for now from a Cheap ‘n’ Dodgy rental dealer for budget reasons – needless to say the rental car itself is a pile of junk with wheels – at least it’s still able to move!

It feels like it’s seen some action and hard knocks – while it’s not from the vintage american car scene (the rental is a crappy Daewoo hatch!) for some reason it reminds me of those car chases from the blues brothers. So here’s a mashup video I found of cool cars with cool music. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj_ZSFxvWQk

Ok – it’s not often I post something with detail on here (I’d rather put up the odd cool youtube video I fine here and there). For some time now I’ve been wanting to switch to linux – something different, something with potential, something that could be more safe than swiss cheese covered with mice… But till now there has been a few factors holding me back from breaking out from the dark side (MS Windows environment).

The main things that were holding me back were the ability to run some legacy windows applications and Second Life. Well I’ve worked out ways I can get some legacy applications running (though my old games and some stuff will have to stay archived for a while as they will not run smoothly under current linux abilities). As for Second Life – Linden Labs had a linux version out for a little while – however voice and sound features have been a bit unstable. My reasons for taking the linux plunge now is that Linden Labs have now released a new beta viewer that appears to have fixed a lot of audio issues.

Anyway – on with the story – I’ve been using some linux resources for a while now – I usually have a copy or two of Knoppix about for any data backup & rescue of failed windows computers. And have been tossing up between SUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc..  What I’ve settled on was Linux Mint! which is essentially a Ubuntu feel but with media and some tweaks that simply work fine right off the first install.

So far I’ve been running my main computer on Linux Mint for about a week now. Which is the longest I’ve run my main computer on so far before retreating back to Windows (so I’m breaking my own records here) Hardware-wise for my computer system some devices are not yet working – but that’s expected for some things like USB TV Tuner & Webcam. All other connected devices like hard drives, usb drives, sound and video cards, network etc.. have been operating smoothly – including my Windows/DOS volumes from my former windows setup are working without current limitations.

Software side of things – I’ve achieved the following preferred configurations:

• SecondLife – Able to run multiple viewers under the one login – as per former windows setup only the first instance will get voice abilities,
• Used Conduit to sync my internal drives with an external USB for redundancy (was using FreeFileSync for this recently)
• Email via Thunderbird
• Updated to a recent version of Mozilla Firefox with NoScript add-on for added browsing security.
• Currently testing a Sun VirtualBox session of Windows XP (my previous operating system) to see if I can run some legacy applications in a virtualised OS (for those that won’t run with native compatiability tools – sadly this won’t cover some of my good games)
• Using K3B for CD/DVD data burning. (Previously Used Nero)
• Pidgin for my Instant Messaging – has always been my favourite on the windows environment due to simplicity and no frilly crap compared to the official IM clients on various networks.
• Enhanced the desktop functionality with Compiz 3D Cube effect – with the Nvidia graphics drives this looks awesome. It may seem like usless bells and whitles now – but I can see the potential for this getting regular use on top of the classic application task switching.

In general – the overall feel of running linux mint compared to my old Windows XP setup. There are some quirky issues here and there – but nothing overly major so far (I’m not expecting a lot of my old windows stuff to run – but will be happy if I can find decent equivalent linux stuff to fill my needs). Still researching some configurations so it’s possible I may end up reinstalling a couple of times until I find a complete setup that works for me.

General application stability has been feeling better than Windows so far – some applications have frozen on me here and there – but usually come good after a few seconds or couple of minutes – and those that have crashed have not had any impact to any other applications running (unlike some windows applications that can potentially bring windows to it’s knees until you restart the computer completely.

I may post more to my new Linux blog category when I make some more ground breaking moments in my new future in a linux world. Hopefully this my help some people decide if they are ready or not for a new experience. For now I am actually using my computer with a smile on my face – things are working, stable and feels smooth! Either way this will be a record to see how long before I either run back to my old Windows style, or consider Windows 7 or later, or declare the challenge a success and end up sticking with Linux.

YouTube – Narwhals