Well, it’s been a while since I have been here and since I have some time now I figured I’d write some about what has been up. SL has lost much of it’s shine for me I have to say. When I think about it, there is much wrong with SL and LL but in the end, the reality is the place just takes too much time and money to do anything significant in.
Finally got back to QAvimator as I need some anims for the boat, and it looks like someone did the QT4 port already. Saves me finishing mine 
The thing has an issue with os/x though. When you build the bundle it can’t find the data within. The path wasn’t right so I hacked up a wee patch for that and now all is well. Looking forward to diving back into that code now.
Patch here
Cool, got another patch accepted into the viewer. This one allows dynamic loading of grid info into the viewer so you can use the same viewer for non-linden grids instead of having 100 batch files and copies of links lying around. That’ll make life easier
From the meeting today it looks like there is some interest in updating the script editor too so maybe the 50 patches I have lying around for that will become worthwhile. Man, they are slow sometimes.
My debian box died 
Not a happy day but that machine is about 7 years old and full of scabbed parts from who knows where. Oh well. So I pained about buying another box and to make a long story short decided to try out a mac mini as a server. Nuts huh? So, one of the tasks was to rebuild Xanth (my opensim) on the mini. Mono is 2.4 I installed from the dmg.
These are a couple of snags I ran into…
1. Grabbed the git code from ‘git clone http://opensimulator.org/git/opensim’
2. Tried ./runprebuild.sh worked ok but nant blew up. The trouble was pkg-config was not installed so I threw that on and all is well. ‘./configure –prefix=/usr/local’… etc…
3. Copy OpenSim.ini.example to OpenSim.ini and ran ‘mono OpenSim.exe’
4. Client dies on region handshake. Edit Regions/default.xml and change ‘external_host_name’ from 127.0.0.1 to the actual IP of the machine fixed that.
That wasn’t so bad. Now to get it rigged into MySQL and hooked back up to opengrid but I have to grab my old db data from the HD and run it over and…, well, I’ll post about that experience another time. Cool thing is, it’s works
Hobee Project
I have been working on a sailboat script for the past few months. I looked over the Tako scripts a few times and figured I could do better so away I went. It has been quite the experience really but the last week has really heated things up in that world. Mothgirl Dibou, the creator of the Flying Fizz released a full perms DIY boat kit this morning and changed everything. If you are not familiar with the sl-sailing world here is the basic story of what I have learned since starting this project and where it stands right now.